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Intelligent reflecting surface (IRS) has emerged as a key enabling technology to realize smart and reconfigurable radio environment for wireless communications, by digitally controlling the signal reflection via a large number of passive…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-02-02 Beixiong Zheng , Changsheng You , Weidong Mei , Rui Zhang

The use of automotive radars is gaining popularity as a means to enhance a vehicle's sensing capabilities. However, these radars can suffer from interference caused by transmissions from other radars mounted on nearby vehicles. To address…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-04-26 Shree Prasad Maruthi , Karrthik G. K. , Vijaya Krishna A. , Mahbub Hassan , Jinhong Yuan

Smart radio environments (SREs) enhance wireless communications by allowing control over the channel. They have been enabled through surfaces with reconfigurable electromagnetic (EM) properties, known as reconfigurable intelligent surfaces…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-05-04 Matteo Nerini , Bruno Clerckx

The emerging technology of Reconfigurable Intelligent Surfaces (RISs) is provisioned as an enabler of smart wireless environments, offering a highly scalable, low-cost, hardware-efficient, and almost energy-neutral solution for dynamic…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-05-11 George C. Alexandropoulos , Kyriakos Stylianopoulos , Chongwen Huang , Chau Yuen , Mehdi Bennis , Mérouane Debbah

Passive radar has key advantages over its active counterpart in terms of cost and stealth. In this paper, we address passive radar imaging problem by interferometric inversion using a spectral estimation method with a priori information…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-12-06 Samia Kazemi , Bariscan Yonel , Birsen Yazici

Reconfigurable meta-surfaces are emerging as a novel and revolutionizing technology to enable intelligent wireless environments. Due to the low cost, improved efficiency, and passive nature of reflecting elements, it is becoming possible to…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-10-06 Wali Ullah Khan , Muhammad Awais Javed , Sherali Zeadally , Eva Lagunas , Symeon Chatzinotas

Reconfigurable distributed antennas and reflecting surface (RDARS) has emerged as a transformative solution to address the stringent requirements of future wireless networks. By combining distributed active antennas with reconfigurable…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-04-23 Jintao Wang , Pingping Zhang , Chengzhi Ma , Chengwang Ji , Zheng Shi , Guanghua Yang , Shaodan Ma

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…

In passive radar, a network of distributed sensors exploit signals from so-called Illuminators-of-Opportunity to detect and localize targets. We consider the case where the IO signal is available at each receiver node through a reference…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-05-19 Mats Viberg , Daniele Gerosa , Tomas McKelvey , Patrik Dammert , Thomas Eriksson

Nonreciprocal radiation refers to electromagnetic wave radiation in which a structure provides different responses under the change of the direction of the incident field. Modern wireless telecommunication systems demand versatile…

Applied Physics · Physics 2021-09-14 Sajjad Taravati , George V. Eleftheriades

The next generations of wireless networks are envisioned to integrate communications, sensing, and computing into a unified platform, demanding ultra-high data rates, submillisecond latency, and unprecedented energy efficiency. However,…

As wireless power transfer (WPT) repeaters, metasurfaces can enhance field coupling, improving the WPT operation. In this paper, we show that metasurfaces can also be used as transmitters of capacitive WPT systems. Such a metasurface-based…

Applied Physics · Physics 2019-10-07 Fu Liu , Prasad Jayathurathnage , Sergei A. Tretyakov

Metasurfaces can manipulate the amplitude and phase of electromagnetic waves, offering applications ranging from antenna design and cloaking to imaging and communication. Additionally, temporal, and non-linear metasurfaces have the…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-11-18 Pouria Sanjari , Firooz Aflatouni

This paper presents the concept of spread-spectrum selective camouflaging based on time-modulated metasurface. The spectrum spreading is realized by switching the metasurface between the reflective states of a PEC mirror and a PMC mirror,…

Applied Physics · Physics 2019-09-11 Xiaoyi Wang , Christophe Caloz

Metasurfaces consisting of electrically thin and densely packed planar arrays of subwavelength elements enable an unprecedented control of the impinging electromagnetic fields. Spatially modulated metasurfaces can efficiently tailor the…

Complementary to traditional approaches that focus on transceiver design for bringing the best out of unstable, lossy fading channels, one radical development in wireless communications that has recently emerged is to pursue a smart radio…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-05-29 Kai-Kit Wong , Kin-Fai Tong , Zhiyuan Chu , Yangyang Zhang

This article develops the applicability of non-linear processing techniques such as Compressed Sensing (CS), Principal Component Analysis (PCA), Iterative Adaptive Approach (IAA) and Multiple-input-multiple-output (MIMO) for the purpose of…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-03-27 Mohit Kumar , Keith Kelly

Programmable, intelligent surfaces can manipulate electromagnetic waves impinging upon them, producing arbitrarily shaped reflection, refraction and diffraction, to the benefit of wireless users. Moreover, in their recent form of…

This paper investigates an integrated sensing and communication system where the base station serves multiple downlink users, while employing a passive reconfigurable intelligent surface to detect small, noncooperative airborne targets. We…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-05-26 Georgios Mylonopoulos , Luca Venturino , Emanuele Grossi , Stefano Buzzi , Ciro D'Elia

Millimeter wave (MmWave) communications is capable of supporting multi-gigabit wireless access thanks to its abundant spectrum resource. However, the severe path loss and high directivity make it vulnerable to blockage events, which can be…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-10-20 Peilan Wang , Jun Fang , Xiaojun Yuan , Zhi Chen , Huiping Duan , Hongbin Li