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Reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS) is a new technique that is able to manipulate the wireless environment smartly and has been exploited for assisting the wireless communications, especially at high frequency band. However, it suffers…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-04-14 Jun Yang , Yijian Chen , Yijun Cui , Qingqing Wu , Jianwu Dou , Yuxin Wang

Channel state information (CSI) is essential to unlock the potential of reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RISs) in wireless communication systems. Since massive RIS elements are typically implemented without baseband signal processing…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-09-03 Weicong Chen , Jiajia Guo , Yiming Cui , Xiao Li , Shi Jin

In this work, we present a recent investigation on leveraging large reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RIS) as anchors for positioning in wireless communication systems. Unlike existing approaches, we explicitly address the uncertainty…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2025-05-20 Zeyu Huang , Markus Rupp , Stefan Schwarz

Reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS)-aided near-field communications is investigated. First, the necessity of investigating RIS-aided near-field communications and the advantages brought about by the unique spherical-wave-based…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-03-05 Xidong Mu , Jiaqi Xu , Yuanwei Liu , Lajos Hanzo

In the past as well as present wireless communication systems, the wireless propagation environment is regarded as an uncontrollable black box that impairs the received signal quality, and its negative impacts are compensated for by relying…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-09-14 Cunhua Pan , Gui Zhou , Kangda Zhi , Sheng Hong , Tuo Wu , Yijin Pan , Hong Ren , Marco Di Renzo , A. Lee Swindlehurst , Rui Zhang , Angela Yingjun Zhang

With both the standardization and commercialization completed in an unforeseen pace for the 5th generation (5G) wireless network, researchers, engineers and executives from the academia and the industry have turned their sights on candidate…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2024-02-20 Ruiqi Liu , Qingqing Wu , Marco Di Renzo , Yifei Yuan

The concept of smart wireless environments envisions dynamic programmable propagation of information-bearing signals through the deployment of Reconfigurable Intelligent Surfaces (RISs). Typical RIS implementations include metasurfaces with…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-07-23 George C. Alexandropoulos , Nir Shlezinger , Ioannis Gavras , Haiyang Zhang

Ongoing discussions about the future of wireless communications are reaching a turning point as standardization activities for the sixth generation of mobile networks (6G) become more mature. New technologies must now face renewed scrutiny…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-12-05 Pedro H. C. de Souza , Luiz A. M. Pereira , Faustino R. Gómez , Elsa M. Materón , Jorge Ricardo Mejía-Salazar

The use of real-time software-controlled reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS) units is proposed to increase the reliability of vehicle-to-everything (V2X) communications. The optimum placement problem of the RIS units is formulated by…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2020-07-21 Y. Ugur Ozcan , Ozgur Ozdemir , Gunes Karabulut Kurt

As an emerging wireless communication technology, reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS) has become a basic choice for providing signal coverage services in scenarios with dense obstacles or long tunnels through multi-hop configurations.…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-07-16 Rujing Xiong , Jialong Lu , Jianan Zhang , Minggang Liu , Xuehui Dong , Tiebin Mi , Robert Caiming Qiu

Future wireless communications are promising to support ubiquitous connections and high data rates with cost-effective devices. Benefiting from the energy-efficient elements with low cost, reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS) emerges as…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-07-19 Xiao Zheng , Wenchi Cheng , Jingqing Wang , Wei Zhang

The performance of multiple reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RISs) receives limited attention in previous studies. This article fills this research gap by investigating the capabilities of multiple RISs in real-world networks. We…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-07-04 Rujing Xiong , Jianan Zhang , Xuehui Dong , Zhengyu Wang , Junshuo Liu , Wei Yang , Tiebin Mi , Wenbo Huang , Robert Caiming Qiu

Reconfigurable Intelligent Surfaces (RISs) are a novel form of ultra-low power devices that are capable to increase the communication data rates as well as the cell coverage in a cost- and energy-efficient way. This is attributed to their…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-06-11 Ruiqi Liu , Shuang Zheng , Qingqing Wu , Yifan Jiang , Nan Zhang , Yuanwei Liu , Marco Di Renzo , and George C. Alexandropoulos

Reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS) has been identified as a promising technology for future wireless communication systems due to its ability to manipulate the propagation environment intelligently. RIS is a frequency-selective…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-08-06 Abdelhamid Salem , Kai-Kit Wong , Chan-Byoung Chae , Yangyang Zhang

Reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS) is an emerging technology for application to wireless communications. In this paper, we consider the problem of anomalous reflection and model the RIS as a periodic surface impedance boundary. We…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-02-09 Ahmed Najjar , Hajar El Hassani , Marco Di Renzo , Kezhi Wang , Merouane Debbah

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

The future 6G of wireless communication networks will have to meet multiple requirements in increasingly demanding levels, either individually or in combinations in small groups. This trend has spurred recent research activities on…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-06-22 George C. Alexandropoulos , Geoffroy Lerosey , Merouane Debbah , Mathias Fink

Reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RISs) consist of many passive elements of metamaterials whose impedance can be controllable to change the characteristics of wireless signals impinging on them. Channel estimation is a critical task when…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-09-14 Özlem Tuğfe Demir , Emil Björnson

In this chapter, we investigate the mathematical foundation of the modeling and design of reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RIS) in both the far- and near-field regimes. More specifically, we first present RIS-assisted wireless channel…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-10-16 Mohamadreza Delbari , George C. Alexandropoulos , Robert Schober , Vahid Jamali

Reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS) and simultaneously transmitting and reflecting RIS (STAR-RIS) have emerged as key enablers for enhancing wireless coverage and capacity in next-generation networks. When mounted on unmanned aerial…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-12-10 Dongdong Yang , Bin Li , Jiguang He