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Intelligent reflecting surfaces (IRSs) enable multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) transmitters to modify the communication channels between the transmitters and receivers. In the presence of eavesdropping terminals, this degree of freedom…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-02-03 Saba Asaad , Yifei Wu , Ali Bereyhi , Ralf R. Müller , Rafael F. Schaefer , H. Vincent Poor

Intelligent reflecting surfaces (IRS) have become the subject of many current research efforts, as the ongoing wireless spectrum crunch has made the need to open higher frequency bands a priority. IRS are one of the alternatives proposed to…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-12-01 Alessandro Nordio , Alberto Tarable , Francisco J. Escribano

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 current literature on intelligent reflecting surface (IRS) focuses on optimizing the IRS phase shifts to yield coherent beamforming gains, under the assumption of perfect channel state information (CSI) of individual IRS-assisted links,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-03-19 Qurrat-Ul-Ain Nadeem , Alessio Zappone , Anas Chaaban

Intelligent reflecting surface (IRS) is an emerging technology to enhance the spectral and energy efficiency of wireless communications cost-effectively. This letter considers a new multi-IRS aided wireless network where a cascaded…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-08-12 Weidong Mei , Rui Zhang

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…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-08-18 Xie Xie , Chen He , Xiaoya Li , Kun Yang , Z. Jane Wang

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

We investigate covert communication in an intelligent reflecting surface (IRS)-assisted symbiotic radio (SR) system under the parasitic SR (PSR) and the commensal SR (CSR) cases, where an IRS is exploited to create a double reflection link…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-11-18 Yunpeng Feng , Jian Chen , Lu Lv , Yuchen Zhou , Long Yang , Naofal Al-Dhahir , Fumiyuki Adachi

Millimeter-wave (mmWave) communication is one of the key enablers of the fifth-generation cellular networks (5G). However, one of the fundamental challenges of mmWave communication is the susceptibility to blockage effects. One way to…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-12-30 Yaoshen Cui , Haifan Yin

Recently, ambient backscatter communications has been introduced as a cutting-edge technology which enables smart devices to communicate by utilizing ambient radio frequency (RF) signals without requiring active RF transmission. This…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2017-12-14 Nguyen Van Huynh , Dinh Thai Hoang , Xiao Lu , Dusit Niyato , Ping Wang , Dong In Kim

In this paper, we investigate resource allocation algorithm design for intelligent reflecting surface (IRS)-assisted multiuser cognitive radio (CR) systems. In particular, an IRS is deployed to mitigate the interference caused by the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-03-03 Dongfang Xu , Xianghao Yu , Robert Schober

Computation offloading in multi-access edge computing (MEC) is an effective paradigm for enabling resource-intensive smart applications. However, when the wireless channel utilized for offloading computing activities is hostile, the proper…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-06-14 Mobasshir Mahbub , Raed M. Shubair

Ambient backscatter communication (AmBC) enables wireless-powered backscatter devices (BDs) to transmit information over ambient radio-frequency (RF) carriers without using an RF transmitter, and thus has emerged as a promising technology…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-05-04 Gang Yang , Dongdong Yuan , Ying-Chang Liang

In this paper, we investigate the design of secure transmission frameworks with an intelligent reflecting surface (IRS). Our design aims to minimize the system energy consumption in cases of rank-one and full-rank access point (AP)-IRS…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-09-04 Biqian Feng , Yongpeng Wu , Mengfan Zheng

Reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS) as an essential topic in the sixth-generation (6G) communications aims to enhance communication performance or mitigate undesired transmission. However, the controllability of each reflecting element…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-08-22 Jinqiu Zhao , Jia Ye Shuaishuai Guo , Zhiquan Bai , Di Zhou , Abeer Mohamed

Intelligent reflecting surfaces (IRS) have been proposed in millimeter wave (mmWave) and terahertz (THz) systems to achieve both coverage and capacity enhancement, where the design of hybrid precoders, combiners, and the IRS typically…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-05-31 Shuntian Zheng , Sheng Wu , Chunxiao Jiang , Wei Zhang , Xiaojun Jing

Intelligent reflecting surface (IRS)-enabled backscatter communications can be enabled by an access point (AP) that splits its transmit signal into modulated and unmodulated parts. This letter integrates non-orthogonal multiple access…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-09-07 Azar Hakimi , Shayan Zargari , Chintha Tellambura , Sanjeewa Herath

In this paper, we consider intelligent reflecting surface (IRS) in a non-orthogonal multiple access (NOMA)-aided Integrated Sensing and Multicast-Unicast Communication (ISMUC) system, where the multicast signal is used for sensing and…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-07-27 Yang Gou , Yinghui Ye , Guangyue Lu , Lu Lv , Rose Qingyang Hu

In this paper, we develop a unified dynamic intelligent reflecting surface (IRS) beamforming framework to boost the sum computation rate of an IRS-aided mobile edge computing (MEC) system, where each device follows a binary offloading…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-06-01 Guangji Chen , Qingqing Wu

In this paper, we introduce an intelligent reflecting surface (IRS) to provide a programmable wireless environment for physical layer security. By adjusting the reflecting coefficients, the IRS can change the attenuation and scattering of…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-06-21 Jie Chen , Ying-Chang Liang , Yiyang Pei , Huayan Guo