Enhancing indoor mmWave wireless coverage: Small-cell densification or reconfigurable intelligent surfaces deployment?

Z Li, H Hu, J Zhang, J Zhang - IEEE Wireless Communications …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Both reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RISs) and ultra-dense (UD) small-cell (SC) base
stations (BSs) are investigated for indoor mmWave wireless coverage enhancement. To …

RIS-assisted coverage enhancement in millimeter-wave cellular networks

M Nemati, J Park, J Choi - IEEE Access, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The use of millimeter-wave (mmWave) bandwidth is one key enabler to achieve the high
data rates in the fifth-generation (5G) cellular systems. However, mmWave signals suffer …

Indoor mm-wave coverage enhancement: Reconfigurable intelligent surface deployment strategy based on human mobility model

H Qin, Z Liu, C Yang - IEEE Communications Letters, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS) is regarded as a promising technology to assist
indoor millimeter wave (mm-Wave) communication due to its ability to manipulate …

mmWave coverage extension using reconfigurable intelligent surfaces in indoor dense spaces

Z Li, OA Topal, ÖT Demir, E Björnson… - ICC 2023-IEEE …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this work, we consider the deployment of reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RISs) to
extend the coverage of a millimeter-wave (mmWave) network in indoor dense spaces. We …

Coverage analysis of integrated sub-6GHz-mmWave cellular networks with hotspots

M Shi, K Yang, Z Han, D Niyato - IEEE Transactions on …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Deploying Sub-6GHz networks together with millimeter wave (mmWave) is a promising
solution to achieve high data rates in traffic hotspots while guaranteeing sufficient coverage …

Coverage enhancement in millimeter-wave cellular networks via distributed IRSs

X Shi, N Deng, N Zhao, D Niyato - IEEE Transactions on …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Intelligent reflecting surface (IRS) is a promising technology to provide line-of-sight (LOS)
links for blocked paths, especially in millimeter wave (mmWave) cellular networks. However …

Optimizing coverage with intelligent surfaces for indoor mmWave networks

J Zhang, DM Blough - IEEE INFOCOM 2022-IEEE Conference …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RISs) have been proposed to increase coverage in
millimeter-wave networks by providing an indirect path from transmitter to receiver when the …

Where to deploy reconfigurable intelligent surfaces in the presence of blockages?

G Ghatak, V Malik, SS Kalamkar… - 2021 IEEE 32nd Annual …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Wireless communications aided by reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RISs) is a promising
way to improve the coverage for cellular users. The controlled reflection of the signal from …

Weighted Sum-Rate Maximization for Multi-STAR-RIS-Assisted Mmwave Cell-Free Networks

Y Song, S Xu, R Xu, B Ai - IEEE Transactions on Vehicular …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The cell-free network is regarded as an enabling technology for alleviating inter-cell
interference due to its user-centric network paradigm. Reconfigurable intelligent surfaces …

Planning Mm-Wave access networks with reconfigurable intelligent surfaces

E Moro, I Filippini, A Capone… - 2021 IEEE 32nd Annual …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
With the capability to support gigabit data rates, millimetre-wave (mm-Wave) communication
is unanimously considered a key technology of future cellular networks. However, the harsh …