Performance Characterization of Continuous Reconfigurable Intelligent Surfaces

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Main Authors: Inwood, Amy S., Smith, Peter J., AlaaEldin, Mahmoud, Matthaiou, Michail
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Published: 2025
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author Inwood, Amy S.
Smith, Peter J.
AlaaEldin, Mahmoud
Matthaiou, Michail
author_facet Inwood, Amy S.
Smith, Peter J.
AlaaEldin, Mahmoud
Matthaiou, Michail
contents We consider a reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS) that can implement a phase rotation continuously over the whole surface rather than via a finite number of discrete elements. Such an RIS can be considered a design for future systems where advances in metamaterials make such an implementation feasible or as the limiting case where the number of elements in a traditional RIS increases in a given area. We derive the optimal RIS design for the single-user (SU) scenario assuming a line-of-sight (LoS) from the RIS to the base station (BS) and correlated Rayleigh fading for the other links. We also derive the associated optimal signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) and its mean, a bound on the mean spectral efficiency (SE), an approximation to the SNR outage probability and an approximation to the coefficient of variation for the investigation of channel hardening.
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spellingShingle Performance Characterization of Continuous Reconfigurable Intelligent Surfaces
Inwood, Amy S.
Smith, Peter J.
AlaaEldin, Mahmoud
Matthaiou, Michail
Signal Processing
We consider a reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS) that can implement a phase rotation continuously over the whole surface rather than via a finite number of discrete elements. Such an RIS can be considered a design for future systems where advances in metamaterials make such an implementation feasible or as the limiting case where the number of elements in a traditional RIS increases in a given area. We derive the optimal RIS design for the single-user (SU) scenario assuming a line-of-sight (LoS) from the RIS to the base station (BS) and correlated Rayleigh fading for the other links. We also derive the associated optimal signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) and its mean, a bound on the mean spectral efficiency (SE), an approximation to the SNR outage probability and an approximation to the coefficient of variation for the investigation of channel hardening.
title Performance Characterization of Continuous Reconfigurable Intelligent Surfaces
topic Signal Processing
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.14385