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Millimeter wave (mmWave) communications are sensitive to blockage over radio propagation paths. The emerging paradigm of reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS) has the potential to overcome this issue by its ability to arbitrarily reflect…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-05-30 Yan Yang , Shuping Dang , Miaowen Wen , Bo Ai , Rose Qingyang Hu

A fundamental challenge for millimeter wave (mmWave) communications lies in its sensitivity to the presence of blockages, which impact the connectivity of the communication links and ultimately the reliability of the entire network. In this…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-01-05 Gui Zhou , Cunhua Pan , Hong Ren , Kezhi Wang , Maged Elkashlan , Marco Di Renzo

Reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS) provides a new electromagnetic response control solution, which can proactively reshape the characteristics of wireless channel environments. In RIS-assisted communication systems, the acquisition of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-06-14 Zhiheng Yu , Jiancheng An , Ertugrul Basar , Lu Gan , Chau Yuen

Movable antennas (MAs) are a promising technology to achieve a significant enhancement in rate for future wireless networks. The pioneering investigation on near-field directional modulation design for a reconfigurable intelligent surface…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-06-03 Maolin Li , Feng Shu , Riqing Chen , Cunhua Pan , Yongpeng Wu

The fundamental challenge of the millimeter-wave (mmWave) frequency band is the sensitivity of the radio channel to blockages, which gives rise to unstable connectivity and impacts the reliability of a system. To this end, multi-point…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-02-16 Dileep Kumar , Jarkko Kaleva , Antti Tölli

Reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RIS) is a revolutionary technology to cost-effectively improve the performance of wireless networks. We first review the existing framework of channel estimation and passive beamforming (CE & PBF) in…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-11-17 Jiancheng An , Chao Xu , Qingqing Wu , Derrick Wing Kwan Ng , Marco Di Renzo , Chau Yuen , Lajos Hanzo

This paper explores the design of beamforming codebooks for the base station (BS) and for the reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RISs) in an active sensing scheme for uplink localization, in which the mobile user transmits a sequence of…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-04-01 Zhongze Zhang , Wei Yu

In this paper, we present a low overhead beam management approach for near-field millimeter-wave multi-antenna communication systems enabled by Reconfigurable Intelligent Surfaces (RISs). We devise a novel variable-width hierarchical…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-03-30 George C. Alexandropoulos , Vahid Jamali , Robert Schober , H. Vincent Poor

In millimeter-wave communication, large antenna arrays are required to achieve high power gain by steering towards each other with narrow beams, which poses the problem to efficiently search the best beam direction in the angle domain at…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-17 Zhenyu Xiao , Tong He , Pengfei Xia , Xiang-Gen Xia

In millimeter wave (mmWave) systems, it is challenging to ensure the reliable connectivity of communications due to its sensitivity to the presence of blockages. In order to improve the robustness of the mmWave system under the presence of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-09-01 Gui Zhou , Cunhua Pan , Hong Ren , Kezhi Wang , Marco Di Renzo

This paper considers a reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS)-aided millimeter wave (mmWave) downlink communication system where hybrid analog-digital beamforming is employed at the base station (BS). We formulate a power minimization…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-01-26 Bei Guo , Renwang Li , Meixia Tao

Reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS) is considered as an extraordinarily promising technology to solve the blockage problem of millimeter wave (mmWave) communications owing to its capable of establishing a reconfigurable wireless…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-02-22 Yuqian Zhu , Ming Li , Yang Liu , Qian Liu , Zheng Chang , Yulin Hu

In our previous work [2], we introduced a hardware- and power-efficient architecture for hybrid digital-analog (HDA) multiuser MIMO (MU-MIMO) based on stacking identical basic modules. Each module consists of a small active multi-antenna…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-03-09 Krishan Kumar Tiwari , Giuseppe Caire

Reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS) assisted millimeter-wave (mmWave) communication systems relying on hybrid beamforming structures are capable of achieving high spectral efficiency at a low hardware complexity and low power…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-01-13 Chenghao Feng , Wenqian Shen , Jianping An , Lajos Hanzo

Reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RIS) are expected to play an important role in future wireless communication systems. These surfaces typically rely on their reflection beamforming codebooks to reflect and focus the signal on the target…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-10-06 Yu Zhang , Ahmed Alkhateeb

Millimeter-wave (mmWave) multi-user MIMO systems are highly vulnerable to blockage, and reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RIS) have been proposed as a remedy. However, RIS links may themselves be blocked, while most prior works assume…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-01-21 Sehyun Ryu , Hyun Jong Yang

Reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS) is considered to be an energy-efficient approach to reshape the wireless environment for improved throughput. Its passive feature greatly reduces the energy consumption, which makes RIS a promising…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-01-20 Keke Ying , Zhen Gao , Shanxiang Lyu , Yongpeng Wu , Hua Wang , Mohamed-Slim Alouini

Reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS) technology has the potential to significantly enhance the spectral efficiency (SE) of 6G wireless networks. However, practical deployment remains constrained by challenges in accurate channel…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-02-11 Mohammad Ghassemi , Han Zhang , Ali Afana , Akram Bin Sediq , Melike Erol-Kantarci

Movable antennas (MAs) enhance flexibility in beamforming gain and interference suppression by adjusting position within certain areas of the transceivers. In this paper, we propose an MA-assisted integrated sensing and communication…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-01-03 Chengjun Jiang , Chensi Zhang , Chongwen Huang , Jianhua Ge , Dusit Niyato , Chau Yuen

Downlink reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS)-assisted multi-input-multi-output (MIMO) systems are considered with far-field, near-field, and hybrid-far-near-field channels. According to the angular or distance information contained in…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-10-03 Suyu Lv , Yuanwei Liu , Xiaodong Xu , Arumugam Nallanathan , A. Lee Swindlehurst
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