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A Tractable Closed-Form Approximation of the Ergodic Rate in Poisson Cellular Networks
In this course, the present paper introduces an accurate approximation for the moment generating function (MGF) of the aggregate other-cell interference created by base stations whose positions follow a Poisson point process of given spatial density.
Rate Splitting Multiple Access for RIS-aided URLLC MIMO Broadcast Channels
The performance of modern wireless communication systems is typically limited by interference.
Rate Region of RIS-Aided URLLC Broadcast Channels: Diagonal versus Beyond Diagonal Globally Passive RIS
We analyze the finite-block-length rate region of wireless systems aided by reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RISs), employing treating interference as noise.
Degrees of Freedom of Holographic MIMO in Multi-user Near-field Channels
In this paper, we propose a novel method to calculate the DoF of HMIMO in multi-user near-field channels.
Throughput Optimization in Cache-aided Networks: An Opportunistic Probing and Scheduling Approach
This paper addresses the challenges of throughput optimization in wireless cache-aided cooperative networks.
Practical Challenges for Reliable RIS Deployment in Heterogeneous Multi-Operator Multi-Band Networks
While not an ideal solution, we discuss how ultra-narrowband metasurfaces can be incorporated into the manufacturing of RISs to mitigate some challenges of RIS deployment in wireless networks.
Secrecy Energy Efficiency Maximization in RIS-Aided Wireless Networks with Statistical CSI
The complexity of the proposed method is analyzed and numerical results are provided to show the performance of the proposed optimization method.
Energy Efficiency Comparison of RIS Architectures in MISO Broadcast Channels
In a globally passive RIS, the power of the output signal of the RIS is not greater than its input power, but some RIS elements can amplify the signal.
CmWave and Sub-THz: Key Radio Enablers and Complementary Spectrum for 6G
Sixth-generation (6G) networks are poised to revolutionize communication by exploring alternative spectrum options, aiming to capitalize on strengths while mitigating limitations in current fifth-generation (5G) spectrum.
Secrecy Energy Efficiency Maximization in RIS-Aided Wireless Networks
This work proposes a provably convergent and low complexity optimization algorithm for the maximization of the secrecy energy efficiency in the uplink of a wireless network aided by a Reconfigurable Intelligent Surface (RIS), in the presence of an eavesdropper.
Sustainable Wireless Networks via Reconfigurable Intelligent Surfaces (RISs): Overview of the ETSI ISG RIS
Reconfigurable Intelligent Surfaces (RISs) are a novel form of ultra-low power devices that are capable to increase the communication data rates as well as the cell coverage in a cost- and energy-efficient way.
Beamforming Optimization for Active RIS-Aided Multiuser Communications With Hardware Impairments
Specifically, by exploiting the majorization-minimization approach, each subproblem is reformulated into a tractable surrogate problem, whose closed-form solutions are obtained by Lagrange dual decomposition approach and element-wise alternating sequential optimization method.
A Survey on Integrated Sensing and Communication with Intelligent Metasurfaces: Trends, Challenges, and Opportunities
To provide a comprehensive overview, we begin with fundamentals of ISAC and metasurfaces.
Near-Field Sparse Channel Estimation for Extremely Large-Scale RIS-Aided Wireless Communications
To tackle this challenge, we exploit the sparsity inherent in the cascaded channel.
Unlocking Metasurface Practicality for B5G Networks: AI-assisted RIS Planning
The advent of reconfigurable intelligent surfaces(RISs) brings along significant improvements for wireless technology on the verge of beyond-fifth-generation networks (B5G). The proven flexibility in influencing the propagation environment opens up the possibility of programmatically altering the wireless channel to the advantage of network designers, enabling the exploitation of higher-frequency bands for superior throughput overcoming the challenging electromagnetic (EM) propagation properties at these frequency bands.
Beyond Diagonal Reconfigurable Intelligent Surfaces with Mutual Coupling: Modeling and Optimization
This work studies the modeling and optimization of beyond diagonal reconfigurable intelligent surface (BD-RIS) aided wireless communication systems in the presence of mutual coupling among the RIS elements.
Tuning of Ray-Based Channel Model for 5G Indoor Industrial Scenarios
This paper presents an innovative method that can be used to produce deterministic channel models for 5G industrial internet-of-things (IIoT) scenarios.
A Transmit-Receive Parameter Separable Electromagnetic Channel Model for LoS Holographic MIMO
To support the extremely high spectral efficiency and energy efficiency requirements, and emerging applications of future wireless communications, holographic multiple-input multiple-output (H-MIMO) technology is envisioned as one of the most promising enablers.
