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This paper studies the performance of a randomly RIS-assisted multi-target localization system, in which the configurations of the RIS are randomly set to avoid high-complexity optimization. We first focus on the scenario where the number…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-11-21 Zhengyu Wang , Hongzheng Liu , Rujing Xiong , Fuhai Wang , Robert Caiming Qiu

Reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RISs) are emerging as key enablers of reliable industrial automation in the millimeter-wave (mmWave) band, particularly in environments with frequent line-of-sight (LoS) blockage. While prior works have…

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Reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RISs) not only assist communication but also help the localization of user equipment (UE). This study focuses on the indoor localization of UE with a single access point (AP) aided by multiple RISs.…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-05-06 Xiyu Wang , Yixuan Huang , Jie Yang , Yu Han , Shi Jin

Reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS) has been recognized as a promising solution for enhancing localization accuracy. Traditional RIS-based localization methods typically rely on prior channel knowledge, beam scanning, and pilot-based…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-04-04 Jiawei Yao , Yijie Mao , Mingzhe Chen

This paper presents a rigorous Bayesian analysis of the information in the signal (consisting of both the line-of-sight (LOS) path and reflections from multiple reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RISs)) that originate from a single base…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-08-22 Don-Roberts Emenonye , Harpreet S. Dhillon , R. Michael Buehrer

Reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS)-assisted communication systems have been extensively studied for providing high-precision location services. However, most studies have overlooked the impact of carrier frequency offset (CFO) and…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-05-13 Hanfu Zhang , Erwu Liu , Rui Wang , Wei Ni , Zhe Xing , Yan Liu , Abbas Jamalipour

The advent of 6G is expected to enable many use cases which may rely on accurate knowledge of the location and orientation of user equipment (UE). The conventional localization methods suffer from limitations such as synchronization and…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-05-06 Srikar Sharma Sadhu , Praful D. Mankar , Santosh Nannuru

The recent research in the emerging technology of reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RISs) has identified its high potential for localization and sensing. However, to accurately localize a user placed in the area of influence of an RIS,…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-10-20 Reza Ghazalian , Hui Chen , George C. Alexandropoulos , Gonzalo Seco-Granados , Henk Wymeersch , Riku Jäntti

In the upcoming sixth generation (6G) of wireless communication systems, reconfigurable intelligent surfaces~(RISs) are regarded as one of the promising technological enablers, which can provide programmable signal propagation. Therefore,…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-12-15 Hyowon Kim , Hui Chen , Musa Furkan Keskin , Yu Ge , Kamran Keykhosravi , George C. Alexandropoulos , Sunwoo Kim , Henk Wymeersch

Localization using multiple base stations (BSs) has gained much attention for its advantage in localization accuracy. However, the performance of the multi-BS system suffers from its limited number of antennas. To solve the above issue, we…

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A reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS) alters the reflection of incoming signals based on the phase-shift configuration assigned to its elements. This feature can be used to improve the signal strength for user equipments (UEs), expand…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-12-19 Alva Kosasih , Ozlem Tugfe Demir , Emil Bjornson

In this paper, we consider a single-anchor localization system assisted by a reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS), where the objective is to localize multiple user equipments (UEs) placed in the radiative near-field region of the RIS by…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-09-24 Parisa Ramezani , Alva Kosasih , Emil Björnson

Reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RISs) are considered as an enabling technology for the upcoming sixth generation of wireless systems, exhibiting significant potential for radio localization and sensing. An RIS is usually treated as an…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-11-16 Reza Ghazalian , Hui Chen , George C. Alexandropoulos , Gonzalo Seco-Granados , Henk Wymeersch , Riku Jäntti

This paper addresses the problem of adaptive reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RIS) configuration design for user localization in rich-scattering environment (RSE), where electromagnetic waves undergo multiple interactions with dynamic…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-21 Anum Umer , Ivo Müürsepp , Muhammad Mahtab Alam

Reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS) technology has emerged in recent years as a promising solution to the ever-increasing demand for wireless communication capacity. In practice, however, elements of RIS may suffer from phase…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-07-17 Wei Zhang , Bin Zhou , Tianyi Zhang , Yi Jiang , Zhiyong Bu

The received signal strength (RSS) based technique is extensively utilized for localization in the indoor environments. Since the RSS values of neighboring locations may be similar, the localization accuracy of the RSS based technique is…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-03-27 Haobo Zhang , Hongliang Zhang , Boya Di , Kaigui Bian , Zhu Han , Lingyang Song

We investigate reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RISs) for the task of position and velocity estimation in non-LOS (NLOS) indoor scenarios, using a snapshot based multi-step estimation algorithm. We evaluate a compound RIS structure…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-02-16 Thomas Zemen , Musa Furkan Keskin , Moustafa Rahal , Thomas Wilding , Hamed Radpour , Markus Hofer , Benoit Denis , Henk Wymeersch

The advantages of millimeter-wave and large antenna arrays technologies for accurate wireless localization received extensive attentions recently. However, how to further improve the accuracy of wireless localization, even in the case of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-09-17 Yiming Liu , Erwu Liu , Rui Wang

Reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RISs) have attracted enormous interest thanks to their ability to overcome line-of-sight blockages in mmWave systems, enabling in turn accurate localization with minimal infrastructure. Less investigated…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-09-14 Alessio Fascista , Musa Furkan Keskin , Angelo Coluccia , Henk Wymeersch , Gonzalo Seco-Granados