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Intelligent reflecting surface (IRS) has gained great attention for its ability to create favorable propagation environments. However, the power consumption of conventional IRSs cannot be ignored due to the large number of reflecting…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-06-13 Weibiao Zhao , Qiucen Wu , Yuanqi Tang , Yu Zhu

To reap the active and passive beamforming gain in an intelligent reflecting surface (IRS)-aided wireless network, a typical way is to first acquire the channel state information (CSI) relying on the pilot signal, and then perform the joint…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-04-09 Taotao Ji , Meng Hua , Chunguo Li , Yongming Huang , Luxi Yang

Intelligent reflective surface (IRS) is an emergent technology for future wireless communications. It consists of a large 2D array of passive scattering elements that control the electromagnetic properties of radio-frequency waves so that…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-01-22 Gilderlan T. de Araújo , André L. F. de Almeida

Intelligent reflecting surfaces (IRSs) are emerging as promising enablers for the next generation of wireless communication systems, because of their ability to customize favorable radio propagation environments. However, with the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-11-25 Dongfang Xu , Xianghao Yu , Derrick Wing Kwan Ng , Robert Schober

This short tutorial presents several ideas for designing dual function radar communication (DFRC) systems aided by intelligent reflecting surfaces (IRS). These problems are highly nonlinear in the IRS parameter matrix, and further, the IRS…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-05-12 Yi-Kai Li , Athina Petropulu

Reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS) provides a promising way to build the programmable wireless transmission environments in the future. Owing to the large number of reflecting elements used at the RIS, joint optimization for the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-01-11 Xiaoyan Ma , Shuaishuai Guo , Haixia Zhang , Yuguang Fang , Dongfeng Yuan

As a new technology to reconfigure wireless communication environment by signal reflection controlled by software, intelligent reflecting surface (IRS) has attracted lots of attention in recent years. Compared with conventional relay…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-11-07 Rongen Dong , Zhongyi Xie , Feng Shu , Mengxing Huang , Jiangzhou Wang

This paper investigates the passive beamforming and deployment design for an intelligent reflecting surface (IRS) aided full-duplex (FD) wireless system, where an FD access point (AP) communicates with an uplink (UL) user and a downlink…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-10-17 Yunlong Cai , Ming-Min Zhao , Kaidi Xu , Rui Zhang

Intelligent reflecting surfaces (IRSs) are a promising low-cost solution for achieving high spectral and energy efficiency in future communication systems by enabling the customization of wireless propagation environments. Despite the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-04-30 Yifei Wu , Dongfang Xu , Derrick Wing Kwan Ng , Robert Schober , Wolfgang Gerstacker

Intelligent reflecting surface (IRS) has emerged as a competitive solution to address blockage issues in millimeter wave (mmWave) and Terahertz (THz) communications due to its capability of reshaping wireless transmission environments.…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-10-05 Peilan Wang , Jun Fang , Wei Zhang , Hongbin Li

This work examines the performance gain achieved by deploying an intelligent reflecting surface (IRS) in covert communications. To this end, we formulate the joint design of the transmit power and the IRS reflection coefficients by taking…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-01-12 Xiaobo Zhou , Shihao Yan , Qingqing Wu , Feng Shu , Derrick Wing Kwan Ng

Integrating wireless sensing capabilities into base stations (BSs) has become a widespread trend in the future beyond fifth-generation (B5G)/sixth-generation (6G) wireless networks. In this paper, we investigate intelligent reflecting…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2024-04-09 Taotao Ji , Meng Hua , Xuanhong Yan , Chunguo Li , Yongming Huang , Luxi Yang

To achieve the more significant passive beamforming gain in the double-intelligent reflecting surface (IRS) aided system over the conventional single-IRS counterpart, channel state information (CSI) is indispensable in practice but also…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-03-12 Beixiong Zheng , Changsheng You , Rui Zhang

Intelligent reflecting surface (IRS) can bring significant performance enhancement for wireless communication systems by reconfiguring wireless channels via passive signal reflection. However, such performance improvement generally relies…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-10-18 Ge Yan , Lipeng Zhu , Rui Zhang

Integrated sensing and communication (ISAC), and intelligent reflecting surface (IRS) are envisioned as revolutionary technologies to enhance spectral and energy efficiencies for next wireless system generations. For the first time, this…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-04-09 Yu Liu , Ibrahim Al-Nahhal , Octavia A. Dobre , Fanggang Wang

Intelligent reflecting surface (IRS)-aided communication is a promising technology for beyond 5G (B5G) systems, to reconfigure the radio environment proactively. However, IRS-aided communication in practice requires efficient channel…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-11-23 Dingyang Ding , Di Wu , Yong Zeng , Shi Jin , Rui Zhang

Intelligent reflecting surface (IRS) is a promising technology to boost the efficiency of wireless energy transfer (WET) systems. However, for a multiuser WET system, simultaneous multi-beam energy transmission is generally required to…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-05-19 Chi Qiu , Qingqing Wu , Meng Hua , Xinrong guan , Yuan Wu

This paper investigates a downlink multiple-input single-output intelligent reflecting surface (IRS) aided non-orthogonal multiple access (NOMA) system, where a base station (BS) serves multiple users with the aid of IRSs. Our goal is to…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-11-12 Xidong Mu , Yuanwei Liu , Li Guo , Jiaru Lin , Naofal Al-Dhahir

Intelligent reflecting surface (IRS) operating in the terahertz (THz) band has recently gained considerable interest due to its high spectrum bandwidth. Due to the exploitation of large scale of IRS, there is a high probability that the…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-05-28 Chi Qiu , Qingqing Wu , Wen Chen , Meng Hua , Wanming Hao , Mengnan Jian , Fen Hou

In this paper, the problem of maximizing the sum of data rates of all users in an intelligent reflecting surface (IRS)-assisted millimeter wave multicast multiple-input multiple-output communication system is studied. In the considered…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-08-16 Songling Zhang , Zhaohui Yang , Mingzhe Chen , Danpu Liu , Kai-Kit Wong , H. Vincent Poor