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Reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS) or intelligent reflecting surface (IRS) has been an attractive technology for future wireless communication and sensing systems. However, in the practical RIS, the mutual coupling effect among RIS…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-09-26 Zhimin Chen , Peng Chen , Le Zheng , Yudong Zhang

Reconfigurable Intelligent Surface (RIS) has emerged as a promising technology to enhance the wireless propagation environment for next-generation wireless communication systems. This paper introduces a new RIS-assisted multiple-antenna…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-11-14 Xiaofan Niu , Minquan Cheng , Kai Wan , Robert Caiming Qiu , Giuseppe Caire

We present a radar sensing framework based on a low-complexity, quantized reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS) that enables programmable manipulation of electromagnetic wavefronts for enhanced detection in non-specular and shadowed…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-03-31 Kainat Yasmeen , Shobha Sundar Ram , Debidas Kundu

A reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS) is capable of manipulating electromagnetic waves with its flexibly configurable unit cells, thus is an appealing technology to resist fast fading caused by multi-path in wireless communications. In…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-08-29 Ruya Zhou , Xiangyu Chen , Wankai Tang , Xiao Li , Shi Jin , Ertugrul Basar , Qiang Cheng , Tie Jun Cui

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 advent of Reconfigurable Intelligent Surfaces (RISs) in wireless communication networks unlocks the way to support high frequency radio access (e.g. in millimeter wave) while overcoming their sensitivity to the presence of deep fading…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-05-31 Fatima Ezzahra Airod , Mattia Merluzzi , Paolo Di Lorenzo , Emilio Calvanese Strinati

Transmissive reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RIS) represent a transformative architecture for future wireless networks, enabling a paradigm shift from traditional costly base stations to low-cost, energy-efficient transmitters. This…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-11-17 Zhengwei Jiang , Yufeng Zhou , Xusheng Zhu , Wen Chen , Qingqing Wu , Kai-Kit Wong

In this paper, we focus on radar imaging using active sensing with a single transceiver and reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS). RISs are arrays with tunable passive phase shifter elements that can modify the propagation channel. The…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-08-14 R. S. Prasobh Sankar , Sundeep Prabhakar Chepuri

Reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS) is a promising technology for establishing spectral- and energy-efficient wireless networks. In this paper, we study RIS-enhanced orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) communications,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-10-19 Jiancheng An , Chao Xu , Derrick Wing Kwan Ng , Chau Yuen , Lu Gan , Lajos Hanzo

Despite the enhanced spectral efficiency brought by the integrated radar and communication technique, it poses significant risks to communication security when confronted with malicious radar targets. To address this issue, a reconfigurable…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-12-17 Tong-Xing Zheng , Xin Chen , Lan Lan , Ying Ju , Xiaoyan Hu , Rongke Liu , Derrick Wing Kwan Ng , Tiejun Cui

This paper proposes a novel reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS)-assisted generalized receive quadrature spatial modulation (RIS-GRQSM) scheme to enhance the spectral efficiency (SE) of RIS-aided \textit{quadrature} spatial modulation…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-12-09 Mohamad H. Dinan , Khatereh Nadali , Mark F. Flanagan

This paper explores distributed Reconfigurable Intelligent Surfaces (RISs) by introducing a cooperative dimension that enhances adaptability and performance. It focuses on strategically deploying multiple RISs to improve connectivity with…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-11-13 Youssef Hussein , Mohamad Assaad , Thierry Clessienne

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

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 communication (ISAC) is recognized as a promising technology with great potential in saving hardware and spectrum resources, since it simultaneously realizes radar detection and user communication functions in the…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-02-22 Qi Zhu , Ming Li , Rang Liu , Qian Liu

Reconfigurable Intelligent Surface (RIS) can create favorable multipath to establish strong links that are useful in millimeter wave (mmWave) communications. While previous works used Rayleigh or Rician fading, we use the fluctuating…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-11-10 Hongyang Du , Jiayi Zhang , Julian Cheng , Zhaohua Lu , Bo Ai

Intelligent reflecting surface (IRS) has emerged as a promising technique for wireless communication networks. By dynamically tuning the reflection amplitudes/phase shifts of a large number of passive elements, IRS enables flexible wireless…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-04-26 Weidong Mei , Beixiong Zheng , Changsheng You , Rui Zhang

Reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS) is considered to be an energy-efficient approach to reshape the wireless environment for improved throughput. Its passive feature greatly reduces the energy consumption, which makes RIS a promising…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-01-20 Keke Ying , Zhen Gao , Shanxiang Lyu , Yongpeng Wu , Hua Wang , Mohamed-Slim Alouini

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…

The latest assessments of the emerging technologies for reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RISs) have indicated the concept's significant potential for localization and sensing, either as individual or simultaneously realized tasks.…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-01-09 Reza Ghazalian , George C. Alexandropoulos , Gonzalo Seco-Granados , Henk Wymeersch , Riku Jäntti