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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

Active reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RISs) employ amplification to overcome attenuation caused by the RIS cascaded link. In this paper, we analyze the effects of phase errors and channel aging in active simultaneously transmitting…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-10-16 Jun Qian , Ross Murch , Khaled B. Letaief

Active reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS) is a new RIS architecture that can reflect and amplify communication signals. It can provide enhanced performance gain compared to the conventional passive RIS systems that can only reflect…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-01-12 Qian Zhang , Mingjie Shao , Qiang Li , Ju Liu

We consider a multi-user multiple-input single-output (MISO) communications system which is assisted by a hybrid active-passive reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS). Unlike conventional passive RISs, hybrid RIS is equipped with a few…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-03-22 Nhan Thanh Nguyen , Van-Dinh Nguyen , Qingqing Wu , Antti Tolli , Symeon Chatzinotas , Markku Juntti

This paper investigates the two-timescale transmission design for reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS)-aided massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) systems, where the beamforming at the base station (BS) is adapted to the…

Simultaneously transmitting and reflecting \textcolor{black}{reconfigurable intelligent surface} (STAR-RIS) is a promising implementation of RIS-assisted systems that enables full-space coverage. However, STAR-RIS as well as conventional…

Reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RISs) consist of many passive elements of metamaterials whose impedance can be controllable to change the characteristics of wireless signals impinging on them. Channel estimation is a critical task when…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-09-14 Özlem Tuğfe Demir , Emil Björnson

The linear minimal mean square error (LMMSE) estimator for active reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS)-aided wireless systems is formulated. Furthermore, based on the moment-matching method, we employ the Gamma distribution to…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-01-25 Qingchao Li , Mohammed El-Hajjar , Ibrahim Hemadeh , Deepa Jagyasi , Arman Shojaeifard , Lajos Hanzo

Active reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RISs) have recently been proposed to compensate for the severe multiplicative fading effect of conventional passive RIS-aided systems. Each reflecting element of active RISs is assisted by an…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-02-21 Gui Zhou , Cunhua Pan , Hong Ren , Dongfang Xu , Zaichen Zhang , Jiangzhou Wang , Robert Schober

Reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS) has become a promising technology to improve wireless communication in recent years. It steers the incident signals to create a favorable propagation environment by controlling the reconfigurable…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-11-15 Wangyang Xu , Lu Gan , Chongwen Huang

Reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RIS)-assisted massive multiple-input multiple-output (mMIMO) is a promising technology for applications in next-generation networks. However, reflecting-only RIS provides limited coverage compared to a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-09-18 Anastasios Papazafeiropoulos , Le-Nam Tran , Zaid Abdullah , Pandelis Kourtessis , Symeon Chatzinotas

The objective of this paper is to evaluate the effectiveness of a two-timescale transmission design in cell-free massive multi-input multiple-output (MIMO) systems incorporating reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RISs) under the…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-04-06 Mahdi Eskandari , Kangda Zhi , Huiling Zhu , Cunhua Pan , Jiangzhou Wang

Reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS) can be employed in a cell-free system to create favorable propagation conditions from base stations (BSs) to users via configurable elements. However, prior works on RIS-aided cell-free system…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-08-15 Xu Gan , Caijun Zhong , Chongwen Huang , Zhaohui Yang , Zhaoyang Zhang

In next-generation wireless networks, reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS)-assisted multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) systems are foreseeable to support a large number of antennas at the transceiver as well as a large number of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-01-24 Chang Cai , Xiaojun Yuan , Ying-Jun Angela Zhang

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

Reconfigurable Intelligent Surfaces (RIS) have recently emerged as a hot research topic, being widely advocated as a candidate technology for next generation wireless communications. These surfaces passively alter the behavior of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-05-26 Charbel Bou Chaaya , Mohamad Assaad , Tijani Chahed

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…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-09-17 Jinglian He , Kaiqiang Yu , Yuanming Shi , Yong Zhou , Wei Chen , Khaled B. Letaief

This paper investigates the performance of reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS)-aided massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) systems with direct links, and the phase shifts of the RIS are designed based on the statistical channel…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-02-16 Kangda Zhi , Cunhua Pan , Hong Ren , Kezhi Wang

This paper investigates the performance of downlink simultaneous transmitting and reflecting reconfigurable intelligent surface (STAR-RIS)-assisted cell-free (CF) massive multiple-input multiple-output (mMIMO) systems, where user equipments…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-12-01 Anastasios Papazafeiropoulos , Hien Quoc Ngo , Pandelis Kourtessis , Symeon Chatzinotas

Reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS) assisted millimeter-wave (mmWave) communication systems relying on hybrid beamforming structures are capable of achieving high spectral efficiency at a low hardware complexity and low power…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-01-13 Chenghao Feng , Wenqian Shen , Jianping An , Lajos Hanzo