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Wireless communications are nowadays shifting to higher operation frequencies with the aim to meet the ever-increasing demand for bandwidth. While reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RISs) are usually envisioned to restore the…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-05-02 Giorgos Stratidakis , Sotiris Droulias , Angeliki Alexiou

In this study, we introduce a design concept that leverages pulse width variation to enable a reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS) and to autonomously switch reflection properties between two angles without any active control system.…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2025-10-27 Eisuke Omori , Kairi Takimoto , Atsuko Nagata , Ashif Fathnan , Shinya Sugiura , Hiroki Wakatsuchi

Reconfigurable Intelligent Surfaces (RISs) are recently gaining remarkable attention as a low-cost, hardware-efficient, and highly scalable technology capable of offering dynamic control of electro-magnetic wave propagation. Their…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-10-12 George C. Alexandropoulos , Sumudu Samarakoon , Mehdi Bennis , Merouane Debbah

Reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RISs) have emerged as a promising solution for enabling energy-efficient and flexible spectrum usage in wireless communication, particularly in the context of sixth-generation (6G) networks. While…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-05-14 Farjam Karim , Deepak Kumar , Prathapasinghe Dharmawansa , Nurul Huda Mahmood , Arthur Sousa de Sena , Matti-Latva-aho

In state-of-the-art wireless networks, the radio environment is beyond the control of the operators which leads to several issues. For example, signal attenuation limits radio connectivity, multi-path propagation results in fading phenomena…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2021-01-05 Mehdi Toumi , Adnan Aijaz

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) are envisioned as a key enabler for next-generation wireless networks, offering programmable control over propagation environments. While extensive research focuses on planar RIS architectures,…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-02-16 Mohamadreza Delbari , Ehsan Mohammadi , Mostafa Darabi , Arash Asadi , Alejandro Jiménez-Sáez , Vahid Jamali

We address the reflection optimization problem for a reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS), where the RIS elements feature a set of non-uniformly spaced discrete phase shifts. This is motivated by the actual behavior of practical RIS…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-11-14 Seyedkhashayar Hashemi , Hai Jiang , Masoud Ardakani

Reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS) provides a promising way to build the programmable wireless transmission environments in the future. Owing to the large number of reflecting elements used at the RIS, joint optimization for the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-01-11 Xiaoyan Ma , Shuaishuai Guo , Haixia Zhang , Yuguang Fang , Dongfeng Yuan

Reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS) is one of the most promising technologies for 5G-Adv and 6G. It has the characteristics of low cost, low complexity, and easy deployment, which provides a new opportunity to develop intelligent…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-12-20 Yajun Zhao , Jiayi Zhang , Bo Ai

Recently, there has been a flurry of research on the use of Reconfigurable Intelligent Surfaces (RIS) in wireless networks to create dynamic radio environments. In this paper, we investigate the use of an RIS panel to improve bi-directional…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-06-30 Abdullah Almasoud , Mohamed Y. Selim , Ahamd Alsharoa , Ahmed E. Kamal

Reconfigurable Intelligent Surfaces (RIS) or Intelligent Reflecting Surfaces (IRS) are metasurfaces that can be deployed in various places in wireless environments to make these environments controllable and reconfigurable. In this paper,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-01-22 S. Mohammad Razavizadeh , Tommy Svensson

This letter proposes a fluid reconfigurable intelligent surface (FRIS) paradigm, extending the conventional reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS) technology to incorporate position reconfigurability of the elements. In our model, a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-03-20 Han Xiao , Xiaoyan Hu , Kai-Kit Wong , Hanjiang Hong , George C. Alexandropoulos , Chan-Byoung Chae

Over the last decade, cognitive radios (CRs) have emerged as a technology for improving spectrum efficiency through dynamic spectrum access techniques. More recently, as research interest is shifting beyond 5G communications, new…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-08-26 Abubakar U. Makarfi , Rupak Kharel , Khaled M. Rabie , Omprakash Kaiwartya , Xingwang Li , Dinh-Thuan Do

With the rapid development of Internet of Things (IoT), massive machine-type communication has become a promising application scenario, where a large number of devices transmit sporadically to a base station (BS). Reconfigurable intelligent…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-01-26 Shuhao Xia , Yuanming Shi , Yong Zhou , Xiaojun Yuan

Reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS)-empowered communication is a revolutionary technology that enables to manipulate wireless propagation environment via smartly controllable low-cost reflecting surfaces. However, in order to…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-12-13 Zehra Yigit , Ertugrul Basar , Ibrahim Altunbas

This paper addresses the hardware structure of Reconfigurable Intelligent Surfaces (RIS) and presents a comprehensive overview of RIS design, considering both unit design and prototype systems. It commences by tracing the evolutionary…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-10-26 Rujing Xiong , Jianan Zhang , Fuhai Wang , Zhengyu Wang , Xiang Ren , Junshuo Liu , Jialong Lu , Kai Wan , Tiebin Mi , Robert Caiming Qiu

Reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RISs) have been considered as a promising technology for the sixth-generation (6G) wireless networks that can control wireless channels in a desirable way and significantly enhance the network…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2022-12-05 Waqas Khalid , Zeeshan Kaleem , Rehmat Ullah , Trinh Van Chien , Song Noh , Heejung Yu

Reconfigurable Intelligent Surfaces (RISs) constitute a strong candidate physical-layer technology for the $6$-th Generation (6G) of wireless networks, offering new design degrees of freedom for efficiently addressing demanding performance…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-06-21 Konstantinos D. Katsanos , George C. Alexandropoulos

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