Intelligent surfaces empowered wireless network: Recent advances and the road to 6G

Q Wu, B Zheng, C You, L Zhu, K Shen… - Proceedings of the …, 2024 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Intelligent surfaces (ISs) have emerged as a key technology to empower a wide range of
appealing applications for wireless networks, due to their low cost, high energy efficiency …

Communication models for reconfigurable intelligent surfaces: From surface electromagnetics to wireless networks optimization

M Di Renzo, FH Danufane… - Proceedings of the …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
A reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS) is a planar structure that is engineered to
dynamically control the electromagnetic waves. In wireless communications, RISs have …

Energy-efficient trajectory design for secure SWIPT systems assisted by UAV-IRS

L Zhao, S Qu, H Xu, Z Wei, C Zhang - Vehicular Communications, 2024 - Elsevier
Due to its controllable maneuverability, wide coverage, and low cost, unmanned aerial
vehicle (UAV) has great potential in post-disaster rescue, cargo transport and emergency …

UAV-enabled secure communications via collaborative beamforming with imperfect eavesdropper information

G Sun, X Zheng, Z Sun, Q Wu, J Li… - IEEE Transactions …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) are playing a pivotal role in wireless networks due to their
high mobility and on-demand deployment advantages. However, the UAV-enabled …

Joint beamforming designs for active reconfigurable intelligent surface: A sub-connected array architecture

Q Zhu, M Li, R Liu, Y Liu, Q Liu - IEEE Transactions on …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS) is regarded as a promising technology with great
potential to boost wireless networks. Affected by the “double fading” effect, however …

IRS-aided overloaded multi-antenna systems: Joint user grouping and resource allocation

Y Gao, Q Wu, W Chen, Y Liu, M Li… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2024 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper studies an intelligent reflecting surface (IRS)-aided multi-antenna simultaneous
wireless information and power transfer (SWIPT) system where an M-antenna access point …

Beamforming optimization for active ris-aided multiuser communications with hardware impairments

Z Peng, Z Zhang, C Pan, M Di Renzo… - IEEE Transactions …, 2024 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this paper, we consider an active reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS) to assist the
multiuser downlink transmission in the presence of practical hardware impairments (HWIs) …

Near-Field Beamforming Optimization for Holographic XL-MIMO Multiuser Systems

Y Li, S Gong, H Liu, C Xing, N Zhao… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Extremely large-scale multiple-input multiple-output (XL-MIMO) communications and ultra-
high frequency bands are both potential enablers for satisfying extreme performance …

To reflect or not to reflect: On-off control and number configuration for reflecting elements in RIS-aided wireless systems

H Xie, D Li - IEEE Transactions on Communications, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS) has been regarded as a promising technique due to
its high array gain, low cost, and low power. However, the traditional passive RIS suffers …

Fundamental limits of intelligent reflecting surface aided multiuser broadcast channel

G Chen, Q Wu - IEEE Transactions on Communications, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Intelligent reflecting surface (IRS) has recently received significant attention in wireless
networks owing to its ability to smartly control the wireless propagation through passive …