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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 surface (RIS) has been explored as a supportive technology for wireless communication since around 2019. While the literature highlights the potential of RIS in different modern applications, two key issues have…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-06-10 Daniel C. Alcantara , Daniel V. C. de Oliveira , Gilderlan T. de Araújo , Paulo R. B. Gomes , André L. F. de Almeida

While Reconfigurable Intelligent Surfaces (RISs) constitute one of the most prominent enablers for the upcoming sixth Generation (6G) of wireless networks, the design of efficient RIS phase profiles remains a notorious challenge when large…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-07-19 Kyriakos Stylianopoulos , Panagiotis Gavriilidis , George C. Alexandropoulos

In this paper, a new reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS) hardware architecture, called self-organized RIS (SORIS), is proposed. The architecture incorporates a microcontroller connected to a single-antenna receiver operating at the…

The march towards 6G is accelerating and future wireless network architectures require enhanced performance along with significant coverage especially, to combat impairments on account of the wireless channel. Reconfigurable intelligent…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-08-16 Emre Arslan , Fatih Kilinc , Ertugrul Basar , Huseyin Arslan

An emerging technology to enhance the spectral efficiency (SE) and energy efficiency (EE) of wireless communication systems is reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS), which is shown to be very powerful in single-carrier systems. However,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-01-23 Mohammad Soleymani , Ignacio Santamaria , Aydin Sezgin , Eduard Jorswieck

Reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS) has become a promising technology to improve wireless communication in recent years. It steers the incident signals to create a favorable propagation environment by controlling the reconfigurable…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-11-15 Wangyang Xu , Lu Gan , Chongwen Huang

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

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

A wireless communication system is studied that operates in the presence of multiple reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RISs). In particular, a multi-operator environment is considered where each operator utilizes an RIS to enhance its…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-03-04 Nikolaos I. Miridakis , Theodoros A. Tsiftsis , Panagiotis A. Karkazis , Helen C. Leligou , Petar Popovski

Reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS) is pivotal for beyond 5G networks in regards to the surge demand for reliable communication in unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) networks. This paper presents an innovative approach to maximize…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-10-24 Mohammed Saif , Shahrokh Valaee

Transmissive reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RIS) represent a transformative architecture for future wireless networks, enabling a paradigm shift from traditional costly base stations to low-cost, energy-efficient transmitters. This…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-11-17 Zhengwei Jiang , Yufeng Zhou , Xusheng Zhu , Wen Chen , Qingqing Wu , Kai-Kit Wong

Reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RISs) are envisioned as a promising technology for future wireless communications. With various hardware realizations, RISs can work under different modes (reflective/transmissive/hybrid) or have…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-08-08 Hongyu Li , Shanpu Shen , Bruno Clerckx

Reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RISs) enable reliable low-latency millimeter wave (mmWave) communication links in cases of a blocked line-of-sight (LoS) between the base station (BS) and the user equipment (UE), i.e. a RIS mounted on a…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-02-13 Hamed Radpour , Markus Hofer , David Loschenbrand , Lukas Walter Mayer , Andreas Hofmann , Martin Schiefer , Thomas Zemen

A reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS) is a holographic MIMO surface composed of a large number of passive elements that can induce adjustable phase shifts to the impinging waves. By creating virtual line-of-sight (LOS) paths between…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-04-06 Mehdi Haghshenas , Parisa Ramezani , Maurizio Magarini , Emil Björnson

In this paper, we consider an active reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS) to assist the multiuser downlink transmission in the presence of practical hardware impairments (HWIs), including the HWIs at the transceivers and the phase noise…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-02-19 Zhangjie Peng , Zhibo Zhang , Cunhua Pan , Marco Di Renzo , Octavia A. Dobre , Jiangzhou Wang

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

Reconfigurable Intelligent Surface (RIS) has become a popular technology to improve the capability of a THz multiuser Multi-input multi-output (MIMO) communication system. THz wave characteristics, on the other hand, restrict THz beam…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-07-01 Yicong Liu , Weijie Li , Zihuai Lin

In the past as well as present wireless communication systems, the wireless propagation environment is regarded as an uncontrollable black box that impairs the received signal quality, and its negative impacts are compensated for by relying…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-09-14 Cunhua Pan , Gui Zhou , Kangda Zhi , Sheng Hong , Tuo Wu , Yijin Pan , Hong Ren , Marco Di Renzo , A. Lee Swindlehurst , Rui Zhang , Angela Yingjun Zhang

This paper considers the application of reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RISs) (a.k.a. intelligent reflecting surfaces (IRSs)) to assist multiuser multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) uplink transmission from several multi-antenna user…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-09-14 Li You , Jiayuan Xiong , Yufei Huang , Derrick Wing Kwan Ng , Cunhua Pan , Wenjin Wang , Xiqi Gao