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Reconfigurable Intelligent Surfaces (RIS)-empowered communication has emerged as a transformative technology for next generation wireless networks, enabling the programmable shaping of the propagation environment. However, conventional RISs…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-07-23 Recep Akif Tasci , Panagiotis Gavriilidis , Ertugrul Basar , George C. Alexandropoulos

In this paper, we examine the potential for a reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS) to be powered by energy harvested from information signals. This feature might be key to reap the benefits of RIS technology's lower power consumption…

This paper proposes power allocation and the number of reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RIS) elements optimisation in a RIS-assisted rate splitting multiple access (RSMA) system. The optimised RIS-RSMA (ORIS-RSMA) method determines the…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-07-24 Abdullah Qayyum , Maziar Nekovee

Reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RIS) have drawn considerable attention recently due to their controllable scattering elements that are able to direct electromagnetic waves into desirable directions. Although RISs share some…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-04-08 Mohanad Obeed , Anas Chaaban

Reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS) and simultaneously transmitting and reflecting RIS (STAR-RIS) have emerged as key enablers for enhancing wireless coverage and capacity in next-generation networks. When mounted on unmanned aerial…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-12-10 Dongdong Yang , Bin Li , Jiguang He

Reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RISs) have emerged as a candidate technology for future 6G networks. However, due to the "multiplicative fading" effect, the existing passive RISs only achieve a negligible capacity gain in environments…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-01-20 Zijian Zhang , Linglong Dai , Xibi Chen , Changhao Liu , Fan Yang , Robert Schober , H. Vincent Poor

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

A hardware model for active simultaneously transmitting and reflecting reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (STAR-RISs) is proposed consisting of reflection-type amplifiers. The amplitude gains of the STAR element are derived for both…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-02-10 Jiaqi Xu , Jiakuo Zuo , Joey Tianyi Zhou , Yuanwei Liu

The reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS) has received a lot of interest because of its capacity to reconfigure the wireless communication environment in a cost- and energy-efficient way. However, the realistic power consumption modeling…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-02-07 Jinghe Wang , Wankai Tang , Jing Cheng Liang , Lei Zhang , Jun Yan Dai , Xiao Li , Shi Jin , Qiang Cheng , Tie Jun Cui

This paper investigates an active reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS)-aided mobile edge computing (MEC) system. Compared with passive RIS, the active RIS is equipped with active reflective amplifier, which can effectively circumvent…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-09-08 Zhangjie Peng , Ruisong Weng , Zhenkun Zhang , Cunhua Pan , Jiangzhou Wang

Reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RISs) have attracted wide interest from industry and academia since they can shape the wireless environment into a desirable form with a low cost. In practice, RISs have three types of implementations:…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-02-16 Shuhao Zeng , Hongliang Zhang , Boya Di , Yunhua Tan , Zhu Han , H. Vincent Poor , Lingyang Song

A reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS) is a planar surface that can enhance the quality of communication by providing control over the communication environment. Reflection optimization is one of the pivotal challenges in RIS setups.…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-11-26 Seyedkhashayar Hashemi , Masoud Ardakani , Hai Jiang

In this paper, we consider an active reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS)-aided unmanned aerial vehicle(UAV)-enabled simultaneous wireless information and power transfer(SWIPT) system with multiple ground users. Compared with the…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-08-21 Zhangjie Peng , Ruijing Liu , Cunhua Pan , Zhenkun Zhang , Jiangzhou Wang

Reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS) is regarded as a promising technology with great potential to boost wireless networks. Affected by the "double fading" effect, however, conventional passive RIS cannot bring considerable performance…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-10-06 Qi Zhu , Ming Li , Rang Liu , Yang Liu , Qian Liu

Beyond-diagonal reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (BD-RISs) are an emerging RIS 2.0 technology for future wireless communication. However, BD-RISs are primarily passive without active amplification, suffering from severe multiplicative…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-03-17 Shanpu Shen , Hongyu Li , Matteo Nerini , Qingqing Wu , Bruno Clerckx

Symbiotic radio (SR) is a promising technology of spectrum- and energy-efficient wireless systems, for which the key idea is to use cognitive backscattering communication to achieve mutualistic spectrum and energy sharing with passive…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-05-24 Sihan Wang , Jingran Xu , Yong Zeng

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

In this letter, we investigate the design of multiple reconfigurable intelligent sensing surfaces (RISSs) that enhance both communication and sensing tasks. An RISS incorporates additional active elements tailored to improve sensing…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-09-11 Cheng Luo , Jie Hu , Luping Xiang , Kun Yang , Bo Lei

Reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS)-assisted communication have recently attracted the attention of the wireless communication community as a potential candidate for the next $6$-th generation (6G) of wireless networks. Various studies…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-05-18 Recep A. Tasci , Fatih Kilinc , Ertugrul Basar , George C. Alexandropoulos

Active reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS) has attracted significant attention as a recently proposed RIS architecture. Owing to its capability to amplify the incident signals, active RIS can mitigate the multiplicative fading effect…