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Next-generation cellular technologies, commonly referred to as the 6G, are envisioned to support a higher system capacity, better performance, and network sensing capabilities. The THz band is one potential enabler to this end due to the…

Using RF signals for wireless sensing has gained increasing attention. However, due to the unwanted multi-path fading in uncontrollable radio environments, the accuracy of RF sensing is limited. Instead of passively adapting to the…

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Cellular wireless networks enable mobile broadband connectivity for Internet-based applications through their radio access and core network infrastructure. While Fifth-Generation (5G) cellular systems are currently being deployed, ongoing…

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Intelligent surface (IS) is envisioned as a promising technology for the sixth-generation (6G) wireless networks, which can effectively reconfigure the wireless propagation environment via dynamically controllable signal…

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The increasing demand for communication is degrading the electromagnetic (EM) transmission environment due to severe EM interference, significantly reducing the efficiency of the radio frequency (RF) spectrum. Metasurfaces, a promising…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-06-27 Kaining Wang , Bo Yang , Zhiwen Yu , Xuelin Cao , Mérouane Debbah , Chau Yuen

Stacked intelligent metasurfaces (SIMs) have recently gained significant interest since they enable precoding in the wave domain that comes with increased processing capability and reduced energy consumption. The study of SIMs and high…

As the current standardization for the 5G networks nears completion, work towards understanding the potential technologies for the 6G wireless networks is already underway. One of these potential technologies for the 6G networks are…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-07-17 Hamidreza Taghvaee , Akshay Jain , Xavier Timoneda , Christos Liaskos , Sergi Abadal , Eduard Alarcón , Albert Cabellos-Aparicio

Metasurfaces, a two-dimensional (2D) form of metamaterials constituted by planar meta-atoms, exhibit exotic abilities to freely tailor electromagnetic (EM) waves. Over the past decade, tunable metasurfaces have come to the frontier in the…

Engineering and optimization of wireless propagation channels will be one of the key elements of future communication technologies. Metasurfaces may offer a wide spectrum of functionalities for passive and tunable reflecting devices,…

Applied Physics · Physics 2023-02-16 Sergei Kosulnikov , Xuchen Wang , Sergei A. Tretyakov

Fully harnessing the vast design space enabled by metamaterials to control electromagnetic (EM) fields remains an open problem for researchers. Inverse-design techniques have shown to best exploit the degrees of freedom available in design,…

Optics · Physics 2025-11-27 Jorge Ruiz-Garcia , Anthony Grbic

This article provides a tutorial on over-the-air electromagnetic signal processing (ESP) for next-generation wireless networks, addressing the limitations of digital processing to enhance the efficiency and sustainability of future 6th…

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Integrated sensing and communication (ISAC) has emerged as a pivotal technology for next-generation wireless networks, enabling simultaneous data transmission and environmental sensing. However, existing ISAC systems face fundamental…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-02-18 Amirhossein Taherpour , Abbas Taherpour , Tamer Khattab

Metasurfaces, the two-dimensional counterpart of metamaterials, have caught great attention thanks to their powerful capabilities on manipulation of electromagnetic waves. Recent times have seen the emergence of a variety of metasurfaces…

The roll-out of various emerging wireless services has triggered the need for the sixth-generation (6G) wireless networks to provide functions of target sensing, intelligent computing and information communication over the same radio…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-07-11 Qiao Qi , Xiaoming Chen , Ata Khalili , Caijun Zhong , Zhaoyang Zhang , Derrick Wing Kwan Ng

To support faster and more efficient networks, mobile operators and service providers are bringing 5G millimeter wave (mmWave) networks indoors. However, due to their high directionality, mmWave links are extremely vulnerable to blockage by…

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While fifth-generation (5G) communications are being rolled out worldwide, sixth-generation (6G) communications have attracted much attention from both the industry and the academia. Compared with 5G, 6G will have a wider frequency band,…

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This paper introduces an interference-free multi-stream transmission architecture leveraging stacked intelligent metasurfaces (SIMs), from a new perspective of interference exploitation. Unlike traditional interference exploitation…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-01-28 Hetong Wang , Yashuai Cao , Tiejun Lv , Jintao Wang , Ni Wei , Jiancheng An , Chau Yuen

Tunable metasurfaces enable active and on-demand control over optical wavefronts through reconfigurable scattering of resonant nanostructures. Here, we present novel insights inspired by mechanical metamaterials to achieve giant tunability…

Optics · Physics 2025-10-31 Freek van Gorp , Wenfeng Liu , Corentin Coulais , Jorik van de Groep

Metasurfaces have been investigated and its numerous exotic functionalities and the potentials to arbitrarily control of the electromagnetic fields have been extensively explored. However, only limited types of metasurface have finally…

Stacked intelligent metasurfaces (SIMs), composed of multiple layers of reconfigurable transmissive metasurfaces, are gaining prominence as a transformative technology for future wireless communication security. This paper investigates the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-02-03 Enyu Shi , Yiyang Zhu , Jiayi Zhang , Ziheng Liu , Jiakang Zheng , Jiancheng An , Derrick Wing Kwan Ng , Bo Ai , Chau Yuen