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We study the impact of channel aging on the uplink of a cell-free (CF) massive multiple-input multiple-output (mMIMO) system by considering i) spatially-correlated Rician-faded channels; ii) hardware impairments at the access points and…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-10-28 Venkatesh Tentu , Dheeraj N Amudala , Anish Chattopadhyay , Rohit Budhiraja

We consider a multi-user multiple input single output (MU-MISO) system assisted by a reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS). For such a system, we aim to optimally select the RIS phase shifts and precoding vectors for maximizing the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-04-16 M. S. S. Manasa , Kali Krishna Kota , Praful D. Mankar , Harpreet S. Dhillon

In this paper, we propose and study a multi-functional reconfigurable intelligent surface (MF-RIS) architecture. In contrast to conventional single-functional RIS (SF-RIS) that only reflects signals, the proposed MF-RIS simultaneously…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-10-05 Wen Wang , Wanli Ni , Hui Tian , Yonina C. Eldar , Rui Zhang

This paper investigates a reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS)-aided multi-user multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) system by considering only the statistical channel state information (CSI) at the base station (BS). We aim to…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-12-23 Huan Zhang , Shaodan Ma , Zheng Shi , Xin Zhao , Guanghua Yang

User experience in mobile communications is vulnerable to worse quality at the cell edge, which cannot be compensated by enjoying excellent service at the cell center, according to the principle of risk aversion in behavioral economics.…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-04-10 Wei Jiang , Hans D. Schotten

Cell-free massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) and intelligent reflecting surface (IRS) are considered as the prospective multiple antenna technologies for beyond the fifth-generation (5G) networks. Cell-free MIMO systems powered…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-07-29 Taegyun Noh , Junil Choi

This chapter focuses on a hardware architecture for semi-passive Reconfigurable Intelligent Surfaces (RISs) and investigates its consideration for boosting the performance of Multiple-Input Multiple-Output (MIMO) communication systems. The…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-06-19 George C. Alexandropoulos , Konstantinos D. Katsanos , Evangelos Vlachos

Intelligent reflecting surfaces (IRS) have emerged as a promising technology to enhance the performance of wireless communication systems. By actively manipulating the wireless propagation environment, IRS enables efficient signal…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-08-21 Chandan Kumar Sheemar , Sourabh Solanki , Jorge Querol , Sumit Kumar , Symeon Chatzinotas

The integration of reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RIS) with extremely large multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) arrays at the base station has emerged as a key enabler for enhancing wireless network performance. However, this setup…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-08-05 Ahmad Dkhan , Simon Tarboush , Hadi Sarieddeen , Tareq Y. Al-Naffouri

Reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RISs) can improve the capacity of wireless communication links by passively beamforming the impinging signals in desired directions. This feature has been demonstrated both analytically and…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-01-23 Emil Björnson , Özlem Tuğfe Demir

We investigate the integration of beyond diagonal reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (BDRISs) into cell free massive multiple input multiple output (CFmMIMO) systems to enhance simultaneous wireless information and power transfer (SWIPT).…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-08-20 Duc Thien Hua , Mohammadali Mohammadi , Hien Quoc Ngo , Michail Matthaiou

We investigate a multi-user multiple-input multiple-output interference network in the presence of multiple reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RISs). The entire system is described by using a circuit-based model for the transmitters,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-02-16 Andrea Abrardo , Davide Dardari , Marco Di Renzo , Xuewen Qian

A reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS) is a nearly-passive flat layer made of inexpensive elements that can add a tunable phase shift to the impinging electromagnetic wave and are controlled by a low-power electronic circuit. This paper…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-05-04 Stefano Buzzi , Emanuele Grossi , Marco Lops , Luca Venturino

Reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS) is a novel meta-material which can form a smart radio environment by dynamically altering reflection directions of the impinging electromagnetic waves. In the prior literature, the inter-RIS links…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-03-13 Kaizhe Xu , Jiajia Guo , Jun Zhang , Shi Jin , Shaodan Ma

Rate-Splitting (RS) has recently been shown to provide significant performance benefits in various multi-user transmission scenarios. In parallel, the huge degrees-of-freedom provided by the appealing massive Multiple-Input Multiple-Output…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-04-24 Anastasios Papazafeiropoulos , Bruno Clerckx , Tharmalingam Ratnarajah

The combination of cell-free massive multiple-input multiple-output (CF-mMIMO) and reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS) is envisioned as a promising paradigm to improve network capacity and enhance coverage capability. However, to reap…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-07-07 Xinying Ma , Deyou Zhang , Ming Xiao , Chongwen Huang , Zhi Chen

Reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RISs) are a promising solution to improve the coverage of cellular networks, thanks to their ability to steer impinging signals in desired directions. However, they introduce an overhead in the…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-03-21 Anna V. Guglielmi , Stefano Tomasin

This paper introduces a reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS) to support parameter estimation in machine-type communications (MTC). We focus on a network where single-antenna sensors transmit spatially correlated measurements to a…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-01-28 Sergi Liesegang , Antonio Pascual-Iserte , Olga Muñoz

In a practical massive MIMO (multiple-input multiple-output) system, the number of antennas at a base station (BS) is constrained by the space and cost factors, which limits the throughput gain promised by theoretical analysis. This paper…

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