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Recently, terahertz (THz) communication has drawn considerable attention as one of the promising technologies for the future wireless communications owning to its ultra-wide bandwidth. Nonetheless, one major obstacle that prevents the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-09-15 Wanming Hao , Gangcan Sun , Ming Zeng , Zhengyu Zhu , Zheng Chu , Octavia A. Dobre , Pei Xiao

Combining intelligent reflecting surface (IRS) and non-orthogonal multiple access (NOMA) is an effective solution to enhance communication coverage and energy efficiency. In this paper, we focus on an IRS-assisted NOMA network and propose…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-09-14 Fang Fang , Yanqing Xu , Quoc-Viet Pham , Zhiguo Ding

Intelligent reflecting surface (IRS) is a revolutionary and low-cost technology for boosting the spectrum and energy efficiencies in future wireless communication network. In order to create controllable multipath transmission in the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-07-12 Rongen Dong , Shaohua Jiang , Xinhai Hua , Yin Teng , Feng Shu , Jiangzhou Wang

Recently, intelligent reflecting surface (IRS)-aided millimeter-wave (mmWave) and terahertz (THz) communications are considered in the wireless community. This paper aims to design a beam-based multiple-access strategy for this new…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-01-03 Wei Jiang , Hans Dieter Schotten

This paper considers the joint optimization of trajectory and beamforming of a wirelessly connected robot using intelligent reflective surface (IRS)-assisted millimeter-wave (mm-wave) communications. The goal is to minimize the motion…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2021-02-08 Cristian Tatino , Nikolaos Pappas , Di Yuan

In this paper, we investigate the secure beamforming design in an intelligent reflection surface (IRS) assisted millimeter wave (mmWave) system, where the hybrid beamforming (HB) and the passive beamforming (PB) are employed by the…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-12-21 Long Yang , Jiangtao Wang , Xuan Xue , Jia Shi , Yongchao Wang

Intelligent reflecting surface (IRS) has emerged as a competitive solution to address blockage issues in millimeter wave (mmWave) and Terahertz (THz) communications due to its capability of reshaping wireless transmission environments.…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-10-05 Peilan Wang , Jun Fang , Wei Zhang , Hongbin Li

This study considers a point-to-point wireless link, in which both the transmitter and receiver are equipped with multiple antennas. In addition, two reconfigurable metasurfaces are deployed, one in the immediate vicinity of the transmit…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-01-05 Robert Kuku Fotock , Alessio Zappone , Agbotiname Lucky Imoize , Marco Di Renzo

Intelligent reflecting surface (IRS) has recently been emerging as an enabler for smart radio environment in which passive antenna arrays can be used to actively tailor/control the radio propagation. With multiple IRSs being launched to…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-12-09 Tu V. Nguyen , Diep N. Nguyen

Energy-efficient design and secure communications are of crucial importance in wireless communication networks. However, the energy efficiency achieved by using physical layer security can be limited by the channel conditions. In order to…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-12-10 Qun Wang , Fuhui Zhou , Rose Qingyang Hu , Yi Qian

This work investigates the effect of double intelligent reflecting surface (IRS) in improving the spectrum efficient of multi-user multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) network operating in the millimeter wave (mmWave) band. Specifically,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-11-29 Hehao Niu , Zheng Chu , Fuhui Zhou , Cunhua Pan , Derrick Wing Kwan Ng , Huan X. Nguyen

We study the secrecy rate maximization problem in a millimeter wave (mmWave) network, consisting of a base station (BS), multiple intelligent reflecting surfaces (IRSs) (or reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RISs)), multiple users, and a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-10-02 Anahid Rafieifar , Hosein Ahmadinejad , S. Mohammad Razavizadeh , Jiguang He

Intelligent reflecting surface (IRS) has become a promising technology to aid next generation wireless communication systems. In this paper, we develop an alternating beamforming technique with a novel concept of IRS element allocation for…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-06-28 Hyesang Cho , Junil Choi

In this paper, we propose intelligent reflecting surfaces (IRS) assisted secure wireless communications with multi-input and multi-output antennas (IRS-MIMOME). The considered scenario is an access point (AP) equipped with multiple antennas…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-01-27 Weiheng Jiang , Yu Zhang , Jinsong Wu , Wenjiang Feng , Yi Jin

Intelligent reflecting surfaces (IRSs) are envisioned as a low-cost solution to achieve high spectral and energy efficiency in future communication systems due to their ability to customize wireless propagation environments. Although…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-02-27 Yifei Wu , Dongfang Xu , Derrick Wing Kwan Ng , Robert Schober , Wolfgang Gerstacker

This paper unveils the importance of intelligent reflecting surface (IRS) in a wireless powered sensor network (WPSN). Specifically, a multi-antenna power station (PS) employs energy beamforming to provide wireless charging for multiple…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-03-22 Zheng Chu , Zhengyu Zhu , Miao Zhang , Fuhui Zhou , Li Zhen , Xueqian Fu , and Naofal Al-Dhahir

This paper proposes an intelligent reflecting surface (IRS) assisted integrated sensing and communication (ISAC) system operating at the millimeter-wave (mmWave) band. Specifically, the ISAC system combines communication and radar…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-04-10 Zhengyu Zhu , Zheng Li , Zheng Chu , Gangcan Sun , Wanming Hao , Pei Xiao , Inkyu Lee

This letter investigates the joint active and passive beamforming optimization for intelligent reflecting surface (IRS) aided multiuser multiple-input multiple-output systems with the objective of maximizing the weighted sum-rate. We show…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-01-28 Xingyu Zhao , Tian Lin , Yu Zhu

Intelligent reflecting surface (IRS) is an emerging technique to enhance the wireless communication spectral efficiency with low hardware and energy cost. In this letter, we consider the integration of IRS to an orthogonal frequency…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-12-04 Yifei Yang , Shuowen Zhang , Rui Zhang

This work investigates the performance of intelligent reflective surfaces (IRSs) assisted uplink non-orthogonal multiple access (NOMA) in energy-constrained networks. Specifically, we formulate and solve two optimization problems; the first…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-05-31 Mahmoud AlaaEldin , Emad Alsusa , Karim G. Seddik , Constantinos B. Papadias , Mohammad Al-Jarrah