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The high configurability and low cost of Reflective Intelligent Surfaces (RISs) made them a promising solution for enhancing the capabilities of Beyond Fifth-Generation (B5G) networks. Recent works proposed to mount RISs on Unmanned Aerial…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-05-06 Alessandro Brighente , Mauro Conti , Hanan Idriss , Stefano Tomasin

This paper addresses the deployment of a drone equipped with a reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS), creating a drone relay station (DRS) to enhance the connectivity of vehicle-to-vehicle (V2V) pairs on the ground. The trajectory of the…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2025-03-27 Salim Janji

In satellite-to-ground communication, ensuring reliable and efficient connectivity poses significant challenges. The reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS) offers a promising solution due to its ability to manipulate wireless propagation…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-11-07 Xingchen Liu , Liuxun Xue , Shu Sun , Meixia Tao

This paper investigates a novel unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) secure communication system with the assistance of reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RISs), where an UAV and a ground user communicate with each other, while an eavesdropper…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-04-29 Li Sixian , Duo Bin , Marco Di Renzo , Tao Meixia , Yuan Xiaojun

Reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS) offers tremendous spectrum and energy efficiency in wireless networks by adjusting the amplitudes and/or phases of passive reflecting elements to optimize signal reflection. With the agility and…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-03-12 Bodong Shang , Rubayet Shafin , Lingjia Liu

Future 6G non-terrestrial networks aim to deliver ubiquitous connectivity to remote and undeserved regions, but unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) base stations face fundamental challenges such as limited numbers and power budgets. To overcome…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-02-11 Arman Azizi , Mostafa Rahmani Ghourtani , Mustafa A. Kishk , Hamed Ahmadi , Arman Farhang

Reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RISs) not only assist communication but also help the localization of user equipment (UE). This study focuses on the indoor localization of UE with a single access point (AP) aided by multiple RISs.…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-05-06 Xiyu Wang , Yixuan Huang , Jie Yang , Yu Han , Shi Jin

In recent years, unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) have become a key role in wireless communication networks due to their flexibility and dynamic adaptability. However, the openness of UAV-based communications leads to security and privacy…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-12-11 Chong Huang , Gaojie Chen , Zhuoao Xu , Jing Zhu , Taisong Pan , Rahim Tafazolli , Wei Huang

In this paper, we study the problem of joint active and passive beamforming for reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS)-assisted massive multiple-input multiple-output systems towards the extension of the wireless cellular coverage in 3D,…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-12-18 Yu Tian , Ahmed Alhammadi , Jiguang He , Aymen Fakhreddine , Faouzi Bader

The received signal strength (RSS) based technique is widely utilized for ubiquitous positioning due to its advantage of simple implementability. However, its accuracy is limited because the RSS values of adjacent locations can be very…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-03-27 Haobo Zhang , Hongliang Zhang , Boya Di , Kaigui Bian , Zhu Han , Lingyang Song

This letter introduces a novel unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV)-intelligent reflecting surface (IRS) structure into near-field localization systems to enhance the design flexibility of IRS, thereby obtaining additional performance gains.…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-04-25 Hanfu Zhang , Yidan Mei , Erwu Liu , Rui Wang

In this paper, we investigate reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS)-assisted communication systems which involve a fixed-antenna base station (BS) and a mobile user (MU) that is equipped with fluid antenna system (FAS). Specifically, the…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-07-12 Junteng Yao , Xiazhi Lai , Kangda Zhi , Tuo Wu , Ming Jin , Cunhua Pan , Maged Elkashlan , Chau Yuen , Kai-Kit Wong

We investigate the benefits of integrating unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) with reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS) elements to passively relay information sampled by Internet of Things devices (IoTDs) to the base station (BS). In…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-11-11 Moataz Samir , Mohamed Elhattab , Chadi Assi , Sanaa Sharafeddine , Ali Ghrayeb

Millimeter wave (MmWave) systems are vulnerable to blockages, which cause signal drop and link outage. One solution is to deploy reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RISs) to add a strong non-line-of-sight path from the transmitter to…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-06-01 Xiaowen Tian , Nuria Gonzalez-Prelcic , Robert W. Heath

The reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS) is a promising technology that is anticipated to enable high spectrum and energy efficiencies in future wireless communication networks. This paper investigates optimum location-based RIS…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-06-07 Yuting Fang , Saman Atapattu , Hazer Inaltekin , Jamie Evans

Reconfigurable Intelligent Surface (RIS) plays a pivotal role in the sixth generation networks to enhance communication rate and localization accuracy. In this letter, we propose a positioning algorithm in a RIS-assisted environment, where…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-07-10 Sajjad Ghiasvand , Arash Nasri , Ali H. Abdollahi Bafghi , Masoumeh Nasiri-Kenari

A reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS) consists of massive meta elements, which results in a reflection path between a base station (BS) and user equipment (UE). In wireless localization, this reflection path aids in positioning…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-12-02 Wei Zhang , Wee Peng Tay

Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) integrated into cellular networks face significant challenges from air-to-ground interference. To address this, we propose a downlink UAV communication system that leverages a fluid antenna system (FAS)-…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-01-30 Ali Reda , Tamer Mekkawy , Theodoros A. Tsiftsis , Chan-Byoung Chae , Kai-Kit Wong

This paper investigates reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS)-assisted unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) downlink networks with fluid antennas (FA), where RIS enables non-line-of-sight (NLoS) transmissions. Moreover, the FA is equipped on…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-01-17 Li-Hsiang Shen , Yi-Hsuan Chiu

Reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS) technology is a promising method to enhance wireless communications services and to realize the smart radio environment. In this paper, we investigate the application of RIS in D2D communications,…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-11-12 Zelin Ji , Zhijin Qin , Clive G. Parini