Abstract

New communication systems require high spectral and energy efficiencies to meet the growing demand for services in future networks. In this paper, an efficient multiple parallel reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RIS)-assisted multiuser (MU) multiple input-multiple output (MIMO) double quadrature spatial modulation (DQSM) downlink transmission system is presented. In the transmitter, the proposed N-RIS-MU-MIMO-DQSM system uses a modified block diagonalization technique and a genetic algorithm (GA) to jointly design the precoding signals required at the base station (BS) and the optimal phase changes required at multiple RISs. A reduced detection complexity and improved bit error rate (BER) performance are achieved by incorporating spatial modulation. The proposed system is compared under the same conditions and parameters with two reference systems, considering blind and optimized RISs approaches over correlated Rayleigh fading channels. Results show that compared with a similar system that does not use RISs, the proposed system has up to 30 dB gain in BER performance. Compared with a similar system based on conventional quadrature amplitude modulation (QAM), the proposed system has gains of up to 2-3 dB in BER performance and up to 55.8% lower detection complexity for the analyzed cases. © 2025 China Institute of Communications.