What will the future of UAV cellular communications be? A flight from 5G to 6G

G Geraci, A Garcia-Rodriguez, MM Azari… - … surveys & tutorials, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
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 …

Intelligent omni-surfaces: Simultaneous refraction and reflection for full-dimensional wireless communications

H Zhang, B Di - IEEE Communications Surveys & Tutorials, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The development of metasurfaces has unlocked various use cases in wireless
communication networks to improve performance by manipulating the propagation …

UAV-assisted RIS for future wireless communications: A survey on optimization and performance analysis

AC Pogaku, DT Do, BM Lee, ND Nguyen - IEEE Access, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RIS), a device made of low-cost meta-surfaces that can
reflect or refract the signals in the desired manner, have the immense ability to enhance the …

Nonterrestrial communications assisted by reconfigurable intelligent surfaces

J Ye, J Qiao, A Kammoun… - Proceedings of the IEEE, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Nonterrestrial communications have emerged as a key enabler for seamless connectivity in
the upcoming generation networks. This kind of network can support high data rate …

[HTML][HTML] Intelligent reflecting surfaces assisted UAV communications for massive networks: current trends, challenges, and research directions

SAH Mohsan, MA Khan, MH Alsharif, P Uthansakul… - Sensors, 2022 - mdpi.com
An intelligent reflecting surface (IRS) can intelligently configure wavefronts such as
amplitude, frequency, phase, and even polarization through passive reflections and without …

Intelligent reflecting surface in 6G vehicular communications: A survey

Y Zhu, B Mao, N Kato - IEEE Open Journal of Vehicular …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The applications of Intelligent Transportation System (ITS) and autonomous driving in the 6G
era heavily rely on the massive information exchange of ultra-wide bandwidth, high …

Energy minimization in RIS-assisted UAV-enabled wireless power transfer systems

H Ren, Z Zhang, Z Peng, L Li… - IEEE Internet of Things …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV)-enabled wireless power transfer (WPT) systems offer
significant advantages in coverage and deployment flexibility, but suffer from endurance …

Communications standards for unmanned aircraft systems: The 3GPP perspective and research drivers

AS Abdalla, V Marojevic - IEEE Communications Standards …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
An unmanned aircraft system (UAS) consists of an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) and its
controller, which use radios to communicate. While the remote controller (RC) is traditionally …

A survey of energy efficient methods for UAV communication

H Jin, X Jin, Y Zhou, P Guo, J Ren, J Yao… - Vehicular …, 2023 - Elsevier
Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) are characterized by high flexibility and low deployment
costs. Therefore, UAVs, in recent years, have been widely used in all walks of life, such as …

AIRIS: Artificial intelligence enhanced signal processing in reconfigurable intelligent surface communications

S Zhang, M Li, M Jian, Y Zhao, F Gao - China Communications, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS) is an emerging meta-surface that can provide
additional communications links through reflecting the signals, and has been recognized as …