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This paper considers reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS)-assisted point-to-point multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) communication systems, where a transmitter communicates with a receiver through an RIS. Based on the main target of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-07-19 Ha An Le , Trinh Van Chien , Van Duc Nguyen , Wan Choi

As an emerging communication auxiliary technology, reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS) is expected to play a significant role in the upcoming 6G networks. Due to its total reflection characteristics, it is challenging to implement…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-08-04 W. Li , Z. Lin , Q. Guo , B. Vucetic

Downlink channel estimation with low pilot overhead is an important and challenging problem in large-scale MIMO systems due to the substantially increased MIMO channel dimension. In this letter, we propose a block iterative support…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-12-14 Wenqian Shen , Linglong Dai , Zhen Gao , Zhaocheng Wang

Cell-Free Massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) and reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS) are two promising technologies for application to beyond-5G networks. This paper considers Cell-Free Massive MIMO systems with the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-12-20 Trinh Van Chien , Hien Quoc Ngo , Symeon Chatzinotas , Marco Di Renzo , Björn Ottersten

Active reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS) has attracted significant attention as a recently proposed RIS architecture. Owing to its capability to amplify the incident signals, active RIS can mitigate the multiplicative fading effect…

In the intelligent reflecting surface (IRS) assisted communication systems, the acquisition of channel state information (CSI) is a crucial impediment for achieving the passive beamforming gain of IRS because of the considerable overhead…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-01-20 Zhaorui Wang , Liang Liu , Shuguang Cui

Recent research has delved into advanced designs for reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RIS) with integrated sensing functions. One promising concept is the hybrid RIS (HRIS), which blends sensing and reflecting meta-atoms. This enables…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-09-01 Amarilton L. Magalhães , André L. F. de Almeida

Massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) enjoys great advantage in 5G wireless communication systems owing to its spectrum and energy efficiency. However, hundreds of antennas require large volumes of pilot overhead to guarantee…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-09-26 An Chen , Wenbo Xu , Liyang Lu , Yue Wang

A fundamental challenge in millimeter-wave (mmWave) communication is the susceptibility to blocking objects. One way to alleviate this problem is the use of reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RIS). Nevertheless, due to the large number of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-04-22 Yaoshen Cui , Haifan Yin , Li Tan , Marco Di Renzo

Different from conventional passive reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RISs), incident signals and thermal noise can be amplified at active RISs. By exploiting the amplifying capability of active RISs, noticeable performance improvement…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-04-02 Jinho Yang , Hyeongtaek Lee , Junil Choi

Reconfigurable Intelligent Surfaces (RISs) have been recently considered as an energy-efficient solution for future wireless networks due to their fast and low power configuration enabling massive connectivity and low latency…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-01-29 Li Wei , Chongwen Huang , George C. Alexandropoulos , Chau Yuen

In this paper, we propose a two-bit reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS)-aided communication system, which mainly consists of a two-bit RIS, a transmitter and a receiver. A corresponding prototype verification system is designed to…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-05-22 Shun Zhang , Haoran Sun , Runze Yu , Hongshenyuan Cui , Jian Ren , Feifei Gao , Shi Jin , Hongxiang Xie , Hao Wang

This paper proposes highly accurate closed-form approximations to channel distributions of two different reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS)-based wireless system setups, namely, dual-hop RIS-aided (RIS-DH) scheme and RIS-aided…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-07-13 Liang Yang , Fanxu Meng , Qingqing Wu , Daniel Benevides da Costa , Mohamed-Slim Alouini

Channel estimation is fundamental to wireless communications, yet it becomes increasingly challenging in massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) systems where base stations employ hundreds of antennas. Traditional least-squares…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-11-04 Pinjun Zheng , Md. Jahangir Hossain , Anas Chaaban

In this work, we consider both channel estimation and reflection design problems in point-to-point reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS)-aided millimeter-wave (mmWave) MIMO communication systems. First, we show that by exploiting the…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-12-07 Sepideh Gherekhloo , Khaled Ardah , André L. F. de Almeida , Martin Haardt

Reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS) has recently been gained attention as an effective technique improving the coverage and performance of communication systems by creating additional communication links. Deployment of RIS is crucial…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-04-20 Changzhu Liu , Ruisi He , Haoxiang Zhang , Jiahui Han , Ruifeng Chen , Bo Ai , Zhangdui Zhong

Relaying has been extensively studied during the last decades and has found numerous applications in wireless communications. The simplest relaying method, namely amplify and forward, has shown potential in MIMO multiple access systems,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2014-11-07 Symeon Chatzinotas

Reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS) enables the control of wireless channels to improve coverage. To further extend coverage, multi-RIS aided systems have been explored, where multiple RISs steer the signal via a multi-hop path.…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-10-28 Matteo Nerini , Gabriele Gradoni , Bruno Clerckx

Intelligent reflecting surface (IRS) is a promising technology for beyond 5th Generation of the wireless communications. In fully passive IRS-assisted systems, channel estimation is challenging and should be carried out only at the base…

This paper investigates the reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS) assisted spatial scattering modulation (SSM) scheme for millimeter-wave (mmWave) multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) systems, in which line-of-sight (LoS) and…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-07-28 Xusheng Zhu , Wen Chen , Zhendong Li , Qingqing Wu , Ziheng Zhang , Kunlun Wang , Jun Li