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Fluid reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (FRISs) have recently emerged as a promising paradigm for wireless communications, wherein the reflecting elements can dynamically select their effective radiating positions from a dense preset…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-05-19 Amarilton L. Magalhães , André L. F. de Almeida , George C. Alexandropoulos

Reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RISs) are arrays of passive elements that can control the reflection of the incident electromagnetic waves. While RIS are particularly useful to avoid blockages, the protocol aspects for their…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-03-16 Victor Croisfelt , Fabio Saggese , Israel Leyva-Mayorga , Radoslaw Kotaba , Gabriele Gradoni , Petar Popovski

Cell-Free Massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) and reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS) are two promising technologies for application to beyond-5G networks. This paper considers Cell-Free Massive MIMO systems with the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-12-20 Trinh Van Chien , Hien Quoc Ngo , Symeon Chatzinotas , Marco Di Renzo , Björn Ottersten

For decades, satellites have facilitated remote internet of things (IoT) services. However, the recent proliferation of increasingly capable sensors and a surge in the number deployed, has led to a substantial growth in the volume of data…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2024-08-20 Ethan Fettes , Pablo G. Madoery , Halim Yanikomeroglu , Gunes Karabulut Kurt , Colin Bellinger , Stéphane Martel , Khaled Ahmed , Sameera Siddiqui

The radio-frequency (RF) technology is a scalable solution for the backhaul planning. However, its performance is limited in terms of data rate and latency. Free Space Optical (FSO) backhaul, on the other hand, offers a higher data rate but…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-11-03 Ahmed Douik , Hayssam Dahrouj , Tareq Y. Al-Naffouri , Mohamed-Slim Alouini

Reconfigurable Intelligent Surfaces (RIS) have received significant attention recently as an innovation for enhanced connectivity, capacity, and energy efficiency in future wireless networks. Recent works indicate that such RIS-augmented…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-10-11 Akbar Sayeed

The fluid antenna concept represents shape-flexible and position-flexible antenna technologies designed to enhance wireless communication applications. In this paper, we apply this concept to reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RISs),…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-02-25 Abdelhamid Salem , Kai-Kit Wong , George Alexandropoulos , Chan-Byoung Chae , Ross Murch

One of the promising technologies for the next generation wireless networks is the reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RISs). This technology provides planar surfaces the capability to manipulate the reflected waves of impinging signals,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-07-20 Mustafa A. Kishk , Mohamed-Slim Alouini

Integrating the reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS) into a cell-free massive multiple-input multiple-output (CF-mMIMO) system is an effective solution to achieve high system capacity with low cost and power consumption. However,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-03-27 Jianxin Dai , Jin Ge , Kangda Zhi , Cunhua Pan , Youguo Wang

In this paper, we propose an adaptive beam that adapts its divergence angle according to the receiver aperture diameter and the communication distance to improve the received power and ease the alignment between the communicating optical…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-01-01 Yagiz Kaymak , Sina Fathi-Kazerooni , Roberto Rojas-Cessa , JiangHua Feng , Nirwan Ansari , MengChu Zhou , Tairan Zhang

Free space optical (FSO) communication refers to the information transmission technology based on the propagation of optical signals in space. FSO communication requires that the transmitter and receiver directly see each other.…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2023-01-20 Dieu Linh Truong , Xuan Vuong Dang , The Ngoc Dang

Recent advances in reconfigurable antennas have led to the new concept of the fluid antenna system (FAS) for shape and position flexibility, as another degree of freedom for wireless communication enhancement. This paper explores the…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-04-15 Jiangong Chen , Yue Xiao , Zhendong Peng , Jing Zhu , Xia Lei , Christos Masouros , Kai-Kit Wong

Reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RISs), with the potential to realize a smart radio environment, have emerged as an energy-efficient and a cost-effective technology to support the services and demands foreseen for coming decades. By…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-07-13 Sarah Basharat , Syed Ali Hassan , Haris Pervaiz , Aamir Mahmood , Zhiguo Ding , Mikael Gidlund

This paper investigates a high-altitude platform (HAP) network enhanced with reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RISs). The arbitrary placement of HAPs and RISs is modeled using stochastic geometry, specifically as homogeneous Poisson…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-11-07 Islam M. Tanash , Ayush Kumar Dwivedi , Taneli Riihonen

Reconfigurable Intelligent Surfaces (RISs) are an emerging technology for future wireless communication systems, enabling improved coverage in an energy efficient manner. RISs are usually metasurfaces, constituting of two-dimensional…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-03-28 Konstantinos D. Katsanos , Nir Shlezinger , Mohammadreza F. Imani , George C. Alexandropoulos

High-mobility wireless communication systems suffer from severe Doppler spread and multi-path delay, which degrade the reliability and spectral efficiency of conventional modulation schemes. Orthogonal time frequency space (OTFS) modulation…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-05-20 Chaorong Zhang , Benjamin K. Ng , Hui Xu , Chan-Tong Lam , Halim Yanikomeroglu

One of the main problems faced by communication systems is the presence of skip-zones in the targeted areas. With the deployment of the fifth-generation mobile network, solutions are proposed to solve the signal loss due to obstruction by…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-02-09 Alain R. Ndjiongue , Telex M. N. Ngatched , Octavia A. Dobre , Ana G. Armada , Harald Haas

Recently, reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RISs) have drawn intensive attention to enhance the coverage of millimeter wave (mmWave) communication systems. However, existing works mainly consider the RIS as a whole uniform plane, which…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-10-30 Weicong Chen , Xi Yang , Shi Jin , Pingping Xu

Simultaneously transmitting and reflecting reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (STAR-RISs) have emerged as a promising technology for enabling full-space signal manipulation and enhancing wireless network coverage and capacity. In this…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-12-15 Taissir Y. Elganimi , Mahmoud Aldababsa , Ali A. Nasir , Khaled M. Rabie

In this paper, we propose to use a hybrid relay-reflecting intelligent surface (HR-RIS) to enhance the performance of a covert communication system. Specifically, the HR-RIS consists of passive reflecting elements and active relay elements…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-06-22 Jinsong Hu , Xiaoqiang Shi , Youjia Chen , Tiesong Zhao , Feng Shu