Joint trajectory and passive beamforming design for intelligent reflecting surface-aided UAV communications: A deep reinforcement learning approach

L Wang, K Wang, C Pan… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this paper, the intelligent reflecting surface (IRS)-aided unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV)
communication system is studied, where the UAV is deployed to serve the user equipment …

Joint beamforming and trajectory optimization for intelligent reflecting surfaces-assisted UAV communications

L Ge, P Dong, H Zhang, JB Wang, X You - IEEE Access, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) and intelligent reflecting surface (IRS) are anticipated to be
widely applied for improving the spectrum and energy efficiency in the forthcoming wireless …

IRS empowered UAV wireless communication with resource allocation, reflecting design and trajectory optimization

X Zhang, H Zhang, W Du, K Long… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
As revolutionary technologies that can actively change the communication link signal,
intelligent reflecting surface (IRS) and unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) have emerged as …

A survey on intelligent-reflecting-surface-assisted UAV communications

KW Park, HM Kim, OS Shin - Energies, 2022 - mdpi.com
Both the unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) and intelligent reflecting surface (IRS) are attracting
growing attention as enabling technologies for future wireless networks. In particular, IRS …

Simultaneously transmitting and reflecting reconfigurable intelligent surface (STAR-RIS) assisted UAV communications

J Zhao, Y Zhu, X Mu, K Cai, Y Liu… - IEEE Journal on …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
A novel air-to-ground communication paradigm is conceived, where an unmanned aerial
vehicle (UAV)-mounted base station (BS) equipped with multiple antennas sends …

Resource allocation for power-efficient IRS-assisted UAV communications

Y Cai, Z Wei, S Hu, DWK Ng… - 2020 IEEE International …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this paper, an intelligent reflection surface (IRS) is introduced to assist an unmanned
aerial vehicle (UAV) for serving multiple ground users. We aim to minimize the average total …

Joint optimization of deployment and trajectory in UAV and IRS-assisted IoT data collection system

L Dong, Z Liu, F Jiang, K Wang - IEEE Internet of Things …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) can be applied in many Internet of Things (IoT) systems,
eg, smart farms, as a data collection platform. However, the UAV-IoT wireless channels may …

UAV-assisted intelligent reflecting surface symbiotic radio system

M Hua, L Yang, Q Wu, C Pan, C Li… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper investigates a symbiotic unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV)-assisted intelligent
reflecting surface (IRS) radio system, where the UAV is leveraged to help the IRS reflect its …

Joint trajectory and communication design for IRS-assisted UAV networks

X Song, Y Zhao, Z Wu, Z Yang… - IEEE Wireless …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Intelligent reflecting surface (IRS) is a promising technology for future communication
systems because of its ability to intelligently configure the wireless environment. In this letter …

Reconfigurable intelligent surface assisted UAV communication: Joint trajectory design and passive beamforming

S Li, B Duo, X Yuan, YC Liang… - IEEE Wireless …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Thanks to the line-of-sight (LoS) transmission and flexibility, unmanned aerial vehicles
(UAVs) effectively improve the throughput of wireless networks. Nevertheless, the LoS links …