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Intelligent reflecting surface (IRS) is envisioned to play a significant role in future wireless communication systems thanks to its powerful capability of enabling smart and reconfigurable radio environment. In this paper, we study the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-02-23 Weidong Mei , Rui Zhang

Beamforming plays a crucial role in millimeter wave (mmWave) communication systems to mitigate the severe attenuation inherent to this spectrum. However, the use of large active antenna arrays in conventional architectures often results in…

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This paper proposes a communication model for multiuser multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) systems based on large intelligent surfaces (LIS), where the LIS is modeled as a collection of tightly packed antenna elements. The LIS system is…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-11-03 Robin Jess Williams , Pablo Ramírez-Espinosa , Elisabeth de Carvalho , Thomas L. Marzetta

Next-generation wireless networks are expected to utilize the limited radio frequency (RF) resources more efficiently with the aid of intelligent transceivers. To this end, we propose a promising transceiver architecture relying on stacked…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-11-17 Jiancheng An , Chau Yuen , Chao Xu , Hongbin Li , Derrick Wing Kwan Ng , Marco Di Renzo , Mérouane Debbah , Lajos Hanzo

Reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS)-assisted cell-free (CF) multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) networks can significantly enhance system performance. However, the extensive deployment of RIS elements imposes considerable channel…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-06-30 Hongqin Ke , Jindan Xu , Wei Xu , Chau Yuen , Zhaohua Lu

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

In this work, we tackle the problem of beampattern design for a transmit system employing a large reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS) to redirect radio frequency signals emitted by a few active antennas (sources). We begin by…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-07-15 Ciro D'Elia , Emanuele Grossi , Luca Venturino

Transmissive reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RIS) represent a transformative architecture for future wireless networks, enabling a paradigm shift from traditional costly base stations to low-cost, energy-efficient transmitters. This…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-11-17 Zhengwei Jiang , Yufeng Zhou , Xusheng Zhu , Wen Chen , Qingqing Wu , Kai-Kit Wong

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

The disruptive reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS) technology is steadily gaining relevance as a key element in future 6G networks. However, a one-size-fits-all RIS hardware design is yet to be defined due to many practical…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2022-03-17 Fabio Maresca , Antonio Albanese , Placido Mursia , Vincenzo Sciancalepore , Xavier Costa-Pérez

A novel hybrid active-passive reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS) transmitter enabled downlink multi-user communication system is investigated. Specifically, RISs are exploited to serve as transmitter antennas, where each element can…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-03-05 Ao Huang , Xidong Mu , Li Guo , Guangyu Zhu

Large antenna arrays and high-frequency bands are two key features of future wireless communication systems. The combination of large-scale antennas with high transmission frequencies often results in the communicating devices operating in…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-05-28 Haiyang Zhang , Nir Shlezinger , Francesco Guidi , Davide Dardari , Mohammadreza F. Imani , Yonina C. Eldar

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

Movable antennas (MAs) are a promising technology to achieve a significant enhancement in rate for future wireless networks. The pioneering investigation on near-field directional modulation design for a reconfigurable intelligent surface…

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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

In this chapter, we investigate the mathematical foundation of the modeling and design of reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RIS) in both the far- and near-field regimes. More specifically, we first present RIS-assisted wireless channel…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-10-16 Mohamadreza Delbari , George C. Alexandropoulos , Robert Schober , Vahid Jamali

Reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS) has emerged as a cost-effective solution for green communications in 6G. However, its further extensive use has been greatly limited due to its fully passive characteristics. Considering the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-01-15 Jintao Wang , Chengzhi Ma , Shiqi Gong , Xi Yang , Shaodan Ma

This paper considers a RIS-assisted symbiotic communication system, where additional information is conveyed by the passive reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS). In existing schemes, individual phase modulation is usually adopted at the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-05-14 Ruo-Qi Sun , Jianfeng Shi , Yonggang Zhu , Mingliang Xie , Kang Luo , Yifu Sun , Ru-Han Chen , Kang An

This paper proposes a joint active and passive beamforming design for reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS)-aided wireless communication systems, adopting a piece-wise near-field channel model. While a traditional near-field channel…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-06-24 Weijian Chen , Zai Yang , Zhiqiang Wei , Derrick Wing Kwan Ng , Michail Matthaiou

We propose reflection pattern modulation-aided reconfigurable intelligent surface (RPM-RIS)-assisted cell-free massive multiple-input-multiple-output (CF-mMIMO) schemes for green uplink transmission. In our RPM-RIS-assisted CF-mMIMO system,…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-08-13 Zeping Sui , Hien Quoc Ngo , Trinh Van Chien , Michail Matthaiou , Lajos Hanzo