Towards autonomous multi-UAV wireless network: A survey of reinforcement learning-based approaches

Y Bai, H Zhao, X Zhang, Z Chang… - … Surveys & Tutorials, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV)-based wireless networks have received increasing
research interest in recent years and are gradually being utilized in various aspects of our …

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 …

Online edge learning offloading and resource management for UAV-assisted MEC secure communications

Y Ding, Y Feng, W Lu, S Zheng, N Zhao… - IEEE Journal of …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The mobile and flexible unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) with mobile edge computing (MEC)
can effectively relieve the computing pressure of the massive data traffic in 5G Internet of …

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 …

RIS-assisted UAV communications for IoT with wireless power transfer using deep reinforcement learning

KK Nguyen, A Masaracchia, V Sharma… - IEEE Journal of …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Many of the devices used in Internet-of-Things (IoT) applications are energy-limited, and
thus supplying energy while maintaining seamless connectivity for IoT devices is of …

Nonterrestrial communications assisted by reconfigurable intelligent surfaces

J Ye, J Qiao, A Kammoun… - Proceedings of the IEEE, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Nonterrestrial communications have emerged as a key enabler for seamless connectivity in
the upcoming generation networks. This kind of network can support high data rate …

[HTML][HTML] Intelligent reflecting surfaces assisted UAV communications for massive networks: current trends, challenges, and research directions

SAH Mohsan, MA Khan, MH Alsharif, P Uthansakul… - Sensors, 2022 - mdpi.com
An intelligent reflecting surface (IRS) can intelligently configure wavefronts such as
amplitude, frequency, phase, and even polarization through passive reflections and without …

Rate-splitting multiple access for UAV-based RIS-enabled interference-limited vehicular communication system

A Bansal, N Agrawal, K Singh - IEEE Transactions on Intelligent …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Rate-splitting multiple access (RSMA) has emerged as a novel generalized multiple access
technology which can control the interference in multi-user communication systems …

Energy harvesting reconfigurable intelligent surface for UAV based on robust deep reinforcement learning

H Peng, LC Wang - IEEE Transactions on Wireless …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Integrating unmanned aerial vehicles with RIS (UAV–RIS) can offer ubiquitous deployment
services in communication-disabled areas, but is limited by the on-board energy of the …

Outage performance analysis of RIS-assisted UAV wireless systems under disorientation and misalignment

AAA Boulogeorgos, A Alexiou… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this paper, we analyze the performance of a reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS)-
assisted unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) wireless system that is affected by mixture-gamma …