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Intelligent reflecting surface (IRS) is a proposing technology in 6G to enhance the performance of wireless networks by smartly reconfiguring the propagation environment with a large number of passive reflecting elements. However, current…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-02-17 Jinglian He , Kaiqiang Yu , Yuanming Shi

Intelligent reflecting surfaces (IRSs) are envisioned to provide reconfigurable wireless environments for future communication networks. In this paper, both downlink and uplink IRS-aided non-orthogonal multiple access (NOMA) and orthogonal…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-02-05 Yanyu Cheng , Kwok Hung Li , Yuanwei Liu , Kah Chan Teh , H. Vincent Poor

In this letter, secure beamforming in a multiple intelligent reflecting surfaces (IRSs)-aided millimeter-wave (mmWave) system is investigated. In this system, the secrecy rate is maximized by controlling the on-off status of each IRS as…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-12-29 Yue Xiu , Jun Zhao , Chau Yuen , Zhongpei Zhang , Guan Gui

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

Rate-splitting multiple access (RSMA) has recently appeared as a powerful technique for improving the downlink performance of multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) systems. By flexibly managing interference, RSMA can deliver high spectral…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-05-25 Arthur S. de Sena , Pedro H. J. Nardelli , Daniel B. da Costa , Petar Popovski , Constantinos B. Papadias

This paper considers an intelligent reflecting surface (IRS) assisted multi-input multi-output (MIMO) power splitting (PS) based simultaneous wireless information and power transfer (SWIPT) system with multiple PS receivers (PSRs). The…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-06-01 Chen He , Xie Xie , Kun Yang , Z. Jane Wang

Intelligent reflecting surfaces (IRSs)-assisted wireless communication promises improved system performance, while posing new challenges in channel estimation (CE) due to the passive nature of the reflecting elements. Although a few CE…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-09-25 Hibatallah Alwazani , Qurrat-Ul-Ain Nadeem , Anas Chaaban

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

While intelligent reflecting surface (IRS) assisted wireless communication has emerged as an important research paradigm, channel state information (CSI) acquisition remains a critical challenge to design the IRS phase-shifts and yield the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-09-10 Qurrat-Ul-Ain Nadeem , Anas Chaaban , Merouane Debbah

Intelligent reflecting surface (IRS) has the potential to enhance sensing performance, due to its capability of reshaping the echo signals. Different from the existing literature, which has commonly focused on IRS beamforming optimization,…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-07-08 Zhouyuan Yu , Xiaoling Hu , Chenxi Liu , Qin Tao , Mugen Peng

In this letter, we consider an intelligent reflecting surface (IRS)-assisted multiuser communication system, where an IRS is deployed to provide virtual line-of-sight (LoS) links between an access point (AP) and multiple users. We consider…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-06-30 Changsheng You , Beixiong Zheng , Rui Zhang

Intelligent reflecting surface (IRS) is envisioned to have abundant applications in future wireless networks by smartly reconfiguring the signal propagation for performance enhancement. Specifically, an IRS consists of a large number of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-09-13 Qingqing Wu , Rui Zhang

Intelligent reflecting surfaces (IRSs) have received much attention recently and are envisioned to promote 6G communication networks. In this paper, for wireless communications aided by IRS units, we formulate optimization problems for…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-11-05 Jun Zhao

Intelligent reflecting surface (IRS) is a promising new technology for achieving both spectrum and energy efficient wireless communication systems in the future. However, existing works on IRS mainly consider frequency-flat channels and…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-11-25 Yifei Yang , Beixiong Zheng , Shuowen Zhang , Rui Zhang

In this work, we unveil the advantages of synergizing cooperative rate splitting (CRS) with user relaying and simultaneously transmitting and reflecting reconfigurable intelligent surface (STAR RIS). Specifically, we propose a novel STAR…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-04-16 Kangchun Zhao , Yijie Mao , Yuanming Shi

Intelligent reflecting surface (IRS) has recently been emerging as an enabler for smart radio environment in which passive antenna arrays can be used to actively tailor/control the radio propagation. With multiple IRSs being launched to…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-12-09 Tu V. Nguyen , Diep N. Nguyen

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 surface (IRS) is an emerging technology for future wireless communications including 5G and especially 6G. It consists of a large 2D array of (semi-)passive scattering elements that control the electromagnetic…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-04-21 Gilderlan T. de Araújo , André L. F. de Almeida , Rémy Boyer

Intelligent reflecting surface (IRS) is deemed as a promising and revolutionizing technology for future wireless communication systems owing to its capability to intelligently change the propagation environment and introduce a new dimension…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-01-06 Wenhao Cai , Rang Liu , Yang Liu , Ming Li , Qian Liu

This work addresses the problem of intelligent reflecting surface (IRS) assisted target sensing in a non-line-of-sight (NLOS) scenario, where an IRS is employed to facilitate the radar/access point (AP) to sense the targets when the…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-07-03 Jilin Wang , Jun Fang , Hongbin Li , Lei Huang