Spectral-energy efficiency tradeoff of nearly-passive RIS in MIMO URLLC downlink: diagonal vs. beyond diagonal

This letter investigates the spectral and energy efficiency (EE) tradeoff of nearly-passive (NP) reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RIS). Locally and globally NP (GNP) RIS are analyzed, considering diagonal and beyond-diagonal (BD) implementations in multi-user multiple-input multiple-output (MU-M...

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Autores: Soleymani, Mohammad, Zappone, Alessio, Jorswieck, Eduard Axel, Di Renzo, Marco, Santamaría Caballero, Luis Ignacio|||0000-0003-0040-7436
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Fecha de publicación:2026
País:España
Institución:Universidad de Cantabria (UC)
Repositorio:UCrea Repositorio Abierto de la Universidad de Cantabria
Idioma:inglés
OAI Identifier:oai:repositorio.unican.es:10902/39058
Acceso en línea:https://hdl.handle.net/10902/39058
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:Finite block length coding
Low latency
Max-min energy efficiency
Max-min rate
MIMO systems
Reconfigurable intelligent surface
Ultra-reliable communications
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Sumario:This letter investigates the spectral and energy efficiency (EE) tradeoff of nearly-passive (NP) reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RIS). Locally and globally NP (GNP) RIS are analyzed, considering diagonal and beyond-diagonal (BD) implementations in multi-user multiple-input multiple-output (MU-MIMO) broadcast channels designed for ultra-reliable low-latency communication (URLLC). We demonstrate that all RIS architectures enhance the spectral efficiency with GNP BD-RIS achieving the highest gains. However, its EE is highly sensitive to the static circuit power consumption, since BD-RIS has many more circuit elements than diagonal architectures. Furthermore, we demonstrate that the benefits of BD-RIS over diagonal RIS diminish as the number of data streams per user increases due to the enhanced channel diversity in MIMO systems.