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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★ 3 cited

A New Class of Analog Precoding for Multi-Antenna Multi-User Communications over High-Frequency Bands

W. Zhu, H. D. Tuan, E. Dutkiewicz +2

A network relying on a large antenna-array-aided base station is designed for delivering multiple information streams to multi-antenna users over high-frequency bands such as the m…

cs.IT2025

Holographic Multi-User Multi-Stream Beamforming Maintaining Rate-Fairness

W. Zhu, H. D. Tuan, E. Dutkiewicz +2

We present the first investigation into the transmission of multi-stream information from a base station equipped with reconfigurable holographic surfaces (RHS) to multiple users w…

cs.IT2025

Polarization-Aware DoA Detection Relying on a Single Rydberg Atomic Receiver

Yuanbin Chen, Chau Yuen, Darmindra Arumugam +3

A polarization-aware direction-of-arrival (DoA) detection scheme is conceived that leverages the intrinsic vector sensitivity of a single Rydberg atomic vapor cell to achieve quant…

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.IT2025

Low-Complexity Channel Estimation for RIS-Assisted Multi-User Wireless Communications

Qingchao Li, Mohammed El-Hajjar, Ibrahim Hemadeh +2

Reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RISs) are eminently suitable for improving the reliability of wireless communications by jointly designing the active beamforming at the base s…

cs.IT2025

Harnessing Rydberg Atomic Receivers: From Quantum Physics to Wireless Communications

Yuanbin Chen, Xufeng Guo, Chau Yuen +5

The intrinsic integration of Rydberg atomic receivers into wireless communication systems is proposed, by harnessing the principles of quantum physics in wireless communications. M…

cs.IT2024

OTFS-MDMA: An Elastic Multi-Domain Resource Utilization Mechanism for High Mobility Scenarios

Jie Chen, Xianbin Wang, Lajos Hanzo

By harnessing the delay-Doppler (DD) resource domain, orthogonal time-frequency space (OTFS) substantially improves the communication performance under high-mobility scenarios by m…

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

Integrated Sensing and Communication Meets Smart Propagation Engineering: Opportunities and Challenges

Kaitao Meng, Christos Masouros, Kai-Kit Wong +2

Both smart propagation engineering as well as integrated sensing and communication (ISAC) constitute promising candidates for next-generation (NG) mobile networks. We provide a syn…

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

Optimization of the Downlink Spectral- and Energy-Efficiency of RIS-aided Multi-user URLLC MIMO Systems

Mohammad Soleymani, Ignacio Santamaria, Eduard Jorswieck +2

Modern wireless communication systems are expected to provide improved latency and reliability. To meet these expectations, a short packet length is needed, which makes the first-o…

cs.IT2024

Electromagnetic Information Theory: Fundamentals and Applications for 6G Wireless Communication Systems

Cheng-Xiang Wang, Yue Yang, Jie Huang +3

In wireless communications, electromagnetic theory and information theory constitute a pair of fundamental theories, bridged by antenna theory and wireless propagation channel mode…

cs.IT2023★ 1 cited

Long-Term Rate-Fairness-Aware Beamforming Based Massive MIMO Systems

W. Zhu, H. D. Tuan, E. Dutkiewicz +3

This is the first treatise on multi-user (MU) beamforming designed for achieving long-term rate-fairness in fulldimensional MU massive multi-input multi-output (m-MIMO) systems. Ex…

cs.IT2023★ 138 cited

Reconfigurable Intelligent Surface-Aided Near-field Communications for 6G: Opportunities and Challenges

Xidong Mu, Jiaqi Xu, Yuanwei Liu +1

Reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS)-aided near-field communications is investigated. First, the necessity of investigating RIS-aided near-field communications and the advantag…

cs.IT2023★ 2 cited

Stacked Intelligent Metasurface-Aided MIMO Transceiver Design

Jiancheng An, Chau Yuen, Chao Xu +5

Next-generation wireless networks are expected to utilize the limited radio frequency (RF) resources more efficiently with the aid of intelligent transceivers. To this end, we prop…

cs.IT2023

Max-min Rate Optimization of Low-Complexity Hybrid Multi-User Beamforming Maintaining Rate-Fairness

W. Zhu, H. D. Tuan, E. Dutkiewicz +2

A wireless network serving multiple users in the millimeter-wave or the sub-terahertz band by a base station is considered. High-throughput multi-user hybrid-transmit beamforming i…

cs.IT2023★ 1 cited

Stacked Intelligent Metasurface Performs a 2D DFT in the Wave Domain for DOA Estimation

Jiancheng An, Chau Yuen, Marco Di Renzo +3

Staked intelligent metasurface (SIM) based techniques are developed to perform two-dimensional (2D) direction-of-arrival (DOA) estimation. In contrast to the conventional designs,…

cs.IT2023★ 1 cited

Intelligent Reflecting Surface Aided MIMO Networks: Distributed or Centralized Architecture?

Guangji Chen, Qingqing Wu, Wen Chen +4

We investigate the capacity of a broadcast channel with a multi-antenna base station (BS) sending independent messages to multiple users, aided by IRSs with N elements. In particul…

cs.IT2023★ 6 cited

Toward Beamfocusing-Aided Near-Field Communications: Research Advances, Potential, and Challenges

Jiancheng An, Chau Yuen, Linglong Dai +3

Next-generation mobile networks promise to support high throughput, massive connectivity, and improved energy efficiency. To achieve these ambitious goals, extremely large-scale an…

cs.IT2023★ 8 cited

Integrated Sensing and Communications: Recent Advances and Ten Open Challenges

Shihang Lu, Fan Liu, Yunxin Li +11

It is anticipated that integrated sensing and communications (ISAC) would be one of the key enablers of next-generation wireless networks (such as beyond 5G (B5G) and 6G) for suppo…