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 …

Five facets of 6G: Research challenges and opportunities

LH Shen, KT Feng, L Hanzo - ACM Computing Surveys, 2023 - dl.acm.org
While the fifth-generation systems are being rolled out across the globe, researchers have
turned their attention to the exploration of radical next-generation solutions. At this early …

Evolution of NOMA toward next generation multiple access (NGMA) for 6G

Y Liu, S Zhang, X Mu, Z Ding, R Schober… - IEEE Journal on …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Due to the explosive growth in the number of wireless devices and diverse wireless
services, such as virtual/augmented reality and Internet-of-Everything, next generation …

STAR: Simultaneous transmission and reflection for 360° coverage by intelligent surfaces

Y Liu, X Mu, J Xu, R Schober, Y Hao… - IEEE Wireless …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
A novel simultaneous transmitting and reflecting (STAR) system design relying on
reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RISs) is conceived. First, an existing prototype is …

Intelligent omni-surfaces: Simultaneous refraction and reflection for full-dimensional wireless communications

H Zhang, B Di - IEEE Communications Surveys & Tutorials, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The development of metasurfaces has unlocked various use cases in wireless
communication networks to improve performance by manipulating the propagation …

Design and evaluation of reconfigurable intelligent surfaces in real-world environment

GC Trichopoulos, P Theofanopoulos… - IEEE Open Journal …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RISs) have promising coverage and data-rate gains for
wireless communication systems in 5G and beyond. Prior work has mainly focused on …

Reconfigurable intelligent surfaces: Channel characterization and modeling

J Huang, CX Wang, Y Sun, R Feng… - Proceedings of the …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RISs) are 2-D metasurfaces, which can intelligently
manipulate electromagnetic waves by low-cost near passive reflecting elements. RIS is …

A survey on STAR-RIS: Use cases, recent advances, and future research challenges

M Ahmed, A Wahid, SS Laique… - IEEE Internet of …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The recent development of metasurfaces, which may enable several use cases by modifying
the propagation environment, is anticipated to substantially affect the performance of sixth …

STARS enabled integrated sensing and communications

Z Wang, X Mu, Y Liu - IEEE Transactions on Wireless …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
A simultaneously transmitting and reflecting surface (STARS) enabled integrated sensing
and communications (ISAC) framework is proposed, where the entire space is partitioned by …

Simultaneously transmitting and reflecting reconfigurable intelligent surface assisted NOMA networks

X Yue, J Xie, Y Liu, Z Han, R Liu… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Simultaneously transmitting/refracting and reflecting reconfigurable intelligent surface
(STAR-RIS) has been introduced to achieve full coverage area. This paper investigate the …