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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…

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Reconfigurable Intelligent Surfaces (RIS) have emerged as a transformative technology in wireless communications, offering unprecedented control over signal propagation. This study focuses on passive beyond diagonal reconfigurable…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-12-10 Ainna Yue Moreno-Locubiche , Josep Vidal

Recently, simultaneously transmitting and reflecting reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (STAR-RISs) have received significant research interest. The employment of large STAR-RIS and high-frequency signaling inevitably make the near-field…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-06-27 Haochen Li , Yuanwei Liu , Xidong Mu , Yue Chen , Zhiwen Pan , Yonina C. Eldar

Reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS) technique stands as a promising signal enhancement or signal cancellation technique for next generation networks. We design a novel passive beamforming weight at RISs in a multiple-input…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-03-05 Tianwei Hou , Yuanwei Liu , Zhengyu Song , Xin Sun , Yue Chen

Reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS) is regarded as an important enabling technology for the sixth-generation (6G) network. Recently, modulating information in reflection patterns of RIS, referred to as reflection modulation (RM), has…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-08-11 Jiacheng Yao , Jindan Xu , Wei Xu , Chau Yuen , Xiaohu You

This paper investigates reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS)-assisted secure multiuser communication systems subject to hardware impairments (HIs). We jointly optimize the beamforming vectors at the base station (BS) and the phase…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-10-12 Zhangjie Peng , Ruisong Weng , Cunhua Pan , Gui Zhou , Marco Di Renzo , A. Lee Swindlehurst

Mobility may degrade the performance of next-generation vehicular networks operating at the millimeter-wave spectrum: frequent loss of alignment and blockages require repeated beam training and handover, thus incurring huge overhead. In…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-03-04 Muddassar Hussain , Maria Scalabrin , Michele Rossi , Nicolò Michelusi

Millimeter wave (mmWave) communication is a key component of 5G and beyond. Harvesting the gains of the large bandwidth and low latency at mmWave systems, however, is challenged by the sensitivity of mmWave signals to blockages; a sudden…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-02-09 Shunyao Wu , Muhammad Alrabeiah , Andrew Hredzak , Chaitali Chakrabarti , Ahmed Alkhateeb

The sensitivity of millimeter wave (mmWave) signals to blockages is a fundamental challenge for mobile mmWave communication systems. The sudden blockage of the line-of-sight (LOS) link between the base station and the mobile user normally…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-07-11 Ahmed Alkhateeb , Iz Beltagy

The millimeter wave (mmWave) has received considerable interest due to its expansive bandwidth and high frequency. However, a noteworthy challenge arises from its vulnerability to blockages, leading to reduced coverage and achievable rates.…

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The introduction of the mm-Wave spectrum into 5G NR promises to bring about unprecedented data throughput to future mobile wireless networks but comes with several challenges. Network densification has been proposed as a viable solution to…

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Reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RISs) represent a radical new technology that can shape the radio wave propagation in wireless communication systems and offers a great variety of possible performance and implementation gains. Motivated…

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The sensitivity of millimeter-wave (mmWave) radio channel to blockage is a fundamental challenge in achieving low-latency and ultra-reliable connectivity. In this paper, we explore the viability of using coordinated multi-point (CoMP)…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-10-25 Dileep Kumar , Satya Joshi , Antti Tölli

This paper investigates the reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS) assisted spatial scattering modulation (SSM) scheme for millimeter-wave (mmWave) multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) systems, in which line-of-sight (LoS) and…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-07-28 Xusheng Zhu , Wen Chen , Zhendong Li , Qingqing Wu , Ziheng Zhang , Kunlun Wang , Jun Li

Reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS) is a newly-emerged technology that might fundamentally change how wireless networks are operated. Though extensively studied in recent years, the practical limitations of RIS are often neglected when…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-12-12 Parisa Ramezani , Yasaman Khorsandmanesh , Emil Björnson

Reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS)-aided rate-splitting multiple access (RSMA) systems have demonstrated remarkable potential in enhancing spectral efficiency. However, most existing works rely on ideal hardware, which is…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-03-20 Xuejun Cheng , Qian Zhang , Yunnuo Xu , Zheng Dong , Ju Liu , Bruno Clerckx

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

Reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS) has become a promising technology to improve wireless communication in recent years. It steers the incident signals to create a favorable propagation environment by controlling the reconfigurable…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-11-15 Wangyang Xu , Lu Gan , Chongwen Huang

Millimeter-wave (mmWave) positioning has emerged as a promising technology for next-generation intelligent systems. The advent of reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RISs) has revolutionized high-precision mmWave localization by enabling…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-23 Xin Cheng , Yuqing Yang , Guangjie Han , Menglu Li , Ruoguang Li , Feng Shu

This paper proposes a two-stage approach for passive and active beamforming in multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) interference channels (ICs) assisted by a beyond-diagonal reconfigurable intelligent surface (BD-RIS). In the first stage,…

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