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For intelligent reflecting surface (IRS)-aided wireless communications, channel estimation is essential and usually requires excessive channel training overhead when the number of IRS reflecting elements is large. The acquisition of…

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Channel estimation in the RIS-aided massive multiuser multiple-input single-output (MU-MISO) wireless communication systems is challenging due to the passive feature of RIS and the large number of reflecting elements that incur high channel…

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Intelligent reflecting surface (IRS) is deemed as a promising and revolutionizing technology for future wireless communication systems owing to its capability to intelligently change the propagation environment and introduce a new dimension…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-01-06 Wenhao Cai , Rang Liu , Yang Liu , Ming Li , Qian Liu

Intelligent reflecting surface (IRS) is an emerging technology to enhance the spectral and energy efficiency of wireless communications cost-effectively. This letter considers a new multi-IRS aided wireless network where a cascaded…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-08-12 Weidong Mei , Rui Zhang

The analysis and optimization of single intelligent reflecting surface (IRS)-assisted systems have been extensively studied, whereas little is known regarding multiple-IRS-assisted systems. This paper investigates the analysis and…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-06-07 Gengfa Ding , Feng Yang , Lianghui Ding , Ying Cui

Double-reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS) is a promising technique, achieving a substantial gain improvement compared to single-RIS techniques. However, in double-RIS-aided systems, accurate channel estimation is more challenging than…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-11-30 Songjie Yang , Wanting Lyu , Yue Xiu , Zhongpei Zhang , Chau Yuen

This paper studies the feasibility of deploying intelligent reflecting surfaces (IRSs) in massive MIMO (multiple-input multiple-output) systems to improve the performance of users in the service dead zone. To reduce the channel training…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-01-13 Zhaorui Wang , Liang Liu , Shuowen Zhang , Shuguang Cui

Intelligent reflecting surface (IRS) that enables the control of wireless propagation environment has recently emerged as a promising cost-effective technology for boosting the spectrum and energy efficiency in future wireless communication…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-02-25 Samith Abeywickrama , Rui Zhang , Qingqing Wu , 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

In this paper, channel estimation of an active intelligent reflecting surface (IRS) aided uplink Internet of Things (IoT) network is investigated. Firstly, the least square (LS) estimators for the direct channel and the cascaded channel are…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-07-16 Yan Wang , Feng Shu , Rongen Dong , Wei Gao , Qi Zhang , Jiajia Liu

Intelligent reflecting surface (IRS) is an enabling technology to engineer the radio signal prorogation in wireless networks. By smartly tuning the signal reflection via a large number of low-cost passive reflecting elements, IRS is capable…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-07-08 Qingqing Wu , Shuowen Zhang , Beixiong Zheng , Changsheng You , Rui Zhang

Integrated sensing and communication (ISAC) and intelligent reflecting surface (IRS) are viewed as promising technologies for future generations of wireless networks. This paper investigates the channel estimation problem in an IRS-assisted…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-04-09 Yu Liu , Ibrahim Al-Nahhal , Octavia A. Dobre , Fanggang Wang

Channel estimation is challenging for the reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS)-aided wireless communications. Since the number of coefficients of the cascaded channel among the base station (BS), the RIS and the user equipments (UEs) is…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-05-19 Chen Hu , Linglong Dai

This paper considers an angle-domain intelligent reflecting surface (IRS) system. We derive maximum likelihood (ML) estimators for the effective angles from the base station (BS) to the user and the effective angles of propagation from the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-03-02 Xiaoling Hu , Caijun Zhong , Zhaoyang Zhang

The application of intelligent reflecting surface (IRS) depends on the knowledge of channel state information (CSI), and has been hindered by the heavy overhead of channel training, estimation, and feedback in fast-changing channels. This…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-06-16 Yashuai Cao , Tiejun Lv , Wei Ni

In this letter, we optimize the channel estimator of the cascaded channel in an intelligent reflecting surface (IRS)-assisted millimeter wave (mmWave) multi-antenna system. In this system, the receiver is equipped with a hybrid architecture…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-10-05 Wenhui Zhang , Jindan Xu , Wei Xu , Derrick Wing Kwan Ng , Huan Sun

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

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-07-12 Shuowen Zhang , Rui Zhang

Integrating large intelligent reflecting surfaces (IRS) into millimeter-wave (mmWave) massive multi-input-multi-ouput (MIMO) has been a promising approach for improved coverage and throughput. Most existing work assumes the ideal channel…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-09-01 Shicong Liu , Zhen Gao , Jun Zhang , Marco Di Renzo , Mohamed-Slim Alouini

In this work, we study the statistically robust beamforming design for an intelligent reflecting surfaces (IRS) assisted multiple-input single-output (MISO) wireless system under imperfect channel state information (CSI), where the channel…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-06-15 Jiezhi Zhang , Yu Zhang , Caijun Zhong , Zhaoyang Zhang

Bilayer intelligent omni-surface (BIOS) has recently attracted increasing attention due to its capability of independent beamforming on both reflection and refraction sides. However, its specific bilayer structure makes the channel…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-02-17 Qiucen Wu , Tian Lin , Yu Zhu