Terahertz Communications and Sensing for 6G and Beyond: A Comprehensive Review
Different from earlier surveys, this paper presents a comprehensive treatment and technology survey on THz communications and sensing in terms of advantages, applications, propagation characterization, channel modeling, measurement campaigns, antennas, transceiver devices, beamforming, networking, the integration of communications and sensing, and experimental testbeds.
Space-Time Phase Coupling in STMM-based Wireless Communications
Space-time modulated metasurfaces (STMMs) are a recently proposed generalization of reconfigurable intelligent surfaces, which include a proper time-varying phase at the metasurface elements, enabling higher flexibility and control of the reflected signals.
Low Complexity Optimization for Line-of-Sight RIS-Aided Holographic Communications
The synergy of metasurface-based holographic surfaces (HoloS) and reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RIS) is considered a key aspect for future communication networks.
Energy Efficiency Maximization in RIS-Aided Networks with Global Reflection Constraints
This work addresses the issue of energy efficiency maximization in a multi-user network aided by reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS) with global reflection capabilities.
Joint Beamforming for RIS-Assisted Integrated Sensing and Communication Systems
However, due to multiple performance metrics used for communication and sensing, the limited degrees-of-freedom (DoF) in optimizing ISAC systems poses a challenge.
On the Road to 6G: Visions, Requirements, Key Technologies and Testbeds
A series of white papers and survey papers have been published, which aim to define 6G in terms of requirements, application scenarios, key technologies, etc.
RIS-Position and Orientation Estimation in MIMO-OFDM Systems with Practical Scatterers
A two-step positioning scheme is exploited, where the channel parameters are first acquired, and the position-related parameters are then estimated.
Cooperative Beamforming and RISs Association for Multi-RISs Aided Multi-Users MmWave MIMO Systems through Graph Neural Networks
Reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS) is considered as a promising solution for next-generation wireless communication networks due to a variety of merits, e. g., customizing the communication environment.
Localization as a key enabler of 6G wireless systems: A comprehensive survey and an outlook
Finally, insights that arise from the presented analysis are summarized and used to highlight the most important future directions for localization in 6G wireless systems.
Throughput analysis of RIS-assisted UAV wireless systems under disorientation and misalignment
Reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS)-assisted unmanned areal vehicles (UAV) communications have been identified as a key enabler of a number of next-generation applications.
Two-Timescale Transmission Design and RIS Optimization for Integrated Localization and Communications
Reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RISs) have tremendous potential to boost communication performance, especially when the line-of-sight (LOS) path between the user equipment (UE) and base station (BS) is blocked.
A Novel SCA-Based Method for Beamforming Optimization in IRS/RIS-Assisted MU-MISO Downlink
In this letter, we consider the fundamental problem of jointly designing the transmit beamformers and the phase-shifts of the intelligent reflecting surface (IRS) / reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS) to minimize the transmit power, subject to quality-of-service constraints at individual users in an IRS-assisted multiuser multiple-input single-output downlink communication system.
Artificial Intelligence Empowered Multiple Access for Ultra Reliable and Low Latency THz Wireless Networks
In more detail, a fast and centralized joint user association, radio resource allocation, and blockage avoidance by means of a novel metaheuristic-machine learning framework is documented, that maximizes the THz networks performance, while minimizing the association latency by approximately three orders of magnitude.
Multi-Point Integrated Sensing and Communication: Fusion Model and Functionality Selection
Integrated sensing and communication (ISAC) represents a paradigm shift, where previously competing wireless transmissions are jointly designed to operate in harmony via the shared use of the hardware platform for improving the spectral and energy efficiencies.
Joint Localization and Information Transfer for Reconfigurable Intelligent Surface Aided Full-Duplex Systems
A grid based parametric model is constructed and the joint estimation problem is formulated as a compressive sensing problem.
Intelligent Omni-Surfaces (IOSs) for the MIMO Broadcast Channel
In this paper, we consider intelligent omni-surfaces (IOSs), which are capable of simultaneously reflecting and refracting electromagnetic waves.
A Novel RIS-Aided EMF Exposure Aware Approach using an Angularly Equalized Virtual Propagation Channel
However, in some cases, where the BS serves the same user for a long period, and in some propagation conditions, such systems reduce their transmit power to avoid creating unwanted regions of electromagnetic field exposure exceeding the regulatory threshold, beyond the circle around the BS that limits the distance between people and the BS antenna.
