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In this paper, we propose to exploit movable elements of intelligent reflecting surface (IRS) to enhance the overall performance of integrated sensing and communication (ISAC) systems. Firstly, focusing on a single-user scenario, we reveal…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-08-01 Xingyu Peng , Qin Tao , Yong Liang Guan , Xiaoming Chen

In this paper, the feasibility of adopting an intelligent reflective surface (IRS) in a cell-free wireless communication system is studied. The received signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) for this IRS-enabled cell-free set-up is optimized by…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-09-28 Diluka Loku Galappaththige , Dhanushka Kudathanthirige , Gayan Amarasuriya

Intelligent reflecting surfaces (IRSs) are considered a promising technology that can smartly reconfigure the wireless environment to enhance the performance of future wireless networks. However, the deployment of IRSs still faces…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2022-11-08 Faisal Naeem , Georges Kaddoum , Saud Khan , Komal S. Khan

Intelligent reflecting surface (IRS) has emerged as a key enabling technology to realize smart and reconfigurable radio environment for wireless communications, by digitally controlling the signal reflection via a large number of passive…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-02-02 Beixiong Zheng , Changsheng You , Weidong Mei , Rui Zhang

In this letter, secure beamforming in a multiple intelligent reflecting surfaces (IRSs)-aided millimeter-wave (mmWave) system is investigated. In this system, the secrecy rate is maximized by controlling the on-off status of each IRS as…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-12-29 Yue Xiu , Jun Zhao , Chau Yuen , Zhongpei Zhang , Guan Gui

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

This paper investigates multiple intelligent reflecting surfaces (IRSs) aided wireless network, where the IRSs are deployed to cooperatively assist communications between a multi-antenna base station (BS) and multiple single-antenna…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-02-13 Zhengfeng Li , Meng Hua , Qingxia Wang , Qingheng Song

Intelligent reflecting surfaces (IRSs), active and/or passive, can be densely deployed in complex environments to significantly enhance wireless network coverage for both wireless information transfer (WIT) and wireless power transfer…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-07-06 Min Fu , Weidong Mei , Rui Zhang

Intelligent reflecting surface (IRS) is a potential candidate for massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) 2.0 technology due to its low cost, ease of deployment, energy efficiency and extended coverage. This chapter investigates the…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-02-24 Yashuai Cao , Hetong Wang , Tiejun Lv , Wei Ni

Intelligent reflecting surfaces (IRS) have been proposed as a revolutionary technology owing to its capability of adaptively reconfiguring the propagation environment in a cost-effective and hardware-efficient fashion. While the application…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-01-25 Rang Liu , Ming Li , Qian Liu , A. Lee Swindlehurst , Qingqing Wu

Malicious jamming launched by smart jammers can attack legitimate transmissions, which has been regarded as one of the critical security challenges in wireless communications. With this focus, this paper considers the use of an intelligent…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-04-28 Helin Yang , Zehui Xiong , Jun Zhao , Dusit Niyato , Qingqing Wu , H. Vincent Poor , Massimo Tornatore

Reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS) has drawn considerable attention from the research society recently, which creates favorable propagation conditions by controlling the phase shifts of the reflected waves at the surface, thereby…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-11-01 Boya Di , Hongliang Zhang , Lingyang Song , Yonghui Li , Zhu Han , H. Vincent Poor

Intelligent reflecting surfaces (IRS) have emerged as a promising technology for future 6G wireless networks, offering programmable control of the wireless environment by adjusting the phase shifts of reflecting elements. However, IRS…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-05-08 Xianhua Yu , Dong Li

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 surfaces (IRSs) have received much attention recently and are envisioned to promote 6G communication networks. In this paper, for wireless communications aided by IRS units, we formulate optimization problems for…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-11-05 Jun Zhao

This letter investigates an intelligent reflecting surfaces (IRS)-enhanced network from spectral efficiency enhancement point of view for downlink multi-user (MU) multi-input-single-output systems (MISO). In contrast to previous works which…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-03-01 Farimehr Zohari , S. M. Mahdi Shahabi , Mehrdad Ardebilipour

Intelligent reflecting surface (IRS) has recently been recognized as a promising technology to enhance the energy and spectrum efficiency of wireless networks by controlling the wireless medium with the configurable electromagnetic…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-07-02 Min Fu , Yong Zhou , Yuanming Shi

Recent considerations for reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RISs) assume that RISs can convey information by reflection without the need of transmit radio frequency chains, which, however, is a challenging task. In this paper, we propose…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-08-07 Shaoe Lin , Beixiong Zheng , George C. Alexandropoulos , Miaowen Wen , Marco Di Renzo , Fangjiong Chen

Recently, the use of intelligent reflecting surface (IRS) has gained considerable attention in wireless communications. By intelligently adjusting the passive reflection angle, IRS is able to assist the base station (BS) to extend the…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-06-02 Mingjie Shao , Qiang Li , Wing-Kin Ma

In this paper, we develop a physics-based model that allows a scalable optimization of large intelligent reflecting surfaces (IRSs). The basic idea is to partition the IRS unit cells into several subsets, referred to as tiles, and model the…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-06-09 Marzieh Najafi , Vahid Jamali , Robert Schober , Vincent H. Poor