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As a novel approach to flexibly adjust the wireless environment, reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RIS) have shown significant application potential across various domains, including wireless communication, radar detection, and the…

Applied Physics · Physics 2025-02-26 Zhen Zhang , Qiang Chen

Lately a new approach to Extended Reality (XR), denoted as XR-RF, has been proposed which is realized by combining Radio Frequency (RF) Imaging and programmable wireless environments (PWEs). RF Imaging is a technique that aims to detect…

The emerging technology of Reconfigurable Intelligent Surfaces (RISs) is provisioned as an enabler of smart wireless environments, offering a highly scalable, low-cost, hardware-efficient, and almost energy-neutral solution for dynamic…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-05-11 George C. Alexandropoulos , Kyriakos Stylianopoulos , Chongwen Huang , Chau Yuen , Mehdi Bennis , Mérouane Debbah

This paper explores the potential wireless communication applications of Reconfigurable Intelligent Surfaces (RIS) in reverberant wave propagation environments. Unlike in free space, we utilize the sensitivity to boundaries of the enclosed…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-11-16 Xuehui Dong , Xiang Ren , Bokai Lai , Rujing Xiong , Tiebin Mi , Robert Caiming Qiu

In wireless systems aided by reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RISs), channel state information plays a pivotal role in achieving the performance gain of RISs. Mobility renders accurate channel estimation (CE) more challenging due to the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-02-01 Shu Sun , Hangsong Yan

Reconfigurable Intelligent Surfaces (RIS) are planar structures connected to electronic circuitry, which can be employed to steer the electromagnetic signals in a controlled manner. Through this, the signal quality and the effective data…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-12-21 Long Kong , Steven Kisseleff , Symeon Chatzinotas , Björn Ottersten , Melike Erol-Kantarci

Programmable metasurfaces have garnered significant attention due to their exceptional ability to manipulate electromagnetic (EM) waves in real time, leading to the emergence of a prominent area in wireless communication, namely…

Reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS) can effectively control the wavefront of the impinging signals and has emerged as a cost-effective promising solution to improve the spectrum and energy efficiency of wireless systems. Most existing…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-06-07 Yiming Liu , Erwu Liu , Rui Wang , Binyu Lu , Zhu Han

We present a framework for operating a self-adaptive RIS inside a fading rich-scattering wireless environment. We model the rich-scattering wireless channel as being double-parametrized by (i) the RIS, and (ii) dynamic perturbers (moving…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-10-04 Chloé Saigre-Tardif , Philipp del Hougne

Reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS) can improve the communications between a source and a destination. Recently, continuous aperture RIS is proved to have better communication performance than discrete aperture RIS and has received…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-10-04 Yuhua Jiang , Feifei Gao , Mengnan Jian , Shun Zhang , Wei Zhang

Given the proliferation of wireless sensors and smart mobile devices, an explosive escalation of the volume of data is anticipated. However, restricted by their limited physical sizes and low manufacturing costs, these wireless devices tend…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-08-23 Tong Bai , Cunhua Pan , Chao Han , Lajos Hanzo

Reconfigurable intelligent surfaces, with their large number of antennas, offer an interesting opportunity for high spatial-resolution imaging. In this paper, we propose a novel RIS-aided integrated imaging and communication system that can…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-01-30 Hao Luo , Ahmed Alkhateeb

The ability of reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RIS) to produce complex radiation patterns in the far-field is determined by various factors, such as the unit-cell's size, shape, spatial arrangement, tuning mechanism, the communication…

In this paper, we focus on the energy efficiency (EE) optimization and analysis of reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS)-assisted multiuser downlink near-field communications. Specifically, we conduct a comprehensive study on several key…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-05-26 Wei Wang , Xiaoyu Ou , Zhihan Ren , Waqas Bin Abbas , Shuping Dang , Angela Doufexi , Mark A. Beach

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

Reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RISs) are two dimensional (2D) metasurfaces which can intelligently manipulate electromagnetic waves by low-cost near passive reflecting elements. RIS is viewed as a potential key technology for the…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-06-07 Jie Huang , Cheng-Xiang Wang , Yingzhuo Sun , Rui Feng , Jialing Huang , Bolun Guo , Zhimeng Zhong , Tie Jun Cui

In this chapter, using statistical physics methods, asymptotic closed-form expressions for the mean and variance of the mutual information for a multi-antenna transmitter-receiver pair in the presence of multiple Reconfigurable Intelligent…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-07-23 Aris L. Moustakas , George C. Alexandropoulos

Reconfigurable Intelligent Surfaces (RISs) are recently attracting a wide interest due to their capability of tuning wireless propagation environments in order to increase the system performance of wireless networks. In this paper, a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-03-23 Stefano Buzzi , Carmen D'Andrea , Alessio Zappone , Maria Fresia , Yong-Ping Zhang , Shulan Feng

Optimizing a real-life RIS-parametrized wireless channel with a physics-consistent multiport-network model necessitates prior remote estimation of the mutual coupling (MC) between RIS elements. The number of MC parameters grows…

Applied Physics · Physics 2025-07-31 Philipp del Hougne

Reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RISs) comprised of tunable unit cells have recently drawn significant attention due to their superior capability in manipulating electromagnetic waves. In particular, RIS-assisted wireless communications…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-10-16 Wankai Tang , Ming Zheng Chen , Xiangyu Chen , Jun Yan Dai , Yu Han , Marco Di Renzo , Yong Zeng , Shi Jin , Qiang Cheng , Tie Jun Cui