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The reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS) is an emerging technology that changes how wireless networks are perceived, therefore its potential benefits and applications are currently under intense research and investigation. In this…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-05-18 Placido Mursia , Sendy Phang , Vincenzo Sciancalepore , Gabriele Gradoni , Marco Di Renzo

Reconfigurable Intelligent Surfaces (RISs) have attracted major attention in the last few years, thanks to their useful characteristics. An RIS is a nearly passive thin surface that can dynamically change the reradiated field, and can…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-02-24 V. Degli-Esposti , E. M. Vitucci , M. Di Renzo , S. Tretyakov

Reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS) is a revolutionary technology that can customize the wireless channel and improve the energy efficiency of next-generation cellular networks. This letter proposes an environment-aware codebook design…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-04-25 Xing Jia , Jiancheng An , Hao Liu , Hongshu Liao , Lu Gan , Chau Yuen

Reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RISs) have the potential of realizing the emerging concept of smart radio environments by leveraging the unique properties of meta-surfaces. In this article, we discuss the potential applications of RISs…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-02-24 M. Di Renzo , K. Ntontin , J. Song , F. H. Danufane , X. Qian , F. Lazarakis , J. de Rosny , D. -T. Phan-Huy , O. Simeone , R. Zhang , M. Debbah , G. Lerosey , M. Fink , S. Tretyakov , S. Shamai

This chapter overviews the concept of Smart Wireless Environments (SWEs) motivated by the emerging technology of Reconfigurable Intelligent Surfaces (RISs). The operating principles and state-of-the-art hardware architectures of…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-12-23 George C. Alexandropoulos , Kostantinos D. Katsanos , George Stamatelis , Ioannis Gavras

Reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS)-aided near-field communications is investigated. First, the necessity of investigating RIS-aided near-field communications and the advantages brought about by the unique spherical-wave-based…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-03-05 Xidong Mu , Jiaqi Xu , Yuanwei Liu , Lajos Hanzo

Semantic communication, which focuses on conveying the meaning of information rather than exact bit reconstruction, has gained considerable attention in recent years. Meanwhile, reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS) is a promising…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-06-30 Jiajia Shi , Tse-Tin Chan , Haoyuan Pan , Tat-Ming Lok

Reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RIS) is a revolutionary technology to cost-effectively improve the performance of wireless networks. We first review the existing framework of channel estimation and passive beamforming (CE & PBF) in…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-11-17 Jiancheng An , Chao Xu , Qingqing Wu , Derrick Wing Kwan Ng , Marco Di Renzo , Chau Yuen , Lajos Hanzo

Higher spectral and energy efficiencies are the envisioned defining characteristics of high data-rate sixth-generation (6G) wireless networks. One of the enabling technologies to meet these requirements is index modulation (IM), which…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-10-06 JohnA. Hodge , Kumar Vijay Mishra , Brian M. Sadler , Amir I. Zaghloul

The intelligent reflecting surface (IRS) is a promising new paradigm in wireless communications for meeting the growing connectivity demands in next-generation mobile networks. IRS, also known as software-controlled metasurfaces, consist of…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-08-04 Paul Staat , Harald Elders-Boll , Markus Heinrichs , Christian Zenger , Christof Paar

Reconfigurable meta-surfaces are emerging as a novel and revolutionizing technology to enable intelligent wireless environments. Due to the low cost, improved efficiency, and passive nature of reflecting elements, it is becoming possible to…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-10-06 Wali Ullah Khan , Muhammad Awais Javed , Sherali Zeadally , Eva Lagunas , Symeon Chatzinotas

Reconfigurable intelligent surfaces, with their large number of antennas, offer an interesting opportunity for high spatial-resolution imaging. In this paper, we propose a novel RIS-aided integrated imaging and communication system that can…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-01-30 Hao Luo , Ahmed Alkhateeb

We present a radar sensing framework based on a low-complexity, quantized reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS) that enables programmable manipulation of electromagnetic wavefronts for enhanced detection in non-specular and shadowed…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-03-31 Kainat Yasmeen , Shobha Sundar Ram , Debidas Kundu

Intelligent reflecting surface (IRS) is envisioned to change the paradigm of wireless communications from "adapting to wireless channels" to "changing wireless channels". However, current IRS configuration schemes, consisting of sub-channel…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-05-12 Wei Wang , Wei Zhang

Reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS) provides a new electromagnetic response control solution, which can reshape the characteristics of wireless channels. In this paper, we propose a novel environment-aware codebook protocol for…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-04-02 Zhiheng Yu , Jiancheng An , Lu Gan , Chau Yuen

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 (RISs) operate similarly to electromagnetic (EM) mirrors and remarkably go beyond Snell law to generate an applicable EM environment allowing for flexible adaptation and fostering sustainability in terms…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-12-25 Christos G. Tsinos , Alexandros-Apostolos A. Boulogeorgos , Theodoros A. Tsiftsis

Reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RISs) are considered a promising technology for boosting the coverage and for enhancing the spectral efficiency of wireless systems, as well as for taming the wireless environment. The potential benefits…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-11-23 Bjorn Sihlbom , Marios I. Poulakis , Marco Di Renzo

We introduce "Wireless 2.0": The future generation of wireless communication networks, where the radio environment becomes controllable, programmable, and intelligent by leveraging the emerging technologies of reconfigurable metasurfaces…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-02-26 Haris Gacanin , Marco Di Renzo

The prospects of using a reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS) to aid wireless communication systems have recently received much attention. Among the different use cases, the most popular one is where each element of the RIS scatters the…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-12-09 Andrea De Jesus Torres , Luca Sanguinetti , Emil Björnson