Includes bibliographical references and index.

Part I. Fundamentals of IRS

Introduction to intelligent surfaces / Kaitao Meng [and five others]

IRS architecture and hardware design / Zijian Zhang [and three others]

On path loss and channel reciprocity of RIS-assisted wireless communications / Wankai Tang [and six others]

Intelligent surface communication design : main challenges and solutions / Kaitao Meng, Qingqing Wu, and Rui Zhang

Part II. IRS for 6G wireless systems

Overview of IRS for 6G and industry advance / Ruiqi (Richie) Liu [and three others]

RIS-aided massive MIMO antennas / Stefano Buzzi, Carmen D'Andrea and Giovanni Interdonato

Localization, sensing, and their integration with RISs / George C. Alexandropaulos [and three others]

IRS-aided Thz communications / Boyu and Zhi Chen

Joint design of beamforming, phase shifting, and power allocation in a multi-cluster IRS-NOMA network / Ximing Xie, Fang Fang, and Zhiguo Ding

IRS-aided mobile edge computing : from optimization to learning / Xiaoyan Hu [and three others]

Interference nulling using reconfigurable intelligent surface / Tao Jiang, Foad Sohrabi and Wei Yu

Blind beamforming for IRS without channel estimation / Kaiming Shen and Zhin-Quan Luo

RIS in wireless information an power transfer / Yang Zhao and Bruno Clerckx

Beamforming design for self-sustainable IRS-assisted MISO downlink systems / Shaokang Hu and Derrick Wing Kwan Ng

Optical intelligent reflecting surfaces / Hedieh Ajam and Robert Schober