2022 Journal Issues September 21, 2022
Special Issue: Reconfigurable Intelligent Surfaces
Volume 110, Issue 9
September 2022
Guest Editors
Special Issue Papers
By M. Di Renzo and S. Tretyakov
By M. Di Renzo, F. H. Danufane, and S. Tretyakov
This article provides an overview of communication models that are most often employed in wireless communications for analyzing and optimizing reconfigurable intelligent surfaces.
By G. Lerosey and M. Fink
This article provides an overview of the research works and enabling technologies that have underpinned the development of reconfigurable intelligent surfaces.
By E. Martini and S. Maci
This article provides an overview of the fundamental theory behind reconfigurable intelligent surfaces, with focus on surface-wave and nonspecular reconfigurable reflective surfaces.
By A. Shojaeifard, K.-K. Wong, K.-F. Tong, Z. Chu, A. Mourad, A. Haghighat, I. Hemadeh, N. Thanh Nguyen, V. Tapio, and M. Juntti
This article provides an overview of the application of reconfigurable intelligent surfaces for free-space communications and surface-wave communications, and it introduces the operating principles of fluid antennas.
By Q. Cheng, L. Zhang, J. Y. Dai, W. Tang, J. C. Ke, S. Liu, J. C. Liang, S. Jin, and T. J. Cui
This article provides an overview of the theoretical models for space–time digital metasurfaces and information metasurfaces, the mechanisms for wavefront shaping, and the signal modulation models in space and time for wave–matter interactions.
By J. Huang, C.-X. Wang, Y. Sun, R. Feng, J. Huang, B. Guo, Z. Zhong, and T. J. Cui
This article provides an overview of wireless channel models for reconfigurable intelligent surfaces, and channel measurements and experiments are presented.
By A. L. Swindlehurst, G. Zhou, R. Liu, C. Pan, and M. Li
This article provides an overview of the identifiability of wireless channels for reconfigurable intelligent surfaces by considering the available pilot data and the setup of the surfaces during training.
By Y.-C. Liang, Q. Zhang, J. Wang, R. Long, H. Zhou, and G. Yang
This article provides an overview of backscatter communications assisted by reconfigurable intelligent surfaces that are configured as information transmitters.
By Z. Ding, L. Lv, F. Fang, O. A. Dobre, G. K. Karagiannidis, N. Al-Dhahir, R. Schober, and H. V. Poor
This article provides an overview of the recent progress on the synergistic integration of reconfigurable intelligent surfaces and non-orthogonal multiple access schemes.
By W. Mei, B. Zheng, C. You, and R. Zhang
This article provides an overview of wireless networks aided by reconfigurable intelligent surfaces, with an emphasis on the presence of multiple surfaces and multiple signal reflections.
By H. Zhang, B. Di, K. Bian, Z. Han, H. V. Poor, and L. Song
This article provides an overview on the applications and open challenges of reconfigurable intelligent surfaces for integrated communication, sensing, and localization.
By J. Ye, J. Qiao, A. Kammoun, and M.-S. Alouini
This article provides an overview of the concept of nonterrestrial networks assisted by reconfigurable intelligent surfaces.
By C. Liaskos, L. Mamatas, A. Pourdamghani, A. Tsioliaridou, S. Ioannidis, A. Pitsillides, S. Schmid, and I. F. Akyildiz
This article provides an overview of metasurface-based hardware and software components for application to programmable wireless environments. The complete workflow from the user device to the final services is discussed.
By G. C. Alexandropoulos, K. Stylianopoulos, C. Huang, C. Yuen, M. Bennis, and M. Debbah
This article provides an overview of online machine learning methods for optimizing wireless networks in the presence of multiple users and multiple reconfigurable intelligent surfaces.
INDUSTRY VIEW
By M. Poulakis
