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 …

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 …

Pervasive machine learning for smart radio environments enabled by reconfigurable intelligent surfaces

GC Alexandropoulos, K Stylianopoulos… - Proceedings of the …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The emerging technology of reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RISs) is provisioned as an
enabler of smart wireless environments, offering a highly scalable, low-cost, hardware …

Joint design of hybrid beamforming and reflection coefficients in RIS-aided mmWave MIMO systems

R Li, B Guo, M Tao, YF Liu, W Yu - IEEE Transactions on …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper considers a reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS)-aided millimeter wave
(mmWave) downlink communication system where hybrid analog-digital beamforming is …

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 …

[HTML][HTML] Satellite-based communications security: A survey of threats, solutions, and research challenges

P Tedeschi, S Sciancalepore, R Di Pietro - Computer Networks, 2022 - Elsevier
Satellite-based Communication (SATCOM) systems are gaining renewed momentum in
Industry and Academia, thanks to innovative services introduced by leading tech companies …

UAV-assisted RIS for future wireless communications: A survey on optimization and performance analysis

AC Pogaku, DT Do, BM Lee, ND Nguyen - IEEE Access, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RIS), a device made of low-cost meta-surfaces that can
reflect or refract the signals in the desired manner, have the immense ability to enhance the …

Towards intelligent reflecting surface empowered 6G terahertz communications: A survey

Z Chen, X Ma, C Han, Q Wen - China Communications, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Terahertz (THz) communications have been widely envisioned as a promising enabler to
provide adequate bandwidth and achieve ultra-high data rates for sixth generation (6G) …

RIS-assisted physical layer security in emerging RF and optical wireless communication systems: A comprehensive survey

MH Khoshafa, O Maraqa, JM Moualeu… - … Surveys & Tutorials, 2024 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Security and latency are crucial aspects in the design of future wireless networks. Physical
layer security (PLS) has received a growing interest from the research community in recent …