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 …

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 …

STAR-RIS-NOMA networks: An error performance perspective

M Aldababsa, A Khaleel, E Basar - IEEE Communications …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This letter investigates the bit error rate (BER) performance of simultaneous transmitting and
reflecting reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (STAR-RISs) in non-orthogonal multiple access …

STAR-RIS-enabled secure dual-functional radar-communications: Joint waveform and reflective beamforming optimization

C Wang, CC Wang, Z Li, DWK Ng… - IEEE Transactions …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Considering a simultaneously transmitting and reflecting reconfigurable intelligent surfaces
(STAR-RIS)-aided dual-functional radar-communications (DFRC) system, this paper …

Reconfigurable intelligent surfaces for wireless communications: Overview of hardware designs, channel models, and estimation techniques

M Jian, GC Alexandropoulos, E Basar… - Intelligent and …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The demanding objectives for the future sixth generation (6G) of wireless communication
networks have spurred recent research efforts on novel materials and radio-frequency front …

Simultaneously transmitting and reflecting surface (STARS) for terahertz communications

Z Wang, X Mu, J Xu, Y Liu - IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
A simultaneously transmitting and reflecting surface (STARS) aided terahertz (THz)
communication system is proposed. A novel power consumption model is proposed that …

Coupled phase-shift STAR-RISs: A general optimization framework

Z Wang, X Mu, Y Liu, R Schober - IEEE Wireless …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
A general optimization framework is proposed for simultaneously transmitting and reflecting
reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (STAR-RISs) with coupled phase shifts, which converges …

Active simultaneously transmitting and reflecting (STAR)-RISs: Modeling and analysis

J Xu, J Zuo, JT Zhou, Y Liu - IEEE Communications Letters, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
A hardware model for active simultaneously transmitting and reflecting reconfigurable
intelligent surfaces (STAR-RISs) is proposed consisting of reflection-type amplifiers. The …

Exploiting STAR-RISs in near-field communications

J Xu, X Mu, Y Liu - IEEE Transactions on Wireless …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS) is a promising technology to provide smart radio
environment. In contrast to the well-studied patch-array-based RISs, this work focuses on the …