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This paper introduces a reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS) to support parameter estimation in machine-type communications (MTC). We focus on a network where single-antenna sensors transmit spatially correlated measurements to a…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-01-28 Sergi Liesegang , Antonio Pascual-Iserte , Olga Muñoz

This paper proposes a novel reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS) architecture which enables channel estimation of RIS-assisted millimeter wave (mmWave) systems. More specifically, two channel estimation methods, namely, direct…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-08-20 Fangqing Jiang , Liang Yang , Daniel Benevides da Costa , Qingqing Wu

The reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS) has attracted considerable attention of both academia and industry in recent years, given its capacity to dynamically manipulate the reflection of incident electromagnetic waves. Although the…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-09 Pedro H. C. de Souza , Luciano Mendes

We consider reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS) aided sixth-generation (6G) terahertz (THz) communications for indoor environment in which a base station (BS) wishes to send independent messages to its serving users with the help of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-03-22 Najam Us Saqib , Shumei Hou , Sung Ho Chae , Sang-Woon Jeon

Reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RISs) are one of the foremost technological enablers of future wireless systems. They improve communication and localization by providing a strong non-line-of-sight path to the receiver. In this paper,…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-04-26 Kamran Keykhosravi , Henk Wymeersch

Reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS) is a promising technology to enhance the spectral and energy efficiency in a wireless communication system. The design of the phase shifts of an RIS in every channel coherence interval demands a huge…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-05-15 Sadaf Syed , Dominik Semmler , Donia Ben Amor , Michael Joham , Wolfgang Utschick

Reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS) is a promising candidate technology of the upcoming Sixth Generation (6G) communication system for its ability to provide unprecedented spectral and energy efficiency increment through passive…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-09-29 Haochen Li , Zhiwen Pan , Bin Wang , Nan Liu , Xiaohu You

Beyond-diagonal reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (BD-RISs) extend conventional diagonal RISs by allowing inter-element coupling, thereby enlarging the set of attainable scattering matrices and improving the achievable signal-to-noise…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-05-08 Konstantinos Ntougias , Ioannis Krikidis

Non-diagonal reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RISs) offer enhanced wireless signal manipulation over conventional RIS by enabling the incident signal on any of its $M$ elements to be reflected from another element via an $M \times M$…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-06-19 Mostafa Samy , Hayder Al-Hraishawi , Abuzar B. M. Adam , Madyan Alsenwi , Symeon Chatzinotas , Björn Otteresten

Reconfigurable Intelligent Surfaces (RIS) or Intelligent Reflecting Surfaces (IRS) are metasurfaces that can be deployed in various places in wireless environments to make these environments controllable and reconfigurable. In this paper,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-01-22 S. Mohammad Razavizadeh , Tommy Svensson

This paper proposes a joint active and passive beamforming design for reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS)-aided wireless communication systems, adopting a piece-wise near-field channel model. While a traditional near-field channel…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-06-24 Weijian Chen , Zai Yang , Zhiqiang Wei , Derrick Wing Kwan Ng , Michail Matthaiou

Active reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS) emerges as an effective technique to resist the double-fading attenuation of passive RIS. By embedding with power harvesting function, it further evolves to zero-power active RIS, which can…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-10-17 Xiao Zheng , Wenchi Cheng , Jingqing Wang , Zhuohui Yao , Jiangzhou Wang

Reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RISs) are envisioned to play a key role in future wireless communication networks. However, channel estimation in RIS-aided wireless networks is challenging due to their passive nature and the large…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-06-21 Sadjad Alikhani , Ahmed Alkhateeb

The shift toward sixth-generation (6G) wireless communications demands transceiver architectures that simultaneously support high-data-rate communications, pervasive sensing, and sub-meter-level localization. Beyond these performance…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-05-12 Mahmoud Raeisi , Ayoub Ammar Boudjelal , Henk Wymeersch , Ertugrul Basar , Huseyin Arslan

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

Reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS) has recently drawn significant attention in wireless communication technologies. However, identifying, modeling, and estimating the RIS channel in multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) systems are…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-11-04 Salah Eddine Zegrar , Liza Afeef , Huseyin Arslan

Reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS)-empowered communication is a revolutionary technology that enables to manipulate wireless propagation environment via smartly controllable low-cost reflecting surfaces. However, in order to…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-12-13 Zehra Yigit , Ertugrul Basar , Ibrahim Altunbas

Channel estimation is challenging for the reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS)-aided wireless communications. Since the number of coefficients of the cascaded channel among the base station (BS), the RIS and the user equipments (UEs) is…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-05-19 Chen Hu , Linglong Dai

Channel estimation is one of the key challenges for the deployment of extremely large-scale reconfigurable intelligent surface (XL-RIS) assisted multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) systems. In this paper, we study the channel estimation…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-04-29 Jeongjae Lee , Hyeongjin Chung , Yunseong Cho , Sunwoo Kim , Songnam Hong

A reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS) can be used to improve the channel gain between a base station (BS) and user equipment (UE), but only if its $N$ reflecting elements are configured properly. This requires accurate estimation of…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-05-24 Özlem Tuğfe Demir , Emil Björnson , Luca Sanguinetti