English
Related papers

Related papers: Physics-Compliant Modeling and Scaling Laws of Mul…

200 papers

Existing works mainly rely on the far-field planar-wave-based channel model to assess the performance of reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS)-enabled wireless communication systems. However, when the transmitter and receiver are in…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-03-20 Hao Jiang , Wangqi Shi , Zaichen Zhang , Cunhua Pan , Qingqing Wu , Feng Shu , Ruiqi Liu , Jiangzhou Wang

Reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RISs) have been proposed as a key enabler to improve the coverage of the signals and mitigate the frequent blockages in millimeter wave (mmWave) multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) communications.…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-07-16 Rafaela Schroeder , Jiguang He , Glauber Brante , Markku Juntti

Optimally extracting the advantages available from reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RISs) in wireless communications systems requires estimation of the channels to and from the RIS. The process of determining these channels is…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-10-04 A. Lee Swindlehurst , Gui Zhou , Rang Liu , Cunhua Pan , Ming Li

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

Reconfigurable Intelligent Surfaces (RIS) dynamically control signal propagation to enhance wireless communications. This paper presents a novel framework for rotatable RIS assisted physical-layer multicast systems, aiming to maximize the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-07-29 Ji Wang , Jiayu Tian , Lijuan Qin , Kunrui Cao , Hongbo Xu , Xingwang Li , Tony. Q. S. Quek

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…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-03-03 Tianyou Li , Haifeng Hu , Dapeng Li

Reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS) has emerged as a promising technology for improving capacity and extending coverage of wireless networks. In this work, we consider RIS-aided millimeter wave (mmWave) multiple-input and…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-04-17 Yabo Guo , Peng Sun , Zhengdao Yuan , Qinghua Guo , Zhongyong Wang

Reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS) is a promising reflective radio technology for improving the coverage and rate of future wireless systems by reconfiguring the wireless propagation environment. The current work mainly focuses on the…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2021-03-24 Xuelin Cao , Bo Yang , Hongliang Zhang , Chongwen Huang , Chau Yuen , Zhu Han

Reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RISs) have attracted increasing interest from both academia and industry, thanks to their unique features on controlling electromagnetic (EM) waves. Although theoretical models for RIS-empowered…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-03-05 Jian Sang , Jifeng Lan , Mingyong Zhou , Boning Gao , Wankai Tang , Xiao Li , Michail Matthaiou , Shi Jin , Marco Di Renzo

A reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS) is a holographic MIMO surface composed of a large number of passive elements that can induce adjustable phase shifts to the impinging waves. By creating virtual line-of-sight (LOS) paths between…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-04-06 Mehdi Haghshenas , Parisa Ramezani , Maurizio Magarini , Emil Björnson

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

In this paper, we consider a multi-user multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) system aided by multiple intelligent reflecting surfaces (IRSs) that are deployed to increase the coverage and, possibly, the rank of the channel. We propose an…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-12-22 Andrea Abrardo , Davide Dardari , Marco Di Renzo

Future wireless networks require the ability to actively adjust the wireless environment to meet strict performance indicators. Reconfigurable Intelligent Surface (RIS) technology is gaining attention for its advantages of low power…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-10-28 De-Ming Chian , Chao-Kai Wen , Chi-Hung Wu , Fu-Kang Wang , Kai-Kit Wong

Fluid reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (FRISs) have recently emerged as a promising paradigm for wireless communications, wherein the reflecting elements can dynamically select their effective radiating positions from a dense preset…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-05-19 Amarilton L. Magalhães , André L. F. de Almeida , George C. Alexandropoulos

We devise an end-to-end communication channel model that describes the performance of RIS-assisted MIMO wireless links. The model borrows the impedance (interaction) matrix formalism from the Method of Moments and provides a physics-based…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-06-07 Keisuke Konno , Sergio Terranova , Qiang Chen , Gabriele Gradoni

This paper investigates the reconfigurable reflecting surface (RIS)-aided multiple-input-single-output (MISO) systems with imperfect channel state information (CSI), where RIS-related channels are modeled by Rician fading. Considering the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-07-13 Kangda Zhi , Cunhua Pan , Hong Ren , Kezhi Wang , Maged Elkashlan

Reconfigurable Intelligent Surfaces (RIS) represent a transformative technology for sixth-generation (6G) wireless communications, but it suffers from a significant limitation, namely the double-fading attenuation. Active RIS has emerged as…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-04-23 Yang Cao , Wenchi Cheng , Jingqing Wang , Wei Zhang

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

In recent years, reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RIS) have garnered significant attention for their ability to control the phase shifts in reflected signals. By intelligently adjusting these phases, RIS can establish seamless direct…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2024-12-17 Peini Yi , Wenchi Cheng , Jingqing Wang , Wei Zhang

Reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS) is a promising technology to enhance the spectral and energy efficiency in a wireless communication system. The design of the phase shifts of an RIS in every channel coherence interval demands a huge…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-05-15 Sadaf Syed , Dominik Semmler , Donia Ben Amor , Michael Joham , Wolfgang Utschick