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Reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS), as an efficient tool to improve receive signal-to-noise ratio, extend coverage and create more spatial diversity, is viewed as a most promising technique for the future wireless networks like 6G. As…

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Reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS) technology has emerged as a promising enabler for next-generation wireless networks, offering a paradigm shift from passive environments to programmable radio wave propagation. Despite the potential…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2025-02-07 Wali Ullah Khan , Chandan Kumar Sheemar , Eva Lagunas , Symeon Chatzinotas

Transmission through reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RISs), which control the reflection/scattering characteristics of incident waves in a deliberate manner to enhance the signal quality at the receiver, appears as a promising…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-01-30 Ertugrul Basar

Reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RIS), recognized as a critical enabler for 6G networks, exhibit unprecedented capabilities in electromagnetic wave manipulation and wireless channel reconfiguration. By leveraging existing network…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-08-19 Wenjun Teng , Weicong Chen , Yiping Zuo , Wankai Tang , Shi Jin

Reconfigurable Intelligent Surfaces (RIS) have emerged as a transformative technology capable of reshaping wireless environments through dynamic manipulation of electromagnetic waves. While extensive research has explored their theoretical…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-12-19 Ziyu Chen , Yitong Shen , Jingzhe Zhang , Yao Zheng , Yili Ren , Xuyu Wang , Shiwen Mao , Hanqing Guo

Reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RISs) have emerged as a candidate technology for future 6G networks. However, due to the "multiplicative fading" effect, the existing passive RISs only achieve a negligible capacity gain in environments…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-01-20 Zijian Zhang , Linglong Dai , Xibi Chen , Changhao Liu , Fan Yang , Robert Schober , H. Vincent Poor

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

Next-generation communication technology will be made possible by cooperation between terrestrial networks with non-terrestrial networks (NTN) comprised of high-altitude platform stations and satellites. Further, as humanity embarks on the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-04-26 Kürşat Tekbıyık , Güneş Karabulut Kurt , Ali Rıza Ekti , Halim Yanikomeroglu

Reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS) is promising for future 6G wireless communications. However, the increased number of RIS elements results in the high overhead for channel acquisition and the non-negligible power consumption.…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-01-16 Ruochen Su , Linglong Dai , Jingbo Tan , Mo Hao , Richard MacKenzie

As a revolutionary paradigm for controlling wireless channels, reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RISs) have emerged as a candidate technology for future 6G networks. However, due to the "multiplicative fading" effect, the existing…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-01-20 Zijian Zhang , Linglong Dai , Xibi Chen , Changhao Liu , Fan Yang , Robert Schober , H. Vincent Poor

Research on reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RISs) has predominantly focused on purely physical (PHY)-layer aspects, particularly, on how signals are dynamically shaped by a controllable wireless propagation environment. However,…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-03-03 Fabio Saggese , Victor Croisfelt , Kyriakos Stylianopoulos , George C. Alexandropoulos , Petar Popovski

Reconfigurable Intelligent Surface (RIS) has recently been regarded as a paradigm-shifting technology beyond 5G, for its flexibility on smartly adjusting the response to the impinging electromagnetic (EM) waves. Usually, RIS can be…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-03-07 Jiangfeng Hu , Haifan Yin , Li Tan , Lin Cao , Xilong Pei

Originally introduced in the early 2010's, the idea of smart environments through reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RIS) controlling the reflections of the electromagnetic waves has attracted much attention in recent years in preparation…

Reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RISs) are expected to make future 6G networks more connected and resilient against node failures, due to their ability to introduce controllable phase-shifts onto impinging electromagnetic waves and…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-08-22 Mohammed S. Al-Abiad , Mohammad Javad-Kalbasi , Shahrokh Valaee

Massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) and reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS) are two promising technologies for 5G-and-beyond wireless networks, capable of providing large array gain and multiuser spatial multiplexing. Without…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-09-07 Trinh Van Chien , Hien Quoc Ngo , Symeon Chatzinotas , Björn Ottersten

Higher spectral and energy efficiencies are the envisioned defining characteristics of high data-rate sixth-generation (6G) wireless networks. One of the enabling technologies to meet these requirements is index modulation (IM), which…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-10-06 JohnA. Hodge , Kumar Vijay Mishra , Brian M. Sadler , Amir I. Zaghloul

Reconfigurable Intelligent Surfaces (RIS) have emerged as a key enabler for programmable wireless environments in future Beyond-5G (B5G) and 6G networks. In the meantime, Integrated Sensing and Communication (ISAC) and Physical-Layer…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-23 Wenqing Dai , Jan Herbst , Jan Petershans , Christoph Lipps , Hans D. Schotten

In this letter, we present in detail the system-level modeling of reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS)-assisted cellular systems by considering a 3-dimensional channel model between base station, RIS, and user. We prove that the optimal…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-05-03 Pavan Reddy M. , SaiDhiraj Amuru , Kiran Kuchi

Reconfigurable Intelligent Surfaces (RISs) are expected to play a crucial role in reaching the key performance indicators (KPIs) for future 6G networks. Their competitive edge over conventional technologies lies in their ability to control…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2023-03-03 Antonio Albanese , Francesco Devoti , Vincenzo Sciancalepore , Marco Di Renzo , Albert Banchs , Xavier Costa-Pérez

Reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RISs) have received considerable attention as a key enabler for envisioned 6G networks, for the purpose of improving the network capacity, coverage, efficiency, and security with low energy consumption…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-11-30 Hao Zhou , Melike Erol-Kantarci , Yuanwei Liu , H. Vincent Poor