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This paper investigates a modular beamforming framework for reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS)-aided multi-user (MU) communications in the near-field regime, built upon a novel antenna architecture integrating an active multi-antenna…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-08-13 Giulia Torcolacci , Malte Schellmann , Davide Dardari

We consider the problem of coordinated multi- cell downlink beamforming in massive multiple input multiple output (MIMO) systems consisting of N cells, Nt antennas per base station (BS) and K user terminals (UTs) per cell. Specifically, we…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-04-09 Subhash Lakshminarayana , Mohamad Assaad , Merouane Debbah

Reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS) is an attractive technology to improve the transmission rate of millimetre-wave (mmWave) communication systems. The previous {research} on RIS technology mainly focused on improving the transmission…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-11-01 Yunis Xanthos , Wanting Lyu , Songjie Yang , Chadi Assi , Xianbing Zou , Ning Wei

Radio frequency (RF) wireless power transfer (WPT) is a promising technology to seamlessly charge low-power devices, but its low end-to-end power transfer efficiency remains a critical challenge. To address the latter, low-cost…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-01-06 Amirhossein Azarbahram , Onel L. A. Lopez , Bruno Clerckx , Marco Di Renzo , Matti Latva-Aho

Utilization of inter-base station cooperation for information processing has shown great potential in enhancing the overall quality of communication services (QoS) in wireless communication networks. Nevertheless, such cooperations require…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-01-23 Xingdi Chen , Yu Xiong , Kai Yang

Cell-free systems can effectively eliminate the inter-cell interference by enabling multiple base stations (BSs) to cooperatively serve users without cell boundaries at the expense of high costs of hardware and power sources due to the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-11-18 Yutong Zhang , Boya Di , Hongliang Zhang , Jinlong Lin , Yonghui Li , Lingyang Song

Reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS) has entered the public consciousness as a promising technology for enhancing the performance of future wireless communication systems by dynamically constructing the wireless channels. In this…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-03-02 Pingping Zhang , Shiqi Gong , Shaodan Ma

This paper explores the near field (NF) covert communication with the aid of rate-splitting multiple access (RSMA) and reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RIS). In particular, the RIS operates in the NF of both the legitimate user and the…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-07-30 Atiquzzaman Mondal , Amira Bendaimi , Huseyin Arslan

The pinching-antenna system (PASS) reconstructs wireless channels through pinching beamforming, i.e., optimizing the activated locations of pinching antennas (PAs) along the waveguide. The aim of this article is to investigate the joint…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-06-10 Mingjun Sun , Chongjun Ouyang , Shaochuan Wu , Yuanwei Liu

Next-generation wireless networks need to handle massive user access effectively. This paper addresses the problem of joint group scheduling and multicast beamforming for downlink transmission with many active user groups. Aiming to…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-06-26 Chong Zhang , Min Dong , Ben Liang , Ali Afana , Yahia Ahmed

Massive MIMO is currently a leading physical layer technology candidate that can dramatically enhance throughput in 5G systems, for both unicast and multicast transmission modalities. As antenna elements are becoming smaller and cheaper in…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-03-05 Mohamed Salah Ibrahim , Aritra Konar , Nicholas D. Sidiropoulos

The conventional reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS) assisted far-field communication systems can only implement angle beamforming, which actually limits the capability for reconfiguring the wireless propagation environment. To…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-09-16 Han Xiao , Xiaoyan Hu , Wenjie Wang , Kai-Kit Wong , Kun Yang

The robust beamforming design in multi-functional reconfigurable intelligent surface (MF-RIS) assisted wireless networks is investigated in this work, where the MF-RIS supports signal reflection, refraction, and amplification to address the…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2024-12-12 Ailing Zheng , Wanli Ni , Wen Wang , Hui Tian , Chau Yuen

Reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS) is capable of intelligently manipulating the phases of the incident electromagnetic wave to improve the wireless propagation environment between the base-station (BS) and the users. This paper…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-09-14 Zhongze Zhang , Tao Jiang , Wei Yu

With the rapid development of high-speed railway systems and railway wireless communication, the application of ultra-wideband millimeter wave band is an inevitable trend. However, the millimeter wave channel has large propagation loss and…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-11-29 Panpan Li , Yong Niu , Hao Wu , Zhu Han , Bo Ai , Ning Wang , Zhangdui Zhong

In this paper, we study the problem of joint active and passive beamforming for reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS)-assisted massive multiple-input multiple-output systems towards the extension of the wireless cellular coverage in 3D,…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-12-18 Yu Tian , Ahmed Alhammadi , Jiguang He , Aymen Fakhreddine , Faouzi Bader

This paper proposes a reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS)-aided and angular-based hybrid beamforming (AB-HBF) technique for the millimeter wave (mmWave) massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) systems. The proposed RIS-AB-HBF…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-08-16 Ibrahim Yildirim , Asil Koc , Ertugrul Basar , Tho Le-Ngoc

We consider reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS) aided sixth-generation (6G) terahertz (THz) communications for indoor environment in which a base station (BS) wishes to send independent messages to its serving users with the help of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-03-22 Najam Us Saqib , Shumei Hou , Sung Ho Chae , Sang-Woon Jeon

Reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS) is regarded as a promising technology with great potential to boost wireless networks. Affected by the "double fading" effect, however, conventional passive RIS cannot bring considerable performance…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-10-06 Qi Zhu , Ming Li , Rang Liu , Yang Liu , Qian Liu

The concept of fluid reconfigurable intelligent surface (FRIS) upgrades the conventional reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS) paradigm by empowering its reflecting elements with positioning reconfigurability. This letter aims to…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-11-21 Xusheng Zhu , Kai-Kit Wong , Boyi Tang , Wen Chen , Chan-Byoung Chae