Cellular, wide-area, and non-terrestrial IoT: A survey on 5G advances and the road toward 6G

M Vaezi, A Azari, SR Khosravirad… - … Surveys & Tutorials, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The next wave of wireless technologies is proliferating in connecting things among
themselves as well as to humans. In the era of the Internet of Things (IoT), billions of …

Intelligent reflecting surface-aided wireless communications: A tutorial

Q Wu, S Zhang, B Zheng, C You… - IEEE transactions on …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Intelligent reflecting surface (IRS) is an enabling technology to engineer the radio signal
propagation in wireless networks. By smartly tuning the signal reflection via a large number …

A comprehensive overview on 5G-and-beyond networks with UAVs: From communications to sensing and intelligence

Q Wu, J Xu, Y Zeng, DWK Ng… - IEEE Journal on …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Due to the advancements in cellular technologies and the dense deployment of cellular
infrastructure, integrating unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) into the fifth-generation (5G) and …

UAV assistance paradigm: State-of-the-art in applications and challenges

B Alzahrani, OS Oubbati, A Barnawi… - Journal of Network and …, 2020 - Elsevier
Abstract Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) are an emerging technology with the potential to
be used in industries and various sectors of human life to provide a wide range of …

Age of information in energy harvesting aided massive multiple access networks

Z Fang, J Wang, Y Ren, Z Han… - IEEE Journal on …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Given the proliferation of the massive machine type communication devices (MTCDs) in
beyond 5G (B5G) wireless networks, energy harvesting (EH) aided next generation multiple …

Intelligent reflecting surface enhanced wireless network: Joint active and passive beamforming design

Q Wu, R Zhang - 2018 IEEE Global Communications …, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Intelligent reflecting surface (IRS) is envisioned to have abundant applications in future
wireless networks by smartly reconfiguring the signal propagation for performance …

Intelligent reflecting surface-aided wireless energy and information transmission: An overview

Q Wu, X Guan, R Zhang - Proceedings of the IEEE, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Intelligent reflecting surface (IRS) is a promising technology for achieving spectrum and
energy-efficient wireless networks cost-effectively. Most existing works on IRS have focused …

Cooperative wireless-powered NOMA relaying for B5G IoT networks with hardware impairments and channel estimation errors

X Li, Q Wang, M Liu, J Li, H Peng… - IEEE Internet of Things …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Massive connectivity and limited energy are main challenges for the beyond 5G (B5G)-
enabled massive Internet of Things (IoT) to maintain diversified Qualify of Service (QoS) of …

URLLC and eMBB in 5G industrial IoT: A survey

BS Khan, S Jangsher, A Ahmed… - IEEE Open Journal of …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Fifth generation (5G)-industrial Internet of things (IIoT) is the integration of IIoT and a private
5G network. The IIoT is a concept that involves incorporating smart objects, gadgets, and …

Joint trajectory and precoding optimization for UAV-assisted NOMA networks

N Zhao, X Pang, Z Li, Y Chen, F Li… - IEEE Transactions …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The explosive data traffic and connections in 5G networks require the use of non-orthogonal
multiple access (NOMA) to accommodate more users. Unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) can …