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Efficient integration of reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RISs) into the current wireless network standard is not a trivial task due to the overhead generated by performing channel estimation (CE) and phase-shift optimization. In this…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-03-16 Fabio Saggese , Kimmo Kansanen , Petar Popovski

A reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS) is a planar surface that can enhance the quality of communication by providing control over the communication environment. Reflection optimization is one of the pivotal challenges in RIS setups.…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-11-26 Seyedkhashayar Hashemi , Masoud Ardakani , Hai Jiang

In recent years, a brand-new technology, reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS) has been widely studied for reconfiguring the wireless propagation environment. RIS is an artificial surface of electromagnetic material that is capable of…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-09-13 Rujing Xiong , Xuehui Dong , Tiebin Mi , Robert caiming Qiu

With the development of the next generation of mobile networks, new research challenges have emerged, and new technologies have been proposed to face them. On the one hand, the reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS) technology is being…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-05-26 Romain Fara , Philippe Ratajczak , Dinh-Thuy Phan Huy , Abdelwaheb Ourir , Marco Di Renzo , Julien De Rosny

Reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RISs) have recently gained significant interest as an emerging technology for future wireless networks. This paper studies an RIS-assisted propagation environment, where a single-antenna source transmits…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-10-27 Trinh Van Chien , Lam Thanh Tu , Dinh-Hieu Tran , Hieu Van Nguyen , Symeon Chatzinotas , Marco Di Renzo , Björn Ottersten

In this letter, we investigate the security of fluid antenna system (FAS)-reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RIS) communication systems. The base station (BS) employs a single fixed-position antenna, while both the legitimate receiver and…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-11-05 Jianchao Zheng , Xiazhi Lai , Tuo Wu , Maged Elkashlan , Daniel Benevides da Costa , Chau Yuen , Fumiyuki Adachi

In this paper, we investigate the physical layer security in the reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS)-aided cell-free networks. A maximum weighted sum secrecy rate problem is formulated by jointly optimizing the active beamforming (BF)…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-02-16 Wanming Hao , Junjie Li , Gangcan Sun , Ming Zeng , Octavia A. Dobre

This letter proposes a fluid reconfigurable intelligent surface (FRIS) paradigm, extending the conventional reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS) technology to incorporate position reconfigurability of the elements. In our model, a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-03-20 Han Xiao , Xiaoyan Hu , Kai-Kit Wong , Hanjiang Hong , George C. Alexandropoulos , Chan-Byoung Chae

This letter investigates the performance of emerging wireless communication systems assisted by a fluid reconfigurable intelligent surface (FRIS). Unlike conventional reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RISs), an FRIS consists of…

The use of Reconfigurable Intelligent Surfaces (RIS) technology to extend coverage and allow for better control of the wireless environment has been proposed in several use cases, including Ultra-Reliable Low-Latency Communications (URLLC),…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-03-16 Fabio Saggese , Federico Chiariotti , Kimmo Kansanen , Petar Popovski

The reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS) technology for metasurfaces is ushering in a new paradigm for wireless communication systems. It provides an accessible way for controlling the interaction between electromagnetic waves with the…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-01-21 P. H. C. de Souza , M. Khazaee , L. L. Mendes

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

This paper presents the design, fabrication, and experimental validation of a reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS) employing electrically actuated vanadium dioxide (VO2) switches for millimeter wave beam steering. The proposed RIS is…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-05-11 Afsaneh Hojjati-Firoozabadi , Raafat Mansour

The steering dynamics of re-configurable intelligent surfaces (RIS) have hoisted them to the front row of technologies that can be exploited to solve skip-zones in wireless communication systems. They can enable a programmable wireless…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-04-09 Alain R. Ndjiongue , Telex M. N. Ngatched , Octavia A. Dobre , Harald Haas

Ambient backscatter communication (AmBC) has been introduced to address communication and power efficiency issues for short-range and low-power Internet-of-Things (IoT) applications. On the other hand, reconfigurable intelligent surface…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-12-09 Mahyar Nemati , Jie Ding , Jinho Choi

The adoption of a Reconfigurable Intelligent Surface (RIS) for downlink multi-user communication from a multi-antenna base station is investigated in this paper. We develop energy-efficient designs for both the transmit power allocation and…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-06-23 Chongwen Huang , Alessio Zappone , George C. Alexandropoulos , Mérouane Debbah , Chau Yuen

Reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RISs) enable reliable low-latency millimeter wave (mmWave) communication links in cases of a blocked line-of-sight (LoS) between the base station (BS) and the user equipment (UE), i.e. a RIS mounted on a…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-02-13 Hamed Radpour , Markus Hofer , David Loschenbrand , Lukas Walter Mayer , Andreas Hofmann , Martin Schiefer , Thomas Zemen

In this paper, we present a low overhead beam management approach for near-field millimeter-wave multi-antenna communication systems enabled by Reconfigurable Intelligent Surfaces (RISs). We devise a novel variable-width hierarchical…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-03-30 George C. Alexandropoulos , Vahid Jamali , Robert Schober , H. Vincent Poor

Simultaneously transmitting and reflecting reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (STAR-RISs) have emerged as a promising technology for enabling full-space signal manipulation and enhancing wireless network coverage and capacity. In this…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-12-15 Taissir Y. Elganimi , Mahmoud Aldababsa , Ali A. Nasir , Khaled M. Rabie

As a kind of wavefront with helical phase, orbital angular momentum (OAM) shows the great potential to enhance the security results of wireless communications due to its unique orthogonality and central hollow electromagnetic wave…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-07-17 Minmin Wang , Liping Liang , Wenchi Cheng , Wei Zhang , Ruirui Chen , Hailin Zhang