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Reconfigurable electromagnetic structures (REMSs), such as reconfigurable reflectarrays (RRAs) or reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RISs), hold significant potential to improve the spectral efficiency of wireless communication systems…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-12-16 Alexander Stutz-Tirri , Georg Schwan , Christoph Studer

Intelligent reflecting surface (IRS) that enables the control of the wireless propagation environment has been looked upon as a promising technology for boosting the spectrum and energy efficiency in future wireless communication systems.…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-02-26 Samith Abeywickrama , Rui Zhang , Chau Yuen

With both the standardization and commercialization completed in an unforeseen pace for the 5th generation (5G) wireless network, researchers, engineers and executives from the academia and the industry have turned their sights on candidate…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2024-02-20 Ruiqi Liu , Qingqing Wu , Marco Di Renzo , Yifei Yuan

A Reconfigurable Intelligent Surface (RIS) redirects and possibly modifies the properties of incident waves, with the aim to restore non-line-of-sight communication links. Composed of elementary scatterers, the RIS has been so far treated…

Applied Physics · Physics 2023-08-04 Sotiris Droulias , Angeliki Alexiou

In this paper, we propose and study a multi-functional reconfigurable intelligent surface (MF-RIS) architecture. In contrast to conventional single-functional RIS (SF-RIS) that only reflects signals, the proposed MF-RIS simultaneously…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-10-05 Wen Wang , Wanli Ni , Hui Tian , Yonina C. Eldar , Rui Zhang

Reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS) has become a promising technology for enhancing the reliability of wireless communications, which is capable of reflecting the desired signals through appropriate phase shifts. However, the intended…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-03-03 Bo Yang , Xuelin Cao , Chongwen Huang , Chau Yuen , Lijun Qian , Marco Di Renzo

Perfect channel state information (CSI) is challenging to obtain due to the limited signal processing capability at the intelligent reflection surface (IRS). In this paper, we study the worst-case robust beamforming design for an IRS-aided…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-06-02 Gui Zhou , Cunhua Pan , Hong Ren , Kezhi Wang , Marco Di Renzo , Arumugam Nallanathan

Electromagnetic wave control using the concept of a reflecting surface is first studied as a near-field and a far-field problem. Using a secondary source present in a wireless communication environment, such as a backscatter tag, it is…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-06-24 Okan Yurduseven , Stylianos D. Assimonis , Michail Matthaiou

Reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RIS) have emerged as a transformative technology for electromagnetic (EM) wave manipulation, offering unprecedented control over wave reflections compared to traditional metallic reflectors. By utilizing…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-06-11 Hossein Rezaei , Mehmet Emin Arslan , George Yammine , Niels Neumann , Norman Franchi

The reconfigurable intelligent surface is an emerging technology for wireless communications. We model it as an inhomogeneous boundary of surface impedance, and consider various optimization problems that offer different tradeoffs in terms…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-09-27 M. W. Shabir , M. Di Renzo , A. Zappone , M. Debbah

A novel simultaneously transmitting and reflecting (STAR) system design relying on reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RISs) is conceived. First, an existing prototype is reviewed and the potential benefits of STAR-RISs are discussed.…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-09-14 Yuanwei Liu , Xidong Mu , Jiaqi Xu , Robert Schober , Yang Hao , H. Vincent Poor , Lajos Hanzo

Recently there has been a flurry of research on the use of reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RIS) in wireless networks to create smart radio environments. In a smart radio environment, surfaces are capable of manipulating the propagation…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-05-05 Mohamed A. ElMossallamy , Hongliang Zhang , Lingyang Song , Karim G. Seddik , Zhu Han , Geoffrey Ye Li

While traditional electromagnetic stealth materials/metasurfaces can render a target virtually invisible to some extent, they lack flexibility and adaptability, and can only operate within a limited frequency and angle/direction range,…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-12-05 Beixiong Zheng , Xue Xiong , Jie Tang , Rui Zhang

Reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS)-empowered communication is one of the promising 6G technologies that allows the conversion of the wireless channel into an intelligent transmit entity by manipulating the impinging waves using…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-09-01 I. Yildirim , A. Uyrus , E. Basar

A promising type of Reconfigurable Intelligent Surface (RIS) employs tunable control of its varactors using biasing transmission lines below the RIS reflecting elements. Biasing standing waves (BSWs) are excited by a time-periodic signal…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2025-05-13 Gal Ben Itzhak , Miguel Saavedra-Melo , Ender Ayanoglu , Filippo Capolino , A. Lee Swindlehurst

Reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RISs) are an emerging technology for application to wireless networks. We introduce a physics and electromagnetic (EM) compliant communication model for analyzing and optimizing RIS-assisted wireless…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-12-08 Gabriele Gradoni , Marco Di Renzo

Intelligent reflecting surface (IRS), which consists of a large number of tunable reflective elements, is capable of enhancing the wireless propagation environment in a cellular network by intelligently reflecting the electromagnetic waves…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-06-10 Tao Jiang , Hei Victor Cheng , Wei Yu

Reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS) has entered the public consciousness as a promising technology for enhancing the performance of future wireless communication systems by dynamically constructing the wireless channels. In this…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-03-02 Pingping Zhang , Shiqi Gong , Shaodan Ma

The use of real-time software-controlled reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS) units is proposed to increase the reliability of vehicle-to-everything (V2X) communications. The optimum placement problem of the RIS units is formulated by…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2020-07-21 Y. Ugur Ozcan , Ozgur Ozdemir , Gunes Karabulut Kurt

Intelligent reflecting surface (IRS) is envisioned to have abundant applications in future wireless networks by smartly reconfiguring the signal propagation for performance enhancement. Specifically, an IRS consists of a large number of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-09-13 Qingqing Wu , Rui Zhang