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A Framework for Uplink ISAC Receiver Designs: Performance Analysis and Algorithm Development
Zhiyuan Yu, Hong Ren, Cunhua Pan +3
Uplink integrated sensing and communication (ISAC) systems have recently emerged as a promising research direction, enabling simultaneous uplink signal detection and target sensing…
Addressing the Mutual Interference in Uplink ISAC Receivers: A Projection Method
Zhiyuan Yu, Hong Ren, Cunhua Pan +4
Dual function radar and communication (DFRC) is a promising research direction within integrated sensing and communication (ISAC), improving hardware and spectrum efficiency by mer…
Beamforming Design for Double-Active-RIS-aided Communication Systems with Inter-Excitation
Boshi Wang, Cunhua Pan, Hong Ren +4
In this paper, we investigate a double-active-reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS)-aided downlink wireless communication system, where a multi-antenna base station (BS) serves…
Channel Estimation for mmWave MIMO-OFDM Systems in High-Mobility Scenarios: Instantaneous Model or Statistical Model?
Ruizhe Wang, Hong Ren, Cunhua Pan +3
Classical linear statistical models, like the first-order auto-regressive (AR) model, are commonly used as channel model in high-mobility scenarios. However, compared to sub-6G, th…
Reconfigurable Intelligent Surface-Aided Dual-Function Radar and Communication Systems With MU-MIMO Communication
Yasheng Jin, Hong Ren, Cunhua Pan +6
In this paper, we investigate an reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS)-aided integrated sensing and communication (ISAC) system. Our objective is to maximize the achievable sum…
A Framework for Transmission Design for Active RIS-Aided Communication with Partial CSI
Gui Zhou, Cunhua Pan, Hong Ren +4
Active reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RISs) have recently been proposed to compensate for the severe multiplicative fading effect of conventional passive RIS-aided systems. E…
Active RIS Aided ISAC Systems: Beamforming Design and Performance Analysis
Zhiyuan Yu, Hong Ren, Cunhua Pan +4
This paper considers an active reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS)-aided integrated sensing and communication (ISAC) system. We aim to maximize radar signal-to-interference-pl…
A Framework for Mutual Information-based MIMO Integrated Sensing and Communication Beamforming Design
Jin Li, Gui Zhou, Tantao Gong +1
Integrated sensing and communication (ISAC) unifies sensing and communication, and improves the efficiency of the spectrum, energy, and hardware. In this work, we investigate the I…
Error Propagation and Overhead Reduced Channel Estimation for RIS-Aided Multi-User mmWave Systems
Zhendong Peng, Cunhua Pan, Gui Zhou +1
In this paper, we propose a novel two-stage based uplink channel estimation strategy with reduced pilot overhead and error propagation for a reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS…
MSE-Based Transceiver Designs for RIS-Aided Communications With Hardware Impairments
Jingwen Zhao, Ming Chen, Cunhua Pan +3
It is challenging to precisely configure the phase shifts of the reflecting elements at the reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS) due to inherent hardware impairments (HIs). In…
Channel Estimation for RIS-Aided Multi-User mmWave Systems with Uniform Planar Arrays
Zhendong Peng, Gui Zhou, Cunhua Pan +4
In this paper, we adopt a three-stage based uplink channel estimation protocol with reduced pilot overhead for an reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS)-aided multi-user (MU) mil…
Robust Transmission Design for RIS-assisted Secure Multiuser Communication Systems in the Presence of Hardware Impairments
Zhangjie Peng, Ruisong Weng, Cunhua Pan +3
This paper investigates reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS)-assisted secure multiuser communication systems subject to hardware impairments (HIs). We jointly optimize the beam…
An Overview of Signal Processing Techniques for RIS/IRS-aided Wireless Systems
Cunhua Pan, Gui Zhou, Kangda Zhi +8
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 qual…
Robust Transmission Design for RIS-Aided Communications with Both Transceiver Hardware Impairments and Imperfect CSI
Zhangjie Peng, Zhiwei Chen, Cunhua Pan +2
Reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS) or intelligent reflecting surface (IRS) has recently been envisioned as one of the most promising technologies in the future sixth-generati…
Is RIS-Aided Massive MIMO Promising with ZF Detectors and Imperfect CSI?
Kangda Zhi, Cunhua Pan, Gui Zhou +3
This paper provides a theoretical framework for understanding the performance of reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS)-aided massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) with z…
Channel Estimation with Reconfigurable Intelligent Surfaces -- A General Framework
A. Lee Swindlehurst, Gui Zhou, Rang Liu +2
Optimally extracting the advantages available from reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RISs) in wireless communications systems requires estimation of the channels to and from the…
Channel Estimation for RIS-Aided Multiuser Millimeter-Wave Systems
Gui Zhou, Cunhua Pan, Hong Ren +2
Channel estimation in the RIS-aided massive multiuser multiple-input single-output (MU-MISO) wireless communication systems is challenging due to the passive feature of RIS and the…
Secure Wireless Communication in RIS-Aided MISO Systems with Hardware Impairments
Gui Zhou, Cunhua Pan, Hong Ren +2
In practice, residual transceiver hardware impairments inevitably lead to distortion noise which causes the performance loss. In this paper, we study the robust transmission design…
Fairness-Oriented Multiple RISs-Aided MmWave Transmission: Stochastic Optimization Methods
Gui Zhou, Cunhua Pan, Hong Ren +2
In millimeter wave (mmWave) systems, it is challenging to ensure the reliable connectivity of communications due to its sensitivity to the presence of blockages. In order to improv…
Outage Constrained Robust Transmission Design for IRS-aided Secure Communications with Direct Communication Links
Sheng Hong, Cunhua Pan, Gui Zhou +2
In this paper, we investigate the robust outage constrained transmission design for an intelligent reflecting surface (IRS) aided secure communication system. We assume that a sing…
Stochastic Learning-Based Robust Beamforming Design for RIS-Aided Millimeter-Wave Systems in the Presence of Random Blockages
Gui Zhou, Cunhua Pan, Hong Ren +3
A fundamental challenge for millimeter wave (mmWave) communications lies in its sensitivity to the presence of blockages, which impact the connectivity of the communication links a…
User Cooperation for IRS-aided Secure SWIPT MIMO Systems
Gui Zhou, Cunhua Pan, Hong Ren +3
In this paper, intelligent reflecting surface (IRS) is proposed to enhance the physical layer security in the Rician fading channel where the angular direction of the eavesdropper…
A Framework of Robust Transmission Design for IRS-aided MISO Communications with Imperfect Cascaded Channels
Gui Zhou, Cunhua Pan, Hong Ren +2
Intelligent reflection surface (IRS) has recently been recognized as a promising technique to enhance the performance of wireless systems due to its ability of reconfiguring the si…
Rate-Splitting Multiple Access for Multi-antenna Downlink Communication Systems: Spectral and Energy Efficiency Tradeoff
Gui Zhou, Yijie Mao, Bruno Clerckx
Rate-splitting (RS) has recently been recognized as a promising physical-layer technique for multi-antenna broadcast channels (BC). Due to its ability to partially decode the inter…