A survey of beam management for mmWave and THz communications towards 6G

Q Xue, C Ji, S Ma, J Guo, Y Xu… - … Surveys & Tutorials, 2024 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Communication in millimeter wave (mmWave) and even terahertz (THz) frequency bands is
ushering in a new era of wireless communications. Beam management, namely initial …

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 …

Intelligent omni-surfaces: Ubiquitous wireless transmission by reflective-refractive metasurfaces

S Zhang, H Zhang, B Di, Y Tan… - IEEE Transactions …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Intelligent reflecting surfaces (IRSs), which are capable of adjusting radio propagation
conditions by controlling the phase shifts of the waves that impinge on the surface, have …

Security and privacy for reconfigurable intelligent surface in 6G: A review of prospective applications and challenges

F Naeem, M Ali, G Kaddoum, C Huang… - IEEE Open Journal of …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
While sixth-generation (6G) wireless systems are expected to bring about an explosion of
accessible user information and novel technologies, along with new threats to terrestrial and …

A survey on model-based, heuristic, and machine learning optimization approaches in RIS-aided wireless networks

H Zhou, M Erol-Kantarci, Y Liu… - … Surveys & Tutorials, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RISs) have received considerable attention as a key
enabler for envisioned 6G networks, for the purpose of improving the network capacity …

Edge-native intelligence for 6G communications driven by federated learning: A survey of trends and challenges

M Al-Quraan, L Mohjazi, L Bariah… - … on Emerging Topics …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
New technological advancements in wireless networks have enlarged the number of
connected devices. The unprecedented surge of data volume in wireless systems …

Machine learning approaches for reconfigurable intelligent surfaces: A survey

KM Faisal, W Choi - IEEE Access, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Next-generation wireless networks must handle a growing density of mobile users while
accommodating a rapid increase in mobile data traffic flow and a wide variety of services …

RIS-aided physical layer security with full-duplex jamming in underlay D2D networks

W Khalid, H Yu, DT Do, Z Kaleem, S Noh - IEEE Access, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper investigates the physical layer security and data transmission for the underlay
device-to-device (D2D) networks, and considers a combination of the reconfigurable …

Distributed learning for wireless communications: Methods, applications and challenges

L Qian, P Yang, M Xiao, OA Dobre… - IEEE Journal of …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
With its privacy-preserving and decentralized features, distributed learning plays an
irreplaceable role in the era of wireless networks with a plethora of smart terminals, an …

Initial access & beam alignment for mmWave and terahertz communications

W Attaoui, K Bouraqia, E Sabir - IEEE Access, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The initial access in Millimeter wave (mmWave) 5G communications is very challenging and
time consuming. In general, mmWave and terahertz communications require the use of …