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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

Reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RISs) are widely considered to become an integral part of future wireless communication systems. Various methodologies exist to design such surfaces; however, most consider or require a very large number…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-09-01 Hans-Dieter Lang , Michel A. Nyffenegger , Heinz Mathis , Xingqi Zhang

Reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RISs) are an emerging technology for enhancing the performance of wireless networks at a low and affordable cost, complexity, and power consumption. We introduce an algorithm for optimizing a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-12-01 Xuewen Qian , Marco Di Renzo

Reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS)-assisted communication appears as one of the potential enablers for sixth generation (6G) wireless networks by providing a new way to optimize the communication system performance. This paper aims to…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-09-01 E. Basar , I. Yildirim

Reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RISs) have gained significant attention in recent years due to their ability to control the reflection of radio-frequency signals and reshape the wireless propagation environment. Unlike traditional…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2026-02-10 Kaining Wang , Xueyao Zhang , Bo Yang , Xuelin Cao , Qiang Cheng , Zhiwen Yu , Bin Guo , George C. Alexandropoulos , Kai-Kit Wong , Chan-Byoung Chae , Mérouane Debbah

In this paper, we study the problem of joint active and passive beamforming for reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS)-assisted massive multiple-input multiple-output systems towards the extension of the wireless cellular coverage in 3D,…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-12-18 Yu Tian , Ahmed Alhammadi , Jiguang He , Aymen Fakhreddine , Faouzi Bader

The ever-growing popularity and rapid improving of artificial intelligence (AI) have raised rethinking on the evolution of wireless networks. Mobile edge computing (MEC) provides a natural platform for AI applications since it provides rich…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-02-08 Shanfeng Huang , Shuai Wang , Rui Wang , Miaowen Wen , Kaibin Huang

As a widely used localization and sensing technique, radars will play an important role in future wireless networks. However, the wireless channels between the radar and the targets are passively adopted by traditional radars, which limits…

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

Stacked intelligent metasurfaces (SIMs) represent a novel signal processing paradigm that enables over-the-air processing of electromagnetic waves at the speed of light. Their multi-layer architecture exhibits customizable computational…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-04-01 Hao Liu , Jiancheng An , George C. Alexandropoulos , Derrick Wing Kwan Ng , Chau Yuen , Lu Gan

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

The tunability of radio environments with reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RISs) enables the paradigm of smart radio environments in which wireless system engineers are no longer limited to only controlling the radiated signals but can…

Applied Physics · Physics 2023-11-21 Philipp del Hougne

Extensive research has already started on 6G and beyond wireless technologies due to the envisioned new use-cases and potential new requirements for future wireless networks. Although a plethora of modern physical layer solutions have been…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-08-18 Ertugrul Basar

Reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS) is a promising technology for 6G networks owing to its superior ability to enhance the capacity and coverage of wireless communications by smartly creating a favorable propagation environment. In…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-01-27 Rang Liu , Ming Li , Yang Liu , Qingqing Wu , Qian Liu

Reconfigurable Intelligent Surfaces (RIS) are a new paradigm which, with judicious deployment and alignment, can enable more favorable propagation environments and better wireless network design. As such, they can offer a number of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-12-05 Jiayu Mao , Aylin Yener

We study the allocation of reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RISs) in a multi-cell wireless network, where base stations compete for control of shared RIS units deployed at the cell edges. These RISs, provided by an independent operator,…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2026-03-06 Martin Mark Zan , Stefan Schwarz

Reconfigurable Intelligent Surfaces (RIS) are considered a key enabler to achieve the vision of Smart Radio Environments, where the propagation environment can be programmed and controlled to enhance the efficiency of wireless systems.…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2023-01-24 Charbel Bou Chaaya , Mohamad Assaad , Tijani Chahed

By reconfiguring the propagation environment of electromagnetic waves artificially, reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RISs) have been regarded as a promising and revolutionary hardware technology to improve the energy and spectrum…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-12-08 Huiyuan Yang , Xiaojun Yuan , Jun Fang , Ying-Chang Liang

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

Reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RISs) have the potential of realizing the emerging concept of smart radio environments by leveraging the unique properties of meta-surfaces. In this article, we discuss the potential applications of RISs…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-02-24 M. Di Renzo , K. Ntontin , J. Song , F. H. Danufane , X. Qian , F. Lazarakis , J. de Rosny , D. -T. Phan-Huy , O. Simeone , R. Zhang , M. Debbah , G. Lerosey , M. Fink , S. Tretyakov , S. Shamai

The deployment of reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RISs) introduces new challenges for resource allocation in multi-cell wireless networks, particularly when user loads are uneven across base stations. In this work, we consider RISs as…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2026-03-27 Martin Mark Zan , Stefan Schwarz