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cs.IT2026

Joint Power Allocation and Phase-Shift Design for Beyond-Diagonal Stacked Intelligent Metasurfaces-Aided ISAC Systems

Yuhui Jiao, Qian Zhang, Xuejun Cheng +3

Stacked intelligent metasurfaces (SIM) provide an efficient architecture for integrated sensing and communication (ISAC) with few radio-frequency (RF) chains. However, diagonal SIM…

cs.IT2026

Task-Oriented Wave Processing with Stacked Intelligent Metasurfaces: Framework, Fusion, and Challenges

Qiao Qi, Qiyu Chen, Jiancheng An +4

The deep integration of diverse services in sixth-generation (6G) networks poses significant challenges to conventional task-agnostic channels, often resulting in performance confl…

cs.IT2026

DRL-Based Joint Beamforming and Surface Shape Optimization for Flexible Intelligent Metasurface-Aided ISAC Systems

Maoyuan Wang, Qian Zhang, Jiancheng An +3

Integrated sensing and communication (ISAC) unifies high-precision sensing and wireless data transmission. In this paper, we investigate the design of ISAC systems enabled by flexi…

cs.IT2026

Enhanced Channel Estimation for Flexible Intelligent Metasurface-Aided Communication Systems

Jinyue Jiang, Jiancheng An, Lu Gan +3

Flexible intelligent metasurface (FIM) has recently received considerable interest due to its advantage in realizing a better channel condition by dynamically morphing its surface…

cs.IT2026

Low-Complexity Multi-Agent Continual Learning for Stacked Intelligent Metasurface-Assisted Secure Communications

Enyu Shi, Yiyang Zhu, Jiayi Zhang +6

Stacked intelligent metasurfaces (SIMs), composed of multiple layers of reconfigurable transmissive metasurfaces, are gaining prominence as a transformative technology for future w…

cs.IT2026

Cramér-Rao Bound Minimization for Flexible Intelligent Metasurface-Enabled ISAC Systems

Qian Zhang, Yufei Zhao, Jiancheng An +4

Integrated sensing and communication (ISAC) have been widely recognized as a key enabler for future wireless networks, where the Cramér-Rao bound (CRB) plays a central role in quan…

cs.IT2026

Stacked Intelligent Metasurface-Aided Wave-Domain Signal Processing: From Communications to Sensing and Computing

Jiancheng An, Chau Yuen, Marco Di Renzo +3

Artificial neural networks possess remarkable capabilities for abstract feature extraction, while electromagnetic computing leverages wave propagation to execute complex mathematic…

cs.IT2025

Flexible Intelligent Layered Metasurfaces for Downlink Multi-user MISO Communications

Hong Niu, Jiancheng An, Chau Yuen

Stacked intelligent metasurfaces (SIMs) have recently gained attention as a paradigm for wave-domain signal processing with reduced reliance on costly radio-frequency (RF) chains.…

cs.IT2025

Introducing Meta-Fiber into Stacked Intelligent Metasurfaces for MIMO Communications: A Low-Complexity Design with only Two Layers

Hong Niu, Jiancheng An, Tuo Wu +8

Stacked intelligent metasurfaces (SIMs), which integrate multiple programmable metasurface layers, have recently emerged as a promising technology for advanced wave-domain signal p…

cs.IT2025

Energy-Efficient SIM-assisted Communications: How Many Layers Do We Need?

Enyu Shi, Jiayi Zhang, Jiancheng An +3

The stacked intelligent metasurface (SIM), comprising multiple layers of reconfigurable transmissive metasurfaces, is becoming an increasingly viable solution for future wireless c…

cs.IT2025

Flexible Intelligent Metasurfaces for Enhancing MIMO Communications

Jiancheng An, Zhu Han, Dusit Niyato +3

Flexible intelligent metasurfaces (FIMs) show great potential for improving the wireless network capacity in an energy-efficient manner. An FIM is a soft array consisting of severa…

cs.IT2025

Downlink Multiuser Communications Relying on Flexible Intelligent Metasurfaces

Jiancheng An, Chau Yuen, Marco Di Renzo +3

A flexible intelligent metasurface (FIM) is composed of an array of low-cost radiating elements, each of which can independently radiate electromagnetic signals and flexibly adjust…

cs.IT2025

Stacked Intelligent Metasurface-Based Transceiver Design for Near-Field Wideband Systems

