Intelligent surfaces (ISs) have emerged as a key technology to empower a wide range of
appealing applications for wireless networks, due to their low cost, high energy efficiency …

In recent years there has been a growing interest in reconfigurable intelligent surfaces
(RISs) as enablers for the realization of smart radio propagation environments which can …

The Sixth Generation (6G) Wireless Communication Network (WCN) is the successive
provision to ameliorate the gain with ultra-low latency, and e xtremely high energy efficiency …

Artificial noise elimination (ANE) has arisen as a promising strategy to counteract artificial
noise (AN) at the eavesdropper (Eve). However, conventional ANE schemes rely on the …

This paper discusses how to optimize the phase shifts of intelligent reflecting surface (IRS) to
combat channel fading without any channel state information (CSI), namely blind …

The reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS) has become a promising technology for
enhancing the communication and sensing systems with low complexity and energy …

Intelligent reflecting surface (IRS) can be densely deployed in complex environments to
create cascaded line-of-sight (LoS) links between base stations (BSs) and users, which …

Conventional beamforming methods for intelligent reflecting surfaces (IRSs) typically entail
the full channel state information (CSI). However, channel acquisition is costly when IRSs …

In today's world, staying connected is more important than ever, but achieving reliable
wireless communication everywhere can be a challenge. This dissertation introduces a …

Figure: A panoramic view of the field test site. The base station is located on a 20-meter-high
terrace while the user terminal is located inside an underground parking lot. The IRS is …