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The increasing demand for cost-effective, high-speed Internet of Things (IoT) applications in the coming sixth-generation (6G) networks has driven research toward maximizing spectral efficiency and simplifying hardware designs. In this…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-10-21 MohammadHossein Alishahi , Ming Zeng , Paul Fortier , Ji Wang , Nian Xia , Gongpu Wang

Future 6G non-terrestrial networks aim to deliver ubiquitous connectivity to remote and undeserved regions, but unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) base stations face fundamental challenges such as limited numbers and power budgets. To overcome…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-02-11 Arman Azizi , Mostafa Rahmani Ghourtani , Mustafa A. Kishk , Hamed Ahmadi , Arman Farhang

The aerial-terrestrial communication system constitutes an efficient paradigm for supporting and complementing terrestrial communications. However, the benefits of such a system cannot be fully exploited, especially when the line-of-sight…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2021-04-15 Xuelin Cao , Bo Yang , Chongwen Huang , Chau Yuen , Marco Di Renzo , Dusit Niyato , Zhu Han

With the rapid development of Internet of Things (IoT), massive machine-type communication has become a promising application scenario, where a large number of devices transmit sporadically to a base station (BS). Reconfigurable intelligent…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-01-26 Shuhao Xia , Yuanming Shi , Yong Zhou , Xiaojun Yuan

With the fifth-generation (5G) networks widely commercialized and fast deployed, the sixth-generation (6G) wireless communication is envisioned to provide competitive quality of service (QoS) in multiple aspects to global users. The…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-10-14 Yiming Huo , Xiaodai Dong , Nuwan Ferdinand

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

The demand for unprecedented performance in the upcoming 6G wireless networks is fomenting the research on THz communications empowered by Reconfigurable Inteligent Surfaces (RISs). A wide range of use cases have been proposed, most of…

Sixth-generation (6G) networks pose substantial security risks because confidential information is transmitted over wireless channels with a broadcast nature, and various attack vectors emerge. Physical layer security (PLS) exploits the…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2023-11-15 Waqas Khalid , M. Atif Ur Rehman , Trinh Van Chien , Zeeshan Kaleem , Howon Lee , Heejung Yu

This paper considers downlink of reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS) assisted cooperative non-orthogonal multiple access (CNOMA) systems. Our objective is to minimize the total transmit power by jointly optimizing the active…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-12-08 Jiakuo Zuo , Yuanwei Liu , Naofal Al-Dhahir

Reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS) is a new and revolutionary technology to achieve spectrum-, energy- and cost-efficient wireless networks. This paper studies the resource allocation for RIS-empowered device-to-device (D2D)…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-07-21 Gang Yang , Yating Liao , Ying-Chang Liang , Olav Tirkkonen

With the evolution of the 5G, 6G and beyond, device-to-device (D2D) communication has been developed as an energy-, and spectrum-efficient solution. In cellular network, D2D links need to share the same spectrum resources with the cellular…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-07-03 Yali Chen , Bo Ai , Hongliang Zhang , Yong Niu , Lingyang Song , Zhu Han , H. Vincent Poor

Recently, the reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS), benefited from the breakthrough on the fabrication of programmable meta-material, has been speculated as one of the key enabling technologies for the future six generation (6G)…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-06-23 Chongwen Huang , Ronghong Mo , Chau Yuen

Reconfigurable Intelligent Surfaces (RIS) have emerged as a key enabler for programmable wireless environments in future Beyond-5G (B5G) and 6G networks. In the meantime, Integrated Sensing and Communication (ISAC) and Physical-Layer…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-23 Wenqing Dai , Jan Herbst , Jan Petershans , Christoph Lipps , Hans D. Schotten

We propose an alternating optimization framework for maximizing energy efficiency (EE) in reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS) assisted distributed MIMO (D-MIMO) systems under both coherent and non-coherent reception modes. The…

Reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RISs) have received considerable attention as a key enabler for envisioned 6G networks, for the purpose of improving the network capacity, coverage, efficiency, and security with low energy consumption…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-11-30 Hao Zhou , Melike Erol-Kantarci , Yuanwei Liu , H. Vincent Poor

Reconfigurable Intelligent Surfaces (RIS) show great promise in the realm of 6th generation (6G) wireless systems, particularly in the areas of localization and communication. Their cost-effectiveness and energy efficiency enable the…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-03-12 Han Yan , Hua Chen , Wei Liu , Songjie Yang , Gang Wang , Chau Yuen

The amalgamation of cell-free networks and reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS) has become a prospective technique for future sixth-generation wireless communication systems. In this paper, we focus on the precoding and beamforming…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-11-23 Peng Zhang , Jiayi Zhang , Huahua Xiao , Xiaodan Zhang , Derrick Wing Kwan Ng , Bo Ai

The requirement of wireless data demands is increasingly high as the sixth-generation (6G) technology evolves. Reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS) is promisingly deemed to be one of 6G techniques for extending service coverage,…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-11-09 Li-Hsiang Shen , Kai-Ten Feng , Ta-Sung Lee , Yuan-Chun Lin , Shih-Cheng Lin , Chia-Chan Chang , Sheng-Fuh Chang

The next generation of wireless systems will take the concept of communications and networking to another level through the seamless integration of terrestrial, aerial, satellite, maritime and underwater communication systems.…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2022-08-02 Parisa Ramezani , Bin Lyu , Abbas Jamalipour

With the rapid development of high-speed railway systems and railway wireless communication, the application of ultra-wideband millimeter wave band is an inevitable trend. However, the millimeter wave channel has large propagation loss and…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-11-29 Panpan Li , Yong Niu , Hao Wu , Zhu Han , Bo Ai , Ning Wang , Zhangdui Zhong