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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

We consider in this paper a new intelligent reflecting surface (IRS)-aided LEO satellite communication system, by utilizing the controllable phase shifts of massive passive reflecting elements to achieve flexible beamforming, which copes…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-01-11 Beixiong Zheng , Shaoe Lin , Rui Zhang

Millimeter wave (MmWave) communications is capable of supporting multi-gigabit wireless access thanks to its abundant spectrum resource. However, the severe path loss and high directivity make it vulnerable to blockage events, which can be…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-10-20 Peilan Wang , Jun Fang , Xiaojun Yuan , Zhi Chen , Huiping Duan , Hongbin Li

Intelligent reflecting surface (IRS) is a promising technology for achieving high spectrum efficiency in future wireless networks by leveraging massive low-cost reflecting elements with each reflecting the incident signal with a proper…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-10-29 Qingqing Wu , Rui Zhang

Intelligent reflecting surfaces (IRSs) are gaining attention as a low-cost solution to the coverage reduction in high-frequency bands used in next-generation communications. IRSs achieve low costs by controlling only the reflection of radio…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2025-04-03 Ryuhei Hibi , Hiroaki Hashida , Yuichi Kawamoto , Nei Kato

The rapid development of sixth-generation (6G) wireless networks requires seamless integration of communication and sensing to support ubiquitous intelligence and real-time, high-reliability applications. Integrated sensing and…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-11-17 Qingqing Wu , Qiaoyan Peng , Ziheng Zhang , Xiaodan Shao , Yang Liu , Yifan Jiang , Yapeng Zhao , Yanze Zhu , Yilong Chen , Zixiang Ren , Jie Xu , Wen Chen , 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, 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) has emerged as a key enabling technology to realize smart and reconfigurable radio environment for wireless communications, by digitally controlling the signal reflection via a large number of passive…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-02-02 Beixiong Zheng , Changsheng You , Weidong Mei , Rui Zhang

In this paper, an indoor robot navigation system is investigated, where an intelligent reflecting surface (IRS) is employed to enhance the connectivity between the access point (AP) and robotic users. Both single-user and multiple-user…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-03-17 Xidong Mu , Yuanwei Liu , Li Guo , Jiaru Lin , Robert Schober

Intelligent reflecting surfaces (IRS) can improve the physical layer security (PLS) by providing a controllable wireless environment. In this paper, we propose a novel PLS technique with the help of IRS implemented by an intelligent mirror…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-02-01 Lei Qian , Xuefen Chi , Linlin Zhao , Anas Chaaban

The increasing demand for wireless networks of higher capacity requires key-enabling technologies. Optical wireless communication (OWC) arises as a complementary technology to radio frequency (RF) systems that can support high aggregate…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-04-03 Ahrar N. Hamad , Walter Zibusiso Ncube , Ahmad Adnan Qidan , Taisir E. H. El-Gorashi , Jaafar M. H. Elmirghani

We analyse the performance of a communication link assisted by an intelligent reflective surface (IRS) positioned in the far field of both the source and the destination. A direct link between the transmitting and receiving devices is…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-08-25 Tianxiong Wang , Gaojie Chen , Justin P. Coon , Mihai-Alin Badiu

Although the fifth-generation (5G) technologies will significantly improve the spectrum and energy efficiency of today's wireless communication networks, their high complexity and hardware cost as well as increasingly more energy…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-09-02 Qingqing Wu , Rui Zhang

Intelligent reflecting surfaces (IRSs) have emerged as a cost-effective technology for terahertz (THz) communications by enabling programmable control of the wireless environment. This paper provides a comprehensive overview of IRSs-aided…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-06-23 Qingqing Wu , Yanze Zhu , Qiaoyan Peng , Wanming Hao , Yanzhao Hou , Fengyuan Yang , Wencai Yan , Guoning Wang , Wen Chen , Chi Qiu

Intelligent reflecting surface (IRS) has emerged as an enabling technology to achieve smart and reconfigurable wireless communication environment cost-effectively. Prior works on IRS mainly consider its passive beamforming design and…

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

In this paper, the feasibility of adopting an intelligent reflective surface (IRS) in a cell-free wireless communication system is studied. The received signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) for this IRS-enabled cell-free set-up is optimized by…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-09-28 Diluka Loku Galappaththige , Dhanushka Kudathanthirige , Gayan Amarasuriya

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

An intelligent reflecting surface (IRS) can adaptively adjust the phase shifts of its reflecting units to strengthen the desired signal and/or suppress the undesired signal. In this letter, we investigate an IRS-aided secure wireless…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-05-28 Miao Cui , Guangchi Zhang , Rui Zhang

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