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Item Cost-Efficient RIS-Assisted Transmitter Design With Discrete Phase Shifts for Wireless Communication(IEEE Wireless Communications Letters, 2022-12-30) Pi, Xiangyu; Yi, Pengfei; Xiao, Zhenyu; Zhang, Wei; Han, Zhu; Xia, Xiang-GenIn this letter, in order to achieve higher spectral and energy efficiency, we propose a novel cost-efficient transmitter conceptual design based on reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS) with discrete phase shifts. The key idea is to directly utilize the digital signal to adjust the discrete reflection coefficients of RIS, resulting that the phases of the reflected carrier signal being modulated without the need for complex digital signal processing (DSP) hardware and costly radio frequency (RF) chains. Furthermore, a joint digital modulation and beamforming method is developed to enable information transmission as well as enhance signal strength. Based on the proposed transmitter, we derive the closed-form expressions of the signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) and bit error rate (BER) of the received signal and analyze the impact of hardware constraints on communication performance. Extensive simulation results validate that the novel design of RIS-assisted transmitter provides a cost-effective and power-efficient solution for wireless communications.Item Twin-Layer RIS-Aided Differential Index Modulation Dispensing With Channel Estimation(IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology, 2023-11-06) Xiao, Zhenyu; Liu, Guangyao; Mao, Tianqi; Liu, Ruiqi; Zhang, Wei; Xia, Xiang-Gen; Hanzo, LajosIn this correspondence, we propose a twin-layer hierarchical differential index modulation scheme for a reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS)-aided transmitter architecture, termed as HD-RIS-IM. More specifically, the RIS array is partitioned into perfectly tiling sub-arrays. Each sub-array is mapped across multiple time slots, where each RIS element is activated only once at a particular time slot. These sub-arrays represented by sub- matrices are then used for constructing a block-based permutation matrix for data transmission. With the aid of this hierarchical structure, additional information can be conveyed by the specific order of the sub-arrays that are activated. Furthermore, extra bits are also embedded in the particular order of the RIS elements that are activated within each sub-array. By exploiting all the distinct permutations of the activated matrices, a differential modulation scheme is proposed for the RIS-aided transmitter, which maintains an M -ary phase shift keying (MPSK) and facilitates CSI-free demodulation. Furthermore, at the receiver, we propose a low-complexity distributed maximum likelihood (ML) detector, which significantly reduces the detection complexity. Our simulation results demonstrate the performance benefits of the proposed HD-RIS-IM scheme.