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Channel estimation is not only essential to highly reliable data transmission and massive device access but also an important component of the integrated sensing and communication (ISAC) in the sixth-generation (6G) mobile communication…

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Intelligent reflecting surfaces (IRSs) are regarded as promising enablers for future millimeter wave (mmWave) wireless communication, due to their ability to create favorable line-of-sight (LoS) propagation environments. In this paper, we…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-05-12 Tian Lin , Xianghao Yu , Yu Zhu , Robert Schober

We consider a two--tile reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS) assisted wireless network with a two-antenna transmitter and receiver over Rayleigh fading. We show that the average received signal-to-noise-ratio (SNR) optimal transmission…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-10-12 Prathapasinghe Dharmawansa , Saman Atapattu , Marco Di Renzo

Cell-free massive-multiple-input-multiple-output (CFmMIMO) is a key enabler for sixth-generation (6G) wireless communication networks, where distributed access points (APs) jointly serve user equipments (UEs). In commonly adopted channel…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-03-02 Andreas Angelou , Marc Moonen

The objective of this paper is to develop simple techniques to enhance the performance of multi-user RIS aided wireless systems. Specifically, we develop a novel technique called \textit{channel separation} which provides a better…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-09-14 Ikram Singh , Peter J. Smith , Pawel A. Dmochowski , Rua Murray

Reconfigurable Intelligent Surface (RIS) technology has emerged as a key enabler for future wireless communications. However, its potential is constrained by the difficulty of acquiring accurate user-to-RIS channel state information (CSI),…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-20 Md. Shahriar Sadid , Ali A. Nasir , Saad Al-Ahmadi , Samir Al-Ghadhban

In reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS)-assisted systems, the optimization of the phase shifts requires separate acquisition of the channel state information (CSI) for the direct and RIS-assisted channels, posing significant design…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-03-30 Kevin Weinberger , Aydin Sezgin

The channel estimation (CE) overhead for unstructured multipath-rich channels increases linearly with the number of reflective elements of reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS). This results in a significant portion of the channel…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2024-09-02 Souvik Deb , Sasthi C. Ghosh

We propose an alternating optimization framework for maximizing energy efficiency (EE) in reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS) assisted distributed MIMO (D-MIMO) systems under both coherent and non-coherent reception modes. The…

This paper considers an antenna structure where a (non-large) array of radiating elements is placed at short distance in front of a reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS). We propose a channel estimation procedure using different…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-10-26 Stefano Buzzi , Carmen D'Andrea , Giovanni Interdonato

In this paper, we investigate a cell-free massive MIMO system with both access points (APs) and user equipments (UEs) equipped with multiple antennas over jointly-correlated Rayleigh fading channels. We study four uplink implementations,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-03-18 Zhe Wang , Jiayi Zhang , Bo Ai , Chau Yuen , Mérouane Debbah

Consider a communication system in which a single antenna user equipment exchanges information with a multi-antenna base station via a reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS) in the presence of spatially correlated channels and…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-12-14 Wen-Xuan Long , Marco Moretti , Andrea Abrardo , Luca Sanguinetti , Rui Chen

Reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RIS) can be crucial in next-generation communication systems. However, designing the {RIS} phases according to the instantaneous channel state information (CSI) can be challenging in practice due to the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-09-26 Athira Subhash , Abla Kammoun , Ahmed Elzanaty , Sheetal Kalyani , Yazan H. Al-Badarneh , Mohamed-Slim Alouini

This paper investigates the downlink power allocation of the simultaneous transmitting and reflecting reconfigurable intelligent surface (STAR-RIS)-assisted cell-free massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) system with multi-antenna…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-12-23 Jun Qian , Ross Murch , Khaled B. Letaief

We study the impact of imperfect line-of-sight (LoS) phase tracking on the uplink performance of cell-free massive MIMO networks. Unlike prior works that assume perfectly known or completely unknown phases, we consider a realistic regime…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-02-27 Noor Ul Ain , Lorenzo Miretti , Renato L. G. Cavalcante , Slawomir Stanczak

The deployment of the 5th-generation cellular networks (5G) and beyond has triggered health concerns due to the electric and magnetic fields (EMF) exposure. In this paper, we propose a novel architecture to minimize the population exposure…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-10-22 Hussam Ibraiwish , Ahmed Elzanaty , Yazan H. Al-Badarneh , Mohamed-Slim Alouini

This paper proposes the joint design of reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RIS) and zero-forcing (ZF) precoding for the downlink (DL) multiuser multiple-input single-output (MU-MISO) setup in millimeter-wave (mmWave) bands, where ZF is…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-05-13 Ainna Yue Moreno-Locubiche , Josep Vidal , Antonio Pascual-Iserte , Olga Muñoz

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

Channel modeling is a critical issue when designing or evaluating the performance of reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS)-assisted communications. Inspired by the promising potential of learning-based methods for characterizing the…

As an emerging communication auxiliary technology, reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS) is expected to play a significant role in the upcoming 6G networks. Due to its total reflection characteristics, it is challenging to implement…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-08-04 W. Li , Z. Lin , Q. Guo , B. Vucetic