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This article presents a novel perspective to model and simulate reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS)-assisted communication systems. Traditional methods in antenna design often rely on array method to simulate, whereas communication…

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As 6G and beyond redefine connectivity, wireless networks become the foundation of critical operations, making resilience more essential than ever. With this shift, wireless systems cannot only take on vital services previously handled by…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-28 Kevin Weinberger , Robert-Jeron Reifert , Aydin Sezgin , Mehdi Bennis

Reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS) is a promising reflective radio technology for improving the coverage and rate of future wireless systems by reconfiguring the wireless propagation environment. The current work mainly focuses on the…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2021-03-24 Xuelin Cao , Bo Yang , Hongliang Zhang , Chongwen Huang , Chau Yuen , Zhu Han

A reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS) is a holographic MIMO surface composed of a large number of passive elements that can induce adjustable phase shifts to the impinging waves. By creating virtual line-of-sight (LOS) paths between…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-04-06 Mehdi Haghshenas , Parisa Ramezani , Maurizio Magarini , Emil Björnson

Reconfigurable Intelligent Surfaces (RISs) promise improved, secure and more efficient wireless communications. We propose and demonstrate how to exploit the diversity offered by RISs to generate and select easily differentiable radio maps…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-10-08 Cam Ly Nguyen , Orestis Georgiou , Gabriele Gradoni

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) or intelligent reflecting surface (IRS) has recently been envisioned as one of the most promising technologies in the future sixth-generation (6G) communications. In this paper, we consider the joint…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-12-14 Zhangjie Peng , Zhiwei Chen , Cunhua Pan , Gui Zhou , Hong Ren

Reconfigurable Intelligent Surfaces (RISs) constitute a promising emerging technology that enables wireless systems to control the propagation environment to enhance diverse communication objectives. To mitigate double-fading attenuation in…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-04-01 Panagiotis Gavriilidis , Deepak Mishra , Besma Smida , Ertugrul Basar , Chau Yuen , George C. Alexandropoulos

This chapter overviews the concept of Smart Wireless Environments (SWEs) motivated by the emerging technology of Reconfigurable Intelligent Surfaces (RISs). The operating principles and state-of-the-art hardware architectures of…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-12-23 George C. Alexandropoulos , Kostantinos D. Katsanos , George Stamatelis , Ioannis Gavras

In this work, we tackle the problem of beampattern design for a transmit system employing a large reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS) to redirect radio frequency signals emitted by a few active antennas (sources). We begin by…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-07-15 Ciro D'Elia , Emanuele Grossi , Luca Venturino

As a novel approach to flexibly adjust the wireless environment, reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RIS) have shown significant application potential across various domains, including wireless communication, radar detection, and the…

Applied Physics · Physics 2025-02-26 Zhen Zhang , Qiang Chen

Massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) and reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS) are two promising technologies for 5G-and-beyond wireless networks, capable of providing large array gain and multiuser spatial multiplexing. Without…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-09-07 Trinh Van Chien , Hien Quoc Ngo , Symeon Chatzinotas , Björn Ottersten

Recently, a novel structures of reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS) integrating both passive and active elements, termed reconfigurable intelligent sensing surface (RISS), efficiently addresses challenges in RIS channel estimation and…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-03-12 Cheng Luo , Jie Hu , Luping Xiang , Kun Yang

This paper presents a literature review on recent applications and design aspects of the intelligent reflecting surface (IRS) in the future wireless networks. Conventionally, the network optimization has been limited to transmission control…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-07-28 Shimin Gong , Xiao Lu , Dinh Thai Hoang , Dusit Niyato , Lei Shu , Dong In Kim , Ying-Chang Liang

A reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS) is a metamaterial that can be integrated into walls and influence the propagation of electromagnetic waves. This, typically passive radio frequency (RF) technology is emerging for indoor and…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-12-10 Aly Sabri Abdalla , Talha Faizur Rahman , Vuk Marojevic

The integration of tunability mechanisms in the metasurface design has unleashed a tremendous potential for wireless communications. In particular, reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RISs) can manipulate the reflections of an incident…

Applied Physics · Physics 2025-04-10 Vasileios G. Ataloglou , George V. Eleftheriades

Various visions on the forthcoming sixth Generation (6G) networks point towards flexible connect-and-compute technologies to support future innovative services and the corresponding use cases. 6G should be capable to accommodate…

Programmable metasurfaces have garnered significant attention due to their exceptional ability to manipulate electromagnetic (EM) waves in real time, leading to the emergence of a prominent area in wireless communication, namely…

Reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS) is an emerging technology for application to wireless communications. In this paper, we consider the problem of anomalous reflection and model the RIS as a periodic surface impedance boundary. We…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-02-09 Ahmed Najjar , Hajar El Hassani , Marco Di Renzo , Kezhi Wang , Merouane Debbah

Owing to the recent advancements of meta-materials and meta-surfaces, the concept of reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS) has been embraced to meet the spectral- and energy-efficient, and yet cost-effective solutions for the…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-11-02 Yulan Gao , Yue Xiao , Xianfu Lei , Qiaonan Zhu , Dusit Niyato , Kai-Kit Wong , Pingzhi Fan , Rose Qingyang Hu