Gui Zhou

45 papers 1.2K citations h-index 9 2019–2026

A Framework for Transmission Design for Active RIS-Aided Communication with Partial CSI

Active reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RISs) have recently been proposed to compensate for the severe multiplicative fading effect of conventional passive RIS-aided systems. Each reflecting...

Channel Estimation with Reconfigurable Intelligent Surfaces -- A General Framework

Optimally extracting the advantages available from reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RISs) in wireless communications systems requires estimation of the channels to and from the RIS. The...

287 citations 2021-10 Proceedings of the IEEE

Robust Transmission Design for RIS-Aided Communications with Both Transceiver Hardware Impairments and Imperfect CSI

Reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS) or intelligent reflecting surface (IRS) has recently been envisioned as one of the most promising technologies in the future sixth-generation (6G)...

Is RIS-Aided Massive MIMO Promising with ZF Detectors and Imperfect CSI?

This paper provides a theoretical framework for understanding the performance of reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS)-aided massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) with zero-forcing (ZF)...

Secure Wireless Communication in RIS-Aided MISO Systems with Hardware Impairments

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 for a...

166 citations 2020-12 IEEE Wireless Communications Letters

Robust Transmission Design for RIS-assisted Secure Multiuser Communication Systems in the Presence of Hardware Impairments

This paper investigates reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS)-assisted secure multiuser communication systems subject to hardware impairments (HIs). We jointly optimize the beamforming vectors...

Intelligent Reflecting Surface Aided Multigroup Multicast MISO Communication Systems

Intelligent reflecting surface (IRS) has recently been envisioned to offer unprecedented massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO)-like gains by deploying large-scale and low-cost passive...

MSE-Based Transceiver Designs for RIS-Aided Communications With Hardware Impairments

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 this paper, the...

Rate-Splitting Multiple Access for Multi-antenna Downlink Communication Systems: Spectral and Energy Efficiency Tradeoff

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 interference and...

Fairness-Oriented Multiple RISs-Aided MmWave Transmission: Stochastic Optimization Methods

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 improve the robustness...

User Cooperation for IRS-aided Secure SWIPT MIMO Systems

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 is aligned with...

4 citations 2020-06