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Reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS) is a promising technology that can reshape the electromagnetic environment in wireless networks, offering various possibilities for enhancing wireless channels. Motivated by this, we investigate the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-09-02 Shengguo Meng , Wankai Tang , Weicong Chen , Jifeng Lan , Qun Yan Zhou , Yu Han , Xiao Li , Shi Jin

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

In this paper, a reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS) assisted cell free massive MIMO (CFmMIMO) framework is designed to enhance physical layer security (PLS) and mitigate multi user (MU) interference in next generation wireless…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-12-16 Sumeyra Hassan , Bin Li , Yalcin Sadi , Erdal Panayirci , H. Vincent Poor

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

Mutual Coupling (MC) emerges as an inherent feature in Reconfigurable Intelligent Surfaces (RISs), particularly, when they are fabricated with sub-wavelength inter-element spacing. Hence, any physically-consistent model of the RIS operation…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-06-11 Dilki Wijekoon , Amine Mezghani , George C. Alexandropoulos , Ekram Hossain

Reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS) has become a promising technology to realize the programmable wireless environment via steering the incident signal in fully customizable ways. However, a major challenge in RIS-aided communication…

One of the key enablers of future wireless communications is constituted by massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) systems, which can improve the spectral efficiency by orders of magnitude. However, in existing massive MIMO systems,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-12-10 Linglong Dai , Bichai Wang , Min Wang , Xue Yang , Jingbo Tan , Shuangkaisheng Bi , Shenheng Xu , Fan Yang , Zhi Chen , Marco Di Renzo , Lajos Hanzo

The performance of wireless communication systems is fundamentally constrained by random and uncontrollable wireless channels. Recently, reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RIS) has emerged as a promising solution to enhance wireless…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-12-29 Xiaohao Mo , Lin Gui , Kai Ying , Xichao Sang , Xiaqing Diao

Reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS) technology has recently emerged as a spectral- and cost-efficient approach for wireless communications systems. However, existing hand-engineered schemes for passive beamforming design and…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-05-04 Nhan Thanh Nguyen , Ly V. Nguyen , Thien Huynh-The , Duy H. N. Nguyen , A. Lee Swindlehurst , Markku Juntti

Reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS) refers to a signal reflection surface containing a large number of low-cost passive reflecting elements. RIS can improve the performance of radar and communication systems by dynamically modulating…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-06-16 Da Li , Bo Tang , Xuyang Wang , Wenjun Wu , Lei Xue

Reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS)-based transmission technology offers a promising solution to enhance wireless communication performance cost-effectively through properly adjusting the parameters of a large number of passive…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-08-05 Zehra Yigit , Ertugrul Basar , Ibrahim Altunbas

We consider a reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS) assisted multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) system in the presence of scattering objects. The MIMO transmitter and receiver, the RIS, and the scattering objects are modeled as…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-09-19 H. El Hassani , X. Qian , S. Jeong , N. S. Perović , M. Di Renzo , P. Mursia , V. Sciancalepore , X. Costa-Pérez

This paper introduces a novel approach of utilizing the reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS) for joint data modulation and signal beamforming in a multi-user downlink cellular network by leveraging the idea of backscatter communication.…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-08-25 Haseeb Ur Rehman , Faouzi Bellili , Amine Mezghani , Ekram Hossain

Intelligent reflecting surfaces (IRSs) have received considerable attention from the wireless communications research community recently. In particular, as low-cost passive devices, IRSs enable the control of the wireless propagation…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-04-30 Xianghao Yu , Dongfang Xu , Robert Schober

More and more applications that require high reliability and fault tolerance are realized with wireless network architectures and thus ultimately rely on the wireless channels, which can be subject to impairments and blockages. Hence, these…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-11-02 Kevin Weinberger , Robert-Jeron Reifert , Aydin Sezgin , Ertugrul Basar

Cell-free systems can effectively eliminate the inter-cell interference by enabling multiple base stations (BSs) to cooperatively serve users without cell boundaries at the expense of high costs of hardware and power sources due to the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-11-18 Yutong Zhang , Boya Di , Hongliang Zhang , Jinlong Lin , Yonghui Li , Lingyang Song

Reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS) is a type of wireless communication technology that uses a reconfigurable surface, such as a wall or building that is able to adjust its properties by an integrated optimization algorithm in order to…

Applied Physics · Physics 2023-09-25 Emanuel Colella , Luca Bastianelli , Franco Moglie , Valter Mariani Primiani

Reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS)-aided cell-free (CF) massive multiple-input multiple-output (mMIMO) is a promising technology for further improving spectral efficiency (SE) with low cost and power consumption. However, conventional…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-12-02 Yizhuo Li , Jiakang Zheng , Bokai Xu , Yiyang Zhu , Jiayi Zhang , Dusit Niyato , Bo Ai

The paper studies a reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS)-assisted multi-user uplink massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) system with imperfect hardware. At the RIS, the paper considers phase noise, while at the base station,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-08-18 Zhangjie Peng , Xianzhe Chen , Cunhua Pan , Maged Elkashlan , Jiangzhou Wang

We consider a reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS)-aided massive multi-user multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) communication system with transceiver hardware impairments (HWIs) and RIS phase noise. Different from the existing…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-10-14 Jianxin Dai , Feng Zhu , Cunhua Pan , Hong Ren , Kezhi Wang