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Reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RISs) have been proposed as a key enabler to improve the coverage of the signals and mitigate the frequent blockages in millimeter wave (mmWave) multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) communications.…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-07-16 Rafaela Schroeder , Jiguang He , Glauber Brante , Markku Juntti

In this paper, the feasibility of a new downlink transmission mode in massive multi-input multi-output (MIMO) systems is investigated with two types of users, i.e., the users with only statistical channel state information (CSI) and the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-12-01 Shuang Qiu , Da Chen , Daiming Qu , Kai Luo , Tao Jiang

Reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS) can be employed in a cell-free system to create favorable propagation conditions from base stations (BSs) to users via configurable elements. However, prior works on RIS-aided cell-free system…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-08-15 Xu Gan , Caijun Zhong , Chongwen Huang , Zhaohui Yang , Zhaoyang Zhang

Reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RISs) can establish favorable wireless environments to combat the severe attenuation and blockages in millimeter-wave (mmWave) bands. However, to achieve the optimal enhancement of performance, the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-03-02 Muxin He , Jindan Xu , Wei Xu , Hong Shen , Ning Wang , Chunming Zhao

Reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS) has been anticipated to be a novel cost-effective technology to improve the performance of future wireless systems. In this paper, we investigate a practical RIS-aided multiple-input-multiple-output…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-03-23 Jintao Wang , Shiqi Gong , Qingqing Wu , Shaodan Ma

Wireless communication systems face challenges in meeting the demand for higher data rates and reliable connectivity in complex environments. Stacked intelligent metasurfaces (SIMs) have emerged as a promising technology for advanced…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2025-10-10 Geng Sun , Mingzhe Fan , Lei Zhang , Hongyang Pan , Jiahui Li , Chuang Zhang , Linyao Li , Changyuan Zhao , Chau Yuen

Holographic multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) is deemed as a promising technique beyond massive MIMO, unleashing near-field communications, localization, and sensing in the next-generation wireless networks. Semi-continuous surface with…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-05-30 Charles Vanwynsberghe , Jiguang He , Chongwen Huang , Merouane Debbah

This paper studies the feasibility of deploying intelligent reflecting surfaces (IRSs) in massive MIMO (multiple-input multiple-output) systems to improve the performance of users in the service dead zone. To reduce the channel training…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-01-13 Zhaorui Wang , Liang Liu , Shuowen Zhang , Shuguang Cui

Reducing computational complexity is crucial in optimizing the phase shifts of Intelligent Reflecting Surface (IRS) systems since IRS-assisted communication systems are generally deployed with a large number of reflecting elements (REs).…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-04-12 Ahmad Sirojuddin , Dony Darmawan Putra , Wan-Jen Huang

In this paper, we consider and study a cell-free massive MIMO (CF-mMIMO) system aided with reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RISs), where a large number of access points (APs) cooperate to serve a smaller number of users with the help of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-05-17 Bayan Al-Nahhas , Mohanad Obeed , Anas Chaaban , Md. Jahangir Hossain

This paper considers an intelligent reflecting surface (IRS) aided multiple-input single-output communication system, where statistical channel state information (CSI) is exploited for transmit beamforming and IRS beamforming. A tight upper…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-08-21 Xiaoling Hu , Junwei Wang , Caijun Zhong

This paper studies the fair transmission design for an intelligent reflecting surface (IRS) aided rate-splitting multiple access (RSMA). IRS is used to establish a good signal propagation environment and enhance the RSMA transmission…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-03-18 Shanshan Zhang , Wen Chen , Qingqing Wu , Ziwei Liu , Shunqing Zhang , Jun Li

Reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RISs) have huge potential to improve spectral and energy efficiency in future wireless systems at a minimal cost. However, early prototype results indicate that deploying hundreds or thousands of…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-12-12 Eduard E. Bahingayi , Nemanja Stefan Perović , Le-Nam Tran

This paper introduces a novel approach of utilizing the reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS) for joint data modulation and signal beamforming in a multi-user downlink cellular network by leveraging the idea of backscatter communication.…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-08-25 Haseeb Ur Rehman , Faouzi Bellili , Amine Mezghani , Ekram Hossain

Flexible intelligent metasurface (FIM) technology holds immense potential for increasing the spectral efficiency and energy efficiency of wireless networks. In contrast to traditional rigid reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RIS), an FIM…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-10-10 Hanwen Hu , Jiancheng An , Lu Gan , Naofal Al-Dhahir

Reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS) has emerged as a cost-effective and promising solution to extend the wireless signal coverage and improve the performance via passive signal reflection. Different from existing works which do not…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-11-22 Anastasios Papazafeiropoulos , Ahmet M. Elbir , Pandelis Kourtessis , Ioannis Krikidis , Symeon Chatzinotas

The emergence of reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RISs) enables us to establish programmable radio wave propagation that caters for wireless communications, via employing low-cost passive reflecting units. This work studies the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-03-08 Li You , Jiayuan Xiong , Derrick Wing Kwan Ng , Chau Yuen , Wenjin Wang , Xiqi Gao

Cell-Free Massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) and reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS) are two promising technologies for application to beyond-5G networks. This paper considers Cell-Free Massive MIMO systems with the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-12-20 Trinh Van Chien , Hien Quoc Ngo , Symeon Chatzinotas , Marco Di Renzo , Björn Ottersten

This work studies the net sum-rate performance of a distributed reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RISs)-assisted multi-user multiple-input-single-output (MISO) downlink communication system under imperfect instantaneous-channel state…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-08-10 Bayan Al-Nahhas , Qurrat-UI-Ain Nadeem , Aryan Kaushik , Anas Chaaban

Flexible Intelligent Metasurfaces (FIMs) enable wireless systems to adapt their three-dimensional geometry through morphing, thereby providing new spatial degrees of freedom. However, continuous deformation complicates the accurate…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-05-29 Vinícius L. Romano , André L. F. de Almeida , Daniel C. Araújo