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We consider a reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS) assisted multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) system in the presence of scattering objects. The MIMO transmitter and receiver, the RIS, and the scattering objects are modeled as…

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This chapter focuses on a hardware architecture for semi-passive Reconfigurable Intelligent Surfaces (RISs) and investigates its consideration for boosting the performance of Multiple-Input Multiple-Output (MIMO) communication systems. The…

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Wireless communications empowered by Reconfigurable Intelligent (meta)Surfaces (RISs) are recently gaining remarkable research attention due to the increased system design flexibility offered by RISs for diverse functionalities. In this…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-11-03 George C. Alexandropoulos , Konstantinos Katsanos , Miaowen Wen , Daniel B. da Costa

This paper focuses on the design of transmission methods and reflection optimization for a wireless system assisted by a single or multiple reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RISs). The existing techniques are either too complex to…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-09-13 Wei Jiang , Hans D. Schotten

One of the key enablers of future wireless communications is constituted by massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) systems, which can improve the spectral efficiency by orders of magnitude. However, in existing massive MIMO systems,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-12-10 Linglong Dai , Bichai Wang , Min Wang , Xue Yang , Jingbo Tan , Shuangkaisheng Bi , Shenheng Xu , Fan Yang , Zhi Chen , Marco Di Renzo , Lajos Hanzo

In a typical communication system, in order to maintain a desired SNR level, initial beam alignment (BA) must be established prior to data transmission. In a setup where a Base Station (BS) Tx sends data via a digitally modulated waveform,…

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Transmissive reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RIS) represent a transformative architecture for future wireless networks, enabling a paradigm shift from traditional costly base stations to low-cost, energy-efficient transmitters. This…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-11-17 Zhengwei Jiang , Yufeng Zhou , Xusheng Zhu , Wen Chen , Qingqing Wu , Kai-Kit Wong

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

Reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS) is an emerging meta-surface that can provide additional communications links through reflecting the signals, and has been recognized as a strong candidate of 6G mobile communications systems.…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-06-02 Shun Zhang , Muye Li , Mengnan Jian , Yajun Zhao , Feifei Gao

Cell-free massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) and intelligent reflecting surface (IRS) are considered as the prospective multiple antenna technologies for beyond the fifth-generation (5G) networks. Cell-free MIMO systems powered…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-07-29 Taegyun Noh , Junil Choi

Intelligent reflecting surfaces (IRSs) have received considerable attention from the wireless communications research community recently. In particular, as low-cost passive devices, IRSs enable the control of the wireless propagation…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-04-30 Xianghao Yu , Dongfang Xu , Robert Schober

Reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS) can improve the communications between a source and a destination. Recently, continuous aperture RIS is proved to have better communication performance than discrete aperture RIS and has received…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-10-04 Yuhua Jiang , Feifei Gao , Mengnan Jian , Shun Zhang , Wei Zhang

Reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS)-assisted communication is a key enabling technology for next-generation wireless communication networks, allowing for the reshaping of wireless channels without requiring traditional radio frequency…

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To reap the promised gain achieved by distributed reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RISs)-enhanced communications in a wireless network, timing synchronization among these metasurfaces is an essential prerequisite in practice. This paper…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-09-14 Yaqiong Zhao , Wei Xu , Xiaohu You , Ning Wang , Huan Sun

In this work, we unveil the advantages of synergizing cooperative rate splitting (CRS) with user relaying and simultaneously transmitting and reflecting reconfigurable intelligent surface (STAR RIS). Specifically, we propose a novel STAR…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-04-16 Kangchun Zhao , Yijie Mao , Yuanming Shi

Intelligent reflecting surface (IRS) is an emerging technology for future wireless communications including 5G and especially 6G. It consists of a large 2D array of (semi-)passive scattering elements that control the electromagnetic…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-04-21 Gilderlan T. de Araújo , André L. F. de Almeida , Rémy Boyer

An introduction of intelligent interconnectivity for people and things has posed higher demands and more challenges for sixth-generation (6G) networks, such as high spectral efficiency and energy efficiency, ultra-low latency, and…

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The ever-growing popularity and rapid improving of artificial intelligence (AI) have raised rethinking on the evolution of wireless networks. Mobile edge computing (MEC) provides a natural platform for AI applications since it is with rich…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-12-29 Shanfeng Huang , Shuai Wang , Rui Wang , Miaowen Wen , Kaibin Huang

This paper investigates a wireless-powered hybrid reflecting intelligent surface (hybrid RIS)-assisted multiple access system, where the RIS can harvest energy from energy station (ES) transmitted radio frequency signal (RF), and each…

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