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This letter considers the reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS)-aided unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) communication systems in urban areas under the general Rician fading channel. A hybrid offline-online design is proposed to improve the…
Reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS)-empowered communication is one of the promising 6G technologies that allows the conversion of the wireless channel into an intelligent transmit entity by manipulating the impinging waves using…
Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) have been successfully adopted to enhance the flexibility and robustness of wireless communication networks. And recently, the reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS) technology has been paid increasing…
Reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RIS) enable smart wireless environments by dynamically controlling signal propagation to enhance communication and localization. Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) can act as flying base stations and thus,…
Reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RISs) assist in paving the way for the evolution of conventional vehicular networks to autonomous driving. Having said that, the 3rd Generation Partnership Project (3GPP) faces numerous open challenges…
Reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS) has emerged as a pivotal technology for enhancing wireless networks. Compared to terrestrial RIS deployed on building facades, aerial RIS (ARIS) mounted on quadrotor unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV)…
Intelligent Transportation Systems are thriving thanks to a wide range of technological advances, namely 5G communications, Internet of Things, artificial intelligence and edge computing. Central to this is the wide deployment of smart…
Communication with unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) in current terrestrial networks suffers from poor signal strength due to the down-tilt of the access points (APs) that are optimized to serve ground users ends (GUEs). To solve this, one…
A reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS) is a nearly-passive flat layer made of inexpensive elements that can add a tunable phase shift to the impinging electromagnetic wave and are controlled by a low-power electronic circuit. This paper…
Reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS)-aided near-field communications is investigated. First, the necessity of investigating RIS-aided near-field communications and the advantages brought about by the unique spherical-wave-based…
New reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS) based amplitude and phase modulation schemes are proposed as an evolution how the phase-only modulation schemes available in the literature. Explicitly, both the amplitude-phase shift keying…
Reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RIS), recognized as a critical enabler for 6G networks, exhibit unprecedented capabilities in electromagnetic wave manipulation and wireless channel reconfiguration. By leveraging existing network…
With the evolution of the 5G, 6G and beyond, device-to-device (D2D) communication has been developed as an energy-, and spectrum-efficient solution. In cellular network, D2D links need to share the same spectrum resources with the cellular…
This paper considers the reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS)-assisted multi-user communications, where an RIS is used to assist the base station (BS) for serving multiple users. The RIS consisting of passive reflecting elements can…
Sensing-assisted communication schemes have recently garnered significant research attention. In this work, we design a dual-function reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS), integrating both active and passive elements, referred to as the…
In this work, we explore UAV-assisted reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS) technology to enhance downlink communications in wireless networks. By integrating RIS on both UAVs and ground infrastructure, we aim to boost network coverage,…
In the realm of wireless communications in 5G, 6G and beyond, deploying unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) has been an innovative approach to extend the coverage area due to its easy deployment. Moreover, reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS)…
In space-air-ground integrated networks (SAGIN), receivers experience diverse interference from both the satellite and terrestrial transmitters. The heterogeneous structure of SAGIN poses challenges for traditional interference management…
Practical hardware limitations often impose a reduced number of available phase shifts at the elements of a reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS). Most works often assume continuous phase-shits at the RIS elements for the transmit and…
In this paper, we investigate the two-way communication between two users assisted by a re-configurable intelligent surface (RIS). The scheme that two users communicate simultaneously over Rayleigh fading channels is considered. The…