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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

As intelligent reflecting surface (IRS) has emerged as a new and promising technology capable of configuring the wireless environment favorably, channel estimation for IRS-assisted multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) systems has garnered…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-12-22 Zhen Qin , Zhihui Zhu

A reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS) can shape the radio propagation by passively changing the directions of impinging electromagnetic waves. The optimal control of the RIS requires perfect channel state information (CSI) of all the…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-02-18 Jiguang He , Markus Leinonen , Henk Wymeersch , Markku Juntti

A reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS) can shape the radio propagation environment by virtue of changing the impinging electromagnetic waves towards any desired directions, thus, breaking the general Snell's reflection law. However, the…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-01-15 Jiguang He , Henk Wymeersch , Markku Juntti

As a means to control wireless propagation environments, the use of emerging and novel intelligent reflecting surfaces (IRS) is envisioned to enhance and broaden many applications in future wireless networks. This paper is concerned with a…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-03-23 Dian-Wu Yue , Ha H. Nguyen , Yu Sun

Millimeter-wave (mmWave) communication is one of the key enablers of the fifth-generation cellular networks (5G). However, one of the fundamental challenges of mmWave communication is the susceptibility to blockage effects. One way to…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-12-30 Yaoshen Cui , Haifan Yin

This paper investigates the uplink cascaded channel estimation for intelligent-reflecting-surface (IRS)-assisted multi-user multiple-input-single-output systems. We focus on a sub-6 GHz scenario where the channel propagation is not sparse…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-09-07 Huayan Guo , Vincent K. N. Lau

Millimeter wave communication is eminently suitable for high-rate wireless systems, which may be beneficially amalgamated with intelligent reflecting surfaces (IRS), relying on beam-index modulation. Explicitly, we propose three different…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-10-20 Sarath Gopi , Sheetal Kalyani , Lajos Hanzo

Intelligent reflecting surface (IRS) is a promising technology to extend the wireless signal coverage and support the high performance communication. By intelligently adjusting the reflection coefficients of a large number of passive…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-03-01 Yitao Han , Shuowen Zhang , Lingjie Duan , Rui Zhang

Intelligent reflecting surface (IRS) is a promising solution to enhance the wireless communication capacity both cost-effectively and energy-efficiently, by properly altering the signal propagation via tuning a large number of passive…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-10-04 Shuowen Zhang , Rui Zhang

This paper investigates the achievable rate region of the multiple-input single-output (MISO) interference channel aided by intelligent reflecting surfaces (IRSs). We exploit the the additional design degree of freedom provided by the…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-05-20 Wei Huang , Yong Zeng , Yongming Huang

Intelligent reflecting surface (IRS) has emerged as a promising paradigm to improve the capacity and reliability of a wireless communication system by smartly reconfiguring the wireless propagation environment. To achieve the promising…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-01-12 Yi Wei , Ming-Min Zhao , Min-Jian Zhao , Yunlong Cai

In this paper, a downlink intelligent reflecting surface (IRS) enhanced millimeter-wave (mmWave) non-orthogonal multiple access (NOMA) system is considered. A joint optimization problem over active beamforming, passive beamforming and power…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-05-05 Jiakuo Zuo , Yuanwei Liu , Ertugrul Basar , Octavia A. Dobre

Intelligent reflecting surface (IRS) has the potential to significantly enhance the network performance by reconfiguring the wireless propagation environments. It is however difficult to obtain the accurate downlink channel state…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-05-18 Wenzhi Fang , Min Fu , Yuanming Shi , Yong Zhou

Channel acquisition is one of the main challenges for the deployment of reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS) aided communication systems. This is because an RIS has a large number of reflective elements, which are passive devices with…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-02-16 Jie Chen , Ying-Chang Liang , Hei Victor Cheng , Wei Yu

Intelligent reflecting surfaces (IRSs) are promising enablers for next-generation wireless communications due to their reconfigurability and high energy efficiency in improving poor propagation condition of channels, e.g., limited…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-01-03 Xin Zhang , Xianghao Yu , S. H. Song , Khaled B. Letaief

In this paper, the minimum mean square error (MMSE) channel estimation for intelligent reflecting surface (IRS) assisted wireless communication systems is investigated. In the considered setting, each row vector of the equivalent channel…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-04-06 Mangqing Guo , M. Cenk Gursoy

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, the problem of training signal design for intelligent reflecting surface (IRS)-assisted millimeter-wave (mmWave) communication under a sparse channel model is considered. The problem is approached based on the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-12-29 Song Noh , Heejung Yu , Youngchul Sung

In the intelligent reflecting surface (IRS) assisted communication systems, the acquisition of channel state information (CSI) is a crucial impediment for achieving the passive beamforming gain of IRS because of the considerable overhead…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-01-20 Zhaorui Wang , Liang Liu , Shuguang Cui