In the past as well as present wireless communication systems, the wireless propagation
environment is regarded as an uncontrollable black box that impairs the received signal …

This paper presents a literature review on recent applications and design aspects of the
intelligent reflecting surface (IRS) in the future wireless networks. Conventionally, the …

As a revolutionary paradigm for controlling wireless channels, reconfigurable intelligent
surfaces (RISs) have emerged as a candidate technology for future 6G networks. However …

Reconfigurable Intelligent Surface (RIS) is a promising solution to reconfigure the wireless
environment in a controllable way. To compensate for the double-fading attenuation in the …

The concept of reconfiguring wireless propagation environments using intelligent reflecting
surfaces (IRS) s has recently emerged, where an IRS comprises of a large number of …

Large antenna arrays and high-frequency bands are two key features of future wireless
communication systems. The combination of large-scale antennas with high transmission …

The emergence of reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RISs) enables us to establish
programmable radio wave propagation that caters for wireless communications, via …

Channel estimation is one of the main tasks in realizing practical intelligent reflecting surface-
assisted multi-user communication (IRS-MUC) systems. However, different from traditional …

Channel acquisition is one of the main challenges for the deployment of reconfigurable
intelligent surface (RIS) aided communication systems. This is because an RIS has a large …

Reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS) is a revolutionary technology to achieve spectrum-,
energy-, and cost-efficient wireless networks. This paper considers an RIS-assisted …