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Smart wireless environments enabled by multiple distributed Reconfigurable Intelligent Surfaces (RISs) have recently attracted significant research interest as a wireless connectivity paradigm for sixth Generation (6G) networks. In this…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-10-11 Aris L. Moustakas , George C. Alexandropoulos

Reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS) is a novel meta-material which can form a smart radio environment by dynamically altering reflection directions of the impinging electromagnetic waves. In the prior literature, the inter-RIS links…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-03-13 Kaizhe Xu , Jiajia Guo , Jun Zhang , Shi Jin , Shaodan Ma

A reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS) can shape the radio propagation environment by virtue of changing the impinging electromagnetic waves towards any desired directions, thus, breaking the general Snell's reflection law. However, the…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-01-15 Jiguang He , Henk Wymeersch , Markku Juntti

We propose a novel analytical framework for evaluating the coverage performance of a millimeter wave (mmWave) cellular network where idle user equipments (UEs) act as relays. In this network, the base station (BS) adopts either the direct…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-12-30 Simin Xu , Nan Yang , Biao He , Hamid Jafarkhani

In this paper, we provide an analytical framework to analyze heterogeneous downlink mmWave cellular networks consisting of K tiers of randomly located base stations (BSs) where each tier operates in a mmWave frequency band.…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-04-05 Esma Turgut , M. Cenk Gursoy

Reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RISs) have shown the potential to improve signal-to-interference-plus-noise ratio (SINR) related coverage, especially at high-frequency communications. However, assessing electromagnetic field exposure…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-12-22 Lin Chen , Ahmed Elzanaty , Mustafa A Kishk , Ying-Jun Angela Zhang

Deploying Sub-6GHz networks together with millimeter wave (mmWave) is a promising solution to achieve high data rates in traffic hotspots while guaranteeing sufficient coverage, where mmWave small cells are densely deployed to provide high…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-09-17 Minwei Shi , Kai Yang , Zhu Han , Dusit Niyato

The concept of reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS) has been proposed to change the propagation of electromagnetic waves, e.g., reflection, diffraction, and refraction. To accomplish this goal, the phase values of the discrete RIS units…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-11-11 Jiguang He , Henk Wymeersch , Tachporn Sanguanpuak , Olli Silvén , Markku Juntti

Reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RISs) have recently received widespread attention in the field of wireless communication. An RIS can be controlled to reflect incident waves from the transmitter towards the receiver; a feature that is…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-09-15 Jiangfeng Hu , Haifan Yin , Emil Björnson

A fundamental challenge in millimeter-wave (mmWave) communication is the susceptibility to blocking objects. One way to alleviate this problem is the use of reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RIS). Nevertheless, due to the large number of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-04-22 Yaoshen Cui , Haifan Yin , Li Tan , Marco Di Renzo

Relay-aided transmission is envisioned as a key strategy to combat severe path loss and link blockages emerging as unique challenges in millimeter-wave (mmWave) communications. This work considers a relay-aided multiuser mmWave…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-03-09 Ahmet Zahid Yalcin , Yavuz Yapici

Reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RISs) have emerged as a prospective technology for next-generation wireless networks due to their potential in coverage and capacity enhancement. Previous works on achievable rate analysis of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-11-04 Renwang Li , Shu Sun , Yuhang Chen , Chong Han , Meixia Tao

The concept of age of information (AoI) has been proposed to quantify information freshness, which is crucial for time-sensitive applications. However, in millimeter wave (mmWave) communication systems, the link blockage caused by obstacles…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-11-14 Ziqi Guo , Yong Niu , Shiwen Mao , Changming Zhang , Ning Wang , Zhangdui Zhong , Bo Ai

In this paper, we focus on the sum-rate optimization in a multi-user millimeter-wave (mmWave) system with distributed intelligent reflecting surfaces (D-IRSs), where a base station (BS) communicates with users via multiple IRSs. The BS…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-01-22 Yue Xiu , Wei Sun , Jiao Wu , Guan Gui , Ning Wei , Zhongpei Zhang

In this paper, a novel framework for guaranteeing ultra-reliable millimeter wave (mmW) communications using multiple artificial intelligence (AI)-enabled reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RISs) is proposed. The use of multiple AI-powered…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2021-08-20 Mehdi Naderi Soorki , Walid Saad , Mehdi Bennis , Choong Seon Hong

The emerging reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS) technology is promising for applications in the millimeter wave (mmWave) communication systems to effectively compensate for propagation loss or tackle the blockage issue. Considering…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-02-08 Yu Liu , Ming Chen , Cunhua Pan , Yijin Pan , Yinlu Wang , Yaoming Huang , Tianyang Cao , Jiangzhou Wang

Reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS) is an attractive technology to improve the transmission rate of millimetre-wave (mmWave) communication systems. The previous {research} on RIS technology mainly focused on improving the transmission…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-11-01 Yunis Xanthos , Wanting Lyu , Songjie Yang , Chadi Assi , Xianbing Zou , Ning Wei

Reconfigurable intelligent surfaces have emerged as a promising hardware platform for shaping wireless propagation environments at millimeter-wave (mm-Wave) frequencies and beyond. While many existing studies emphasize channel modeling and…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-02-27 Ruiqi Wang , Pinjun Zheng , Yiming Yang , Xiarui Su , Mohammad Vaseem , Anas Chaaban , Md. Jahangir Hossain , Tareq Y. Al-Naffouri , Atif Shamim

In the context of the joint radar and communications (JRC) framework, reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RISs) emerged as a promising technology for their ability to shape the propagation environment by adjusting their phase-shift…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-04-15 Steven Rivetti , Ozlem Tugfe Demir , Emil Bjornson , Mikael Skoglund

Reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS) is considered to be an energy-efficient approach to reshape the wireless environment for improved throughput. Its passive feature greatly reduces the energy consumption, which makes RIS a promising…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-01-20 Keke Ying , Zhen Gao , Shanxiang Lyu , Yongpeng Wu , Hua Wang , Mohamed-Slim Alouini