RIS Aided Multi-Way Communication Systems based on SIC Decoding Techniques
Abstract
This work considers reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS) aided multi-way communication systems employing QPSK. The objectives of such system is to allow multiple users to exchange information, exploiting the full-duplex capabilities of RIS. The system under consideration comprises K user terminals and an RIS with N reflective elements. Each user terminal is equipped with one transmit and M receive antennas. To mitigate inter-user interference caused by the full-duplex operation of the RIS, three successive interference cancellation (SIC) techniques are considered. We investigate three SIC ordering methods: 1) descending channel variances, 2) increasing mean square error, 3) optimization approach which maximizes the combined channel gain within the system. The bit error rate (BER) performance of these three SIC methods are evaluated using extensive Monte-Carlo simulations for different numbers of RIS elements, ranging from 4 to 64, and a varying number of transmitting users, ranging from 1 to 5. Additionally, an RIS phase shift optimization method for RIS with reflection elements of varying amplitudes is considered. In this case the previous SIC optimization technique is adapted to address phase-dependent amplitudes in RIS reflection elements. Simulation results indicate that in both ideal and varying amplitude scenarios, when the number of RIS elements is small, SIC with ordering based on increasing mean square error achieves the best BER performance. However, as the number of RIS elements increases, SIC ordering based on the optimization method achieves the best BER performance.
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BibTeX
@misc{wang2026aided,
title = {{RIS Aided Multi-Way Communication Systems based on SIC Decoding Techniques}},
author = {Lingya Wang and Harry Leib},
howpublished = {arXiv},
year = {2026},
month = oct,
doi = {10.48550/arxiv.2610.03967},
eprint = {2610.03967},
archivePrefix = {arXiv},
url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.03967},
note = {CC BY 4.0},
}
RIS
TY - UNPB
TI - RIS Aided Multi-Way Communication Systems based on SIC Decoding Techniques
AU - Lingya Wang
AU - Harry Leib
PY - 2026
DA - 2026/10/02
PB - arXiv
DO - 10.48550/arxiv.2610.03967
UR - https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.03967
AB - This work considers reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS) aided multi-way communication systems employing QPSK. The objectives of such system is to allow multiple users to exchange information, exploiting the full-duplex capabilities of RIS. The system under consideration comprises K user terminals and an RIS with N reflective elements. Each user terminal is equipped with one transmit and M receive antennas. To mitigate inter-user interference caused by the full-duplex operation of the RIS, three successive interference cancellation (SIC) techniques are considered. We investigate three SIC ordering methods: 1) descending channel variances, 2) increasing mean square error, 3) optimization approach which maximizes the combined channel gain within the system. The bit error rate (BER) performance of these three SIC methods are evaluated using extensive Monte-Carlo simulations for different numbers of RIS elements, ranging from 4 to 64, and a varying number of transmitting users, ranging from 1 to 5. Additionally, an RIS phase shift optimization method for RIS with reflection elements of varying amplitudes is considered. In this case the previous SIC optimization technique is adapted to address phase-dependent amplitudes in RIS reflection elements. Simulation results indicate that in both ideal and varying amplitude scenarios, when the number of RIS elements is small, SIC with ordering based on increasing mean square error achieves the best BER performance. However, as the number of RIS elements increases, SIC ordering based on the optimization method achieves the best BER performance.
ER -