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 …

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 …

Reconfigurable intelligent surfaces: Channel characterization and modeling

J Huang, CX Wang, Y Sun, R Feng… - Proceedings of the …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RISs) are 2-D metasurfaces, which can intelligently
manipulate electromagnetic waves by low-cost near passive reflecting elements. RIS is …

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 …

Reconfigurable intelligent surfaces in challenging environments: Underwater, underground, industrial and disaster

S Kisseleff, S Chatzinotas, B Ottersten - IEEE Access, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Challenging environments comprise a range of scenarios, which share the fact that it is
extremely difficult to establish a communication link using conventional technology due to …

Wireless energy harvesting for autonomous reconfigurable intelligent surfaces

K Ntontin, AAA Boulogeorgos… - IEEE Transactions …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In the current contribution, we examine the feasibility of fully-energy-autonomous operation
of reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RIS) through wireless energy harvesting (EH) from …

Perpetual reconfigurable intelligent surfaces through in-band energy harvesting: Architectures, protocols, and challenges

K Ntontin, AAA Boulogeorgos, S Abadal… - IEEE Vehicular …, 2024 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RISs) are considered a key enabler of highly energy-
efficient 6G and beyond networks. This property arises from the absence of power amplifiers …

[PDF][PDF] Intelligent Reflecting Surface (IRS) assisted mmWave Wireless Communication Systems: A Survey.

S Nandan, MA Rahiman - J. Commun., 2022 - jocm.us
Intelligent Reflecting Surface (IRS) is a promising technology for enhancing the coverage of
millimeter wave (mmWave) based future wireless communication systems. Severe path loss …

A joint model extraction and data detection framework for IRS-NOMA system

Z Yang, F Li, D Zhang - IEEE Transactions on Signal …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper addresses the problem of data detection for intelligent reflecting surface (IRS)
assisted non-orthogonal multiple access (NOMA) systems. Also, the phase noise, analog-to …

A survey on optimal channel estimation methods for RIS-aided communication systems

SF Drampalou, NI Miridakis, HC Leligou, PA Karkazis - Signals, 2023 - mdpi.com
Next-generation wireless communications aim to utilize mmWave/subTHz bands. In this
regime, signal propagation is vulnerable to interferences and path losses. To overcome this …