A Novel RIS-Aided EMF-Aware Beamforming Using Directional Spreading, Truncation and Boosting
In some propagation conditions, when the base station serves the same target user equipment for a long period, it reduces the transmit power (and degrades the received power) to avoid creating high exposure regions located in the vicinity of the antenna and concentrated in few directions (corresponding to the best propagation paths between the antenna and the receiver).
Performance Analysis of Multi-Reconfigurable Intelligent Surface-Empowered THz Wireless Systems
In this paper, we introduce a theoretical framework for analyzing the performance of multi-reconfigurable intelligence surface (RIS) empowered terahertz (THz) wireless systems subject to turbulence and stochastic beam misalignment.
Outage performance analysis of RIS-assisted UAV wireless systems under disorientation and misalignment
In this paper, we analyze the performance of a reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS)-assisted unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) wireless system that is affected by mixture-gamma small-scale fading, stochastic disorientation, and misalignment, as well as transceivers hardware imperfections.
An Overview of Signal Processing Techniques for RIS/IRS-aided Wireless Systems
In the past as well as present wireless communication systems, the wireless propagation environment is regarded as an uncontrollable black box that impairs the received signal quality, and its negative impacts are compensated for by relying on the design of various sophisticated transmission/reception schemes.
Polarization-Based Reconfigurable Tags for Robust Ambient Backscatter Communications
In this paper, we propose a polarization-based reconfigurable antenna in order to improve the robustness of the tag-to-reader link against the source-to-reader direct interference.
First experimental evaluation of ambient backscatter communications with massive MIMO reader
A mobile device transmits a signal that is backscattered by a tag and received by the reader.
Robust Ambient Backscatter Communications with Polarization Reconfigurable Tags
In this paper, for the first time, we propose to exploit a "polarization reconfigurable" antenna to improve robustness of the tag-to-reader link against the source-to-reader direct interference.
Spectrum Learning-Aided Reconfigurable Intelligent Surfaces for 'Green' 6G Networks
In the sixth-generation (6G) era, emerging large-scale computing based applications (for example processing enormous amounts of images in real-time in autonomous driving) tend to lead to excessive energy consumption for the end users, whose devices are usually energy-constrained.
Learning to Estimate RIS-Aided mmWave Channels
Inspired by the remarkable learning and prediction performance of deep neural networks (DNNs), we apply one special type of DNN framework, known as model-driven deep unfolding neural network, to reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS)-aided millimeter wave (mmWave) single-input multiple-output (SIMO) systems.
Learning-based Prediction, Rendering and Transmission for Interactive Virtual Reality in RIS-Assisted Terahertz Networks
This high data rate over short transmission distances may be achieved via abundant bandwidth in the terahertz (THz) band.
Cascaded Composite Turbulence and Misalignment: Statistical Characterization and Applications to Reconfigurable Intelligent Surface-Empowered Wireless Systems
Building upon the derived analytical expressions, we present novel closed-form formulas that quantify the joint impact of turbulence and misalignment on the outage performance for two scenarios of high interest namely cascaded multi-RIS-empowered free space optics (FSO) and terahertz (THz) wireless systems.
A Prototype of Reconfigurable Intelligent Surface with Continuous Control of the Reflection Phase
On the other hand, ambient backscatter communications (AmBC) is another promising technology that is tailored for addressing the energy efficiency requirements for the Internet of Things (IoT).
Model-Driven Deep Learning Based Channel Estimation and Feedback for Millimeter-Wave Massive Hybrid MIMO Systems
To reduce the uplink pilot overhead for estimating the high-dimensional channels from a limited number of radio frequency (RF) chains at the base station (BS), we propose to jointly train the phase shift network and the channel estimator as an auto-encoder.
Reconfigurable Intelligent Surface -Assisted Ambient Backscatter Communications -- Experimental Assessment
On the other hand, in an ambient backscatter system, a device, named tag, communicates towards a reader by backscattering the waves of an ambient source (such as a TV tower).
Intelligent Spectrum Learning for Wireless Networks with Reconfigurable Intelligent Surfaces
Reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS) has become a promising technology for enhancing the reliability of wireless communications, which is capable of reflecting the desired signals through appropriate phase shifts.
Path Loss Modeling and Measurements for Reconfigurable Intelligent Surfaces in the Millimeter-Wave Frequency Band
The refined model gives more accurate estimates of the path loss of RISs comprised of unit cells with a deep sub-wavelength size.
Machine Learning-Enabled Joint Antenna Selection and Precoding Design: From Offline Complexity to Online Performance
We investigate the performance of multi-user multiple-antenna downlink systems in which a BS serves multiple users via a shared wireless medium.
