Reconfigurable Intelligent Surfaces vs. Relaying: Differences, Similarities, and Performance Comparison

Reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RISs) have the potential of realizing the emerging concept of smart radio environments by leveraging the unique properties of metamaterials and large arrays of inexpensive antennas. In this article, we discuss the potential applications of RISs in wireless networ...

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Main Authors: Marco Di Renzo, Konstantinos Ntontin, Jian Song, Fadil H. Danufane, Xuewen Qian, Fotis Lazarakis, Julien De Rosny, Dinh-Thuy Phan-Huy, Osvaldo Simeone, Rui Zhang, Meroaune Debbah, Geoffroy Lerosey, Mathias Fink, Sergei Tretyakov, Shlomo Shamai
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: IEEE 2020-01-01
Series:IEEE Open Journal of the Communications Society
Subjects:
5G
6G
Online Access:https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/9119122/