Reconfigurable-intelligent-surface empowered wireless communications: Challenges and opportunities

X Yuan, YJA Zhang, Y Shi, W Yan… - IEEE wireless …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RISs) are regarded as a promising emerging hardware
technology to improve the spectrum and energy efficiency of wireless networks by artificially …

Multi-user holographic MIMO surfaces: Channel modeling and spectral efficiency analysis

L Wei, C Huang, GC Alexandropoulos… - IEEE Journal of …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The multi-user Holographic Multiple-Input and Multiple-Output Surface (MU-HMIMOS)
paradigm, which is capable of realizing large continuous apertures with minimal power …

Reconfiguring wireless environments via intelligent surfaces for 6G: Reflection, modulation, and security

J Xu, C Yuen, C Huang, N Ul Hassan… - Science China …, 2023 - Springer
The reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS) has been recognized as an essential enabling
technology for sixth-generation (6G) mobile communication networks. An RIS comprises a …

Learning to reflect and to beamform for intelligent reflecting surface with implicit channel estimation

T Jiang, HV Cheng, W Yu - IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Intelligent reflecting surface (IRS), which consists of a large number of tunable reflective
elements, is capable of enhancing the wireless propagation environment in a cellular …

Intelligent reflecting surface (IRS)-aided covert wireless communications with delay constraint

X Zhou, S Yan, Q Wu, F Shu… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This work examines the performance gain achieved by deploying an intelligent reflecting
surface (IRS) in covert communications. To this end, we formulate the joint design of the …

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 …

Pervasive machine learning for smart radio environments enabled by reconfigurable intelligent surfaces

GC Alexandropoulos, K Stylianopoulos… - Proceedings of the …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The emerging technology of reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RISs) is provisioned as an
enabler of smart wireless environments, offering a highly scalable, low-cost, hardware …

Joint design for simultaneously transmitting and reflecting (STAR) RIS assisted NOMA systems

J Zuo, Y Liu, Z Ding, L Song… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Different from traditional reflection-only reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RISs),
simultaneously transmitting and reflecting RISs (STAR-RISs) represent a novel technology …

Reconfigurable intelligent surfaces: Simplified-architecture transmitters—From theory to implementations

Q Cheng, L Zhang, JY Dai, W Tang, JC Ke… - Proceedings of the …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RISs) offer an entirely new route to alter the propagation
properties of electromagnetic waves and thus control their reflection, refraction, and …

Active RIS assisted rate-splitting multiple access network: Spectral and energy efficiency tradeoff

H Niu, Z Lin, K An, J Wang, G Zheng… - IEEE Journal on …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
With the increasing demand of high data rate and massive access in both ultra-dense and
industrial Internet-of-things networks, spectral efficiency (SE) and energy efficiency (EE) are …