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Reconfigurable Intelligent Surfaces (RIS) have been recognized as a promising technology to enhance both communication and sensing performance in integrated sensing and communication (ISAC) systems for future 6G networks. However, existing…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-11-07 Chu Li , Kevin Weinberger , Aydin Sezgin

Recently, reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS) has gained research and development interests to modify wireless channel characteristics in order to improve performance of wireless communications, especially when quality of the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-09-22 Alireza Salehiyan , Mohammad Javad Emadi

Reconfigurable Intelligent Surfaces (RIS) appear as a promising solution to combat wireless channel fading and interferences. However, the elements of the RIS need to be properly oriented to boost the data transmission rate. In this work,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-05-06 Thomas Chêne , Oumaïma Bounhar , Ghaya Rekaya-Ben Othman , Oussama Damen

A communication link aided by a reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS) is studied in which the transmitter can control the state of the RIS via a finite-rate control link. Channel state information (CSI) is acquired at the receiver based…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-12-02 Roy Karasik , Osvaldo Simeone , Marco Di Renzo , Shlomo Shamai

This study considers multiple reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RISs)-aided multiuser downlink systems with the goal of jointly optimizing the transmitter precoding and RIS phase shift matrix to maximize spectrum efficiency. Unlike prior…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-10-01 Po-Heng Chou , Bo-Ren Zheng , Wan-Jen Huang , Walid Saad , Yu Tsao , Ronald Y. Chang

Reconfigurable Intelligent Surfaces (RISs) transform the wireless environment by modifying the amplitude, phase, and polarization of incoming waves, significantly improving coverage performance. Notably, optimizing the deployment of RISs…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2025-09-16 Kaining Wang , Bo Yang , Zhiwen Yu , Xuelin Cao , Mérouane Debbah , Chau Yuen

Reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RISs) are envisioned as a key enabler for next-generation wireless networks, offering programmable control over propagation environments. While extensive research focuses on planar RIS architectures,…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-02-16 Mohamadreza Delbari , Ehsan Mohammadi , Mostafa Darabi , Arash Asadi , Alejandro Jiménez-Sáez , Vahid Jamali

Reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RIS) is a promising solution to build a programmable wireless environment via steering the incident signal in fully customizable ways with reconfigurable passive elements. In this paper, we consider a…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-12-30 Huayan Guo , Ying-Chang Liang , Jie Chen , Erik G. Larsson

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

In this paper, we investigate the two-way communication between two users assisted by a re-configurable intelligent surface (RIS). The scheme that two users communicate simultaneously over Rayleigh fading channels is considered. The…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-05-05 Saman Atapattu , Rongfei Fan , Prathapasinghe Dharmawansa , Gongpu Wang , Jamie Evans , Theodoros A. Tsiftsis

In this paper, we investigate a reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS)-aided multiuser full-duplex secure communication system with hardware impairments at transceivers and RIS, where multiple eavesdroppers overhear the two-way…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-08-17 Zhangjie Peng , Zhibo Zhang , Lei Kong , Cunhua Pan , Li Li , Jiangzhou Wang

We introduce a phase hopping scheme for reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RISs) in which the phases of the individual RIS elements are randomly varied with each transmitted symbol. This effectively converts slow fading into fast fading.…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-11-15 Karl-Ludwig Besser , Eduard A. Jorswieck

The deployment of reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RISs) introduces new challenges for resource allocation in multi-cell wireless networks, particularly when user loads are uneven across base stations. In this work, we consider RISs as…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2026-03-27 Martin Mark Zan , Stefan Schwarz

In this paper, we investigate the performance of an RIS-aided wireless communication system subject to outdated channel state information that may operate in both the near- and far-field regions. In particular, we take two RIS deployment…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-01-25 Yan Zhang , Jiayi Zhang , Marco Di Renzo , Huahua Xiao , Bo Ai

The rising concept of reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS) has promising potential for Beyond 5G localization applications. We herein investigate different phase profile designs at a reflective RIS, which enable non-line-of-sight…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-04-27 Moustafa Rahal , Benoît Denis , Kamran Keykhosravi , Furkan Keskin , Bernard Uguen , Henk Wymeersch

The key advantage of successive relaying (SR) networks is their ability to mimic the full-duplex (FD) operation with half-duplex (HD) relays. However, the main challenge that comes with such schemes is the associated inter-relay…

Simultaneously transmitting and reflecting (STAR) reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS), which serves users located on both sides of the surface, has recently emerged as a promising enhancement to the traditional reflective only RIS. Due…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-10-16 Hancheng Zhu , Yuanwei Liu , Yik Chung Wu , Vincent K. N. Lau

Reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS)-aided vehicle-to-everything (V2X) communication has emerged as a crucial solution for providing reliable data services to vehicles on the road. However, in delay-sensitive or high-mobility…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-03-03 Shuaijun Li , Jie Tang , Beixiong Zheng , Xiaokai Song , Guixin Pan , Kai-Kit Wong

Reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RIS) have been presented as a solution to realize the concept of smart radio environments, wherein uninterrupted coverage and extremely high quality of service can be ensured. In this paper, assuming…

Reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RIS) can improve signal propagation environments by adjusting the phase of the incident signal. However, optimizing the phase shifts jointly with the beamforming vector at the access point is challenging…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-10-28 Weijie Jin , Jing Zhang , Chao-Kai Wen , Shi Jin , Xiao Li , Shuangfeng Han