Intelligent Surfaces Empowered Wireless Network: Recent Advances and the Road to 6G

Intelligent surfaces (ISs) have emerged as a key technology to empower a wide range of appealing applications for wireless networks, due to their low cost, high energy efficiency, flexibility of deployment, and capability of constructing favorable wireless channels/radio environments. Moreover, the recent advent of several new IS architectures further expanded their electromagnetic functionalities from passive reflection to active amplification, simultaneous reflection, and refraction, as well as holographic beamforming. However, the research on ISs is still in rapid progress and there have been recent technological advances in ISs and their emerging applications that are worthy of a timely review. Thus, in…

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  National Natural Science Foundation of China

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  Türkiye Bilimsel ve Teknolojik Araştırma Kurumu

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  Shenzhen Research Institute of Big Data

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  National Key Research and Development Program of China

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  Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities

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