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To improve the efficiency of scarce radio-frequency (RF) resources in next-generation wireless systems, an intelligent transceiver architecture based on stacked intelligent metasurfaces (SIM) has recently emerged, where multiple…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-05-11 Muhammad Ibrahim , Amine Mezghani , Ekram Hossain

Stacked intelligent metasurfaces (SIM) are capable of emulating reconfigurable physical neural networks by relying on electromagnetic (EM) waves as carriers. They can also perform various complex computational and signal processing tasks. A…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-02-14 Jiancheng An , Chau Yuen , Yong Liang Guan , Marco Di Renzo , Mérouane Debbah , H. Vincent Poor , Lajos Hanzo

Reconfigurable intelligent surfaces enhance wireless systems by reshaping propagation environments. However, dynamic metasurfaces (MSs) with numerous phase-shift elements incur undesired control and hardware costs. In contrast, static MSs…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-12-30 Ziyuan Zheng , Qingqing Wu , Wen Chen , Xiangming Wu , Weiren Zhu

Stacked intelligent metasurface (SIM) and dual-polarized SIM (DPSIM) enabled wave-domain signal processing have emerged as promising research directions for offloading baseband digital processing tasks and efficiently simplifying…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-10-07 Yida Zhang , Qiuyan Liu , Hongtao Luo , Yuqi Xia , Qiang Wang , Fuchang Li , Xiaofeng Tao , Yuanwei Liu

The doubly-dispersive (DD) channel structure has played a pivotal role in wireless communications, particularly in high-mobility scenarios and integrated sensing and communications (ISAC), due to its ability to capture the key fading…

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

Flexible intelligent metasurface (FIM) has emerged as a transformative technology to enhance wireless sensing by dynamically morphing its three-dimensional (3D) surface shape and electromagnetic response. Unlike conventional rigid arrays,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-07-01 Zihao Teng , Jiancheng An , Lu Gan , Naofal Al-Dhahir , Zhu Han

Emerging technologies, such as holographic multiple-input multiple-output (HMIMO) and stacked intelligent metasurface (SIM), are driving the development of wireless communication systems. Specifically, the SIM is physically constructed by…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-03-12 Xianghao Yao , Jiancheng An , Lu Gan , Marco Di Renzo , Chau Yuen

As the dense deployment of access points (APs) in cell-free massive multiple-input multiple-output (CF-mMIMO) systems presents significant challenges, per-AP coverage can be expanded using large-scale antenna arrays (LAAs). However, this…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-10-17 Eunhyuk Park , Seok-Hwan Park , Osvaldo Simeone , Marco Di Renzo , Shlomo Shamai

This paper proposes a transmit beamforming strategy for the integrated sensing and communication (ISAC) systems enabled by the novel stacked intelligent metasurface (SIM) architecture, where the base station (BS) simultaneously performs…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-06-17 Shunyu Li , Fan Zhang , Tianqi Mao , Rui Na , Zhaocheng Wang , George K. Karagiannidis

This paper investigates a Stacked Intelligent Metasurfaces (SIM)-assisted Integrated Sensing and Communications (ISAC) system. An extended target model is considered, where the BS aims to estimate the complete target response matrix…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-05-03 Ziqing Wang , Hongzheng Liu , Jianan Zhang , Rujing Xiong , Kai Wan , Xuewen Qian , Marco Di Renzo , Robert Caiming Qiu

Flexible intelligent metasurface (FIM) has recently received considerable interest due to its advantage in realizing a better channel condition by dynamically morphing its surface shape. An FIM consists of multiple elements deposited on a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-04-01 Jinyue Jiang , Jiancheng An , Lu Gan , Naofal Al-Dhahir , Arumugam Nallanathan , Zhu Han

Typical reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS) implementations include metasurfaces with almost passive unit elements capable of reflecting their incident waves in controllable ways, enhancing wireless communications in a cost-effective…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-03-17 Songjie Yang , Zihang Wan , Boyu Ning , Weidong Mei , Jiancheng An , Yonina C. Eldar , Chau Yuen

Flexible Intelligent Metasurfaces (FIMs) enable wireless systems to adapt their three-dimensional geometry through morphing, thereby providing new spatial degrees of freedom. However, continuous deformation complicates the accurate…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-05-29 Vinícius L. Romano , André L. F. de Almeida , Daniel C. Araújo

Stacked intelligent metasurface (SIM) is an emerging programmable metasurface architecture that can implement signal processing directly in the electromagnetic wave domain, thereby enabling efficient implementation of ultra-massive…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-09-29 Qurrat-Ul-Ain Nadeem , Jiancheng An , Anas Chaaban

This paper investigates a downlink multiuser multiple-input single-output system that integrates rate-splitting multiple access (RSMA) with a stacked intelligent metasurface (SIM) to enable wave-domain beamforming. Unlike conventional…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-11-17 Abdullah Quran , Shimaa Naser , Maryam Tariq , Omar Alhussein , Sami Muhaidat

This study explores a next-generation multiple access (NGMA) framework for cell-free massive MIMO (CF-mMIMO) systems enhanced by stacked intelligent metasurfaces (SIMs), aiming to improve simultaneous wireless information and power transfer…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-02-25 Thien Duc Hua , Mohammadali Mohammadi , Hien Quoc Ngo , Michail Matthaiou

We propose a novel doubly-dispersive (DD) multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) channel model incorporating flexible intelligent metasurfaces (FIMs), which is suitable for integrated sensing and communications (ISAC) in high-mobility…

Semantic communication systems aim to transmit task-relevant information between devices capable of artificial intelligence, but their performance can degrade when heterogeneous transmitter-receiver models produce misaligned latent…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-12-08 Mario Edoardo Pandolfo , Kyriakos Stylianopoulos , George C. Alexandropoulos , Paolo Di Lorenzo

Low earth orbit (LEO) satellite communication systems have gained increasing attention as a crucial supplement to terrestrial wireless networks due to their extensive coverage area. This letter presents a novel system design for LEO…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-03-12 Shining Lin , Jiancheng An , Lu Gan , Mérouane Debbah , Chau Yuen