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We propose a practical framework for designing a physically consistent reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS) to overcome the inefficiency of the conventional phase gradient approach. For a section of Cape Town and across three different…

Applied Physics · Physics 2024-09-30 Javad Shabanpour , Constantin Simovski , Giovanni Geraci

This paper explores the use of reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RIS) in mitigating cross-system interference in spectrum sharing and secure wireless applications. Unlike conventional RIS that can only adjust the phase of the incoming…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-07-03 Fangzhou Wang , A. Lee Swindlehurst

Intelligent reflecting surfaces (IRSs) are a promising low-cost solution for achieving high spectral and energy efficiency in future communication systems by enabling the customization of wireless propagation environments. Despite the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-04-30 Yifei Wu , Dongfang Xu , Derrick Wing Kwan Ng , Robert Schober , Wolfgang Gerstacker

This paper investigates the problem of maximizing the signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) in reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS)-assisted MISO communication systems. The problem will be reformulated as a complex quadratic form problem with…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-11-23 Xuehui Dong , Rujing Xiong , Tiebin Mi , Yuan Xie , Robert Caiming Qiu

This paper investigates the limits to which a passive Reconfigurable Intelligent Surface (RIS) can reshape a point-to-point Multiple-Input Multiple-Output (MIMO) channel in terms of singular values and their functions (e.g., achievable rate…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-09-16 Yang Zhao , Hongyu Li , Bruno Clerckx , Massimo Franceschetti

This paper investigates the information theoretic limit of a reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS) aided communication scenario in which the RIS and the transmitter either jointly or independently send information to the receiver. The…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-06-18 Hei Victor Cheng , Wei Yu

Reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS) is a promising solution to deal with the blockage-sensitivity of millimeter wave band and reduce the high energy consumption caused by network densification. However, deploying large scale RISs may…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-02-12 Yining Xu , Sheng Zhou

Reconfigurable Intelligent Surfaces (RIS) dynamically control signal propagation to enhance wireless communications. This paper presents a novel framework for rotatable RIS assisted physical-layer multicast systems, aiming to maximize the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-07-29 Ji Wang , Jiayu Tian , Lijuan Qin , Kunrui Cao , Hongbo Xu , Xingwang Li , Tony. Q. S. Quek

Reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RISs) have huge potential to improve spectral and energy efficiency in future wireless systems at a minimal cost. However, early prototype results indicate that deploying hundreds or thousands of…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-12-12 Eduard E. Bahingayi , Nemanja Stefan Perović , Le-Nam Tran

This paper studies an extremely large-scale reconfigurable intelligent surface (XL-RIS)-aided near-field physical layer security (PLS) communication system, aiming to maximize the secrecy rate by jointly optimizing precoding vector at the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-03-09 Xiaotong Xu , Qian Zhang , Yunxiao Li , Xuejun Cheng , Meihui Liu , Ju Liu

Reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS) has been anticipated to be a novel cost-effective technology to improve the performance of future wireless systems. In this paper, we investigate a practical RIS-aided multiple-input-multiple-output…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-03-23 Jintao Wang , Shiqi Gong , Qingqing Wu , Shaodan Ma

This paper investigates the problem of resource allocation for multiuser communication networks with a reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS)-assisted wireless transmitter. In this network, the sum transmit power of the network is…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-09-25 Zhaohui Yang , Wei Xu , Chongwen Huang , Jianfeng Shi , Mohammad Shikh-Bahaei

With the evolution of the 5G, 6G and beyond, device-to-device (D2D) communication has been developed as an energy-, and spectrum-efficient solution. In cellular network, D2D links need to share the same spectrum resources with the cellular…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-07-03 Yali Chen , Bo Ai , Hongliang Zhang , Yong Niu , Lingyang Song , Zhu Han , H. Vincent Poor

Reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RISs) are an emerging technology for enhancing the performance of wireless networks at a low and affordable cost, complexity, and power consumption. We introduce an algorithm for optimizing a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-12-01 Xuewen Qian , Marco Di Renzo

In this letter, we study the reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RIS) aided full-duplex (FD) communication system. By jointly designing the active beamforming of two multi-antenna sources and passive beamforming of RIS, we aim to maximize…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-05-25 Yiru Wang , Pengxin Guan , Hongkang Yu , Yuping Zhao

The reflection characteristics of a reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS) depend on the phase response of the constituent unit cells, which is necessarily frequency dependent. This paper investigates the role of an RIS constituting unit…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-08-29 Omran Abbas , Qurrat-Ul-Ain Nadeem , Loïc Markley , Anas Chaaban

This paper presents a sophisticated reconfigurable metasurface architecture that introduces an advanced concept of flexible full-array space-time wavefront manipulation with enhanced dynamic capabilities. The practical 2-bit phase-shifting…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-07-30 Yufei Zhao , Yuan Feng , Afkar Mohamed Ismail , Ziyue Wang , Yong Liang Guan , Yongxin Guo , Chau Yuen

Reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RISs) represent a promising candidate for sixth-generation (6G) wireless networks, as the RIS technology provides a new solution to control the propagation channel in order to improve the efficiency of a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-08-15 Mohamad H. Dinan , Nemanja Stefan Perovic , Mark F. Flanagan

In this paper, a proof-of-concept study of a $1$-bit wideband reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS) comprising planar tightly coupled dipoles (PTCD) is presented. The developed RIS operates at subTHz frequencies and a $3$-dB gain…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-02-14 Xianjun Ma , Yonggang Zhou , Qi Luo , Yihan Ma , Kyriakos Stylianopoulos , George C. Alexandropoulos

Recent considerations for reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RISs) assume that RISs can convey information by reflection without the need of transmit radio frequency chains, which, however, is a challenging task. In this paper, we propose…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-08-07 Shaoe Lin , Beixiong Zheng , George C. Alexandropoulos , Miaowen Wen , Marco Di Renzo , Fangjiong Chen