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Massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) and reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS) are two promising technologies for 5G-and-beyond wireless networks, capable of providing large array gain and multiuser spatial multiplexing. Without…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-09-07 Trinh Van Chien , Hien Quoc Ngo , Symeon Chatzinotas , Björn Ottersten

Smart wireless environments enabled by multiple distributed Reconfigurable Intelligent Surfaces (RISs) have recently attracted significant research interest as a wireless connectivity paradigm for sixth Generation (6G) networks. In this…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-10-11 Aris L. Moustakas , George C. Alexandropoulos

A key challenge facing reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RISs) is channel state information acquisition. Passive RISs cannot generate pilot signals or process data, making rapid temporal changes in the channel problematic. Additionally,…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-08-15 Amy S. Inwood , Peter J. Smith , Philippa A. Martin , Graeme K. Woodward

This paper proposes a correlation-based three-stage channel estimation strategy with low pilot overhead for reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS)-aided millimeter wave (mmWave) multi-user (MU) MIMO systems, in which both users and base…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-02-11 Liuchang Zhuo , Cunhua Pan , Hong Ren , Ruisong Weng , Shi Jin , A. Lee Swindlehurst , Jiangzhou Wang

Reconfigurable Intelligent Surfaces (RISs) have been recently considered as an energy-efficient solution for future wireless networks. Their dynamic and low-power configuration enables coverage extension, massive connectivity, and…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-11-30 Li Wei , Chongwen Huang , George C. Alexandropoulos , Zhaohui Yang , Chau Yuen , Zhaoyang Zhang

In this paper, we investigate a reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS)-aided multiple-input single-output (MISO) system in the presence of electromagnetic interference (EMI) and channel aging with a Rician fading channel model between the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-05-16 Taoyu Song , Enyu Shi , Yu Lu , Yiyang Zhu , Jiayi Zhang , Bo Ai

Deploying multiple beyond diagonal reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (BD-RISs) can potentially improve the communication performance thanks to inter-element connections of each BD-RIS and inter-surface cooperative beamforming gain among…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-02-23 Junyuan Gao , Shuowen Zhang , Liang Liu

Can the smart radio environment paradigm measurably enhance the performance of contemporary urban macrocells? In this study, we explore the impact of reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RISs) on a real-world sub-6 GHz MIMO channel. A…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-11-30 James Rains , Anvar Tukmanov , Qammer Abbasi , Muhammad Imran

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 nearly passive planar structures that…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-02-14 Haiyang Zhang , Nir Shlezinger , Idban Alamzadeh , George C. Alexandropoulos , Mohammadreza F. Imani , Yonina C. Eldar

A significant increase in the number of reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS) elements results in a spherical wavefront in the near field of extremely large-scale RIS (XL-RIS). Although the channel matrix of the cascaded two-hop link may…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-11-14 Zixing Tang , Yuanbin Chen , Ying Wang , Tianqi Mao , Qingqing Wu , Marco Di Renzo , Lajos Hanzo

In multiuser multiple-input multiple-output (MU-MIMO) systems, channel correlation is detrimental to system performance. We demonstrate that widely used, yet overly simplified, correlation models that generate identical correlation profiles…

A RIS-assisted wireless communication system in the presence of a direct communication path between the transceiver pair is considered in this paper. The transmitter-RIS and the RIS-receiver channels follow independent Nakagami-m…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-08-14 Soumya P. Dash , Aryan Kaushik

This letter is concerned with the secrecy performance of reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RIS)-aided wireless networks in the existence of multiple interferers towards the destination. To be more precise, we analyze three critical…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-02-22 Md. Roisul Ajom Ruku , Md. Ibrahim , A. S. M. Badrudduza , Imran Shafique Ansari

This paper analyzes monostatic sensing by a user equipment (UE) for a setting in which the UE is unable to resolve multiple targets due to their interference within a single resolution bin. It is shown how sensing accuracy, in terms of both…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-07-17 Martin Voigt Vejling , Hyowon Kim , Christophe A. N. Biscio , Henk Wymeersch , Petar Popovski

Reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS) is an emerging paradigm able to control the propagation environment in wireless systems. Most of the research on RIS has been dedicated to system optimization and, with the advent of beyond diagonal…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-06-18 Matteo Nerini , Shanpu Shen , Hongyu Li , Marco Di Renzo , Bruno Clerckx

This paper considers wireless communication assisted by a reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS), focusing on the two-timescale approach, in which the RIS phase shifts are optimized based on channel statistics to mitigate the overheads…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-07-30 Masoud Sadeghian , Angel Lozano , Gabor Fodor

Multiport network theory has been proved to be a suitable abstraction model for analyzing and optimizing reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RISs) in an electromagnetically consistent manner, especially for studying the impact of the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-07-30 Andrea Abrardo , Alberto Toccafondi , Marco Di Renzo

To achieve the more promising passive beamforming gains in the double-intelligent reflecting surface (IRS) assisted system over the conventional single-IRS system, channel estimation is practically indispensable but also a more challenging…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-10-14 Beixiong Zheng , Changsheng You , Rui Zhang

This paper considers an antenna structure where a (non-large) array of radiating elements is placed at short distance in front of a reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS). We propose a channel estimation procedure using different…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-10-26 Stefano Buzzi , Carmen D'Andrea , Giovanni Interdonato

Beyond diagonal reconfigurable intelligent surface (BD-RIS) architectures offer superior beamforming gain over conventional diagonal RISs. However, the channel estimation overhead is the main hurdle for reaping the above gain in practice.…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-02-25 Rui Wang , Junyuan Gao , Shuowen Zhang , Bruno Clerckx , Liang Liu