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Reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS) is considered as a promising solution for next-generation wireless communication networks due to a variety of merits, e.g., customizing the communication environment. Therefore, deploying multiple…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-02-09 Mengbing Liu , Chongwen Huang , Marco Di Renzo , Merouane Debbah , Chau Yuen

Reconfigurable Intelligent Surfaces (RISs), comprising large numbers of low-cost and almost passive metamaterials with tunable reflection properties, have been recently proposed as an enabling technology for programmable wireless…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-08-23 Aris L. Moustakas , George C. Alexandropoulos , Mérouane Debbah

Reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RISs) offer programmable control of radio propagation for future wireless systems. For configuration, geometry-driven analytical approaches are appealing for their simplicity and real-time operation, but…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-02-18 Adam Umra , Simon Tewes , Niklas Beckmann , Niels König , Aydin Sezgin , Robert Schmitt

The use of reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RIS) can improve wireless communication by modifying the wireless link to create virtual line-of-sight links, bypass blockages, suppress interference, and enhance localization. However,…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-09-08 Anish Pradhan , Harpreet S. Dhillon

This paper presents the first experimental validation of reflective near-field beamfocusing using a reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS). While beamfocusing has been theoretically established as a key feature of large-aperture RISs, its…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-02-12 Emil Björnson , Murat Babek Salman

Reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RISs) have been deemed as one of potential components of future wireless communication systems because they can adaptively manipulate the wireless propagation environment with low-cost passive devices.…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-03-23 Yanan Ma , Rang Liu , Yang Liu , Ming Li , Qian Liu

Optimally extracting the advantages available from reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RISs) in wireless communications systems requires estimation of the channels to and from the RIS. The process of determining these channels is…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-10-04 A. Lee Swindlehurst , Gui Zhou , Rang Liu , Cunhua Pan , Ming Li

Reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS) provides a promising way to proactively augment propagation environments for better transmission performance in wireless communications. Existing multi-RIS works mainly focus on link-level…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2024-05-22 Xiaoyan Ma , Haixia Zhang , Xianhao Chen , Yuguang Fangmand Dongfeng Yuan

Reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RISs) are widely considered a promising technology for future wireless communication systems. As an important indicator of RIS-assisted communication systems in green wireless communications, energy…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-10-25 Zhiyi Li , Jida Zhang , Jieao Zhu , Shi Jin , Linglong Dai

Beamforming plays a crucial role in millimeter wave (mmWave) communication systems to mitigate the severe attenuation inherent to this spectrum. However, the use of large active antenna arrays in conventional architectures often results in…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-10-08 Mahmoud Raeisi , Hui Chen , Henk Wymeersch , Ertugrul Basar

The reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS) is a promising technology that is anticipated to enable high spectrum and energy efficiencies in future wireless communication networks. This paper investigates optimum location-based RIS…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-06-07 Yuting Fang , Saman Atapattu , Hazer Inaltekin , Jamie Evans

Using radio-frequency (RF) sensing techniques for human posture recognition has attracted growing interest due to its advantages of pervasiveness, contact-free observation, and privacy protection. Conventional RF sensing techniques are…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-12-24 Jingzhi Hu , Hongliang Zhang , Boya Di , Lianlin Li , Lingyang Song , Yonghui Li , Zhu Han , H. Vincent Poor

Due to significant blockage conditions in wireless networks, transmitted signals may considerably degrade before reaching the receiver. The reliability of the transmitted signals, therefore, may be critically problematic due to blockages…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-09-23 Shakil Ahmed , Ibrahim Abdelmawla , Ahmed E. Kamal , Mohamed Y. Selim

The concept of reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS) has been proposed to change the propagation of electromagnetic waves, e.g., reflection, diffraction, and refraction. To accomplish this goal, the phase values of the discrete RIS units…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-11-11 Jiguang He , Henk Wymeersch , Tachporn Sanguanpuak , Olli Silvén , Markku Juntti

This paper investigates the multiuser tracking and signal detection problem in integrated sensing and communication (ISAC) systems with the assistance of reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RISs). Due to the diverse and high user mobility,…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-09-18 Weifeng Zhu , Junyuan Gao , Shuowen Zhang , Liang Liu

Reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS) is a newly-emerged technology that might fundamentally change how wireless networks are operated. Though extensively studied in recent years, the practical limitations of RIS are often neglected when…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-12-12 Parisa Ramezani , Yasaman Khorsandmanesh , Emil Björnson

Reconfigurable Intelligent Surfaces (RISs) are promising and relatively low-cost tools for improving signal propagation in wireless communications. An RIS assists a base station in optimizing the channel and maximizing its capacity by…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-02-01 Andrey Sayanskiy , Andrey Belov , Ruslan Yafasov , Andrey Lyulyakin , Alexander Sherstobitov , Stanislav Glybovski , Vladimir Lyashev

Intelligent surfaces comprising of cost effective, nearly passive, and reconfigurable unit elements are lately gaining increasing interest due to their potential in enabling fully programmable wireless environments. They are envisioned to…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-05-26 George C. Alexandropoulos , Evangelos Vlachos

A multi-operator wireless communication system is studied where each operator is equipped with a reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS) to enhance its communication quality. RISs controlled by different operators affect the system…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-08-05 Nikolaos I. Miridakis , Panagiotis A. Karkazis

Practical hardware limitations often impose a reduced number of available phase shifts at the elements of a reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS). Most works often assume continuous phase-shits at the RIS elements for the transmit and…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-04-20 Nuno Souto