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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, we study an IRS-assisted coverage enhancement problem for a given region, aiming to optimize the passive reflection of the IRS for improving the average communication performance in the region by accounting for both…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-11-06 He Sun , Lipeng Zhu , Weidong Mei , Rui Zhang

The concept of reconfiguring wireless propagation environments using intelligent reflecting surfaces (IRS)s has recently emerged, where an IRS comprises of a large number of passive reflecting elements that can smartly reflect the impinging…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-05-05 Qurrat-Ul-Ain Nadeem , Hibatallah Alwazani , Abla Kammoun , Anas Chaaban , Merouane Debbah , Mohamed-Slim Alouini

Intelligent reflecting surface (IRS) has drawn a lot of attention recently as a promising new solution to achieve high spectral and energy efficiency for future wireless networks. By utilizing massive low-cost passive reflecting elements,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-10-17 Ming-Min Zhao , Qingqing Wu , Min-Jian Zhao , Rui Zhang

Intelligent reflecting surface (IRS) is a cost-efficient technique to improve power efficiency and spectral efficiency. However, IRS-aided multi-antenna transmission needs to jointly optimize the passive and active beamforming, imposing a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-05-03 Wei Jiang , Hans Dieter Schotten

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

In this paper, we investigate the design of robust and secure transmission in intelligent reflecting surface (IRS) aided wireless communication systems. In particular, a multi-antenna access point (AP) communicates with a single-antenna…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-12-04 Sheng Hong , Cunhua Pan , Hong Ren , Kezhi Wang , Kok Keong Chai , Arumugam Nallanathan

Intelligent reflecting surface (IRS) has emerged as a cost-effective solution to enhance wireless communication performance via passive signal reflection. Existing works on IRS have mainly focused on investigating IRS's passive…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-07-19 Beixiong Zheng , Rui Zhang

By reconfiguring wireless channels via passive signal reflection, intelligent reflecting surface (IRS) can bring significant performance enhancement for wireless communication systems. However, such performance improvement generally relies…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-07-31 Ge Yan , Lipeng Zhu , Rui Zhang

This paper investigates the uplink cascaded channel estimation for intelligent-reflecting-surface (IRS)-assisted multi-user multiple-input-single-output systems. We focus on a sub-6 GHz scenario where the channel propagation is not sparse…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-09-07 Huayan Guo , Vincent K. N. Lau

In this paper, we consider channel estimation for intelligent reflecting surface (IRS)-assisted millimeter wave (mmWave) systems, where an IRS is deployed to assist the data transmission from the base station (BS) to a user. It is shown…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-07-15 Peilan Wang , Jun Fang , Huiping Duan , Hongbin Li

Intelligent reflecting surface (IRS) is envisioned to be a new and revolutionizing technology for achieving spectrum and energy efficient wireless communication networks cost-effectively in the future. Specifically, an IRS consists of a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-08-13 Qingqing Wu , Rui Zhang

To achieve the full passive beamforming gains of intelligent reflecting surface (IRS), accurate channel state information (CSI) is indispensable but practically challenging to acquire, due to the excessive amount of channel parameters to be…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-09-15 Beixiong Zheng , Changsheng You , Rui Zhang

Intelligent reflecting surface (IRS) has emerged as a promising technique to enhance wireless communication performance cost effectively. The existing literature has mainly considered IRS being deployed near user terminals to improve their…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-05-27 Yuwei Huang , Weidong Mei , Rui Zhang

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

Active intelligent reflecting surface (IRS) enables flexible signal reflection control with \emph{power amplification}, thus effectively compensating the product-distance path-loss in conventional passive-IRS aided systems. In this letter,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-11-09 Yunli Li , Changsheng You , Young Jin Chun

Intelligent reflecting surface (IRS) has recently been identified as a prominent technology with the ability of enhancing wireless communication by dynamically manipulating the propagation environment. This paper investigates a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-09-15 Yuwei Gao , Jindan Xu , Wei Xu , Derrick Wing Kwan Ng , Mohamed Slim Alouini

Intelligent reflecting surface (IRS) has been widely studied in recent years, it has emerged as a new technology which can reflect the incident signal by intelligently configuring the reflection elements, thus changing the signal…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-05-07 Jintao Luo , Sixing Yin

In this letter, we consider an intelligent reflecting surface (IRS)-assisted multiuser communication system, where an IRS is deployed to provide virtual line-of-sight (LoS) links between an access point (AP) and multiple users. We consider…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-06-30 Changsheng You , Beixiong Zheng , Rui Zhang

Pixel-based reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RISs) employ a novel design to achieve high reflection gain at a lower hardware cost by eliminating the phase shifters used in traditional RIS. However, this design presents challenges for…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-10-24 Huayan Guo , Junhui Rao , Alex M. H. Wong , Ross Murch , Vincent K. N. Lau