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Reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS) provides a promising way to build the programmable wireless transmission environments in the future. Owing to the large number of reflecting elements used at the RIS, joint optimization for the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-01-11 Xiaoyan Ma , Shuaishuai Guo , Haixia Zhang , Yuguang Fang , Dongfeng Yuan

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

This paper presents a scalable beamforming design for maximizing the spectral efficiency (SE) of multi-reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS)-aided communications through joint optimization of the precoder and RIS phase shifts in…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-01-28 Mintaek Oh , Jinseok Choi

Integrated sensing and communication (ISAC) has been envisioned as a promising technique to alleviate the spectrum congestion problem. Inspired by the applications of reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS) in dynamically manipulating…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-02-23 Honghao Luo , Rang Liu , Ming Li , Qian Liu

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

In this paper, we propose a three-stage unified channel estimation strategy for reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS)-aided multi-user (MU) multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) millimeter wave (mmWave) systems with the existence of the…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-11-25 Taihao Zhang , Zhendong Peng , Cunhua Pan , Hong Ren , Jiangzhou Wang

This paper presents a physics-based channel modeling and optimization framework for reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS)-assisted downlink multi-user multiple-input single-output (MU-MISO) communication systems in site-specific…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-03-24 Ziqi Liu , Wei Yu , Sean Victor Hum

Reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS) has been widely discussed as new technology to improve wireless communication performance. Based on the unique design of RIS, its elements can reflect, refract, absorb, or focus the incoming waves…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-09-03 Salah Eddine Zegrar , Liza Afeef , Huseyin Arslan

Amid the demand for densely integrated elements in techniques such as holographic reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RISs), the mutual coupling effect has gained prominence. By performing a misspecified Cramer-Rao bound analysis within an…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-02-21 Pinjun Zheng , Xiuxiu Ma , Tareq Y. Al-Naffouri

Reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RISs) are an emerging technology for enhancing the performance of wireless networks at a low and affordable cost, complexity, and power consumption. We introduce an algorithm for optimizing a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-12-01 Xuewen Qian , Marco Di Renzo

Practical hardware limitations often impose a reduced number of available phase shifts at the elements of a reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS). Most works often assume continuous phase-shits at the RIS elements for the transmit and…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-04-20 Nuno Souto

This paper investigates a reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS)-aided multi-user multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) system by considering only the statistical channel state information (CSI) at the base station (BS). We aim to…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-12-23 Huan Zhang , Shaodan Ma , Zheng Shi , Xin Zhao , Guanghua Yang

This work considers a reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS)-aided cell-free massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) system with RIS spatial correlation and electromagnetic interference (EMI). We propose a two-phase channel…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-11-18 Jun Qian , Chi Zhang , Khaled B. Letaief , Ross Murch

Optimizing a real-life RIS-parametrized wireless channel with a physics-consistent multiport-network model necessitates prior remote estimation of the mutual coupling (MC) between RIS elements. The number of MC parameters grows…

Applied Physics · Physics 2025-07-31 Philipp del Hougne

In the intelligent reflecting surface (IRS) assisted communication systems, the acquisition of channel state information (CSI) is a crucial impediment for achieving the passive beamforming gain of IRS because of the considerable overhead…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-01-20 Zhaorui Wang , Liang Liu , Shuguang Cui

Physics-consistent optimization of reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RISs) is thwarted in practice by the difficulty of experimentally estimating the mutual coupling (MC) between RIS elements. For large RISs, experimental MC estimation…

Applied Physics · Physics 2025-11-17 Philipp del Hougne

Active reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RISs) can improve the performance of integrated sensing and communication (ISAC), and therefore enable simultaneous data transmission and target sensing. However, when the line-of-sight (LoS) link…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-10-17 Ahmed Magbool , Vaibhav Kumar , Mark F. Flanagan

Reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RISs) have attracted great attention as a potential beyond 5G technology. These surfaces consist of many passive elements of metamaterials whose impedance can be controllable to change the phase,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-09-09 Özlem Tuğfe Demir , Emil Björnson

Integrated sensing and communication (ISAC) unifies sensing and communication, and improves the efficiency of the spectrum, energy, and hardware. In this work, we investigate the ISAC beamforming design to maximize the mutual information…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-01-12 Jin Li , Gui Zhou , Tantao Gong , Nan Liu

In this paper, we propose a novel joint active and passive beamforming approach for integrated sensing and communication (ISAC) transmission with assistance of reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RISs) to simultaneously detect a target and…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-10-26 Xiao Meng , Fan Liu , Shihang Lu , Sundeep Prabhakar Chepuri , Christos Masouros