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The use of reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RIS) can improve wireless communication by modifying the wireless link to create virtual line-of-sight links, bypass blockages, suppress interference, and enhance localization. However,…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-09-08 Anish Pradhan , Harpreet S. Dhillon

In millimeter-wave (mmWave) cellular systems, reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RISs) are foreseeably deployed with a large number of reflecting elements to achieve high beamforming gains. The large-sized RIS will make radio links fall…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-12-20 Baojia Luo , Yili Deng , Miaomiao Dong , Zhongyi Huang , Xiang Chen , Wei Han , Bo Bai

The use of Reconfigurable Intelligent Surfaces (RIS) technology to extend coverage and allow for better control of the wireless environment has been proposed in several use cases, including Ultra-Reliable Low-Latency Communications (URLLC),…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-03-16 Fabio Saggese , Federico Chiariotti , Kimmo Kansanen , Petar Popovski

The received signal strength (RSS) based technique is extensively utilized for localization in the indoor environments. Since the RSS values of neighboring locations may be similar, the localization accuracy of the RSS based technique is…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-03-27 Haobo Zhang , Hongliang Zhang , Boya Di , Kaigui Bian , Zhu Han , Lingyang Song

This paper proposes a novel location information aided multiple intelligent reflecting surface (IRS) systems. Assuming imperfect user location information, the effective angles from the IRS to the users are estimated, which is then used to…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-08-24 Xiaoling Hu , Caijun Zhong , Yu Zhang , Xiaoming Chen , Zhaoyang Zhang

Future smart factories are expected to deploy applications over high-performance indoor wireless channels in the millimeter-wave (mmWave) bands, which on the other hand are susceptible to high path losses and Line-of Sight (LoS) blockages.…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2025-11-21 Cao Vien Phung , Max Franke , Ehsan Tohidi , June Heinemann , Andre Drummond , Stefan Schmid , Slawomir Stanczak , Admela Jukan

Reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RISs) consist of many passive elements of metamaterials whose impedance can be controllable to change the characteristics of wireless signals impinging on them. Channel estimation is a critical task when…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-09-14 Özlem Tuğfe Demir , Emil Björnson

Reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RISs) provide an interface between the electromagnetic world of wireless propagation environments and the digital world of information science. Simple yet sufficiently accurate path loss models for RISs…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-08-29 Wankai Tang , Xiangyu Chen , Ming Zheng Chen , Jun Yan Dai , Yu Han , Marco Di Renzo , Shi Jin , Qiang Cheng , Tie Jun Cui

This paper considers the application of reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RISs) (a.k.a. intelligent reflecting surfaces (IRSs)) to assist multiuser multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) uplink transmission from several multi-antenna user…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-09-14 Li You , Jiayuan Xiong , Yufei Huang , Derrick Wing Kwan Ng , Cunhua Pan , Wenjin Wang , Xiqi Gao

Reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RIS) have been actively researched as a potential technique for future wireless communications, which intelligently ameliorate the signal propagation environment. In the conventional design, each RIS…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-03-17 Qingchao Li , Mohammed El-Hajjar , Ibrahim Hemadeh , Arman Shojaeifard , Alain A. M. Mourad , Bruno Clerckx , Lajos Hanzo

Reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RISs) can be densely deployed in the environment to create multi-reflection line-of-sight (LoS) links for signal coverage enhancement. However, conventional reflection-only RISs can only achieve…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-05-21 Bonan An , Weidong Mei , Yuanwei Liu , Dong Wang , Zhi Chen

In this work, we present a recent investigation on leveraging large reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RIS) as anchors for positioning in wireless communication systems. Unlike existing approaches, we explicitly address the uncertainty…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2025-05-20 Zeyu Huang , Markus Rupp , Stefan Schwarz

Employing reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RIS) is emerging as a game-changer candidate, thanks to their unique capabilities in improving the power efficiency and supporting the ubiquity of future wireless communication systems.…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-10-14 Abdullateef Almohamad , Ayman Al-Kababji , Anas Tahir , Tamer Khattab , Mazen Hasna

Reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RISs) have the potential of realizing the emerging concept of smart radio environments by leveraging the unique properties of meta-surfaces. In this article, we discuss the potential applications of RISs…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-02-24 M. Di Renzo , K. Ntontin , J. Song , F. H. Danufane , X. Qian , F. Lazarakis , J. de Rosny , D. -T. Phan-Huy , O. Simeone , R. Zhang , M. Debbah , G. Lerosey , M. Fink , S. Tretyakov , S. Shamai

The advantages of millimeter-wave and large antenna arrays technologies for accurate wireless localization received extensive attentions recently. However, how to further improve the accuracy of wireless localization, even in the case of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-09-17 Yiming Liu , Erwu Liu , Rui Wang

Cell-free systems can effectively eliminate the inter-cell interference by enabling multiple base stations (BSs) to cooperatively serve users without cell boundaries at the expense of high costs of hardware and power sources due to the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-11-18 Yutong Zhang , Boya Di , Hongliang Zhang , Jinlong Lin , Yonghui Li , Lingyang Song

While the researchers have set their sights on future wireless networks of 2030, communications through reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RISs) appears as one of the potential enabling technologies for 6G wireless networking. This…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-03-05 E. Basar , I. Yildirim

Recently, significant research attention has been devoted to the study of reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RISs), which are capable of reconfiguring the wireless propagation environment by exploiting the unique properties of…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2021-05-04 Xuelin Cao , Bo Yang , Chongwen Huang , Chau Yuen , Marco Di Renzo , Zhu Han , Dusit Niyato , H. Vincent Poor , Lajos Hanzo

Reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RISs) can establish favorable wireless environments to combat the severe attenuation and blockages in millimeter-wave (mmWave) bands. However, to achieve the optimal enhancement of performance, the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-03-02 Muxin He , Jindan Xu , Wei Xu , Hong Shen , Ning Wang , Chunming Zhao

Future wireless networks are envisioned to deliver not only gigabit communications but also ubiquitous sensing. Reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RISs) have emerged to reshape radio propagation, recently showing considerable promise for…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-09-22 Ziyuan Zheng , Qingqing Wu , Yanze Zhu , Wen Chen , Ying Gao , Honghao Wang