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 …

A survey on channel estimation and practical passive beamforming design for intelligent reflecting surface aided wireless communications

B Zheng, C You, W Mei, R Zhang - … Communications Surveys & …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Intelligent reflecting surface (IRS) has emerged as a key enabling technology to realize
smart and reconfigurable radio environment for wireless communications, by digitally …

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 …

Robust max-min energy efficiency for RIS-aided HetNets with distortion noises

Y Xu, H Xie, Q Wu, C Huang… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The energy efficiency (EE) of femtocells is always limited by the surrounding radio
environments in heterogeneous networks (HetNets), such as walls and obstacles. In this …

A state-of-the-art survey on reconfigurable intelligent surface-assisted non-orthogonal multiple access networks

Z Ding, L Lv, F Fang, OA Dobre… - Proceedings of the …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RISs) and nonorthogonal multiple access (NOMA) have
been recognized as key enabling techniques for the envisioned sixth generation (6G) of …

Joint design for simultaneously transmitting and reflecting (STAR) RIS assisted NOMA systems

J Zuo, Y Liu, Z Ding, L Song… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Different from traditional reflection-only reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RISs),
simultaneously transmitting and reflecting RISs (STAR-RISs) represent a novel technology …

NOMA and 5G emerging technologies: A survey on issues and solution techniques

A Akbar, S Jangsher, FA Bhatti - Computer Networks, 2021 - Elsevier
Abstract Power Domain Non-Orthogonal Multiple Access (PD-NOMA) is a potential
technology for the next generation of cellular networks. Compared to classical orthogonal …

On the secrecy design of STAR-RIS assisted uplink NOMA networks

Z Zhang, J Chen, Y Liu, Q Wu, B He… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper investigates the secure transmission in a simultaneously transmitting and
reflecting reconfigurable intelligent surface (STAR-RIS) assisted uplink non-orthogonal …

Artificial noise aided secure NOMA communications in STAR-RIS networks

Y Han, N Li, Y Liu, T Zhang… - IEEE Wireless …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Combination of simultaneous transmitting and reflecting reconfigurable intelligent surface
(STAR-RIS) and non-orthogonal multiple access (NOMA) is a win-win strategy which can …