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Location-aided beam alignment has been proposed recently as a potential approach for fast link establishment in millimeter wave (mmWave) massive MIMO (mMIMO) communications. However, due to mobility and other imperfections in the estimation…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-08-29 Flavio Maschietti , David Gesbert , Paul de Kerret , Henk Wymeersch

This work discusses the optimal reconfigurable intelligent surface placement in highly-directional millimeter wave links. In particular, we present a novel system model that takes into account the relationship between the transmission beam…

Millimeter-wave (mmWave) communication is a promising technology to cope with the expected exponential increase in data traffic in 5G networks. mmWave networks typically require a very dense deployment of mmWave base stations (mmBS). To…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2017-12-15 Dingwen Yuan , Hsuan-Yin Lin , Joerg Widmer , Matthias Hollick

Nodes localization in Wireless Sensor Networks (WSN) has arisen as a very challenging problem in the research community. Most of the applications for WSN are not useful without a priori known nodes positions. One solution to the problem is…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2016-06-27 Biljana Stojkoska , Danco Davcev , Andrea Kulakov

In this paper, we study the deployment optimization for an extremely large-scale intelligent reflecting surface (XL-IRS) assisted multi-user communication system, within which the channels between the XL-IRS and the BS (or user) are modeled…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-04-29 Chao Zhou , Changsheng You , Tianyu Liu , Bin Lyu

Stacked intelligent metasurface (SIM) extends the concept of single-layer reconfigurable holographic surfaces (RHS) by incorporating a multi-layered structure, thereby providing enhanced control over electromagnetic wave propagation and…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-07-24 Junjie Fang , Chao Zhang , Jiancheng An , Hongwen Yu , Qingqing Wu , Mérouane Debbah , Chau Yuen

We consider the optimization of a smart radio environment where meta-surfaces are employed to improve the performance of multiuser wireless networks working at sub-THz frequencies. Motivated by the extreme sparsity of the THz channel we…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-05-18 Alberto Tarable , Francesco Malandrino , Laura Dossi , Roberto Nebuloni , Giuseppe Virone , Alessandro Nordio

Recent advancements in smart radio environment technologies aim to enhance wireless network performance through the use of low-cost electromagnetic (EM) devices. Among these, reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RIS) have garnered attention…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-01-14 Silvia Palmucci , Andrea Abrardo , Davide Dardari , Alberto Toccafondi , Marco Di Renzo

The novel combination of a strongly-resonant optical metasurface with the MoS$_2$/WSe$_2$ hetero-bilayer is proposed for efficient free-space lasing enabled by the enhanced coupling between the optical and matter (exciton) states. The…

In this paper, we study the intelligent reflecting surface (IRS) deployment problem where a number of IRSs are optimally placed in a target area to improve its signal coverage with the serving base station (BS). To achieve this, we assume…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-10-29 Min Fu , Lipeng Zhu , Rui Zhang

One strategy to obtain user location information in a wireless network operating at millimeter wave (mmWave) is based on the exploitation of the geometric relationships between the channel parameters and the user position. These…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-03-11 Yun Chen , Nuria González-Prelcic , Takayuki Shimizu , Hongsheng Lu

Movable antenna (MA) is an emerging technology that utilizes localized antenna movement to achieve better channel conditions for enhancing communication performance. In this paper, we study the MA-enhanced multicast transmission from a base…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-09-27 Ying Gao , Qingqing Wu , Wen Chen

We consider multi-antenna wireless systems aided by large intelligent surfaces (LIS). LIS presents a new physical layer technology for improving coverage and energy efficiency by intelligently controlling the propagation environment. In…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-11-17 Neel Kanth Kundu , Matthew R. McKay

We study the problem of signal source localization using received signal strength measurements. We begin by presenting verifiable geometric conditions for sensor deployment that ensure the model's asymptotic localizability. Then we…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-05-20 Shenghua Hu , Guangyang Zeng , Wenchao Xue , Haitao Fang , Junfeng Wu , Biqiang Mu

This paper addresses the challenges of optimally placing a finite number of sensors to detect Poisson-distributed targets in a bounded domain. We seek to rigorously account for uncertainty in the target arrival model throughout the problem.…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-07-11 Mingyu Kim , Harun Yetkin , Daniel J. Stilwell , Jorge Jimenez , Saurav Shrestha , Nina Stark

We study a mobile wireless sensor network (MWSN) consisting of multiple mobile sensors or robots. Three key factors in MWSNs, sensing quality, energy consumption, and connectivity, have attracted plenty of attention, but the interaction of…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2018-06-20 Jun Guo , Hamid Jafarkhani

We investigate optimal channel assignment algorithms that maximize per node throughput in dense multichannel multi-radio (MC-MR) wireless networks. Specifically, we consider an MC-MR network where all nodes are within the transmission range…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2012-09-05 Rahul Urgaonkar , Ram Ramanathan , Jason Redi , William N. Tetteh

Long-term evolution (LTE) and LTE-advance (LTE-A) are widely used efficient network technologies serving billions of users, since they are featured with high spectrum efficiency, less latency, and higher bandwidth. Despite remarkable…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2022-02-15 Hashim A. Hashim , Mohammad A. Abido

A novel movable-element (ME) enabled simultaneously transmitting and reflecting surface (ME-STARS)-aided secure communication system is investigated. Against the full-space eavesdropping, MEs are deployed at the STARS for enhancing the…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-07-22 Jingjing Zhao , Qian Xu , Kaiquan Cai , Yanbo Zhu , Xidong Mu , Yuanwei Liu

As an emerging wireless communication technology, movable antennas (MAs) offer the ability to adjust the spatial correlation of steering vectors, enabling more flexible beamforming compared to fixed-position antennas (FPAs). In this paper,…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-01-27 Shun Yang , Xin Wei , Nianbing Su , Weidong Mei , Zhi Chen , Boyu Ning