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Reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS)-assisted communications recently appeared as a game-changing technology for next-generation wireless communications due to its unprecedented ability to reform the propagation environment. One of the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-08-23 Aymen Khaleel , Ertugrul Basar

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

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 surface (RS) has been shown to be an effective solution for improving wireless communication links in general multi-user multiple-input multiple-output (MU-MIMO) setting. Current research efforts have been largely directed…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-10-31 Juan Vidal Alegria , Joao Vieira , Fredrik Rusek

This chapter overviews the concept of Smart Wireless Environments (SWEs) motivated by the emerging technology of Reconfigurable Intelligent Surfaces (RISs). The operating principles and state-of-the-art hardware architectures of…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-12-23 George C. Alexandropoulos , Kostantinos D. Katsanos , George Stamatelis , Ioannis Gavras

Curved reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RISs) represent a promising frontier for next-generation wireless communication, enabling adaptive wavefront control on nonplanar platforms such as unmanned aerial vehicles and urban…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-02-02 Filippo Pepe , Ivan Iudice , Giuseppe Castaldi , Marco Di Renzo , Vincenzo Galdi

The plethora of wirelessly connected devices, whose deployment density is expected to largely increase in the upcoming sixth Generation (6G) of wireless networks, will naturally necessitate substantial advances in multiple access schemes.…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-10-29 Konstantinos D. Katsanos , Paolo Di Lorenzo , George C. Alexandropoulos

The performance of wireless communication systems is fundamentally constrained by random and uncontrollable wireless channels. Recently, reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RIS) has emerged as a promising solution to enhance wireless…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-12-29 Xiaohao Mo , Lin Gui , Kai Ying , Xichao Sang , Xiaqing Diao

Reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS) has emerged as a cost-effective and energy-efficient technique for 6G. By adjusting the phase shifts of passive reflecting elements, RIS is capable of suppressing the interference and combining the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-04-26 Jinglian He , Yijie Mao , Yong Zhou , Ting Wang , Yuanming Shi

The demand for unprecedented performance in the upcoming 6G wireless networks is fomenting the research on THz communications empowered by Reconfigurable Inteligent Surfaces (RISs). A wide range of use cases have been proposed, most of…

Reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RISs) have emerged as one of the most studied topics in recent years, hailed as a transformative technology with the potential to revolutionize future wireless systems. While RISs are recognized for…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2024-12-04 Ferdi Kara , Özlem Tuğfe Demir , Emil Björnson

Reconfigurable Intelligent Surfaces (RISs) are recently attracting a wide interest due to their capability of tuning wireless propagation environments in order to increase the system performance of wireless networks. In this paper, a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-03-23 Stefano Buzzi , Carmen D'Andrea , Alessio Zappone , Maria Fresia , Yong-Ping Zhang , Shulan Feng

The reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS), which consists of a large number of passive and low-cost reflecting elements, has been recognized as a revolutionary technology to enhance the performance of future wireless networks. This paper…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-05-25 Linsong Du , Shihai Shao Gang Yang , Jianhui Ma , Qinpeng Liang , Youxi Tang

Reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RISs) have recently emerged as a promising technology that can achieve high spectrum and energy efficiency for future wireless networks by integrating a massive number of low-cost and passive reflecting…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-02-05 Minchae Jung , Walid Saad , Merouane Debbah , Choong Seon Hong

Transmissive reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RIS) represent a transformative architecture for future wireless networks, enabling a paradigm shift from traditional costly base stations to low-cost, energy-efficient transmitters. This…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-11-17 Zhengwei Jiang , Yufeng Zhou , Xusheng Zhu , Wen Chen , Qingqing Wu , Kai-Kit Wong

Reconfigurable Intelligent Surfaces (RISs), comprising large numbers of low-cost and almost passive metamaterials with tunable reflection properties, have been recently proposed as an enabling technology for programmable wireless…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-08-23 Aris L. Moustakas , George C. Alexandropoulos , Mérouane Debbah

Reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS) is a newly-emerged technology that might fundamentally change how wireless networks are operated. Though extensively studied in recent years, the practical limitations of RIS are often neglected when…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-12-12 Parisa Ramezani , Yasaman Khorsandmanesh , Emil Björnson

The conventional reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS) assisted far-field communication systems can only implement angle beamforming, which actually limits the capability for reconfiguring the wireless propagation environment. To…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-09-16 Han Xiao , Xiaoyan Hu , Wenjie Wang , Kai-Kit Wong , Kun Yang

Cell-free systems can effectively eliminate the inter-cell interference by enabling multiple base stations (BSs) to cooperatively serve users without cell boundaries at the expense of high costs of hardware and power sources due to the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-11-18 Yutong Zhang , Boya Di , Hongliang Zhang , Jinlong Lin , Yonghui Li , Lingyang Song

Reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS) is regarded as a promising technology with great potential to boost wireless networks. Affected by the "double fading" effect, however, conventional passive RIS cannot bring considerable performance…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-10-06 Qi Zhu , Ming Li , Rang Liu , Yang Liu , Qian Liu