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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…

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The reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS) is a promising technology for next-generation wireless communication. It comprises many passive antennas, which reflect signals from the transmitter to the receiver with adjusted phases without…

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Urban Air Mobility (UAM) relies on developing aerospace industries, where safe aviation and efficient communication are critical features of aircraft. However, it is challenging for aircraft to sustain efficient air-ground communication in…

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Thanks to the line-of-sight (LoS) transmission and flexibility, unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) effectively improve the throughput of wireless networks. Nevertheless, the LoS links are prone to severe deterioration by complex propagation…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-12-10 Sixian Li , Bin Duo , Xiaojun Yuan , Ying-Chang Liang , Marco Di Renzo

In this letter, we study the simultaneously transmitting and reflecting reconfigurable intelligent surface (STAR-RIS) assisted unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) communications. Our goal is to maximize the sum rate of all users by jointly…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-09-09 Qin Zhang , Yang Zhao , Hai Li , Shujuan Hou , Zhengyu Song

The increasing demand for Internet of Things (IoT) applications has accelerated the need for robust resource allocation in sixth-generation (6G) networks. In this paper, we propose a reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS)-assisted upper…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-02-03 Muddasir Rahim , Soumaya Cherkaoui

The aerial-terrestrial communication system constitutes an efficient paradigm for supporting and complementing terrestrial communications. However, the benefits of such a system cannot be fully exploited, especially when the line-of-sight…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2021-04-15 Xuelin Cao , Bo Yang , Chongwen Huang , Chau Yuen , Marco Di Renzo , Dusit Niyato , Zhu Han

This work explores the deployment of active reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (A-RIS) in integrated terrestrial and non-terrestrial networks (TN-NTN) while utilizing coordinated multipoint non-orthogonal multiple access (CoMP-NOMA). Our…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-01-14 Muhammad Ahmed Mohsin , Hassan Rizwan , Muhammad Jazib , Muhammad Iqbal , Muhammad Bilal , Tabinda Ashraf , Muhammad Farhan Khan , Jen-Yi Pan

In this paper, we propose an active reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS) enabled hybrid relaying scheme for a multi-antenna wireless powered communication network (WPCN), where the active RIS is employed to assist both wireless energy…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-01-06 Jie Jiang , Bin Lyu , Pengcheng Chen , Zhen Yang

Reconfigurable Intelligent Surface (RIS) has becoming a useful tool in future wireless communication systems for close-distance communication network. This paper we use Reconfigurable Intelligent Surface (RIS) for downlink multi-user…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-02-02 RuiTianYi Lu

This paper proposes a novel approach to improve the performance of a heterogeneous network (HetNet) supported by dual connectivity (DC) by adopting multiple unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) as passive relays that carry reconfigurable…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-06-25 Ata Khalili , Ehsan Mohammadi Monfard , Shayan Zargari , Mohammad Reza. Javan , Nader Mokari , Eduard A. Jorswieck

This paper investigates the problem of secure energy efficiency maximization for a reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS) assisted uplink wireless communication system, where an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) equipped with an RIS works as…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-06-08 Hui Long , Ming Chen , Zhaohui Yang , Bao Wang , Zhiyang Li , Xu Yun , Mohammad Shikh-Bahaei

In this paper, we study an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) communication system, where a ground node (GN) communicate with a UAV assisted by intelligent reflecting surface (IRS) in the presence of a jammer with imperfect location information.…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-01-25 Zhi Ji , Xinrong Guan , Jia Tu , Qingqing Wu , Wendong Yang

The increasing demand for cost-effective, high-speed Internet of Things (IoT) applications in the coming sixth-generation (6G) networks has driven research toward maximizing spectral efficiency and simplifying hardware designs. In this…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-10-21 MohammadHossein Alishahi , Ming Zeng , Paul Fortier , Ji Wang , Nian Xia , Gongpu Wang

This study investigates the integration of an intelligent reflecting surface (IRS) into an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) platform to utilize the advantages of these leading technologies for sixth-generation communications, e.g., improved…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-05-22 Hung Nguyen-Kha , Hieu V. Nguyen , Mai T. P. Le , Oh-Soon Shin

Reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RISs) are expected to make future 6G networks more connected and resilient against node failures, due to their ability to introduce controllable phase-shifts onto impinging electromagnetic waves and…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-08-22 Mohammed S. Al-Abiad , Mohammad Javad-Kalbasi , Shahrokh Valaee

Transmissive reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RIS) represent a transformative architecture for future wireless networks, enabling a paradigm shift from traditional costly base stations to low-cost, energy-efficient transmitters. This…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-11-17 Zhengwei Jiang , Yufeng Zhou , Xusheng Zhu , Wen Chen , Qingqing Wu , Kai-Kit Wong

A two-user downlink network aided by a reconfigurable intelligent surface is considered. The weighted sum signal to interference plus noise ratio maximization and the sum rate maximization models are presented, where the precoding vectors…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-02-15 Cong Sun , Xian Liu , Bile Peng , Eduard Jorswieck

Due to the development of communication technology and the rise of user network demand, a reasonable resource allocation for wireless networks is the key to guaranteeing regular operation and improving system performance. Various frequency…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-08-21 Yuanyuan Qiao , Yong Niu , Zhu Han , Shiwen Mao , Ruisi He , Ning Wang , Zhangdui Zhong , Bo Ai