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most citedBeyond Diagonal RIS: Passive Maximum Ratio Transmission and Interference Nulling Enabler

5 citations · 9 across the 18 of their papers we have counts for

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19 papers

cs.IT2026

Active Beyond-Diagonal RIS Empowered Heterogeneous Edge Computing: A Distributional Reinforcement Learning Approach

Tianyu Pang, Hongyu Li

Active beyond-diagonal reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (BD-RISs) enables hybrid transmitting and reflecting mode to achieve effective signal amplification and full-space covera…

eess.SP2026

Antenna Coding Design for Pixel Antenna Empowered Rate-Splitting Multiple Access

Haobo Huang, Yijie Mao, Hongyu Li +1

This work explores the integration of pixel antennas and rate-splitting multiple access (RSMA) to enhance spectral efficiency in multi-user multiple-input single-output (MU-MISO) s…

eess.SP2026

Sparse Channel Estimation for Pixel Antennas: Addressing the Pilot Rank Deficiency

Yiting Chen, Yumeng Zhang, Hongyu Li

Composed of multiple interconnected pixels controlled by on/off RF switches, the pixel antenna can generate reconfigurable radiation patterns that can be further exploited to const…

eess.SP2026

Active Beyond-Diagonal Reconfigurable Intelligent Surfaces: Modeling, Architecture Design, and Optimization

Shanpu Shen, Hongyu Li, Matteo Nerini +2

Beyond-diagonal reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (BD-RISs) are an emerging RIS 2.0 technology for future wireless communication. However, BD-RISs are primarily passive without a…

eess.SP2025

A Tutorial on Beyond-Diagonal Reconfigurable Intelligent Surfaces: Modeling, Architectures, System Design and Optimization, and Applications

Hongyu Li, Matteo Nerini, Shanpu Shen +1

Written by its inventors, this first tutorial on Beyond-Diagonal Reconfigurable Intelligent Surfaces (BD-RISs) provides the readers with the basics and fundamental tools necessary…

eess.SP2025

Lossy Beyond Diagonal Reconfigurable Intelligent Surfaces: Modeling and Optimization

Yiyang Peng, Hongyu Li, Zheyu Wu +1

Beyond diagonal reconfigurable intelligent surface (BD-RIS) has emerged as an advancement and generalization of the conventional diagonal RIS (D-RIS) by introducing tunable interco…

eess.SP2024

A Decoupled Channel Estimation Method for Beyond Diagonal RIS

Bruno Sokal, Fazal-E-Asim, André L. F. de Almeida +2

Beyond diagonal reconfigurable intelligent surface (BD-RIS) is a new architecture for RIS where elements are interconnected to provide more wave manipulation flexibility than tradi…

eess.SP2024★ 1 cited

Non-reciprocal Beyond Diagonal RIS: Sum-Rate Maximization in Full-Duplex Communications

Ziang Liu, Hongyu Li, Bruno Clerckx

Reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS) has been envisioned as a key technology in future wireless communication networks to enable smart radio environment. To further enhance the…

cs.IT2024

Global Optimal Closed-Form Solutions for Intelligent Surfaces With Mutual Coupling: Is Mutual Coupling Detrimental or Beneficial?

Matteo Nerini, Hongyu Li, Bruno Clerckx

Reconfigurable Intelligent Surface (RIS) is a breakthrough technology enabling the dynamic control of the propagation environment in wireless communications through programmable su…

eess.SP2024

Non-Reciprocal Beyond Diagonal RIS: Multiport Network Models and Performance Benefits in Full-Duplex Systems

Hongyu Li, Bruno Clerckx

Beyond diagonal reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (BD-RIS) is a new advance in RIS techniques that introduces reconfigurable inter-element connections to generate scattering matr…

eess.SP2024★ 5 cited

Beyond Diagonal RIS: Passive Maximum Ratio Transmission and Interference Nulling Enabler

Hamad Yahya, Hongyu Li, Matteo Nerini +2

Beyond diagonal reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (BD-RIS) generalizes and goes beyond conventional diagonal reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (D-RIS) by interconnecting elemen…

eess.SP2024★ 2 cited

Channel Estimation for Beyond Diagonal RIS via Tensor Decomposition

André L. F. de Almeida, Bruno Sokal, Hongyu Li +1

This paper addresses the channel estimation problem for beyond diagonal reconfigurable intelligent surface (BD-RIS) from a tensor decomposition perspective. We first show that the…

eess.SP2024

MIMO Channel Shaping and Rate Maximization Using Beyond-Diagonal RIS

Yang Zhao, Hongyu Li, Bruno Clerckx +1

This paper investigates the limits to which a passive Reconfigurable Intelligent Surface (RIS) can reshape a point-to-point Multiple-Input Multiple-Output (MIMO) channel in terms o…

eess.SP2024

Full-Space Wireless Sensing Enabled by Multi-Sector Intelligent Surfaces

Yumeng Zhang, Xiaodan Shao, Hongyu Li +2

The multi-sector intelligent surface (IS), benefiting from a smarter wave manipulation capability, has been shown to enhance channel gain and offer full-space coverage in communica…

eess.SP2024★ 1 cited

Beyond Diagonal Reconfigurable Intelligent Surfaces in Wideband OFDM Communications: Circuit-Based Modeling and Optimization

Hongyu Li, Matteo Nerini, Shanpu Shen +1

This work investigates the modeling and optimization of beyond diagonal reconfigurable intelligent surface (BD-RIS), which generalizes conventional RIS with diagonal phase shift ma…

cs.IT2024

Wideband Modeling and Beamforming for Beyond Diagonal Reconfigurable Intelligent Surfaces

Hongyu Li, Matteo Nerini, Shanpu Shen +1

This work studies the wideband modeling and beamforming design of beyond diagonal reconfigurable intelligent surface (BD-RIS), which generalizes and goes beyond conventional RIS wi…

eess.SP2024

Channel Estimation and Beamforming for Beyond Diagonal Reconfigurable Intelligent Surfaces

Hongyu Li, Shanpu Shen, Yumeng Zhang +1

Beyond diagonal reconfigurable intelligent surface (BD-RIS) is a new advance and generalization of the RIS technique. BD-RIS breaks through the isolation between RIS elements by cr…

cs.IT2023

A Universal Framework for Multiport Network Analysis of Reconfigurable Intelligent Surfaces

Matteo Nerini, Shanpu Shen, Hongyu Li +2

Reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS) is an emerging paradigm able to control the propagation environment in wireless systems. Most of the research on RIS has been dedicated to…

eess.SP2023

Beyond Diagonal Reconfigurable Intelligent Surfaces with Mutual Coupling: Modeling and Optimization

Hongyu Li, Shanpu Shen, Matteo Nerini +2

This work studies the modeling and optimization of beyond diagonal reconfigurable intelligent surface (BD-RIS) aided wireless communication systems in the presence of mutual coupli…