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 …

The commercial fifth-generation (5G) wireless communications networks have already been
deployed with the aim of providing high data rates. However, the rapid growth in the number …

Intelligent reflecting surface (IRS) is an enabling technology to engineer the radio signal
propagation in wireless networks. By smartly tuning the signal reflection via a large number …

Reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RISs), also known as intelligent reflecting surfaces
(IRSs), or large intelligent surfaces (LISs), 1 have received significant attention for their …

What will the future of UAV cellular communications be? In this tutorial article, we address
such a compelling yet difficult question by embarking on a journey from 5G to 6G and …

Due to the advancements in cellular technologies and the dense deployment of cellular
infrastructure, integrating unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) into the fifth-generation (5G) and …

Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) have found widespread commercial, civilian, and military
applications. Wireless communication has always been one of the core technologies for …

Next-generation cellular networks could witness the creation of smart radio environments
(SREs), where walls and objects will be coated with reconfigurable intelligent surfaces …

This paper investigates a novel unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) secure communication
system with the assistance of reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RISs), where a UAV and a …

Abstract Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) have received a wide range of attention for
military and commercial applications. Enhanced with communication capability, UAVs are …