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Cooperative double intelligent reflecting surface (double-IRS) has emerged as a promising approach for enhancing physical layer security (PLS) in MIMO systems. However, existing studies are limited to narrowband scenarios and fail to…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-01-28 Weijie Xiong , Jingran Lin , Di Jiang , Yuhan Zhang , Kai Zhong , Qiang Li

Reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS) based reflection modulation has been considered as a promising information delivery mechanism, and has the potential to realize passive information transfer of a RIS without consuming any additional…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-03-02 Wenjing Yan , Xiaojun Yuan , Xuanyu Cao

Intelligent reflecting surface (IRS) has emerged as a promising technology to reconfigure the radio propagation environment by dynamically controlling wireless signal's amplitude and/or phase via a large number of reflecting elements. In…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-05-26 Xiaodan Shao , Changsheng You , Wenyan Ma , Xiaoming Chen , Rui Zhang

Intelligent reflecting surface (IRS) is envisioned to change the paradigm of wireless communications from "adapting to wireless channels" to "changing wireless channels". However, current IRS configuration schemes, consisting of sub-channel…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-05-12 Wei Wang , Wei Zhang

The hybrid relay-reflecting intelligent surface (HR-RIS) has been recently introduced as an efficient solution to overcome the double path loss and limited beamforming diversity of the conventional fully passive reflecting surface. This…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-05-30 Edson Nobuyuki Egashira , Diana Pamela Moya Osorio , Nhan Thanh Nguyen , Markku Juntti

Intelligent reflecting surface (IRS) is a promising technology to improve the performance of backscatter communication systems by smartly reconfiguring the multi-reflection channel. To fully exploit the passive beamforming gain of IRS in…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-03-17 Samith Abeywickrama , Changsheng You , Rui Zhang , Chau Yuen

Intelligent reflecting/refracting surface (IRS) has recently emerged as a promising solution to reconfigure wireless propagation environment for enhancing the communication performance. In this paper, we study a new IRS-aided high-mobility…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-12-14 Zixuan Huang , Beixiong Zheng , Rui Zhang

We propose a novel directional modulation (DM) design for OFDM transmitters aided by a time-modulated intelligent reflecting surface (TM-IRS). The TM-IRS is configured to preserve the integrity of transmitted signals toward multiple…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-06-19 Zhihao Tao , Athina P. Petropulu

Reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RISs) are recognized with great potential to strengthen wireless security, yet the performance gain largely depends on the deployment location of RISs in the network topology. In this paper, we consider…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-03-01 Xiao Tang , Hongliang He , Limeng Dong , Lixin Li , Qinghe Du , Zhu Han

This paper investigates the problem of increasing the security at the physical layer of a Millimeter Wave (mmWave) network equipped with several Intelligent Reflecting Surfaces (IRSs). In this network, multiple IRSs help the Base Station…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-10-07 Anahid Rafieifar , S. Mohammad Razavizadeh

This letter attempts to design a surveillance scheme by adopting an active reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS). Different from the conventional passive RIS, the active RIS could not only adjust the phase shift but also amplify the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-10-28 Xinyue Hu , Yibo Yi , Kun Li , Hongwei Zhang , Caihong Kai

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

One of the great potentials to improve the confidentiality in mmWave/THz at the physical layer of technical communication, measured by the secrecy rate, lies in the use of reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RISs). However, an important…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-01-30 Chu Li , Stefan Roth , Aydin Sezgin

This letter proposes a simple design of intelligent reflecting surface (IRS) assisted non-orthogonal multiple access (NOMA) transmission, which can ensure that more users are served on each orthogonal spatial direction than spatial division…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-07-25 Z. Ding , H. V. Poor

In this paper, intelligent reflecting surface (IRS) is proposed to enhance the physical layer security in the Rician fading channel where the angular direction of the eavesdropper is aligned with a legitimate user. In this scenario, we…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-06-29 Gui Zhou , Cunhua Pan , Hong Ren , Kezhi Wang , Kok Keong Chai , Kai-Kit Wong

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

This letter presents a detailed performance analysis of the intelligent reflecting surface (IRS) aided single-input single-output communication systems, taking into account of the direct link between the transmitter and receiver. A…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-08-04 Qin Tao , Junwei Wang , Caijun Zhong

Intelligent reflecting surface (IRS) is a new promising technology that is able to manipulate the wireless propagation channel via smart and controllable signal reflection. In this paper, we investigate the capacity region of a multiple…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-02-18 Shuowen Zhang , Rui Zhang

Intelligent reflecting surface (IRS) can be densely deployed in wireless networks to significantly enhance the communication channels. In this letter, we consider the downlink transmission from a multi-antenna base station (BS) to a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-02-16 Weidong Mei , Rui Zhang

This paper investigates the use of intelligent reflecting surfaces (IRS) to assist cellular communications and radar sensing operations in a communications and sensing setup. The IRS dynamically allocates reflecting elements to…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-10-24 Daniyal Munir , Atta Ullah , Danish Mehmood Mughal , Min Young Chung , Hans D. Schotten