Deep-Learning-Aided Detection for Reconfigurable Intelligent Surfaces

This paper presents a deep learning (DL) approach for estimating and detecting symbols in signals transmitted through reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RIS). The proposed network utilizes fully connected layers to estimate channels and phase angles from a reflected signal received through an RIS. Because the proposed network can estimate and detect symbols without any pilot signaling, this method reduces the overhead required for transmission. The improvements achieved by this method are quantified in terms of the bit-error rate, outperforming traditional detectors.