6G Communication New Paradigm: The Integration of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles and Intelligent Reflecting Surfaces

Z Ning, T Li, Y Wu, X Wang, Q Wu… - … Surveys & Tutorials, 2025 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
With the continuous development of Intelligent Reflecting Surfaces (IRSs) and Unmanned
Aerial Vehicles (UAVs), their combination has become foundational technologies to …

Intelligent-reflecting-surface-assisted UAV communications for 6G networks

Z Ning, T Li, Y Wu, X Wang, Q Wu, FR Yu… - arxiv preprint arxiv …, 2023 - arxiv.org
In 6th-Generation (6G) mobile networks, Intelligent Reflective Surfaces (IRSs) and
Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) have emerged as promising technologies to address the …

IRS assisted UAV communications for 6G networks: a systematic literature review

H Hamid, GR Begh - Wireless Networks, 2024 - Springer
Abstract 6G incorporates Intelligent Reflecting Surfaces (IRS) and Unmanned Aerial
Vehicles (UAVs) as effective solutions to overcome the limitations of terrestrial networks in …

On the performance of IRS-assisted IoT-NTN with joint imperfect phase estimation and quantization

AA Siddig, A Al-Dweik, A Al-Rimawi… - IEEE Open Journal …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Intelligent reflecting surface (IRS)-assisted communications technology is currently
considered a key enabler for various wireless applications. The maximum gain of IRS is …

Energy constrained sum-rate maximization in IRS-assisted UAV networks with imperfect channel information

S Jangsher, M Al-Jarrah, A Al-Dweik… - … on Aerospace and …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The focus of this article is maximizing the sum-rate of wireless unmanned aerial vehicle
(UAV) networks with intelligent reflecting surfaces (IRS) in the presence of system practical …

On the Performance of Cooperative IoT Using NOMA With Indoor–Outdoor Device Deployment

A Alqahtani, E Alsusa, A Al-Dweik - IEEE Systems Journal, 2024 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This work studies applying power-domain downlink nonorthogonal multiple accesses
(NOMA) to connect devices in urban environments to nearby Internet of Things (IoT) …

Group Secret Key Generation Using Physical Layer Security for UAV Swarm Communications

S Jangsher, A Al-Dweik, Y Iraqi… - … on Aerospace and …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) swarm networks, a group secret key (GSK) is required to
enable secured UAV–UAV communications, multicast, and broadcast transmission …

Impact of Network Geometry on Large Networks with Intelligent Reflecting Surfaces

KS Ali, M Haenggi, A Al-Dweik, M Chafii - arxiv preprint arxiv:2405.14976, 2024 - arxiv.org
In wireless networks assisted by intelligent reflecting surfaces (IRSs), jointly modeling the
signal received over the direct and indirect (reflected) paths is a difficult problem. In this …

IRS Element Selection Using LSTM-Based Deep Learning for UAV Communications

S Jangsher, A Al-Dweik, E Alsusa - IEEE Wireless …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This letter proposes using deep learning (DL) for intelligent reflecting surface (IRS) element
selection to reduce the bit error rate (BER) of unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) …

Beamforming and data detection in intelligent reflecting surfaces‐assisted communication using deep learning

AH Raghavendra… - Transactions on Emerging …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
In this article, we propose two deep neural network (DNN) architectures for an intelligent
reflecting surface (IRS)‐assisted network with a single transmitter and multiple receivers …