Reconfigurable intelligent surfaces: Principles and opportunities

Y Liu, X Liu, X Mu, T Hou, J Xu… - … surveys & tutorials, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RISs), also known as intelligent reflecting surfaces
(IRSs), or large intelligent surfaces (LISs), 1 have received significant attention for their …

An overview of signal processing techniques for RIS/IRS-aided wireless systems

C Pan, G Zhou, K Zhi, S Hong, T Wu… - IEEE Journal of …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In the past as well as present wireless communication systems, the wireless propagation
environment is regarded as an uncontrollable black box that impairs the received signal …

Smart radio environments empowered by reconfigurable intelligent surfaces: How it works, state of research, and the road ahead

M Di Renzo, A Zappone, M Debbah… - IEEE journal on …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RISs) are an emerging transmission technology for
application to wireless communications. RISs can be realized in different ways, which …

Toward smart wireless communications via intelligent reflecting surfaces: A contemporary survey

S Gong, X Lu, DT Hoang, D Niyato… - … Surveys & Tutorials, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper presents a literature review on recent applications and design aspects of the
intelligent reflecting surface (IRS) in the future wireless networks. Conventionally, the …

Energy efficiency and spectral efficiency tradeoff in RIS-aided multiuser MIMO uplink transmission

L You, J Xiong, DWK Ng, C Yuen… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The emergence of reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RISs) enables us to establish
programmable radio wave propagation that caters for wireless communications, via …

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 …

Resource allocation for multi-cell IRS-aided NOMA networks

W Ni, X Liu, Y Liu, H Tian… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This article proposes a novel framework of resource allocation in multi-cell intelligent
reflecting surface (IRS) aided non-orthogonal multiple access (NOMA) networks, where an …

Intelligent reflecting surface placement optimization in air-ground communication networks toward 6G

H Hashida, Y Kawamoto, N Kato - IEEE Wireless …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Intelligent reflecting surfaces (IRSs) have emerged as a key enabler for beyond fifth-
generation (B5G) communication technology and for realizing sixth-generation (6G) cellular …

Towards intelligent reflecting surface empowered 6G terahertz communications: A survey

Z Chen, X Ma, C Han, Q Wen - China Communications, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Terahertz (THz) communications have been widely envisioned as a promising enabler to
provide adequate bandwidth and achieve ultra-high data rates for sixth generation (6G) …

On the performance of IRS-assisted multi-layer UAV communications with imperfect phase compensation

M Al-Jarrah, A Al-Dweik, E Alsusa… - IEEE Transactions …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This work presents the symbol error rate (SER) and outage probability analysis of multi-layer
unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) wireless communications assisted by intelligent reflecting …