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In this paper, we investigate a double-active-reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS)-aided downlink wireless communication system, where a multi-antenna base station (BS) serves multiple single-antenna users with both double reflection…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-08-26 Boshi Wang , Cunhua Pan , Hong Ren , Zhiyuan Yu , Yang Zhang , Mengyu Liu , Gui Zhou

A double self-sustainable reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RISs) assisted multi-user multiple input multiple output (MIMO) system is investigated. Two RISs are equipped with energy harvesting circuit to achieve self-sustainable…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-05-08 Ji Wang , Suhong Luo , Yixuan Li , Wenwu Xie , Xingwang Li , Arumugam Nallanathan

Intelligent reflecting surfaces (IRSs) have received considerable attention from the wireless communications research community recently. In particular, as low-cost passive devices, IRSs enable the control of the wireless propagation…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-04-30 Xianghao Yu , Dongfang Xu , Robert Schober

A reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS) enhanced non-orthogonal multiple access assisted backscatter communication (RIS-NOMABC) system is considered. A joint optimization problem over power reflection coefficients and phase shifts is…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-12-21 Jiakuo Zuo , Yuanwei Liu , Liang Yang , Lingyang Song , Ying-Chang Liang

Thanks to the line-of-sight (LoS) transmission and flexibility, unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) effectively improve the throughput of wireless networks. Nevertheless, the LoS links are prone to severe deterioration by complex propagation…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-12-10 Sixian Li , Bin Duo , Xiaojun Yuan , Ying-Chang Liang , Marco Di Renzo

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

In this work, we investigate a novel simultaneous transmission and reflection reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS)-assisted multiple-input multiple-output downlink system, where three practical transmission protocols, namely, energy…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-06-18 Hehao Niu , Zheng Chu , Fuhui Zhou , Pei Xiao , Naofal Al-Dhahir

This work focuses on the use of reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS) in dual-function radar-communication (DFRC) systems to improve communication capacity and sensing precision, and enhance coverage for both functions. In contrast to…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-09-10 Bowen Wang , Hongyu Li , Shanpu Shen , Ziyang Cheng , Bruno Clerckx

A novel movable-element (ME) enabled simultaneously transmitting and reflecting surface (ME-STARS)-aided secure communication system is investigated. Against the full-space eavesdropping, MEs are deployed at the STARS for enhancing the…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-07-22 Jingjing Zhao , Qian Xu , Kaiquan Cai , Yanbo Zhu , Xidong Mu , Yuanwei Liu

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

Reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RIS) have drawn considerable attention recently due to their controllable scattering elements that are able to direct electromagnetic waves into desirable directions. Although RISs share some…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-05-03 Mohanad Obeed , Anas Chaaban

Intelligent reflecting surface (IRS) has been widely considered as one of the key enabling techniques for future wireless communication networks owing to its ability of dynamically controlling the phase shift of reflected electromagnetic…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-09-02 Wenhao Cai , Ming Li , Yang Liu , Qingqing Wu , Qian Liu

Reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS) technology holds immense potential for increasing the performance of wireless networks. Therefore, RIS is also regarded as one of the solutions to address communication challenges in high-mobility…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-08-22 Hanwen Hu , Jiancheng An , Lu Gan , Chau Yuen

Recently, the reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS), benefited from the breakthrough on the fabrication of programmable meta-material, has been speculated as one of the key enabling technologies for the future six generation (6G)…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-06-23 Chongwen Huang , Ronghong Mo , Chau Yuen

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 2021-01-26 Bei Guo , Renwang Li , Meixia Tao

We consider reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS) aided sixth-generation (6G) terahertz (THz) communications for indoor environment in which a base station (BS) wishes to send independent messages to its serving users with the help of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-03-22 Najam Us Saqib , Shumei Hou , Sung Ho Chae , Sang-Woon Jeon

This paper investigates a modular beamforming framework for reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS)-aided multi-user (MU) communications in the near-field regime, built upon a novel antenna architecture integrating an active multi-antenna…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-08-13 Giulia Torcolacci , Malte Schellmann , Davide Dardari

In this paper, we focus on intelligent reflecting surface (IRS) assisted multi-antenna communications with transceiver hardware impairments encountered in practice. In particular, we aim to maximize the received signal-to-noise ratio (SNR)…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-10-22 Hong Shen , Wei Xu , Shulei Gong , Chunming Zhao , Derrick Wing Kwan Ng

Reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RISs) have been deemed as one of potential components of future wireless communication systems because they can adaptively manipulate the wireless propagation environment with low-cost passive devices.…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-03-23 Yanan Ma , Rang Liu , Yang Liu , Ming Li , Qian Liu

In this paper, we consider the downlink transmission of a multi-antenna base station (BS) supported by an active simultaneously transmitting and reconfigurable intelligent surface (STAR-RIS) to serve single-antenna users via simultaneous…