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Reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RISs) are planar structures with attached electronic circuitry that enable a partially programmable communication environment. RIS operation can be regarded as nearly passive since it acts by simply…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-08-31 Steven Kisseleff , Konstantinos Ntontin , Wallace A. Martins , Symeon Chatzinotas , Björn Ottersten

To advance towards carbon-neutrality and improve the limited {performance} of conventional passive wireless communications, in this paper, we investigate the integration of noise modulation with zero-energy reconfigurable intelligent…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-06-04 Ahmad Massud Tota Khel , Aissa Ikhlef , Zhiguo Ding , Hongjian Sun

Beyond-diagonal reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (BD-RISs), originally in the passive form, have attracted attention due to their benefits in enhanced wave manipulating through flexible inter-element connections and element arrangements.…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-16 Fu Liu , Hongyu Li , Shanpu Shen

Distributed Antenna Systems (DASs) employ multiple antenna arrays in remote radio units to achieve highly directional transmission and provide great coverage performance for future-generation networks. However, the utilization of active…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-09-26 Chengzhi Ma , Xi Yang , Jintao Wang , Guanghua Yang , Wei Zhang , Shaodan Ma

In this paper, we investigate a double-active-reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS)-aided downlink wireless communication system, where a multi-antenna base station (BS) serves multiple single-antenna users with both double reflection…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-08-26 Boshi Wang , Cunhua Pan , Hong Ren , Zhiyuan Yu , Yang Zhang , Mengyu Liu , Gui Zhou

Employing reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RIS) is emerging as a game-changer candidate, thanks to their unique capabilities in improving the power efficiency and supporting the ubiquity of future wireless communication systems.…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-10-14 Abdullateef Almohamad , Ayman Al-Kababji , Anas Tahir , Tamer Khattab , Mazen Hasna

Active reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RISs) can improve the performance of integrated sensing and communication (ISAC), and therefore enable simultaneous data transmission and target sensing. However, when the line-of-sight (LoS) link…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-10-17 Ahmed Magbool , Vaibhav Kumar , Mark F. Flanagan

A conceptual example is first analyzed to show that efficient wireless communications is possible, when user equipment (UE) receiver, BS transmitter or/and the scatter (reflector) in wireless channels employ the required channel state…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-03-19 Lie-Liang Yang

Given its ability to control and manipulate wireless environments, reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS), also known as intelligent reflecting surface (IRS), has emerged as a key enabler technology for the six-generation (6G) cellular…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-02-01 Ahmed Al-Hilo , Moataz Samir , Mohamed Elhattab , Chadi Assi , Sanaa Sharafeddine

This paper investigates an active reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS)-aided mobile edge computing (MEC) system. Compared with passive RIS, the active RIS is equipped with active reflective amplifier, which can effectively circumvent…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-09-08 Zhangjie Peng , Ruisong Weng , Zhenkun Zhang , Cunhua Pan , Jiangzhou Wang

Reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS) has recently gained significant interest as an emerging technology for future wireless networks thanks to its potential for improving the coverage probability in challenging propagation environments.…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-09-08 Trinh Van Chien , Lam Thanh Tu , Waqas Khalid , Heejung Yu , Symeon Chatzinotas , Marco Di Renzo

Reconfigurable Intelligent Surfaces (RISs) are envisioned to play a key role in future wireless communications, enabling programmable radio propagation environments. They are usually considered as nearly passive planar structures that…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-02-14 Haiyang Zhang , Nir Shlezinger , Idban Alamzadeh , George C. Alexandropoulos , Mohammadreza F. Imani , Yonina C. Eldar

Unlike previous works that focused solely on passive intelligent reflecting surface (PIRS) or active IRS (AIRS), a novel joint AIRS and PIRS architecture has been developed to flexibly utilize their combined advantages in mitigating…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-01-22 Chaoying Huang , Wen Chen , Qingqing Wu , Nan Cheng

Reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS) has emerged as a cost-effective solution to improve wireless communication performance through just passive reflection. Recently, the concept of simultaneously transmitting and reflecting RIS…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-11-27 Anastasios Papazafeiropoulos , Pandelis Kourtessis , Symeon Chatzinotas

Reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RISs) can improve the capacity of wireless communication links by passively beamforming the impinging signals in desired directions. This feature has been demonstrated both analytically and…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-01-23 Emil Björnson , Özlem Tuğfe Demir

Communication infrastructure is often severely disrupted in post-disaster areas, which interrupts communications and impedes rescue. Recently, the technology of reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS)-equipped-UAV has been investigated as…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-06-18 Yinong Chen , Wenchi Cheng , Wei Zhang

Reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RISs) are envisioned to be a disruptive wireless communication technique that is capable of reconfiguring the wireless propagation environment. In this paper, we study a free-space RIS-assisted…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-09-19 Xin Cheng , Yan Lin , Weiping Shi , Jiayu Li , Cunhua Pan , Feng Shu , Yongpeng Wu , Jiangzhou Wang

Intelligent reflecting surface (IRS) has emerged as an enabling technology to achieve smart and reconfigurable wireless communication environment cost-effectively. Prior works on IRS mainly consider its passive beamforming design and…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-03-12 Beixiong Zheng , Changsheng You , Rui Zhang

In this paper, the secure performance of multiuser multiple-input single-output wireless communications systems assisted by a multifunctional active intelligent reflection surface (IRS) is investigated. The active IRS can simultaneously…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-05-06 Shaokang Hu , Derrick Wing Kwan Ng , Jinhong Yuan

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