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Reconfigurable Intelligent Surfaces (RIS) have emerged as transformative technologies, enhancing spectral efficiency and improving interference management in multi-user cooperative communications. This paper investigates the integration of…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-06-17 Yomali Lokugama , Saman Atapattu , Nathan Ross , Sithamparanathan Kandeepan , Chintha Tellambura

Reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS) is a newly-emerged technology that might fundamentally change how wireless networks are operated. Though extensively studied in recent years, the practical limitations of RIS are often neglected when…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-12-12 Parisa Ramezani , Yasaman Khorsandmanesh , Emil Björnson

In this paper, we investigate the potential of employing reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS) in integrated sensing and communication (ISAC) systems. In particular, we consider an RIS-assisted ISAC system in which a multi-antenna base…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-01-27 Rang Liu , Ming Li , A. Lee Swindlehurst

The key advantage of successive relaying (SR) networks is their ability to mimic the full-duplex (FD) operation with half-duplex (HD) relays. However, the main challenge that comes with such schemes is the associated inter-relay…

In this paper, we study the problem of joint active and passive beamforming for reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS)-assisted massive multiple-input multiple-output systems towards the extension of the wireless cellular coverage in 3D,…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-12-18 Yu Tian , Ahmed Alhammadi , Jiguang He , Aymen Fakhreddine , Faouzi Bader

Cell-free systems can effectively eliminate the inter-cell interference by enabling multiple base stations (BSs) to cooperatively serve users without cell boundaries at the expense of high costs of hardware and power sources due to the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-11-18 Yutong Zhang , Boya Di , Hongliang Zhang , Jinlong Lin , Yonghui Li , Lingyang Song

Reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RIS) have emerged as a promising technology for enhancing wireless communication by dynamically controlling signal propagation in the environment. However, their efficient deployment relies on accurate…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-06-12 Mohammad Ghassemi , Sara Farrag Mobarak , Han Zhang , Ali Afana , Akram Bin Sediq , Melike Erol-Kantarci

Reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS)-aided cell-free (CF) massive multiple-input multiple-output (mMIMO) is a promising technology for further improving spectral efficiency (SE) with low cost and power consumption. However, conventional…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-12-02 Yizhuo Li , Jiakang Zheng , Bokai Xu , Yiyang Zhu , Jiayi Zhang , Dusit Niyato , Bo Ai

This paper investigates the problem of resource allocation for multiuser communication networks with a reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS)-assisted wireless transmitter. In this network, the sum transmit power of the network is…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-09-25 Zhaohui Yang , Wei Xu , Chongwen Huang , Jianfeng Shi , Mohammad Shikh-Bahaei

Simultaneous transmitting and reflecting reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (STAR-RIS) offer a transformative approach for integrated sensing and communication (ISAC) systems, particularly for enhancing physical layer security (PLS). This…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-03-10 Rakesh Ranjan , Anshu Mukherjee , Manjesh K. Hanawal , Keshav Singh , Ioannis Krikidis

Reconfigurable Intelligent Surfaces (RIS) are passive or semi-passive heterogeneous metasurfaces and consist of many tunable elements. RIS is gaining momentum as a promising new technology to enable transforming the propagation environment…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-01-06 Pooja Nuti , Elyes Balti , Brian L. Evans

Reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS) technology is a promising method to enhance the device-to-device (D2D) communications. To maximize the sum rate of the cellular and D2D networks, a joint optimization of the position and the phase…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-11-12 Zelin Ji , Zhijin Qin

This paper investigates the transmission design in the reconfigurable-intelligent-surface (RIS)-assisted downlink system. The channel state information (CSI) is usually difficult to be estimated at the base station (BS) when the RIS is not…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-02-05 Dong Wang , Xiaodong Wang , Fanggang Wang

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

Integrating the reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS) into a cell-free massive multiple-input multiple-output (CF-mMIMO) system is an effective solution to achieve high system capacity with low cost and power consumption. However,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-03-27 Jianxin Dai , Jin Ge , Kangda Zhi , Cunhua Pan , Youguo Wang

In this paper, the problem of maximizing the sum-rate is addressed for a multi-user uplink scenario that is assisted by an active reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS). The maximization is achieved by optimizing the beamforming at the…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-06 Mohamed Shalma , Engy Maher , Ahmed El-Mahdy

Fluid reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (FRIS) enable joint position and phase reconfigurability by integrating fluid antennas (FA) with conventional reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RIS). In this paper, we propose a novel FRIS-based…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-03-13 Peng Zhang , Jian Dang , Miaowen Wen , Ziyang Liu , Kai-Kit Wong , Chen Zhao , Huaifeng Shi , Zaichen Zhang

While reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS)-aided user-specific beamforming has been vastly investigated, the aspect of utilizing RISs for assisting cell-specific transmission has been largely unattended. Aiming to fill this gap, we…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-12-04 Parisa Ramezani , Maksym A. Girnyk , Emil Björnson

In the realm of wireless communications in 5G, 6G and beyond, deploying unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) has been an innovative approach to extend the coverage area due to its easy deployment. Moreover, reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS)…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2022-12-09 Pyae Sone Aung , Yu Min Park , Yan Kyaw Tun , Zhu Han , Choong Seon Hong

Reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RISs) are envisioned to be a disruptive wireless communication technique that is capable of reconfiguring the wireless propagation environment. In this paper, we study a free-space RIS-assisted…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-09-19 Xin Cheng , Yan Lin , Weiping Shi , Jiayu Li , Cunhua Pan , Feng Shu , Yongpeng Wu , Jiangzhou Wang