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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

In the intelligent reflecting surface (IRS)-enhanced wireless communication system, channel state information (CSI) is of paramount importance for achieving the passive beamforming gain of IRS, which, however, is a practically challenging…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-01-30 Beixiong Zheng , Rui Zhang

Intelligent reflecting surface (IRS) is an emerging technique to enhance the wireless communication spectral efficiency with low hardware and energy cost. In this letter, we consider the integration of IRS to an orthogonal frequency…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-12-04 Yifei Yang , Shuowen Zhang , Rui Zhang

Recently, intelligent reflecting surface (IRS)-assisted communication has gained considerable attention due to its advantage in extending the coverage and compensating the path loss with low-cost passive metasurface. This paper considers…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-10-03 Silei Wang , Qiang Li , Jingran Lin

By applying tunable phase shifts to incident waves via passive signal reflection, intelligent reflecting surface (IRS) can offer significant performance improvement for wireless communication systems. To reap such performance gain, channel…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-07-01 Ge Yan , Lipeng Zhu , He Sun , Rui Zhang

We propose and analyze secret key generation using intelligent reflecting surface (IRS) assisted wireless communication networks. To this end, we first formulate the minimum achievable secret key capacity for an IRS acting as a passive…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-03-10 Zijie Ji , Phee Lep Yeoh , Deyou Zhang , Gaojie Chen , Yan Zhang , Zunwen He , Hao Yin , Yonghui Li

As a low-cost and low-power-consumption passive reflector, intelligent reflecting surface (IRS) can make a significant rate improvement by building a programmable wireless environment. To improve the rate performance and coverage range of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-03-29 Xuehui Wang , Feng Shu , Weiping Shi , Xiaopeng Liang , Rongen Dong , Jun Li , Jiangzhou Wang

Intelligent reflecting surfaces (IRSs) constitute passive devices, which are capable of adjusting the phase shifts of their reflected signals, and hence they are suitable for passive beamforming. In this paper, we conceive their design with…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-06-03 Chenghao Feng , Wenqian Shen , Xinyu Gao , Jianping An

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

Intelligent reflecting surface (IRS) has been regarded as a promising and revolutionary technology for future wireless communication systems owing to its capability of tailoring signal propagation environment in an…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-04-14 Wenhao Cai , Rang Liu , Ming Li , Yang Liu , Qingqing Wu , Qian Liu

Intelligent reflecting surface (IRS) has emerged as a cost-effective solution to enhance wireless communication performance via passive signal reflection. Existing works on IRS have mainly focused on investigating IRS's passive…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-07-19 Beixiong Zheng , Rui Zhang

In this paper, we propose an efficient joint precoding design method to maximize the weighted sum-rate in wideband intelligent reflecting surface (IRS)-assisted cell-free networks by jointly optimizing the active beamforming of base…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-12-10 Yajun Wang , Jinghan Jiang , Xin Du , Zhuxian Lian , Qingqing Wu , Wen Chen

Intelligent reflecting surface (IRS) is a promising technology to improve the performance of backscatter communication systems by smartly reconfiguring the multi-reflection channel. To fully exploit the passive beamforming gain of IRS in…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-03-17 Samith Abeywickrama , Changsheng You , Rui Zhang , Chau Yuen

This paper models an active intelligent reflecting surface (IRS) -assisted wireless communication network, which has the ability to adjust power between BS and IRS. We aim to maximize the signal-to-noise ratio of user by jointly designing…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-06-11 Qiankun Cheng , Jiatong Bai , Baihua Shi , Wei Gao , Feng Shu

In this paper, we focus on intelligent reflecting surface (IRS) assisted multi-antenna communications with transceiver hardware impairments encountered in practice. In particular, we aim to maximize the received signal-to-noise ratio (SNR)…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-10-22 Hong Shen , Wei Xu , Shulei Gong , Chunming Zhao , Derrick Wing Kwan Ng

In this paper, the feasibility of adopting an intelligent reflective surface (IRS) in a cell-free wireless communication system is studied. The received signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) for this IRS-enabled cell-free set-up is optimized by…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-09-28 Diluka Loku Galappaththige , Dhanushka Kudathanthirige , Gayan Amarasuriya

Intelligent reflecting surface (IRS) is being considered as a prospective candidate for next-generation wireless communication due to its ability to significantly improve coverage and spectral efficiency by controlling the propagation…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-04-29 Hasan Albinsaid , Keshav Singh , Ankur Bansal , Sudip Biswas , Chih-Peng Li , Zygmunt J. Haas

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 surface (IRS) has been widely studied in recent years, it has emerged as a new technology which can reflect the incident signal by intelligently configuring the reflection elements, thus changing the signal…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-05-07 Jintao Luo , Sixing Yin

Intelligent reflecting surface (IRS), which consists of a large number of tunable reflective elements, is capable of enhancing the wireless propagation environment in a cellular network by intelligently reflecting the electromagnetic waves…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-06-10 Tao Jiang , Hei Victor Cheng , Wei Yu