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Although reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RISs) can improve the performance of wireless networks by smartly reconfiguring the radio environment, existing passive RISs face two key challenges, i.e., double-fading attenuation and…

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This paper introduces a novel approach of utilizing the reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS) for joint data modulation and signal beamforming in a multi-user downlink cellular network by leveraging the idea of backscatter communication.…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-08-25 Haseeb Ur Rehman , Faouzi Bellili , Amine Mezghani , Ekram Hossain

Reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS)-assisted cell-free (CF) multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) networks can significantly enhance system performance. However, the extensive deployment of RIS elements imposes considerable channel…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-06-30 Hongqin Ke , Jindan Xu , Wei Xu , Chau Yuen , Zhaohua Lu

Targeting the requirements of 6G, this paper investigates a semi-passive dual-reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS)-assisted integrated sensing and communication (ISAC) system, tackling the max-min user signal-to-interference-plus-noise…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-03-24 Qing Xue , Yun Lan , Jiajia Guo , Qianbin Chen , Shaodan Ma

The reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS) technology for metasurfaces is ushering in a new paradigm for wireless communication systems. It provides an accessible way for controlling the interaction between electromagnetic waves with the…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-01-21 P. H. C. de Souza , M. Khazaee , L. L. Mendes

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

This paper explores an integrated sensing and communication (ISAC) network empowered by multiple active simultaneously transmitting and reflecting reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (STAR-RISs). A base station (BS) furnishes downlink…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-07-25 Hyeonho Noh , Hyeonsu Lyu , Hyun Jong Yang

This work studies a low-complexity design for reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS)-aided multiuser multiple-input multiple-output systems. The base station (BS) applies receive antenna selection to connect a subset of its antennas to…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-12-29 Chongjun Ouyang , Ali Bereyhi , Saba Asaad , Ralf R. Müller , Hongwen Yang

Unlike the conventional fully-passive and fully-active reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RISs), a hybrid RIS consisting of active and passive reflection units has recently been concerned, which can exploit their integrated advantages to…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2025-05-27 Yu Yao , Junhao Zhang , Pu Miao , Long Zhang , Gaojie Chen , Feng Shu , Kai-Kit Wong

This paper investigates the integration of active reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RIS) relay with high-altitude platform stations (HAPS) to enhance non-terrestrial network (NTN) performance in next-generation wireless systems. While…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2025-07-21 Bilal Karaman , Ilhan Basturk , Ferdi Kara , Metin Ozturk , Sezai Taskin , Halil Yanikomeroglu

Benefiting from its capability to generalize existing reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS) architectures and provide additional design flexibility via interactions between RIS elements, beyond-diagonal RIS (BD-RIS) has attracted…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-01-20 Xiaohua Zhou , Tianyu Fang , Yijie Mao

Reconfigurable Intelligent Surface (RIS) is one of the promising techniques for 6G wireless communications, and recently has also been shown to be able to improve secure communications. However, there is a "double fading" effect in the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-12-07 Weigang Lv , Jiale Bai , Qingli Yan , Hui-Ming Wang

Reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS) is regarded as a promising technology with great potential to boost wireless networks. Affected by the "double fading" effect, however, conventional passive RIS cannot bring considerable performance…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-10-06 Qi Zhu , Ming Li , Rang Liu , Yang Liu , Qian Liu

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

This paper considers the application of reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RISs) (a.k.a. intelligent reflecting surfaces (IRSs)) to assist multiuser multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) uplink transmission from several multi-antenna user…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-09-14 Li You , Jiayuan Xiong , Yufei Huang , Derrick Wing Kwan Ng , Cunhua Pan , Wenjin Wang , Xiqi Gao

In the fifth-generation and beyond era, reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS) and dynamic metasurface antennas (DMAs) are emerging metamaterials keeping up with the demand for high-quality wireless communication services, which promote…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-09-07 Hanyu Jiang , Li You , Jue Wang , Wenjin Wang , Xiqi Gao

Consider a communication system in which a single antenna user equipment exchanges information with a multi-antenna base station via a reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS) in the presence of spatially correlated channels and…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-12-14 Wen-Xuan Long , Marco Moretti , Andrea Abrardo , Luca Sanguinetti , Rui Chen

The reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS), which consists of a large number of passive and low-cost reflecting elements, has been recognized as a revolutionary technology to enhance the performance of future wireless networks. This paper…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-05-25 Linsong Du , Shihai Shao Gang Yang , Jianhui Ma , Qinpeng Liang , Youxi Tang

Intelligent reflecting surface (IRS) has emerged as a promising technology to enhance the wireless communication network coverage and capacity by dynamically controlling the radio signal propagation environment. In contrast to the existing…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-07-06 Zhenyu Kang , Changsheng You , Rui Zhang

This paper considers an active reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS)-aided communication system, where an M-antenna base station (BS) transmits data symbols to a single-antenna user via an N-element active RIS. We use two-timescale…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-02-29 Zhangjie Peng , Tianshu Li , Cunhua Pan , Xianfu Lei , Shi Jin