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Reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RIS) are passive controllable arrays of small reflectors that direct electromagnetic energy towards or away from the target nodes, thereby allowing better management of signals and interference in a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-01-13 Bharath Shamasundar , Negar Daryanavardan , Aria Nosratinia

With the development of the next generation of mobile networks, new research challenges have emerged, and new technologies have been proposed to face them. On the one hand, the reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS) technology is being…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-05-26 Romain Fara , Philippe Ratajczak , Dinh-Thuy Phan Huy , Abdelwaheb Ourir , Marco Di Renzo , Julien De Rosny

A reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS) is a prospective wireless technology that enhances wireless channel quality. An RIS is often equipped with passive array of elements and provides cost and power-efficient solutions for coverage…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-03-20 Hyuckjin Choi , Ly V. Nguyen , Junil Choi , A. Lee Swindlehurst

Reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS)-empowered communication is one of the promising 6G technologies that allows the conversion of the wireless channel into an intelligent transmit entity by manipulating the impinging waves using…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-09-01 I. Yildirim , A. Uyrus , E. Basar

This paper explores the use of reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RIS) in mitigating cross-system interference in spectrum sharing and secure wireless applications. Unlike conventional RIS that can only adjust the phase of the incoming…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-07-03 Fangzhou Wang , A. Lee Swindlehurst

Reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS), a recently introduced technology for future wireless com-munication systems, enhances the spectral and energy efficiency by intelligently adjusting the propaga-tion conditions between a base station…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-03-08 Huimei Han , Jun Zhao , Zehui Xiong , Dusit Niyato , Wenchao Zhai , Marco Di Renzo , Quoc-Viet Pham , Weidang Lu

Conventional Reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RIS) for wireless communications have a local position-dependent (phase-gradient) scattering response on the surface. We consider more general RIS structures, called nonlocal (or…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-04-04 Amine Mezghani , Faouzi Bellili , Ekram Hossain

Reconfigurable Intelligent Surfaces (RIS) have emerged as a transformative technology in wireless communication, enabling dynamic control over signal propagation. This paper tackles the challenge of mitigating Channel State Information…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-09-23 Mahdi Shamsi , Hadi Zayyani , Farokh Marvasti

A reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS) can shape the wireless propagation channel by inducing controlled phase shift variations to the impinging signals. Multiple works have considered the use of RIS by time-varying configurations of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-10-07 João Henrique Inacio de Souza , Victor Croisfelt , Fabio Saggese , Taufik Abrão , Petar Popovski

In this paper, we propose a multi-RIS-aided wireless imaging framework in 3D facing the distributed placement of multi-sensor networks. The system creates a randomized reflection pattern by adjusting the RIS phase shift, enabling the…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-11-21 Fuhai Wang , Chun Wang , Rujing Xiong , Zhengyu Wang , Tiebin Mi , Robert Caiming Qiu

In this correspondence, we present a reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS) that reflects an incident signal to the desired direction, depending on the pulse width. This unique reconfigurability emerges by virtue of the transient response…

Future wireless communication networks are expected to be smarter and more aware of their surroundings, enabling a wide range of context-aware applications. Reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RISs) are set to play a critical role in…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-03-13 Yixuan Huang , Jie Yang , Chao-Kai Wen , Shi Jin

In traditional Reconfigurable Intelligent Surfaces (RIS) systems, the RIS is mounted on stationary structures like buildings, walls, or posts. They have shown promising results in enhancing the performance of wireless systems like capacity…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-12-24 I. Zakir Ahmed , Hamid Sadjadpour

A promising type of Reconfigurable Intelligent Surface (RIS) employs tunable control of its varactors using biasing transmission lines below the RIS reflecting elements. Biasing standing waves (BSWs) are excited by a time-periodic signal…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2025-05-13 Gal Ben Itzhak , Miguel Saavedra-Melo , Ender Ayanoglu , Filippo Capolino , A. Lee Swindlehurst

Intelligent surfaces comprising of cost effective, nearly passive, and reconfigurable unit elements are lately gaining increasing interest due to their potential in enabling fully programmable wireless environments. They are envisioned to…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-05-26 George C. Alexandropoulos , Evangelos Vlachos

Reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RISs) are two dimensional (2D) metasurfaces which can intelligently manipulate electromagnetic waves by low-cost near passive reflecting elements. RIS is viewed as a potential key technology for the…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-06-07 Jie Huang , Cheng-Xiang Wang , Yingzhuo Sun , Rui Feng , Jialing Huang , Bolun Guo , Zhimeng Zhong , Tie Jun Cui

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

Reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RISs), an emerging technology proposed for inclusion in next generation wireless communication systems, are programmable surfaces that can adaptively reflect incident electromagnetic radiation in…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-12-30 Miguel Saavedra-Melo , Benjamin Bradshaw , Vanessa Yao , Ender Ayanoglu , Lee Swindlehurst , Filippo Capolino

Sensing-assisted communication schemes have recently garnered significant research attention. In this work, we design a dual-function reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS), integrating both active and passive elements, referred to as the…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-08-14 Cheng Luo , Luping Xiang , Jie Hu , Kun Yang

Reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS)-aided wireless communications have drawn significant attention recently. We study the physical layer security of the downlink RIS-aided transmission framework for randomly located users in the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-04-09 Jiayi Zhang , Hongyang Du , Qiang Sun , Bo Ai , Derrick Wing Kwan Ng