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Low-cost passive intelligent reflecting surfaces (IRSs) have recently been envisioned as a revolutionary technology capable of reconfiguring the wireless propagation environment through carefully tuning reflection elements. This paper…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-09-14 Zhangjie Peng , Zhenkun Zhang , Cunhua Pan , Li Li , A. Lee Swindlehurst

The concept of reconfiguring wireless propagation environments using intelligent reflecting surfaces (IRS)s has recently emerged, where an IRS comprises of a large number of passive reflecting elements that can smartly reflect the impinging…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-05-05 Qurrat-Ul-Ain Nadeem , Hibatallah Alwazani , Abla Kammoun , Anas Chaaban , Merouane Debbah , Mohamed-Slim Alouini

Reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS) as an emerging cost-effective technology can enhance the spectrum- and energy-efficiency of wireless networks. In this paper, we consider an RIS-aided green edge inference system, where the inference…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-10-30 Sheng Hua , Yong Zhou , Kai Yang , Yuanming Shi

Reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RIS) have recently received significant attention as building blocks for smart radio environments and adaptable wireless channels. By altering the space- and time-varying electromagnetic (EM) properties,…

Applied Physics · Physics 2021-01-25 John A. Hodge , Kumar Vijay Mishra , Amir I. Zaghloul

The integration of advanced localization techniques in the upcoming next generation networks (B5G/6G) is becoming increasingly important for many use cases comprising contact tracing, natural disasters, terrorist attacks, etc. Therefore,…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2022-02-18 Antonio Albanese , Placido Mursia , Vincenzo Sciancalepore , Xavier Costa-Pérez

Reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS)-empowered communication is being considered as an enabling technology for sixth generation (6G) wireless networks. The key idea of RIS-assisted communication is to enhance the capacity, coverage,…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2021-06-23 Mithun Mukherjee , Vikas Kumar , Mian Guo , Daniel Benevides da Costa , Ertugrul Basar , Zhiguo Ding

Reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS) provides a promising way to build programmable wireless transmission environments. Owing to the massive number of controllable reflecting elements on the surface, RIS is capable of providing…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-10-03 Xiaoyan Ma , Yuguang Fang , Haixia Zhang , Shuaishuai Guo , Dongfeng Yuan

Reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS) is a new and revolutionary technology to achieve spectrum-, energy- and cost-efficient wireless networks. This paper studies the resource allocation for RIS-empowered device-to-device (D2D)…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-07-21 Gang Yang , Yating Liao , Ying-Chang Liang , Olav Tirkkonen

This paper introduces an innovative imaging method using reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RISs) by combining radar coincidence imaging (RCI) and computational imaging techniques. In the proposed framework, RISs simultaneously redirect…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-07-11 Kavian Zirak , Mohammadreza F. Imani

Reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS) is a promising solution to boost coverage sustainably by reflecting waves from a transmitter to a receiver and acting as a low-power and passive relay. In this paper, for the first time, we…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-07-14 Philippe Ratajczak , Eric Séguenot , Dinh-Thuy Phan-Huy

In this letter, we study an active reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RIS) assisted Low Earth orbit (LEO) satellite communications under non-line-of-sight (NLoS) scenarios, where the active RIS is deployed to create visual line-of-sight…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-06-26 Ziwei Liu , Junyan He , Shanshan Zhao , Meng Hua , Bin Lyu , Xinjie Zhao , Gengxin Zhang

In this work, we present a recent investigation on leveraging large reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RIS) as anchors for positioning in wireless communication systems. Unlike existing approaches, we explicitly address the uncertainty…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2025-05-20 Zeyu Huang , Markus Rupp , Stefan Schwarz

Millimeter wave (MmWave) systems are vulnerable to blockages, which cause signal drop and link outage. One solution is to deploy reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RISs) to add a strong non-line-of-sight path from the transmitter to…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-06-01 Xiaowen Tian , Nuria Gonzalez-Prelcic , Robert W. Heath

We consider transmit beamforming and reflection pattern design in reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS)-assisted integrated sensing and communication (ISAC) systems to jointly precode communication symbols and radar waveforms. We treat…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-06-16 R. S. Prasobh Sankar , Sundeep Prabhakar Chepuri , Yonina C. Eldar

In this letter, we present in detail the system-level modeling of reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS)-assisted cellular systems by considering a 3-dimensional channel model between base station, RIS, and user. We prove that the optimal…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-05-03 Pavan Reddy M. , SaiDhiraj Amuru , Kiran Kuchi

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

Millimeter-wave (mmWave) communications is considered as a key enabler towards the realization of next-generation wireless networks, due to the abundance of available spectrum at mmWave frequencies. However, mmWave suffers from high…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2021-10-13 Nariman Torkzaban , Mohammad A. Amir Khojastepour

Indoor visible light communication (VLC) is a promising sixth-generation (6G) technology, as its directional and sensitive optical signals are naturally suited for integrated sensing and communication (ISAC). However, current research…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-11-27 Xinyan Xie , Xuesong Wang , Xin Lai , Yongheng Wen , Fengrui Yang , Haoyang He , Lai Zhang , Dong Zhao

Reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RISs) or intelligent reflecting surfaces (IRSs), are regarded as one of the most promising and revolutionizing techniques for enhancing the spectrum and/or energy efficiency of wireless systems. These…

Reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RIS) are expected to play an important role in future wireless communication systems. These surfaces typically rely on their reflection beamforming codebooks to reflect and focus the signal on the target…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-10-06 Yu Zhang , Ahmed Alkhateeb