Maximizing Connectivity of RIS-Assisted UAV-D2D Networks using Semidefinite Programming
This paper proposes to integrate reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RISs) with unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) as a resilience mechanism to mitigate outages in UAV networks due to UAV and link failures. The inherent addition of RIS-aided links (UE-RIS-UAV links), combined with their reconfigurabil…