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Reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RISs) are an emerging technology for enhancing the performance of wireless networks at a low and affordable cost, complexity, and power consumption. We introduce an algorithm for optimizing a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-12-01 Xuewen Qian , Marco Di Renzo

Antenna array technology enables directional transmission and reception of wireless signals, for communications, localization, and sensing purposes. The signal processing algorithms that underpin this technology began to be developed…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-03-09 Emil Björnson , Henk Wymeersch , Bho Matthiesen , Petar Popovski , Luca Sanguinetti , Elisabeth de Carvalho

The reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS) is one of the promising technology contributing to the next generation smart radio environment. The application scenarios include massive connectivity support, signal enhancement, and security…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-12-23 Jiaqi Xu , Yuanwei Liu

This paper presents a rigorous Bayesian analysis of the information in the signal (consisting of both the line-of-sight (LOS) path and reflections from multiple reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RISs)) that originate from a single base…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-08-22 Don-Roberts Emenonye , Harpreet S. Dhillon , R. Michael Buehrer

Reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS)-assisted localization has attracted extensive attention as it can enable and enhance localization services in extreme scenarios. However, most existing works treat RISs as anchors with known…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-01-05 Pinjun Zheng , Hui Chen , Tarig Ballal , Mikko Valkama , Henk Wymeersch , Tareq Y. Al-Naffouri

This letter studies the problem of jointly detecting active user equipments (UEs) and estimating their location in the near field, wherein the base station (BS) is unaware of the number of active (or inactive) UEs and their positions. The…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-10-10 Georgios Mylonopoulos , Behrooz Makki , Stefano Buzzi , Gábor Fodor

We investigate reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RISs) for the task of position and velocity estimation in non-LOS (NLOS) indoor scenarios, using a snapshot based multi-step estimation algorithm. We evaluate a compound RIS structure…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-02-16 Thomas Zemen , Musa Furkan Keskin , Moustafa Rahal , Thomas Wilding , Hamed Radpour , Markus Hofer , Benoit Denis , Henk Wymeersch

Reconfigurable Intelligent Surfaces (RIS) are emerging as a key technology for sixth-generation (6G) wireless networks, leveraging adjustable reflecting elements to dynamically control electromagnetic wave propagation and optimize wireless…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-11-20 Kevin Weinberger , David Müller , Martin Mönnigmann , Aydin Sezgin

Reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS) has been widely discussed as new technology to improve wireless communication performance. Based on the unique design of RIS, its elements can reflect, refract, absorb, or focus the incoming waves…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-09-03 Salah Eddine Zegrar , Liza Afeef , Huseyin Arslan

Reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RISs) are expected to be a key component enabling the mobile network evolution towards a flexible and intelligent 6G wireless platform. In most of the research works so far, RIS has been treated as a…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-12-09 Yi Lu , Hui Chen , Jukka Talvitie , Henk Wymeersch , Mikko Valkama

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

Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) play a pivotal role in the emerging low-altitude economy. However, they face significant challenges in achieving reliable network coverage during transit operations. This paper provides an in-depth…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-01-26 Yajun Zhao , Mengnan Jian , Yifei Yuan

Reconfigurable Intelligent Surface (RIS) has emerged as a promising technology to enhance the wireless propagation environment for next-generation wireless communication systems. This paper introduces a new RIS-assisted multiple-antenna…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-11-14 Xiaofan Niu , Minquan Cheng , Kai Wan , Robert Caiming Qiu , Giuseppe Caire

The concept of fluid reconfigurable intelligent surface (FRIS) upgrades the conventional reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS) paradigm by empowering its reflecting elements with positioning reconfigurability. This letter aims to…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-11-21 Xusheng Zhu , Kai-Kit Wong , Boyi Tang , Wen Chen , Chan-Byoung Chae

In this paper, we study a new kind of pilot contamination appearing in multi-operator reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RIS) assisted networks, where multiple operators provide services to their respective served users. The operators use…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-11-03 Doğa Gürgünoğlu , Emil Björnson , Gábor Fodor

Reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS) has emerged as a key enabler for providing signal coverage, energy efficiency, reliable communication, and physical layer security (PLS) in next-generation wireless communication networks. This paper…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-12-01 Ahmet Muaz Aktas , Sefa Kayraklik , Sultangali Arzykulov , Galymzhan Nauryzbayev , Ibrahim Hokelek , Ali Gorcin

Conventional Reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RIS) for wireless communications have a local position-dependent (phase-gradient) scattering response on the surface. We consider more general RIS structures, called nonlocal (or…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-04-04 Amine Mezghani , Faouzi Bellili , Ekram Hossain

Reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS)-empowered communications is on the rise and is a promising technology envisioned to aid in 6G and beyond wireless communication networks. RISs can manipulate impinging waves through their…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-05-19 Emre Arslan , Ibrahim Yildirim , Fatih Kilinc , Ertugrul Basar

In this paper, we utilize tools from stochastic geometry to estimate the interference propagation via reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS) in the millimeter wave (mmWave, 30-300 GHz) band and specifically on the D band (110-170 GHz).…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-07-15 Joonas Kokkoniemi , Markku Juntti

We consider the extra degree of freedom offered by the rotation of the reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS) plane and investigate its potential in improving the performance of RIS-assisted wireless communication systems. By considering…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-02-14 Yajun Cheng , Wei Peng , Chongwen Huang , George C. Alexandropoulos , Chau Yuen , Mérouane Debbah