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A time-Floquet reconfigurable intelligent surface (TF-RIS) periodically modulates its elements within a signaling interval, enabling frequency conversion and additional degrees of freedom compared with a conventional RIS. Time-Floquet…
Mutual Coupling (MC) is an unavoidable feature in Reconfigurable Intelligent Surfaces (RISs) with sub-wavelength inter-element spacing. Its inherent presence naturally leads to non-local RIS structures, which can be efficiently described…
Reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RISs) are an emerging technology for enhancing the performance of wireless networks at a low and affordable cost, complexity, and power consumption. We introduce an algorithm for optimizing a…
Until now, researchers in wireless communications have mainly focused their attention on slowly time-varying designs of reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RISs), where the spatial-phase gradient across the RIS is varied at the rate equal…
Mutual Coupling (MC) emerges as an inherent feature in Reconfigurable Intelligent Surfaces (RISs), particularly, when they are fabricated with sub-wavelength inter-element spacing. Hence, any physically-consistent model of the RIS operation…
A reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS) can shape the wireless propagation channel by inducing controlled phase shift variations to the impinging signals. Multiple works have considered the use of RIS by time-varying configurations of…
In response to the security blind zone challenges faced by traditional reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS)-aided covert communication (CC) systems, the joint distance-angle beamforming capability of frequency diverse RIS (FD-RIS) shows…
This Letter addresses the physics-consistent optimization of reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RISs) with mutual coupling (MC) and 1-bit-programmable RIS elements. This combination of constraints is typical of current prototypes but…
Mutual coupling is increasingly important in reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS)-aided communications, particularly when RIS elements are densely integrated in applications such as holographic communications. This paper experimentally…
This paper introduces a novel approach of utilizing the reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS) for joint data modulation and signal beamforming in a multi-user downlink cellular network by leveraging the idea of backscatter communication.…
The conventional reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS) assisted far-field communication systems can only implement angle beamforming, which actually limits the capability for reconfiguring the wireless propagation environment. To…
This paper studies a symbiotic system in which a reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS) assists a radar transmitter while conveying information to a reader via backscattering. The RIS is partitioned into subarrays that redirect the radar…
In this paper, a novel amplitude phase shift keying (APSK) modulation scheme for cooperative backscatter communications aided by a reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS-CBC) is presented, according to which the RIS is configured to…
This letter investigates a wireless communication system deploying distributed reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RISs). Existing works have assumed that perfect timing synchronization is available among all the cooperative RISs. For…
The reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS) is an emerging promising candidate technology for future wireless networks, where the element spacing is usually of sub-wavelength. Only limited knowledge, however, has been gained about the…
The concept of the frequency diverse reconfigurable intelligent surface (FD-RIS) technology has been introduced, which can enable simultaneous implementation of distance-angle beamforming in far-field communication scenarios. In order to…
Physics-consistent optimization of reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RISs) is thwarted in practice by the difficulty of experimentally estimating the mutual coupling (MC) between RIS elements. For large RISs, experimental MC estimation…
This paper investigates a wireless-powered hybrid reflecting intelligent surface (hybrid RIS)-assisted multiple access system, where the RIS can harvest energy from energy station (ES) transmitted radio frequency signal (RF), and each…
In recent years, a brand-new technology, reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS) has been widely studied for reconfiguring the wireless propagation environment. RIS is an artificial surface of electromagnetic material that is capable of…
Although reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RISs) can improve the performance of wireless networks by smartly reconfiguring the radio environment, existing passive RISs face two key challenges, i.e., double-fading attenuation and…