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Intelligent reflecting surfaces (IRSs) are regarded as key enablers of next-generation wireless communications, due to their capability of customizing the wireless propagation environment. In this paper, we investigate power-efficient…
Wireless communication in the TeraHertz band (0.1--10 THz) is envisioned as one of the key enabling technologies for the future sixth generation (6G) wireless communication systems scaled up beyond massive multiple input multiple output…
Intelligent reflecting surface (IRS)-assisted wireless communication is widely deemed a key technology for 6G systems. The main challenge in deploying an IRS-aided terahertz (THz) link, though, is the severe propagation losses at high…
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…
We investigate THz communication uplink multiple access using cascaded intelligent reflecting surfaces (IRSs) assuming correlated channels. Two independent objectives to be achieved via adjusting the phases of the cascaded IRSs: 1)…
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…
The demand for unprecedented performance in the upcoming 6G wireless networks is fomenting the research on THz communications empowered by Reconfigurable Inteligent Surfaces (RISs). A wide range of use cases have been proposed, most of…
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…
Intelligent reflecting surfaces (IRSs) are a promising technology for enhancing coverage and spectral efficiency, both in the sub-6 GHz and the millimeter wave (mmWave) bands. Existing approaches to leverage the benefits of IRS involve the…
Driven by the growing demand for higher spectral efficiency in wireless communications, intelligent reflecting surfaces (IRS) have attracted considerable attention for their ability to dynamically reconfigure the propagation environment.…
In this paper, we investigate an intelligent reflecting surface (IRS) assisted cell-free multiple input multiple output (MIMO) communication system, where distributed multiple IRSs are dedicated deployed to assist distributed multiple base…
Although the fifth-generation (5G) technologies will significantly improve the spectrum and energy efficiency of today's wireless communication networks, their high complexity and hardware cost as well as increasingly more energy…
In this paper, we consider a reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS)-assisted multiple-input multiple-output communication system with multiple antennas at both the base station (BS) and the user. We plan to maximize the achievable rate…
Intelligent reflecting surfaces (IRSs) are emerging as promising enablers for the next generation of wireless communication systems, because of their ability to customize favorable radio propagation environments. However, with the…
We propose a holographic version of a reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS) and investigate its application to terahertz (THz) massive multiple-input multiple-output systems. Capitalizing on the miniaturization of THz electronic…
Terahertz (THz) cell-free massive multiple-input-multiple-output (mMIMO) networks have been envisioned as a prospective technology for achieving higher system capacity, improved performance, and ultra-high reliability in 6G networks.…
This work examines the performance gain achieved by deploying an intelligent reflecting surface (IRS) in covert communications. To this end, we formulate the joint design of the transmit power and the IRS reflection coefficients by taking…
Terahertz (THz) communication offers the necessary bandwidth to meet the high data rate demands of next-generation wireless systems. However, it faces significant challenges, including severe path loss, dynamic blockages, and beam…
Intelligent reflecting surface (IRS) is a promising technique to extend the network coverage and improve spectral efficiency. This paper investigates an IRS-assisted terahertz (THz) multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO)-nonorthogonal…
In this paper, secure wireless information and power transfer with intelligent reflecting surface (IRS) is proposed for a multiple-input single-output (MISO) system. Under the secrecy rate (SR) and the reflecting phase shifts of IRS…