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Reconfigurable Intelligent Surfaces (RIS) are passive or semi-passive heterogeneous metasurfaces and consist of many tunable elements. RIS is gaining momentum as a promising new technology to enable transforming the propagation environment…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-01-06 Pooja Nuti , Elyes Balti , Brian L. Evans

Reconfigurable Intelligent Surfaces (RISs), comprising large numbers of low-cost and almost passive metamaterials with tunable reflection properties, have been recently proposed as an enabling technology for programmable wireless…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-08-23 Aris L. Moustakas , George C. Alexandropoulos , Mérouane Debbah

Intelligent surfaces that reshape electromagnetic waves are regarded as disruptive technologies for wireless networks. However, existing designs sit at two costly extremes: dynamic reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RISs) offer fine beam…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-11-24 Ziyuan Zheng , Qingqing Wu , Wen Chen , Weiren Zhu , Ying Gao

Reconfigurable Intelligent Surface (RIS) has emerged as a promising technology to enhance the wireless propagation environment for next-generation wireless communication systems. This paper introduces a new RIS-assisted multiple-antenna…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-11-14 Xiaofan Niu , Minquan Cheng , Kai Wan , Robert Caiming Qiu , Giuseppe Caire

Reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS) has drawn considerable attention from the research society recently, which creates favorable propagation conditions by controlling the phase shifts of the reflected waves at the surface, thereby…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-11-01 Boya Di , Hongliang Zhang , Lingyang Song , Yonghui Li , Zhu Han , 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

Reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS) is a new paradigm that has great potential to achieve cost-effective, energy-efficient information modulation for wireless transmission, by the ability to change the reflection coefficients of the…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-07-07 Wankai Tang , Jun Yan Dai , Ming Zheng Chen , Kai-Kit Wong , Xiao Li , Xinsheng Zhao , Shi Jin , Qiang Cheng , Tie Jun Cui

This paper presents a multi-bit reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS) with a high phase resolution, capable of beam-steering in the azimuthal plane at sub-6 Gigahertz (GHz). Field trials in realistic indoor deployments have been carried…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-10-21 James Rains , Jalil ur Rehman Kazim , Anvar Tukmanov , Tie Jun Cui , Lei Zhang , Qammer H. Abbasi , Muhammad Ali Imran

Reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RIS) have been actively researched as a potential technique for future wireless communications, which intelligently ameliorate the signal propagation environment. In the conventional design, each RIS…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-03-17 Qingchao Li , Mohammed El-Hajjar , Ibrahim Hemadeh , Arman Shojaeifard , Alain A. M. Mourad , Bruno Clerckx , Lajos Hanzo

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

Challenging environments comprise a range of scenarios, which share the fact that it is extremely difficult to establish a communication link using conventional technology due to many impairments typically associated with the propagation…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-06-23 Steven Kisseleff , Symeon Chatzinotas , Björn Ottersten

A multiuser multiple-input multiple-output wireless communication system is analytically studied, which operates with the aid of a reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS). The intermediate RIS is equipped with multiple elements and…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-10-12 Nikolaos I. Miridakis , Theodoros A. Tsiftsis , Guanghua Yang , Panagiotis A. Karkazis , Helen C. Leligou

Reconfigurable Intelligent Surface (RIS) is a promising technology that may effectively improve the quality of signals in wireless communications. In practice, however, the ``double fading'' effect undermines the application of RIS and…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-10-17 Rongguang Song , Haifan Yin , Zipeng Wang , Taorui Yang , Xue Ren

Leveraging on the reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS) paradigm for enabling the next Internet of Things (IoT) and 6G era, this paper develops a comprehensive theoretical framework characterizing the performance of RIS-assisted…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-04-14 Imène Trigui , Wessam Ajib , Wei-Ping Zhu

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

Continuous efforts have been devoted to integrate millimeter wave (mmWave) and terahertz (THz) bands into future communication standards in order to overcome the bandwidth shortage problem and achieve high data rates, primarily through…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-03-05 Sung Hyuck Hong , Junil Choi

We introduce a phase hopping scheme for reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RISs) in which the phases of the individual RIS elements are randomly varied with each transmitted symbol. This effectively converts slow fading into fast fading.…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-11-15 Karl-Ludwig Besser , Eduard A. Jorswieck

Although reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RISs) can improve the performance of wireless networks by smartly reconfiguring the radio environment, existing passive RISs face two key challenges, i.e., double-fading attenuation and…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-10-05 Wen Wang , Wanli Ni , Hui Tian , Naofal Al-Dhahir

The reconfigurable intelligent surface is a promising technology for the manipulation and control of wireless electromagnetic signals. In particular, it has the potential to provide significant performance improvements for wireless…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-09-14 Hamidreza Taghvaee , Akshay Jain , Sergi Abadal , Gabriele Gradoni , Eduard Alarcón , Albert Cabellos-Aparicio

Reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS) is an emerging technique employing metasurface to reflect the signal from the source node to the destination node. By smartly reconfiguring the electromagnetic (EM) properties of the metasurface and…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-06-30 Qi Gu , Dan Wu , Xin Su , Hanning Wang , Jingyuan Cui , Yifei Yuan