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Reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RISs) are regarded as a promising emerging hardware technology to improve the spectrum and energy efficiency of wireless networks by artificially reconfiguring the propagation environment of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-08-18 Xiaojun Yuan , Ying-Jun Angela Zhang , Yuanming Shi , Wenjing Yan , Hang Liu

The electromagnetic (EM) features of reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RISs) fundamentally determine their operating principles and performance. Motivated by these considerations, we study a single-input single-output (SISO) system in…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-04-15 Nemanja Stefan Perović , Le-Nam Tran , Marco Di Renzo , Mark F. Flanagan

The recent introduction of the smart radio environments (SREs) paradigm, enabled by reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RISs), has put in evidence the need for physically-consistent models and design tools for communication systems…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-03-31 Davide Dardari

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

Recently there has been a flurry of research on the use of reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RIS) in wireless networks to create smart radio environments. In a smart radio environment, surfaces are capable of manipulating the propagation…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-05-05 Mohamed A. ElMossallamy , Hongliang Zhang , Lingyang Song , Karim G. Seddik , Zhu Han , Geoffrey Ye Li

Multiport network theory has been proved to be a suitable abstraction model for analyzing and optimizing reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RISs) in an electromagnetically consistent manner, especially for studying the impact of the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-07-30 Andrea Abrardo , Alberto Toccafondi , Marco Di Renzo

Reconfigurable Intelligent Surface (RIS) is a promising solution to reconfigure the wireless environment in a controllable way. To compensate for the double-fading attenuation in the RIS-aided link, a large number of passive reflecting…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-03-02 Ruizhe Long , Ying-Chang Liang , Yiyang Pei , Erik G. Larsson

The concept of reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS) has been proposed to change the propagation of electromagnetic waves, e.g., reflection, diffraction, and refraction. To accomplish this goal, the phase values of the discrete RIS units…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-11-11 Jiguang He , Henk Wymeersch , Tachporn Sanguanpuak , Olli Silvén , Markku Juntti

Reconfigurable Intelligent Surfaces (RIS) are an emerging technology that can be used to reconfigure the propagation environment to improve cellular communication link rates. RIS, which are thin metasurfaces composed of discrete elements,…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-11-11 Pooja Nuti , Brian L. Evans

Reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RISs) consist of many passive elements of metamaterials whose impedance can be controllable to change the characteristics of wireless signals impinging on them. Channel estimation is a critical task when…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-09-14 Özlem Tuğfe Demir , Emil Björnson

The design and optimization of Reconfigurable Intelligent Surfaces (RISs) are key challenges for future wireless communication systems. RISs are devices that can manipulate electromagnetic (EM) waves in a programmable way, thus enhancing…

Reconfigurable Intelligent Surfaces (RISs), comprising large numbers of low-cost and passive metamaterials with tunable reflection properties, have been recently proposed as an enabler for programmable radio propagation environments.…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-09-17 Aris L. Moustakas , George C. Alexandropoulos , Mérouane Debbah

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

The ability of reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RIS) to produce complex radiation patterns in the far-field is determined by various factors, such as the unit-cell's size, shape, spatial arrangement, tuning mechanism, the communication…

This study delves into the radiation pattern synthesis of reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RIS) / reflection metasurfaces. Through superimposing multiple single-reflection profiles, which comprise the amplitude and/or phase settings of…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-01-01 Wei Wang , Angela Doufexi , Mark A Beach

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

In this chapter, we investigate the mathematical foundation of the modeling and design of reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RIS) in both the far- and near-field regimes. More specifically, we first present RIS-assisted wireless channel…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-10-16 Mohamadreza Delbari , George C. Alexandropoulos , Robert Schober , Vahid Jamali

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 typically used in multi-user systems to mitigate interference among active transmitters. In contrast, this paper studies a setting with a conventional active encoder as well as a passive…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-01-20 Roy Karasik , Osvaldo Simeone , Marco Di Renzo , Shlomo Shamai

Reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RIS) are conventionally implemented as two-dimensional (2D) electromagnetic (EM) structures to steer incident waves toward desired reflection angles. This approach limits the reflection to a single…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-02-16 Ruiqi Wang , Yiming Yang , Atif Shamim