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This paper considers the uplink (UL) of a multi-cell Massive MIMO (multiple-input multiple-output) system with spatially correlated Rician fading channels. The channel model is composed of a deterministic line-of-sight (LoS) path and a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-05-22 Özgecan Özdogan , Emil Björnson , Erik G. Larsson

We study internet of things (IoT) systems supported by cell-free (CF) massive MIMO (mMIMO) with optimal linear channel estimation. For the uplink, we consider optimal linear MIMO receiver and obtain an uplink SINR approximation involving…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-12-01 Hangsong Yan , Alexei Ashikhmin , Hong Yang

Reflecting Surfaces (RSs) are being lately envisioned as an energy efficient solution capable of enhancing the signal coverage in cases where obstacles block the direct communication from Base Stations (BSs), especially at high frequency…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-11-04 Kun Chen-Hu , George C. Alexandropoulos , Ana García Armada

With the explosive growth of data traffic and the ubiquitous connectivity of wireless devices, the energy demands of wireless networks have inevitably escalated. Reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS) has emerged as a promising solution…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-12-16 Hongyi Luo , Wenyu Song , Daniel K. C. So , Zahra Mobini , Zhiguo Ding

Active reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS) emerges as an effective technique to resist the double-fading attenuation of passive RIS. By embedding with power harvesting function, it further evolves to zero-power active RIS, which can…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-10-17 Xiao Zheng , Wenchi Cheng , Jingqing Wang , Zhuohui Yao , Jiangzhou Wang

Reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS) is a promising technique to improve the performance of future wireless communication systems at low energy consumption. To reap the potential benefits of RIS-aided beamforming, it is vital to enhance…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-04-01 Zhenyao He , Jindan Xu , Hong Shen , Wei Xu , Chau Yuen , Marco Di Renzo

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 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 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

In this letter, we investigate a cell-free network aided by hybrid reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RISs), which consists of a mixture of passive and active elements that are capable of amplifying and reflecting the incident signal. To…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-10-05 Wanting Lyu , Yue Xiu , Songjie Yang , Chau Yuen , Zhongpei Zhang

The deployment of multiple reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RISs) enhances the propagation environment by improving channel quality, but it also complicates channel estimation. Following the conventional wireless communication system…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-11-22 Weicong Chen , Yu Han , Chao-Kai Wen , Xiao Li , Shi Jin

Cell-Free Massive Multiple-input Multiple-output (mMIMO) consists of many access points (APs) in a coverage area that jointly serve the users. These systems can significantly reduce the interference among the users compared to conventional…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-11-16 Abbas Khalili , Alexei Ashikhmin , Hong Yang

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

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 recent low-cost and energy-efficient technology with potential applicability for future wireless communications. Performance gains achieved by employing RIS directly depend on accurate channel…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-12-24 Paulo R. B. Gomes , Amarilton L. Magalhães , André L. F. de Almeida

Reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS) has emerged as a cost-effective solution to improve wireless communication performance through just passive reflection. Recently, the concept of simultaneously transmitting and reflecting RIS…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-11-27 Anastasios Papazafeiropoulos , Pandelis Kourtessis , Symeon Chatzinotas

The robust beamforming design in multi-functional reconfigurable intelligent surface (MF-RIS) assisted wireless networks is investigated in this work, where the MF-RIS supports signal reflection, refraction, and amplification to address the…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2024-12-12 Ailing Zheng , Wanli Ni , Wen Wang , Hui Tian , Chau Yuen

Multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) signaling is one of the key technologies of current mobile communication systems. However, the complex and expensive radio frequency (RF) chains have always limited the increase of MIMO scale. In this…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-12-21 Xiangyu Chen , Jun Chen Ke , Wankai Tang , Ming Zheng Chen , Jun Yan Dai , Ertugrul Basar , Shi Jin , Qiang Cheng , Tie Jun Cui

Reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RISs) are widely considered a promising technology for future wireless communication systems. As an important indicator of RIS-assisted communication systems in green wireless communications, energy…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-10-25 Zhiyi Li , Jida Zhang , Jieao Zhu , Shi Jin , Linglong Dai

This study employs a uniform rectangular array (URA) sub-connected hybrid beamforming (SC-HBF) architecture to provide a novel self-interference (SI) suppression scheme in a full-duplex (FD) massive multiple-input multiple-output (mMIMO)…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-02-14 Mobeen Mahmood , Yuanxing Zhang , Robert Morawski , Tho Le-Ngoc