Interaction between filaments and ICRF in the plasma edge

•Recent progresses in understanding of interaction between filaments and ICRF in the plasma edge are summarized.•RF induced convective cells can poloidally distort, stretch and break up filaments and influence the local plasma transport in the SOL.•The mutual influence of multiple filaments induces poloidally distributed and radially extended stripe structures in the wave fields and causes wave scattering.•Filaments redirect part of the RF power from the perpendicular direction to the parallel direction as a result of rectification of antenna power spectrum and mode conversion of fast wave to slow wave.