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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

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

Compared to passive intelligent reflecting surface (IRS), active IRS is viewed as a more efficient promising technique to combat the double-fading impact in IRS-aided wireless network. In this paper, in order to boost the achievable rate of…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-05-16 Yeqing Lin , Feng Shu , Rongen Dong , Riqing Chen , Siling Feng , Weiping Shi , Jing Liu , Jiangzhou Wang

Besides improving communication performance, intelligent reflecting surfaces (IRSs) are also promising enablers for achieving larger sensing coverage and enhanced sensing quality. Nevertheless, in the absence of a direct path between the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-11-08 Kaitao Meng , Qingqing Wu , Robert Schober , Wen Chen

Intelligent reflecting surface (IRS) is regarded as a revolutionary paradigm that can reconfigure the wireless propagation environment for enhancing the desired signal and/or weakening the interference, and thus improving the quality of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-12-19 Xintong Chen , Jiangbin Lyu , Liqun Fu

This paper investigates a multi-intelligent reflecting surface (IRS) aided integrated sensing and communication (ISAC) system, where multiple IRSs are strategically deployed not only to assist the communication from a multi-antenna base…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-06-30 Guangji Chen , Qingqing Wu , Shihang Lu , Meng Hua , Wen Chen

Intelligent reflecting surfaces (IRSs) have emerged as a transformative technology for wireless networks by improving coverage, capacity, and energy efficiency through intelligent manipulation of wireless propagation environments. This…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-03-06 Qingqing Wu , Guangji Chen , Qiaoyan Peng , Wen Chen , Yifei Yuan , Zhenqiao Cheng , Jianwu Dou , Zhiyong Zhao , Ping Li

In this paper, a novel intelligent reflecting surface (IRS)-assisted wireless powered communication network (WPCN) architecture is proposed for power-constrained Internet-of-Things (IoT) smart devices, where IRS is exploited to improve the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-12-07 Zhendong Li , Wen Chen , Qingqing Wu , Huanqing Cao , Kunlun Wang , Jun Li

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

This paper presents an overview on intelligent reflecting surface (IRS)-enabled sensing and communication for the forthcoming sixth-generation (6G) wireless networks, in which IRSs are strategically deployed to proactively reconfigure…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-11-12 Xianxin Song , Yuan Fang , Feng Wang , Zixiang Ren , Xianghao Yu , Ye Zhang , Fan Liu , Jie Xu , Derrick Wing Kwan Ng , Rui Zhang , Shuguang Cui

Applications of intelligent reflecting surfaces (IRSs) in wireless networks have attracted significant attention recently. Most of the relevant literature is focused on the single cell setting where a single IRS is deployed and perfect…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-04-02 Junghoon Kim , Seyyedali Hosseinalipour , Taejoon Kim , David J. Love , Christopher G. Brinton

Intelligent Reflecting Surface (IRS) has been a promising solution to enhance wireless networks both spectral-efficiently and energy-efficiently. This paper considers an IRS-assisted the Internet of Things network for massive connectivity.…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-11-28 Shuhao Xia , Yuanming Shi

In this paper, we focus on the sum-rate optimization in a multi-user millimeter-wave (mmWave) system with distributed intelligent reflecting surfaces (D-IRSs), where a base station (BS) communicates with users via multiple IRSs. The BS…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-01-22 Yue Xiu , Wei Sun , Jiao Wu , Guan Gui , Ning Wei , Zhongpei Zhang

In opportunistic cognitive radio networks, when the primary signal is very weak compared to the background noise, the secondary user requires long sensing time to achieve a reliable spectrum sensing performance, leading to little remaining…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-04-29 Jungang Ge , Ying-Chang Liang , Sumei Sun , Yonghong Zeng , Zhidong Bai

Intelligent Reflecting Surface (IRS) is a promising technology for next generation wireless networks. Despite substantial research in IRS-aided communications, the assumed antenna and channel models are typically simplified without…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-05-07 Dongsheng Fu , Xintong Chen , Jiangbin Lyu , Liqun Fu

This paper investigates multiuser multi-input single-output (MISO) downlink communications assisted by a self-sustainable intelligent reflection surface (IRS), which can harvest power from the received signals. We study the joint design of…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-05-26 Shaokang Hu , Zhiqiang Wei , Yuanxin Cai , Derrick Wing Kwan Ng , Jinhong Yuan

In this paper, intelligent reflecting surfaces (IRSs) are employed to enhance the physical layer security in a challenging radio environment. In particular, a multi-antenna access point (AP) has to serve multiple single-antenna legitimate…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-04-21 Xianghao Yu , Dongfang Xu , Ying Sun , Derrick Wing Kwan Ng , Robert Schober

Active reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS) has attracted significant attention in wireless communications, due to its reflecting elements (REs) capable of reflecting incident signals with not only phase shifts but also amplitude…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-04-01 Ruizhe Long , Hu Zhou , Ying-Chang Liang

The fundamental performance metrics of an intelligent reflective surface (IRS)-aided wireless system are presented. By optimizing the IRS phase-shift matrix, the received signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) is maximized at the destination in the…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-10-26 Dulaj Gunasinghe , Dhanushka Kudathanthirige , Gayan Amarasuriya Aruma Baduge

Intelligent reflecting surface (IRS) is a promising solution to enhance the wireless communication capacity both cost-effectively and energy-efficiently, by properly altering the signal propagation via tuning a large number of passive…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-10-04 Shuowen Zhang , Rui Zhang