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Antenna array technology enables directional transmission and reception of wireless signals, for communications, localization, and sensing purposes. The signal processing algorithms that underpin this technology began to be developed…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-03-09 Emil Björnson , Henk Wymeersch , Bho Matthiesen , Petar Popovski , Luca Sanguinetti , Elisabeth de Carvalho

In realistic cellular communication systems, multiple service providers will operate within different frequency ranges. Each serving cell, which is managed by a distinct service provider, is designed individually due to the orthogonal…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-09-30 Hyeongtaek Lee , Junil Choi

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

Reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RISs) have the potential of realizing the emerging concept of smart radio environments by leveraging the unique properties of meta-surfaces. In this article, we discuss the potential applications of RISs…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-02-24 M. Di Renzo , K. Ntontin , J. Song , F. H. Danufane , X. Qian , F. Lazarakis , J. de Rosny , D. -T. Phan-Huy , O. Simeone , R. Zhang , M. Debbah , G. Lerosey , M. Fink , S. Tretyakov , S. Shamai

Reconfigurable Intelligent Surface (RIS) is a promising technology that may effectively improve the quality of signals in wireless communications. In practice, however, the ``double fading'' effect undermines the application of RIS and…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-10-17 Rongguang Song , Haifan Yin , Zipeng Wang , Taorui Yang , Xue Ren

Reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RISs) are envisioned to be a disruptive wireless communication technique that is capable of reconfiguring the wireless propagation environment. In this paper, we study a free-space RIS-assisted…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-09-19 Xin Cheng , Yan Lin , Weiping Shi , Jiayu Li , Cunhua Pan , Feng Shu , Yongpeng Wu , Jiangzhou Wang

Reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RISs) have promising coverage and data rate gains for wireless communication systems in 5G and beyond. Prior work has mainly focused on analyzing the performance of these surfaces using computer…

In this letter, we introduce two hybrid transmission schemes combining a passive reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS) with decode-and-forward relaying in a synergistic manner. The proposed schemes offer a flexible as well as cost- and…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-12-24 Ibrahim Yildirim , Fatih Kilinc , Ertugrul Basar , George C. Alexandropoulos

Integrated sensing and communications (ISAC) are envisioned to be an integral part of future wireless networks, especially when operating at the millimeter-wave (mmWave) and terahertz (THz) frequency bands. However, establishing wireless…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-11-03 Sundeep Prabhakar Chepuri , Nir Shlezinger , Fan Liu , George C. Alexandropoulos , Stefano Buzzi , Yonina C. Eldar

Extensive research has already started on 6G and beyond wireless technologies due to the envisioned new use-cases and potential new requirements for future wireless networks. Although a plethora of modern physical layer solutions have been…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-08-18 Ertugrul Basar

Satellite networks promise wide-area 6G coverage but face two persistent barriers: blockage-induced service discontinuities and increasingly stringent spectrum coexistence across satellite layers and with terrestrial systems. Reconfigurable…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-12-25 Ziyuan Zheng , Xiangyu Li , Shirui Zuo , Yu Wan , Bodong Shang , Wenpeng Jing , Qingqing Wu

This paper proposes a novel pattern-reconfigurable fluid reconfigurable intelligent surface (FRIS) framework, where each fluid element can dynamically adjust its radiation pattern based on instantaneous channel conditions. To evaluate its…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-08-14 Han Xiao , Xiaoyan Hu , Kai-Kit Wong , Xusheng Zhu , Hanjiang Hong , Chan-Byoung Chae

Reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RISs) consisting of multiple reflective elements are a promising technique to enhance communication quality as they can create favorable propagation conditions. In this letter, we characterize the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-12-22 Hongliang Zhang , Boya Di , Zhu Han , H. Vincent Poor , Lingyang Song

In this paper, we investigate reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS)-assisted communication systems which involve a fixed-antenna base station (BS) and a mobile user (MU) that is equipped with fluid antenna system (FAS). Specifically, the…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-07-12 Junteng Yao , Xiazhi Lai , Kangda Zhi , Tuo Wu , Ming Jin , Cunhua Pan , Maged Elkashlan , Chau Yuen , Kai-Kit Wong

Reconfigurable Intelligent Surfaces (RISs) have risen to the forefront of wireless communications research due to their proactive ability to alter the wireless environment intelligently, promising improved wireless network capacity and…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-02-19 Gurjot Singh Bhatia , Yoann Corre , Thierry Tenoux , M. Di Renzo

Orthogonal multi-user multiple-input multiple-output (MU-MIMO) channels allow for optimum performance with simplified precoding/equalization, and they achieve maximum multiplexing gain which is shared fairly among users. Reconfigurable…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-05-01 Juan Vidal Alegria , Fredrik Rusek

Fluid reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (FRIS) extend conventional reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RIS) by adding spatial reconfigurability through switchable apertures, pattern-reconfigurable units, fluidic conductive materials, or…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-05-22 Xusheng Zhu , Kai-Kit Wong , Sai Xu , Hao Xu , Wen Chen , Hyundong Shin

Full duplex (FD) radio has attracted extensive attention due to its co-time and co-frequency transceiving capability. {However, the potential gain brought by FD radios is closely related to the management of self-interference (SI), which…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-05-03 Yingyang Chen , Yuncong Li , Miaowen Wen , Duoying Zhang , Bingli Jiao , Zhiguo Ding , Theodoros A. Tsiftsis , H. Vincent Poor

Reconfigurable Intelligent Surfaces (RISs) have emerged as a promising technology for next-generation wireless communications, offering energy-efficient control of electromagnetic (EM) waves. While conventional RIS models based on phase…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-08-12 Ayane Lebeta Goshu , Placido Mursia , Vincenzo Sciancalepore , Marco Di Renzo , Xavier Costa-Pérez

Simultaneously transmitting and reflecting reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (STAR-RISs) have been attracting significant attention in both academia and industry for their advantages of achieving 360{\deg} coverage and enhanced degrees of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-06-13 Yuanwei Liu , Jiaqi Xu , Zhaolin Wang , Xidong Mu , Jianhua Zhang , Ping Zhang