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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

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

Intelligent reflecting surface (IRS) is an enabling technology to engineer the radio signal prorogation in wireless networks. By smartly tuning the signal reflection via a large number of low-cost passive reflecting elements, IRS is capable…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-07-08 Qingqing Wu , Shuowen Zhang , Beixiong Zheng , Changsheng You , Rui Zhang

Reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RISs) allow controlling the propagation environment in wireless networks by tuning multiple reflecting elements. RISs have been traditionally realized through single connected architectures,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-06-16 Matteo Nerini , Shanpu Shen , Bruno Clerckx

We investigate transmission optimization for intelligent reflecting surface (IRS) assisted multi-antenna systems from the physical-layer security perspective. The design goal is to maximize the system secrecy rate subject to the source…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-05-12 Hong Shen , Wei Xu , Shulei Gong , Zhenyao He , Chunming Zhao

A realistic performance assessment of any wireless technology requires the use of a channel model that reflects its main characteristics. The independent and identically distributed Rayleigh fading channel model has been (and still is) the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-01-05 Emil Björnson , Luca Sanguinetti

Intelligent reflecting surface (IRS) is a promising solution to enhance the wireless communication capacity both cost-effectively and energy-efficiently, by properly altering the signal propagation via tuning a large number of passive…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-10-04 Shuowen Zhang , Rui Zhang

Intelligent reflecting surface (IRS) is of low-cost and energy-efficiency and will be a promising technology for the future wireless communications like sixth generation. To address the problem of conventional directional modulation (DM)…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-08-13 Feng Shu , Jiayu Li , Mengxing Huang , Weiping Shi , Yin Teng , Jun Li , Yongpeng Wu , Jiangzhou Wang

This paper investigates the sensing performance of two intelligent reflecting surface (IRS)-enabled non-line-of-sight (NLoS) sensing systems with fully-passive and semi-passive IRSs, respectively. In particular, we consider a fundamental…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-11-13 Xianxin Song , Xinmin Li , Xiaoqi Qin , Jie Xu , Tony Xiao Han , Derrick Wing Kwan Ng

Intelligent Reflecting Surface (IRS) utilizes low-cost, passive reflecting elements to enhance the passive beam gain, improve Wireless Energy Transfer (WET) efficiency, and enable its deployment for numerous Internet of Things (IoT)…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-11-16 Cheng Luo , Jie Hu , Luping Xiang , Kun Yang , Kai-Kit Wong

In this paper, we consider an intelligent reflecting surface (IRS)-aided single-user system where an IRS with discrete phase shifts is deployed to assist the uplink communication. A practical transmission protocol is proposed to execute…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-12-24 Changsheng You , Beixiong Zheng , Rui Zhang

Intelligent reflecting surface (IRS) has emerged as a promising technique to control wireless propagation environment for enhancing the communication performance cost-effectively. However, the rapidly time-varying channel in high-mobility…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-02-16 Zixuan Huang , Beixiong Zheng , Rui Zhang

In this paper, we propose a robust secrecy transmission scheme for intelligent reflecting surface (IRS) aided communication systems. Different from all the existing works where IRS has already been deployed at a fixed location, we take the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-08-01 Jiale Bai , Hui-Ming Wang , Peng Liu

In this paper, we propose intelligent reflecting surfaces (IRS) assisted secure wireless communications with multi-input and multi-output antennas (IRS-MIMOME). The considered scenario is an access point (AP) equipped with multiple antennas…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-01-27 Weiheng Jiang , Yu Zhang , Jinsong Wu , Wenjiang Feng , Yi Jin

In this chapter, using statistical physics methods, asymptotic closed-form expressions for the mean and variance of the mutual information for a multi-antenna transmitter-receiver pair in the presence of multiple Reconfigurable Intelligent…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-07-23 Aris L. Moustakas , George C. Alexandropoulos

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

Low-cost passive intelligent reflecting surfaces (IRSs) have recently been envisioned as a revolutionary technology capable of reconfiguring the wireless propagation environment through carefully tuning reflection elements. This paper…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-09-14 Zhangjie Peng , Zhenkun Zhang , Cunhua Pan , Li Li , A. Lee Swindlehurst

Physical layer key generation (PLKG) can significantly enhance the security of classic encryption schemes by enabling them to change their secret keys significantly faster and more efficient. However, due to the reliance of PLKG techniques…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-12-06 Vahid Shahiri , Hamid Behroozi , Ali Kuhestani

High-speed communication and accurate sensing are of vital importance for future transportation system. Integrated sensing and communication (ISAC) system has the advantages of high spectrum efficiency and low hardware cost, satisfying the…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-11-21 Zhiqing Wei , Xinyi Yang , Chunwei Meng , Xiaoyu Yang , Kaifeng Han , Chen Qiu , Huici Wu

In this study, we investigate the use of intelligent reflecting surfaces (IRSs) in multi-operator communication systems for 6G networks, focusing on sustainable and efficient resource management. This research is motivated by two critical…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-11-10 Hiroaki Hashida , Yuichi Kawamoto , Nei Kato