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An intelligent reflecting surface (IRS), consisting of reconfigurable metamaterials, can be used to partially control the radio environment and thereby bring new features to wireless communications. Previous works on IRS have particularly…
Reconfigurable surface (RS) has been shown to be an effective solution for improving wireless communication links in general multi-user multiple-input multiple-output (MU-MIMO) setting. Current research efforts have been largely directed…
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…
The integration of reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RIS) with extremely large multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) arrays at the base station has emerged as a key enabler for enhancing wireless network performance. However, this setup…
Reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS) is a promising solution to deal with the blockage-sensitivity of millimeter wave band and reduce the high energy consumption caused by network densification. However, deploying large scale RISs may…
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), herein nicknamed reconfigurable intelligent base station (RIBS).…
Cell-free massive MIMO (multiple-input multiple-output) is a promising network architecture for beyond 5G systems, which can particularly offer more uniform data rates across the coverage area. Recent works have shown how reconfigurable…
The performance characterization of communication systems assisted by large reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RISs) significantly depends on the adopted models for the underlying channels. Under unrealistic channel models, the system…
The reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS) technology is a potential solution to enhance network capacity and coverage without significant investment in additional infrastructure in 6G networks. This work highlights the interest of the…
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…
The integration of Reconfigurable Intelligent Surfaces (RISs) into wireless environments endows channels with programmability, and is expected to play a key role in future communication standards. To date, most RIS-related efforts focus on…
Reconfigurable Intelligent Surfaces (RISs) are recently attracting a wide interest due to their capability of tuning wireless propagation environments in order to increase the system performance of wireless networks. In this paper, a…
We consider an uplink multi-user scenario and investigate the use of reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RIS) to optimize spatial multiplexing performance when a linear receiver is used. We study two different formulations of the problem,…
In state-of-the-art wireless networks, the radio environment is beyond the control of the operators which leads to several issues. For example, signal attenuation limits radio connectivity, multi-path propagation results in fading phenomena…
The tunability of radio environments with reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RISs) enables the paradigm of smart radio environments in which wireless system engineers are no longer limited to only controlling the radiated signals but can…
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…
The performance of transmission schemes is heavily influenced by the wireless channel, which is typically considered an uncontrollable factor. However, the introduction of reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RISs) to wireless…
The demanding objectives for the future sixth generation (6G) of wireless communication networks have spurred recent research efforts on novel materials and radio-frequency front-end architectures for wireless connectivity, as well as…
Antenna selection is capable of reducing the hardware complexity of massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) networks at the cost of certain performance degradation. Reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS) has emerged as a…
We analyze the influence of a reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS) on the Gram channel eigenvalues in a high signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) scenario. This allows to connect specific channel properties with the rank improvement capabilities…