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Reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS) refers to a signal reflection surface containing a large number of low-cost passive reflecting elements. RIS can improve the performance of radar and communication systems by dynamically modulating…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-06-16 Da Li , Bo Tang , Xuyang Wang , Wenjun Wu , Lei Xue

As a widely used localization and sensing technique, radars will play an important role in future wireless networks. However, the wireless channels between the radar and the targets are passively adopted by traditional radars, which limits…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-03-27 Haobo Zhang , Hongliang Zhang , Boya Di , Kaigui Bian , Zhu Han , Lingyang Song

Reconfigurable Intelligent Surface (RIS) is a promising solution to reconfigure the wireless environment in a controllable way. To compensate for the double-fading attenuation in the RIS-aided link, a large number of passive reflecting…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-03-02 Ruizhe Long , Ying-Chang Liang , Yiyang Pei , Erik G. Larsson

In this paper, an intelligent reflecting surface (IRS) is introduced to assist an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) communication system based on non-orthogonal multiple access (NOMA) for serving multiple ground users. We aim to minimize the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-06-14 Yuanxin Cai , Zhiqiang Wei , Shaokang Hu , Chang Liu , Derrick Wing Kwan Ng , Jinhong Yuan

Recently, the reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS), benefited from the breakthrough on the fabrication of programmable meta-material, has been speculated as one of the key enabling technologies for the future six generation (6G)…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-06-23 Chongwen Huang , Ronghong Mo , Chau Yuen

This letter proposes a two-stage distributionally robust optimization (DRO) framework for secure deployment and beamforming in an aerial reconfigurable intelligent surface (A-RIS) assisted millimeter-wave system. To account for…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-12-01 Zhongming Feng , Qiling Gao , Zeping Sui , Yun Lin , Michail Matthaiou

Reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS)-assisted unmanned areal vehicles (UAV) communications have been identified as a key enabler of a number of next-generation applications. However, to the best of our knowledge, there is no generalized…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-12-13 Alexandros-Apostolos A. Boulogeorgos , Angeliki Alexiou , Marco Di Renzo

In this paper, we analyze the performance of a reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS)-assisted unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) wireless system that is affected by mixture-gamma small-scale fading, stochastic disorientation, and…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-01-31 Alexandros-Apostolos A. Boulogeorgos , Angeliki Alexiou , Marco Di Renzo

In this paper, reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS) is employed in a millimeter wave (mmWave) integrated sensing and communications (ISAC) system. To alleviate the multi-hop attenuation, the semi-self sensing RIS approach is adopted,…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-01-03 Wanting Lyu , Songjie Yang , Yue Xiu , Ya Li , Hongjun He , Chau Yuen , Zhongpei Zhang

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

In this paper, we study the performance of multiple reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RISs)-aided unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) communication networks over Nakagami-$m$ fading channels. For that purpose, we used accurate closed-form…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-03-21 Khaled Alshehri , Anas M. Salhab , Ali Arshad Nasir

Aerial communication is gradually taking an assertive role within common societal behaviors by means of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), high-altitude platforms (HAPs), and fixed-wing aircrafts (FWAs). Such devices can assist general…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-05-19 Francesco Devoti , Placido Mursia , Vincenzo Sciancalepore , Xavier Costa-Perez

Many of the devices used in Internet-of-Things (IoT) applications are energy-limited, and thus supplying energy while maintaining seamless connectivity for IoT devices is of considerable importance. In this context, we propose a…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-08-09 Khoi Khac Nguyen , Antonino Masaracchia , Tan Do-Duy , H. Vincent Poor , Trung Q. Duong

In the context of the joint radar and communications (JRC) framework, reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RISs) emerged as a promising technology for their ability to shape the propagation environment by adjusting their phase-shift…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-04-15 Steven Rivetti , Ozlem Tugfe Demir , Emil Bjornson , Mikael Skoglund

Reconfigurable Intelligent Surfaces (RIS) are a new paradigm which, with judicious deployment and alignment, can enable more favorable propagation environments and better wireless network design. As such, they can offer a number of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-12-05 Jiayu Mao , Aylin Yener

In this paper, we propose a novel wireless architecture, mounted on a high-altitude aerial platform, which is enabled by reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS). By installing RIS on the aerial platform, rich line-of-sight and full-area…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-02-03 Hong-Bae Jeon , Sung-Ho Park , Jaedon Park , Kaibin Huang , Chan-Byoung Chae

Movable antennas (MAs) are a promising technology to achieve a significant enhancement in rate for future wireless networks. The pioneering investigation on near-field directional modulation design for a reconfigurable intelligent surface…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-06-03 Maolin Li , Feng Shu , Riqing Chen , Cunhua Pan , Yongpeng Wu

Reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RISs), which can deliberately adjust the phase of incident waves, have shown enormous potentials to reconfigure the signal propagation for performance enhancement. In this paper, we investigate the…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-11-02 Zhengyi Zhou , Ning Ge , Wendong Liu , Zhaocheng Wang

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 surfaces (RISs) bring various benefits to the current and upcoming wireless networks, including enhanced spectrum and energy efficiency, soft handover, transmission reliability, and even localization accuracy.…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-10-03 Jiguang He , Aymen Fakhreddine , Arthur S. de Sena , Yu Tian , Merouane Debbah