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Reconfigurable Intelligent Surfaces (RIS) have recently gained attention as a means to dynamically shape the wireless propagation environment through programmable reflection control. Among the numerous applications, an important emerging…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-12-23 Xinrui Li , R. Michael Buehrer , Steven W. Ellingson

The emerging reflecting intelligent surface (RIS) technology promises to enhance the capacity of wireless communication systems via passive reflect beamforming. However, the product path loss limits its performance gains. Fully-connected…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-03-26 Konstantinos Ntougias , Symeon Chatzinotas , Ioannis Krikidis

In this paper, we tackle the challenge of jamming attacks in Ultra-Reliable Low Latency Communication (URLLC) within Non-Orthogonal Multiple Access (NOMA)-based 5G networks under Finite Blocklength (FBL) conditions. We introduce an…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-09-30 Ghazal Asemian , Mohammadreza Amini , Burak Kantarci

Reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS) can effectively control the wavefront of the impinging signals and has emerged as a cost-effective promising solution to improve the spectrum and energy efficiency of wireless systems. Most existing…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-06-07 Yiming Liu , Erwu Liu , Rui Wang , Binyu Lu , Zhu Han

Despite the promising gains, free-space optical (FSO) communication is severely influenced by atmospheric turbulence and pointing error issues, which make its practical design a bit challenging. In this paper, with the aim to increase the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-12-02 Liang Yang , Wang Guo , Daniel Benevides da Costa , Mohamed-Slim Alouini

Existing research works on reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RIS) based terahertz (THz) system ignores the effect of phase noise and employ the zero-boresight pointing errors model of the free-space optics channel in performance…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-11-17 Omkar R. Durgada , Vinay Kumar Chapala , S. M. Zafaruddin

Within the context of massive machine-type communications+, reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RISs) represent a promising technology to boost system performance in scenarios with poor channel conditions. Considering single-antenna…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-01-28 Sergi Liesegang , Antonio Pascual-Iserte , Olga Muñoz , Alessio Zappone

Sensing-assisted communication schemes have recently garnered significant research attention. In this work, we design a dual-function reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS), integrating both active and passive elements, referred to as the…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-08-14 Cheng Luo , Luping Xiang , Jie Hu , Kun Yang

Active reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RISs) have recently been proposed to compensate for the severe multiplicative fading effect of conventional passive RIS-aided systems. Each reflecting element of active RISs is assisted by an…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-02-21 Gui Zhou , Cunhua Pan , Hong Ren , Dongfang Xu , Zaichen Zhang , Jiangzhou Wang , Robert Schober

Modern wireless communication systems are expected to provide improved latency and reliability. To meet these expectations, a short packet length is needed, which makes the first-order Shannon rate an inaccurate performance metric for such…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-10-14 Mohammad Soleymani , Ignacio Santamaria , Eduard Jorswieck , Robert Schober , Lajos Hanzo

Simultaneously transmitting and reflecting reconfigurable intelligent surface (STAR-RIS)-aided cell-free massive multiple-input multiple-output (CF-mMIMO) systems are investigated under spatially correlated fading channels using realistic…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-01-06 Zeping Sui , Hien Quoc Ngo , Michail Matthaiou , Lajos Hanzo

Reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS)-assisted communication have recently attracted the attention of the wireless communication community as a potential candidate for the next $6$-th generation (6G) of wireless networks. Various studies…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-05-18 Recep A. Tasci , Fatih Kilinc , Ertugrul Basar , George C. Alexandropoulos

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 surface (RIS) is a promising technique to improve the performance of future wireless communication systems at low energy consumption. To reap the potential benefits of RIS-aided beamforming, it is vital to enhance…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-04-01 Zhenyao He , Jindan Xu , Hong Shen , Wei Xu , Chau Yuen , Marco Di Renzo

This paper proposes a general optimization framework to improve the spectral and energy efficiency (EE) of ultra-reliable low-latency communication (URLLC) simultaneous-transfer-and-receive (STAR) reconfigurable intelligent surface…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-07-11 Mohammad Soleymani , Ignacio Santamaria , Eduard Jorswieck

Reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS) technology is a promising solution to improve the performance of existing wireless communications. To achieve its cost-effectiveness advantage, there inevitably exist certain hardware impairments in…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-01-17 Yiming Liu , Rui Wang , Zhu Han

This paper investigates the maximal achievable rate for a given average error probability and blocklength for the reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS) assisted multiple-input and multiple-output (MIMO) system. The result consists of a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-08-26 Likun Sui , Zihuai Lin , Pei Xiao , Branka Vucetic

Reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS) or intelligent reflecting surface (IRS) has recently been envisioned as one of the most promising technologies in the future sixth-generation (6G) communications. In this paper, we consider the joint…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-12-14 Zhangjie Peng , Zhiwei Chen , Cunhua Pan , Gui Zhou , Hong Ren

Reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RISs) have emerged as a cost- and energy-efficient technology that can customize and program the physical propagation environment by reflecting radio waves in preferred directions. However, the purely…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-06-21 Nhan Thanh Nguyen , Jiguang He , Van-Dinh Nguyen , Henk Wymeersch , Derrick Wing Kwan Ng , Robert Schober , Symeon Chatzinotas , Markku Juntti

To advance towards carbon-neutrality and improve the limited {performance} of conventional passive wireless communications, in this paper, we investigate the integration of noise modulation with zero-energy reconfigurable intelligent…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-06-04 Ahmad Massud Tota Khel , Aissa Ikhlef , Zhiguo Ding , Hongjian Sun