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 an enabling technology to engineer the radio signal
propagation in wireless networks. By smartly tuning the signal reflection via a large number …

The novel concept of simultaneously transmitting and reflecting (STAR) reconfigurable
intelligent surfaces (RISs) is investigated, where the incident wireless signal is divided into …

Despite the wide utilization of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), UAV communications are
susceptible to eavesdropping due to air-ground line-of-sight channels. Intelligent reflecting …

Reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RISs), also known as intelligent reflecting surfaces
(IRSs), or large intelligent surfaces (LISs), 1 have received significant attention for their …

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

Thanks to their flexibility and mobility, unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) have been widely
applied in wireless networks. However, UAV communications may suffer from blockage and …

What will the future of UAV cellular communications be? In this tutorial article, we address
such a compelling yet difficult question by embarking on a journey from 5G to 6G and …

Due to the advancements in cellular technologies and the dense deployment of cellular
infrastructure, integrating unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) into the fifth-generation (5G) and …

Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) have found widespread commercial, civilian, and military
applications. Wireless communication has always been one of the core technologies for …