Towards 6G wireless communication networks: Vision, enabling technologies, and new paradigm shifts

X You, CX Wang, J Huang, X Gao, Z Zhang… - Science China …, 2021 - Springer
The fifth generation (5G) wireless communication networks are being deployed worldwide
from 2020 and more capabilities are in the process of being standardized, such as mass …

Wireless communications with programmable metasurface: New paradigms, opportunities, and challenges on transceiver design

W Tang, MZ Chen, JY Dai, Y Zeng… - IEEE Wireless …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Various emerging technologies, such as UM-MIMO, THz communications are under active
discussion as promising technologies to support the extremely high access rate and …

Smart radio environments empowered by reconfigurable intelligent surfaces: How it works, state of research, and the road ahead

M Di Renzo, A Zappone, M Debbah… - IEEE journal on …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RISs) are an emerging transmission technology for
application to wireless communications. RISs can be realized in different ways, which …

Wireless communications with reconfigurable intelligent surface: Path loss modeling and experimental measurement

W Tang, MZ Chen, X Chen, JY Dai… - IEEE transactions on …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RISs) comprised of tunable unit cells have recently
drawn significant attention due to their superior capability in manipulating electromagnetic …

RIS-aided wireless communications: Prototyping, adaptive beamforming, and indoor/outdoor field trials

X Pei, H Yin, L Tan, L Cao, Z Li, K Wang… - IEEE Transactions …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The prospects of using a Reconfigurable Intelligent Surface (RIS) to aid wireless
communication systems have recently received much attention from academia and industry …

Intelligent reflecting surface: Practical phase shift model and beamforming optimization

S Abeywickrama, R Zhang, Q Wu… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Intelligent reflecting surface (IRS) that enables the control of wireless propagation
environment has recently emerged as a promising cost-effective technology for boosting the …

Reconfigurable intelligent surface-based wireless communications: Antenna design, prototyping, and experimental results

L Dai, B Wang, M Wang, X Yang, J Tan, S Bi… - IEEE …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
One of the key enablers of future wireless communications is constituted by massive multiple-
input multiple-output (MIMO) systems, which can improve the spectral efficiency by orders of …

MIMO transmission through reconfigurable intelligent surface: System design, analysis, and implementation

W Tang, JY Dai, MZ Chen, KK Wong… - IEEE journal on …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS) is a new paradigm that has great potential to
achieve cost-effective, energy-efficient information modulation for wireless transmission, by …

Aerial intelligent reflecting surface: Joint placement and passive beamforming design with 3D beam flattening

H Lu, Y Zeng, S Jin, R Zhang - IEEE Transactions on Wireless …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Intelligent reflecting surface (IRS) is a promising technology to reconfigure wireless
channels, which brings a new degree of freedom for the design of future wireless networks …

A prospective look: Key enabling technologies, applications and open research topics in 6G networks

L Bariah, L Mohjazi, S Muhaidat, PC Sofotasios… - IEEE …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The fifth generation (5G) mobile networks are envisaged to enable a plethora of
breakthrough advancements in wireless technologies, providing support of a diverse set of …