Exact Statistical Characterization and Performance Analysis of Fluid Reconfigurable Intelligent Surfaces

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Main Authors: Khazaee, Masoud, de Figueiredo, Felipe A. P., de Souza, Rausley A. A., Ghadi, Farshad Rostami, Wong, Kai-Kit, Mendes, Luciano L., García, Fernando D. Almeida
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author Khazaee, Masoud
de Figueiredo, Felipe A. P.
de Souza, Rausley A. A.
Ghadi, Farshad Rostami
Wong, Kai-Kit
Mendes, Luciano L.
García, Fernando D. Almeida
author_facet Khazaee, Masoud
de Figueiredo, Felipe A. P.
de Souza, Rausley A. A.
Ghadi, Farshad Rostami
Wong, Kai-Kit
Mendes, Luciano L.
García, Fernando D. Almeida
contents Fluid reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (FRIS) extend conventional RIS architectures by enabling physical reconfiguration of element positions, thereby introducing a fundamentally new degree of freedom for controlling spatial correlation and improving link reliability. Despite this promise, rigorous performance analysis of FRIS-assisted wireless systems has remained challenging, as exact statistical analyses of the end-to-end cascaded channels have been unavailable. This paper addresses this gap by providing the first exact closed-form characterization of the end-to-end cascaded channel gain in FRIS-aided systems under general spatial correlation. By exploiting the spectral structure of the FRIS-induced correlation matrix, we show that the channel gain statistics can be represented as a finite linear combination of K-distributions. This unified formulation naturally captures fully correlated, effectively decorrelated, and intrinsically uncorrelated operating regimes as special cases. Building on the derived channel statistics, we further obtain exact closed-form expressions for the outage probability and ergodic capacity. We also conduct an outage-based asymptotic analysis, which reveals the true diversity order of the system. Numerical results corroborate the proposed analytical framework via Monte Carlo simulations, benchmark its accuracy against state-of-the-art approximation-based approaches, and demonstrate that fluidic reconfiguration can yield tangible reliability gains by reshaping the spatial correlation structure.
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spellingShingle Exact Statistical Characterization and Performance Analysis of Fluid Reconfigurable Intelligent Surfaces
Khazaee, Masoud
de Figueiredo, Felipe A. P.
de Souza, Rausley A. A.
Ghadi, Farshad Rostami
Wong, Kai-Kit
Mendes, Luciano L.
García, Fernando D. Almeida
Signal Processing
Fluid reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (FRIS) extend conventional RIS architectures by enabling physical reconfiguration of element positions, thereby introducing a fundamentally new degree of freedom for controlling spatial correlation and improving link reliability. Despite this promise, rigorous performance analysis of FRIS-assisted wireless systems has remained challenging, as exact statistical analyses of the end-to-end cascaded channels have been unavailable. This paper addresses this gap by providing the first exact closed-form characterization of the end-to-end cascaded channel gain in FRIS-aided systems under general spatial correlation. By exploiting the spectral structure of the FRIS-induced correlation matrix, we show that the channel gain statistics can be represented as a finite linear combination of K-distributions. This unified formulation naturally captures fully correlated, effectively decorrelated, and intrinsically uncorrelated operating regimes as special cases. Building on the derived channel statistics, we further obtain exact closed-form expressions for the outage probability and ergodic capacity. We also conduct an outage-based asymptotic analysis, which reveals the true diversity order of the system. Numerical results corroborate the proposed analytical framework via Monte Carlo simulations, benchmark its accuracy against state-of-the-art approximation-based approaches, and demonstrate that fluidic reconfiguration can yield tangible reliability gains by reshaping the spatial correlation structure.
title Exact Statistical Characterization and Performance Analysis of Fluid Reconfigurable Intelligent Surfaces
topic Signal Processing
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.28974