A survey on channel estimation and practical passive beamforming design for intelligent reflecting surface aided wireless communications

B Zheng, C You, W Mei, R Zhang - … Communications Surveys & …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Intelligent reflecting surface (IRS) has emerged as a key enabling technology to realize
smart and reconfigurable radio environment for wireless communications, by digitally …

Intelligent reflecting surface-aided wireless communications: A tutorial

Q Wu, S Zhang, B Zheng, C You… - IEEE transactions on …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
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 …

Smart radio environments empowered by reconfigurable intelligent surfaces: How it works, state of research, and the road ahead

M Di Renzo, A Zappone, M Debbah… - IEEE journal on …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RISs) are an emerging transmission technology for
application to wireless communications. RISs can be realized in different ways, which …

Channel estimation with reconfigurable intelligent surfaces—A general framework

AL Swindlehurst, G Zhou, R Liu, C Pan… - Proceedings of the …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Optimally extracting the advantages available from reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RISs)
in wireless communications systems requires estimation of the channels to and from the RIS …

Physics-based modeling and scalable optimization of large intelligent reflecting surfaces

M Najafi, V Jamali, R Schober… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Intelligent reflecting surfaces (IRSs) have the potential to transform wireless communication
channels into smart reconfigurable propagation environments. To realize this new paradigm …

Terahertz massive MIMO with holographic reconfigurable intelligent surfaces

Z Wan, Z Gao, F Gao, M Di Renzo… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
We propose a holographic version of a reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS) and
investigate its application to terahertz (THz) massive multiple-input multiple-output systems …

Two-timescale channel estimation for reconfigurable intelligent surface aided wireless communications

C Hu, L Dai, S Han, X Wang - IEEE Transactions on …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Channel estimation is challenging for the reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS)-aided
wireless communications. Since the number of coefficients of the cascaded channel among …

Intelligent reflecting surface-aided wireless networks: From single-reflection to multireflection design and optimization

W Mei, B Zheng, C You, R Zhang - Proceedings of the IEEE, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Intelligent reflecting surface (IRS) has emerged as a promising technique for wireless
communication networks. By dynamically tuning the reflection amplitudes/phase shifts of a …

From 5G to 6G—challenges, technologies, and applications

AI Salameh, M El Tarhuni - Future Internet, 2022 - mdpi.com
As the deployment of 5G mobile radio networks gains momentum across the globe, the
wireless research community is already planning the successor of 5G. In this paper, we …

On the performance of IRS-assisted multi-layer UAV communications with imperfect phase compensation

M Al-Jarrah, A Al-Dweik, E Alsusa… - IEEE Transactions …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This work presents the symbol error rate (SER) and outage probability analysis of multi-layer
unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) wireless communications assisted by intelligent reflecting …