Reconfigurable intelligent surfaces for wireless communications: Principles, challenges, and opportunities

MA ElMossallamy, H Zhang, L Song… - IEEE Transactions …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Recently there has been a flurry of research on the use of reconfigurable intelligent surfaces
(RIS) in wireless networks to create smart radio environments. In a smart radio environment …

Toward smart wireless communications via intelligent reflecting surfaces: A contemporary survey

S Gong, X Lu, DT Hoang, D Niyato… - … Surveys & Tutorials, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
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 …

Simultaneously transmitting and reflecting (STAR) RIS aided wireless communications

X Mu, Y Liu, L Guo, J Lin… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The novel concept of simultaneously transmitting and reflecting (STAR) reconfigurable
intelligent surfaces (RISs) is investigated, where the incident wireless signal is divided into …

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 …

Digital twin of wireless systems: Overview, taxonomy, challenges, and opportunities

LU Khan, Z Han, W Saad, E Hossain… - … Surveys & Tutorials, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Future wireless services will focus on improving the quality of life by enabling various
applications, such as extended reality, brain-computer interaction, and healthcare. These …

Wireless communications through reconfigurable intelligent surfaces

E Basar, M Di Renzo, J De Rosny, M Debbah… - IEEE …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The future of mobile communications looks exciting with the potential new use cases and
challenging requirements of future 6th generation (6G) and beyond wireless networks. Since …

Robust and secure wireless communications via intelligent reflecting surfaces

X Yu, D Xu, Y Sun, DWK Ng… - IEEE Journal on Selected …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this paper, intelligent reflecting surfaces (IRSs) are employed to enhance the physical
layer security in a challenging radio environment. In particular, a multi-antenna access point …

Beamforming optimization for wireless network aided by intelligent reflecting surface with discrete phase shifts

Q Wu, R Zhang - IEEE Transactions on Communications, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Intelligent reflecting surface (IRS) is a cost-effective solution for achieving high spectrum and
energy efficiency in future wireless networks by leveraging massive low-cost passive …

An optimal channel estimation scheme for intelligent reflecting surfaces based on a minimum variance unbiased estimator

TL Jensen, E De Carvalho - ICASSP 2020-2020 IEEE …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In a wireless system with Intelligent Reflective Surfaces (IRS) containing many passive
elements, we consider the problem of channel estimation. All the links from the transmitter to …

Reconfigurable-intelligent-surface empowered wireless communications: Challenges and opportunities

X Yuan, YJA Zhang, Y Shi, W Yan… - IEEE wireless …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RISs) are regarded as a promising emerging hardware
technology to improve the spectrum and energy efficiency of wireless networks by artificially …