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The deployment of reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RISs) in a communication system provides control over the propagation environment, which facilitates the augmentation of a multitude of communication objectives. As these performance…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-05-04 Bilal Ahmad , Kevin Weinberger , Aydin Sezgin , Bilal Zafar , Martin Haardt

To mitigate the effects of shadow fading and obstacle blocking, reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS) has become a promising technology to improve the signal transmission quality of wireless communications by controlling the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-11-10 Wangyang Xu , Jiancheng An , Yongjun Xu , Chongwen Huang , Lu Gan , Chau Yuen

We consider transmit beamforming and reflection pattern design in reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS)-assisted integrated sensing and communication (ISAC) systems to jointly precode communication symbols and radar waveforms. We treat…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-06-16 R. S. Prasobh Sankar , Sundeep Prabhakar Chepuri , Yonina C. Eldar

The integration of reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RIS) in wireless environments offers channel programmability and dynamic control over propagation channels, which is expected to play a crucial role in sixth generation (6G) networks.…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-01-22 Anum Umer , Ivo Müürsepp , Muhammad Mahtab Alam

Cooperative rate splitting (CRS), built upon rate splitting multiple access (RSMA) and opportunistic user relaying, has been recognized as a promising transmission strategy to enhance the user fairness and spectral efficiency in…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-08-09 Kangchun Zhao , Yijie Mao , Zhaohui Yang , Lixiang Lian , Bruno Clerckx

Conventional Reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RIS) for wireless communications have a local position-dependent (phase-gradient) scattering response on the surface. We consider more general RIS structures, called nonlocal (or…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-04-04 Amine Mezghani , Faouzi Bellili , Ekram Hossain

Reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RISs) have been introduced as arrays of nearly passive elements with software-tunable electromagnetic properties to dynamically manipulate the reflection/transmission of radio signals. Research works in…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-07-01 Mehdi Monemi , Mehdi Rasti , Arthur S. de Sena , Mohammad Amir Fallah , Matti Latva-Aho , Marco Di Renzo

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

Reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS) has recently been gained attention as an effective technique improving the coverage and performance of communication systems by creating additional communication links. Deployment of RIS is crucial…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-04-20 Changzhu Liu , Ruisi He , Haoxiang Zhang , Jiahui Han , Ruifeng Chen , Bo Ai , Zhangdui Zhong

Reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RISs) are widely considered to become an integral part of future wireless communication systems. Various methodologies exist to design such surfaces; however, most consider or require a very large number…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-09-01 Hans-Dieter Lang , Michel A. Nyffenegger , Heinz Mathis , Xingqi Zhang

Reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RISs) have attracted the attention of academia and industry circles because of their ability to control the electromagnetic characteristics of channel environments. However, it has been found that the…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-08-02 Yajun Zhao , Xin Lv

Reconfigurable Intelligent Surface (RIS) is a promising solution to reconfigure the wireless environment in a controllable way. To compensate for the double-fading attenuation in the RIS-aided link, a large number of passive reflecting…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-03-02 Ruizhe Long , Ying-Chang Liang , Yiyang Pei , Erik G. Larsson

In this paper, we analyse the performance of a reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS) aided system where the RIS is divided into subsurfaces. Each subsurface is designed specifically for one user, who is served on their own frequency…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-03-12 Amy S. Inwood , Peter J. Smith , Philippa A. Martin , Graeme K. Woodward

Reconfigurable Intelligent Surfaces (RISs) are a promising technique for enhancing the performance of Next Generation (NextG) wireless communication systems in terms of both spectral and energy efficiency, as well as resource utilization.…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2025-04-22 Maria Tsampazi , Tommaso Melodia

In this paper, we consider a reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS)-assisted multiple-input multiple-output communication system with multiple antennas at both the base station (BS) and the user. We plan to maximize the achievable rate…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-05-28 Yaqiong Zhao , Jindan Xu , Wei Xu , Kezhi Wang , Xinquan Ye , Chau Yuen , Xiaohu You

Reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RISs) consisting of multiple reflective elements are a promising technique to enhance communication quality as they can create favorable propagation conditions. In this letter, we characterize the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-12-22 Hongliang Zhang , Boya Di , Zhu Han , H. Vincent Poor , Lingyang Song

Active reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RISs) can improve the performance of integrated sensing and communication (ISAC), and therefore enable simultaneous data transmission and target sensing. However, when the line-of-sight (LoS) link…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-10-17 Ahmed Magbool , Vaibhav Kumar , Mark F. Flanagan

In this paper, we consider a semantic-aware reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS)-assisted wireless network, where multiple semantic users (SUs) simultaneously transmit semantic information to an access point (AP) by using the…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2025-07-15 Songhan Zhao , Yusi Long , Lanhua Li , Bo Gu , Shimin Gong , Zehui Xiong

Reconfigurable Intelligent Surfaces (RISs) are envisioned to play a key role in future wireless communications, enabling programmable radio propagation environments. They are usually considered as almost passive planar structures that…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-08-12 Haiyang Zhang , Nir Shlezinger , George C Alexandropoulos , Idban Alamzadeh , Mohammadreza F Imani , Yonina C Eldar

Reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RISs) have tremendous potential for both communication and localization. While communication benefits are now well-understood, the breakthrough nature of the technology may well lie in its capability to…