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This paper presents a fully automated, data-driven framework for the large-scale deployment of reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RISs) in cellular networks. Leveraging physically consistent ray tracing and empirical data from a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-10-14 Sina Beyraghi , Javad Shabanpour , Giovanni Geraci , Paul Almasan , Angel Lozano

Intelligent reflecting surfaces (IRSs) tune wireless environments to increase spectrum and energy efficiencies. In view of much recent attention to the IRS concept as a promising technology for 6G wireless communications, we present a…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-11-05 Jun Zhao

Next-generation cellular networks will witness the creation of smart radio environments (SREs), where walls and objects can be coated with reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RISs) to strengthen the communication and localization coverage…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-09-08 Ahmed Elzanaty , Anna Guerra , Francesco Guidi , Mohamed-Slim Alouini

Reconfigurable Intelligent Surfaces (RISs) are envisioned to play a key role in future wireless communications, enabling programmable radio propagation environments. They are usually considered as almost passive planar structures that…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-08-12 Haiyang Zhang , Nir Shlezinger , George C Alexandropoulos , Idban Alamzadeh , Mohammadreza F Imani , Yonina C Eldar

Reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS) has been suggested to be a key 6G feature and was suggested to be considered as a study-item in both 3GPP Releases 18 and 19. However, in both releases, it has been decided not to continue with it as…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2024-11-08 Magnus Åström , Philipp Gentner , Omer Haliloglu , Behrooz Makki , Ola Tageman

The march towards 6G is accelerating and future wireless network architectures require enhanced performance along with significant coverage especially, to combat impairments on account of the wireless channel. Reconfigurable intelligent…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-08-16 Emre Arslan , Fatih Kilinc , Ertugrul Basar , Huseyin Arslan

The requirement of wireless data demands is increasingly high as the sixth-generation (6G) technology evolves. Reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS) is promisingly deemed to be one of 6G techniques for extending service coverage,…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-11-09 Li-Hsiang Shen , Kai-Ten Feng , Ta-Sung Lee , Yuan-Chun Lin , Shih-Cheng Lin , Chia-Chan Chang , Sheng-Fuh Chang

The reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS) is one of the promising technology contributing to the next generation smart radio environment. The application scenarios include massive connectivity support, signal enhancement, and security…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-12-23 Jiaqi Xu , Yuanwei Liu

Reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RISs) have emerged as a cost- and energy-efficient technology that can customize and program the physical propagation environment by reflecting radio waves in preferred directions. However, the purely…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-06-21 Nhan Thanh Nguyen , Jiguang He , Van-Dinh Nguyen , Henk Wymeersch , Derrick Wing Kwan Ng , Robert Schober , Symeon Chatzinotas , Markku Juntti

The use of real-time software-controlled reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS) units is proposed to increase the reliability of vehicle-to-everything (V2X) communications. The optimum placement problem of the RIS units is formulated by…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2020-07-21 Y. Ugur Ozcan , Ozgur Ozdemir , Gunes Karabulut Kurt

Originally introduced in the early 2010's, the idea of smart environments through reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RIS) controlling the reflections of the electromagnetic waves has attracted much attention in recent years in preparation…

Reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS)-aided near-field communications is investigated. First, the necessity of investigating RIS-aided near-field communications and the advantages brought about by the unique spherical-wave-based…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-03-05 Xidong Mu , Jiaqi Xu , Yuanwei Liu , Lajos Hanzo

Reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS) emerges as an efficient and promising technology for the next wireless generation networks and has attracted a lot of attention owing to the capability of extending wireless coverage by reflecting…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-10-20 Changzhu Liu , Ruisi He , Yong Niu , Zhu Han , Bo Ai , Meilin Gao , Zhangfeng Ma , Gongpu Wang , Zhangdui Zhong

The adoption of a Reconfigurable Intelligent Surface (RIS) for downlink multi-user communication from a multi-antenna base station is investigated in this paper. We develop energy-efficient designs for both the transmit power allocation and…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-06-23 Chongwen Huang , Alessio Zappone , George C. Alexandropoulos , Mérouane Debbah , Chau Yuen

Reconfigurable Intelligent Surfaces (RISs) are a promising technique for enhancing the performance of Next Generation (NextG) wireless communication systems in terms of both spectral and energy efficiency, as well as resource utilization.…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2025-04-22 Maria Tsampazi , Tommaso Melodia

The requirements of vehicular communications grow with increasing level of automated driving and future applications of intelligent transportation systems (ITS). Beside the ever-increasing need for high capacity radio links, reliability and…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2021-08-31 Karsten Heimann , Benjamin Sliwa , Manuel Patchou , Christian Wietfeld

Recently, the reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS) technology has ushered in the prospect of control over the wireless propagation environment. By establishing alternative propagation paths for the transmitted signals, and by reflecting…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-11-18 Pedro H. C. de Souza , Luciano Mendes

Given its ability to control and manipulate wireless environments, reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS), also known as intelligent reflecting surface (IRS), has emerged as a key enabler technology for the six-generation (6G) cellular…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-02-01 Ahmed Al-Hilo , Moataz Samir , Mohamed Elhattab , Chadi Assi , Sanaa Sharafeddine

Reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS), a recently introduced technology for future wireless com-munication systems, enhances the spectral and energy efficiency by intelligently adjusting the propaga-tion conditions between a base station…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-03-08 Huimei Han , Jun Zhao , Zehui Xiong , Dusit Niyato , Wenchao Zhai , Marco Di Renzo , Quoc-Viet Pham , Weidang Lu

Reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS) has emerged as a cost-effective and energy-efficient technique for 6G. By adjusting the phase shifts of passive reflecting elements, RIS is capable of suppressing the interference and combining the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-04-26 Jinglian He , Yijie Mao , Yong Zhou , Ting Wang , Yuanming Shi