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In this paper, we investigate the potential of employing reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS) in integrated sensing and communication (ISAC) systems. In particular, we consider an RIS-assisted ISAC system in which a multi-antenna base…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-01-27 Rang Liu , Ming Li , A. Lee Swindlehurst

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

This article discusses the employment of simultaneously transmitting and reflecting surface (STARS) for integrated sensing and communication (ISAC) networks. First, two fundamental configurations of STARS-enabled ISAC systems are…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-10-02 Zheng Zhang , Zhaolin Wang , Xidong Mu , Jian Chen , Yuanwei Liu

Reconfigurable Intelligent Surfaces (RISs) are programmable metasurfaces that can adaptively steer received electromagnetic energy in desired directions by employing controllable phase shifting cells. Among other uses, an RIS can modify the…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-05-15 Ender Ayanoglu , Filippo Capolino , A. Lee Swindlehurst

Physically accurate and mathematically tractable models are presented to characterize scattering and reflection properties of reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RISs). We take continuous and discrete strategies to model a single patch and…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-08-31 Tiebin Mi , Jianan Zhang , Rujing Xiong , Zhengyu Wang , Robert Caiming Qiu

This paper proposes a new three dimensional (3D) networking architecture enabled by aerial intelligent reflecting surface (AIRS) to achieve panoramic signal reflection from the sky. Compared to the conventional terrestrial IRS, AIRS not…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-01-22 Haiquan Lu , Yong Zeng , Shi Jin , Rui Zhang

A reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS) is a planar surface that can enhance the quality of communication by providing control over the communication environment. Reflection optimization is one of the pivotal challenges in RIS setups.…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-11-26 Seyedkhashayar Hashemi , Masoud Ardakani , Hai Jiang

We consider transmit beamforming and reflection pattern design in reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS)-assisted integrated sensing and communication (ISAC) systems to jointly precode communication symbols and radar waveforms. We treat…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-06-16 R. S. Prasobh Sankar , Sundeep Prabhakar Chepuri , Yonina C. Eldar

Reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS) has emerged as a cost-effective and promising solution to extend the wireless signal coverage and improve the performance via passive signal reflection. Different from existing works which do not…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-11-22 Anastasios Papazafeiropoulos , Ahmet M. Elbir , Pandelis Kourtessis , Ioannis Krikidis , Symeon Chatzinotas

We present a novel, power- & hardware-efficient, multiuser, multibeam RIS (Reflective Intelligent Surface) architecture for multiuser MIMO, especially for very high frequency bands (e.g., high mmWave and sub-THz), where channels are…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-07-22 Krishan Kumar Tiwari , Giuseppe Caire

Multiplicative fading is a major limitation of reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RIS), restricting their effective coverage in both existing sub-6GHz systems and future mmWave networks. Although active RIS architectures mitigate this…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-12-30 Aparna V C , Shashank Shekhar , Sheetal Kalyani

This paper investigates a wireless-powered hybrid reflecting intelligent surface (hybrid RIS)-assisted multiple access system, where the RIS can harvest energy from energy station (ES) transmitted radio frequency signal (RF), and each…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-02-20 Mingang Yuan , Wenzhe Zhang , Gaofei Huang

Intelligent reflecting surfaces can improve the communication between a source and a destination. The surface contains metamaterial that is configured to "reflect" the incident wave from the source towards the destination. Two incompatible…

Applied Physics · Physics 2019-12-17 Özgecan Özdogan , Emil Björnson , Erik G. Larsson

In this paper, an intelligent reflecting surface (IRS) is leveraged to enhance the physical layer security of an integrated sensing and communication (ISAC) system in which the IRS is deployed to not only assist the downlink communication…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-07-20 Meng Hua , Qingqing Wu , Wen Chen , Octavia A. Dobre , A. Lee Swindlehurst

Cell-free systems can effectively eliminate the inter-cell interference by enabling multiple base stations (BSs) to cooperatively serve users without cell boundaries at the expense of high costs of hardware and power sources due to the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-11-18 Yutong Zhang , Boya Di , Hongliang Zhang , Jinlong Lin , Yonghui Li , Lingyang Song

Reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RISs) are two dimensional (2D) metasurfaces which can intelligently manipulate electromagnetic waves by low-cost near passive reflecting elements. RIS is viewed as a potential key technology for the…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-06-07 Jie Huang , Cheng-Xiang Wang , Yingzhuo Sun , Rui Feng , Jialing Huang , Bolun Guo , Zhimeng Zhong , Tie Jun Cui

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 (RIS) have drawn considerable attention recently due to their controllable scattering elements that are able to direct electromagnetic waves into desirable directions. Although RISs share some…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-04-08 Mohanad Obeed , Anas Chaaban

The performance of over-the-air computation (AirComp) systems degrades due to the hostile channel conditions of wireless devices (WDs), which can be significantly improved by the employment of reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RISs).…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-01-06 Xiongfei Zhai , Guojun Han , Yunlong Cai , Yuanwei Liu , Lajos Hanzo

In this paper, we propose to use a hybrid relay-reflecting intelligent surface (HR-RIS) to enhance the performance of a covert communication system. Specifically, the HR-RIS consists of passive reflecting elements and active relay elements…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-06-22 Jinsong Hu , Xiaoqiang Shi , Youjia Chen , Tiesong Zhao , Feng Shu