A survey on STAR-RIS: Use cases, recent advances, and future research challenges

M Ahmed, A Wahid, SS Laique… - IEEE Internet of …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The recent development of metasurfaces, which may enable several use cases by modifying
the propagation environment, is anticipated to substantially affect the performance of sixth …

Energy-efficient beamforming and resource optimization for AmBSC-assisted cooperative NOMA IoT networks

M Asif, A Ihsan, WU Khan, A Ranjha… - IEEE Internet of …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this manuscript, we present an energy-efficient alternating optimization framework based
on the multiantenna ambient backscatter communication (AmBSC)-assisted cooperative …

Simultaneously transmitting and reflecting (STAR) RIS assisted NOMA systems

J Zuo, Y Liu, Z Ding, L Song - 2021 IEEE Global …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this paper, a novel simultaneously transmitting and reflecting reconfigurable intelligent
surface (STAR-RIS) assisted non-orthogonal multiple access (NOMA) system is proposed …

Deep learning optimized sparse antenna activation for reconfigurable intelligent surface assisted communication

S Zhang, S Zhang, F Gao, J Ma… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS) is a revolutionary technology for achieving high rate
and large coverage in future wireless networks by smartly reflecting the signals with …

Reconfigurable intelligent surfaces aided multi-cell NOMA networks: A stochastic geometry model

C Zhang, W Yi, Y Liu, K Yang… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
By activating blocked users and altering successive interference cancellation (SIC)
sequences, reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RISs) become promising for enhancing non …

What role do intelligent reflecting surfaces play in multi-antenna non-orthogonal multiple access?

AS De Sena, D Carrillo, F Fang… - IEEE Wireless …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) and non-orthogonal multiple access (NOMA)
are two key techniques for enabling massive connectivity in future wireless networks. A …

A 3D wideband channel model for RIS-assisted MIMO communications

G Sun, R He, B Ai, Z Ma, P Li, Y Niu… - IEEE Transactions …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Recently, reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS) has drawn much attention due to its
capability of improving coverage and communication performance. The development of RIS …

RIS-empowered ambient backscatter communication systems

DL Galappaththige, F Rezaei… - IEEE Wireless …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Passive tags must harvest sufficient energy to operate. However, ensuring the tag's energy
needs and simultaneously suppressing the interference in ambient backscatter systems is …

Active IRS aided multiple access for energy-constrained IoT systems

G Chen, Q Wu, C He, W Chen… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this paper, we investigate the fundamental multiple access (MA) scheme in an active
intelligent reflecting surface (IRS) aided energy-constrained Internet-of-Things (IoT) system …

Towards smart and reconfigurable environment: Intelligent reflecting surface aided wireless network

Q Wu, R Zhang - IEEE communications magazine, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
IRS is a new and revolutionizing technology that is able to significantly improve the
performance of wireless communication networks, by smartly reconfiguring the wireless …