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Reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS) is a promising technology to enhance the spectral and energy efficiency in a wireless communication system. The design of the phase shifts of an RIS in every channel coherence interval demands a huge…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-05-15 Sadaf Syed , Dominik Semmler , Donia Ben Amor , Michael Joham , Wolfgang Utschick

In this paper, we consider a reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS) and model it by using multiport network theory. We first compare the representation of RIS by using $Z$-parameters and $S$-parameters, by proving their equivalence and…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-09-01 Andrea Abrardo , Alberto Toccafondi , Marco Di Renzo

Reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RISs) are one of the foremost technological enablers of future wireless systems. They improve communication and localization by providing a strong non-line-of-sight path to the receiver. In this paper,…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-04-26 Kamran Keykhosravi , Henk Wymeersch

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…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-01-30 Francesco Verde , Donatella Darsena , Vincenzo Galdi

In this correspondence, we analyze the performance of a reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS)-aided communication system that involves a fluid antenna system (FAS)-enabled receiver. By applying the central limit theorem (CLT), we derive…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-08-27 Xiazhi Lai , Junteng Yao , Kangda Zhi , Tuo Wu , David Morales-Jimenez , Kai-Kit Wong

We consider a two--tile reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS) assisted wireless network with a two-antenna transmitter and receiver over Rayleigh fading. We show that the average received signal-to-noise-ratio (SNR) optimal transmission…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-10-12 Prathapasinghe Dharmawansa , Saman Atapattu , Marco Di Renzo

In this letter, we study the beamforming design for channel estimation of multi-functional reconfigurable intelligent surface (MF-RIS)-aided multi-user communications that supports simultaneous signal reflection, refraction, and…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-01-22 Zaihao Pan , Wen Wang , Gaofeng Nie , Ailing Zheng , Wanli Ni

We develop a rigorous Temporal Coupled-Mode Theory (TCMT) specifically tailored for a single Floquet-sheet resonator governed by time-modulated conductivities. By invoking photon-number conservation during frequency conversion, we derive…

Optics · Physics 2026-02-24 Yao-Ting Wang , Hsu-Huei Chou

We consider channel estimation in systems equipped with a reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS). In order to illuminate the additional cascaded channel as compared to systems without a RIS, commonly an unaffordable amount of pilot…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-01-27 Benedikt Fesl , Andreas Faika , Nurettin Turan , Michael Joham , Wolfgang Utschick

The Reconfigurable Intelligent Surface (RIS) constitutes one of the prominent technologies for the next 6-th Generation (6G) of wireless communications. It is envisioned to enhance signal coverage in cases where obstacles block the direct…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-03-10 Kun Chen-Hu , George C. Alexandropoulos , Ana García Armada

Reconfigurable electromagnetic structures (REMSs), such as reconfigurable reflectarrays (RRAs) or reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RISs), hold significant potential to improve the spectral efficiency of wireless communication systems…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-12-16 Alexander Stutz-Tirri , Georg Schwan , Christoph Studer

Physically accurate and mathematically tractable models are presented to characterize scattering and reflection properties of reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RISs). We take continuous and discrete strategies to model a single patch and…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-08-31 Tiebin Mi , Jianan Zhang , Rujing Xiong , Zhengyu Wang , Robert Caiming Qiu

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…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-10-07 João Henrique Inacio de Souza , Victor Croisfelt , Fabio Saggese , Taufik Abrão , Petar Popovski

Optimization of Reconfigurable Intelligent Surfaces (RIS) via a previously introduced method is effective, but time-consuming, because multiport impedance or scatter matrices are required for each transmitter and receiver position, which…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-01-31 Hans-Dieter Lang , Michel A. Nyffenegger , Heinz Mathis , Xingqi Zhang

The integration of reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RIS) with extremely large multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) arrays at the base station has emerged as a key enabler for enhancing wireless network performance. However, this setup…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-08-05 Ahmad Dkhan , Simon Tarboush , Hadi Sarieddeen , Tareq Y. Al-Naffouri

We present an analytical instrument model of the TMS radiometer, a pseudo-correlation system designed for absolute sky-temperature measurements through a continuous comparison between sky and reference-load signals. The goal of this work is…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2026-03-03 A. M. Arriero-Lopez , J. A. Rubiño-Martín , F. Cuttaia , L. Terenzi , R. Hoyland

We extend effective medium theory (EMT) to time-modulated, frequency-dispersive acoustic metamaterials with multiple resonances. While previous studies focused on non-dispersive or single-resonance systems, advances in programmable…

Applied Physics · Physics 2025-05-12 Xinghong Zhu , Hong-Wei Wu , Jensen Li

A key question for most applications involving reconfigurable linear wave systems is how accurately a desired linear operator can be realized by configuring the system's tunable elements. The relevance of this question spans from…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-02-17 Philipp del Hougne

Reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS) technology has emerged in recent years as a promising solution to the ever-increasing demand for wireless communication capacity. In practice, however, elements of RIS may suffer from phase…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-07-17 Wei Zhang , Bin Zhou , Tianyi Zhang , Yi Jiang , Zhiyong Bu

RISs are an emerging technology for engineering the channels of future wireless communication systems. The vast majority of research publications on RIS are focussing on system-level optimization and are based on very simplistic models…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-08-24 Josef A. Nossek , Dominik Semmler , Michael Joham , Wolfgang Utschick