Information Theory Information Theory
Optimization of RIS-aided MIMO Systems via the Cutoff Rate
The main difficulty concerning optimizing the mutual information (MI) in reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS)-aided communication systems with discrete signaling is the inability to formulate this optimization problem in an analytically tractable manner.
Information Theory Information Theory
Uplink Achievable Rate Maximization for Reconfigurable Intelligent Surface Aided Millimeter Wave Systems with Resolution-Adaptive ADCs
In this letter, we investigate the uplink of a reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS)-aided millimeter-wave (mmWave) multi-user system.
MetaSensing: Intelligent Metasurface Assisted RF 3D Sensing by Deep Reinforcement Learning
To tackle this challenge, we formulate an optimization problem for minimizing the cross-entropy loss of the sensing outcome, and propose a deep reinforcement learning algorithm to jointly compute the optimal beamformer patterns and the mapping of the received signals.
Reconfigurable Intelligent Surfaces for 6G Systems: Principles, Applications, and Research Directions
Reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RISs) or intelligent reflecting surfaces (IRSs), are regarded as one of the most promising and revolutionizing techniques for enhancing the spectrum and/or energy efficiency of wireless systems.
Intelligent Omni-Surface: Ubiquitous Wireless Transmission by Reflective-Transmissive Metasurface
Intelligent reflecting surface (IRS), which is capable to adjust propagation conditions by controlling phase shifts of the reflected waves that impinge on the surface, has been widely analyzed for enhancing the performance of wireless systems.
Stochastic Learning-Based Robust Beamforming Design for RIS-Aided Millimeter-Wave Systems in the Presence of Random Blockages
To enhance the robustness of hybrid analog-digital beamforming in the presence of random blockages, we formulate a stochastic optimization problem based on the minimization of the sum outage probability.
Analysis and Optimization for RIS-Aided Multi-Pair Communications Relying on Statistical CSI
Simulation results verify the correctness of the obtained results and show that the proposed GA method has almost the same performance as the globally optimal solution.
Reconfigurable Intelligent Surfaces Aided mmWave NOMA: Joint Power Allocation,Phase Shifts, and Hybrid Beamforming Optimization
Then, we solve the power allocation problem under fixed phase shifts of the RIS and hybrid beamforming.
Reconfigurable Intelligent Surfaces: Principles and Opportunities
In this context, we provide a comprehensive overview of the state-of-the-art on RISs, with focus on their operating principles, performance evaluation, beamforming design and resource management, applications of machine learning to RIS-enhanced wireless networks, as well as the integration of RISs with other emerging technologies.
Coverage Analysis and Scaling Laws of Ultra-Dense Networks
In this paper, we develop an innovative approach to quantitatively characterize the performance of ultra-dense wireless networks in a plethora of propagation environments.
Deep Denoising Neural Network Assisted Compressive Channel Estimation for mmWave Intelligent Reflecting Surfaces
Integrating large intelligent reflecting surfaces (IRS) into millimeter-wave (mmWave) massive multi-input-multi-ouput (MIMO) has been a promising approach for improved coverage and throughput.
Wireless 2.0: Towards an Intelligent Radio Environment Empowered by Reconfigurable Meta-Surfaces and Artificial Intelligence
We introduce "Wireless 2. 0": The future generation of wireless communication networks, where the radio environment becomes controllable, programmable, and intelligent by leveraging the emerging technologies of reconfigurable metasurfaces and artificial intelligence (AI).
Reconfigurable Intelligent Surface Aided Power Control for Physical-Layer Broadcasting
Our goalis to minimize the transmit power at the BS by jointly designing the transmit beamforming at the BSand the phase shifts of the passive elements at the RIS.
Holographic MIMO Surfaces for 6G Wireless Networks: Opportunities, Challenges, and Trends
Future wireless networks are expected to evolve towards an intelligent and software reconfigurable paradigm enabling ubiquitous communications between humans and mobile devices.
Robust Beamforming Design for Intelligent Reflecting Surface Aided MISO Communication Systems
In this paper, we study the worst-case robust beamforming design for an IRS-aided multiuser multiple-input single-output (MU-MISO) system under the assumption of imperfect CSI.
Wireless Communications with Reconfigurable Intelligent Surface: Path Loss Modeling and Experimental Measurement
The measurement results match well with the modeling results, thus validating the proposed free-space path loss models for RIS, which may pave the way for further theoretical studies and practical applications in this field.
