An overview of signal processing techniques for RIS/IRS-aided wireless systems

C Pan, G Zhou, K Zhi, S Hong, T Wu… - IEEE Journal of …, 2022‏ - ieeexplore.ieee.org
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 …

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 …

What will the future of UAV cellular communications be? A flight from 5G to 6G

G Geraci, A Garcia-Rodriguez, MM Azari… - … surveys & tutorials, 2022‏ - ieeexplore.ieee.org
What will the future of UAV cellular communications be? In this tutorial article, we address
such a compelling yet difficult question by embarking on a journey from 5G to 6G and …

Beam focusing for near-field multiuser MIMO communications

H Zhang, N Shlezinger, F Guidi… - IEEE Transactions …, 2022‏ - ieeexplore.ieee.org
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 …

Communication models for reconfigurable intelligent surfaces: From surface electromagnetics to wireless networks optimization

M Di Renzo, FH Danufane… - Proceedings of the …, 2022‏ - ieeexplore.ieee.org
A reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS) is a planar structure that is engineered to
dynamically control the electromagnetic waves. In wireless communications, RISs have …

Path loss modeling and measurements for reconfigurable intelligent surfaces in the millimeter-wave frequency band

W Tang, X Chen, MZ Chen, JY Dai… - IEEE Transactions …, 2022‏ - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RISs) provide an interface between the electromagnetic
world of wireless propagation environments and the digital world of information science …

A universal framework for multiport network analysis of reconfigurable intelligent surfaces

M Nerini, S Shen, H Li, M Di Renzo… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2024‏ - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS) is an emerging paradigm able to control the
propagation environment in wireless systems. Most of the research on RIS has been …

Reconfigurable intelligent surfaces for smart wireless environments: channel estimation, system design and applications in 6G networks

YC Liang, J Chen, R Long, ZQ He, X Lin… - Science China …, 2021‏ - Springer
Reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS), one of the key enablers for the sixth-generation
(6G) mobile communication networks, is considered by designers to smartly reconfigure the …

Interference nulling using reconfigurable intelligent surface

T Jiang, W Yu - IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in …, 2022‏ - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper investigates the interference nulling capability of reconfigurable intelligent
surface (RIS) in a multiuser environment where multiple single-antenna transceivers …

Design of reconfigurable intelligent surfaces by using s-parameter multiport network theory–optimization and full-wave validation

A Abrardo, A Toccafondi… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2024‏ - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Multiport network theory has been proved to be a suitable abstraction model for analyzing
and optimizing reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RISs) in an electromagnetically …