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Intelligent reflecting surfaces (IRSs) are being widely investigated as a potential low-cost and energy-efficient alternative to active relays for improving coverage in next-generation cellular networks. However, technical constraints in…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-02-13 Alberto Rech , Matteo Pagin , Leonardo Badia , Stefano Tomasin , Marco Giordani , Jonathan Gambini , Michele Zorzi

Reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RISs) are envisioned as a key enabler for next-generation wireless networks, offering programmable control over propagation environments. While extensive research focuses on planar RIS architectures,…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-02-16 Mohamadreza Delbari , Ehsan Mohammadi , Mostafa Darabi , Arash Asadi , Alejandro Jiménez-Sáez , Vahid Jamali

This paper presents a 1-bit reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS) fabricated using a three-layer structure. It employs a manual layer stackup incorporating an optimal air gap to reduce the effective dielectric losses while using a…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-07 Mahendra Kheti , Debapratim Ghosh , Soumya P. Dash

In this paper, we analyse the performance of a reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS) aided system where the RIS is divided into subsurfaces. Each subsurface is designed specifically for one user, who is served on their own frequency…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-03-12 Amy S. Inwood , Peter J. Smith , Philippa A. Martin , Graeme K. Woodward

The impacts of channel estimation errors, inter-cell interference, phase adjustment cost, and computation cost on an intelligent reflecting surface (IRS)-assisted system are severe in practice but have been ignored for simplicity in most…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-09-22 Yuhang Jia , Ying Cui , Wuyang Jiang

In this work, in order to achieve higher spectrum efficiency, we propose a reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS)-assisted multi-user communication uplink system. Different from previous work in which the RIS only optimizes the phase of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-11-19 Liang Yang , Fanxu Meng , Mazen O. Hasna , Ertugrul Basar

Reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RIS) can improve signal propagation environments by adjusting the phase of the incident signal. However, optimizing the phase shifts jointly with the beamforming vector at the access point is challenging…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-10-28 Weijie Jin , Jing Zhang , Chao-Kai Wen , Shi Jin , Xiao Li , Shuangfeng Han

Joint device-to-device (D2D) and cellular communication is a promising technology for enhancing the spectral efficiency of future wireless networks. However, the interference management problem is challenging since the operating devices and…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-12-08 Ly V. Nguyen , A. Lee Swindlehurst

The reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS)-assisted sparse code multiple access (RIS-SCMA) is an attractive scheme for future wireless networks. In this letter, for the first time, the RIS phase shifts of the uplink RIS-SCMA system are…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-12-01 Ibrahim Al-Nahhal , Octavia A. Dobre , Ertugrul Basar , Telex M. N. Ngatched , Salama Ikki

Reconfigurable Intelligent Surfaces (RIS) have been recognized as a promising technology to enhance both communication and sensing performance in integrated sensing and communication (ISAC) systems for future 6G networks. However, existing…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-11-07 Chu Li , Kevin Weinberger , Aydin Sezgin

We address the reflection optimization problem for a reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS), where the RIS elements feature a set of non-uniformly spaced discrete phase shifts. This is motivated by the actual behavior of practical RIS…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-11-14 Seyedkhashayar Hashemi , Hai Jiang , Masoud Ardakani

We simultaneously minimize the latency and improve energy efficiency (EE) of the multi-user multiple-input multiple-output (MU-MIMO) rate splitting multiple access (RSMA) downlink, aided by a reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS). Our…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-03-17 Mohammad Soleymani , Bruno Clerckx , Robert Schober , Lajos Hanzo

Active reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS) has attracted significant attention as a recently proposed RIS architecture. Owing to its capability to amplify the incident signals, active RIS can mitigate the multiplicative fading effect…

Reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS) is considered to be an energy-efficient approach to reshape the wireless environment for improved throughput. Its passive feature greatly reduces the energy consumption, which makes RIS a promising…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-01-20 Keke Ying , Zhen Gao , Shanxiang Lyu , Yongpeng Wu , Hua Wang , Mohamed-Slim Alouini

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 2020-04-21 Stefano Buzzi , Carmen D'Andrea , Alessio Zappone , Maria Fresia , Yong-Ping Zhang , Shulan Feng

Substantially increasing wireless traffic and extending serving coverage is required with the advent of sixth-generation (6G) wireless communication networks. Reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS) is widely considered as a promising…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-04-27 Chia-Jou Ku , Li-Hsiang Shen , Kai-Ten Feng

This paper provides a theoretical framework for understanding the performance of reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS)-aided massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) with zero-forcing (ZF) detectors under imperfect channel state…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-11-03 Kangda Zhi , Cunhua Pan , Gui Zhou , Hong Ren , Maged Elkashlan , Robert Schober

Reconfigurable Intelligent Surface (RIS) has becoming a useful tool in future wireless communication systems for close-distance communication network. This paper we use Reconfigurable Intelligent Surface (RIS) for downlink multi-user…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-02-02 RuiTianYi Lu

Terahertz (THz) communication technology is regarded as a promising enabler for achieving ultra-high data rate transmission in next-generation communication systems. To mitigate the high path loss in THz systems, the transmitting beams are…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-02-25 Yanzhao Hou , Guoning Wang , Chen Chen , Gaoze Mu , Qimei Cui , Xiaofeng Tao , Yuanmu Yang

Reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS)-aided terahertz (THz) communications have been regarded as a promising candidate for future 6G networks because of its ultra-wide bandwidth and ultra-low power consumption. However, there exists the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-06-26 Wencai Yan , Wanming Hao , Chongwen Huang , Gangcan Sun , Osamu Muta , Haris Gacanin , Chau Yuen