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Reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS), a recently introduced technology for future wireless com-munication systems, enhances the spectral and energy efficiency by intelligently adjusting the propaga-tion conditions between a base station…

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Reconfigurable Intelligent Surfaces (RIS)-empowered communication has emerged as a transformative technology for next generation wireless networks, enabling the programmable shaping of the propagation environment. However, conventional RISs…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-07-23 Recep Akif Tasci , Panagiotis Gavriilidis , Ertugrul Basar , George C. Alexandropoulos

Reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RIS) have drawn considerable attention recently due to their controllable scattering elements that are able to direct electromagnetic waves into desirable directions. Although RISs share some…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-05-03 Mohanad Obeed , Anas Chaaban

Reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS) is an emerging technology for wireless communications. In this paper, extensive system level simulations are conducted for analyzing the performance of multi-RIS and multi-base-station (BS)…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-02-11 Yifei Yuan , Yuhong Huang , Xin Su , Boyang Duan , Nan Hu , Marco Di Renzo

Reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS) has emerged as a cost- and energy-efficient solution to enhance the wireless communication capacity. However, recent studies show that a very large surface is required for a RIS-assisted…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-03-09 Nhan Thanh Nguyen , Quang-Doanh Vu , Kyungchun Lee , Markku Juntti

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

We consider a fading channel in which a multi-antenna transmitter communicates with a multi-antenna receiver through a reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS) that is made of $N$ reconfigurable passive scatterers impaired by phase noise.…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-05-18 Xuewen Qian , Marco Di Renzo , Jiang Liu , Abla Kammoun , Mohamed-Slim Alouini

Reconfigurable distributed antennas and reflecting surface (RDARS) has emerged as a transformative solution to address the stringent requirements of future wireless networks. By combining distributed active antennas with reconfigurable…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-04-23 Jintao Wang , Pingping Zhang , Chengzhi Ma , Chengwang Ji , Zheng Shi , Guanghua Yang , Shaodan Ma

Reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS) is an emerging technique employing metasurface to reflect the signal from the source node to the destination node. By smartly reconfiguring the electromagnetic (EM) properties of the metasurface and…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-06-30 Qi Gu , Dan Wu , Xin Su , Hanning Wang , Jingyuan Cui , Yifei Yuan

Reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS) is a new and revolutionary technology to achieve spectrum-, energy- and cost-efficient wireless networks. This paper studies the resource allocation for RIS-empowered device-to-device (D2D)…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-07-21 Gang Yang , Yating Liao , Ying-Chang Liang , Olav Tirkkonen

Intelligent reflecting surfaces (IRSs) have recently attracted the attention of communication theorists as a means to control the wireless propagation channel. It has been shown that the signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) of a single-user…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-11-12 Emil Björnson , Luca Sanguinetti

Reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RISs) have been recently considered as one of the emerging technologies for future communication systems by leveraging the tuning capabilities of their reflecting elements. In this paper, we investigate…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-05-27 Dick Carrillo Melgarejo , Charalampos Kalalas , Arthur Sousa de Sena , Pedro H. J. Nardelli

Symbiotic radio (SR) is a promising technology of spectrum- and energy-efficient wireless systems, for which the key idea is to use cognitive backscattering communication to achieve mutualistic spectrum and energy sharing with passive…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-05-24 Sihan Wang , Jingran Xu , Yong Zeng

Active reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS) has attracted significant attention as a recently proposed RIS architecture. Owing to its capability to amplify the incident signals, active RIS can mitigate the multiplicative fading effect…

We consider an uplink multi-user scenario and investigate the use of reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RIS) to optimize spatial multiplexing performance when a linear receiver is used. We study two different formulations of the problem,…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-09-16 Mohamed A. ElMossallamy , Hongliang Zhang , Radwa Sultan , Karim G. Seddik , Lingyang Song , Geoffery Ye Li , Zhu Han

Intelligent reflecting surface (IRS) is a promising technology for wireless communications, thanks to its potential capability to engineer the radio environment. However, in practice, such an envisaged benefit is attainable only when the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-06-14 Chao Feng , Haiquan Lu , Yong Zeng , Shi Jin , Rui Zhang

Reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS) has become a promising technology for enhancing the reliability of wireless communications, which is capable of reflecting the desired signals through appropriate phase shifts. However, the intended…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-03-03 Bo Yang , Xuelin Cao , Chongwen Huang , Chau Yuen , Lijun Qian , Marco Di Renzo

We propose a reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS)-assisted underlay spectrum sharing system, in which a RIS-assisted secondary network shares the spectrum licensed for a primary network. The secondary network consists of a secondary…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-04-23 Yazan H. Al-Badarneh , Mustafa K. Alshawaqfeh , Osamah S. Badarneh , Yazid M. Khattabi

Reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RISs), also known as intelligent reflecting surfaces (IRSs), or large intelligent surfaces (LISs), have received significant attention for their potential to enhance the capacity and coverage of wireless…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-05-05 Yuanwei Liu , Xiao Liu , Xidong Mu , Tianwei Hou , Jiaqi Xu , Marco Di Renzo , Naofal Al-Dhahir

Reconfigurable Intelligent Surfaces (RISs) offer a promising means of reshaping the wireless propagation environment, yet practical methods for configuring large passive arrays to achieve reliable signal equalization remain limited.…

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