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A simultaneously transmitting and reflecting reconfigurable intelligent surface (STAR-RIS) assisted simultaneous wireless information and power transfer (SWIPT) system is investigated. Both active and passive STAR-RISs are considered.…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-12-24 Guangyu Zhu , Xidong Mu , Li Guo , Ao Huang , Shibiao Xu

As 6G networks demand massive connectivity and stronger interference control, rate-splitting multiple access (RSMA) is attractive because it superposes a common stream and user-private streams and remains effective under imperfect CSIT and…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-15 Jinyuan Liu , Yong Liang Guan , Tuo Wu , Kai-Kit Wong , Bruno Clerckx

While reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS)-aided user-specific beamforming has been vastly investigated, the aspect of utilizing RISs for assisting cell-specific transmission has been largely unattended. Aiming to fill this gap, we…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-12-04 Parisa Ramezani , Maksym A. Girnyk , Emil Björnson

Fluid antenna enables position reconfigurability that gives transceiver access to a high-resolution spatial signal and the ability to avoid interference through the ups and downs of fading channels. Previous studies investigated this fluid…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-04-30 Tianyu Han , Yongxu Zhu , Kai-Kit Wong , Gan Zheng , Hyundong Shin

Fluid antenna system (FAS) represents the concept of treating antenna as a reconfigurable physical-layer resource to broaden system design and network optimization and inspire next-generation reconfigurable antennas. FAS can unleash new…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-12-23 Tuo Wu , Kai-Kit Wong , Jie Tang , Junteng Yao , Baiyang Liu , Kin-Fai Tong , Chan-Byoung Chae , Matthew C. Valenti , Kwai-Man Luk

Reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RISs) can be densely deployed in the environment to create multi-reflection line-of-sight (LoS) links for signal coverage enhancement. However, conventional reflection-only RISs can only achieve…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-05-21 Bonan An , Weidong Mei , Yuanwei Liu , Dong Wang , Zhi Chen

In this paper, we consider a reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS)-assisted two-way relay network, in which two users exchange information through the base station (BS) with the help of an RIS. By jointly designing the phase shifts at…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-05-11 Jun Wang , Ying-Chang Liang , Jingon Joung , Xiaojun Yuan , Xinguo Wang

A hardware model and a signal model are proposed for dual-sided simultaneously transmitting and reflecting reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (STAR-RISs), where the signal simultaneously incident on both sides of the surface. Based on the…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-09-13 Jiaqi Xu , Xidong Mu , Joey Tianyi Zhou , Yuanwei Liu

Non-orthogonal multiple access (NOMA) is considered a key technology for improving the spectral efficiency of fifth-generation (5G) and beyond 5G cellular networks. NOMA is beneficial when the channel vectors of the users are in the same…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-01-07 Kusuma Priya P. , Pavan Reddy M. , Abhinav Kumar

Reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RISs), which can deliberately adjust the phase of incident waves, have shown enormous potentials to reconfigure the signal propagation for performance enhancement. In this paper, we investigate the…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-11-02 Zhengyi Zhou , Ning Ge , Wendong Liu , Zhaocheng Wang

The reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS) is one of the promising technologies contributing to the next generation smart radio environment. A novel physics-based RIS channel model is proposed. Particularly, we consider the RIS and the…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-08-04 Jiaqi Xu , Yuanwei Liu

Stacked intelligent metasurfaces (SIMs) and fluid antenna systems (FAS) are emerging technologies for wave-domain and spatial signal manipulation, respectively.This letter proposes a novel joint SIM-FAS communication model in which…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-05-22 Anastasios Papazafeiropoulos

Rate-Splitting Multiple Access (RSMA) is a key enabling technique for sixth-generation (6G) wireless systems due to its powerful interference management, and Reconfigurable Intelligent Surface (RIS) improves communication performance by…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-03-11 Mingyu Hu , Nan Liu , Wei Kang

This paper proposes a quality-of-service (QoS)-aware multi-user communication framework facilitated by multiple simultaneously transmitting and reflecting reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (STAR-RISs). The user groups are established…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-08-26 Junfeng Wang , Xiao Tang , Jinxin Liu , Zhi Zhai , Qinghe Du , Naijin Liu

This paper considers wireless communication assisted by a reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS), focusing on the two-timescale approach, in which the RIS phase shifts are optimized based on channel statistics to mitigate the overheads…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-07-30 Masoud Sadeghian , Angel Lozano , Gabor Fodor

This paper proposes an energy-efficient scheme for multicell multiple-input, multiple-output (MIMO) simultaneous transmit and reflect (STAR) reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RIS)-assisted broadcast channels by employing rate splitting…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-06-05 Mohammad Soleymani , Ignacio Santamaria , Eduard Jorswieck

This paper leverages fluid antenna (FA) and rate-splitting multiple access (RSMA) to enhance the physical layer security (PLS) of an integrated sensing and communication (ISAC) system. We consider a practical multi-user multi-input…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-03-18 Cixiao Zhang , Yin Xu , Size Peng , Xinghao Guo , Xiaowu Ou , Hanjiang Hong , Dazhi He , Wenjun Zhang

In this paper, we analyse the performance of a reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS) aided system where the RIS is divided into subsurfaces. Each subsurface is designed specifically for one user, who is served on their own frequency…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-03-12 Amy S. Inwood , Peter J. Smith , Philippa A. Martin , Graeme K. Woodward

The adoption of a Reconfigurable Intelligent Surface (RIS) for downlink multi-user communication from a multi-antenna base station is investigated in this paper. We develop energy-efficient designs for both the transmit power allocation and…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-06-23 Chongwen Huang , Alessio Zappone , George C. Alexandropoulos , Mérouane Debbah , Chau Yuen

Simultaneous wireless information and power transfer (SWIPT) is an effective energy-saving technology, but its efficiency is hindered by environmental factors. The introduction of reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RIS) has alleviated…

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