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This paper presents a multi-bit reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS) with a high phase resolution, capable of beam-steering in the azimuthal plane at sub-6 Gigahertz (GHz). Field trials in realistic indoor deployments have been carried…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-10-21 James Rains , Jalil ur Rehman Kazim , Anvar Tukmanov , Tie Jun Cui , Lei Zhang , Qammer H. Abbasi , Muhammad Ali Imran

Reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RISs), with the potential to realize a smart radio environment, have emerged as an energy-efficient and a cost-effective technology to support the services and demands foreseen for coming decades. By…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-07-13 Sarah Basharat , Syed Ali Hassan , Haris Pervaiz , Aamir Mahmood , Zhiguo Ding , Mikael Gidlund

With the aim of integrating over-the-air federated learning (AirFL) and non-orthogonal multiple access (NOMA) into an on-demand universal framework, this paper proposes a novel reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS)-aided hybrid network…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-07-05 Wanli Ni , Yuanwei Liu , Zhaohui Yang , Hui Tian , Xuemin Shen

Antenna array technology enables directional transmission and reception of wireless signals, for communications, localization, and sensing purposes. The signal processing algorithms that underpin this technology began to be developed…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-03-09 Emil Björnson , Henk Wymeersch , Bho Matthiesen , Petar Popovski , Luca Sanguinetti , Elisabeth de Carvalho

The adoption of a Reconfigurable Intelligent Surface (RIS) for downlink multi-user communication from a multi-antenna base station is investigated in this paper. We develop energy-efficient designs for both the transmit power allocation and…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-06-23 Chongwen Huang , Alessio Zappone , George C. Alexandropoulos , Mérouane Debbah , Chau Yuen

Green Internet of Things (IoT) aims to enable a sustainable smart world by making energy efficiency (EE) the main performance indicator for IoT hardware and software. With respect to network design, this implies in developing…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-10-12 João Henrique Inacio de Souza , José Carlos Marinello Filho , Taufik Abrão , Cristiano Panazio

Reconfigurable Intelligent Surfaces (RISs) can be designed in various ways. A previously proposed semidefinite relaxation-based optimization method for maximizing power transfer efficiency showed promise, but earlier results were only…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-09-20 Hans-Dieter Lang , Michel A. Nyffenegger , Sven Keller , Patrik Stöckli , Nathan A. Hoffman , Heinz Mathis , Xingqi Zhang

In this paper, we study the problem of joint active and passive beamforming for reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS)-assisted massive multiple-input multiple-output systems towards the extension of the wireless cellular coverage in 3D,…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-12-18 Yu Tian , Ahmed Alhammadi , Jiguang He , Aymen Fakhreddine , Faouzi Bader

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

Reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RISs), which can deliberately adjust the phase of incident waves, have shown enormous potentials to reconfigure the signal propagation for performance enhancement. In this paper, we investigate the…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-11-02 Zhengyi Zhou , Ning Ge , Wendong Liu , Zhaocheng Wang

Cell-Free Massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) and reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS) are two promising technologies for application to beyond-5G networks. This paper considers Cell-Free Massive MIMO systems with the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-12-20 Trinh Van Chien , Hien Quoc Ngo , Symeon Chatzinotas , Marco Di Renzo , Björn Ottersten

The channel estimation overhead of reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS) assisted communication systems can be prohibitive. Prior works have demonstrated via simulations that grouping neighbouring RIS elements can help to reduce the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-11-23 Neel Kanth Kundu , Zan Li , Junhui Rao , Shanpu Shen , Matthew R. McKay , Ross Murch

Reconfigurable Intelligent Surfaces (RIS) have been identified as a potential ingredient to enhance the performance of contemporary wireless communication and sensing systems. Yet, most of the existing devices are either costly or not…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2024-02-19 Markus Heinrichs , Aydin Sezgin , Rainer Kronberger

This paper considers a reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS) aided orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) relaying system, and investigates the joint design of RIS passive beamforming and subcarrier matching under two cases,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-10-06 Tong Zhang , Shuai Wang , Yufan Zhuang , Changsheng You , Miaowen Wen , Yik-Chung Wu

This paper investigates the system spectral efficiency (SE) in reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS)-aided multiuser multiple-input single-output (MISO) systems, where RIS can reconfigure the propagation environment via a large number of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-01-31 Yulan Gao , Chao Yong , Zehui Xiong , Dusit Niyato , Yue Xiao , Jun Zhao

The growing demand for high-speed, reliable wireless connectivity in 6G networks necessitates innovative approaches to overcome the limitations of traditional Radio Access Network (RAN). Reconfigurable Intelligent Surface (RIS) and…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2024-11-12 Reza Aghazadeh Ayoubi , Marouan Mizmizi , Eugenio Moro , Ilario Filippini , Umberto Spagnolini

Can reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RISs) operate in a standalone mode that is completely transparent to the 3GPP 5G initial access process? Realizing that may greatly simplify the deployment and operation of these surfaces and reduce…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-11-28 Shuaifeng Jiang , Ahmed Hindy , Ahmed Alkhateeb

The problem of optimizing discrete phases in a reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS) to maximize the received power at a user equipment is addressed. Comments on [1] are provided. Updated necessary and sufficient conditions for its Lemma…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-10-19 Dogan Kutay Pekcan , Ender Ayanoglu

The reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS) is a promising technology that is anticipated to enable high spectrum and energy efficiencies in future wireless communication networks. This paper investigates optimum location-based RIS…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-06-07 Yuting Fang , Saman Atapattu , Hazer Inaltekin , Jamie Evans

In recent years there has been a growing interest in reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RISs) as enablers for the realization of smart radio propagation environments which can provide performance improvements with low energy consumption…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-07-26 Nuno Souto , João Carlos Silva