The commercial fifth-generation (5G) wireless communications networks have already been
deployed with the aim of providing high data rates. However, the rapid growth in the number …

Intelligent reflecting surface (IRS) is a promising technology for achieving spectrum and
energy-efficient wireless networks cost-effectively. Most existing works on IRS have focused …

An intelligent reflecting surface (IRS) is invoked for enhancing the energy harvesting
performance of a simultaneous wireless information and power transfer (SWIPT) aided …

Intelligent reflecting surface (IRS) is envisioned to have abundant applications in future
wireless networks by smartly reconfiguring the signal propagation for performance …

Driven by the rapid escalation of the wireless capacity requirements imposed by advanced
multimedia applications (eg, ultrahigh-definition video, virtual reality, etc.), as well as the …

Non-orthogonal multiple access (NOMA) is an essential enabling technology for the fifth-
generation (5G) wireless networks to meet the heterogeneous demands on low latency, high …

Abstract Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) have received a wide range of attention for
military and commercial applications. Enhanced with communication capability, UAVs are …

Radio waves carry both energy and information simultaneously. Nevertheless, radio-
frequency (RF) transmissions of these quantities have traditionally been treated separately …

Initial efforts on wireless power transfer (WPT) have concentrated toward long-distance
transmission and high power applications. Nonetheless, the lower achievable transmission …

Finite battery lifetime and low computing capability of size-constrained wireless devices
(WDs) have been longstanding performance limitations of many low-power wireless …