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 …

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 …

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 …

Channel estimation for RIS-empowered multi-user MISO wireless communications

L Wei, C Huang, GC Alexandropoulos… - IEEE Transactions …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Reconfigurable Intelligent Surfaces (RISs) have been recently considered as an energy-
efficient solution for future wireless networks due to their fast and low-power configuration …

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 …

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 …

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 …

Robust and secure wireless communications via intelligent reflecting surfaces

X Yu, D Xu, Y Sun, DWK Ng… - IEEE Journal on Selected …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this paper, intelligent reflecting surfaces (IRSs) are employed to enhance the physical
layer security in a challenging radio environment. In particular, a multi-antenna access point …

Towards smart and reconfigurable environment: Intelligent reflecting surface aided wireless network

Q Wu, R Zhang - IEEE communications magazine, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
IRS is a new and revolutionizing technology that is able to significantly improve the
performance of wireless communication networks, by smartly reconfiguring the wireless …

Capacity characterization for intelligent reflecting surface aided MIMO communication

S Zhang, R Zhang - IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Intelligent reflecting surface (IRS) is a promising solution to enhance the wireless
communication capacity both cost-effectively and energy-efficiently, by properly altering the …