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The fluid antenna system (FAS) has emerged as a disruptive technology, offering unprecedented degrees of freedom (DoF) for wireless communication systems. However, optimizing fluid antenna (FA) positions entails significant computational…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-05-13 Tianyi Liao , Wei Guo , Hengtao He , Shenghui Song , Jun Zhang , Khaled B. Letaief

This paper investigates reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS)-assisted secure multiuser communication systems subject to hardware impairments (HIs). We jointly optimize the beamforming vectors at the base station (BS) and the phase…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-10-12 Zhangjie Peng , Ruisong Weng , Cunhua Pan , Gui Zhou , Marco Di Renzo , A. Lee Swindlehurst

Reconfigurable Intelligent Surfaces (RIS) are passive or semi-passive heterogeneous metasurfaces and consist of many tunable elements. RIS is gaining momentum as a promising new technology to enable transforming the propagation environment…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-01-06 Pooja Nuti , Elyes Balti , Brian L. Evans

Analog/digital hybrid beamforming architectures with large-scale antenna arrays have been widely considered in millimeter wave (mmWave) communication systems because they can address the tradeoff between performance and hardware efficiency…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-06-05 Hongyu Li , Ming Li , Qian Liu

The recently emerged movable antenna (MA) and fluid antenna technologies offer promising solutions to enhance the spatial degrees of freedom in wireless systems by dynamically adjusting the positions of transmit or receive antennas within…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-03-18 Yikun Wang , Yang Li , Zeyi Ren , Jingreng Lei , Yik-Chung Wu , Rui Zhang

Intelligent reflect surface (IRS) is a potential technology to build programmable wireless environment in future communication systems. In this paper, we consider an IRS-assisted multi-base station (multi-BS) multi-user millimeter wave…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-11-04 Dan Zhao , Hancheng Lu , Yazheng Wang , Huan Sun , Yongqiang Gui

The plethora of wirelessly connected devices, whose deployment density is expected to largely increase in the upcoming sixth Generation (6G) of wireless networks, will naturally necessitate substantial advances in multiple access schemes.…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-10-29 Konstantinos D. Katsanos , Paolo Di Lorenzo , George C. Alexandropoulos

We study a multiple-input single-output (MISO) communication system assisted by a reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS). A base station (BS) having multiple antennas is assumed to be communicating to a single-antenna user equipment (UE),…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-10-08 Neel Kanth Kundu , Matthew R. McKay

Smart radio environments aided by reconfigurable intelligent reflecting surfaces (RIS) have attracted much research attention recently. We propose a joint optimization strategy for beamforming, RIS phases, and power allocation to maximize…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-08-02 Athira Subhash , Abla Kammoun , Ahmed Elzanaty , Sheetal Kalyani , Yazan H. Al-Badarneh , Mohamed-Slim Alouini

Intelligent metasurface has recently emerged as a promising technology that enables the customization of wireless environments by harnessing large numbers of low-cost reconfigurable scattering elements. However, prior studies have…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-05-05 Jiancheng An , Marco Di Renzo , Mérouane Debbah , H. Vincent Poor , Chau Yuen

With the aim of integrating over-the-air federated learning (AirFL) and non-orthogonal multiple access (NOMA) into an on-demand universal framework, this paper proposes a novel reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS)-aided hybrid network…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-07-05 Wanli Ni , Yuanwei Liu , Zhaohui Yang , Hui Tian , Xuemin Shen

Reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS)-empowered communication is a revolutionary technology that enables to manipulate wireless propagation environment via smartly controllable low-cost reflecting surfaces. However, in order to…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-12-13 Zehra Yigit , Ertugrul Basar , Ibrahim Altunbas

Reconfigurable Intelligent Surfaces (RIS) dynamically control signal propagation to enhance wireless communications. This paper presents a novel framework for rotatable RIS assisted physical-layer multicast systems, aiming to maximize the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-07-29 Ji Wang , Jiayu Tian , Lijuan Qin , Kunrui Cao , Hongbo Xu , Xingwang Li , Tony. Q. S. Quek

The emerging reflecting intelligent surface (RIS) technology promises to enhance the capacity of wireless communication systems via passive reflect beamforming. However, the product path loss limits its performance gains. Fully-connected…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-03-26 Konstantinos Ntougias , Symeon Chatzinotas , Ioannis Krikidis

This paper proposes a Transformer-based hybrid beamforming framework for reconfigurable pixel antenna (RPA)-equipped massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) in high-altitude platform station (HAPS) communications. The proposed pattern…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-05-19 Ruiqi Wang , Ziwei Wan , Keke Ying , Zhen Gao

This paper pioneers the field of multi-user holographic unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) communications, laying a solid foundation for future innovations in next-generation aerial wireless networks. The study focuses on the challenging problem…

The integration of electromagnetic metasurfaces into wireless communications enables intelligent control of the propagation environment. Recently, flexible intelligent metasurfaces (FIMs) have evolved beyond conventional reconfigurable…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-01-23 Ling He , Vaibhav Kumar , Anastasios Papazafeiropoulos , Miaowen Wen , Le-Nam Tran , Marwa Chafii

Enormous fluid antenna systems (E-FAS), the system concept that utilizes position reconfigurability in the large scale, have emerged as a new architectural paradigm where intelligent surfaces are repurposed from passive smart reflectors…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-02-12 Farshad Rostami Ghadi , Kai-Kit Wong , Masoud Kaveh , Wee Kiat New , Chan-Byoung Chae , Lajos Hanzo

Benefiting from the growth of the bandwidth, Terahertz (THz) communication can support the new application with explosive requirements of the ultra-high-speed rates for future 6G wireless systems. In order to compensate for the path loss of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-12-16 Yu Lu , Mo Hao , Richard MAcKenzie

By flexibly manipulating the radio propagation environment, reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS) is a promising technique for future wireless communications. However, the single-side coverage and double-fading attenuation faced by…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-02-01 Ailing Zheng , Wanli Ni , Wen Wang , Hui Tian