Cross Deployment of Active and Passive Reconfigurable Intelligent Surfaces (RISs) for Next-Generation Communications

In recent years, reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS) technologies have been proposed due to its ability in shaping propagation environment for future 6G network development. Existing RIS technologies mainly include the active reconfigurable intelligent surface (ARIS) and the passive reconfigurable intelligent surface (PRIS). In this paper, according to the characteristics of RIS and demands of lower costs, we present a new strategy on the cross-deployment of ARIS and PRIS that meets the beneficial maximization in both capital cost and running cost.