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To improve the efficiency of scarce radio-frequency (RF) resources in next-generation wireless systems, an intelligent transceiver architecture based on stacked intelligent metasurfaces (SIM) has recently emerged, where multiple…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-05-11 Muhammad Ibrahim , Amine Mezghani , Ekram Hossain

Stacked intelligent metasurfaces (SIMs) facilitate computation by cascaded programmable layers so that part of the signal processing can be performed in the wave domain during signal propagation, rather than solely after reception. This…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-03-09 Mengbing Liu , Chau Yuen , Dusit Niyato , Bruno Clerckx , Lajos Hanzo

This paper develops a multi-port S-parameter framework for the analysis and optimization of stacked intelligent metasurfaces (SIMs) with unilateral active interconnections. By modeling each unit cell as a non-reciprocal two-port network,…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-05-08 Andrea Abrardo , Giulio Bartoli , Alberto Toccafondi , Marco Di Renzo

Rate-splitting multiple access (RSMA) has attracted a lot of attention as a general and powerful multiple access scheme. In the uplink, instead of encoding the whole message into one stream, a user can split its message into two parts and…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-06-05 Yuanwen Liu , Bruno Clerckx , Petar Popovski

In this paper, we develop a hybrid multiple access (MA) protocol for an intelligent reflecting surface (IRS) aided uplink transmission network by incorporating the IRS-aided time-division MA (I-TDMA) protocol and the IRS-aided…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-06-27 Piao Zeng , Guangji Chen , Qingqing Wu , Deli Qiao , Abbas Jamalipour

This paper introduces a novel approach of utilizing the reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS) for joint data modulation and signal beamforming in a multi-user downlink cellular network by leveraging the idea of backscatter communication.…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-08-25 Haseeb Ur Rehman , Faouzi Bellili , Amine Mezghani , Ekram Hossain

High Altitude Platform Stations (HAPS) have emerged as a promising enabler for next-generation wireless networks, offering ubiquitous connectivity to ground users. Operating either in standalone mode or in integration with terrestrial…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-05-29 Afsoon Alidadi Shamsabadi , Animesh Yadav , Halim Yanikomeroglu

This letter is the second part of a three-part tutorial focusing on rate-splitting multiple access (RSMA) for 6G. As Part II of the tutorial, this letter addresses the interplay between RSMA and integrated radar sensing and communications…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-05-06 Longfei Yin , Yijie Mao , Onur Dizdar , Bruno Clerckx

Rate-splitting multiple access (RSMA) is a multiple access technique generalizing conventional techniques, such as, space-division multiple access (SDMA), non-orthogonal multiple access (NOMA), and physical layer multi-casting, which aims…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-09-26 Mehmet Mert Sahin , Onur Dizdar , Bruno Clerckx , Huseyin Arslan

Rate-splitting multiple access (RSMA) is an emerging multiple access technique for multi-antenna networks that splits messages into common and private parts for flexible interference mitigation. Motivated by its robustness and scalability,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-10-03 Juhwan Lee , Jungwoo Lee , Longfei Yin , Wonjae Shin , Bruno Clerckx

The plethora of wirelessly connected devices, whose deployment density is expected to largely increase in the upcoming sixth Generation (6G) of wireless networks, will naturally necessitate substantial advances in multiple access schemes.…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-10-29 Konstantinos D. Katsanos , Paolo Di Lorenzo , George C. Alexandropoulos

Due to the increasing demand of capacity in wireless cellular networks, the small cells such as pico and femto cells are becoming more popular to enjoy a spatial reuse gain, and thus cells with different sizes are expected to coexist in a…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2011-05-05 Kyuho Son , Soohwan Lee , Yung Yi , Song Chong

Stacked intelligent metasurfaces (SIMs) have recently gained attention as a paradigm for wave-domain signal processing with reduced reliance on costly radio-frequency (RF) chains. However, conventional SIMs rely on uniform inter-layer…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-10-29 Hong Niu , Jiancheng An , Chau Yuen

In the upcoming 6G era, multiple access (MA) will play an essential role in achieving high throughput performances required in a wide range of wireless applications. Since MA and interference management are closely related issues, the…

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

Reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS) has been anticipated to be a novel cost-effective technology to improve the performance of future wireless systems. In this paper, we investigate a practical RIS-aided multiple-input-multiple-output…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-03-23 Jintao Wang , Shiqi Gong , Qingqing Wu , Shaodan Ma

Over the past few years, the prevalence of wireless devices has become one of the essential sources of electromagnetic (EM) radiation to the public. Facing with the swift development of wireless communications, people are skeptical about…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-04-19 Hanyu Jiang , Li You , Ahmed Elzanaty , Jue Wang , Wenjin Wang , Xiqi Gao , Mohamed-Slim Alouini

This paper aims to explore reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS) integration in a millimeter wave (mmWave) communication system with low-complexity transceiver architecture under imperfect CSI assumption. Towards this, we propose a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-02-08 Kali Krishna Kota , Praful D. Mankar

Intelligent reflecting surfaces (IRSs) constitute a disruptive wireless communication technique capable of creating a controllable propagation environment. In this paper, we propose to invoke an IRS at the cell boundary of multiple cells to…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-04-27 Cunhua Pan , Hong Ren , Kezhi Wang , Wei Xu , Maged Elkashlan , Arumugam Nallanathan , Lajos Hanzo

The envisioned wireless networks of the future entail the provisioning of massive numbers of connections, heterogeneous data traffic, ultra-high spectral efficiency, and low latency services. This vision is spurring research activities…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2023-09-13 Xuelin Cao , Bo Yang , Chongwen Huang , George C. Alexandropoulos , Chau Yuen , Zhu Han , H. Vincent Poor , Lajos Hanzo