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 …

The next wave of wireless technologies is proliferating in connecting things among
themselves as well as to humans. In the era of the Internet of Things (IoT), billions of …

Reconfigurable Intelligent Surface (RIS) is a promising solution to reconfigure the wireless
environment in a controllable way. To compensate for the double-fading attenuation in the …

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 (RISs) are an emerging transmission technology for
application to wireless communications. RISs can be realized in different ways, which …

Future wireless networks are expected to evolve toward an intelligent and software
reconfigurable paradigm enabling ubiquitous communications between humans and mobile …

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 …

The future of mobile communications looks exciting with the potential new use cases and
challenging requirements of future 6th generation (6G) and beyond wireless networks. Since …

Various visions of the forthcoming sixth generation (6G) networks point toward flexible
connect-and-compute technologies to support future innovative services and the …

Intelligent reflecting surface (IRS) is a cost-effective solution for achieving high spectrum and
energy efficiency in future wireless networks by leveraging massive low-cost passive …