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Reconfigurable Intelligent Surfaces (RIS) are an emerging technology that can be used to reconfigure the propagation environment to improve cellular communication link rates. RIS, which are thin metasurfaces composed of discrete elements,…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-11-11 Pooja Nuti , Brian L. Evans

Double-reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS) is a promising technique, achieving a substantial gain improvement compared to single-RIS techniques. However, in double-RIS-aided systems, accurate channel estimation is more challenging than…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-11-30 Songjie Yang , Wanting Lyu , Yue Xiu , Zhongpei Zhang , Chau Yuen

This chapter focuses on a hardware architecture for semi-passive Reconfigurable Intelligent Surfaces (RISs) and investigates its consideration for boosting the performance of Multiple-Input Multiple-Output (MIMO) communication systems. The…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-06-19 George C. Alexandropoulos , Konstantinos D. Katsanos , Evangelos Vlachos

The reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS) technology is a promising enabler for millimeter wave (mmWave) wireless communications, as it can potentially provide spectral efficiency comparable to the conventional massive multiple-input…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-02-22 Xuemeng Zhou , Zhiyu Yang , Tianyi Zhang , Yi Jiang

Reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS) has emerged as a cost-effective and promising solution to extend the wireless signal coverage and improve the performance via passive signal reflection. Different from existing works which do not…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-11-22 Anastasios Papazafeiropoulos , Ahmet M. Elbir , Pandelis Kourtessis , Ioannis Krikidis , Symeon Chatzinotas

In this paper, we investigate the performance of multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) fading channels assisted by a reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS), through the employment of partition-based RIS schemes. The proposed schemes are…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-05-09 Andreas Nicolaides , Constantinos Psomas , Ghassan M. Kraidy , Sheng Yang , Ioannis Krikidis

Cell-Free Massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) systems are investigated with the support of a reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS). The RIS phase shifts are designed for improved channel estimation in the presence of spatial…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-07-15 Trinh Van Chien , Nguyen Hoang Viet , Symeon Chatzinotas , Lajos Hanzo

A cell-free network merged with active reconfigurable reflecting surfaces (RIS) is investigated in this paper. Based on the imperfect channel state information (CSI), the aggregated channel from the user to the access point (AP) is…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-02-23 Mahdi Eskandari , Huiling Zhu , Jiangzhou Wang

Reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS)-assisted terahertz (THz) communication is emerging as a key technology to support ultra-high data rates in future sixth-generation networks. However, the acquisition of accurate channel state…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-06-17 Xin Su , Ruisi He , Peng Zhang , Bo Ai , Yong Niu , Gongpu Wang

Reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS) is a promising solution to deal with the blockage-sensitivity of millimeter wave band and reduce the high energy consumption caused by network densification. However, deploying large scale RISs may…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-02-12 Yining Xu , Sheng Zhou

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

We consider a practical cell-free massive multiple-input-multiple-output (MIMO) system with multi-antenna access points (APs) and spatially correlated Rician fading channels. The significant phase-shift of the line-of-sight component…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-10-13 Zhe Wang , Jiayi Zhang , Emil Björnson , Bo Ai

Reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RISs) and cell-free massive multiple-input multiple-output (CF-mMIMO) are effective solutions for mitigating large path loss and inter-cell interference in terahertz (THz) systems. However, passive RISs…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-05-14 Mario R. Camana , Zaid Abdullah , Carla E. Garcia , Chandan Kumar Sheemar , Eva Lagunas , Symeon Chatzinotas

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…

This paper investigates the downlink power allocation of the simultaneous transmitting and reflecting reconfigurable intelligent surface (STAR-RIS)-assisted cell-free massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) system with multi-antenna…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-12-23 Jun Qian , Ross Murch , Khaled B. Letaief

An introduction of intelligent interconnectivity for people and things has posed higher demands and more challenges for sixth-generation (6G) networks, such as high spectral efficiency and energy efficiency, ultra-low latency, and…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-05-24 Enyu Shi , Jiayi Zhang , Hongyang Du , Bo Ai , Chau Yuen , Dusit Niyato , Khaled B. Letaief , Xuemin Shen

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

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

We propose an alternating optimization framework for maximizing energy efficiency (EE) in reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS) assisted distributed MIMO (D-MIMO) systems under both coherent and non-coherent reception modes. The…

Reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RIS) have drawn considerable attention recently due to their controllable scattering elements that are able to direct electromagnetic waves into desirable directions. Although RISs share some…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-05-03 Mohanad Obeed , Anas Chaaban