Recent progress in reconfigurable and intelligent metasurfaces: A comprehensive review of tuning mechanisms, hardware designs, and applications

Y Saifullah, Y He, A Boag, GM Yang, F Xu - Advanced Science, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Intelligent metasurfaces have gained significant importance in recent years due to their
ability to dynamically manipulate electromagnetic (EM) waves. Their multifunctional …

Nonterrestrial communications assisted by reconfigurable intelligent surfaces

J Ye, J Qiao, A Kammoun… - Proceedings of the IEEE, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Nonterrestrial communications have emerged as a key enabler for seamless connectivity in
the upcoming generation networks. This kind of network can support high data rate …

Rate-splitting multiple access for UAV-based RIS-enabled interference-limited vehicular communication system

A Bansal, N Agrawal, K Singh - IEEE Transactions on Intelligent …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Rate-splitting multiple access (RSMA) has emerged as a novel generalized multiple access
technology which can control the interference in multi-user communication systems …

Reinforcement learning in the sky: A survey on enabling intelligence in ntn-based communications

T Naous, M Itani, M Awad, S Sharafeddine - IEEE Access, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Non terrestrial networks (NTN) involving 'in the sky'objects such as low-earth orbit satellites,
high altitude platform systems (HAPs) and Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) are expected …

Intelligent and robust UAV-aided multiuser RIS communication technique with jittering UAV and imperfect hardware constraints

ABM Adam, X Wan, MAM Elhassan… - IEEE Transactions …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this paper, we investigate unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV)-aided multiuser reconfigurable
intelligent surface (RIS) communication for next generation communication networks. We …

RIS selection scheme for UAV-based multi-RIS-aided multiuser downlink network with imperfect and outdated CSI

A Bansal, N Agrawal, K Singh, CP Li… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this paper, we explore the use of reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS) in unmanned
aerial vehicle (UAV) based multiuser downlink communications, where a flying UAV serves …

RIS-Empowered Satellite-Aerial-Terrestrial Networks With PD-NOMA

R Liu, K Guo, X Li, K Dev, SA Khowaja… - … Surveys & Tutorials, 2024 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Satellite-aerial-terrestrial network (SATN) is considered as a promising architecture for sixth-
generation (6G) wireless communication networks to achieve seamless coverage, flexible …

A survey on intelligent-reflecting-surface-assisted UAV communications

KW Park, HM Kim, OS Shin - Energies, 2022 - mdpi.com
Both the unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) and intelligent reflecting surface (IRS) are attracting
growing attention as enabling technologies for future wireless networks. In particular, IRS …

Deep reinforcement learning based energy consumption minimization for intelligent reflecting surfaces assisted D2D users underlaying UAV network

V Vishnoi, P Consul, I Budhiraja… - IEEE INFOCOM 2023 …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Device-to-device communication (D2D-C) is a leading-edge technique in 5G and
forthcoming 6G networks due to its benefits for enhanced spectrum efficiency and energy …

RIS-aided 6G communication system with accurate traceable user mobility

P Zhang, J Zhang, H Xiao, H Du… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS) can effectively improve the performance of 6G
communication systems by providing additional LoS paths. Although the beam alignment is …