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Reconfigurable Intelligent Surface (RIS) technology has emerged as a key enabler for future wireless communications. However, its potential is constrained by the difficulty of acquiring accurate user-to-RIS channel state information (CSI),…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-20 Md. Shahriar Sadid , Ali A. Nasir , Saad Al-Ahmadi , Samir Al-Ghadhban

In this paper, we propose a novel integrated sensing and communication (ISAC)-enabled dual-scale channel estimation framework, where large-scale channel estimation benefits from sensing, and the temporal variation of small-scale channel…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-01-05 Bai Zhiyue , Dai Minghui , Hou Fen , Shan hangguan , Cai X Lin , Shen , Xuemin

Accurate cascaded channel state information is pivotal for extremely large-scale intelligent reflecting surfaces (XL-IRS) in next-generation wireless networks. However, the large XL-IRS aperture induces spherical wavefront propagation due…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-02-17 Wenzhou Cao , Yashuai Cao , Tiejun Lv , Mugen Peng

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

This paper investigates the uplink cascaded channel estimation for intelligent-reflecting-surface (IRS)-assisted multi-user multiple-input-single-output systems. We focus on a sub-6 GHz scenario where the channel propagation is not sparse…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-09-07 Huayan Guo , Vincent K. N. Lau

Integrated sensing and communication (ISAC) and intelligent reflecting surface (IRS) are viewed as promising technologies for future generations of wireless networks. This paper investigates the channel estimation problem in an IRS-assisted…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-04-09 Yu Liu , Ibrahim Al-Nahhal , Octavia A. Dobre , Fanggang Wang

Channel estimation is a practical challenge for intelligent reflecting surface (IRS) aided wireless communication. As the number of IRS reflecting elements or IRS-aided users increases, the channel training overhead becomes excessively…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-08-27 Xinrong Guan , Qingqing Wu , Rui Zhang

In this paper, we consider IRS-assisted transmissions from a multi-antenna access point (AP) to a receiver with uncertain channel information. By adjusting the magnitude of reflecting coefficients, the IRS can sustain its operations by…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-05-15 Yongchang Deng , Yuze Zou , Shimin Gong , Bin Lyu , Dinh Thai Hoang , Dusit Niyato

Due to the passive nature of Intelligent Reflecting Surface (IRS), channel estimation is a fundamental challenge in IRS-aided wireless networks. Particularly, as the number of IRS reflecting elements and/or that of IRS-served users…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-08-04 Xinrong Guan , Qingqing Wu , Rui Zhang

Reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RISs) and fluid antennas (FAs) are key technologies for enhancing spatial degrees of freedom in future wireless networks. However, channel acquisition in RIS-aided FA systems is challenging as cascaded…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-21 Josué V. de Araújo , Gilderlan T. de Araújo , André L. F. de Almeida

We consider the problem of downlink channel estimation for intelligent reflecting surface (IRS)-assisted millimeter Wave (mmWave) orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) systems. By exploring the inherent sparse scattering…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-03-31 Xi Zheng , Peilan Wang , Jun Fang , Hongbin Li

The accurate estimation of Channel State Information (CSI) is of crucial importance for the successful operation of Multiple-Input Multiple-Output (MIMO) communication systems, especially in a Multi-User (MU) time-varying environment and…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-02-22 Jide Yuan , George C. Alexandropoulos , Eleftherios Kofidis , Tobias Lindstrm Jensen , Elisabeth De Carvalho

Terahertz (THz) communication is envisioned as one of the candidate technologies for future wireless communications to enable achievable data rates of up to several terabits per second (Tbps). However, the high pathloss and molecular…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-03-14 Muddasir Rahim , Thanh Luan Nguyen , Georges Kaddoum , Tri Nhu Do

By reconfiguring wireless channels via passive signal reflection, intelligent reflecting surface (IRS) can bring significant performance enhancement for wireless communication systems. However, such performance improvement generally relies…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-07-31 Ge Yan , Lipeng Zhu , Rui Zhang

In this letter, we optimize the channel estimator of the cascaded channel in an intelligent reflecting surface (IRS)-assisted millimeter wave (mmWave) multi-antenna system. In this system, the receiver is equipped with a hybrid architecture…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-10-05 Wenhui Zhang , Jindan Xu , Wei Xu , Derrick Wing Kwan Ng , Huan Sun

In this letter, we study efficient channel estimation and passive beamforming designs for a double-intelligent reflecting surface (IRS) aided single-user communication system, where a user communicates with an access point (AP) via the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-08-27 Changsheng You , Beixiong Zheng , Rui Zhang

In this work, we present a new approach for the distributed computation of the PARAFAC decomposition of a third-order tensor across a network of collaborating nodes. We are interested in the case where the overall data gathered across the…

Numerical Analysis · Computer Science 2014-06-09 Alain Y. Kibangou , André L. F. de Almeida

In this letter, a novel nested PARAFAC algorithm was proposed to improve the 8D parameters estimation performance for the bistatic EMVS-MIMO radar. Firstly, the outer part PARAFAC algorithm was carried out to estimate the receive spatial…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-06-07 Qianpeng Xie , He Wang , Yihang Du , Xiaoyi Pan , Feng Zhao

Multiway data often naturally occurs in a tensorial format which can be approximately represented by a low-rank tensor decomposition. This is useful because complexity can be significantly reduced and the treatment of large-scale data sets…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-08-10 Clara Menzen , Manon Kok , Kim Batselier

The number of connected mobile devices and the amount of data traffic through these devices are expected to grow many-fold in future communication networks. To support the scale of this huge data traffic, more and more base stations and…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-06-14 Debamita Ghosh , Manjesh Kr. Hanawal , Nikola Zlatanov