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 …

Space-air-ground integrated network: A survey

J Liu, Y Shi, ZM Fadlullah, N Kato - … Communications Surveys & …, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Space-air-ground integrated network (SAGIN), as an integration of satellite systems, aerial
networks, and terrestrial communications, has been becoming an emerging architecture and …

A contemporary survey on free space optical communication: Potentials, technical challenges, recent advances and research direction

A Jahid, MH Alsharif, TJ Hall - Journal of network and computer …, 2022 - Elsevier
Due to the unprecedented growth of high speed multimedia services and diversified
applications initiated from the massive connectivity of IoT devices, 5G and beyond 5G (B5G) …

Millimeter-wave massive MIMO communication for future wireless systems: A survey

SA Busari, KMS Huq, S Mumtaz, L Dai… - … Surveys & Tutorials, 2017 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Several enabling technologies are being explored for the fifth-generation (5G) mobile
system era. The aim is to evolve a cellular network that remarkably pushes forward the limits …

A comparative survey of optical wireless technologies: Architectures and applications

MZ Chowdhury, MT Hossan, A Islam, YM Jang - ieee Access, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
New high-data-rate multimedia services and applications are evolving continuously and
exponentially increasing the demand for wireless capacity of fifth-generation (5G) and …

5G D2D networks: Techniques, challenges, and future prospects

RI Ansari, C Chrysostomou, SA Hassan… - IEEE Systems …, 2017 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The increasing number of mobile users has given impetus to the demand for high data rate
proximity services. The fifth-generation (5G) wireless systems promise to improve the …

The role of optical wireless communication technologies in 5G/6G and IoT solutions: Prospects, directions, and challenges

MZ Chowdhury, M Shahjalal, MK Hasan, YM Jang - Applied Sciences, 2019 - mdpi.com
Featured Application Future 5G, 6G, and IoT. Abstract The upcoming fifth-and sixth-
generation (5G and 6G, respectively) communication systems are expected to deal with …

Security and privacy for reconfigurable intelligent surface in 6G: A review of prospective applications and challenges

F Naeem, M Ali, G Kaddoum, C Huang… - IEEE Open Journal of …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
While sixth-generation (6G) wireless systems are expected to bring about an explosion of
accessible user information and novel technologies, along with new threats to terrestrial and …

Device-to-device relaying: Optimization, performance perspectives, and open challenges towards 6G networks

P Mach, Z Becvar - IEEE Communications Surveys & Tutorials, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
A relaying can significantly improve performance of contemporary mobile networks in terms
of capacity and/or energy consumption. Nevertheless, an incorporation of conventional relay …

Security and privacy in device-to-device (D2D) communication: A review

M Haus, M Waqas, AY Ding, Y Li… - … Surveys & Tutorials, 2017 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Device-to-device (D2D) communication presents a new paradigm in mobile networking to
facilitate data exchange between physically proximate devices. The development of D2D is …