How much does reconfigurable intelligent surface improve cell-free massive MIMO uplink with hardware impairments?

Y Zhang, H Zhao, W Xia, W Xu… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper investigates the uplink performance of a general cell-free massive multiple-input
multiple-output (CF-mMIMO) system, in which all access points (APs) and user equipments …

Performance analysis of RIS-assisted cell-free massive MIMO systems with transceiver hardware impairments

Y Zhang, W Xia, H Zhao, G Zheng… - IEEE Transactions …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Integrating reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS) into cell-free massive multiple-input
multiple-output (MIMO) is a promising approach to enhance the coverage quality, spectral …

RIS-aided cell-free massive MIMO systems for 6G: Fundamentals, system design, and applications

E Shi, J Zhang, H Du, B Ai, C Yuen… - Proceedings of the …, 2024 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
An introduction of intelligent interconnectivity for people and things has posed higher
demands and more challenges for sixth-generation (6G) networks, such as high spectral …

Fairness enhancement of UAV systems with hybrid active-passive RIS

NT Nguyen, VD Nguyen, H Van Nguyen… - IEEE Transactions …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
We consider unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV)-enabled wireless systems where downlink
communications between a multi-antenna UAV and multiple users are assisted by a hybrid …

Improved Artificial Rabbits Algorithm for Positioning Optimization and Energy Control in RIS Multiuser Wireless Communication Systems

AS Alwakeel, MI Ismail, MM Fouda… - IEEE Internet of …, 2024 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
An innovative method to raise wireless communication systems' efficiency is to use
Reconfigurable Intelligent Surface (RIS). Unfortunately, determining the quantity and …

Another Twist to the Scalability in Cell-Free Massive MIMO Networks

G Femenias, F Riera-Palou… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Cell-free massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) networks, where a massive number
of geographically distributed access points cooperate to jointly serve the users, have been …

RIS-aided cell-free massive MIMO systems with channel aging

E Shi, J Zhang, J Zheng, B Ai… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2024 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Cell-free (CF) massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) and reconfigurable intelligent
surface (RIS) are two disruptive technologies for enabling the sixth-generation network. In …

Wideband active RISs: Architecture, modeling, and beamforming design

J Zhang, Z Li, Z Zhang - IEEE Communications Letters, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RISs) have become a candidate for future 6G networks.
The concept of active RISs has been recently proposed to overcome the multiplicative fading …

Performance Analysis and Optimization of Reconfigurable Multi-Functional Surface Assisted Wireless Communications

W Wang, W Ni, H Tian… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Although reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RISs) can improve the performance of wireless
networks by smartly reconfiguring the radio environment, existing passive RISs face two key …

Reconfigurable distributed antennas and reflecting surface: A new architecture for wireless communications

C Ma, X Yang, J Wang, G Yang… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2024 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Distributed Antenna Systems (DASs) employ multiple antenna arrays in remote radio units to
achieve highly directional transmission and provide great coverage performance for future …