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 …

Joint optimization of STAR-RIS assisted UAV communication systems

Q Zhang, Y Zhao, H Li, S Hou… - IEEE Wireless …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this letter, we study the simultaneously transmitting and reflecting reconfigurable
intelligent surface (STAR-RIS) assisted unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) communications …

UAV swarm-enabled aerial reconfigurable intelligent surface: Modeling, analysis, and optimization

B Shang, ES Bentley, L Liu - IEEE Transactions on …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS) offers tremendous spectrum-and-energy efficiency
in wireless networks. With the agility and mobility of an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV), RIS …

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 …

Joint location and beamforming optimization for STAR-RIS aided NOMA-UAV networks

Y Su, X Pang, W Lu, N Zhao, X Wang… - IEEE Transactions …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This work investigates the potential of combining unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) and
simultaneously transmitting and reflecting reconfigurable intelligent surface (STAR-RIS) in …

Intelligent reflecting surface-enhanced UAV communications: Advances, challenges, and prospects

Y Ge, J Fan, GY Li, LC Wang - IEEE Wireless Communications, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
As a cost-effective aerial platform, unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) can provide reliable air-
to-ground (A2G) line-of-sight (LOS) transmission and controllable maneuverability …

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 …

Intelligent and robust UAV-aided multiuser RIS communication technique with jittering UAV and imperfect hardware constraints

ABM Adam, X Wan, MAM Elhassan… - IEEE Transactions …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this paper, we investigate unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV)-aided multiuser reconfigurable
intelligent surface (RIS) communication for next generation communication networks. We …

On the performance of RIS-assisted dual-hop UAV communication systems

L Yang, F Meng, J Zhang, MO Hasna… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this paper, to further improve the coverage and performance of unmanned aerial vehicle
(UAV) communication systems, we propose a reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS) …

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 …