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In the intelligent reflecting surface (IRS)-enhanced wireless communication system, channel state information (CSI) is of paramount importance for achieving the passive beamforming gain of IRS, which, however, is a practically challenging…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-01-30 Beixiong Zheng , Rui Zhang

This paper studies an intelligent reflecting surface (IRS)-assisted integrated sensing and communication (ISAC) system, in which one IRS is deployed to not only assist the wireless communication from a multi-antenna base station (BS) to a…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-02-15 Xianxin Song , Ding Zhao , Haocheng Hua , Tony Xiao Han , Xun Yang , Jie Xu

Millimeter wave (mmWave) communications are evolving as a promising technology to meet the ever increasing data rate requirements. However, high directivity and severe path loss make it vulnerable to blockages, which could be frequent in…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-10-22 Peilan Wang , Jun Fang , Hongbin Li

Intelligent reflecting surface (IRS) is a promising new paradigm to achieve high spectral and energy efficiency for future wireless networks by reconfiguring the wireless signal propagation via passive reflection. To reap the potential…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-10-26 Ming-Min Zhao , Qingqing Wu , Min-Jian Zhao , Rui Zhang

Intelligent reflecting surface (IRS) has been widely studied in recent years, it has emerged as a new technology which can reflect the incident signal by intelligently configuring the reflection elements, thus changing the signal…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-05-07 Jintao Luo , Sixing Yin

Intelligent reflecting surface (IRS) has recently been emerging as an enabler for smart radio environment in which passive antenna arrays can be used to actively tailor/control the radio propagation. With multiple IRSs being launched to…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-12-09 Tu V. Nguyen , Diep N. Nguyen

The employment of intelligent reflecting surfaces (IRSs) is a potential and promising solution to increase the spectral and energy efficiency of wireless communication networks. Despite their many advantages, IRS-aided communications have…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-03-26 Constantinos Psomas , Ioannis Krikidis

Intelligent reflecting surface (IRS) is a cost-efficient technique to improve power efficiency and spectral efficiency. However, IRS-aided multi-antenna transmission needs to jointly optimize the passive and active beamforming, imposing a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-05-03 Wei Jiang , Hans Dieter Schotten

In a wireless system with Intelligent Reflective Surfaces (IRS) containing many passive elements, we consider the problem of channel estimation. All the links from the transmitter to the receiver via each IRS elements (or groups) are…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-11-25 Tobias Lindstrøm Jensen , Elisabeth De Carvalho

In this paper, we consider channel estimation for intelligent reflecting surface (IRS)-assisted millimeter wave (mmWave) systems, where an IRS is deployed to assist the data transmission from the base station (BS) to a user. It is shown…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-07-15 Peilan Wang , Jun Fang , Huiping Duan , Hongbin Li

Intelligent reflecting surfaces (IRSs), consisting of reconfigurable metamaterials, have recently attracted attention as a promising cost-effective technology that can bring new features to wireless communications. These surfaces can be…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-09-30 Özgecan Özdogan , Emil Björnson

Conventional beamforming methods for intelligent reflecting surfaces (IRSs) or reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RISs) typically entail the full channel state information (CSI). However, the computational cost of channel acquisition…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-01-10 Fan Xu , Jiawei Yao , Wenhai Lai , Kaiming Shen , Xin Li , Xin Chen , Zhi-Quan Luo

Intelligent reflecting surfaces (IRSs) have become a vital technology for improving the spectrum and energy efficiency of forthcoming wireless networks. Nevertheless, practical implementation is obstructed by the excessive overhead…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-11-07 Xianhua Yu , Dong Li , Bowen Gu , Liuqing Yang , Sumei Sun , George K. Karagiannidis

Intelligent reflecting surface (IRS) has been regarded as a promising and revolutionary technology for future wireless communication systems owing to its capability of tailoring signal propagation environment in an…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-04-14 Wenhao Cai , Rang Liu , Ming Li , Yang Liu , Qingqing Wu , Qian Liu

Intelligent reflecting surface (IRS) is a new and revolutionizing technology for achieving spectrum and energy efficient wireless networks. By leveraging massive low-cost passive elements that are able to reflect radio-frequency (RF)…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-11-12 Qingqing Wu , Rui Zhang

In this paper, we investigate an intelligent reflecting surface (IRS) assisted multi-user multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) full-duplex (FD) system. We jointly optimize the active beamforming matrices at the access point (AP) and uplink…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-12-07 Yanzhen Liu , Qiyu Hu , Yunlong Cai , Guanding Yu , Geoffrey Ye Li

Intelligent reflecting surface (IRS) has recently emerged as a promising technology for beyond fifth-generation (B5G) and 6G networks conceived from metamaterials that smartly tunes the signal reflections via a large number of low-cost…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-08-22 Jyotsna Rani , Deepak Mishra , Ganesh Prasad , Ashraf Hossain , Swades De , Kuntal Deka

In this paper, the adoption of an intelligent reflecting surface (IRS) for multiple single-antenna source terminal (ST)-DT pairs in two-hop networks is investigated. Different from the previous studies on IRS that merely focused on tuning…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-10-01 Yulan Gao , Chao Yong , Zehui Xiong , Jun Zhao , Yue Xiao , Dusit Niyato

Intelligent reflecting surface (IRS) is a revolutionary and low-cost technology for boosting the spectrum and energy efficiencies in future wireless communication network. In order to create controllable multipath transmission in the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-07-12 Rongen Dong , Shaohua Jiang , Xinhai Hua , Yin Teng , Feng Shu , Jiangzhou Wang

Intelligent reflecting surfaces (IRSs) have recently received significant attention for 6G wireless communications as they enable the control of the wireless propagation environment. The use of IRS also provides reducing the hardware…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-10-06 Ahmet M. Elbir , Kumar Vijay Mishra