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This paper proposes a novel relay-aided intelligent reconfigurable surface (IRS) architecture for future wireless communication systems. The proposed architecture, which consists of two side-by-side intelligent surfaces connected via a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-06-12 Xiaoyan Ying , Umut Demirhan , Ahmed Alkhateeb

In the development of wireless communication technology, multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) technology has emerged as a key enabler, significantly enhancing the capacity of communication systems. However, traditional MIMO systems, which…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-03-17 Ruojing Zhao , Yifei Xu , Songjie Yang , Hua Chen , Chadi Assi

6DMA (six-dimensional movable antenna) is a new and revolutionizing technology that fully exploits the wireless channel spatial variation at the transmitter/receiver by flexibly adjusting the three-dimensional (3D) positions and 3D…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-06-12 Xiaodan Shao , Rui Zhang

Reconfigurable intelligent surfaces have emerged as a promising technology for future wireless networks. Given that a large number of reflecting elements is typically used, and that the surface has no signal processing capabilities, a major…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-09-22 Alessio Zappone , Marco Di Renzo , Farshad Shams , Xuewen Qian , Merouane Debbah

Movable antennas (MAs) are a promising paradigm to enhance the spatial degrees of freedom of conventional multi-antenna systems by flexibly adapting the positions of the antenna elements within a given transmit area. In this paper, we model…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-08-07 Yifei Wu , Dongfang Xu , Derrick Wing Kwan Ng , Wolfgang Gerstacker , Robert Schober

The reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS) technology for metasurfaces is ushering in a new paradigm for wireless communication systems. It provides an accessible way for controlling the interaction between electromagnetic waves with the…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-01-21 P. H. C. de Souza , M. Khazaee , L. L. Mendes

Reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS) is regarded as a promising technology with great potential to boost wireless networks. Affected by the "double fading" effect, however, conventional passive RIS cannot bring considerable performance…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-10-06 Qi Zhu , Ming Li , Rang Liu , Yang Liu , Qian Liu

Intelligent reflecting surface (IRS) has emerged as a cost-effective solution to enhance wireless communication performance via passive signal reflection. Existing works on IRS have mainly focused on investigating IRS's passive…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-07-19 Beixiong Zheng , Rui Zhang

Reconfigurable Intelligent Surfaces (RIS)-empowered communication has emerged as a transformative technology for next generation wireless networks, enabling the programmable shaping of the propagation environment. However, conventional RISs…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-07-23 Recep Akif Tasci , Panagiotis Gavriilidis , Ertugrul Basar , George C. Alexandropoulos

We consider a multi-user (MU) full-duplex (FD) multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) communication system, in which the base station transceiver is equipped with transmit and receive position reconfigurable antennas (PRAs) to mitigate both…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-11-06 Chengjie Zhao , Yuanzhe Gong , Tho Le-Ngoc

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

Intelligent reflecting surface (IRS) is a new and revolutionizing technology for achieving spectrum and energy efficient wireless networks. By leveraging massive low-cost passive elements that are able to reflect radio-frequency (RF)…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-11-12 Qingqing Wu , Rui Zhang

Intelligent reflecting surface (IRS) is a promising technology to boost the efficiency of wireless energy transfer (WET) systems. However, for a multiuser WET system, simultaneous multi-beam energy transmission is generally required to…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-05-19 Chi Qiu , Qingqing Wu , Meng Hua , Xinrong guan , Yuan Wu

In this paper, we propose to leverage rotatable antennas (RAs) for improving the communication performance in mixed near-field and far-field communication systems by exploiting a new spatial degree-of-freedom (DoF) offered by antenna…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-11-26 Yunpu Zhang , Changsheng You , Hing Cheung So , Dusit Niyato , Yonina C. Eldar

An emerging and promising vision of wireless networks consists of coating the environmental objects with reconfigurable metasurfaces that are capable of modifying the radio waves impinging upon them according to the generalized law of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-01-07 M. Di Renzo , J. Song

Movable antenna (MA) has emerged as a promising technology to flexibly reconfigure wireless channels by adjusting antenna placement. In this paper, we study a dual-functional radar-communication (DFRC) system enhanced with movable antennas.…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-10-14 Ran Yang , Zheng Dong , Peng Cheng , Lin Zhang , Wanting Lyu , Yue Xiu , Ning Wei , Chadi Assi

In this paper, we put forth the idea of metaprism, a passive and non-reconfigurable metasurface acting as a metamirror with frequency-dependent reflecting properties within the signal bandwidth. We show that, with an appropriate design of…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-03-31 Davide Dardari , Devis Massari

Intelligent reflecting surface (IRS) has been deemed as a transformative technology to achieve smart and reconfigurable environment for wireless communication. This letter studies a new IRS-aided communication system, where multiple IRSs…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-10-27 Weidong Mei , Rui Zhang

Ray tracing is widely employed to model the propagation of radio-frequency (RF) signal in complex environment. The modelling performance greatly depends on how accurately the target scene can be depicted, including the scene geometry and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-07 Haifeng Jia , Xinyi Chen , Yichen Wei , Yifei Sun , Yibo Pi

Rotatable antenna (RA) enhances wireless coverage through directional gain steering, yet suffers from performance degradation under physical blockages. Intelligent reflecting surface (IRS) establishes reflective paths to bypass obstacles,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-01-19 Guoying Zhang , Qingqing Wu , Ziyuan Zheng , Qiaoyan Peng , Yanze Zhu , Wen Chen , Penghui Huang