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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

The intelligent reflecting surface (IRS) is emphasized as a controlled scattering cluster. To this end, scatterers and traveling paths of multipath components are classified to build a new channel model. Unlike the conventional modeling,…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-11-18 Musab Alayasra , Huseyin Arslan

Intelligent reflecting surfaces (IRSs) tune wireless environments to increase spectrum and energy efficiencies. In view of much recent attention to the IRS concept as a promising technology for 6G wireless communications, we present a…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-11-05 Jun Zhao

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

A Reflective Intelligent Surface (RIS) consists of many small reflective elements whose reflection properties can be adjusted to change the wireless propagation environment. Envisioned implementations require that each RIS element be…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-05-13 Gal Ben Itzhak , Miguel Saavedra-Melo , Benjamin Bradshaw , Ender Ayanoglu , Filippo Capolino , A. Lee Swindlehurst

The integration of tunability mechanisms in the metasurface design has unleashed a tremendous potential for wireless communications. In particular, reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RISs) can manipulate the reflections of an incident…

Applied Physics · Physics 2025-04-10 Vasileios G. Ataloglou , George V. Eleftheriades

This article introduces a neural network-based signal processing framework for intelligent reflecting surface (IRS) aided wireless communications systems. By modeling radio-frequency (RF) impairments inside the "meta-atoms" of IRS…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-02-09 Zhou Zhou , Kangjun Bai , Nima Mohammadi , Yang Yi , Lingjia Liu

Intelligent reflecting surface (IRS) is envisioned to be widely applied in future wireless networks. In this paper, we investigate a multi-user communication system assisted by cooperative IRS devices with the capability of energy…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2022-03-29 Jie Zhang , Jun Li , Yijin Zhang , Qingqing Wu , Xiongwei Wu , Feng Shu , Shi Jin , Wen Chen

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

Intelligent reflecting surface (IRS) is a new and revolutionary technology capable of reconfiguring the wireless propagation environment by controlling its massive low-cost passive reflecting elements. Different from prior works that focus…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-11-05 Bifeng Ling , Jiangbin Lyu , Liqun Fu

Intelligent reflecting surfaces (IRSs) have emerged as a transformative technology for wireless networks by improving coverage, capacity, and energy efficiency through intelligent manipulation of wireless propagation environments. This…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-03-06 Qingqing Wu , Guangji Chen , Qiaoyan Peng , Wen Chen , Yifei Yuan , Zhenqiao Cheng , Jianwu Dou , Zhiyong Zhao , Ping Li

Intelligent Reflecting Surfaces (IRS) are anticipated to serve as a key cornerstone of future wireless networks, providing an unmatched capability to deterministically shape electromagnetic wave propagation. Despite this potential, most…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2025-12-02 Fatih E. Bilgen , A. Sila Okcu , O. Tansel Baydas , Ozgur B. Akan

The ever-increasing reliance on wireless communication and sensing has led to growing concerns over the vulnerability of sensitive information to unauthorized detection and interception. Traditional anti-detection methods are often…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-04-23 Beixiong Zheng , Xue Xiong , Tiantian Ma , Jie Tang , Derrick Wing Kwan Ng , A. Lee Swindlehurst , Rui Zhang

Intelligent reflecting surface (IRS) is a promising technology for achieving spectrum and energy efficient wireless networks cost-effectively. Most existing works on IRS have focused on exploiting IRS to enhance the performance of wireless…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-06-25 Qingqing Wu , Xinrong Guan , Rui Zhang

Intelligent reflecting surface (IRS) is a promising technology for enhancing wireless communication systems. It adaptively configures massive passive reflecting elements to control wireless channel in a desirable way. Due to hardware…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-11-04 Rui Sun , Weidong Wang , Li Chen , Guo Wei , Wenyi Zhang

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

This paper proposes to leverage intelligent reflecting surface (IRS) backscatter to realize radio-frequency-chain-free uplink-transmissions (RFCF-UT). In this communication paradigm, IRS works as an information carrier, whose elements are…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-07-22 Sai Xu , Yanan Du , Jiliang Zhang , Jiangzhou Wang , Jie Zhang

Intelligent reflecting surface (IRS), which is capable to adjust propagation conditions by controlling phase shifts of the reflected waves that impinge on the surface, has been widely analyzed for enhancing the performance of wireless…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-06-29 Shuhang Zhang , Hongliang Zhang , Boya Di , Yunhua Tan , Marco Di Renzo , Zhu Han , H. Vincent Poor , Lingyang Song

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

Reconfigurable Intelligent Surfaces (RISs) are programmable metasurfaces that can adaptively steer received electromagnetic energy in desired directions by employing controllable phase shifting cells. Among other uses, an RIS can modify the…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-05-15 Ender Ayanoglu , Filippo Capolino , A. Lee Swindlehurst