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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

In this paper, we focus on the energy efficiency (EE) optimization and analysis of reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS)-assisted multiuser downlink near-field communications. Specifically, we conduct a comprehensive study on several key…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-05-26 Wei Wang , Xiaoyu Ou , Zhihan Ren , Waqas Bin Abbas , Shuping Dang , Angela Doufexi , Mark A. Beach

This paper explores the use of reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RIS) in mitigating cross-system interference in spectrum sharing and secure wireless applications. Unlike conventional RIS that can only adjust the phase of the incoming…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-07-03 Fangzhou Wang , A. Lee Swindlehurst

We propose a reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS)-assisted wiretap channel, where the RIS is strategically deployed to provide a spatial separation to the transmitter, and orthogonal combiners are employed at the legitimate receiver to…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-01-31 Xudong Li , Matthias Frey , Ehsan Tohidi , Igor Bjelaković , Sławomir Stańczak

This paper introduces a novel method to enhance the connectivity of multi-reconfigurable intelligent surface-assisted device-to-device networks, referred to as multi-RIS-assisted D2D networks, through a unique phase shift determination. The…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-10-08 Mohammed Saif , Mohammad Javad-Kalbasi , Shahrokh Valaee

This paper considers a hybrid reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS) assisted integrated sensing and communication (ISAC) system, where each RIS element can flexibly switch between the active and passive modes. Subject to the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-12-06 Yingbin Lin , Feng Wang , Xiao Zhang , Guojun Han , Vincent K. N. Lau

Mutual Coupling (MC) emerges as an inherent feature in Reconfigurable Intelligent Surfaces (RISs), particularly, when they are fabricated with sub-wavelength inter-element spacing. Hence, any physically-consistent model of the RIS operation…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-06-11 Dilki Wijekoon , Amine Mezghani , George C. Alexandropoulos , Ekram Hossain

The usage of Reconfigurable Intelligent Surfaces (RIS) in conjunction with Unmanned Ariel Vehicles (UAVs) is being investigated as a way to provide energy-efficient communication to ground users in dense urban areas. In this paper, we…

The reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS) is one of the promising technologies contributing to the next generation smart radio environment. A novel physics-based RIS channel model is proposed. Particularly, we consider the RIS and the…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-08-04 Jiaqi Xu , Yuanwei Liu

One of the great potentials to improve the confidentiality in mmWave/THz at the physical layer of technical communication, measured by the secrecy rate, lies in the use of reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RISs). However, an important…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-01-30 Chu Li , Stefan Roth , Aydin Sezgin

A reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS) is a nearly-passive flat layer made of inexpensive elements that can add a tunable phase shift to the impinging electromagnetic wave and are controlled by a low-power electronic circuit. This paper…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-05-04 Stefano Buzzi , Emanuele Grossi , Marco Lops , Luca Venturino

This correspondence investigates a reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS)-assisted wireless communication system with security threats. The RIS is deployed to enhance the secrecy outage probability (SOP) of the data sent to a legitimate…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-11-30 Wei Shi , Jindan Xu , Wei Xu , Marco Di Renzo , Chunming Zhao

Reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS)-aided networks have been investigated for the purpose of improving the system performance. However, the introduced unit modulus phase shifts and coupling characteristic bring enormous challenges to…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-08-19 Biqian Feng , Junyuan Gao , Yongpeng Wu , Wenjun Zhang , Xiang-Gen Xia , Chengshan Xiao

The adoption of reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS) in wireless networks can enhance the spectrum- and energy-efficiency by controlling the propagation environment. Although the RIS does not consume any transmit power, the circuit…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-05-05 Siyuan Sun , Min Fu , Yuanming Shi , Yong Zhou

This paper evaluates the geometrically averaged performance of a wireless communication network assisted by a multitude of distributed reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RISs), where the RIS locations are randomly dropped obeying a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-09-18 Jindan Xu , Wei Xu , Chau Yuen

Integrated sensing and communication (ISAC) capability is envisioned as one key feature for future cellular networks. Classical half-duplex (HD) radar sensing is conducted in a "first-emit-then-listen" manner. One challenge to realize HD…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-09-08 Yuan Guo , Yang Liu , Qingqing Wu , Xiaoyang Li , Qingjiang Shi

This paper considers a multiuser multiple-input single-output (MISO) downlink system with simultaneous wireless information and power transfer. In particular, we focus on secure communication in the presence of passive eavesdroppers and…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-15 Derrick Wing Kwan Ng , Ernest S. Lo , Robert Schober

Sensing-assisted communication schemes have recently garnered significant research attention. In this work, we design a dual-function reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS), integrating both active and passive elements, referred to as the…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-08-14 Cheng Luo , Luping Xiang , Jie Hu , Kun Yang

This paper studies an extremely large-scale reconfigurable intelligent surface (XL-RIS)-aided near-field physical layer security (PLS) communication system, aiming to maximize the secrecy rate by jointly optimizing precoding vector at the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-03-09 Xiaotong Xu , Qian Zhang , Yunxiao Li , Xuejun Cheng , Meihui Liu , Ju Liu

The reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS) technology allows one to engineer spatial diversity in complex cellular networks. This paper provides a framework for the system-level performance assessment of RIS-assisted networks and in…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-11-12 Guodong Sun , Francois Baccelli , Ke Feng , Luis Uzeda Garcia , Stefano Paris