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This paper explores the idea of using redirective reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RedRIS) to overcome many of the challenges associated with the conventional reflective RIS. We develop a framework for jointly optimizing the switching…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-06-04 Bamelak Tadele , Faouzi Bellili , Amine Mezghani , Md Jawwad Chowdhury , Haseeb Ur Rehman

Reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS) constitutes a disruptive technology for enhancing vehicular communication performance through reconfigurable propagation environments. In this paper, we propose an adaptive channel estimation…

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This paper investigates an intelligent reflecting surface (IRS)-aided multi-cell multiple-input single-output (MISO) system with several multi-antenna base stations (BSs) each communicating with a single-antenna user, in which an IRS is…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-10-26 Hailiang Xie , Jie Xu , Ya-Feng Liu

In practice, residual transceiver hardware impairments inevitably lead to distortion noise which causes the performance loss. In this paper, we study the robust transmission design for a reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS)-aided secure…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-03-09 Gui Zhou , Cunhua Pan , Hong Ren , Kezhi Wang , Zhangjie Peng

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 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 studies an extremely large-scale reconfigurable intelligent surface (XL-RIS)-aided near-field physical layer security (PLS) communication system, aiming to maximize the secrecy rate by jointly optimizing precoding vector at the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-03-09 Xiaotong Xu , Qian Zhang , Yunxiao Li , Xuejun Cheng , Meihui Liu , Ju Liu

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 surface (RIS) has entered the public consciousness as a promising technology for enhancing the performance of future wireless communication systems by dynamically constructing the wireless channels. In this…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-03-02 Pingping Zhang , Shiqi Gong , Shaodan Ma

In this paper, we investigate the potential of employing reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS) in integrated sensing and communication (ISAC) systems. In particular, we consider an RIS-assisted ISAC system in which a multi-antenna base…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-01-27 Rang Liu , Ming Li , A. Lee Swindlehurst

Reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RISs) can improve the capacity of wireless communication links by passively beamforming the impinging signals in desired directions. This feature has been demonstrated both analytically and…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-01-23 Emil Björnson , Özlem Tuğfe Demir

Reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS) is a promising technique to improve the performance of future wireless communication systems at low energy consumption. To reap the potential benefits of RIS-aided beamforming, it is vital to enhance…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-04-01 Zhenyao He , Jindan Xu , Hong Shen , Wei Xu , Chau Yuen , Marco Di Renzo

Conventional active array radars often jointly design the transmit and receive beamforming for effectively suppressing interferences. To further promote the interference suppression performance, this paper introduces a reconfigurable…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-01-30 Shengyao Chen , Qi Feng , Longyao Ran , Feng Xi , Zhong Liu

In this paper, we consider the robust beamforming design in a reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS)-aided cell-free (CF) system considering the channel state information (CSI) uncertainties of both the direct channels and cascaded…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-05-10 Jiacheng Yao , Jindan Xu , Wei Xu , Derrick Wing Kwan Ng , Chau Yuen , Xiaohu You

Recently, simultaneously transmitting and reflecting reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (STAR-RISs) have received significant research interest. The employment of large STAR-RIS and high-frequency signaling inevitably make the near-field…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-06-27 Haochen Li , Yuanwei Liu , Xidong Mu , Yue Chen , Zhiwen Pan , Yonina C. Eldar

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

In this paper, we focus on intelligent reflecting surface (IRS) assisted multi-antenna communications with transceiver hardware impairments encountered in practice. In particular, we aim to maximize the received signal-to-noise ratio (SNR)…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-10-22 Hong Shen , Wei Xu , Shulei Gong , Chunming Zhao , Derrick Wing Kwan Ng

Active reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RISs) have recently been proposed to compensate for the severe multiplicative fading effect of conventional passive RIS-aided systems. Each reflecting element of active RISs is assisted by an…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-02-21 Gui Zhou , Cunhua Pan , Hong Ren , Dongfang Xu , Zaichen Zhang , Jiangzhou Wang , Robert Schober

Reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RIS) as an effective technique for intelligently manipulating channel paths through reflection to serve desired users. Full-duplex (FD) systems, enabling simultaneous transmission and reception from a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-11-08 Li-Hsiang Shen , Chia-Jou Ku , Kai-Ten Feng

Although reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RISs) can improve the performance of wireless networks by smartly reconfiguring the radio environment, existing passive RISs face two key challenges, i.e., double-fading attenuation and…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-10-05 Wen Wang , Wanli Ni , Hui Tian , Naofal Al-Dhahir