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Recently, the reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS) technology has ushered in the prospect of control over the wireless propagation environment. By establishing alternative propagation paths for the transmitted signals, and by reflecting…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-11-18 Pedro H. C. de Souza , Luciano Mendes

Reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RISs) are rapidly gaining prominence in the realm of fifth generation (5G)-Advanced, and predominantly, sixth generation (6G) mobile networks, offering a revolutionary approach to optimizing wireless…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-06-17 Ertugrul Basar , George C. Alexandropoulos , Yuanwei Liu , Qingqing Wu , Shi Jin , Chau Yuen , Octavia A. Dobre , Robert Schober

The reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS) technology is a potential solution to enhance network capacity and coverage without significant investment in additional infrastructure in 6G networks. This work highlights the interest of the…

With the development of the next generation of mobile networks, new research challenges have emerged, and new technologies have been proposed to face them. On the one hand, the reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS) technology is being…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-05-26 Romain Fara , Philippe Ratajczak , Dinh-Thuy Phan Huy , Abdelwaheb Ourir , Marco Di Renzo , Julien De Rosny

Reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RISs), also known as intelligent reflecting surfaces (IRSs), or large intelligent surfaces (LISs), have received significant attention for their potential to enhance the capacity and coverage of wireless…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-05-05 Yuanwei Liu , Xiao Liu , Xidong Mu , Tianwei Hou , Jiaqi Xu , Marco Di Renzo , Naofal Al-Dhahir

Transmission through reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RISs), which control the reflection/scattering characteristics of incident waves in a deliberate manner to enhance the signal quality at the receiver, appears as a promising…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-01-30 Ertugrul Basar

Reconfigurable Intelligent Surfaces (RISs) constitute a promising emerging technology that enables wireless systems to control the propagation environment to enhance diverse communication objectives. To mitigate double-fading attenuation in…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-04-01 Panagiotis Gavriilidis , Deepak Mishra , Besma Smida , Ertugrul Basar , Chau Yuen , George C. Alexandropoulos

Although the fifth-generation (5G) technologies will significantly improve the spectrum and energy efficiency of today's wireless communication networks, their high complexity and hardware cost as well as increasingly more energy…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-09-02 Qingqing Wu , Rui Zhang

Reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RIS) have been actively researched as a potential technique for future wireless communications, which intelligently ameliorate the signal propagation environment. In the conventional design, each RIS…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-03-17 Qingchao Li , Mohammed El-Hajjar , Ibrahim Hemadeh , Arman Shojaeifard , Alain A. M. Mourad , Bruno Clerckx , Lajos Hanzo

Reconfigurable Intelligent Surfaces enable active control of wireless propagation channels, which is crucial for future 5G and 6G networks. This work presents a scalable RIS design operating at 3.6 GHz with both 1 bit and 3 bit phase…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-02-23 Markus Heinrichs , Aydin Sezgin , Rainer Kronberger

The demanding objectives for the future sixth generation (6G) of wireless communication networks have spurred recent research efforts on novel materials and radio-frequency front-end architectures for wireless connectivity, as well as…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-03-08 Mengnan Jian , George C. Alexandropoulos , Ertugrul Basar , Chongwen Huang , Ruiqi Liu , Yuanwei Liu , Chau Yuen

Reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RISs) have emerged as a cost- and energy-efficient technology that can customize and program the physical propagation environment by reflecting radio waves in preferred directions. However, the purely…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-06-21 Nhan Thanh Nguyen , Jiguang He , Van-Dinh Nguyen , Henk Wymeersch , Derrick Wing Kwan Ng , Robert Schober , Symeon Chatzinotas , Markku Juntti

In the recent years, the proliferation of wireless data traffic has led the scientific community to explore the use of higher unallocated frequency bands, such as the millimeter wave and terahertz (0.1-10 THz) bands. However, they are prone…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-08-17 Evangelos N. Papasotiriou , Alexandros-Apostolos A. Boulogeorgos , Antigone Stratakou , Angeliki Alexiou

Reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS) or intelligent reflecting surface (IRS) has recently been envisioned as one of the most promising technologies in the future sixth-generation (6G) communications. In this paper, we consider the joint…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-12-14 Zhangjie Peng , Zhiwei Chen , Cunhua Pan , Gui Zhou , Hong Ren

Reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RISs), an emerging technology proposed for inclusion in next generation wireless communication systems, are programmable surfaces that can adaptively reflect incident electromagnetic radiation in…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-12-30 Miguel Saavedra-Melo , Benjamin Bradshaw , Vanessa Yao , Ender Ayanoglu , Lee Swindlehurst , Filippo Capolino

As the wireless research community moves toward shaping the vision of sixth-generation (6G) networks, reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RIS) have emerged as a promising technology for controlling the propagation environment. Although RIS…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-06-25 Prasetyo Putranto , Anis Amazigh Hamza , Sameh Mabrouki , Nasrullah Armi , Iyad Dayoub

Reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RIS) are conventionally implemented as two-dimensional (2D) electromagnetic (EM) structures to steer incident waves toward desired reflection angles. This approach limits the reflection to a single…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-02-16 Ruiqi Wang , Yiming Yang , Atif Shamim

Intelligent reflecting surfaces (IRSs) have emerged as a cost-effective technology for terahertz (THz) communications by enabling programmable control of the wireless environment. This paper provides a comprehensive overview of IRSs-aided…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-06-23 Qingqing Wu , Yanze Zhu , Qiaoyan Peng , Wanming Hao , Yanzhao Hou , Fengyuan Yang , Wencai Yan , Guoning Wang , Wen Chen , Chi Qiu

Reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RISs) are regarded as a promising emerging hardware technology to improve the spectrum and energy efficiency of wireless networks by artificially reconfiguring the propagation environment of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-08-18 Xiaojun Yuan , Ying-Jun Angela Zhang , Yuanming Shi , Wenjing Yan , Hang Liu

In state-of-the-art wireless networks, the radio environment is beyond the control of the operators which leads to several issues. For example, signal attenuation limits radio connectivity, multi-path propagation results in fading phenomena…

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