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Reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS)-empowered communication is one of the promising 6G technologies that allows the conversion of the wireless channel into an intelligent transmit entity by manipulating the impinging waves using…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-09-01 I. Yildirim , A. Uyrus , E. Basar

Intelligent reflecting surface (IRS) is a proposing technology in 6G to enhance the performance of wireless networks by smartly reconfiguring the propagation environment with a large number of passive reflecting elements. However, current…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-02-17 Jinglian He , Kaiqiang Yu , Yuanming Shi

An intelligent reflecting surface (IRS) is invoked for enhancing the energy harvesting performance of a simultaneous wireless information and power transfer (SWIPT) aided system. Specifically, an IRS-assisted SWIPT system is considered,…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-02-19 Cunhua Pan , Hong Ren , Kezhi Wang , Maged Elkashlan , Arumugam Nallanathan , Jiangzhou Wang , Lajos Hanzo

An intelligent reflecting surface (IRS) at terahertz (THz) bands is expected to have a massive number of reflecting elements to compensate for the severe propagation losses. However, as the IRS size grows, the conventional far-field…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-03-30 Konstantinos Dovelos , Stylianos D. Assimonis , Hien Quoc Ngo , Boris Bellalta , Michail Matthaiou

Intelligent reflective surfaces (IRSs) capable of reconfiguring their electromagnetic absorption and reflection properties in real-time are offering unprecedented opportunities to enhance wireless communication experience in challenging…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2020-02-03 Dong Ma , Ming Ding , Mahbub Hassan

The intelligent reflecting surface (IRS) technology has recently attracted a lot of interest in wireless communications research. An IRS consists of passive reflective elements capable of tuning the phase, amplitude, frequency and…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-06-06 Zahra Esmaeilbeig , Kumar Vijay Mishra , Mojtaba Soltanalian

Cell-free networks are considered as a promising distributed network architecture to satisfy the increasing number of users and high rate expectations in beyond-5G systems. However, to further enhance network capacity, an increasing number…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-06-23 Shaocheng Huang , Yu Ye , Ming Xiao , H. Vincent Poor , Mikael Skoglund

Intelligent reflecting surface (IRS) has emerged as a promising technology to realize smart radio environment for future wireless communication systems. Existing works in this line of research have mainly considered the conventional passive…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-06-27 Zhenyu Kang , Changsheng You , Rui Zhang

In this paper, we propose to exploit movable elements of intelligent reflecting surface (IRS) to enhance the overall performance of integrated sensing and communication (ISAC) systems. Firstly, focusing on a single-user scenario, we reveal…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-08-01 Xingyu Peng , Qin Tao , Yong Liang Guan , Xiaoming Chen

Intelligent surfaces comprising of cost effective, nearly passive, and reconfigurable unit elements are lately gaining increasing interest due to their potential in enabling fully programmable wireless environments. They are envisioned to…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-05-26 George C. Alexandropoulos , Evangelos Vlachos

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

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

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

Intelligent reflecting surfaces (IRSs)-assisted wireless communication promises improved system performance, while posing new challenges in channel estimation (CE) due to the passive nature of the reflecting elements. Although a few CE…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-09-25 Hibatallah Alwazani , Qurrat-Ul-Ain Nadeem , Anas Chaaban

This paper focuses on studying orthogonal and non-orthogonal multiple access in intelligent reflecting surface (IRS)-aided systems. Unlike most prior works assuming continuous phase shifts, we employ the practical setup where only a finite…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-03-16 Wei Jiang , Hans Dieter Schotten

Reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RISs), also known as intelligent reflecting surfaces (IRSs), or large intelligent surfaces (LISs), have received significant attention for their potential to enhance the capacity and coverage of wireless…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-05-05 Yuanwei Liu , Xiao Liu , Xidong Mu , Tianwei Hou , Jiaqi Xu , Marco Di Renzo , Naofal Al-Dhahir

In this paper, we study the performance of wideband terahertz (THz) communications assisted by an intelligent reflecting surface (IRS). Specifically, we first introduce a generalized channel model that is suitable for electrically large THz…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-11-01 Konstantinos Dovelos , Stylianos D. Assimonis , Hien Quoc Ngo , Boris Bellalta , Michail Matthaiou

Intelligent reflecting surface (IRS) is a promising technology to support high performance wireless communication. By adaptively configuring the reflection amplitude and/or phase of each passive reflecting element on it, the IRS can reshape…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-04-07 Yitao Han , Shuowen Zhang , Lingjie Duan , Rui Zhang

An intelligent reflecting surface (IRS) can greatly improve the channel quality over a frequency-flat channel, if it is configured to reflect the incident signal as a beam towards the receiver. However, the fundamental limitations of the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-09-16 Emil Björnson

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