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The increasing demand for high data rates and seamless connectivity in wireless systems has sparked significant interest in reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RIS) and artificial intelligence-based wireless applications. RIS typically…

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Intelligent reflecting surfaces (IRS) consist of configurable meta-atoms, which can change the wireless propagation environment through design of their reflection coefficients. We consider a practical setting where (i) the IRS reflection…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-12-06 Junghoon Kim , Seyyedali Hosseinalipour , Andrew C. Marcum , Taejoon Kim , David J. Love , Christopher G. Brinton

Intelligent reflecting surface (IRS) has been widely recognized as an efficient technique to reconfigure the electromagnetic environment in favor of wireless communication performance. In this paper, we propose a new application of IRS for…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-01-24 Peilan Wang , Weidong Mei , Jun Fang , Rui Zhang

Emerged as a promising solution for future wireless communication systems, intelligent reflecting surface (IRS) is capable of reconfiguring the wireless propagation environment by adjusting the phase-shift of a large number of reflecting…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2023-02-06 Hongguang Sun , Zelun Zhao , Hu Cheng , Jiangbin Lyu , Xijun Wang , Yan Zhang , Tony Q. S. Quek

As a new technology to reconfigure wireless communication environment by signal reflection controlled by software, intelligent reflecting surface (IRS) has attracted lots of attention in recent years. Compared with conventional relay…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-11-07 Rongen Dong , Zhongyi Xie , Feng Shu , Mengxing Huang , Jiangzhou Wang

Intelligent reflecting surface (IRS) is a promising paradigm to reconfigure the wireless environment for enhanced communication coverage and quality. However, to compensate for the double pathloss effect, massive IRS elements are required,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-08-12 Zhenyu Jiang , Xintong Chen , Jiangbin Lyu , Liqun Fu , Rui Zhang

Future wireless communication networks are expected to be smarter and more aware of their surroundings, enabling a wide range of context-aware applications. Reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RISs) are set to play a critical role in…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-03-13 Yixuan Huang , Jie Yang , Chao-Kai Wen , Shi Jin

Intelligent reflecting surfaces (IRSs) constitute passive devices, which are capable of adjusting the phase shifts of their reflected signals, and hence they are suitable for passive beamforming. In this paper, we conceive their design with…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-06-03 Chenghao Feng , Wenqian Shen , Xinyu Gao , Jianping An

Intelligent reflecting surfaces (IRSs) have emerged as a cost-effective technology for terahertz (THz) communications by enabling programmable control of the wireless environment. This paper provides a comprehensive overview of IRSs-aided…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-06-23 Qingqing Wu , Yanze Zhu , Qiaoyan Peng , Wanming Hao , Yanzhao Hou , Fengyuan Yang , Wencai Yan , Guoning Wang , Wen Chen , Chi Qiu

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

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

An intelligent reflecting surface (IRS), consisting of reconfigurable metamaterials, can be used to partially control the radio environment and thereby bring new features to wireless communications. Previous works on IRS have particularly…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-02-07 Özgecan Özdogan , Emil Björnson , Erik G. Larsson

An accurate and simple analytical model for the computation of the reflection amplitude and phase of Reconfigurable Intelligent Surfaces is presented. The model is based on a transmission-line circuit representation of the RIS which takes…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-11-16 Filippo Costa , Michele Borgese

Reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RIS) can improve signal propagation environments by adjusting the phase of the incident signal. However, optimizing the phase shifts jointly with the beamforming vector at the access point is challenging…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-10-28 Weijie Jin , Jing Zhang , Chao-Kai Wen , Shi Jin , Xiao Li , Shuangfeng Han

Intelligent reflecting surfaces (IRSs) are revolutionary enablers for next-generation wireless communication networks, with the ability to customize the radio propagation environment. To fully exploit the potential of IRS-assisted wireless…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-10-12 Yifan Ma , Yifei Shen , Xianghao Yu , Jun Zhang , S. H. Song , Khaled B. Letaief

This paper studies a multi-Intelligent Reflecting Surfaces (IRSs)-assisted wireless network consisting of multiple base stations (BSs) serving a set of mobile users. We focus on the IRS-BS association problem in which multiple BSs compete…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2021-06-25 Dongzi Jin , Yong Xiao , Yingyu Li , Guangming Shi , Dusit Niyato

Optimizing discrete phase shifts in large-scale reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RISs) is challenging due to their non-convex and non-linear nature. In this letter, we propose a heuristic-integrated deep reinforcement learning (DRL)…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-05-08 Wei Wang , Peizheng Li , Angela Doufexi , Mark A. Beach

This work gives a blind beamforming strategy for intelligent reflecting surface (IRS), aiming to boost the received signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) by coordinating phase shifts across reflective elements in the absence of channel information.…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-11-04 Shuyi Ren , Kaiming Shen , Yaowen Zhang , Xin Li , Xin Chen , Zhi-Quan Luo

Intelligent reflecting surface (IRS) has emerged as a key enabling technology to realize smart and reconfigurable radio environment for wireless communications, by digitally controlling the signal reflection via a large number of passive…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-02-02 Beixiong Zheng , Changsheng You , Weidong Mei , Rui Zhang

Reconfigurable Intelligent Surfaces (RISs) constitute a promising emerging technology that enables wireless systems to control the propagation environment to enhance diverse communication objectives. To mitigate double-fading attenuation in…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-04-01 Panagiotis Gavriilidis , Deepak Mishra , Besma Smida , Ertugrul Basar , Chau Yuen , George C. Alexandropoulos