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Hybrid Reconfigurable Intelligent Surfaces (HRISs) constitute a new paradigm of truly smart metasurfaces with the additional features of signal reception and processing, which have been primarily considered for channel estimation and…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-11-15 Ioannis Gavras , George C. Alexandropoulos

We propose a new reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS) structure, referred to as interconnected RIS (I-RIS), which allows the RIS elements to be interconnected and share the incident signals using simple binary radio frequency (RF)…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-07-17 Sajjad Nassirpour , Naoki Kusashima , Jose Flordelis , Alireza Vahid

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 letter considers a beyond diagonal reconfigurable intelligent surface (BD-RIS) aided integrated sensing and communication (ISAC) system, where the BD-RIS can help a multi-antenna base station (BS) serve multiple user equipments (UEs)…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-08-18 Xiaoqi Zhang , Liang Liu , Shuowen Zhang , Weifeng Zhu , Haijun Zhang

The plethora of wirelessly connected devices, whose deployment density is expected to largely increase in the upcoming sixth Generation (6G) of wireless networks, will naturally necessitate substantial advances in multiple access schemes.…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-10-29 Konstantinos D. Katsanos , Paolo Di Lorenzo , George C. Alexandropoulos

The sixth-generation (6G) wireless networks will rely on ultra-dense multi-cell deployment to meet the high rate and connectivity demands. However, frequency reuse leads to severe inter-cell interference, particularly for cell-edge users,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-11-18 Shuo Zheng , Shuowen Zhang

The high reflect beamforming gain of the intelligent reflecting surface (IRS) makes it appealing not only for wireless information transmission but also for wireless power transfer. In this letter, we consider an IRS-assisted wireless…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-04-28 Dingcai Zhang , Qingqing Wu , Miao Cui , Guangchi Zhang , Dusit Niyato

This letter investigates the joint active and passive beamforming optimization for intelligent reflecting surface (IRS) aided multiuser multiple-input multiple-output systems with the objective of maximizing the weighted sum-rate. We show…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-01-28 Xingyu Zhao , Tian Lin , Yu Zhu

This paper considers a hybrid reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS) assisted integrated sensing and communication (ISAC) system, where each RIS element can flexibly switch between the active and passive modes. Subject to the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-12-06 Yingbin Lin , Feng Wang , Xiao Zhang , Guojun Han , Vincent K. N. Lau

This paper investigates the secure transmission in a simultaneously transmitting and reflecting reconfigurable intelligent surface (STAR-RIS) assisted uplink non-orthogonal multiple access system, where the legitimate users send…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-11-05 Zheng Zhang , Jian Chen , Yuanwei Liu , Qingqing Wu , Bingtao He , Long Yang

Cell-free networks are considered as a promising distributed network architecture to satisfy the increasing number of users and high rate expectations in beyond-5G systems. However, to further enhance network capacity, an increasing number…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-06-23 Shaocheng Huang , Yu Ye , Ming Xiao , H. Vincent Poor , Mikael Skoglund

Reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS) and simultaneously transmitting and reflecting RIS (STAR-RIS) have emerged as key enablers for enhancing wireless coverage and capacity in next-generation networks. When mounted on unmanned aerial…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-12-10 Dongdong Yang , Bin Li , Jiguang He

This paper investigates a wireless-powered hybrid reflecting intelligent surface (hybrid RIS)-assisted multiple access system, where the RIS can harvest energy from energy station (ES) transmitted radio frequency signal (RF), and each…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-02-20 Mingang Yuan , Wenzhe Zhang , Gaofei Huang

This paper integrates non-orthogonal multiple access (NOMA) and over-the-air federated learning (AirFL) into a unified framework using one simultaneous transmitting and reflecting reconfigurable intelligent surface (STAR-RIS). The STAR-RIS…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-07-08 Wanli Ni , Yuanwei Liu , Yonina C. Eldar , Zhaohui Yang , Hui Tian

Intelligent reflecting surface (IRS) has been considered as a promising technology to alleviate the blockage effect and enhance coverage in millimeter wave (mmWave) communication. To explore the impact of IRS on the performance of mmWave…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-10-05 Renlong Wei , Qing Xue , Shaodan Ma , Yongjun Xu , Li Yan , Xuming Fang

Intelligent reflecting surfaces (IRSs) have emerged as a promising economical solution to implement cell-free networks. However, the performance gains achieved by IRSs critically depend on smartly tuned passive beamforming based on the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-02-22 Xie Xie , Chen He , Xiaoya Li , Zhu Han , Z. Jane Wang

In this paper, we propose simultaneous transmitting and reflecting reconfigurable intelligent surface (STAR-RIS) assisted non-orthogonal multiple access (NOMA) networks. The considered STAR-RIS utilizes the mode switching (MS) protocol to…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-09-20 Mahmoud Aldababsa , Aymen Khaleel , Ertugrul Basar

Dual-function radar-communication (DFRC) technology is emerging in next-generation wireless systems. Reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS) arrays have been suggested as a crucial sensor component of the DFRC. In this paper, we propose a…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-03-13 Zhuoyang Liu , Haiyang Zhang , Tianyao Huang , Feng Xu , Yonina C. Eldar

This paper evaluates the geometrically averaged performance of a wireless communication network assisted by a multitude of distributed reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RISs), where the RIS locations are randomly dropped obeying a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-09-18 Jindan Xu , Wei Xu , Chau Yuen

The physical layer security (PLS) is investigated for reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS) assisted wireless networks, where a source transmits its confidential information to a legitimate destination with the aid of a single small RIS…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-10-06 Haiyan Guo , Zhen Yang , Yulong Zou , Bin Lyu , Yuhan Jiang , Lajos Hanzo