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Reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RIS) can improve signal propagation environments by adjusting the phase of the incident signal. However, optimizing the phase shifts jointly with the beamforming vector at the access point is challenging…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-10-28 Weijie Jin , Jing Zhang , Chao-Kai Wen , Shi Jin , Xiao Li , Shuangfeng Han

This paper investigates a smart spectrum-sharing framework for reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS)-aided local high-quality wireless networks (LHQWNs) within a mobile network operator (MNO) ecosystem. Although RISs are often considered…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-03-27 Hamid Reza Hashempour , Mina Khadem , Eduard A. Jorswieck

Reconfigurable intelligent Surfaces (RIS) and half-duplex decoded and forwarded (DF) relays can collaborate to optimize wireless signal propagation in communication systems. Users typically have different rate demands and are clustered into…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-06-04 Huijun Tang , Jieling Zhang , Zhidong Zhao , Huaming Wu , Hongjian Sun , Pengfei Jiao

The objective of this paper is to develop simple techniques to enhance the performance of multi-user RIS aided wireless systems. Specifically, we develop a novel technique called \textit{channel separation} which provides a better…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-09-14 Ikram Singh , Peter J. Smith , Pawel A. Dmochowski , Rua Murray

Reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS) is envisioned to be a promising green technology to reduce the energy consumption and improve the coverage and spectral efficiency of massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) wireless networks.…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-02-12 Zhen-Qing He , Hang Liu , Xiaojun Yuan , Ying-Jun Angela Zhang , Ying-Chang Liang

This letter proposes a novel mathematical framework for the statistical characterization of reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS)-mounted high-altitude platform station (HAPS)-assisted MIMO systems over cascaded Rician fading channels.…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-29 Tayfun Yilmaz , Haci Ilhan , Ali Gorcin , Halim Yanikomeroglu

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 promising technology for RF wireless power transfer (WPT) as it is capable of beamforming and beam focusing without using active and power-hungry components. In this paper, we propose a…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-10-28 Nguyen Minh Tran , Muhammad Miftahul Amri , Je Hyeon Park , Dong In Kim , Kae Won Choi

The use of reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RIS) can improve wireless communication by modifying the wireless link to create virtual line-of-sight links, bypass blockages, suppress interference, and enhance localization. However,…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-09-08 Anish Pradhan , Harpreet S. Dhillon

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

Reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS) is a promising reflective radio technology for improving the coverage and rate of future wireless systems by reconfiguring the wireless propagation environment. The current work mainly focuses on the…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2021-03-24 Xuelin Cao , Bo Yang , Hongliang Zhang , Chongwen Huang , Chau Yuen , Zhu Han

Reconfigurable Intelligent Surfaces (RIS) is a transformative technology with great potential in many applications in wireless communications and realizing the Internet of Everything at sixth generation (6G). In this study, we propose a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-06-25 Xuejian Wei , Hui-Ming Wang

The Reconfigurable Intelligent Surface (RIS) constitutes one of the prominent technologies for the next generation of wireless communications. It is envisioned to enhance the signal coverage in cases when the direct link of the…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-11-01 Kun Chen-Hu , George C. Alexandropoulos , Ana García Armada

We consider the problem of joint three-dimensional localization and synchronization for a single-input single-output (SISO) system in the presence of a reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS), equipped with a uniform planar array. First,…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-02-18 Kamran Keykhosravi , Musa Furkan Keskin , Gonzalo Seco-Granados , Henk Wymeersch

To fully exploit the additional dimension brought by reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS), it is recently suggested by information theory that modulating information upon RIS phases is able to send extra information with increased…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-11-22 Jiacheng Yao , Jindan Xu , Wei Xu , Chau Yuen , Xiaohu You

Reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS) has recently gained significant interest as an emerging technology for future wireless networks thanks to its potential for improving the coverage probability in challenging propagation environments.…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-09-08 Trinh Van Chien , Lam Thanh Tu , Waqas Khalid , Heejung Yu , Symeon Chatzinotas , Marco Di Renzo

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) is an emerging technology to enhance wireless communication in terms of energy cost and system performance by equipping a considerable quantity of nearly passive reflecting elements. This study…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-03-17 Jun Zhang , Jie Liu , Shaodan Ma , Chao-Kai Wen , Shi Jin

Integrated sensing and communication (ISAC), which simultaneously performs sensing and communication functions within a shared frequency band and hardware platform, has emerged as a promising technology for future wireless systems.…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-04-02 Qi Zhu , Ming Li , Rang Liu , Qian Liu

Active reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS) has attracted significant attention as a recently proposed RIS architecture. Owing to its capability to amplify the incident signals, active RIS can mitigate the multiplicative fading effect…