Smart Surfaces in Communications: Current Status and Future Prospects
A special issue of Electronics (ISSN 2079-9292). This special issue belongs to the section "Microwave and Wireless Communications".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 October 2025 | Viewed by 103
Special Issue Editors
Interests: signal processing; digital communications; antennas and propagation; communication systems
Interests: photonics; metamaterials; metasurfaces
Interests: digital prototyping; UAV applications; digital communications
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Classic wireless communication systems are usually designed assuming a propagation environment that cannot be controlled, and research efforts have mainly been focused on compensating transmitted and received signals to attain efficient data reception. Recently, a new paradigm of communication has been introduced to achieve enhanced performance. To this end, metamaterials and metasurfaces are envisioned to be the most efficient way to constitute the so-called smart radio environment; joint communication, sensing, localization, and computing can be easily obtained while ensuring high throughput, low latency, high reliability, and high security.
We are pleased to invite you to contribute novel research papers focusing on the application of smart surfaces in communications.
In this Special Issue, original research articles and reviews are welcome. Research areas may include (but are not limited to) the following:
- RIS-assisted physical layer security;
- Capacity of RIS-assisted communication systems;
- Channel state information acquisition for RIS;
- Software-defined environments;
- Flexible intelligent metasurfaces;
- RIS prototyping;
- Wave-domain signal processing;
- AI-assisted RIS design and control;
- Metasurface-aided antennas;
- Metasurfaces for non-terrestrial networks;
- Wave-domain digital modulation;
- RIS-assisted integrated communications and sensing;
- RIS-enabled space–air–ground integrated networks;
- RIS for UAVs and vehicular networks.
We look forward to receiving your contributions.
Dr. Ivan Iudice
Dr. Massimo Moccia
Dr. Vittorio Ugo Castrillo
Dr. Guido Torrese
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- physical-layer security
- metamaterials
- reconfigurable intelligent surfaces
- RIS
- software-defined environment
- flexible intelligent metasurfaces
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