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Reconfigurable Intelligent Surfaces (RIS) constitute a promising technology that could fulfill the extreme performance and capacity needs of the upcoming 6G wireless networks, by offering software-defined control over wireless propagation…

As 6G and beyond redefine connectivity, wireless networks become the foundation of critical operations, making resilience more essential than ever. With this shift, wireless systems cannot only take on vital services previously handled by…

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Reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RISs) have gained significant attention in recent years due to their ability to control the reflection of radio-frequency signals and reshape the wireless propagation environment. Unlike traditional…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2026-02-10 Kaining Wang , Xueyao Zhang , Bo Yang , Xuelin Cao , Qiang Cheng , Zhiwen Yu , Bin Guo , George C. Alexandropoulos , Kai-Kit Wong , Chan-Byoung Chae , Mérouane Debbah

In cell-free multiple input multiple output (MIMO) networks, multiple base stations (BSs) collaborate to achieve high spectral efficiency. Nevertheless, high penetration loss due to large blockages in harsh propagation environments is often…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-03-16 Chen Chen , Sai Xu , Jiliang Zhang , Jie Zhang

Reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RISs) are envisioned as a key enabler for next-generation wireless networks, offering programmable control over propagation environments. While extensive research focuses on planar RIS architectures,…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-02-16 Mohamadreza Delbari , Ehsan Mohammadi , Mostafa Darabi , Arash Asadi , Alejandro Jiménez-Sáez , Vahid Jamali

This paper focuses on the design of transmission methods and reflection optimization for a wireless system assisted by a single or multiple reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RISs). The existing techniques are either too complex to…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-09-13 Wei Jiang , Hans D. Schotten

This work explores the deployment of active reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (A-RIS) in integrated terrestrial and non-terrestrial networks (TN-NTN) while utilizing coordinated multipoint non-orthogonal multiple access (CoMP-NOMA). Our…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-01-14 Muhammad Ahmed Mohsin , Hassan Rizwan , Muhammad Jazib , Muhammad Iqbal , Muhammad Bilal , Tabinda Ashraf , Muhammad Farhan Khan , Jen-Yi Pan

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…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-03-08 Huimei Han , Jun Zhao , Zehui Xiong , Dusit Niyato , Wenchao Zhai , Marco Di Renzo , Quoc-Viet Pham , Weidang Lu

Advances in wireless technology have significantly increased the number of wireless connections, leading to higher energy consumption in networks. Among these, base stations (BSs) in radio access networks (RANs) account for over half of the…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-12-30 Shuo Sun , Chong Huang , Gaojie Chen , Pei Xiao , Rahim Tafazolli

The cognitive radio (CR) network is a promising network architecture that meets the requirement of enhancing scarce radio spectrum utilization. Meanwhile, reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RIS) is a promising solution to enhance the…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-05-25 Jinglian He , Kaiqiang Yu , Yong Zhou , Yuanming Shi

By moving from massive antennas to antenna surfaces for software-defined wireless systems, the reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RISs) rely on arrays of unit cells to control the scattering and reflection profiles of signals, mitigating…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-12-22 Brian Kim , Tugba Erpek , Yalin E. Sagduyu , Sennur Ulukus

Reconfigurable Intelligent Surfaces (RISs) have gained immense popularity in recent years because of their ability to improve wireless coverage and their flexibility to adapt to the changes in a wireless environment. These advantages are…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-07-24 Morteza Tavana , Meysam Masoudi , Emil Björnson

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

Reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RISs) are a promising enabling technology for the sixth-generation ($6$G) of wireless communications. RISs, thanks to their intelligent design, can reshape the wireless channel to provide favorable…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-02-11 Aymen Khaleel , Aydin Sezgin

Reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS) is considered as a promising solution for next-generation wireless communication networks due to a variety of merits, e.g., customizing the communication environment. Therefore, deploying multiple…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-02-09 Mengbing Liu , Chongwen Huang , Marco Di Renzo , Merouane Debbah , Chau Yuen

The received signal strength (RSS) based technique is widely utilized for ubiquitous positioning due to its advantage of simple implementability. However, its accuracy is limited because the RSS values of adjacent locations can be very…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-03-27 Haobo Zhang , Hongliang Zhang , Boya Di , Kaigui Bian , Zhu Han , Lingyang Song

Reconfigurable Intelligent Surfaces (RISs) are recently gaining remarkable attention as a low-cost, hardware-efficient, and highly scalable technology capable of offering dynamic control of electro-magnetic wave propagation. Their…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-10-12 George C. Alexandropoulos , Sumudu Samarakoon , Mehdi Bennis , Merouane Debbah

Interference among concurrent transmissions in a wireless network is a key factor limiting the system performance. One way to alleviate this problem is to manage the radio resources in order to maximize either the average or the worst-case…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-06-24 Navid Naderializadeh , Jaroslaw Sydir , Meryem Simsek , Hosein Nikopour , Shilpa Talwar

There is an increase in usage of smaller cells or femtocells to improve performance and coverage of next-generation heterogeneous wireless networks (HetNets). However, the interference caused by femtocells to neighboring cells is a limiting…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-03-20 Roohollah Amiri , Hani Mehrpouyan , Lex Fridman , Ranjan K. Mallik , Arumugam Nallanathan , David Matolak

This paper investigates the problem of model aggregation in federated learning systems aided by multiple reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RISs). The effective integration of computation and communication is achieved by over-the-air…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-07-09 Wanli Ni , Yuanwei Liu , Zhaohui Yang , Hui Tian , Xuemin Shen