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Intelligent reflecting surface (IRS) is envisioned as a revolutionary technology for future wireless communication systems since it can intelligently change radio environment and integrate it into wireless communication optimization.…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-01-05 Hongyu Li , Wenhao Cai , Yang Liu , Ming Li , Qian Liu , Qingqing Wu

We propose a channel estimation protocol to determine the uplink channel state information (CSI) at the base station for an intelligent reflecting surface (IRS) based wireless communication. More specifically, we develop a channel…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-04-15 Swapnil Saha , Md. Forkan Uddin

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

Multi-user integrated sensing and communication (ISAC) assisted by intelligent reflecting surface (IRS) has been recently investigated to provide a high spectral and energy efficiency transmission. This paper proposes a practical channel…

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

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

Intelligent reflecting surfaces (IRS) have been proposed in millimeter wave (mmWave) and terahertz (THz) systems to achieve both coverage and capacity enhancement, where the design of hybrid precoders, combiners, and the IRS typically…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-05-31 Shuntian Zheng , Sheng Wu , Chunxiao Jiang , Wei Zhang , Xiaojun Jing

By applying tunable phase shifts to incident waves via passive signal reflection, intelligent reflecting surface (IRS) can offer significant performance improvement for wireless communication systems. To reap such performance gain, channel…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-07-01 Ge Yan , Lipeng Zhu , He Sun , 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

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

In this paper, intelligent reflecting surface (IRS) is introduced to enhance the network performance of cognitive radio (CR) systems. Specifically, we investigate robust beamforming design based on both bounded channel state information…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-01-08 Lei Zhang , Cunhua Pan , Yu Wang , Hong Ren , Kezhi Wang

This paper studies the estimation of cascaded channels in passive intelligent reflective surface (IRS)- aided multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) systems employing hybrid precoders and combiners. We propose a low-complexity solution that…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-03-14 K. F. Masood , J. Tong , J. Xi , J. Yuan , Y. Yu

For intelligent reflecting surface (IRS)-aided wireless communications, channel estimation is essential and usually requires excessive channel training overhead when the number of IRS reflecting elements is large. The acquisition of…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-03-14 Yi Wei , Ming-Min Zhao , An Liu , Min-Jian Zhao

In Reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS)-assisted systems the acquisition of CSI and the optimization of the reflecting coefficients constitute a pair of salient design issues. In this paper, a novel channel training protocol is…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-06-01 Jiancheng An , Chao Xu , Li Wang , Yusha Liu , Lu Gan , Lajos Hanzo

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

This paper studies the feasibility of deploying intelligent reflecting surfaces (IRSs) in massive MIMO (multiple-input multiple-output) systems to improve the performance of users in the service dead zone. To reduce the channel training…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-01-13 Zhaorui Wang , Liang Liu , Shuowen Zhang , Shuguang Cui

Intelligent reflecting surface (IRS) has the potential to enhance sensing performance, due to its capability of reshaping the echo signals. Different from the existing literature, which has commonly focused on IRS beamforming optimization,…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-07-08 Zhouyuan Yu , Xiaoling Hu , Chenxi Liu , Qin Tao , Mugen Peng

In intelligent reflecting surface (IRS) aided wireless communication systems, channel state information (CSI) is crucial to achieve its promising passive beamforming gains. However, CSI errors are inevitable in practice and generally…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-10-17 Ming-Min Zhao , An Liu , Rui Zhang

Intelligent reflecting/refracting surface (IRS) has recently emerged as a promising solution to reconfigure wireless propagation environment for enhancing the communication performance. In this paper, we study a new IRS-aided high-mobility…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-12-14 Zixuan Huang , Beixiong Zheng , Rui Zhang

One main challenge for implementing intelligent reflecting surface (IRS) aided communications lies in the difficulty to obtain the channel knowledge for the base station (BS)-IRS-user cascaded links, which is needed to design…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-09-18 He Sun , Weidong Mei , Lipeng Zhu , Rui Zhang

The current literature on intelligent reflecting surface (IRS) focuses on optimizing the IRS phase shifts to yield coherent beamforming gains, under the assumption of perfect channel state information (CSI) of individual IRS-assisted links,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-03-19 Qurrat-Ul-Ain Nadeem , Alessio Zappone , Anas Chaaban