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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…

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Enabling multi-target sensing in near-field integrated sensing and communication (ISAC) systems is a key challenge, particularly when line-of-sight paths are blocked. This paper proposes a beamforming framework that leverages a…

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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

In this paper, we use a reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS) to enhance the radar sensing and communication capabilities of a mmWave dual function radar communication system. To simultaneously localize the target and to serve the user,…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-05-06 R. S. Prasobh Sankar , Battu Deepak , Sundeep Prabhakar Chepuri

Recently, reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RISs) have drawn intensive attention to enhance the coverage of millimeter wave (mmWave) communication systems. However, existing works mainly consider the RIS as a whole uniform plane, which…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-10-30 Weicong Chen , Xi Yang , Shi Jin , Pingping Xu

Multi-target detection is one of the primary tasks in radar-based localization and sensing, typically built on phased array antennas. However, the bulky hardware in the phased array restricts its potential for enhancing detection accuracy,…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-01-18 Xiaoyu Zhang , Haobo Zhang , Ruoqi Deng , Liang Liu , Boya Di

Reconfigurable Intelligent Surface (RIS) or metasurface is one of the important enabling technologies in mobile cellular networks that can effectively enhance the signal coverage performance in obstructed regions, and it is generally…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-11-06 Tianqi Xiang , Zhiwei Jiang , Weijun Hong , Xin Zhang , Yuehong Gao

Conventional active array radars often jointly design the transmit and receive beamforming for effectively suppressing interferences. To further promote the interference suppression performance, this paper introduces a reconfigurable…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-01-30 Shengyao Chen , Qi Feng , Longyao Ran , Feng Xi , Zhong Liu

Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) have brought a lot of flexibility in the network deployment. However, UAVs suffer from the high mobility and instability. To improve the capacity and reliability of the UAV networks, millimeter-wave (mmWave)…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-08-09 Lisi Jiang , Hamid Jafarkhani

The concept of fluid reconfigurable intelligent surface (FRIS) upgrades the conventional reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS) paradigm by empowering its reflecting elements with positioning reconfigurability. This letter aims to…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-11-21 Xusheng Zhu , Kai-Kit Wong , Boyi Tang , Wen Chen , Chan-Byoung Chae

Extremely large aperture arrays (ELAAs) and reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RISs) are candidate enablers to realize connectivity goals for the sixth-generation (6G) wireless networks. For instance, ELAAs can provide orders-of-magnitude…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-02-25 Nikolaos Kolomvakis , Alva Kosasih , Emil Björnson

The conventional direction-of-arrival (DoA) estimation approaches only be effective when the line-of-sight (LoS) link exists, while in the case of the non-line-of-sight (NLoS) situation, the spatial angle can not be captured and thus the…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-11-09 Jiawen Yuan , Shaodan Ma , Gong Zhang , Henry Leung

5G radio positioning exploits information in both angle and delay, by virtue of increased bandwidth and large antenna arrays. When large arrays are embedded in surfaces, they can passively steer electromagnetic waves in preferred directions…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-08-27 Henk Wymeersch , Benoît Denis

Physically accurate and mathematically tractable models are presented to characterize scattering and reflection properties of reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RISs). We take continuous and discrete strategies to model a single patch and…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-08-31 Tiebin Mi , Jianan Zhang , Rujing Xiong , Zhengyu Wang , Robert Caiming Qiu

Reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RISs) have been extensively applied in integrated sensing and communication (ISAC) systems due to the capability of enhancing physical layer security (PLS). However, conventional static RIS architectures…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-12-24 Ling Zhuang , Ximing Xie , Fang Fang , Ali Attaran , Zhizhong Zhang

Reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RIS) are conventionally implemented as two-dimensional (2D) electromagnetic (EM) structures to steer incident waves toward desired reflection angles. This approach limits the reflection to a single…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-02-16 Ruiqi Wang , Yiming Yang , Atif Shamim

Reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS) is considered to be an energy-efficient approach to reshape the wireless environment for improved throughput. Its passive feature greatly reduces the energy consumption, which makes RIS a promising…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-01-20 Keke Ying , Zhen Gao , Shanxiang Lyu , Yongpeng Wu , Hua Wang , Mohamed-Slim Alouini

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). We propose a channel estimation procedure using different…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-10-26 Stefano Buzzi , Carmen D'Andrea , Giovanni Interdonato

Reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS) is a promising technology for future millimeter-wave (mmWave) communication systems. However, its potential benefits of adopting RIS for high-precision positioning in mmWave systems are still less…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-11-30 Yu Liu , Sheng Hong , Cunhua Pan , Yinlu Wang , Yijin Pan , Ming Chen

In the upcoming sixth generation (6G) of wireless communication systems, reconfigurable intelligent surfaces~(RISs) are regarded as one of the promising technological enablers, which can provide programmable signal propagation. Therefore,…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-12-15 Hyowon Kim , Hui Chen , Musa Furkan Keskin , Yu Ge , Kamran Keykhosravi , George C. Alexandropoulos , Sunwoo Kim , Henk Wymeersch