{"title":"Statistical CSI-Enabled Optimization for Beyond Diagonal SIM","authors":"Qiu Xia;Jun Zhang;Kaizhe Xu;Shaodan Ma;Shi Jin;Chau Yuen","doi":"10.1109/LWC.2025.3584817","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"Stacked intelligent metasurfaces (SIM) represent an innovative design comprising multiple metasurface layers, enabling complex signal processing tasks directly in the wave domain. This paradigm not only enhances signal processing efficiency but also reduces hardware costs. However, the traditional single-connected reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS) architecture limits the design flexibility of SIM. In this letter, we propose a beyond diagonal SIM (BD-SIM) framework, constructed by stacking beyond diagonal RIS (BD-RIS) units, and obtain a large-system approximation of the achievable rate that enables optimal design based on statistical rather than instantaneous channel state information (CSI), thereby reducing signaling overhead. Then, we optimize the phase-shifting matrices for both fully-connected and group-connected BD-SIM by employing a minorize-majorization (MM) algorithm. Results show that BD-SIM, by integrating the strengths of SIM and BD-RIS, further enhances wave-domain signal processing capabilities.","PeriodicalId":13343,"journal":{"name":"IEEE Wireless Communications Letters","volume":"14 9","pages":"2972-2976"},"PeriodicalIF":5.5000,"publicationDate":"2025-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"IEEE Wireless Communications Letters","FirstCategoryId":"94","ListUrlMain":"https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/11062671/","RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"计算机科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q1","JCRName":"COMPUTER SCIENCE, INFORMATION SYSTEMS","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
Stacked intelligent metasurfaces (SIM) represent an innovative design comprising multiple metasurface layers, enabling complex signal processing tasks directly in the wave domain. This paradigm not only enhances signal processing efficiency but also reduces hardware costs. However, the traditional single-connected reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS) architecture limits the design flexibility of SIM. In this letter, we propose a beyond diagonal SIM (BD-SIM) framework, constructed by stacking beyond diagonal RIS (BD-RIS) units, and obtain a large-system approximation of the achievable rate that enables optimal design based on statistical rather than instantaneous channel state information (CSI), thereby reducing signaling overhead. Then, we optimize the phase-shifting matrices for both fully-connected and group-connected BD-SIM by employing a minorize-majorization (MM) algorithm. Results show that BD-SIM, by integrating the strengths of SIM and BD-RIS, further enhances wave-domain signal processing capabilities.
期刊介绍:
IEEE Wireless Communications Letters publishes short papers in a rapid publication cycle on advances in the state-of-the-art of wireless communications. Both theoretical contributions (including new techniques, concepts, and analyses) and practical contributions (including system experiments and prototypes, and new applications) are encouraged. This journal focuses on the physical layer and the link layer of wireless communication systems.