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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

In this paper, we consider a multi-user multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) system aided by multiple intelligent reflecting surfaces (IRSs) that are deployed to increase the coverage and, possibly, the rank of the channel. We propose an…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-12-22 Andrea Abrardo , Davide Dardari , Marco Di Renzo

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

Intelligent reflecting surfaces (IRSs) have been introduced into wireless communications systems due to their great potential to smartly customize and reconfigure radio propagation environments in a cost-effective manner. Despite the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-03-15 Xianghao Yu , Vahid Jamali , Dongfang Xu , Derrick Wing Kwan Ng , Robert Schober

Intelligent Reflecting Surfaces (IRS) are a promising solution to enhance the coverage of future wireless networks by tuning low-cost passive reflecting elements (referred to as {metasurfaces}), thereby constructing a favorable wireless…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2021-06-11 Hazem Ibrahim , Hina Tabassum , Uyen T. Nguyen

Intelligent reflecting surfaces (IRSs) have emerged as a promising technology to improve the efficiency of wireless communication systems. However, passive IRSs suffer from the ``multiplicative fading" effect, because the transmit signal…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-05-11 Zeyan Zhuang , Xin Zhang , Dongfang Xu , Shenghui Song

This paper investigates the reconfigurable reflecting surface (RIS)-aided multiple-input-single-output (MISO) systems with imperfect channel state information (CSI), where RIS-related channels are modeled by Rician fading. Considering the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-07-13 Kangda Zhi , Cunhua Pan , Hong Ren , Kezhi Wang , Maged Elkashlan

Intelligent reflecting surface (IRS)-aided communication is a promising technology for beyond 5G (B5G) systems, to reconfigure the radio environment proactively. However, IRS-aided communication in practice requires efficient channel…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-11-23 Dingyang Ding , Di Wu , Yong Zeng , Shi Jin , Rui Zhang

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

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

We develop an efficient data-driven and model-free unsupervised learning algorithm for achieving fully passive intelligent reflective surface (IRS)-assisted optimal short/long-term beamforming in wireless communication networks. The…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-11-01 Spyridon Pougkakiotis , Hassaan Hashmi , Dionysis Kalogerias

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

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

Due to its ability of significantly improving data rate, intelligent reflecting surface (IRS) will be a potential crucial technique for the future generation wireless networks like 6G. In this paper, we will focus on the analysis of degree…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-08-04 Jinbing Jiang , Feng Shu , Xuehui Wang , Ke Yang , Chong Shen , Qi Zhang , Dongming Wang , Jiangzhou Wang

Intelligent reflection surface (IRS) has recently been recognized as a promising technique to enhance the performance of wireless systems due to its ability of reconfiguring the signal propagation environment. However, the perfect channel…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-08-10 Gui Zhou , Cunhua Pan , Hong Ren , Kezhi Wang , Arumugam Nallanathan

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

This paper proposes a novel multiple intelligent reflecting surfaces (IRSs) collaborative hybrid localization system, which involves deploying multiple IRSs near the target area and achieving target localization through joint time delay and…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-11-06 Ziheng Zhang , Wen Chen , Qingqing Wu , Haoran Qin , Zhendong Li , Qiong Wu

Due to their passive nature and thus low energy consumption, intelligent reflecting surfaces (IRSs) have shown promise as means of extending coverage as a proxy for connection reliability. The relative locations of the base station (BS),…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-05-08 Ehsan Tohidi , Sven Haesloop , Lars Thiele , Slawomir Stanczak

In this paper, we introduce an intelligent reflecting surface (IRS) to provide a programmable wireless environment for physical layer security. By adjusting the reflecting coefficients, the IRS can change the attenuation and scattering of…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-06-21 Jie Chen , Ying-Chang Liang , Yiyang Pei , Huayan Guo

This paper focuses on an intelligent reflecting surface (IRS)-assisted lossy communication system with correlated Rayleigh fading. We analyze the correlated channel model and derive the outage probability of the system. Then, we design a…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2024-08-14 Guanchang Li , Wensheng Lin , Lixin Li , Yixuan He , Fucheng Yang , Zhu Han