Qingchao Li, Mohammed El-Hajjar, Chao Xu +3

Intelligent metasurfaces may be harnessed for realizing efficient holographic multiple-input and multiple-output (MIMO) systems, at a low hardware-cost and high energy-efficiency.…

cs.IT2024

Emerging Technologies in Intelligent Metasurfaces: Shaping the Future of Wireless Communications

Jiancheng An, Mérouane Debbah, Tie Jun Cui +2

Intelligent metasurfaces have demonstrated great promise in revolutionizing wireless communications. One notable example is the two-dimensional (2D) programmable metasurface, which…

cs.IT2024★ 1 cited

Joint AP-UE Association and Precoding for SIM-Aided Cell-Free Massive MIMO Systems

Enyu Shi, Jiayi Zhang, Jiancheng An +4

Cell-free (CF) massive multiple-input multiple-output (mMIMO) systems are emerging as promising alternatives to cellular networks, especially in ultra-dense environments. However,…

cs.IT2024

Harnessing Stacked Intelligent Metasurface for Enhanced Cell-Free Massive MIMO Systems: A Low-Power and Cost Approach

Enyu Shi, Jiayi Zhang, Yiyang Zhu +3

In this paper, we explore the integration of low-power, low-cost stacked intelligent metasurfaces (SIM) into cell-free (CF) massive multiple-input multiple-output (mMIMO) systems t…

cs.IT2024★ 1 cited

Multi-User MISO with Stacked Intelligent Metasurfaces: A DRL-Based Sum-Rate Optimization Approach

Hao Liu, Jiancheng An, George C. Alexandropoulos +3

Stacked intelligent metasurfaces (SIMs) represent a novel signal processing paradigm that enables over-the-air processing of electromagnetic waves at the speed of light. Their mult…

cs.IT2024

Environment-Aware Codebook Design for RIS-Assisted MU-MISO Communications: Implementation and Performance Analysis

Zhiheng Yu, Jiancheng An, Ertugrul Basar +2

Reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS) provides a new electromagnetic response control solution, which can proactively reshape the characteristics of wireless channel environment…

cs.IT2024★ 1 cited

Stacked Intelligent Metasurfaces for Holographic MIMO Aided Cell-Free Networks

Qingchao Li, Mohammed El-Hajjar, Chao Xu +3

Large-scale multiple-input and multiple-output (MIMO) systems are capable of achieving high date rate. However, given the high hardware cost and excessive power consumption of mass…

cs.IT2024

Environment-Aware Codebook for RIS-Assisted MU-MISO Communications: Implementation and Performance Analysis

Zhiheng Yu, Jiancheng An, Lu Gan +1

Reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS) provides a new electromagnetic response control solution, which can reshape the characteristics of wireless channels. In this paper, we pro…

cs.IT2024★ 74 cited

Stacked Intelligent Metasurface Enabled LEO Satellite Communications Relying on Statistical CSI

Shining Lin, Jiancheng An, Lu Gan +2

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…

cs.IT2024★ 61 cited

Channel Estimation for Stacked Intelligent Metasurface-Assisted Wireless Networks

Xianghao Yao, Jiancheng An, Lu Gan +2

Emerging technologies, such as holographic multiple-input multiple-output (HMIMO) and stacked intelligent metasurface (SIM), are driving the development of wireless communication s…

cs.IT2024★ 1 cited

Two-Dimensional Direction-of-Arrival Estimation Using Stacked Intelligent Metasurfaces

Jiancheng An, Chau Yuen, Yong Liang Guan +4

Stacked intelligent metasurfaces (SIM) are capable of emulating reconfigurable physical neural networks by relying on electromagnetic (EM) waves as carriers. They can also perform…

cs.IT2024★ 1 cited

Achievable Rate Optimization for Stacked Intelligent Metasurface-Assisted Holographic MIMO Communications

Anastasios Papazafeiropoulos, Jiancheng An, Pandelis Kourtessis +2

Stacked intelligent metasurfaces (SIM) is a revolutionary technology, which can outperform its single-layer counterparts by performing advanced signal processing relying on wave pr…