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Continuous efforts have been devoted to integrate millimeter wave (mmWave) and terahertz (THz) bands into future communication standards in order to overcome the bandwidth shortage problem and achieve high data rates, primarily through…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-03-05 Sung Hyuck Hong , Junil Choi

This paper investigates an extremely large-scale reconfigurable intelligent surface (XL-RIS) assisted near-field integrated sensing and communication (ISAC) system, where a multi-antenna base station (BS) simultaneously sends unicast data…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-03-03 Jiahao Chen , Feng Wang , Guojun Han , Xin Wang , Vincent K. N. Lau

Reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS)-aided cell-free (CF) massive multiple-input multiple-output (mMIMO) is a promising technology for further improving spectral efficiency (SE) with low cost and power consumption. However, conventional…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-12-02 Yizhuo Li , Jiakang Zheng , Bokai Xu , Yiyang Zhu , Jiayi Zhang , Dusit Niyato , Bo Ai

In this paper, a green learning (GL)-based precoding framework is proposed for simultaneously transmitting and reflecting reconfigurable intelligent surface (STAR-RIS)-aided millimeter-wave (mmWave) MIMO broadcasting systems. Motivated by…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-05-05 Yu-Hsiang Huang , Po-Heng Chou , Wan-Jen Huang , Walid Saad , C. -C. Jay Kuo

The adoption of reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS) in wireless networks can enhance the spectrum- and energy-efficiency by controlling the propagation environment. Although the RIS does not consume any transmit power, the circuit…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-05-05 Siyuan Sun , Min Fu , Yuanming Shi , Yong Zhou

In this paper, the problem of maximizing the sum of data rates of all users in an intelligent reflecting surface (IRS)-assisted millimeter wave multicast multiple-input multiple-output communication system is studied. In the considered…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-08-16 Songling Zhang , Zhaohui Yang , Mingzhe Chen , Danpu Liu , Kai-Kit Wong , H. Vincent Poor

Reconfigurable intelligent surfaces enhance wireless systems by reshaping propagation environments. However, dynamic metasurfaces (MSs) with numerous phase-shift elements incur undesired control and hardware costs. In contrast, static MSs…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-12-30 Ziyuan Zheng , Qingqing Wu , Wen Chen , Xiangming Wu , Weiren Zhu

Recently, reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS), a planar metasurface consisting of a large number of low-cost reflecting elements, has received much attention due to its ability to improve both the spectrum and energy efficiencies by…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-03-18 Jiao Wu , Seungnyun Kim , Byonghyo Shim

This paper presents a scalable beamforming design for maximizing the spectral efficiency (SE) of multi-reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS)-aided communications through joint optimization of the precoder and RIS phase shifts in…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-01-28 Mintaek Oh , Jinseok Choi

Active reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RISs) can improve the performance of integrated sensing and communication (ISAC), and therefore enable simultaneous data transmission and target sensing. However, when the line-of-sight (LoS) link…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-10-17 Ahmed Magbool , Vaibhav Kumar , Mark F. Flanagan

Reconfigurable Intelligent Surfaces (RIS) are an emerging technology that can be used to reconfigure the propagation environment to improve cellular communication link rates. RIS, which are thin metasurfaces composed of discrete elements,…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-11-11 Pooja Nuti , Brian L. Evans

Reconfigurable Intelligent Surface (RIS) is a revolutionizing approach to provide cost-effective yet energy-efficient communications. The transmit beamforming of the base station (BS) and discrete phase shifts of the RIS are jointly…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2023-05-05 Bai Yan , Qi Zhao , Jin Zhang , J. Andrew Zhang , Xin Yao

In this paper, we investigate a reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS)-aided multiuser full-duplex secure communication system with hardware impairments at transceivers and RIS, where multiple eavesdroppers overhear the two-way…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-08-17 Zhangjie Peng , Zhibo Zhang , Lei Kong , Cunhua Pan , Li Li , Jiangzhou Wang

Reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS) has recently emerged as a promising paradigm for future cellular networks. Specifically, due to its capability in reshaping the propagation environment, RIS was introduced to address the blockage…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-03-28 Peilan Wang , Jun Fang , Weizheng Zhang , Zhi Chen , Hongbin Li , Wei Zhang

This paper considers the application of reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RISs) (a.k.a. intelligent reflecting surfaces (IRSs)) to assist multiuser multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) uplink transmission from several multi-antenna user…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-09-14 Li You , Jiayuan Xiong , Yufei Huang , Derrick Wing Kwan Ng , Cunhua Pan , Wenjin Wang , Xiqi Gao

This paper considers a reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS)-aided millimeter wave (mmWave) downlink communication system where hybrid analog-digital beamforming is employed at the base station (BS). We formulate a power minimization…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-02-15 Renwang Li , Bei Guo , Meixia Tao , Ya-Feng Liu , Wei Yu

We propose a graph neural network (GNN) architecture to optimize base station (BS) beamforming and reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS) phase shifts in a multi-RIS assisted wireless network. We create a bipartite graph model to…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-01-28 Byungju Lim , Mai Vu

Reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS) technology is a promising solution to improve the performance of existing wireless communications. To achieve its cost-effectiveness advantage, there inevitably exist certain hardware impairments in…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-01-17 Yiming Liu , Rui Wang , Zhu Han

It is critical to design efficient beamforming in reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS)-aided integrated sensing and communication (ISAC) systems for enhancing spectrum utilization. However, conventional methods often have limitations,…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-05-16 Junjie Ye , Lei Huang , Zhen Chen , Peichang Zhang , Mohamed Rihan

Beyond-diagonal reconfigurable intelligent surface (BD-RIS) has been proposed recently as a novel and generalized RIS architecture that offers enhanced wave manipulation flexibility and large coverage expansion. However, the beyond-diagonal…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-12-27 Tianyu Fang , Yijie Mao