[HTML][HTML] Smart radio environments empowered by reconfigurable AI meta-surfaces: An idea whose time has come

MD Renzo, M Debbah, DT Phan-Huy… - EURASIP Journal on …, 2019 - Springer
Future wireless networks are expected to constitute a distributed intelligent wireless
communications, sensing, and computing platform, which will have the challenging …

5G networks towards smart and sustainable cities: A review of recent developments, applications and future perspectives

MJ Shehab, I Kassem, AA Kutty, M Kucukvar… - IEEE …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
5G wireless communication systems provide massive system capacity with high data rates,
very short low-latency, and ultra-high reliability, in addition to high connection density with a …

A prototype of reconfigurable intelligent surface with continuous control of the reflection phase

R Fara, P Ratajczak, DT Phan-Huy… - IEEE Wireless …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
With the development of the next generation of mobile networks, new research challenges
have emerged, and new technologies have been proposed to face them. On one hand, the …

Wireless 2.0: Toward an intelligent radio environment empowered by reconfigurable meta-surfaces and artificial intelligence

H Gacanin, M Di Renzo - IEEE Vehicular Technology …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this article, we introduce Wireless 2.0, the future generation of wireless communication
networks, in which the radio environment becomes controllable and intelligent by leveraging …

Reconfigurable intelligent surface-assisted ambient backscatter communications–experimental assessment

R Fara, DT Phan-Huy, P Ratajczak… - 2021 IEEE …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Sixth generation (6G) mobile networks may include new passive technologies, such as
ambient backscatter communication or the use of reconfigurable intelligent surfaces, to …

Trading off delay and energy saving through Advanced Sleep Modes in 5G RANs

D Renga, Z Umar, M Meo - IEEE Transactions on Wireless …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
While designed for being energy efficient, the deployment of 5G networks will further
increase Radio Access Networks (RANs) energy consumption with the twofold effect to raise …

Ambient backscatter communications in mobile networks: Crowd-detectable zero-energy-devices

DT Phan-Huy, D Barthel, P Ratajczak… - IEEE Journal of …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this paper, we introduce the new concept of Crowd-Detectable Zero-Energy-Devices.
Such devices harvest solar or ambient light energy to power themselves, backscatter …

Base Station switching and edge caching optimisation in high energy-efficiency wireless access network

G Vallero, M Deruyck, M Meo, W Joseph - Computer Networks, 2021 - Elsevier
The improvement of the energy efficiency and the reduction of the latency are two of the
main goals of the next generation of Radio Access Networks (RANs). In order to achieve the …

Design of intelligent reflecting surface (IRS)-boosted ambient backscatter systems

S Idrees, X Jia, S Durrani, X Zhou - IEEE Access, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Passive technologies like ambient backscatter communication (AmBC) and intelligent
reflecting surface (IRS) hold enormous potential for ubiquitous connectivity of Internet of …

Deep learning based passive beamforming for IRS-assisted monostatic backscatter systems

S Idrees, X Jia, S Khan, S Durrani… - ICASSP 2022-2022 …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Intelligent reflecting surfaces (IRS) can improve the performance of backscatter
communication systems by employing reconfigurable phase shifts (or passive beamforming) …