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Intelligent reflecting surface (IRS) has emerged as a key enabling technology to realize smart and reconfigurable radio environment for wireless communications, by digitally controlling the signal reflection via a large number of passive…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-02-02 Beixiong Zheng , Changsheng You , Weidong Mei , Rui Zhang

Due to the passive nature of Intelligent Reflecting Surface (IRS), channel estimation is a fundamental challenge in IRS-aided wireless networks. Particularly, as the number of IRS reflecting elements and/or that of IRS-served users…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-08-04 Xinrong Guan , Qingqing Wu , Rui Zhang

In this paper, an intelligent reflecting surface (IRS) is leveraged to enhance the physical layer security of an integrated sensing and communication (ISAC) system in which the IRS is deployed to not only assist the downlink communication…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-07-20 Meng Hua , Qingqing Wu , Wen Chen , Octavia A. Dobre , A. Lee Swindlehurst

Intelligent reflecting surface (IRS) has emerged as a promising technique to enhance wireless communication performance cost effectively. The existing literature has mainly considered IRS being deployed near user terminals to improve their…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-05-27 Yuwei Huang , Weidong Mei , Rui Zhang

Prior studies on Intelligent Reflecting Surface (IRS) have mostly assumed perfect channel state information (CSI) available for designing the IRS passive beamforming as well as the continuously adjustable phase shift at each of its…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-03-25 Changsheng You , Beixiong Zheng , Rui Zhang

In this letter, we consider a multicast system where a single-antenna transmitter sends a common message to multiple single-antenna users, aided by an intelligent reflecting surface (IRS) equipped with $N$ passive reflecting elements. Prior…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-09-02 Qin Tao , Shuowen Zhang , Caijun Zhong , Rui Zhang

Channel estimation is a practical challenge for intelligent reflecting surface (IRS) aided wireless communication. As the number of IRS reflecting elements or IRS-aided users increases, the channel training overhead becomes excessively…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-08-27 Xinrong Guan , Qingqing Wu , Rui Zhang

Intelligent reflecting surface (IRS) has emerged as a promising paradigm to improve the capacity and reliability of a wireless communication system by smartly reconfiguring the wireless propagation environment. To achieve the promising…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-01-12 Yi Wei , Ming-Min Zhao , Min-Jian Zhao , Yunlong Cai

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

Intelligent Reflecting Surface (IRS) has been a promising solution to enhance wireless networks both spectral-efficiently and energy-efficiently. This paper considers an IRS-assisted the Internet of Things network for massive connectivity.…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-11-28 Shuhao Xia , Yuanming Shi

In this paper, the minimum mean square error (MMSE) channel estimation for intelligent reflecting surface (IRS) assisted wireless communication systems is investigated. In the considered setting, each row vector of the equivalent channel…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-04-06 Mangqing Guo , M. Cenk Gursoy

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

Bistatic backscatter communication (BackCom) allows passive tags to transmit over extended ranges, but at the cost of having carrier emitters either transmitting at high powers or being deployed very close to tags. In this paper, we examine…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-11-09 Xiaolun Jia , Xiangyun Zhou , Dusit Niyato , Jun Zhao

We propose a channel estimation protocol to determine the uplink channel state information (CSI) at the base station for an intelligent reflecting surface (IRS) based wireless communication. More specifically, we develop a channel…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-04-15 Swapnil Saha , Md. Forkan Uddin

In the intelligent reflecting surface (IRS) assisted communication systems, the acquisition of channel state information (CSI) is a crucial impediment for achieving the passive beamforming gain of IRS because of the considerable overhead…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-01-20 Zhaorui Wang , Liang Liu , Shuguang Cui

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

In a wireless system with Intelligent Reflective Surfaces (IRS) containing many passive elements, we consider the problem of channel estimation. All the links from the transmitter to the receiver via each IRS elements (or groups) are…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-11-25 Tobias Lindstrøm Jensen , Elisabeth De Carvalho

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

Intelligent reflecting surface (IRS) is a promising new paradigm to achieve high spectral and energy efficiency for future wireless networks by reconfiguring the wireless signal propagation via passive reflection. To reap the potential…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-10-26 Ming-Min Zhao , Qingqing Wu , Min-Jian Zhao , Rui Zhang

In this paper, we consider a multi-user multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) system aided by multiple intelligent reflecting surfaces (IRSs) that are deployed to increase the coverage and, possibly, the rank of the channel. We propose an…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-12-22 Andrea Abrardo , Davide Dardari , Marco Di Renzo