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Intelligent reflecting surface (IRS) has become a promising technology to aid next generation wireless communication systems. In this paper, we develop an alternating beamforming technique with a novel concept of IRS element allocation for…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-06-28 Hyesang Cho , Junil Choi

Intelligent reflecting surface (IRS) is a promising technology to boost the efficiency of wireless energy transfer (WET) systems. However, for a multiuser WET system, simultaneous multi-beam energy transmission is generally required to…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-05-19 Chi Qiu , Qingqing Wu , Meng Hua , Xinrong guan , Yuan Wu

Reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS)-aided terahertz (THz) communications have been regarded as a promising candidate for future 6G networks because of its ultra-wide bandwidth and ultra-low power consumption. However, there exists the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-06-26 Wencai Yan , Wanming Hao , Chongwen Huang , Gangcan Sun , Osamu Muta , Haris Gacanin , Chau Yuen

In this paper, we investigate the beam training problem in the multi-user millimeter wave (mmWave) communication system, where multiple reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RISs) are deployed to improve the coverage and the achievable rate.…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-04-10 Yuan Xu , Chongwen Huang , Li Wei , Zhaohui Yang , Xiaoming Chen , Zhaoyang Zhang , Chau Yuen , Mérouane Debbah

This paper considers an angle-domain intelligent reflecting surface (IRS) system. We derive maximum likelihood (ML) estimators for the effective angles from the base station (BS) to the user and the effective angles of propagation from the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-03-02 Xiaoling Hu , Caijun Zhong , Zhaoyang Zhang

Intelligent reflecting surface (IRS) has the potential to significantly enhance the network performance by reconfiguring the wireless propagation environments. It is however difficult to obtain the accurate downlink channel state…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-05-18 Wenzhi Fang , Min Fu , Yuanming Shi , Yong Zhou

Millimeter wave (mmWave) communications are vulnerable to blockages and node mobility due to the highly directional signal beams. The emerging Reconfigurable Intelligent Surfaces (RISs) technique can effectively mitigate the blockage…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-10-28 Xiaowen Tian , Zhi Sun

Intelligent reflecting surface (IRS) has emerged as an enabling technology to achieve smart and reconfigurable wireless communication environment cost-effectively. Prior works on IRS mainly consider its passive beamforming design and…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-03-12 Beixiong Zheng , Changsheng You , Rui Zhang

Intelligent reflecting surface (IRS) can be densely deployed in wireless networks to significantly enhance the communication channels. In this letter, we consider the downlink transmission from a multi-antenna base station (BS) to a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-02-16 Weidong Mei , Rui Zhang

While traditional electromagnetic stealth materials/metasurfaces can render a target virtually invisible to some extent, they lack flexibility and adaptability, and can only operate within a limited frequency and angle/direction range,…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-12-05 Beixiong Zheng , Xue Xiong , Jie Tang , Rui Zhang

This paper studies multi-active intelligent-reflecting-surface (IRS) cooperative sensing, in which multiple active IRSs are deployed in a distributed manner to help the base station (BS) provide multi-view sensing. We focus on the scenario…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-04-23 Yuan Fang , Xianghao Yu , Jie Xu

Intelligent reflecting surface (IRS) has garnered growing interest and attention due to its potential for facilitating and supporting wireless communications and sensing. This paper studies a semi-passive IRS-enabled sensing system, where…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-02-06 Qiaoyan Peng , Qingqing Wu , Wen Chen , Shaodan Ma , Ming-Min Zhao , Octavia A. Dobre

In a practical massive MIMO (multiple-input multiple-output) system, the number of antennas at a base station (BS) is constrained by the space and cost factors, which limits the throughput gain promised by theoretical analysis. This paper…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-05-06 Zhaorui Wang , Liang Liu , Shuguang Cui

Intelligent reflecting surface (IRS) has emerged as a promising technology to reconfigure the radio propagation environment by dynamically controlling wireless signal's amplitude and/or phase via a large number of reflecting elements. In…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-05-26 Xiaodan Shao , Changsheng You , Wenyan Ma , Xiaoming Chen , Rui Zhang

Intelligent reflecting surface (IRS) is a revolutionary and low-cost technology for boosting the spectrum and energy efficiencies in future wireless communication network. In order to create controllable multipath transmission in the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-07-12 Rongen Dong , Shaohua Jiang , Xinhai Hua , Yin Teng , Feng Shu , Jiangzhou Wang

Intelligent reflecting surface (IRS) is a new and revolutionizing technology for achieving spectrum and energy efficient wireless networks. By leveraging massive low-cost passive elements that are able to reflect radio-frequency (RF)…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-11-12 Qingqing Wu , Rui Zhang

This paper investigates intelligent reflecting surface (IRS)-aided multi-antenna wireless powered communications in a multi-link interference channel, where multiple IRSs are deployed to enhance the downlink/uplink communications between…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-07-31 Ying Gao , Qingqing Wu , Wen Chen

Intelligent reflecting surface (IRS) has recently been envisioned to offer unprecedented massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO)-like gains by deploying large-scale and low-cost passive reflection elements. By adjusting the reflection…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-07-15 Gui Zhou , Cunhua Pan , Hong Ren , Kezhi Wang , Arumugam Nallanathan

The intelligent reflecting surface (IRS) technology has recently attracted a lot of interest in wireless communications research. An IRS consists of passive reflective elements capable of tuning the phase, amplitude, frequency and…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-06-06 Zahra Esmaeilbeig , Kumar Vijay Mishra , Mojtaba Soltanalian

As a recently proposed idea for future wireless systems, intelligent reflecting surface (IRS) can assist communications between entities which do not have high-quality direct channels in between. Specifically, an IRS comprises many low-cost…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-01-29 Huimei Han , Jun Zhao , Dusit Niyato , Marco Di Renzo , Quoc-Viet Pham