Mufeed Salih, NameerAldababsa, MahmoudYahya, Khalid2024-09-112024-09-1120241434-8411https://doi.org/10.1016/j.aeue.2024.155414https://hdl.handle.net/11363/8353This article has been retracted: please see Elsevier Policy on Article Withdrawal (https://www.elsevier.com/about/policies/article-withdrawal). This article has been retracted at the request of the Editors. The authors have plagiarized part of a paper that had already appeared in Wireless Netw 27, 2991–3006 (2021), https://doi.org/10.1007/s11276-021-02632-z. One of the conditions of submission of a paper for publication is that authors declare explicitly that their work is original and has not appeared in a publication elsewhere. Re-use of any data should be appropriately cited. As such this article represents a severe abuse of the scientific publishing system. The scientific community takes a very strong view on this matter and apologies are offered to readers of the journal that this was not detected during the submission process. © 2024 Elsevier GmbHeninfo:eu-repo/semantics/closedAccessRetraction notice to “Enhancing UAV communication links with reconfigurable intelligent surfaces”Int. J. Electron. Commun. (AEÜ) 171 (2023) 154933] (AEUE - International Journal of Electronics and Communications (2023) 171, (S1434841123004077), (10.1016/j.aeue.2023.154933))Erratum18310.1016/j.aeue.2024.1554142-s2.0-85196797222Q2