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Intelligent reflecting surface (IRS) has been recently employed to reshape the wireless channels by controlling individual scattering elements' phase shifts, namely, passive beamforming. Due to the large size of scattering elements, the…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-09-01 Shimin Gong , Jiaye Lin , Jinbei Zhang , Dusit Niyato , Dong In Kim , Mohsen Guizani

Reconfigurable Intelligent Surface (RIS) has becoming a useful tool in future wireless communication systems for close-distance communication network. This paper we use Reconfigurable Intelligent Surface (RIS) for downlink multi-user…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-02-02 RuiTianYi Lu

A reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS) is a prospective wireless technology that enhances wireless channel quality. An RIS is often equipped with passive array of elements and provides cost and power-efficient solutions for coverage…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-03-20 Hyuckjin Choi , Ly V. Nguyen , Junil Choi , A. Lee Swindlehurst

Reconfigurable Intelligent Surfaces (RIS) or Intelligent Reflecting Surfaces (IRS) are metasurfaces that can be deployed in various places in wireless environments to make these environments controllable and reconfigurable. In this paper,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-01-22 S. Mohammad Razavizadeh , Tommy Svensson

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

Stacked intelligent metasurfaces (SIM) represents an advanced signal processing paradigm that enables over-the-air processing of electromagnetic waves at the speed of light. Its multi-layer structure exhibits customizable increased…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-02-15 Hao Liu , Jiancheng An , Derrick Wing Kwan Ng , George C. Alexandropoulos , Lu Gan

The massive number of antennas in extremely large aperture array (ELAA) systems shifts the propagation regime of signals in internet of things (IoT) communication systems towards near-field spherical wave propagation. We propose a…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-04-18 Quan Zhou , Jingjing Zhao , Kaiquan Cai , Yanbo Zhu

Active reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS) emerges as an effective technique to resist the double-fading attenuation of passive RIS. By embedding with power harvesting function, it further evolves to zero-power active RIS, which can…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-10-17 Xiao Zheng , Wenchi Cheng , Jingqing Wang , Zhuohui Yao , Jiangzhou Wang

This paper investigates a smart spectrum-sharing framework for reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS)-aided local high-quality wireless networks (LHQWNs) within a mobile network operator (MNO) ecosystem. Although RISs are often considered…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-03-27 Hamid Reza Hashempour , Mina Khadem , Eduard A. Jorswieck

This paper investigates the model aggregation process in an over-the-air federated learning (AirFL) system, where an intelligent reflecting surface (IRS) is deployed to assist the transmission from users to the base station (BS). With the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-03-23 Jingheng Zheng , Wanli Ni , Hui Tian

Multi-functional reconfigurable intelligent surface (MF-RIS) is conceived to address the communication efficiency thanks to its extended signal coverage from its active RIS capability and self-sustainability from energy harvesting (EH). We…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-03-17 Chi-Te Kuo , Li-Hsiang Shen , Jyun-Jhe Huang

Reconfigurable Intelligent Surfaces (RIS) has a potential to engineer smart radio environments for next-generation millimeter-wave (mmWave) networks. However, the prohibitive computational overhead of Channel State Information (CSI)…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-04-14 Hieu Le , Mostafa Ibrahim , Oguz Bedir , Jian Tao , Sabit Ekin

Reconfigurable Intelligent Surface (RIS) is one of the key technologies for the upcoming 6th Generation (6G) communications, which can improve the signal strength at the receivers by adding artificial propagation paths. In the context of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-10-04 Yi Yu , Rita Ibrahim , Dinh-Thuy Phan-Huy

Mounting a reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS) on an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) holds promise for improving traditional terrestrial network performance. Unlike conventional methods deploying passive RIS on UAVs, this study delves…

Downlink channel estimation remains a significant bottleneck in reconfigurable intelligent surface-assisted cell-free multiple-input multiple-output communication systems. Conventional approaches primarily rely on centralized deep learning…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-02-11 Nan Qi , Haoxuan Liu , Theodoros A. Tsiftsis , Alexandros-Apostolos A. Boulogeorgos , Fuhui Zhou , Shi Jin , Qihui Wu

Reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RISs) are able to provide passive beamforming gain via low-cost reflecting elements and hence improve wireless link quality. This work considers two-way passive beamforming design in RIS-aided frequency…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-01-26 Bei Guo , Chenhao Sun , Meixia Tao

In cellular networks, resource allocation is usually performed in a centralized way, which brings huge computation complexity to the base station (BS) and high transmission overhead. This paper explores a distributed resource allocation…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-11-12 Zelin Ji , Zhijin Qin , Xiaoming Tao

Reconfigurable Intelligent Surfaces (RIS) is becoming a transformative technology for the upcoming 6G communication networks, providing a way for smartly maneuvering the electromagnetic waves to enhance coverage and connectivity. This paper…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-07-31 Atiquzzaman Mondal , Waheeb Tashan , Ayat Al-Olaimat , Hüseyin Arslan

Efficient spectrum allocation has become crucial as the surge in wireless-connected devices demands seamless support for more users and applications, a trend expected to grow with 6G. Innovations in satellite technologies such as SpaceX's…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-01-17 Muhammad Ahmed Mohsin , Hassan Rizwan , Muhammad Umer , Sagnik Bhattacharya , Ahsan Bilal , John M. Cioffi

Optimizing discrete phase shifts in large-scale reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RISs) is challenging due to their non-convex and non-linear nature. In this letter, we propose a heuristic-integrated deep reinforcement learning (DRL)…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-05-08 Wei Wang , Peizheng Li , Angela Doufexi , Mark A. Beach