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This work discusses the optimal reconfigurable intelligent surface placement in highly-directional millimeter wave links. In particular, we present a novel system model that takes into account the relationship between the transmission beam…

Reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS) is a candidate technology for future wireless networks. It enables to shape the wireless environment to reach massive connectivity and enhanced data rate. The promising gains of RIS-assisted networks…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-06-09 Paulo R. B. Gomes , Gilderlan T. de Araújo , Bruno Sokal , André L. F. de Almeida , Behrooz Makki , Gábor Fodor

Reconfigurable Intelligent Surface (RIS) has emerged as a promising technology to enhance the wireless propagation environment for next-generation wireless communication systems. This paper introduces a new RIS-assisted multiple-antenna…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-11-14 Xiaofan Niu , Minquan Cheng , Kai Wan , Robert Caiming Qiu , Giuseppe Caire

This paper explores the idea of using redirective reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RedRIS) to overcome many of the challenges associated with the conventional reflective RIS. We develop a framework for jointly optimizing the switching…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-06-04 Bamelak Tadele , Faouzi Bellili , Amine Mezghani , Md Jawwad Chowdhury , Haseeb Ur Rehman

Reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RISs) have attracted enormous interest thanks to their ability to overcome line-of-sight blockages in mmWave systems, enabling in turn accurate localization with minimal infrastructure. Less investigated…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-09-14 Alessio Fascista , Musa Furkan Keskin , Angelo Coluccia , Henk Wymeersch , Gonzalo Seco-Granados

This paper presents a physics-based channel modeling and optimization framework for reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS)-assisted downlink multi-user multiple-input single-output (MU-MISO) communication systems in site-specific…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-03-24 Ziqi Liu , Wei Yu , Sean Victor Hum

A reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS) can be used to improve the channel gain between a base station (BS) and user equipment (UE), but only if its $N$ reflecting elements are configured properly. This requires accurate estimation of…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-05-24 Özlem Tuğfe Demir , Emil Björnson , Luca Sanguinetti

Next-generation cellular networks will witness the creation of smart radio environments (SREs), where walls and objects can be coated with reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RISs) to strengthen the communication and localization coverage…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-09-08 Ahmed Elzanaty , Anna Guerra , Francesco Guidi , Mohamed-Slim Alouini

Reconfigurable Intelligent Surface (RIS) has become a popular technology to improve the capability of a THz multiuser Multi-input multi-output (MIMO) communication system. THz wave characteristics, on the other hand, restrict THz beam…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-07-01 Yicong Liu , Weijie Li , Zihuai Lin

This paper considers an antenna structure where a (non-large) array of radiating elements is placed at short distance in front of a reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS), herein nicknamed reconfigurable intelligent base station (RIBS).…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-10-24 Giovanni Interdonato , Francesca Di Murro , Carmen D'Andrea , Giovanni Di Gennaro , Stefano Buzzi

The integration of reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RIS) with extremely large multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) arrays at the base station has emerged as a key enabler for enhancing wireless network performance. However, this setup…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-08-05 Ahmad Dkhan , Simon Tarboush , Hadi Sarieddeen , Tareq Y. Al-Naffouri

Cognitive radio (CR) is an effective solution to improve the spectral efficiency (SE) of wireless communications by allowing the secondary users (SUs) to share spectrum with primary users. Meanwhile, intelligent reflecting surface (IRS),…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-12-24 Jie Yuan , Ying-Chang Liang , Jingon Joung , Gang Feng , Erik G. Larsson

Reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RISs) are considered a promising technology for boosting the coverage and for enhancing the spectral efficiency of wireless systems, as well as for taming the wireless environment. The potential benefits…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-11-23 Bjorn Sihlbom , Marios I. Poulakis , Marco Di Renzo

Semantic communication significantly reduces required bandwidth by understanding semantic meaning of the transmitted. However, current deep learning-based semantic communication methods rely on joint source-channel coding design and…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-08-08 Peiwen Jiang , Chao-Kai Wen , Shi Jin , Geoffrey Ye Li

Reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RISs) have demonstrated an unparalleled ability to reconfigure wireless environments by dynamically controlling the phase, amplitude, and polarization of impinging waves. However, as nearly passive…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2025-05-28 Kaining Wang , Bo Yang , Yusheng Lei , Zhiwen Yu , Xuelin Cao , George C. Alexandropoulos , Marco Di Renzo , Chau Yuen

This work studies a low-complexity design for reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS)-aided multiuser multiple-input multiple-output systems. The base station (BS) applies receive antenna selection to connect a subset of its antennas to…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-12-29 Chongjun Ouyang , Ali Bereyhi , Saba Asaad , Ralf R. Müller , Hongwen Yang

Non-diagonal reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RISs) offer enhanced wireless signal manipulation over conventional RIS by enabling the incident signal on any of its $M$ elements to be reflected from another element via an $M \times M$…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-06-19 Mostafa Samy , Hayder Al-Hraishawi , Abuzar B. M. Adam , Madyan Alsenwi , Symeon Chatzinotas , Björn Otteresten

A reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS) reflects incoming signals in different ways depending on the phase-shift pattern assigned to its elements. The most promising use case is to aid the communication between a base station and a user…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-12-06 Emil Björnson , Parisa Ramezani

We consider the problem of channel estimation in a multiple-input-multiple-output (MIMO) full-duplex (FD) wireless communication system assisted by a reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS) with hardware impairments (HI) occurring at the…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-07-25 Alexander James Fernandes , Ioannis Psaromiligkos

The extra degrees of freedom resulting from the consideration of Reconfigurable Intelligent Surfaces (RISs) for smart signal propagation can be exploited for high accuracy localization and tracking. In this paper, capitalizing on a recent…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-03-01 George C. Alexandropoulos , Ioanna Vinieratou , Henk Wymeersch