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Intelligent reflecting surface (IRS) is a promising technology to assist downlink information transmissions from a multi-antenna access point (AP) to a receiver. In this paper, we minimize the AP's transmit power by a joint optimization of…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-05-26 Jiaye Lin , Yuze Zou , Xiaoru Dong , Shimin Gong , Dinh Thai Hoang , Dusit Niyato

Reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RIS) are expected to play an important role in future wireless communication systems. These surfaces typically rely on their reflection beamforming codebooks to reflect and focus the signal on the target…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-10-06 Yu Zhang , Ahmed Alkhateeb

Reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS) becomes a promising technique for 6G networks by reshaping signal propagation in smart radio environments. However, it also leads to significant complexity for network management due to the large…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2024-09-18 Hao Zhou , Chengming Hu , Xue Liu

Reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS) has become a promising technology to realize the programmable wireless environment via steering the incident signal in fully customizable ways. However, a major challenge in RIS-aided communication…

In this paper, we propose reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS)-assisted unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) networks that can utilise both advantages of UAV's agility and RIS's reflection for enhancing the network's performance. To aim at…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-08-09 Khoi Khac Nguyen , Saeed Khosravirad , Daniel Benevides da Costa , Long D. Nguyen , Trung Q. Duong

The design of beamforming for downlink multi-user massive multi-input multi-output (MIMO) relies on accurate downlink channel state information (CSI) at the transmitter (CSIT). In fact, it is difficult for the base station (BS) to obtain…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-07-20 Zhenyuan Feng , Bruno Clerckx

Intelligent reflecting surface (IRS) is envisioned to change the paradigm of wireless communications from "adapting to wireless channels" to "changing wireless channels". However, current IRS configuration schemes, consisting of sub-channel…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-05-12 Wei Wang , Wei Zhang

This study considers multiple reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RISs)-aided multiuser downlink systems with the goal of jointly optimizing the transmitter precoding and RIS phase shift matrix to maximize spectrum efficiency. Unlike prior…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-10-01 Po-Heng Chou , Bo-Ren Zheng , Wan-Jen Huang , Walid Saad , Yu Tsao , Ronald Y. Chang

Reconfigurable distributed antenna and reflecting surface (RDARS) is a promising architecture for future sixth-generation (6G) wireless networks. In particular, the dynamic working mode configuration for the RDARS-aided system brings an…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-10-17 Chengwang Ji , Kehui Li , Haiquan Lu , Qiaoyan Peng , Jintao Wang , Feifei Gao , Shaodan Ma

In reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS)-assisted wireless communication systems, the pointing accuracy and intensity of reflections depend crucially on the 'profile,' representing the amplitude/phase state information of all elements in…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-09-12 Wei Wang , Peizheng Li , Angela Doufexi , Mark A Beach

The integration of Reconfigurable Intelligent Surfaces (RISs) into wireless environments endows channels with programmability, and is expected to play a key role in future communication standards. To date, most RIS-related efforts focus on…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-02-17 Kyriakos Stylianopoulos , Nir Shlezinger , Philipp del Hougne , George C. Alexandropoulos

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

Reconfigurable Intelligent Surfaces (RISs) offer a promising means of reshaping the wireless propagation environment, yet practical methods for configuring large passive arrays to achieve reliable signal equalization remain limited.…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-03-04 Gal Ben-Itzhak , Ender Ayanoglu

Reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS) technology is receiving significant attention as a key enabling technology for 6G communications, with much attention given to coverage infill and wireless power transfer. However, relatively little…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-12-27 Wei Wang , Peizheng Li , Angela Doufexi , Mark A Beach

Intelligent reflecting surfaces (IRSs) have recently received significant attention for 6G wireless communications as they enable the control of the wireless propagation environment. The use of IRS also provides reducing the hardware…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-10-06 Ahmet M. Elbir , Kumar Vijay Mishra

We consider an Intelligent Reflecting Surface (IRS)-aided multiple-input single-output (MISO) system for downlink transmission. We compare the performance of Deep Reinforcement Learning (DRL) and conventional optimization methods in finding…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-07-27 Amal Feriani , Amine Mezghani , Ekram Hossain

Stacked intelligent metasurfaces (SIM) represents an advanced signal processing paradigm that enables over-the-air processing of electromagnetic waves at the speed of light. Its multi-layer structure exhibits customizable increased…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-02-15 Hao Liu , Jiancheng An , Derrick Wing Kwan Ng , George C. Alexandropoulos , Lu Gan

This paper presents a distributed beamforming framework for a constellation of airborne platform stations (APSs) in a massive Multiple-Input and Multiple-Output (MIMO) non-terrestrial network (NTN) that targets the downlink sum-rate…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-01-01 Hesam Khoshkbari , Georges Kaddoum , Omid Abbasi , Bassant Selim , Halim Yanikomeroglu

Intelligent reflecting surface (IRS) has been recently employed to reshape the wireless channels by controlling individual scattering elements' phase shifts, namely, passive beamforming. Due to the large size of scattering elements, the…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-09-01 Shimin Gong , Jiaye Lin , Jinbei Zhang , Dusit Niyato , Dong In Kim , Mohsen Guizani

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