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We discuss the need for a confluence of localization, sensing and communications if RISs are to be deployed in a self-adaptive manner in the dynamically evolving rich-scattering settings that are typical for 6G deployment scenarios such as…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-04-04 Chloé Saigre-Tardif , Philipp del Hougne

The emerging technology of Reconfigurable Intelligent Surfaces (RISs) is provisioned as an enabler of smart wireless environments, offering a highly scalable, low-cost, hardware-efficient, and almost energy-neutral solution for dynamic…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-05-11 George C. Alexandropoulos , Kyriakos Stylianopoulos , Chongwen Huang , Chau Yuen , Mehdi Bennis , Mérouane Debbah

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

Optimally extracting the advantages available from reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RISs) in wireless communications systems requires estimation of the channels to and from the RIS. The process of determining these channels is…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-10-04 A. Lee Swindlehurst , Gui Zhou , Rang Liu , Cunhua Pan , Ming Li

A reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS) is a planar structure that is engineered to dynamically control the electromagnetic waves. In wireless communications, RISs have recently emerged as a promising technology for realizing…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-07-13 Marco Di Renzo , Fadil H. Danufane , Sergei Tretyakov

Reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS)-empowered communication is one of the promising 6G technologies that allows the conversion of the wireless channel into an intelligent transmit entity by manipulating the impinging waves using…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-09-01 I. Yildirim , A. Uyrus , E. Basar

Reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS)-assisted communications is one of the promising candidates for next generation wireless networks by controlling the propagation environment dynamically. In this study, a channel modeling strategy for…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-11-03 Fatih Kilinc , Ibrahim Yildirim , Ertugrul Basar

Smart radio environments (SREs) are seen as a key rising concept of next generation wireless networks, where propagation channels between transmitters and receivers are purposely controlled. One promising approach to achieve such channel…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-03-15 Moustafa Rahal , Benoît Denis , Kamran Keykhosravi , Furkan Keskin , Bernard Uguen , George C. Alexandropoulos , Henk Wymeersch

Reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RISs) are an emerging technology for future wireless communication. The vast majority of recent research on RIS has focused on system level optimizations. However, developing straightforward and…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-08-24 Shanpu Shen , Bruno Clerckx , Ross Murch

Reconfigurable Intelligent Surfaces (RISs) have emerged as a promising technology for next-generation wireless communications, offering energy-efficient control of electromagnetic (EM) waves. While conventional RIS models based on phase…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-08-12 Ayane Lebeta Goshu , Placido Mursia , Vincenzo Sciancalepore , Marco Di Renzo , Xavier Costa-Pérez

Reconfigurable Intelligent Surfaces (RISs), comprising large numbers of low-cost and passive metamaterials with tunable reflection properties, have been recently proposed as an enabler for programmable radio propagation environments.…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-09-17 Aris L. Moustakas , George C. Alexandropoulos , Mérouane Debbah

Reconfigurable Intelligent Surfaces (RISs) constitute the enabler for programmable propagation of electromagnetic signals, and are lately being considered as a candidate physical-layer technology for the demanding connectivity, reliability,…

Reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RISs) are regarded as a promising emerging hardware technology to improve the spectrum and energy efficiency of wireless networks by artificially reconfiguring the propagation environment of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-08-18 Xiaojun Yuan , Ying-Jun Angela Zhang , Yuanming Shi , Wenjing Yan , Hang Liu

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

Physically accurate and mathematically tractable models are presented to characterize scattering and reflection properties of reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RISs). We take continuous and discrete strategies to model a single patch and…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-08-31 Tiebin Mi , Jianan Zhang , Rujing Xiong , Zhengyu Wang , Robert Caiming Qiu

Intelligent surfaces comprising of cost effective, nearly passive, and reconfigurable unit elements are lately gaining increasing interest due to their potential in enabling fully programmable wireless environments. They are envisioned to…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-05-26 George C. Alexandropoulos , Evangelos Vlachos

In this work, we tackle the problem of beampattern design for a transmit system employing a large reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS) to redirect radio frequency signals emitted by a few active antennas (sources). We begin by…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-07-15 Ciro D'Elia , Emanuele Grossi , Luca Venturino

With both the standardization and commercialization completed in an unforeseen pace for the 5th generation (5G) wireless network, researchers, engineers and executives from the academia and the industry have turned their sights on candidate…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2024-02-20 Ruiqi Liu , Qingqing Wu , Marco Di Renzo , Yifei Yuan

Reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS) is an emerging technology that is under investigation for different applications in wireless communications. RISs are often analyzed and optimized by considering simplified electromagnetic…

This paper presents a physics-based channel modeling and optimization framework for reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS)-assisted downlink multi-user multiple-input single-output (MU-MISO) communication systems in site-specific…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-03-24 Ziqi Liu , Wei Yu , Sean Victor Hum