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Stacked intelligent metasurfaces (SIM) represents an advanced signal processing paradigm that enables over-the-air processing of electromagnetic waves at the speed of light. Its multi-layer structure exhibits customizable increased…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-02-15 Hao Liu , Jiancheng An , Derrick Wing Kwan Ng , George C. Alexandropoulos , Lu Gan

Stacked intelligent metasurfaces (SIMs) represent a breakthrough in wireless hardware by comprising multilayer, programmable metasurfaces capable of analog computing in the electromagnetic (EM) wave domain. By examining their architectural…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-03-27 Hetong Wang , Yashuai Cao , Tiejun Lv

Stacked intelligent metasurfaces (SIMs) represent a novel signal processing paradigm that enables over-the-air processing of electromagnetic waves at the speed of light. Their multi-layer architecture exhibits customizable computational…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-04-01 Hao Liu , Jiancheng An , George C. Alexandropoulos , Derrick Wing Kwan Ng , Chau Yuen , Lu Gan

Energy efficiency (EE) problem has become an important and major issue in satellite communications. In this paper, we study the beamforming design strategy to maximize the EE of rate-splitting multiple access (RSMA) for the multibeam…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-03-22 Jinyuan Liu , Yong Liang Guan , Yao Ge , Longfei Yin , Bruno Clerckx

Future wireless communications are largely inclined to deploy massive numbers of antennas at the base stations (BSs) by leveraging cost- and energy-efficient as well as environmentally friendly antenna arrays. The emerging technology of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-01-11 Li You , Jie Xu , George C. Alexandropoulos , Jue Wang , Wenjin Wang , Xiqi Gao

In this work, we address the energy efficiency (EE) maximization problem in a downlink communication system utilizing reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS) in a multi-user massive multiple-input multiple-output (mMIMO) setup with…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-12-22 Wilson de Souza Junior , Taufik Abrao

Reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS) is a promising candidate technology of the upcoming Sixth Generation (6G) communication system for its ability to provide unprecedented spectral and energy efficiency increment through passive…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-09-29 Haochen Li , Zhiwen Pan , Bin Wang , Nan Liu , Xiaohu You

Semantic communication (SemCom) powered by generative artificial intelligence enables highly efficient and reliable information transmission. However, it still necessitates the transmission of substantial amounts of data when dealing with…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-06-17 Guojun Huang , Jiancheng An , Lu Gan , Dusit Niyato , Mérouane Debbah , Tie Jun Cui

Stacked intelligent metasurfaces (SIMs) have emerged as a disruptive technology for future wireless networks. To investigate their capabilities, we study the sum rate maximization problem in an SIM-based multiuser (MU) multiple-input…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-08-22 Eduard E. Bahingayi , Shuying Lin , Murat Uysal , Marco Di Renzo , Le-Nam Tran

This paper investigates a Stacked Intelligent Metasurfaces (SIM)-assisted Integrated Sensing and Communications (ISAC) system. An extended target model is considered, where the BS aims to estimate the complete target response matrix…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-05-03 Ziqing Wang , Hongzheng Liu , Jianan Zhang , Rujing Xiong , Kai Wan , Xuewen Qian , Marco Di Renzo , Robert Caiming Qiu

This paper investigates the optimization of beamforming design in a system with integrated sensing and communication (ISAC), where the base station (BS) sends signals for simultaneous multiuser communication and radar sensing. We aim at…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-04-27 Zhenyao He , Wei Xu , Hong Shen , Yongming Huang , Huahua Xiao

This paper focuses on energy-efficient coordinated multi-point (CoMP) downlink in multi-antenna multi-cell wireless communications systems. We provide an overview of transmit beamforming designs for various energy efficiency (EE) metrics…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-08-10 Kien-Giang Nguyen , Oskari Tervo , Quang-Doanh Vu , Le-Nam Tran , Markku Juntti

Stacked intelligent metasurfaces (SIMs) have recently emerged as a key enabler for realizing electromagnetic wave-domain signal processing in next-generation wireless networks. However, practical SIM implementations often suffer from…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-03-10 Xing Jia , Hao Liu , Haoxian Niu , Jinbao Li , Xiangyu Ding , Lu Gan

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

Cell-free systems can effectively eliminate the inter-cell interference by enabling multiple base stations (BSs) to cooperatively serve users without cell boundaries at the expense of high costs of hardware and power sources due to the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-11-18 Yutong Zhang , Boya Di , Hongliang Zhang , Jinlong Lin , Yonghui Li , Lingyang Song

Stacked intelligent metasurfaces (SIMs) provide wave-domain degrees of freedom that can empower integrated sensing and communication (ISAC) through flexible beampattern synthesis and interference management, while reducing hardware cost. In…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2026-05-06 Elaheh Ataeebojd , Nhan Thanh Nguyen , Seonghoon Yoo , Joonhyuk Kang , Markku Juntti , Matti Latva-aho , Mehdi Rasti

Reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RISs) have huge potential to improve spectral and energy efficiency in future wireless systems at a minimal cost. However, early prototype results indicate that deploying hundreds or thousands of…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-12-12 Eduard E. Bahingayi , Nemanja Stefan Perović , Le-Nam Tran

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 presents an energy-efficient downlink precoding scheme with the objective of maximizing system energy efficiency in a multi-cell massive MIMO system. The proposed precoding design jointly considers the issues of power control,…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2018-12-27 Shuai Zhang , Lu Liu , Yu Cheng , Xianghui Cao , Sheng Zhou , Zhisheng Niu , Hangguan Shan

Semantic communication (SemCom) leveraging advanced deep learning (DL) technologies enhances the efficiency and reliability of information transmission. Emerging stacked intelligent metasurface (SIM) with an electromagnetic neural network…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-11-15 Guojun Huang , Jiancheng An , Zhaohui Yang , Lu Gan , Mehdi Bennis , Mérouane Debbah