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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

This paper proposes a novel semi-self sensing hybrid reconfigurable intelligent surface (SS-HRIS) in terahertz (THz) bands, where the RIS is equipped with reflecting elements divided between passive and active elements in addition to…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-01-22 Sara Farrag Mobarak , Tingnan Bao , Melike Erol-Kantarci

Motivated by the challenges of future 6G communications where terahertz (THz) frequencies, intelligent reflective surfaces (IRSs) and ultra-wideband (UWB) signals coexist, we analyse and propose a set of efficient techniques for configuring…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-01-11 Alberto Tarable , Laura Dossi , Giuseppe Virone , Alessandro Nordio

In this paper, we propose to utilize intelligent reflecting surfaces (IRSs) for enhancing the physical layer security of wireless communications systems. In particular, an IRS-assisted secure wireless system is considered, where a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-02-26 Xianghao Yu , Dongfang Xu , Robert Schober

Intelligent reflecting surface (IRS) is envisioned as a promising solution for controlling radio propagation environments in future wireless systems. In this paper, we propose a distributed intelligent reflecting surface (IRS) assisted…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-11-02 Yashuai Cao , Tiejun Lv , Wei Ni

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

We investigate the use of an intelligent reflecting surface (IRS) in a millimeter-wave (mmWave) vehicular communication network. An intelligent reflecting surface consists of passive elements, which can reflect the incoming signals with…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-11-09 Dilin Dampahalage , K. B. Shashika Manosha , Nandana Rajatheva , MattiLatva-aho

Terahertz (THz) communication technology is regarded as a promising enabler for achieving ultra-high data rate transmission in next-generation communication systems. To mitigate the high path loss in THz systems, the transmitting beams are…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-02-25 Yanzhao Hou , Guoning Wang , Chen Chen , Gaoze Mu , Qimei Cui , Xiaofeng Tao , Yuanmu Yang

Intelligent reflecting surface (IRS) has gained tremendous attention recently as a disruptive technology for beyond 5G networks. In this paper, we consider the problem of secrecy rate maximization for an IRS-assisted Gaussian multiple-input…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-08-25 Anshu Mukherjee , Vaibhav Kumar , Le-Nam Tran

This paper proposes a hybrid-relaying scheme empowered by a self-sustainable intelligent reflecting surface (IRS) in a wireless powered communication network (WPCN), to simultaneously improve the performance of downlink energy transfer (ET)…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-10-01 Bin Lyu , Parisa Ramezani , Dinh Thai Hoang , Shimin Gong , Zhen Yang , Abbas Jamalipour

Intelligent reflecting surface (IRS) operating in the terahertz (THz) band has recently gained considerable interest due to its high spectrum bandwidth. Due to the exploitation of large scale of IRS, there is a high probability that the…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-05-28 Chi Qiu , Qingqing Wu , Wen Chen , Meng Hua , Wanming Hao , Mengnan Jian , Fen Hou

Intelligent reflecting surfaces (IRSs) have emerged as a promising economical solution to implement cell-free networks. However, the performance gains achieved by IRSs critically depend on smartly tuned passive beamforming based on the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-02-22 Xie Xie , Chen He , Xiaoya Li , Zhu Han , Z. Jane Wang

Intelligent reflecting surfaces (IRSs) constitute a disruptive wireless communication technique capable of creating a controllable propagation environment. In this paper, we propose to invoke an IRS at the cell boundary of multiple cells to…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-04-27 Cunhua Pan , Hong Ren , Kezhi Wang , Wei Xu , Maged Elkashlan , Arumugam Nallanathan , Lajos Hanzo

Intelligent reflecting surface (IRS) that enables the control of the wireless propagation environment has been looked upon as a promising technology for boosting the spectrum and energy efficiency in future wireless communication systems.…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-02-26 Samith Abeywickrama , Rui Zhang , Chau Yuen

This paper focuses on the fundamental problem of maximizing the achievable weighted sum rate (WSR) at information receivers (IRs) in an intelligent reflecting surface (IRS) assisted simultaneous wireless information and power transfer…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-03-02 Vaibhav Kumar , Anastasios Papazafeiropoulos , Muhammad Fainan Hanif , Le-Nam Tran , Mark F. Flanagan

This paper investigates multiple intelligent reflecting surfaces (IRSs) aided wireless network, where the IRSs are deployed to cooperatively assist communications between a multi-antenna base station (BS) and multiple single-antenna…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-02-13 Zhengfeng Li , Meng Hua , Qingxia Wang , Qingheng Song

We consider the optimization of a smart radio environment where meta-surfaces are employed to improve the performance of multiuser wireless networks working at sub-THz frequencies. Motivated by the extreme sparsity of the THz channel we…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-05-18 Alberto Tarable , Francesco Malandrino , Laura Dossi , Roberto Nebuloni , Giuseppe Virone , Alessandro Nordio

This paper focuses on studying orthogonal and non-orthogonal multiple access in intelligent reflecting surface (IRS)-aided systems. Unlike most prior works assuming continuous phase shifts, we employ the practical setup where only a finite…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-03-16 Wei Jiang , Hans Dieter Schotten

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 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