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Intelligent Reflecting Surfaces (IRS) are anticipated to serve as a key cornerstone of future wireless networks, providing an unmatched capability to deterministically shape electromagnetic wave propagation. Despite this potential, most…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2025-12-02 Fatih E. Bilgen , A. Sila Okcu , O. Tansel Baydas , Ozgur B. Akan

This paper presents a literature review on recent applications and design aspects of the intelligent reflecting surface (IRS) in the future wireless networks. Conventionally, the network optimization has been limited to transmission control…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-07-28 Shimin Gong , Xiao Lu , Dinh Thai Hoang , Dusit Niyato , Lei Shu , Dong In Kim , Ying-Chang Liang

In this paper, the secure performance of multiuser multiple-input single-output wireless communications systems assisted by a multifunctional active intelligent reflection surface (IRS) is investigated. The active IRS can simultaneously…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-05-06 Shaokang Hu , Derrick Wing Kwan Ng , Jinhong Yuan

In this letter, we study the secure communication problem in the unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) enabled networks aided by an intelligent reflecting surface (IRS) from the physical-layer security perspective. Specifically, the IRS is deployed…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-11-10 Wen Wang , Hui Tian , Wanli Ni , Meihui Hua

In this paper, an intelligent reflecting surface (IRS) is leveraged to enhance the physical layer security of an integrated sensing and communication (ISAC) system in which the IRS is deployed to not only assist the downlink communication…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-07-20 Meng Hua , Qingqing Wu , Wen Chen , Octavia A. Dobre , A. Lee Swindlehurst

In this paper, intelligent reflecting surfaces (IRSs) are employed to enhance the physical layer security in a challenging radio environment. In particular, a multi-antenna access point (AP) has to serve multiple single-antenna legitimate…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-04-21 Xianghao Yu , Dongfang Xu , Ying Sun , Derrick Wing Kwan Ng , Robert Schober

In this letter, we propose to exploit an intelligent reflecting surface (IRS) to secure multiuser two-way communications. Specifically, two end users simultaneously transmit their signals, where the signal of one user is exploited as…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-11-03 Lu Lv , Qingqing Wu , Zan Li , Naofal Al-Dhahir , Jian Chen

Intelligent reflecting surface (IRS) is an emerging technology that is able to significantly improve the performance of wireless communications, by smartly tuning signal reflections at a large number of passive reflecting elements. On the…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-02-14 Xiaodan Shao , Changsheng You , Rui Zhang

Due to the broadcast nature of wireless communications, physical layer security has always been a fundamental but challenging problem. Recent advance of Intelligent Reflecting Surface (IRS) introduces a new dimension for secure…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-10-29 Jian Li , Lan Zhang , Kaiping Xue , Yuguang Fang

Intelligent reflecting surface (IRS) has emerged as a promising technique for wireless communication networks. By dynamically tuning the reflection amplitudes/phase shifts of a large number of passive elements, IRS enables flexible wireless…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-04-26 Weidong Mei , Beixiong Zheng , Changsheng You , Rui Zhang

The performance of wireless communication systems is fundamentally constrained by the random and uncontrollable wireless channel. By leveraging the recent advance in digitally-controlled metasurface, intelligent reflecting surface (IRS) has…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-04-06 Changsheng You , Beixiong Zheng , Weidong Mei , Rui Zhang

As a recently proposed idea for future wireless systems, intelligent reflecting surface (IRS) can assist communications between entities which do not have high-quality direct channels in between. Specifically, an IRS comprises many low-cost…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-01-29 Huimei Han , Jun Zhao , Dusit Niyato , Marco Di Renzo , Quoc-Viet Pham

This paper considers machine learning for physical layer security design for communication in a challenging wireless environment. The radio environment is assumed to be programmable with the aid of a meta material-based intelligent…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-02-23 Yizhuo Song , Muhammad R. A. Khandaker , Faisal Tariq , Kai-Kit Wong , Apriana Toding

By moving from massive antennas to antenna surfaces for software-defined wireless systems, the reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RISs) rely on arrays of unit cells to control the scattering and reflection profiles of signals, mitigating…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-12-22 Brian Kim , Tugba Erpek , Yalin E. Sagduyu , Sennur Ulukus

Intelligent reflecting surface (IRS), which is capable to adjust propagation conditions by controlling phase shifts of the reflected waves that impinge on the surface, has been widely analyzed for enhancing the performance of wireless…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-06-29 Shuhang Zhang , Hongliang Zhang , Boya Di , Yunhua Tan , Marco Di Renzo , Zhu Han , H. Vincent Poor , Lingyang Song

Intelligent reflecting surface (IRS) is envisioned to have abundant applications in future wireless networks by smartly reconfiguring the signal propagation for performance enhancement. Specifically, an IRS consists of a large number of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-09-13 Qingqing Wu , Rui Zhang

In this paper, an intelligent reflecting surface (IRS) assisted spectrum sharing underlay cognitive radio (CR) wiretap channel (WTC) is studied, and we aim at enhancing the secrecy rate of secondary user in this channel subject to total…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-04-13 Limeng Dong , Hui-Ming Wang , Haitao Xiao

Intelligent reflecting surfaces (IRSs) have emerged as a transformative technology for wireless networks by improving coverage, capacity, and energy efficiency through intelligent manipulation of wireless propagation environments. This…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-03-06 Qingqing Wu , Guangji Chen , Qiaoyan Peng , Wen Chen , Yifei Yuan , Zhenqiao Cheng , Jianwu Dou , Zhiyong Zhao , Ping Li

A statistical characterization of the fundamental performance bounds of an intelligent reflective surface (IRS) intended for aiding wireless communications is presented. To this end, the outage probability, average symbol error probability,…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-02-14 Dhanushka Kudathanthirige , Dulaj Gunasinghe , Gayan Amarasuriya

Compute-and-forward is a promising strategy to tackle interference and obtain high rates between the transmitting users in a wireless network. However, the quality of the wireless channels between the users substantially limits the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-06-25 Mahdi Jafari Siavoshani , Seyed Pooya Shariatpanahi , Naeimeh Omidvar