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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 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

Reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RISs), with the potential to realize a smart radio environment, have emerged as an energy-efficient and a cost-effective technology to support the services and demands foreseen for coming decades. By…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-07-13 Sarah Basharat , Syed Ali Hassan , Haris Pervaiz , Aamir Mahmood , Zhiguo Ding , Mikael Gidlund

Reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RISs) are typically used in multi-user systems to mitigate interference among active transmitters. In contrast, this paper studies a setting with a conventional active encoder as well as a passive…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-01-20 Roy Karasik , Osvaldo Simeone , Marco Di Renzo , Shlomo Shamai

Reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RISs) have been deemed as one of potential components of future wireless communication systems because they can adaptively manipulate the wireless propagation environment with low-cost passive devices.…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-03-23 Yanan Ma , Rang Liu , Yang Liu , Ming Li , Qian Liu

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

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

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

This work addresses the issue of energy efficiency maximization in a multi-user network aided by reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS) with global reflection capabilities. Two optimization methods are proposed to optimize the mobile…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-03-07 Robert K. Fotock , Alessio Zappone , Marco Di Renzo

This paper considers the reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS)-assisted multi-user communications, where an RIS is used to assist the base station (BS) for serving multiple users. The RIS consisting of passive reflecting elements can…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-12-01 Yu-Tse Wu , Kuang-Hao Liu

Reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS)-assisted communication is a key enabling technology for next-generation wireless communication networks, allowing for the reshaping of wireless channels without requiring traditional radio frequency…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-11-18 Recep Vural , Aymen Khaleel , Ertugrul Basar

Reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS) as a smart reflector is revolutionizing research for next-generation wireless communications. Complementing this is a concept of using RIS as an efficient propagation medium for potentially superior…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-08-04 Z. Chu , K. F. Tong , K. K. Wong , C. B. Chae , C. H. Chan

Reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RISs) are arrays of passive elements that can control the reflection of the incident electromagnetic waves. While RIS are particularly useful to avoid blockages, the protocol aspects for their…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-03-16 Victor Croisfelt , Fabio Saggese , Israel Leyva-Mayorga , Radoslaw Kotaba , Gabriele Gradoni , Petar Popovski

Reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RISs) can be densely deployed in the environment to create multi-reflection line-of-sight (LoS) links for signal coverage enhancement. However, conventional reflection-only RISs can only achieve…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-05-21 Bonan An , Weidong Mei , Yuanwei Liu , Dong Wang , Zhi Chen

Reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS) has been recognized as an essential enabling technique for the sixth-generation (6G) mobile communication network. Specifically, an RIS is comprised of a large number of small and low-cost reflecting…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-08-24 Jindan Xu , Chau Yuen , Chongwen Huang , Naveed Ul Hassan , George C. Alexandropoulos , Marco Di Renzo , Merouane Debbah

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

A conceptual example is first analyzed to show that efficient wireless communications is possible, when user equipment (UE) receiver, BS transmitter or/and the scatter (reflector) in wireless channels employ the required channel state…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-03-19 Lie-Liang Yang

Reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS) has emerged as a cost- and energy-efficient solution to enhance the wireless communication capacity. However, recent studies show that a very large surface is required for a RIS-assisted…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-03-09 Nhan Thanh Nguyen , Quang-Doanh Vu , Kyungchun Lee , Markku Juntti

Reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS) is a type of wireless communication technology that uses a reconfigurable surface, such as a wall or building that is able to adjust its properties by an integrated optimization algorithm in order to…

Applied Physics · Physics 2023-09-25 Emanuel Colella , Luca Bastianelli , Franco Moglie , Valter Mariani Primiani

Reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RIS) are conventionally implemented as two-dimensional (2D) electromagnetic (EM) structures to steer incident waves toward desired reflection angles. This approach limits the reflection to a single…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-02-16 Ruiqi Wang , Yiming Yang , Atif Shamim