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 …

Holographic MIMO communications: Theoretical foundations, enabling technologies, and future directions

T Gong, P Gavriilidis, R Ji, C Huang… - … Surveys & Tutorials, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Future wireless systems are envisioned to create an endogenously holography-capable,
intelligent, and programmable radio propagation environment, that will offer unprecedented …

5G-advanced toward 6G: Past, present, and future

W Chen, X Lin, J Lee, A Toskala, S Sun… - IEEE Journal on …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Since the start of 5G work in 3GPP in early 2016, tremendous progress has been made in
both standardization and commercial deployments. 3GPP is now entering the second phase …

Evolution of NOMA toward next generation multiple access (NGMA) for 6G

Y Liu, S Zhang, X Mu, Z Ding, R Schober… - IEEE Journal on …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Due to the explosive growth in the number of wireless devices and diverse wireless
services, such as virtual/augmented reality and Internet-of-Everything, next generation …

Simultaneously transmitting and reflecting (STAR) RIS aided wireless communications

X Mu, Y Liu, L Guo, J Lin… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The novel concept of simultaneously transmitting and reflecting (STAR) reconfigurable
intelligent surfaces (RISs) is investigated, where the incident wireless signal is divided into …

Five facets of 6G: Research challenges and opportunities

LH Shen, KT Feng, L Hanzo - ACM Computing Surveys, 2023 - dl.acm.org
While the fifth-generation systems are being rolled out across the globe, researchers have
turned their attention to the exploration of radical next-generation solutions. At this early …

Enhancing secrecy performance for STAR-RIS NOMA networks

X Li, Y Zheng, M Zeng, Y Liu… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Simultaneously transmitting and reflecting reconfigurable intelligent surface (STAR-RIS) is
becoming a prospective technology in realizing extremely low power transmission and …

Reconfigurable intelligent surfaces for 6G: Emerging hardware architectures, applications, and open challenges

E Basar, GC Alexandropoulos, Y Liu… - IEEE Vehicular …, 2024 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RISs) are rapidly gaining prominence in the realm of 5G-
advanced and predominantly 6G mobile networks, offering a revolutionary approach to …

A survey on STAR-RIS: Use cases, recent advances, and future research challenges

M Ahmed, A Wahid, SS Laique… - IEEE Internet of …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The recent development of metasurfaces, which may enable several use cases by modifying
the propagation environment, is anticipated to substantially affect the performance of sixth …

Coverage characterization of STAR-RIS networks: NOMA and OMA

C Wu, Y Liu, X Mu, X Gu… - IEEE Communications …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The novel concept of simultaneously transmitting and reflecting reconfigurable intelligent
surface (STAR-RIS) is investigated, where incident signals can be transmitted and reflected …