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Rate-Splitting Multiple Access (RSMA) is a flexible and robust multiple access scheme for downlink multi-antenna wireless networks. RSMA relies on multi-antenna Rate-Splitting (RS) at the transmitter and Successive Interference Cancellation…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-07-27 Onur Dizdar , Yijie Mao , Bruno Clerckx

Reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS) has received widespread attention owing to the superiority of changing the wireless propagation environment intelligently. Channel feedback is essential in frequency division duplex (FDD)…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-12-08 Decai Shen , Linglong Dai

This article investigates the performance of uplink rate splitting multiple access (RSMA) in a two-user scenario, addressing an under-explored domain compared to its downlink counterpart. With the increasing demand for uplink communication…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-21 Farjam Karim , Nurul Huda Mahmood , Arthur S. de Sena , Deepak Kumar , Bruno Clerckx , Matti Latva-aho

Cooperative rate splitting (CRS), built upon rate splitting multiple access (RSMA) and opportunistic user relaying, has been recognized as a promising transmission strategy to enhance the user fairness and spectral efficiency in…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-08-09 Kangchun Zhao , Yijie Mao , Zhaohui Yang , Lixiang Lian , Bruno Clerckx

This work studies the net sum-rate performance of a distributed reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RISs)-assisted multi-user multiple-input-single-output (MISO) downlink communication system under imperfect instantaneous-channel state…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-07-04 Bayan Al-Nahhas , Qurrat-Ul-Ain Nadeem , Anas Chaaban

Active reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RISs) have recently been proposed to compensate for the severe multiplicative fading effect of conventional passive RIS-aided systems. Each reflecting element of active RISs is assisted by an…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-02-21 Gui Zhou , Cunhua Pan , Hong Ren , Dongfang Xu , Zaichen Zhang , Jiangzhou Wang , Robert Schober

Rate-splitting multiple access (RSMA) has appeared as a powerful transmission and multiple access strategy for multi-user multi-antenna communications. Uniquely, this paper studies the optimization of the sum-rate of RSMA with imperfect…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-02-22 Jihye An , Onur Dizdar , Bruno Clerckx , Wonjae Shin

To mitigate the effects of shadow fading and obstacle blocking, reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS) has become a promising technology to improve the signal transmission quality of wireless communications by controlling the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-11-10 Wangyang Xu , Jiancheng An , Yongjun Xu , Chongwen Huang , Lu Gan , Chau Yuen

Reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS) is envisioned to be an essential component of the paradigm for beyond 5G networks as it can potentially provide similar or higher array gains with much lower hardware cost and energy consumption…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-07-09 Hang Liu , Xiaojun Yuan , Ying-Jun Angela Zhang

Reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS) has been identified as a promising technology for future wireless communication systems due to its ability to manipulate the propagation environment intelligently. RIS is a frequency-selective…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-08-06 Abdelhamid Salem , Kai-Kit Wong , Chan-Byoung Chae , Yangyang Zhang

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

The enormous quality of service (QoS) demands posed by mission-critical use-cases of future 5G/6G wireless communication raise the need for resource-efficient highly reliable and low latency connectivity solutions. Multi-connectivity is…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-11-24 Yasemin Karacora , Aydin Sezgin

Reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RISs) have been introduced as a remedy for mitigating frequent blockages in millimeter wave (mmWave) multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) communication networks. However, perfect or nearly perfect…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-06-22 Rafaela Schroeder , Jiguang He , Markku Juntti

The reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS) is a promising technology for next-generation wireless communication. It comprises many passive antennas, which reflect signals from the transmitter to the receiver with adjusted phases without…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-01-18 Bile Peng , Finn Siegismund-Poschmann , Eduard A. Jorswieck

We consider a reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS) assisted cell-free massive multiple-input multiple-output non-orthogonal multiple access (NOMA) system, where each access point (AP) serves all the users with the aid of the RIS. We…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-09-18 Malay Chakraborty , Ekant Sharma , Himal A. Suraweera , Hien Quoc Ngo

Active reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS) has attracted significant attention as a recently proposed RIS architecture. Owing to its capability to amplify the incident signals, active RIS can mitigate the multiplicative fading effect…

This chapter focuses on a hardware architecture for semi-passive Reconfigurable Intelligent Surfaces (RISs) and investigates its consideration for boosting the performance of Multiple-Input Multiple-Output (MIMO) communication systems. The…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-06-19 George C. Alexandropoulos , Konstantinos D. Katsanos , Evangelos Vlachos

Rate-splitting multiple access (RSMA) has recently appeared as a powerful technique for improving the downlink performance of multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) systems. By flexibly managing interference, RSMA can deliver high spectral…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-05-25 Arthur S. de Sena , Pedro H. J. Nardelli , Daniel B. da Costa , Petar Popovski , Constantinos B. Papadias

Rate splitting multiple access (RSMA) is intrinsically amalgamated with simultaneously transmitting and reflecting (STAR) reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RIS) to enhance energy efficiency (EE) of the finite block length (FBL)…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-08-04 Mohammad Soleymani , Ignacio Santamaria , Eduard Jorswieck , Robert Schober , Lajos Hanzo

This article investigates the robustness of rate-splitting multiple access (RSMA) in multi-user multiple-input single-output (MISO) systems to interference attacks against channel acquisition induced by beyond-diagonal RISs (BD-RISs). Two…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-02-19 Arthur S. de Sena , Jacek Kibilda , Nurul H. Mahmood , Andre Gomes , Luiz A. DaSilva , Matti Latva-aho