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Intelligent reflecting surface (IRS) is an emerging technique to enhance the wireless communication spectral efficiency with low hardware and energy cost. In this letter, we consider the integration of IRS to an orthogonal frequency…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-12-04 Yifei Yang , Shuowen Zhang , Rui Zhang

Intelligent reflecting surface (IRS) is envisioned to be widely applied in future wireless networks. In this paper, we investigate a multi-user communication system assisted by cooperative IRS devices with the capability of energy…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2022-03-29 Jie Zhang , Jun Li , Yijin Zhang , Qingqing Wu , Xiongwei Wu , Feng Shu , Shi Jin , Wen Chen

Intelligent reflecting surfaces (IRSs) have emerged as a promising economical solution to implement cell-free networks. However, the performance gains achieved by IRSs critically depend on smartly tuned passive beamforming based on the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-02-22 Xie Xie , Chen He , Xiaoya Li , Zhu Han , Z. Jane Wang

This paper considers an angle-domain intelligent reflecting surface (IRS) system. We derive maximum likelihood (ML) estimators for the effective angles from the base station (BS) to the user and the effective angles of propagation from the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-03-02 Xiaoling Hu , Caijun Zhong , Zhaoyang Zhang

This paper investigates the system spectral efficiency (SE) in reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS)-aided multiuser multiple-input single-output (MISO) systems, where RIS can reconfigure the propagation environment via a large number of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-01-31 Yulan Gao , Chao Yong , Zehui Xiong , Dusit Niyato , Yue Xiao , Jun Zhao

Intelligent reflecting surface (IRS) and movable antenna (MA) are promising technologies to enhance wireless communication by reconfiguring channels at the environment and transceiver sides. However, their performance is constrained by…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-12-18 Chao Zhou , Changsheng You , Cong Zhou , Liujia Yao , Weijie Yuan , Beixiong Zheng , Nan Wu

Reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS) provides a promising way to build programmable wireless transmission environments. Owing to the massive number of controllable reflecting elements on the surface, RIS is capable of providing…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-10-03 Xiaoyan Ma , Yuguang Fang , Haixia Zhang , Shuaishuai Guo , Dongfeng Yuan

Intelligent reflecting surface (IRS) has recently emerged as a new solution to enhance wireless communication performance via passive signal reflection. In this letter, we unlock the potential of IRS controller in relaying information and…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-06-24 Beixiong Zheng , Rui Zhang

Prior studies on intelligent reflecting surface (IRS) have mostly considered wireless communication systems aided by a single passive IRS, which, however, has limited control over wireless propagation environment and suffers severe…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-01-09 Yunpu Zhang , Changsheng You , Beixiong Zheng

Simultaneous wireless information and power transfer (SWIPT) and intelligent reflecting surface (IRS) are two promising techniques for providing enhanced wireless communication capability and sustainable energy supply to energy-constrained…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-09-10 Wei Sun , Qingyang Song , Lei Guo , Jun Zhao

This paper proposes a new three dimensional (3D) networking architecture enabled by aerial intelligent reflecting surface (AIRS) to achieve panoramic signal reflection from the sky. Compared to the conventional terrestrial IRS, AIRS not…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-01-22 Haiquan Lu , Yong Zeng , Shi Jin , Rui Zhang

In this paper, we study the problem of joint active and passive beamforming for intelligent reflecting surface (IRS)-assisted massive MIMO systems, where multiple IRSs equipped with a large number of passive elements are deployed to assist…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-12-03 Xingjian Li , Jun Fang , Feifei Gao , Hongbin Li

The propagation loss of RF signals is a significant issue in simultaneous wireless information and power transfer (SWIPT) systems. Additionally, ensuring information security is crucial due to the broadcasting nature of wireless channels.…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-10-18 Xingxiang Peng , Peiran Wu , Junhui Zhao , Minghua Xia

This paper investigates the use of a Passive Intelligent Mirrors (PIM) to operate a multi-user MISO downlink communication. The transmit powers and the mirror reflection coefficients are designed for sum-rate maximization subject to…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-07-20 Chongwen Huang , Alessio Zappone , Mérouane Debbah , Chau Yuen

This paper investigates the use of intelligent reflecting surfaces (IRS) to assist cellular communications and radar sensing operations in a communications and sensing setup. The IRS dynamically allocates reflecting elements to…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-10-24 Daniyal Munir , Atta Ullah , Danish Mehmood Mughal , Min Young Chung , Hans D. Schotten

Intelligent reflecting surfaces (IRSs) have recently attracted the attention of communication theorists as a means to control the wireless propagation channel. It has been shown that the signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) of a single-user…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-11-12 Emil Björnson , Luca Sanguinetti

Intelligent reflecting surface (IRS), which consists of a large number of tunable reflective elements, is capable of enhancing the wireless propagation environment in a cellular network by intelligently reflecting the electromagnetic waves…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-06-10 Tao Jiang , Hei Victor Cheng , Wei Yu

Millimeter-wave (mmWave) communications provide access to spectra with bandwidths and in abundance. However, the high susceptibility of mmWave to blockage imposes crucial challenges, especially to low-latency services. In this paper, a…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-04-20 Yashuai Cao , Tiejun Lv , Zhipeng Lin , Wei Ni

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

A multiple antenna base station (BS) with an intelligent reflecting surface (IRS) platform, and several single antenna users are considered in the downlink mode. Simultaneous wireless information and power transfer (SWIPT) is utilized by…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-11-30 Shayan Zargari , Shahrokh Farahmand , Bahman Abolhassani