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Reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RISs) are envisioned as a promising technology for future wireless communications. With various hardware realizations, RISs can work under different modes (reflective/transmissive/hybrid) or have…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-08-08 Hongyu Li , Shanpu Shen , Bruno Clerckx

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 surface (RIS) is a promising candidate technology of the upcoming Sixth Generation (6G) communication system for its ability to provide unprecedented spectral and energy efficiency increment through passive…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-09-29 Haochen Li , Zhiwen Pan , Bin Wang , Nan Liu , Xiaohu You

Reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS) has recently drawn intensive attention due to its potential of simultaneously realizing high spectral and energy efficiency in a sustainable way. This paper focuses on the design of efficient…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-03-17 Wei Jiang , Hans D. Schotten

We study channel estimation for a beyond diagonal reconfigurable intelligent surface (BD-RIS) aided multiple input single output system. We first describe the channel estimation strategy based on the least square (LS) method, derive the…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-05-27 Hongyu Li , Yumeng Zhang , Bruno Clerckx

The performance characterization of communication systems assisted by large reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RISs) significantly depends on the adopted models for the underlying channels. Under unrealistic channel models, the system…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-01-18 Vahid Jamali , Walid Ghanem , Robert Schober , H. Vincent Poor

Next-generation wireless technologies such as 6G aim to meet demanding requirements such as ultra-high data rates, low latency, and enhanced connectivity. Extremely Large-Scale MIMO (XL-MIMO) and Reconfigurable Intelligent Surface (RIS) are…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-01-01 Muhammad Kamran Saeed , Ashfaq Khokhar , Shakil Ahmed

The reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS) technology for metasurfaces is ushering in a new paradigm for wireless communication systems. It provides an accessible way for controlling the interaction between electromagnetic waves with the…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-01-21 P. H. C. de Souza , M. Khazaee , L. L. Mendes

This paper investigates the performance of a two-timescale transmission design for uplink reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS)-aided cell-free massive multiple-input multiple-output (CF-mMIMO) systems. We consider the Rician channel…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-08-07 Jianxin Dai , Jin Ge , Kangda Zhi , Cunhua Pan , Zaichen Zhang , Jiangzhou Wang , Xiaohu You

The objective of this paper is to evaluate the effectiveness of a two-timescale transmission design in cell-free massive multi-input multiple-output (MIMO) systems incorporating reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RISs) under the…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-04-06 Mahdi Eskandari , Kangda Zhi , Huiling Zhu , Cunhua Pan , Jiangzhou Wang

In the research of RIS-assisted communication systems, channel estimation is a problem of vital importance for further performance optimization. In order to reduce the pilot overhead to the greatest extent, blind channel estimation methods…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-08-26 Dianhao Jia , Wenqian Shen , Jianping An , Byonghyo Shim

Although reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS) is a promising technology for shaping the propagation environment, it consists of a single-layer structure within inherent limitations regarding the number of beam steering patterns. Based…

Reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RISs) have attracted increasing interest from both academia and industry, thanks to their unique features on controlling electromagnetic (EM) waves. Although theoretical models for RIS-empowered…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-03-05 Jian Sang , Jifeng Lan , Mingyong Zhou , Boning Gao , Wankai Tang , Xiao Li , Michail Matthaiou , Shi Jin , Marco Di Renzo

Intelligent reflective surface (IRS) is an emergent technology for future wireless communications. It consists of a large 2D array of passive scattering elements that control the electromagnetic properties of radio-frequency waves so that…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-01-22 Gilderlan T. de Araújo , André L. F. de Almeida

Reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RIS)-assisted massive multiple-input multiple-output (mMIMO) is a promising technology for applications in next-generation networks. However, reflecting-only RIS provides limited coverage compared to a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-09-18 Anastasios Papazafeiropoulos , Le-Nam Tran , Zaid Abdullah , Pandelis Kourtessis , Symeon Chatzinotas

A significant increase in the number of reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS) elements results in a spherical wavefront in the near field of extremely large-scale RIS (XL-RIS). Although the channel matrix of the cascaded two-hop link may…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-11-14 Zixing Tang , Yuanbin Chen , Ying Wang , Tianqi Mao , Qingqing Wu , Marco Di Renzo , Lajos Hanzo

In this letter, we study efficient uplink channel estimation design for a simultaneously transmitting and reflecting reconfigurable intelligent surface (STAR-RIS) assisted two-user communication systems. We first consider the time switching…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-12-03 Chenyu Wu , Changsheng You , Yuanwei Liu , Xuemai Gu , Yunlong Cai

It is challenging to precisely configure the phase shifts of the reflecting elements at the reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS) due to inherent hardware impairments (HIs). In this paper, the mean square error (MSE) performance is…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-08-17 Jingwen Zhao , Ming Chen , Cunhua Pan , Zhiyang Li , Gui Zhou , Xiao Chen

Reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS)-assisted communications is one of the promising candidates for next generation wireless networks by controlling the propagation environment dynamically. In this study, a channel modeling strategy for…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-11-03 Fatih Kilinc , Ibrahim Yildirim , Ertugrul Basar

Reconfigurable Intelligent Surface (RIS) is a breakthrough technology enabling the dynamic control of the propagation environment in wireless communications through programmable surfaces. To improve the flexibility of conventional diagonal…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-10-28 Matteo Nerini , Hongyu Li , Bruno Clerckx