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Reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS) is a promising technology to enhance the spectral and energy efficiency in a wireless communication system. The design of the phase shifts of an RIS in every channel coherence interval demands a huge…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-05-15 Sadaf Syed , Dominik Semmler , Donia Ben Amor , Michael Joham , Wolfgang Utschick

This paper explores the integration of reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RISs) into cell-free massive multiple-input-multiple-output (CF-mMIMO) networks operating in FR1 and FR3 frequency bands. We present a comprehensive framework for…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-21 Alejandro de la Fuente , Fernando Galindo , Uriel García-Bárbulo , Sandra-Noemy Arana-Alegre , Jan García-Morales

Due to their ability to create favorable line-of-sight (LoS) propagation environments, intelligent reflecting surfaces (IRSs) are regarded as promising enablers for future millimeter-wave (mm-wave) wireless communication. In this paper, we…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-07-27 Tian Lin , Xianghao Yu , Yu Zhu , Robert Schober

Reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS) can manipulate the wireless communication environment by controlling the coefficients of RIS elements. However, due to the large number of passive RIS elements without signal processing capability,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-01-26 Xiuhong Wei , Decai Shen , Linglong Dai

For downlink massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) operating in time-division duplex protocol, users can decode the signals effectively by only utilizing the channel statistics as long as channel hardening holds. However, in a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-05-17 Tung T. Vu , Trinh Van Chien , Canh T. Dinh , Hien Quoc Ngo , Michail Matthaiou

A significant increase in the number of reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS) elements results in a spherical wavefront in the near field of extremely large-scale RIS (XL-RIS). Although the channel matrix of the cascaded two-hop link may…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-11-14 Zixing Tang , Yuanbin Chen , Ying Wang , Tianqi Mao , Qingqing Wu , Marco Di Renzo , Lajos Hanzo

Channel estimation is the main hurdle to reaping the benefits promised by the intelligent reflecting surface (IRS), due to its absence of ability to transmit/receive pilot signals as well as the huge number of channel coefficients…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-06-23 Rui Wang , Liang Liu , Shuowen Zhang , Changyuan Yu

Novel reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS) architectures, known as beyond diagonal RISs (BD-RISs), have been proposed to enhance reflection efficiency and expand RIS capabilities. However, their passive nature, non-diagonal reflection…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-11-28 Nipuni Ginige , Arthur Sousa de Sena , Nurul Huda Mahmood , Nandana Rajatheva , Matti Latva-aho

Reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS) is an emerging technology for improving performance in fifth-generation (5G) and beyond networks. Practically channel estimation of RIS-assisted systems is challenging due to the passive nature of…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-07-16 Nipuni Ginige , K. B. Shashika Manosha , Nandana Rajatheva , Matti Latva-aho

The concept of reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS) has been proposed to change the propagation of electromagnetic waves, e.g., reflection, diffraction, and refraction. To accomplish this goal, the phase values of the discrete RIS units…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-11-11 Jiguang He , Henk Wymeersch , Tachporn Sanguanpuak , Olli Silvén , Markku Juntti

Millimeter-wave (mmWave) positioning has emerged as a promising technology for next-generation intelligent systems. The advent of reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RISs) has revolutionized high-precision mmWave localization by enabling…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-23 Xin Cheng , Yuqing Yang , Guangjie Han , Menglu Li , Ruoguang Li , Feng Shu

Although reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS) is a promising technology for shaping the propagation environment, it consists of a single-layer structure within inherent limitations regarding the number of beam steering patterns. Based…

The fact that the millimeter-wave (mmWave) multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) channel has sparse support in the spatial domain has motivated recent compressed sensing (CS)-based mmWave channel estimation methods, where the angles of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-04-19 Wei Zhang , Miaomiao Dong , Taejoon Kim

Large-scale reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS) can effectively enhance the performance of millimeter wave (mmWave) unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) to ground communication link with obstructed line-of-sight (LoS) path by exploiting more…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-07-25 Baiping Xiong , Zaichen Zhang , Jiangzhou Wang

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

Reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS) constitutes an essential and promising paradigm that relies programmable wireless environment and provides capability for space-intensive communications, due to the use of low-cost massive reflecting…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-12-10 Yu Jin , Jiayi Zhang , Chongwen Huang , Liang Yang , Huahua Xiao , Bo Ai , Zhiqin Wang

In this paper, we develop a low-complexity channel estimation for hybrid millimeter wave (mmWave) systems, where the number of radio frequency (RF) chains is much less than the number of antennas equipped at each transceiver. The proposed…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-02-28 Lou Zhao , Derrick Wing Kwan Ng , Jinhong Yuan

This letter investigates the challenge of channel estimation in a multiuser millimeter-wave (mmWave) time-division duplexing (TDD) system. In this system, the base station (BS) employs a multi-antenna uniform linear array (ULA), while each…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-01-04 Hao Xu , Gui Zhou , Kai-Kit Wong , Wee Kiat New , Chao Wang , Chan-Byoung Chae , Ross Murch , Shi Jin , Yangyang Zhang

The recent combination of the rising architectures, known as stacked intelligent metasurface (SIM) and holographic multiple-input multiple-output (HMIMO), drives toward breakthroughs for next-generation wireless communication systems. Given…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-02-19 Anastasios Papazafeiropoulos , Pandelis Kourtessis , Dimitra I. Kaklamani , Iakovos S. Venieris

Indoor millimeter-wave (mmWave) environment channels are typically sparsely-scattered and dominated by a strong line-of-sight (LOS) path. Therefore, communication over such channels is in general extremely difficult when the LOS path is not…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-03-03 Nemanja Stefan Perović , Marco Di Renzo , Mark F. Flanagan