Reconfigurable Intelligent Surfaces for 6G and Beyond Wireless Networks

Agbotiname Lucky Imoize, Vinoth Babu Kumaravelu, Dinh-Thuan Do

• Publisher: Wiley-IEEE Press
• Year: 2025
• Print ISBN: 9781394250110
• eBook ISBN: 9781394250134
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Technology & Engineering
• Subtopic: Mobile & Wireless Communications
• Index: Technology & Engineering

New insights into trends, deployments, applications, and associated benefits of reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RIS) in emerging wireless communication systems

Reconfigurable Intelligent Surfaces for 6G and Beyond Wireless Networks analyzes the design and applications of RIS in 6G and beyond, such as aiding efficient wireless signal transmission from the transmitter to the receiver while considering several practical constraints. In addition, the book offers advanced signal-processing algorithms to enable RIS applications in realistic environments and leverages advanced mathematical tools and machine learning algorithms to analyze RIS dynamics in evolving wireless networks.

Written in an easy-to-understand format, this book addresses the need to design energy- and spectral-efficient RIS models to address several network issues, including interference, pathloss, delay, traffic outage, etc. It also discusses critical security and privacy issues affecting all stakeholders in the wireless ecosystem, providing practical deep learning-based solutions to address these problems appropriately.

This book also addresses critical concepts, design principles, applications, and issues with RIS, shedding light on the recent progress and advancement in RIS-assisted wireless networks for 6G and beyond.

With contributions from experts and researchers from across the globe, this invaluable resource includes information on:

• Emerging applications and potential use cases of reconfigurable intelligent surfaces in advanced wireless communication systems
• Channel modeling and propagation measurements in RIS-based wireless communication systems
• Energy and spectral efficiency and rate fairness for RIS-aided multiuser massive MIMO systems
• Performance optimization of multiple RIS-assisted multiuser MIMO communication systems
• Analytical phase-shift and amplitude element optimization for energy-efficient active RIS-aided massive MIMO systems
• Physical layer security architecture and frameworks for RIS-aided wireless communication systems
• RIS deployment in terrestrial and non-terrestrial wireless communication systems
• Application of AI and ML techniques for intelligent power control in RIS-empowered wireless communication systems

Reconfigurable Intelligent Surfaces for 6G and Beyond Wireless Networks is an essential up-to-date reference on the subject for industry and academic researchers, scientists, and engineers in the fields of wireless communications, ICTs, MIMO, antennas, sensing, channel measurements, and modeling technologies, as well as engineers and professionals involved in RIS-assisted wireless networks.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Title Page
• Copyright
• Contents
• About the Editors
• About the Contributors
• Preface
• Acknowledgments
• Introduction
• Chapter 1 Reconfigurable Intelligent Surfaces‐Assisted Wireless Communication Systems: Baseband Processing Perspective
• Chapter 2 Emerging Applications and Potential Use Cases of Reconfigurable Intelligent Surfaces in Wireless Communication Systems
• Chapter 3 Reconfigurable Intelligent Surfaces for 6G: A Comprehensive Overview and Electromagnetic Analysis
• Chapter 4 Spectral Efficiency and Rate Fairness for RIS‐Aided Multiuser Massive MIMO System
• Chapter 5 Performance Optimization of Multiple RIS‐Assisted Multiuser MIMO Communication Systems
• Chapter 6 Analytical Phase Shift and Amplitude Element Optimization for Energy‐Efficient Active RIS‐Aided Massive MIMO Systems
• Chapter 7 Element Grouping in IRS‐Aided Wireless Communication System
• Chapter 8 Reconfigurable Intelligent Surface‐Empowered Non‐orthogonal Multiple Access: Outage and ABER Analysis of Smart and Blind Transmissions
• Chapter 9 Convergence of RIS with Emerging Wireless Technologies
• Chapter 10 A Survey on RIS for 6G–IoT Wireless Positioning and Localization
• Chapter 11 Security and Privacy Issues in RIS‐Based Wireless Communication Systems
• Chapter 12 AI and ML Techniques for Intelligent Power Control in RIS‐Empowered Wireless Communication Systems
• Chapter 13 An Overview of Channel Modeling and Propagation Measurements in IRS‐Based Wireless Communication Systems
• Chapter 14 Deep Reinforcement Algorithms in RIS‐Empowered Wireless Communication Systems
• Chapter 15 Examining Physical Layer Security for RIS‐Aided Wireless Communication Systems
• Chapter 16 RIS‐Empowered Terrestrial and Non‐terrestrial Wireless Communication Systems
• Chapter 17 Energy Efficiency and Optimization of RIS‐Based Wireless Communication Systems
• Index
• EULA