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This paper studies an Internet-of-Things (IoT) network employing a reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS) over generalized fading channels. Inspired by the promising potential of RIS-based transmission, we investigate a RIS-enabled IoT…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-12-16 Abubakar U. Makarfi , Khaled M. Rabie , Omprakash Kaiwartya , Osamah S. Badarneh , Xingwang Li , Rupak Kharel

This paper considers the application of reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RISs) (a.k.a. intelligent reflecting surfaces (IRSs)) to assist multiuser multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) uplink transmission from several multi-antenna user…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-09-14 Li You , Jiayuan Xiong , Yufei Huang , Derrick Wing Kwan Ng , Cunhua Pan , Wenjin Wang , Xiqi Gao

Achieving integrated sensing and communication (ISAC) via uplink transmission is challenging due to the unknown waveform and the coupling of communication and sensing echoes. In this paper, a joint uplink communication and imaging system is…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-01-11 Shengyu Zhu , Zehua Yu , Qinghua Guo , Jinshan Ding , Qiang Cheng , Tie Jun Cui

The deployment of reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RISs) in a communication system provides control over the propagation environment, which facilitates the augmentation of a multitude of communication objectives. As these performance…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-05-04 Bilal Ahmad , Kevin Weinberger , Aydin Sezgin , Bilal Zafar , Martin Haardt

Reconfigurable Intelligent Surfaces (RISs) have been recently considered as an energy-efficient solution for future wireless networks due to their fast and low-power configuration, which has increased potential in enabling massive…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-06-27 Li Wei , Chongwen Huang , George C. Alexandropoulos , Chau Yuen , Zhaoyang Zhang , Mérouane Debbah

In this letter, we investigate a cell-free network aided by hybrid reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RISs), which consists of a mixture of passive and active elements that are capable of amplifying and reflecting the incident signal. To…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-10-05 Wanting Lyu , Yue Xiu , Songjie Yang , Chau Yuen , Zhongpei Zhang

To reap the benefits of reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RIS), channel state information (CSI) is generally required. However, CSI acquisition in RIS systems is challenging and often results in very large pilot overhead, especially in…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-09-21 Ly V. Nguyen , A. Lee Swindlehurst

We consider an uplink multi-user scenario and investigate the use of reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RIS) to optimize spatial multiplexing performance when a linear receiver is used. We study two different formulations of the problem,…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-09-16 Mohamed A. ElMossallamy , Hongliang Zhang , Radwa Sultan , Karim G. Seddik , Lingyang Song , Geoffery Ye Li , Zhu Han

The key advantage of successive relaying (SR) networks is their ability to mimic the full-duplex (FD) operation with half-duplex (HD) relays. However, the main challenge that comes with such schemes is the associated inter-relay…

The amalgamation of cell-free networks and reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS) has become a prospective technique for future sixth-generation wireless communication systems. In this paper, we focus on the precoding and beamforming…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-11-23 Peng Zhang , Jiayi Zhang , Huahua Xiao , Xiaodan Zhang , Derrick Wing Kwan Ng , Bo Ai

Reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS) provides a promising way to build programmable wireless transmission environments. Owing to the massive number of controllable reflecting elements on the surface, RIS is capable of providing…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-10-03 Xiaoyan Ma , Yuguang Fang , Haixia Zhang , Shuaishuai Guo , Dongfeng Yuan

Reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS) is a promising candidate technology of the upcoming Sixth Generation (6G) communication system for its ability to provide unprecedented spectral and energy efficiency increment through passive…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-09-29 Haochen Li , Zhiwen Pan , Bin Wang , Nan Liu , Xiaohu You

In contrast to conventional RIS, the scattering matrix of a non-reciprocal RIS (NR-RIS) is non-symmetric, leading to differences in the uplink and the downlink components of NR-RIS cascaded channels. In this paper, a physically-consistent…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-11-26 Jiaqi Xu , Haoyu Wang , Rang Liu , Josef A. Nossek , A. Lee Swindlehurst

Reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS) enables the control of wireless channels to improve coverage. To further extend coverage, multi-RIS aided systems have been explored, where multiple RISs steer the signal via a multi-hop path.…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-10-28 Matteo Nerini , Gabriele Gradoni , Bruno Clerckx

Reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS) is a promising technology for future wireless communication systems. Conventional RIS is constrained to a diagonal scattering matrix, which limits its flexibility. Recently, beyond-diagonal RIS…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-03-17 Zheyu Wu , Matteo Nerini , Bruno Clerckx

The deployment of multiple reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RISs) enhances the propagation environment by improving channel quality, but it also complicates channel estimation. Following the conventional wireless communication system…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-11-22 Weicong Chen , Yu Han , Chao-Kai Wen , Xiao Li , Shi Jin

Reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS) is a promising candidate technology for the upcoming Sixth Generation (6G) communication system for its ability to manipulate the wireless communication environment by controlling the coefficients of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-09-29 Haochen Li , Zhiwen Pan , Bin Wang , Nan Liu , Xiaohu You

Intelligent surfaces comprising of cost effective, nearly passive, and reconfigurable unit elements are lately gaining increasing interest due to their potential in enabling fully programmable wireless environments. They are envisioned to…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-05-26 George C. Alexandropoulos , Evangelos Vlachos

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) 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