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Reconfigurable Intelligent Surfaces (RIS) have recently gained attention as a means to dynamically shape the wireless propagation environment through programmable reflection control. Among the numerous applications, an important emerging…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-12-23 Xinrui Li , R. Michael Buehrer , Steven W. Ellingson

Reconfigurable Intelligent Surfaces (RIS) are planar structures connected to electronic circuitry, which can be employed to steer the electromagnetic signals in a controlled manner. Through this, the signal quality and the effective data…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-12-21 Long Kong , Steven Kisseleff , Symeon Chatzinotas , Björn Ottersten , Melike Erol-Kantarci

In this work, we study the statistically robust beamforming design for an intelligent reflecting surfaces (IRS) assisted multiple-input single-output (MISO) wireless system under imperfect channel state information (CSI), where the channel…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-06-15 Jiezhi Zhang , Yu Zhang , Caijun Zhong , Zhaoyang Zhang

Reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RISs) are an emerging technology for enhancing the performance of wireless networks at a low and affordable cost, complexity, and power consumption. We introduce an algorithm for optimizing a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-12-01 Xuewen Qian , Marco Di Renzo

In this chapter, we investigate the mathematical foundation of the modeling and design of reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RIS) in both the far- and near-field regimes. More specifically, we first present RIS-assisted wireless channel…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-10-16 Mohamadreza Delbari , George C. Alexandropoulos , Robert Schober , Vahid Jamali

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

It is well established that the performance of reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS)-assisted systems critically depends on the optimal placement of the RIS. Previous works consider either simple coverage maximization or simultaneous…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-02-09 Abhishek Rajasekaran , Mehdi Karbalayghareh , Xiaoyan Ma , David J. Love , Christopher G. Brinton

Wireless communications aided by reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RISs) is a promising way to improve the coverage for cellular users. The controlled reflection of signals from RISs is especially useful in mm-wave/THz networks when the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-03-14 Vikrant Malik , Gourab Ghatak , Abhishek K. Gupta , Sanket S. Kalamkar

Reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RISs) not only assist communication but also help the localization of user equipment (UE). This study focuses on the indoor localization of UE with a single access point (AP) aided by multiple RISs.…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-05-06 Xiyu Wang , Yixuan Huang , Jie Yang , Yu Han , Shi Jin

Intelligent reflecting surface (IRS) is a new and revolutionary technology capable of reconfiguring the wireless propagation environment by controlling its massive low-cost passive reflecting elements. Different from prior works that focus…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-11-05 Bifeng Ling , Jiangbin Lyu , Liqun Fu

The improvements in received signal power brought about by a reflective intelligent surface (RIS) might be overstated if background propagation mechanisms such as reflections, scattering, and diffraction are ignored. This paper addresses…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-11-10 Masoud Sadeghian , Andrea Pizzo , Angel Lozano

In future cellular systems, wireless localization and sensing functions will be built-in for specific applications, e.g., navigation, transportation, and healthcare, and to support flexible and seamless connectivity. Driven by this trend,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-01-26 Hongliang Zhang , Boya Di , Kaigui Bian , Zhu Han , H. Vincent Poor , Lingyang Song

This paper presents the first experimental validation of reflective near-field beamfocusing using a reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS). While beamfocusing has been theoretically established as a key feature of large-aperture RISs, its…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-02-12 Emil Björnson , Murat Babek Salman

The design of Reconfigurable Intelligent Surfaces (RISs) is typically based on treating the RIS as an infinitely large surface that steers incident plane waves toward the desired direction. In practical implementations, however, the RIS has…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-08-28 Sotiris Droulias , Giorgos Stratidakis , Emil Björnson , Angeliki Alexiou

Reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS) can effectively control the wavefront of the impinging signals and has emerged as a cost-effective promising solution to improve the spectrum and energy efficiency of wireless systems. Most existing…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-06-07 Yiming Liu , Erwu Liu , Rui Wang , Binyu Lu , Zhu Han

Reconfigurable Intelligent Surfaces (RISs) are considered one of the key disruptive technologies towards future 6G networks. RISs revolutionize the traditional wireless communication paradigm by controlling the wave propagation properties…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2022-01-19 Antonio Albanese , Francesco Devoti , Vincenzo Sciancalepore , Marco Di Renzo , Xavier Costa-Pérez

5G radio at millimeter wave (mmWave) and beyond 5G concepts at 0.1-1 THz can exploit angle and delay measurements for localization, by the virtue of increased bandwidth and large antenna arrays but are limited in terms of blockage caused by…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-06-12 Henk Wymeersch , Jiguang He , Benoît Denis , Antonio Clemente , Markku Juntti

Due to their passive nature and thus low energy consumption, intelligent reflecting surfaces (IRSs) have shown promise as means of extending coverage as a proxy for connection reliability. The relative locations of the base station (BS),…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-05-08 Ehsan Tohidi , Sven Haesloop , Lars Thiele , Slawomir Stanczak

Although the fifth-generation (5G) technologies will significantly improve the spectrum and energy efficiency of today's wireless communication networks, their high complexity and hardware cost as well as increasingly more energy…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-09-02 Qingqing Wu , Rui Zhang

The received signal strength (RSS) based technique is extensively utilized for localization in the indoor environments. Since the RSS values of neighboring locations may be similar, the localization accuracy of the RSS based technique is…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-03-27 Haobo Zhang , Hongliang Zhang , Boya Di , Kaigui Bian , Zhu Han , Lingyang Song