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Transmissive reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RIS) represent a transformative architecture for future wireless networks, enabling a paradigm shift from traditional costly base stations to low-cost, energy-efficient transmitters. This…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-11-17 Zhengwei Jiang , Yufeng Zhou , Xusheng Zhu , Wen Chen , Qingqing Wu , Kai-Kit Wong

This letter theoretically compares the active reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS)-aided system with the passive RIS-aided system. For fair comparison, we consider that these two systems have the same overall power budget that can be…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-12-15 Kangda Zhi , Cunhua Pan , Hong Ren , Kok Keong Chai , Maged Elkashlan

This paper proposes a hybrid-relaying scheme empowered by a self-sustainable intelligent reflecting surface (IRS) in a wireless powered communication network (WPCN), to simultaneously improve the performance of downlink energy transfer (ET)…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-10-01 Bin Lyu , Parisa Ramezani , Dinh Thai Hoang , Shimin Gong , Zhen Yang , Abbas Jamalipour

A novel hybrid active-passive reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS) transmitter enabled downlink multi-user communication system is investigated. Specifically, RISs are exploited to serve as transmitter antennas, where each element can…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-03-05 Ao Huang , Xidong Mu , Li Guo , Guangyu Zhu

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

Simultaneous wireless information and power transfer (SWIPT) is an effective energy-saving technology, but its efficiency is hindered by environmental factors. The introduction of reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RIS) has alleviated…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2024-03-18 Junlong Yang

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

Intelligent reflecting surface (IRS) is a new and promising paradigm to substantially improve the spectral and energy efficiency of wireless networks, by constructing favorable communication channels via tuning massive low-cost passive…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-05-18 Jiangbin Lyu , Rui Zhang

Reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS)-based communication networks promise to improve channel capacity and energy efficiency. However, the promised capacity gains could be negligible for passive RISs because of the double pathloss…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-06-30 Shayan Zargari , Azar Hakimi , Chintha Tellambura , Sanjeewa Herath

Hybrid reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (HRIS) are RIS architectures having both active and passive elements. The received signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) in HRIS-assisted communication systems depends on the placement of active elements. In…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-01-18 R. S. Prasobh Sankar , Sundeep Prabhakar Chepuri

In this paper, we consider an active reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS) to assist the multiuser downlink transmission in the presence of practical hardware impairments (HWIs), including the HWIs at the transceivers and the phase noise…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-02-19 Zhangjie Peng , Zhibo Zhang , Cunhua Pan , Marco Di Renzo , Octavia A. Dobre , Jiangzhou Wang

As a revolutionary paradigm for controlling wireless channels, reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RISs) have emerged as a candidate technology for future 6G networks. However, due to the "multiplicative fading" effect, the existing…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-01-20 Zijian Zhang , Linglong Dai , Xibi Chen , Changhao Liu , Fan Yang , Robert Schober , H. Vincent Poor

Reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RISs) have emerged as a candidate technology for future 6G networks. However, due to the "multiplicative fading" effect, the existing passive RISs only achieve a negligible capacity gain in environments…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-01-20 Zijian Zhang , Linglong Dai , Xibi Chen , Changhao Liu , Fan Yang , Robert Schober , H. Vincent Poor

Reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS) is regarded as a promising technology with great potential to boost wireless networks. Affected by the "double fading" effect, however, conventional passive RIS cannot bring considerable performance…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-10-06 Qi Zhu , Ming Li , Rang Liu , Yang Liu , Qian Liu

Among the recent advances and innovations in wireless technologies, reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RISs) have received much attention and are envisioned to be one of the enabling technologies for beyond 5G (B5G) networks. On the other…

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

Reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS) technology is a promising method to enhance the device-to-device (D2D) communications. To maximize the sum rate of the cellular and D2D networks, a joint optimization of the position and the phase…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-11-12 Zelin Ji , Zhijin Qin

In this paper, the problem of sum-rate maximization for an active reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS) assisted downlink rate-splitting multiple access (RSMA) transmission system is studied. In the considered model, the active RIS is…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-01-31 Xinhao Li , Tao Wang , Haonan Tong , Zhaohui Yang , Yijie Mao , Changchuan Yin

In this paper, we consider an active reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS)-aided unmanned aerial vehicle(UAV)-enabled simultaneous wireless information and power transfer(SWIPT) system with multiple ground users. Compared with the…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-08-21 Zhangjie Peng , Ruijing Liu , Cunhua Pan , Zhenkun Zhang , Jiangzhou Wang

In this paper, the problem of maximizing the sum-rate is addressed for a multi-user uplink scenario that is assisted by an active reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS). The maximization is achieved by optimizing the beamforming at the…

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