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In this paper, we investigate channel estimation for reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS) empowered millimeter-wave (mmWave) multi-user single-input multiple-output communication systems using low-resolution quantization. Due to the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-10-21 Gyoseung Lee , In-soo Kim , Yonina C. Eldar , A. Lee Swindlehurst , Hyeongtaek Lee , Minje Kim , Junil Choi

Active reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RISs) have recently been proposed to compensate for the severe multiplicative fading effect of conventional passive RIS-aided systems. Each reflecting element of active RISs is assisted by an…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-02-21 Gui Zhou , Cunhua Pan , Hong Ren , Dongfang Xu , Zaichen Zhang , Jiangzhou Wang , Robert Schober

This paper considers a reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS)-aided millimeter wave (mmWave) downlink communication system where hybrid analog-digital beamforming is employed at the base station (BS). We formulate a power minimization…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-01-26 Bei Guo , Renwang Li , Meixia Tao

It is challenging to precisely configure the phase shifts of the reflecting elements at the reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS) due to inherent hardware impairments (HIs). In this paper, the mean square error (MSE) performance is…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-08-17 Jingwen Zhao , Ming Chen , Cunhua Pan , Zhiyang Li , Gui Zhou , Xiao Chen

In this article, we investigate the robust beamforming design for a simultaneous transmitting and reflecting reconfigurable intelligent surface (STAR-RIS) aided downlink rate-splitting multiple access (RSMA) communication system, where both…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-08-08 Ziyue Wang , Xiaoyan Ma , Xingyu Peng , Zheao Li , Jinyuan Liu , Yongliang Guan , Chau Yuen

This paper investigates the two-timescale transmission design for reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS)-aided massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) systems, where the beamforming at the base station (BS) is adapted to the…

We consider a narrowband MIMO reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS)-assisted wireless communication system and use tensor signal modelling techniques to individually estimate all communication channels including the non-RIS channels…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-11-03 Alexander James Fernandes , Ioannis Psaromiligkos

Although reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RISs) have demonstrated the potential to boost network capacity and expand coverage by adjusting their electromagnetic properties, existing RIS architectures have certain limitations, such as…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-05-28 Wanli Ni , Ailing Zheng , Wen Wang , Dusit Niyato , Naofal Al-Dhahir , Merouane Debbah

This letter investigates the channel estimation problem in THz wireless communications where a RIS is employed to assist wireless transmission between different devices. Unlike existing studies, we consider a novel scenario where specific…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-03-30 Wen-Xuan Long , Marco Moretti , Giacomo Bacci , Luca Sanguinetti

In this chapter, we investigate the mathematical foundation of the modeling and design of reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RIS) in both the far- and near-field regimes. More specifically, we first present RIS-assisted wireless channel…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-10-16 Mohamadreza Delbari , George C. Alexandropoulos , Robert Schober , Vahid Jamali

A reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS) can be used to improve the channel gain between a base station (BS) and user equipment (UE), but only if its $N$ reflecting elements are configured properly. This requires accurate estimation of…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-05-24 Özlem Tuğfe Demir , Emil Björnson , Luca Sanguinetti

We propose a new reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS) structure, referred to as interconnected RIS (I-RIS), which allows the RIS elements to be interconnected and share the incident signals using simple binary radio frequency (RF)…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-07-17 Sajjad Nassirpour , Naoki Kusashima , Jose Flordelis , Alireza Vahid

Active reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS) emerges as an effective technique to resist the double-fading attenuation of passive RIS. By embedding with power harvesting function, it further evolves to zero-power active RIS, which can…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-10-17 Xiao Zheng , Wenchi Cheng , Jingqing Wang , Zhuohui Yao , Jiangzhou Wang

Reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS) is a promising technology that can reshape the electromagnetic environment in wireless networks, offering various possibilities for enhancing wireless channels. Motivated by this, we investigate the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-09-02 Shengguo Meng , Wankai Tang , Weicong Chen , Jifeng Lan , Qun Yan Zhou , Yu Han , Xiao Li , Shi Jin

This paper investigates the reconfigurable reflecting surface (RIS)-aided multiple-input-single-output (MISO) systems with imperfect channel state information (CSI), where RIS-related channels are modeled by Rician fading. Considering the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-07-13 Kangda Zhi , Cunhua Pan , Hong Ren , Kezhi Wang , Maged Elkashlan

In this paper, we investigate an reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS)-aided integrated sensing and communication (ISAC) system. Our objective is to maximize the achievable sum rate of the multi-antenna communication users through the…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-02-09 Yasheng Jin , Hong Ren , Cunhua Pan , Zhiyuan Yu , Ruisong Weng , Boshi Wang , Gui Zhou , Yongchao He , Maged Elkashlan

This study explores the synergy between rate-splitting multiple access (RSMA) and simultaneous transmitting and reflecting reconfigurable intelligent surface (STAR-RIS) as a unified framework to enable ubiquitous, intelligent, and resilient…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-10-21 Muhammad Asif , Asim Ihsan , Zhu Shoujin , Ali Ranjha , Xingwang Li , Khaled M. Rabie , Symeon Chatzinotas

Novel reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS) architectures, known as beyond diagonal RISs (BD-RISs), have been proposed to enhance reflection efficiency and expand RIS capabilities. However, their passive nature, non-diagonal reflection…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-11-28 Nipuni Ginige , Arthur Sousa de Sena , Nurul Huda Mahmood , Nandana Rajatheva , Matti Latva-aho

A simultaneously transmitting and reflecting reconfigurable intelligent surface (STAR-RIS) aided near-field multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) communication framework is proposed. A weighted sum rate maximization problem for the joint…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-12-11 Li Haochen , Yuanwei Liu , Xidong Mu , Yue Chen , Pan Zhiwen

Reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS) technology is a promising solution to improve the performance of existing wireless communications. To achieve its cost-effectiveness advantage, there inevitably exist certain hardware impairments in…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-01-17 Yiming Liu , Rui Wang , Zhu Han