Nonterrestrial communications assisted by reconfigurable intelligent surfaces

J Ye, J Qiao, A Kammoun… - Proceedings of the IEEE, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Nonterrestrial communications have emerged as a key enabler for seamless connectivity in
the upcoming generation networks. This kind of network can support high data rate …

RIS-enabled smart wireless environments: Deployment scenarios, network architecture, bandwidth and area of influence

GC Alexandropoulos, DT Phan-Huy… - EURASIP Journal on …, 2023 - Springer
Reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RISs) constitute the key enabler for programmable
electromagnetic propagation environments and are lately being considered as a candidate …

Intelligent reflecting surface in 6G vehicular communications: A survey

Y Zhu, B Mao, N Kato - IEEE Open Journal of Vehicular …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The applications of Intelligent Transportation System (ITS) and autonomous driving in the 6G
era heavily rely on the massive information exchange of ultra-wide bandwidth, high …

Outage performance analysis of RIS-assisted UAV wireless systems under disorientation and misalignment

AAA Boulogeorgos, A Alexiou… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this paper, we analyze the performance of a reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS)-
assisted unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) wireless system that is affected by mixture-gamma …

A continuous actor–critic deep Q-learning-enabled deployment of UAV base stations: Toward 6G small cells in the skies of smart cities

N Parvaresh, B Kantarci - IEEE Open Journal of the …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Uncrewed aerial vehicle-mounted base stations (UAV-BSs), also know as drone base
stations, are considered to have promising potential to tackle the limitations of ground base …

Joint optimization for RIS-assisted wireless communications: From physical and electromagnetic perspectives

X Cheng, Y Lin, W Shi, J Li, C Pan… - IEEE Transactions …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RISs) are envisioned to be a disruptive wireless
communication technique that is capable of reconfiguring the wireless propagation …

PAPIR: Practical RIS-aided localization via statistical user information

A Albanese, P Mursia, V Sciancalepore… - 2021 IEEE 22nd …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The integration of advanced localization techniques in the upcoming next generation
networks (B5G/6G) is becoming increasingly important for many use cases comprising …

Fair downlink communications for RIS-UAV enabled mobile vehicles

Y Yu, X Liu, VCM Leung - IEEE Wireless Communications …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This letter considers the sub-6GHz downlink communications from base station (BS) to
mobile vehicles (MVs), where reconfigurable intelligent surface enabled unmanned aerial …

Smart wireless environments enabled by RISs: Deployment scenarios and two key challenges

GC Alexandropoulos, M Crozzoli… - 2022 Joint European …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Reconfigurable Intelligent Surfaces (RISs) constitute the enabler for programmable
propagation of electromagnetic signals, and are lately being considered as a candidate …

Secure Communication in UAV–RIS-Empowered Multiuser Networks: Joint Beamforming, Phase Shift, and UAV Trajectory Optimization

ABM Adam, MA Ouamri, X Wan… - IEEE Systems …, 2024 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this article, we study the secure communication in unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) aided
and reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS) empowered multiuser networks. In the proposed …