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Intelligent reflecting surface (IRS) is envisioned as a revolutionary technology for future wireless communication systems since it can intelligently change radio environment and integrate it into wireless communication optimization.…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-01-05 Hongyu Li , Wenhao Cai , Yang Liu , Ming Li , Qian Liu , Qingqing Wu

Intelligent reflecting surfaces (IRS) have been proposed in millimeter wave (mmWave) and terahertz (THz) systems to achieve both coverage and capacity enhancement, where the design of hybrid precoders, combiners, and the IRS typically…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-05-31 Shuntian Zheng , Sheng Wu , Chunxiao Jiang , Wei Zhang , Xiaojun Jing

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

Reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS) has become a promising technology for enhancing the reliability of wireless communications, which is capable of reflecting the desired signals through appropriate phase shifts. However, the intended…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-03-03 Bo Yang , Xuelin Cao , Chongwen Huang , Chau Yuen , Lijun Qian , Marco Di Renzo

Intelligent reflecting surfaces (IRSs) are considered a promising technology that can smartly reconfigure the wireless environment to enhance the performance of future wireless networks. However, the deployment of IRSs still faces…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2022-11-08 Faisal Naeem , Georges Kaddoum , Saud Khan , Komal S. Khan

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

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

Intelligent reflecting surface (IRS), which is capable to adjust propagation conditions by controlling phase shifts of the reflected waves that impinge on the surface, has been widely analyzed for enhancing the performance of wireless…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-06-29 Shuhang Zhang , Hongliang Zhang , Boya Di , Yunhua Tan , Marco Di Renzo , Zhu Han , H. Vincent Poor , Lingyang Song

While traditional electromagnetic stealth materials/metasurfaces can render a target virtually invisible to some extent, they lack flexibility and adaptability, and can only operate within a limited frequency and angle/direction range,…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-12-05 Beixiong Zheng , Xue Xiong , Jie Tang , Rui Zhang

Compared to traditional electromagnetic stealth (ES) materials, which are effective only within specific frequencies and orientations, intelligent reflecting surface (IRS) technology introduces a novel paradigm for achieving dynamic and…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-03-10 Qingjie Wu , Beixiong Zheng , Guangchi Zhang , Derrick Wing Kwan Ng , A. Lee Swindlehurst

Malicious jamming launched by smart jammer, which attacks legitimate transmissions has been regarded as one of the critical security challenges in wireless communications. Thus, this paper exploits intelligent reflecting surface (IRS) to…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-12-24 Helin Yang , Zehui Xiong , Jun Zhao , Dusit Niyato , Qingqing Wu , Massimo Tornatore , Stefano Secci

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

This paper studies multi-active intelligent-reflecting-surface (IRS) cooperative sensing, in which multiple active IRSs are deployed in a distributed manner to help the base station (BS) provide multi-view sensing. We focus on the scenario…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-04-23 Yuan Fang , Xianghao Yu , Jie Xu

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

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

Intelligent reflecting surface (IRS) is a promising technology for wireless communications, thanks to its potential capability to engineer the radio environment. However, in practice, such an envisaged benefit is attainable only when the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-06-14 Chao Feng , Haiquan Lu , Yong Zeng , Shi Jin , Rui Zhang

Intelligent reflecting surface (IRS) has recently received much attention from the research community due to its potential to achieve high spectral and power efficiency cost-effectively. In addition to traditional cellular networks, the use…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-03-17 Wei Jiang , Hans D. Schotten

This paper considers an active intelligent reflecting surface (IRS)-aided wireless powered communication network (WPCN), where devices first harvest energy and then transmit information to a hybrid access point (HAP). Different from the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-01-12 Piao Zeng , Deli Qiao , Qingqing Wu , Yuan Wu

Intelligent reflecting surfaces (IRSs) are envisioned as a transformative method for enhancing the physical layer security of future communication networks. However, current IRS-assisted secure wireless system designs incur high time cost…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-01-23 Yifei Wu , Mehmet Emin Arslan , Niels Neumann , Wolfgang Gerstacker , Robert Schober

Intelligent reflecting surfaces (IRS) have been proposed as a revolutionary technology owing to its capability of adaptively reconfiguring the propagation environment in a cost-effective and hardware-efficient fashion. While the application…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-01-25 Rang Liu , Ming Li , Qian Liu , A. Lee Swindlehurst , Qingqing Wu