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With the capability to support gigabit data rates, millimetre-wave (mm-Wave) communication is unanimously considered a key technology of future cellular networks. However, the harsh propagation at such high frequencies makes these networks…

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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 Surface (RIS) can create favorable multipath to establish strong links that are useful in millimeter wave (mmWave) communications. While previous works used Rayleigh or Rician fading, we use the fluctuating…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-11-10 Hongyang Du , Jiayi Zhang , Julian Cheng , Zhaohua Lu , Bo Ai

Recently, reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS) has been widely used to enhance the performance of millimeter wave (mmWave) communication systems, making beam alignment more challenging. To ensure efficient communication, this paper…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-01-29 Hao Xia , Qing Xue , Yanping Liu , Binggui Zhou , Meng Hua , Qianbin Chen

Reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RISs) are a promising solution to improve the coverage of cellular networks, thanks to their ability to steer impinging signals in desired directions. However, they introduce an overhead in the…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-03-21 Anna V. Guglielmi , Stefano Tomasin

Reconfigurable intelligent surfaces have emerged as a promising hardware platform for shaping wireless propagation environments at millimeter-wave (mm-Wave) frequencies and beyond. While many existing studies emphasize channel modeling and…

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Reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS)-empowered communication, has been considered widely as one of the revolutionary technologies for next generation networks. However, due to the novel propagation characteristics of RISs, underlying…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-05-16 Jian Sang , Mingyong Zhou , Jifeng Lan , Boning Gao , Wankai Tang , Xiao Li , Shi Jin , Ertugrul Basar , Cen Li , Qiang Cheng , Tie Jun Cui

This paper proposes a correlation-based three-stage channel estimation strategy with low pilot overhead for reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS)-aided millimeter wave (mmWave) multi-user (MU) MIMO systems, in which both users and base…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-02-11 Liuchang Zhuo , Cunhua Pan , Hong Ren , Ruisong Weng , Shi Jin , A. Lee Swindlehurst , Jiangzhou Wang

Millimeter-wave (mmWave) communications is considered as a key enabler towards the realization of next-generation wireless networks, due to the abundance of available spectrum at mmWave frequencies. However, mmWave suffers from high…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2021-10-13 Nariman Torkzaban , Mohammad A. Amir Khojastepour

Spectrum scarcity has motivated the exploration of the millimeter-wave (mmWave) band as a key technology to cope with the ever-increasing data traffic. However, in this band, radiofrequency waves are highly susceptible to transmission loss…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-06-22 Aline Habib , Israa Khaled , Ammar El Falou , Charlotte Langlais

Reconfigurable Intelligent Surface (RIS) technology has emerged as a key enabler for future wireless communications. However, its potential is constrained by the difficulty of acquiring accurate user-to-RIS channel state information (CSI),…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-20 Md. Shahriar Sadid , Ali A. Nasir , Saad Al-Ahmadi , Samir Al-Ghadhban

Channel acquisition is one of the main challenges for the deployment of reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS) aided communication systems. This is because an RIS has a large number of reflective elements, which are passive devices with…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-02-16 Jie Chen , Ying-Chang Liang , Hei Victor Cheng , Wei Yu

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 surfaces (RISs) have been proposed as a key enabler to improve the coverage of the signals and mitigate the frequent blockages in millimeter wave (mmWave) multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) communications.…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-07-16 Rafaela Schroeder , Jiguang He , Glauber Brante , Markku Juntti

This paper presents a physics-based channel modeling and optimization framework for reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS)-assisted downlink multi-user multiple-input single-output (MU-MISO) communication systems in site-specific…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-03-24 Ziqi Liu , Wei Yu , Sean Victor Hum

Reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS) is a promising technology to enhance the spectral and energy efficiency in a wireless communication system. The design of the phase shifts of an RIS in every channel coherence interval demands a huge…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-05-15 Sadaf Syed , Dominik Semmler , Donia Ben Amor , Michael Joham , Wolfgang Utschick

Reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RISs) have been introduced as a remedy for mitigating frequent blockages in millimeter wave (mmWave) multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) communication networks. However, perfect or nearly perfect…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-06-22 Rafaela Schroeder , Jiguang He , Markku Juntti

Millimeter wave (mmWave) communications and reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RIS) are two critical technologies for next-generation networks, especially in dense indoor environments. However, existing analyses often oversimplify the…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-10-15 Zhi Chai , Jiajie Xu , Justin P. Coon , Mohamed-Slim Alouini

Reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RISs) are considered as potential technologies for the upcoming sixth-generation (6G) wireless communication system. Various benefits brought by deploying one or multiple RISs include increased spectrum…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-04-16 Jiguang He , Nhan Thanh Nguyen , Rafaela Schroeder , Visa Tapio , Joonas Kokkoniemi , Markku Juntti

A fundamental challenge in millimeter-wave (mmWave) communication is the susceptibility to blocking objects. One way to alleviate this problem is the use of reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RIS). Nevertheless, due to the large number of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-04-22 Yaoshen Cui , Haifan Yin , Li Tan , Marco Di Renzo