When UAV meets IRS: expanding air-ground networks via passive reflection

• Main Authors: Pang, Xiaowei, Sheng, Min, Zhao, Nan, Tang, Jie, Niyato, Dusit, Wong, Kai-Kit
• Other Authors: School of Computer Science and Engineering
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: 2022
• Subjects: Engineering::Computer science and engineering; Unmanned Aerial Vehicles; Trajectory
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/160310
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

Thanks to their flexibility and mobility, unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) have been widely applied in wireless networks. However, UAV communications may suffer from blockage and eavesdropping in practical scenarios due to the complex environment. Taking the recent advances in intelligent reflecting...