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To mitigate the effects of shadow fading and obstacle blocking, reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS) has become a promising technology to improve the signal transmission quality of wireless communications by controlling the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-11-10 Wangyang Xu , Jiancheng An , Yongjun Xu , Chongwen Huang , Lu Gan , Chau Yuen

Reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS) is envisioned to be an essential component of the paradigm for beyond 5G networks as it can potentially provide similar or higher array gains with much lower hardware cost and energy consumption…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-07-09 Hang Liu , Xiaojun Yuan , Ying-Jun Angela Zhang

The reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS) technology is a promising enabler for millimeter wave (mmWave) wireless communications, as it can potentially provide spectral efficiency comparable to the conventional massive multiple-input…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-02-22 Xuemeng Zhou , Zhiyu Yang , Tianyi Zhang , Yi Jiang

The Reconfigurable Intelligent Surface (RIS) constitutes one of the prominent technologies for the next 6-th Generation (6G) of wireless communications. It is envisioned to enhance signal coverage in cases where obstacles block the direct…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-03-10 Kun Chen-Hu , George C. Alexandropoulos , Ana García Armada

Reconfigurable intelligent surface is a potential technology component of future wireless networks due to its capability of shaping the wireless environment. The promising MIMO systems in terms of extended coverage and enhanced capacity…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-07-07 Paulo R. B. Gomes , Gilderlan T. de Araújo , Bruno Sokal , André L. F. de Almeida , Behrooz Makki , Gábor Fodor

Reconfigurable Intelligent Surfaces (RIS) will play a pivotal role in next-generation wireless systems. Despite efforts to minimize pilot overhead associated with channel estimation, the necessity of configuring the RIS multiple times…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-02-28 A. Abrardo

The adoption of a Reconfigurable Intelligent Surface (RIS) for downlink multi-user communication from a multi-antenna base station is investigated in this paper. We develop energy-efficient designs for both the transmit power allocation and…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-06-23 Chongwen Huang , Alessio Zappone , George C. Alexandropoulos , Mérouane Debbah , Chau Yuen

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

Intelligent reflecting surface (IRS) has emerged as a promising paradigm to improve the capacity and reliability of a wireless communication system by smartly reconfiguring the wireless propagation environment. To achieve the promising…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-01-12 Yi Wei , Ming-Min Zhao , Min-Jian Zhao , Yunlong Cai

In this paper, we investigate the channel estimation challenge in reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS)-aided near-field communication systems. Current channel estimation techniques require substantial pilot overhead and computational…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-04-29 Jeongjae Lee , Songnam Hong

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

Channel estimation in reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS) assisted multiple input multiple output (MIMO) communication systems is challenging as pilots cannot be decoded at or transmitted from a RIS with only passive elements. We…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-03-22 Battu Deepak , R. S. Prasobh Sankar , Sundeep Prabhakar Chepuri

Reconfigurable Intelligent Surfaces (RIS) are an emerging technology that can be used to reconfigure the propagation environment to improve cellular communication link rates. RIS, which are thin metasurfaces composed of discrete elements,…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-11-11 Pooja Nuti , Brian L. Evans

Reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS) technology holds immense potential for increasing the performance of wireless networks. Therefore, RIS is also regarded as one of the solutions to address communication challenges in high-mobility…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-08-22 Hanwen Hu , Jiancheng An , Lu Gan , Chau Yuen

Non-diagonal reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RISs) offer enhanced wireless signal manipulation over conventional RIS by enabling the incident signal on any of its $M$ elements to be reflected from another element via an $M \times M$…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-06-19 Mostafa Samy , Hayder Al-Hraishawi , Abuzar B. M. Adam , Madyan Alsenwi , Symeon Chatzinotas , Björn Otteresten

Reconfigurable Intelligent Surface (RIS) technology has emerged as a key enabler for future wireless communications. However, its potential is constrained by the difficulty of acquiring accurate user-to-RIS channel state information (CSI),…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-20 Md. Shahriar Sadid , Ali A. Nasir , Saad Al-Ahmadi , Samir Al-Ghadhban

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

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

The reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS) plays an important role in maintaining the connectivity in millimeter wave (mmWave) MIMO systems when the direct channel between the transceivers is blocked. However, it is difficult to acquire…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-03-04 Rafaela Schroeder , Jiguang He , Markku Juntti

Reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS) has been recognized as a promising technology for next-generation wireless communications. However, the performance of RIS-assisted systems critically depends on accurate channel state information…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-01-08 Yang Wang , Yin Xu , Cixiao Zhang , Zhiyong Chen , Mingzeng Dai , Haiming Wang , Bingchao Liu , Dazhi He , Meixia Tao