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Stacked intelligent metasurfaces (SIM) provide a cost-effective and scalable solution for large-scale antenna communications.However, efficient channel state information acquisition and phase shift optimization remain critical challenges.…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-05-26 Qian Zhang , Ju Liu , Yao Ge , Yufei Zhao , Wali Ullah Khan , Zheng Dong , Yong Liang Guan , Chau Yuen

The sixth generation (6G) mobile communication networks are expected to offer a new paradigm of cellular integrated sensing and communication (ISAC). However, due to the intrinsic difference between sensing and communication in terms of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-01-26 Ruoguang Li , Zhiqiang Xiao , Yong Zeng

Future cellular systems based on the use of millimeter waves will heavily rely on the use of antenna arrays both at the transmitter and at the receiver. For complexity reasons and energy consumption issues, fully digital precoding and…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-02-02 Stefano Buzzi , Carmen D'Andrea

Assume that a multi-user multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) system is designed from scratch to uniformly cover a given area with maximal energy efficiency (EE). What are the optimal number of antennas, active users, and transmit power?…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-02-22 Emil Björnson , Luca Sanguinetti , Jakob Hoydis , Mérouane Debbah

Flexible intelligent metasurface (FIM) is a recently developed, groundbreaking hardware technology with promising potential for 6G wireless systems. Unlike conventional rigid antenna array (RAA)-based transmitters, FIM-assisted transmitters…

Intelligent metasurfaces have demonstrated great promise in revolutionizing wireless communications. One notable example is the two-dimensional (2D) programmable metasurface, which is also known as reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RIS)…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-05-19 Jiancheng An , Mérouane Debbah , Tie Jun Cui , Zhi Ning Chen , Chau Yuen

This paper conceives a hybrid beamforming design (HBF) that maximizes the energy efficiency (EE) of an integrated sensing and communication (ISAC)-enabled millimeter wave (mmWave) multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) system. In the system…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-06-07 Jitendra Singh , Suraj Srivastava , Aditya K. Jagannatham

Beamforming with a sufficient number of antennas is one of the most significant technologies for both Multi-user (MU) Multiple-input Multiple-output (MIMO) communication and MIMO radar sensing in Integrated Sensing and Communication (ISAC)…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-10-17 Jiangong Chen , Xia Lei , Yuchen Zhang , Kaitao Meng , Christos Masouros

Intelligent reflecting surfaces (IRSs) constitute a disruptive wireless communication technique capable of creating a controllable propagation environment. In this paper, we propose to invoke an IRS at the cell boundary of multiple cells to…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-04-27 Cunhua Pan , Hong Ren , Kezhi Wang , Wei Xu , Maged Elkashlan , Arumugam Nallanathan , Lajos Hanzo

We consider a downlink multiuser massive MIMO system comprising multiple heterogeneous base stations with hybrid precoding architectures. To enhance the energy efficiency of the network, we propose a novel coordinated hybrid precoding…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-08-12 Ganapati Hegde , Christos Masouros , Marius Pesavento

A novel dynamic hybrid beamforming architecture is proposed to achieve the spatial multiplexing-power consumption tradeoff for near-field multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) networks, where each radio frequency (RF) chain is connected to…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-12-27 Zheng Zhang , Yuanwei Liu , Zhaolin Wang , Jian Chen , Tony Q. S. Quek

The amalgamation of cell-free networks and reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS) has become a prospective technique for future sixth-generation wireless communication systems. In this paper, we focus on the precoding and beamforming…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-11-23 Peng Zhang , Jiayi Zhang , Huahua Xiao , Xiaodan Zhang , Derrick Wing Kwan Ng , Bo Ai

This paper introduces a novel framework for Edge Inference (EI) that bypasses the conventional practice of treating the wireless channel as noise. We utilize Stacked Intelligent Metasurfaces (SIMs) to control wireless propagation, enabling…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2025-09-24 Kyriakos Stylianopoulos , George C. Alexandropoulos

This paper considers a single-cell massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) system equipped with a base station (BS) that uses one-bit quantization and investigates the energy efficiency (EE) and spectral efficiency (SE) trade-off. We…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-04-13 Yongzhi Li , Cheng Tao , Amine Mezghani , A. Lee Swindlehurst , Gonzalo Seco-Granados , Liu Liu

This paper investigates a joint beamforming design in a multiuser multiple-input single-output (MISO) communication network aided with an intelligent reflecting surface (IRS) panel. The symbol-level precoding (SLP) is adopted to enhance the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-09-01 Guangyang Zhang , Chao Shen , Bo Ai , Zhangdui Zhong

This paper studies the fair transmission design for an intelligent reflecting surface (IRS) aided rate-splitting multiple access (RSMA). IRS is used to establish a good signal propagation environment and enhance the RSMA transmission…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-03-18 Shanshan Zhang , Wen Chen , Qingqing Wu , Ziwei Liu , Shunqing Zhang , Jun Li

In this letter, we consider the fundamental problem of jointly designing the transmit beamformers and the phase-shifts of the intelligent reflecting surface (IRS) / reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS) to minimize the transmit power,…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-11-22 Vaibhav Kumar , Rui Zhang , Marco Di Renzo , Le-Nam Tran

In this paper, we investigate the design of energy-efficient beamforming for an ISAC system, where the transmitted waveform is optimized for joint multi-user communication and target estimation simultaneously. We aim to maximize the system…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-07-11 Jiaqi Zou , Songlin Sun , Christos Masouros , Yuanhao Cui , Yafeng Liu , Derrick Wing Kwan Ng

Aiming at maximizing the energy efficiency (EE) of multicast multibeam satellite communications, we consider the precoding design under the total power and quality of service (QoS) constraints. Since the original EE maximization problem is…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-02-19 Chenhao Qi , Huajian Chen , Yansha Deng , Nallanathan Arumugam

This paper proposes a novel liquid intelligent metasurface (LIM)-assisted downlink multi-user multiple-input single-output (MISO) system, wherein both the base station (BS) and the metasurface are respectively equipped with fluid antennas…

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