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Reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RISs) allow controlling the propagation environment in wireless networks by tuning multiple reflecting elements. RISs have been traditionally realized through single connected architectures,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-06-16 Matteo Nerini , Shanpu Shen , Bruno Clerckx

Reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RISs) are envisioned as a promising technology for future wireless communication systems due to their ability to control the propagation environment in a hardware- and energy-efficient way. Recently, the…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-12-23 Zheyu Wu , Bruno Clerckx

Benefiting from its capability to generalize existing reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS) architectures and provide additional design flexibility via interactions between RIS elements, beyond-diagonal RIS (BD-RIS) has attracted…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-01-20 Xiaohua Zhou , Tianyu Fang , Yijie Mao

An introduction of intelligent interconnectivity for people and things has posed higher demands and more challenges for sixth-generation (6G) networks, such as high spectral efficiency and energy efficiency, ultra-low latency, and…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-05-24 Enyu Shi , Jiayi Zhang , Hongyang Du , Bo Ai , Chau Yuen , Dusit Niyato , Khaled B. Letaief , Xuemin Shen

Dual-function radar-communication (DFRC) technology is emerging in next-generation wireless systems. Reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS) arrays have been suggested as a crucial sensor component of the DFRC. In this paper, we propose a…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-03-13 Zhuoyang Liu , Haiyang Zhang , Tianyao Huang , Feng Xu , Yonina C. Eldar

Beyond-diagonal reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (BD-RISs) significantly improve wireless performance by allowing tunable interconnections among elements, but their design in multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) systems has so far…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-13 Ignacio Santamaria , Mohammad Soleymani , Jesus Gutierrez , Eduard Jorswieck

Reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RISs) are an emerging technology for improving spectral efficiency and reducing power consumption in future wireless systems. This paper investigates the joint design of the transmit precoding matrices…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-07-22 Shumin Wang , Hajar El Hassani , Marco Di Renzo , Marios Poulakis

In this paper, we investigate an intelligent reflecting surface (IRS) assisted cell-free multiple input multiple output (MIMO) communication system, where distributed multiple IRSs are dedicated deployed to assist distributed multiple base…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-08-18 Xie Xie , Chen He , Xiaoya Li , Kun Yang , Z. Jane Wang

This letter proposes a movable beyond-diagonal reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (MA-BD-RIS) design, combining inter-element connectivity and movability for channel enhancement. We study a MA-BD-RIS assisted multi-user multiple input…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-01-13 Shuyue Xu , Matteo Nerini , Bruno Clerckx

Beyond-diagonal reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (BD-RISs) are emerging as a transformative technology in wireless communications, enabling enhanced performance and quality of service (QoS) of wireless systems in harsh urban environments…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-03-12 Marko Fidanovski , Iván Alexander Morales Sandoval , Hyeon Seok Rou , Giuseppe Thadeu Freitas de Abreu , Emil Björnson

Reconfigurable Intelligent Surfaces (RIS) have been proposed as a revolutionary technology with the potential to address several critical requirements of 6G communication systems. Despite its powerful ability for radio environment…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-01-09 Yun Yang , Zhiping Lu , Ming Li , Rang Liu , Qian Liu

The amalgamation of cell-free networks and reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS) has become a prospective technique for future sixth-generation wireless communication systems. In this paper, we focus on the precoding and beamforming…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-11-23 Peng Zhang , Jiayi Zhang , Huahua Xiao , Xiaodan Zhang , Derrick Wing Kwan Ng , Bo Ai

We investigate the integration of beyond diagonal reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (BDRISs) into cell free massive multiple input multiple output (CFmMIMO) systems to enhance simultaneous wireless information and power transfer (SWIPT).…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-08-20 Duc Thien Hua , Mohammadali Mohammadi , Hien Quoc Ngo , Michail Matthaiou

In this paper, we consider the robust beamforming design in a reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS)-aided cell-free (CF) system considering the channel state information (CSI) uncertainties of both the direct channels and cascaded…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-05-10 Jiacheng Yao , Jindan Xu , Wei Xu , Derrick Wing Kwan Ng , Chau Yuen , Xiaohu You

Integrating the reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS) into a cell-free massive multiple-input multiple-output (CF-mMIMO) system is an effective solution to achieve high system capacity with low cost and power consumption. However,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-03-27 Jianxin Dai , Jin Ge , Kangda Zhi , Cunhua Pan , Youguo Wang

Reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RISs) hold significant promise for enhancing physical layer security (PLS). However, conventional RISs are typically modeled using diagonal scattering matrices, capturing only independent reflections…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-11-20 Weijie Xiong , Jingran Lin , Cunhua Pan , Yilong Zeng , Qiang Li

The robust beamforming design in multi-functional reconfigurable intelligent surface (MF-RIS) assisted wireless networks is investigated in this work, where the MF-RIS supports signal reflection, refraction, and amplification to address the…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2024-12-12 Ailing Zheng , Wanli Ni , Wen Wang , Hui Tian , Chau Yuen

Radio frequency (RF) wireless power transfer (WPT) is a promising technology to seamlessly charge low-power devices, but its low end-to-end power transfer efficiency remains a critical challenge. To address the latter, low-cost…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-01-06 Amirhossein Azarbahram , Onel L. A. Lopez , Bruno Clerckx , Marco Di Renzo , Matti Latva-Aho

This paper proposes a reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS)-aided and angular-based hybrid beamforming (AB-HBF) technique for the millimeter wave (mmWave) massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) systems. The proposed RIS-AB-HBF…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-08-16 Ibrahim Yildirim , Asil Koc , Ertugrul Basar , Tho Le-Ngoc

This paper investigates the performance of downlink simultaneous transmitting and reflecting reconfigurable intelligent surface (STAR-RIS)-assisted cell-free (CF) massive multiple-input multiple-output (mMIMO) systems, where user equipments…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-12-01 Anastasios Papazafeiropoulos , Hien Quoc Ngo , Pandelis Kourtessis , Symeon Chatzinotas