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Intelligent reflecting surfaces (IRSs) constitute a disruptive wireless communication technique capable of creating a controllable propagation environment. In this paper, we propose to invoke an IRS at the cell boundary of multiple cells to…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-04-27 Cunhua Pan , Hong Ren , Kezhi Wang , Wei Xu , Maged Elkashlan , Arumugam Nallanathan , Lajos Hanzo

Reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS)-empowered communication stands out as a solid candidate for future wireless networks due to its flexibility, ease of deployment, and attractive advantages to control the wireless propagation…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-04-13 Ertugrul Basar

Reconfigurable Intelligent Surfaces (RIS) represent a transformative technology for sixth-generation (6G) wireless communications, but it suffers from a significant limitation, namely the double-fading attenuation. Active RIS has emerged as…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-04-23 Yang Cao , Wenchi Cheng , Jingqing Wang , Wei Zhang

Cascaded or stacked intelligent metasurfaces (SIMs) have emerged as a promising technology to overcome the physical limitations of single-layer reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RISs) in wideband wireless communication. By intelligently…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-03-02 Muhammad Ibrahim , Amine Mezghani , Ekram Hossain

Reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS) is a revolutionary technology for sixth-generation (6G) networks owing to its ability to manipulate wireless environments. As a frequency-selective device, RIS can only effectively shape the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-11-01 Sifan Liu , Rang Liu , Ming Li , Yang Liu , Qian Liu

Reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS)-assisted communications recently appeared as a game-changing technology for next-generation wireless communications due to its unprecedented ability to reform the propagation environment. One of the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-08-23 Aymen Khaleel , Ertugrul Basar

Integrated sensing and communication (ISAC) has been envisioned as a promising technology to tackle the spectrum congestion problem for future networks. In this correspondence, we investigate to deploy a reconfigurable intelligent surface…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-08-04 Honghao Luo , Rang Liu , Ming Li , Yang Liu , Qian Liu

Recently, the reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS), benefited from the breakthrough on the fabrication of programmable meta-material, has been speculated as one of the key enabling technologies for the future six generation (6G)…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-06-23 Chongwen Huang , Ronghong Mo , Chau Yuen

Transmissive reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RIS) represent a transformative architecture for future wireless networks, enabling a paradigm shift from traditional costly base stations to low-cost, energy-efficient transmitters. This…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-11-17 Zhengwei Jiang , Yufeng Zhou , Xusheng Zhu , Wen Chen , Qingqing Wu , Kai-Kit Wong

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

Intelligent surfaces that reshape electromagnetic waves are regarded as disruptive technologies for wireless networks. However, existing designs sit at two costly extremes: dynamic reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RISs) offer fine beam…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-11-24 Ziyuan Zheng , Qingqing Wu , Wen Chen , Weiren Zhu , Ying Gao

Reconfigurable Intelligent Surfaces (RISs) are one of the key emerging 6th Generation (6G) technologies that are expected to improve the link budgets between transmitters and receivers by adding artificial propagation paths. In such…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-09-30 Yi Yu , Rita Ibrahim , Dinh-Thuy Phan-Huy

Reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS)-assisted cell-free (CF) multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) networks can significantly enhance system performance. However, the extensive deployment of RIS elements imposes considerable channel…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-06-30 Hongqin Ke , Jindan Xu , Wei Xu , Chau Yuen , Zhaohua Lu

This paper investigates the problem of resource allocation for a wireless communication network with distributed reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RISs). In this network, multiple RISs are spatially distributed to serve wireless users…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-05-04 Zhaohui Yang , Mingzhe Chen , Walid Saad , Wei Xu , Mohammad Shikh-Bahaei , H. Vincent Poor , Shuguang Cui

We study a multiple-input single-output (MISO) communication system assisted by a reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS). A base station (BS) having multiple antennas is assumed to be communicating to a single-antenna user equipment (UE),…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-10-08 Neel Kanth Kundu , Matthew R. McKay

We investigate the integration of beyond diagonal reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (BDRISs) into cell free massive multiple input multiple output (CFmMIMO) systems to enhance simultaneous wireless information and power transfer (SWIPT).…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-08-20 Duc Thien Hua , Mohammadali Mohammadi , Hien Quoc Ngo , Michail Matthaiou

Reconfigurable Intelligent Surfaces (RISs) are programmable metasurfaces that can adaptively steer received electromagnetic energy in desired directions by employing controllable phase shifting cells. Among other uses, an RIS can modify the…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-05-15 Ender Ayanoglu , Filippo Capolino , A. Lee Swindlehurst

Although reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RISs) can improve the performance of wireless networks by smartly reconfiguring the radio environment, existing passive RISs face two key challenges, i.e., double-fading attenuation and…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-10-05 Wen Wang , Wanli Ni , Hui Tian , Naofal Al-Dhahir

Reconfigurable Intelligent Surfaces (RIS) or Intelligent Reflecting Surfaces (IRS) are metasurfaces that can be deployed in various places in wireless environments to make these environments controllable and reconfigurable. In this paper,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-01-22 S. Mohammad Razavizadeh , Tommy Svensson

Reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS) is a new and revolutionary technology to achieve spectrum-, energy- and cost-efficient wireless networks. This paper studies the resource allocation for RIS-empowered device-to-device (D2D)…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-07-21 Gang Yang , Yating Liao , Ying-Chang Liang , Olav Tirkkonen