English
Related papers

Related papers: Hybrid RIS-Aided Digital Over-the-Air Computing fo…

200 papers

The rapid expansion of Internet of Things (IoT) and its integration into various applications highlight the need for advanced communication, computation, and energy transfer techniques. However, the traditional hardware-based evolution of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-01-13 Shuyi Chen , Junhong Jia , Baoqing Zhang , Yingzhe Hui , Yifan Qin , Weixiao Meng , Tianheng Xu

Integrated sensing and communication (ISAC) has been envisioned as a promising technology to tackle the spectrum congestion problem for future networks. In this correspondence, we investigate to deploy a reconfigurable intelligent surface…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-08-04 Honghao Luo , Rang Liu , Ming Li , Yang Liu , Qian Liu

Reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RISs) are expected to make future 6G networks more connected and resilient against node failures, due to their ability to introduce controllable phase-shifts onto impinging electromagnetic waves and…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-08-22 Mohammed S. Al-Abiad , Mohammad Javad-Kalbasi , Shahrokh Valaee

Reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RISs) are envisioned as a promising technology for future wireless communications. With various hardware realizations, RISs can work under different modes (reflective/transmissive/hybrid) or have…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-08-08 Hongyu Li , Shanpu Shen , Bruno Clerckx

In this work, we investigate a reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS) aided integrated sensing and communication scenario, where a base station (BS) communicates with multiple devices in a full-duplex mode, and senses the positions of…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-08-16 Zhichao Shao , Xiaojun Yuan , Wei Zhang , Marco Di Renzo

Intelligent reflecting surface (IRS) and unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) have emerged as two promising technologies to boost the performance of wireless communication networks, by proactively altering the wireless communication channels via…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-03-30 Changsheng You , Zhenyu Kang , Yong Zeng , Rui Zhang

Unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) and reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS) have been recently applied in the field of mobile edge computing (MEC) to improve the data exchange environment by proactively changing the wireless channels through…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-03-25 Zhiyuan Zhai , Xinhong Dai , Bin Duo , Xin Wang , Xiaojun Yuan

Cognitive radio (CR) and integrated sensing and communication (ISAC) are both critical technologies for the sixth generation (6G) wireless networks. However, their interplay has yet to be explored. To obtain the mutual benefits between CR…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-10-28 Yongqing Xu , Yong Li , Tony Q. S. Quek

In this paper, we propose and investigate an aerial reconfigurable intelligent surface (aerial-RIS)-aided wireless communication system. Specifically, considering practical composite fading channels, we characterize the air-to-ground (A2G)…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-06-11 Tri Nhu Do , Georges Kaddoum , Thanh Luan Nguyen , Daniel Benevides da Costa , Zygmunt J. Haas

In the future 6G integrated sensing and communication (ISAC) cellular systems, networked sensing is a promising technique that can leverage the cooperation among the base stations (BSs) to perform high-resolution localization. However, a…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-05-05 Qipeng Wang , Liang Liu , Shuowen Zhang , Boya Di , Francis C. M. Lau

Over-the-air computation (AirComp) enables fast data aggregation for edge intelligence applications. However the performance of AirComp can be severely degraded by channel misalignments. Pinching antenna systems (PASS) have recently emerged…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-05-13 Zhonghao Lyu , Haoyun Li , Yulan Gao , Ming Xiao , H. Vincent Poor

This paper investigates the model aggregation process in an over-the-air federated learning (AirFL) system, where an intelligent reflecting surface (IRS) is deployed to assist the transmission from users to the base station (BS). With the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-03-23 Jingheng Zheng , Wanli Ni , Hui Tian

Future intelligent systems will consist of a massive number of battery-less sensors, where quick and accurate aggregation of sensor data will be of paramount importance. Over-the-air computation (AirComp) is a promising technology wherein…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2020-01-14 Amin Farajzadeh , Ozgur Ercetin , Halim Yanikomeroglu

Although the fifth-generation (5G) technologies will significantly improve the spectrum and energy efficiency of today's wireless communication networks, their high complexity and hardware cost as well as increasingly more energy…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-09-02 Qingqing Wu , Rui Zhang

Retrieving range information in three-dimensional (3D) radio imaging is particularly challenging due to the limited communication bandwidth and pilot resources. To address this issue, we consider a reconfigurable intelligent surface…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-03-19 Yixuan Huang , Jie Yang , Chao-Kai Wen , Shi Jin

To overcome inherent limitations of analog signals in over-the-air computation (AirComp), this letter proposes a two's complement-based coding scheme for the AirComp implementation with compatible digital modulations. Specifically,…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-01-01 Zhixu Wang , Jiacheng Yao , Wei Xu , Wei Shi , Kaibin Huang

Flat-top beam designs are essential for uniform power distribution over a wide angular sector for applications such as 5G/6G networks, beaconing, satellite communications, radar systems, etc. Low sidelobe levels with steep transitions allow…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-10-02 Krishan Kumar Tiwari , Giuseppe Caire

In the future 6G and wireless networks, particularly in dense urban environments, bandwidth exhaustion and limited capacity pose significant challenges to enhancing data rates. We introduce a novel system model designed to improve the data…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-08-05 Muhammad Farhan Khan , Muhammad Ahmed Mohsin , Zeeshan Alam , Muhammad Saad , Muhammad Waqar

This paper introduces an innovative imaging method using reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RISs) by combining radar coincidence imaging (RCI) and computational imaging techniques. In the proposed framework, RISs simultaneously redirect…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-07-11 Kavian Zirak , Mohammadreza F. Imani

Federated learning (FL), as an emerging distributed machine learning paradigm, allows a mass of edge devices to collaboratively train a global model while preserving privacy. In this tutorial, we focus on FL via over-the-air computation…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-17 Jingyang Zhu , Yuanming Shi , Yong Zhou , Chunxiao Jiang , Wei Chen , Khaled B. Letaief