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This paper investigates the physical layer security of a Reconfigurable Intelligent Surface (RIS)-aided wireless network in the presence of full-duplex active eavesdropping. In this scenario, the RIS cooperates with the Base Station (BS) to…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-11-28 Atefeh Zakeri , S. Mohammad Razavizadeh

Reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS) provides a promising way to build the programmable wireless transmission environments in the future. Owing to the large number of reflecting elements used at the RIS, joint optimization for the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-01-11 Xiaoyan Ma , Shuaishuai Guo , Haixia Zhang , Yuguang Fang , Dongfeng Yuan

In this paper, we propose a rate-splitting multiple access (RSMA) scheme for uplink wireless communication systems with intelligent reflecting surface (IRS) aided. In the considered model, IRS is adopted to overcome power attenuation caused…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-09-07 Shanshan Zhang , Wen Chen

This paper considers beamforming for a reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS)-aided multiple input single output (MISO) communication system in the presence of Rician multipath fading. Our aim is to jointly optimize the transmit…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-11-18 Kali Krishna Kota , Praful D. Mankar , Harpreet S. Dhillon

We consider a reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS)-assisted heterogeneous network comprising legitimate information-harvesting receivers (IHRs) and untrusted energy-harvesting receivers (UEHRs). A multi-antenna base station (BS)…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-03-24 Hamid Reza Hashempour , Le-Nam Tran , Duy H. N. Nguyen , Hien Quoc Ngo

Rate splitting multiple access (RSMA) is regarded as a crucial and powerful physical layer (PHY) paradigm for next-generation communication systems. Particularly, users employ successive interference cancellation (SIC) to decode part of the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-11-15 Cixiao Zhang , Size Peng , Yin Xu , Qingqing Wu , Xiaowu Ou , Xinghao Guo , Dazhi He , Wenjun Zhang

By moving from massive antennas to antenna surfaces for software-defined wireless systems, the reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RISs) rely on arrays of unit cells to control the scattering and reflection profiles of signals, mitigating…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-12-22 Brian Kim , Tugba Erpek , Yalin E. Sagduyu , Sennur Ulukus

A reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS) enhanced non-orthogonal multiple access assisted backscatter communication (RIS-NOMABC) system is considered. A joint optimization problem over power reflection coefficients and phase shifts is…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-12-21 Jiakuo Zuo , Yuanwei Liu , Liang Yang , Lingyang Song , Ying-Chang Liang

The reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS)-assisted sparse code multiple access (RIS-SCMA) is an attractive scheme for future wireless networks. In this letter, for the first time, the RIS phase shifts of the uplink RIS-SCMA system are…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-12-01 Ibrahim Al-Nahhal , Octavia A. Dobre , Ertugrul Basar , Telex M. N. Ngatched , Salama Ikki

Since reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS) is considered to be a passive reflector for rate performance enhancement, a RIS-aided amplify-and-forward (AF) relay network is presented. By jointly optimizing the beamforming matrix at AF…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-03-01 Xuehui Wang , Feng Shu , Riqing Chen , Peng Zhang , Qi Zhang , Guiyang Xia , Weiping shi , Jiangzhou Wang

Enabling multi-target sensing in near-field integrated sensing and communication (ISAC) systems is a key challenge, particularly when line-of-sight paths are blocked. This paper proposes a beamforming framework that leverages a…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-09-11 Hang Ruan , Homa Nikbakht , Ruizhi Zhang , Honglei Chen , Yonina C. Eldar

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

This study explores the synergy between rate-splitting multiple access (RSMA) and simultaneous transmitting and reflecting reconfigurable intelligent surface (STAR-RIS) as a unified framework to enable ubiquitous, intelligent, and resilient…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-10-21 Muhammad Asif , Asim Ihsan , Zhu Shoujin , Ali Ranjha , Xingwang Li , Khaled M. Rabie , Symeon Chatzinotas

Reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS) technology is a promising solution to improve the performance of existing wireless communications. To achieve its cost-effectiveness advantage, there inevitably exist certain hardware impairments in…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-01-17 Yiming Liu , Rui Wang , Zhu Han

Reconfigurable intelligent surface-empowered communication (RIS) and sparse code multiple access (SCMA) are promising candidates for future generations of wireless networks. The former enhances the transmission environments, whereas the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-11-20 Ibrahim Al-Nahhal , Octavia A. Dobre , Ertugrul Basar

In this paper, we consider and study a cell-free massive MIMO (CF-mMIMO) system aided with reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RISs), where a large number of access points (APs) cooperate to serve a smaller number of users with the help of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-05-17 Bayan Al-Nahhas , Mohanad Obeed , Anas Chaaban , Md. Jahangir Hossain

A novel framework is proposed for the deployment and passive beamforming design of a reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS) with the aid of non-orthogonal multiple access (NOMA) technology. The problem of joint deployment, phase shift…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-01-29 Xiao Liu , Yuanwei Liu , Yue Chen , H. Vincent Poor

In this paper, an active intelligent omni-surface (A-IOS) is deployed to aid uplink transmissions in a non-orthogonal multiple access (NOMA) system. In order to shelter the covert signal embedded in the superposition transmissions, a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-02-06 Xueyu Kang , Nan Qi , Lu Lv , Alexandros-Apostolos A. Boulogeorgos , Theodoros A. Tsiftsis , Hongwu Liu

This paper investigates a modular beamforming framework for reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS)-aided multi-user (MU) communications in the near-field regime, built upon a novel antenna architecture integrating an active multi-antenna…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-08-13 Giulia Torcolacci , Malte Schellmann , Davide Dardari

This paper investigates the impact of the recently proposed concept of fluid reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (FRIS) on covert communications. Specifically, we consider a communication scenario where a legitimate transmitter aims to…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-12-05 Farshad Rostami Ghadi , Masoud Kaveh , Hanjiang Hong , Kai-Kit Wong , Riku Jantti , F. Javier Lopez-Martinez