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The integration of Reconfigurable Intelligent Surfaces (RIS) in 6G wireless networks offers unprecedented control over communication environments. However, identifying optimal configurations within practical constraints remains a…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-05-15 Kevin Weinberger , Simon Tewes , Aydin Sezgin

Reconfigurable Intelligent Surfaces (RISs) are announced as a truly transformative technology, capable of smartly shaping wireless environments to optimize next-generation communication networks. Among their numerous foreseen applications,…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-06-21 Moustafa Rahal , Benoit Denis , Taghrid Mazloum , Frederic Munoz , Raffaele D Errico

Reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS) provides a promising way to build programmable wireless transmission environments. Owing to the massive number of controllable reflecting elements on the surface, RIS is capable of providing…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-10-03 Xiaoyan Ma , Yuguang Fang , Haixia Zhang , Shuaishuai Guo , Dongfeng Yuan

Reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RISs) can be densely deployed in the environment to create multi-reflection line-of-sight (LoS) links for signal coverage enhancement. However, conventional reflection-only RISs can only achieve…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-05-21 Bonan An , Weidong Mei , Yuanwei Liu , Dong Wang , Zhi Chen

We consider the downlink of a single-cell multi-user MIMO system in which the base station makes use of $N$ antennas to communicate with $K$ single-antenna user equipments (UEs) randomly positioned in the coverage area. In particular, we…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-17 Luca Sanguinetti , Emil Bjornson , Merouane Debbah , Aris Moustakas

The recent research in the emerging technology of reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RISs) has identified its high potential for localization and sensing. However, to accurately localize a user placed in the area of influence of an RIS,…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-10-20 Reza Ghazalian , Hui Chen , George C. Alexandropoulos , Gonzalo Seco-Granados , Henk Wymeersch , Riku Jäntti

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

Near-field (NF) line-of-sight (LoS) MIMO systems enable efficient channel state information (CSI) acquisition and precoding by exploiting known antenna geometries at both the base station (BS) and user equipment (UE). This paper introduces…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-05-08 Shima Eslami , Bikshapathi Gouda , Antti Tölli

Positioning is expected to be a core function in intelligent transportation systems (ITSs) to support communication and location-based services, such as autonomous driving, traffic control, etc. With the advent of low-cost reflective…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-11-15 Hui Chen , Pinjun Zheng , Musa Furkan Keskin , Tareq Al-Naffouri , Henk Wymeersch

In this work, we investigate a novel simultaneous transmission and reflection reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS)-assisted multiple-input multiple-output downlink system, where three practical transmission protocols, namely, energy…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-06-18 Hehao Niu , Zheng Chu , Fuhui Zhou , Pei Xiao , Naofal Al-Dhahir

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

Reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RISs) are an emerging technology for improving spectral efficiency and reducing power consumption in future wireless systems. This paper investigates the joint design of the transmit precoding matrices…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-07-22 Shumin Wang , Hajar El Hassani , Marco Di Renzo , Marios Poulakis

The emergence of reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RISs) enables us to establish programmable radio wave propagation that caters for wireless communications, via employing low-cost passive reflecting units. This work studies the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-03-08 Li You , Jiayuan Xiong , Derrick Wing Kwan Ng , Chau Yuen , Wenjin Wang , Xiqi Gao

This study considers a base station equipped with sensing and communication capabilities, which serves a ground user and scans a portion of the sky via a passive reconfigurable intelligent surface. To achieve more favorable system…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-01-16 Georgios Mylonopoulos , Luca Venturino , Emanuele Grossi , Stefano Buzzi , Ciro D'Elia

Mutual Coupling (MC) is an unavoidable feature in Reconfigurable Intelligent Surfaces (RISs) with sub-wavelength inter-element spacing. Its inherent presence naturally leads to non-local RIS structures, which can be efficiently described…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-04-09 Dilki Wijekoon , Amine Mezghani , George C. Alexandropoulos , Ekram Hossain

Reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS) is very promising for wireless networks to achieve high energy efficiency, extended coverage, improved capacity, massive connectivity, etc. To unleash the full potentials of RIS-aided communications,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-01-03 Yabo Guo , Peng Sun , Zhengdao Yuan , Chongwen Huang , Qinghua Guo , Zhongyong Wang , Chau Yuen

This paper considers a downlink Reconfigurable Intelligent Surface (RIS)-assisted Joint Communication and Sensing (JCAS) system within a physically-consistent setting, accounting for the effect of mutual coupling between RIS elements…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2026-01-14 Dilki Wijekoon , Amine Mezghani , Ekram Hossain

Next-generation cellular networks will witness the creation of smart radio environments (SREs), where walls and objects can be coated with reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RISs) to strengthen the communication and localization coverage…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-09-08 Ahmed Elzanaty , Anna Guerra , Francesco Guidi , Mohamed-Slim Alouini

In this paper, a discrete reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS)-assisted spatial shift keying (SSK) multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) scheme is investigated, in which a direct link between the transmitter and the receiver is…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-11-04 Xusheng Zhu , Qingqing Wu , Wen Chen , Xinyuan He , Lexi Xu , Yaxin Zhang

Reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RISs) have been deemed as one of potential components of future wireless communication systems because they can adaptively manipulate the wireless propagation environment with low-cost passive devices.…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-03-23 Yanan Ma , Rang Liu , Yang Liu , Ming Li , Qian Liu