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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

Reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS)-assisted communication have recently attracted the attention of the wireless communication community as a potential candidate for the next $6$-th generation (6G) of wireless networks. Various studies…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-05-18 Recep A. Tasci , Fatih Kilinc , Ertugrul Basar , George C. Alexandropoulos

In this paper, a new reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS) hardware architecture, called self-organized RIS (SORIS), is proposed. The architecture incorporates a microcontroller connected to a single-antenna receiver operating at the…

In the past as well as present wireless communication systems, the wireless propagation environment is regarded as an uncontrollable black box that impairs the received signal quality, and its negative impacts are compensated for by relying…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-09-14 Cunhua Pan , Gui Zhou , Kangda Zhi , Sheng Hong , Tuo Wu , Yijin Pan , Hong Ren , Marco Di Renzo , A. Lee Swindlehurst , Rui Zhang , Angela Yingjun Zhang

The intelligent reflecting surface (IRS) alters the behavior of wireless media and, consequently, has potential to improve the performance and reliability of wireless systems such as communications and radar remote sensing. Recently,…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-04-13 Ahmet M. Elbir , Kumar Vijay Mishra , M. R. Bhavani Shankar , Symeon Chatzinotas

Reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS) is a two-dimensional periodic structure integrated with a large number of reflective elements, which can manipulate electromagnetic waves in a digital way, offering great potentials for wireless…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-01-22 Zhen Zhang , Jun Hui Qiu , Jun Wei Zhang , Hui Dong Li , Dong Tang , Qiang Cheng , Wei Lin

Reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RISs) have been considered as a promising technology for the sixth-generation (6G) wireless networks that can control wireless channels in a desirable way and significantly enhance the network…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2022-12-05 Waqas Khalid , Zeeshan Kaleem , Rehmat Ullah , Trinh Van Chien , Song Noh , Heejung Yu

This paper investigates the impact of the recently proposed concept of fluid reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (FRIS) on covert communications. Specifically, we consider a communication scenario where a legitimate transmitter aims to…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-12-05 Farshad Rostami Ghadi , Masoud Kaveh , Hanjiang Hong , Kai-Kit Wong , Riku Jantti , F. Javier Lopez-Martinez

Intelligent reflecting surface (IRS) is envisioned as a promising solution for controlling radio propagation environments in future wireless systems. In this paper, we propose a distributed intelligent reflecting surface (IRS) assisted…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-11-02 Yashuai Cao , Tiejun Lv , Wei Ni

A reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS) is capable of manipulating electromagnetic waves with its flexibly configurable unit cells, thus is an appealing technology to resist fast fading caused by multi-path in wireless communications. In…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-08-29 Ruya Zhou , Xiangyu Chen , Wankai Tang , Xiao Li , Shi Jin , Ertugrul Basar , Qiang Cheng , Tie Jun Cui

Satellite networks promise wide-area 6G coverage but face two persistent barriers: blockage-induced service discontinuities and increasingly stringent spectrum coexistence across satellite layers and with terrestrial systems. Reconfigurable…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-12-25 Ziyuan Zheng , Xiangyu Li , Shirui Zuo , Yu Wan , Bodong Shang , Wenpeng Jing , Qingqing Wu

Reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS)-aided near-field communications is investigated. First, the necessity of investigating RIS-aided near-field communications and the advantages brought about by the unique spherical-wave-based…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-03-05 Xidong Mu , Jiaqi Xu , Yuanwei Liu , Lajos Hanzo

Reconfigurable Intelligent Surfaces (RISs) constitute a strong candidate physical-layer technology for the $6$-th Generation (6G) of wireless networks, offering new design degrees of freedom for efficiently addressing demanding performance…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-06-21 Konstantinos D. Katsanos , George C. Alexandropoulos

As the wireless research community moves toward shaping the vision of sixth-generation (6G) networks, reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RIS) have emerged as a promising technology for controlling the propagation environment. Although RIS…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-06-25 Prasetyo Putranto , Anis Amazigh Hamza , Sameh Mabrouki , Nasrullah Armi , Iyad Dayoub

We propose a novel binary polarization shift keying modulation scheme for a line-of-sight environment by exploiting the polarization control ability of the reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS). The RIS encodes the information data in…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-12-16 Emad Ibrahim , Rickard Nilsson , Jaap van de Beek

5G radio at millimeter wave (mmWave) and beyond 5G concepts at 0.1-1 THz can exploit angle and delay measurements for localization, by the virtue of increased bandwidth and large antenna arrays but are limited in terms of blockage caused by…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-06-12 Henk Wymeersch , Jiguang He , Benoît Denis , Antonio Clemente , Markku Juntti

Reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS) or intelligent reflecting surface (IRS) has recently been envisioned as one of the most promising technologies in the future sixth-generation (6G) communications. In this paper, we consider the joint…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-12-14 Zhangjie Peng , Zhiwei Chen , Cunhua Pan , Gui Zhou , Hong Ren

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

The reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS) is a promising technology to provide smart radio environment. In contrast to the well-studied patch-array-based RISs, this work focuses on the metasurface-based RISs and simultaneously…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-03-08 Jiaqi Xu , Xidong Mu , Yuanwei Liu

In state-of-the-art wireless networks, the radio environment is beyond the control of the operators which leads to several issues. For example, signal attenuation limits radio connectivity, multi-path propagation results in fading phenomena…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2021-01-05 Mehdi Toumi , Adnan Aijaz