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Millimeter wave (mmWave) and terahertz MIMO systems rely on pre-defined beamforming codebooks for both initial access and data transmission. Being pre-defined, however, these codebooks are commonly not optimized for specific environments,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-02-24 Yu Zhang , Muhammad Alrabeiah , Ahmed Alkhateeb

Existing research on extremely large-scale intelligent reflecting surface (XL-IRS) beam training has assumed the far-field channel model for base station (BS)-IRS link. However, this approach may cause degraded beam training performance in…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-09-13 Tao Wang , Changsheng You , Changchuan Yin

Extremely large-scale reconfigurable intelligent surface (XL-RIS) can effectively overcome severe fading and provide higher communication performance. However, current research on XL-RIS overlooks the discrete phase-shift characteristics of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-08-27 Qian Zhang , Zheng Dong , Zheng Dong , Yao Ge , Yong Liang Guan , Ju Liu , Chau Yuen

In this paper, a novel approach for wireless localization is proposed and experimentally validated that leverages space-time coded reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RIS). It is demonstrated that applying proper single-bit codes to each…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-10-29 Mehdi Gholami , Soheil Khajavi , Mohammad Neshat , Simon Tewes , Aydin Sezgin

This letter proposes a movable beyond-diagonal reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (MA-BD-RIS) design, combining inter-element connectivity and movability for channel enhancement. We study a MA-BD-RIS assisted multi-user multiple input…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-01-13 Shuyue Xu , Matteo Nerini , Bruno Clerckx

Future wireless communication networks are expected to be smarter and more aware of their surroundings, enabling a wide range of context-aware applications. Reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RISs) are set to play a critical role in…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-03-13 Yixuan Huang , Jie Yang , Chao-Kai Wen , Shi Jin

We propose a new reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS) structure, referred to as interconnected RIS (I-RIS), which allows the RIS elements to be interconnected and share the incident signals using simple binary radio frequency (RF)…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-07-17 Sajjad Nassirpour , Naoki Kusashima , Jose Flordelis , Alireza Vahid

Intelligent reflecting surface (IRS) is an emerging technology to enhance the spectral and energy efficiency of wireless communications cost-effectively. This letter considers a new multi-IRS aided wireless network where a cascaded…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-08-12 Weidong Mei , Rui Zhang

In this work, we tackle the problem of beampattern design for a transmit system employing a large reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS) to redirect radio frequency signals emitted by a few active antennas (sources). We begin by…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-07-15 Ciro D'Elia , Emanuele Grossi , Luca Venturino

Reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS) is considered to be an energy-efficient approach to reshape the wireless environment for improved throughput. Its passive feature greatly reduces the energy consumption, which makes RIS a promising…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-01-20 Keke Ying , Zhen Gao , Shanxiang Lyu , Yongpeng Wu , Hua Wang , Mohamed-Slim Alouini

The spectrum shift from the sub-6G band to the high-frequency band has posed an ever-increasing demand on the paradigm shift from narrowband beamforming to wideband beamforming. Despite recent research efforts, the problem of wideband…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2024-07-09 Xiaowei Qian , Xiaoling Hu , Chenxi Liu , Mugen Peng

The reconfigurable intelligent surfaces detection and identification (RISs-ID) is a critical process that enables a base station (BS) to adaptively assign the appropriate RIS to a given user equipment (UE). This work proposes a novel…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-05-19 Aymen Khaleel , Adam Umra , Aydin Sezgin

Intelligent reflecting surfaces (IRS) consist of configurable meta-atoms, which can change the wireless propagation environment through design of their reflection coefficients. We consider a practical setting where (i) the IRS reflection…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-12-06 Junghoon Kim , Seyyedali Hosseinalipour , Andrew C. Marcum , Taejoon Kim , David J. Love , Christopher G. Brinton

In opportunistic cognitive radio networks, when the primary signal is very weak compared to the background noise, the secondary user requires long sensing time to achieve a reliable spectrum sensing performance, leading to little remaining…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-04-29 Jungang Ge , Ying-Chang Liang , Sumei Sun , Yonghong Zeng , Zhidong Bai

Reconfigurable Intelligent Surfaces (RIS) are an emerging technology that can be used to reconfigure the propagation environment to improve cellular communication link rates. RIS, which are thin metasurfaces composed of discrete elements,…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-11-11 Pooja Nuti , Brian L. Evans

This paper studies the feasibility of deploying intelligent reflecting surfaces (IRSs) in massive MIMO (multiple-input multiple-output) systems to improve the performance of users in the service dead zone. To reduce the channel training…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-01-13 Zhaorui Wang , Liang Liu , Shuowen Zhang , Shuguang Cui

In this paper, we consider the robust beamforming design in a reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS)-aided cell-free (CF) system considering the channel state information (CSI) uncertainties of both the direct channels and cascaded…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-05-10 Jiacheng Yao , Jindan Xu , Wei Xu , Derrick Wing Kwan Ng , Chau Yuen , Xiaohu You

Intelligent reflecting surfaces (IRSs) are gaining attention as a low-cost solution to the coverage reduction in high-frequency bands used in next-generation communications. IRSs achieve low costs by controlling only the reflection of radio…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2025-04-03 Ryuhei Hibi , Hiroaki Hashida , Yuichi Kawamoto , Nei Kato

Reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RISs) have become a promising technology to meet the requirements of energy efficiency and scalability in future six-generation (6G) communications. However, a significant challenge in RISs-aided…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-08-22 Xinquan Wang , Fenghao Zhu , Qianyun Zhou , Qihao Yu , Chongwen Huang , Ahmed Alhammadi , Zhaoyang Zhang , Chau Yuen , Mérouane Debbah

In this letter, we consider an intelligent reflecting surface (IRS)-assisted multiuser communication system, where an IRS is deployed to provide virtual line-of-sight (LoS) links between an access point (AP) and multiple users. We consider…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-06-30 Changsheng You , Beixiong Zheng , Rui Zhang