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 …

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 …

Simultaneously transmitting and reflecting (STAR) RIS aided wireless communications

X Mu, Y Liu, L Guo, J Lin… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The novel concept of simultaneously transmitting and reflecting (STAR) reconfigurable
intelligent surfaces (RISs) is investigated, where the incident wireless signal is divided into …

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 for full-dimensional wireless communications: Principles, technology, and implementation

H Zhang, S Zeng, B Di, Y Tan… - IEEE …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The recent development of metasurfaces has motivated their potential use for improving the
performance of wireless communication networks by manipulating the propagation …

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 …

Beyond cell-free MIMO: Energy efficient reconfigurable intelligent surface aided cell-free MIMO communications

Y Zhang, B Di, H Zhang, J Lin, C Xu… - IEEE Transactions …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Cell-free systems can effectively eliminate the inter-cell interference by enabling multiple
base stations (BSs) to cooperatively serve users without cell boundaries at the expense of …

Reconfigurable intelligent surfaces in 6G: Reflective, transmissive, or both?

S Zeng, H Zhang, B Di, Y Tan, Z Han… - IEEE …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RISs) have attracted wide interest from industry and
academia since they can shape the wireless environment into a desirable form at low cost …

Reconfigurable intelligent surface assisted device-to-device communications

Y Chen, B Ai, H Zhang, Y Niu, L Song… - IEEE Transactions …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
With the evolution of 5G, 6G and beyond, device-to-device (D2D) communications have
been developed as an energy-, and spectrum-efficient solution. However, D2D links are …

Simultaneous transmission and reflection reconfigurable intelligent surface assisted secrecy MISO networks

H Niu, Z Chu, F Zhou, Z Zhu - IEEE communications letters, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This work exploits the potential of a novel simultaneous transmission and reflection
reconfigurable intelligent surface (STAR-RIS) in improving the security in a multiple-input …