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Active intelligent reflecting surface (IRS) enables flexible signal reflection control with \emph{power amplification}, thus effectively compensating the product-distance path-loss in conventional passive-IRS aided systems. In this letter,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-11-09 Yunli Li , Changsheng You , Young Jin Chun

Intelligent reflecting surfaces (IRSs) tune wireless environments to increase spectrum and energy efficiencies. In view of much recent attention to the IRS concept as a promising technology for 6G wireless communications, we present a…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-11-05 Jun Zhao

This paper investigates the use of intelligent reflecting surfaces (IRS) to assist cellular communications and radar sensing operations in a communications and sensing setup. The IRS dynamically allocates reflecting elements to…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-10-24 Daniyal Munir , Atta Ullah , Danish Mehmood Mughal , Min Young Chung , Hans D. Schotten

This paper presents a literature review on recent applications and design aspects of the intelligent reflecting surface (IRS) in the future wireless networks. Conventionally, the network optimization has been limited to transmission control…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-07-28 Shimin Gong , Xiao Lu , Dinh Thai Hoang , Dusit Niyato , Lei Shu , Dong In Kim , Ying-Chang Liang

Intelligent reflecting surfaces (IRSs), active and/or passive, can be densely deployed in complex environments to significantly enhance wireless network coverage for both wireless information transfer (WIT) and wireless power transfer…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-07-06 Min Fu , Weidong Mei , Rui Zhang

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

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

Although the fifth-generation (5G) technologies will significantly improve the spectrum and energy efficiency of today's wireless communication networks, their high complexity and hardware cost as well as increasingly more energy…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-09-02 Qingqing Wu , Rui Zhang

Intelligent reflecting surface (IRS) has emerged as a promising technology to enhance the wireless communication network coverage and capacity by dynamically controlling the radio signal propagation environment. In contrast to the existing…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-07-06 Zhenyu Kang , Changsheng You , Rui Zhang

Prior studies on intelligent reflecting surface (IRS) have mostly considered wireless communication systems aided by a single passive IRS, which, however, has limited control over wireless propagation environment and suffers from…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-08-26 Yunpu Zhang , Changsheng You

Intelligent reflecting surface (IRS) has recently been identified as a prominent technology with the ability of enhancing wireless communication by dynamically manipulating the propagation environment. This paper investigates a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-09-15 Yuwei Gao , Jindan Xu , Wei Xu , Derrick Wing Kwan Ng , Mohamed Slim Alouini

Intelligent reflecting surface (IRS) is a promising technology for achieving spectrum and energy efficient wireless networks cost-effectively. Most existing works on IRS have focused on exploiting IRS to enhance the performance of wireless…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-06-25 Qingqing Wu , Xinrong Guan , Rui Zhang

This paper presents a theoretical framework to analyze the performance of integrated unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV)-intelligent reflecting surface (IRS) relaying system in which IRS provides an additional degree of freedom combined with the…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-06-22 Taniya Shafique , Hina Tabassum , Ekram Hossain

This work examines the performance gain achieved by deploying an intelligent reflecting surface (IRS) in covert communications. To this end, we formulate the joint design of the transmit power and the IRS reflection coefficients by taking…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-01-12 Xiaobo Zhou , Shihao Yan , Qingqing Wu , Feng Shu , Derrick Wing Kwan Ng

Intelligent reflecting surface (IRS) has emerged as a promising technology to realize smart radio environment for future wireless communication systems. Existing works in this line of research have mainly considered the conventional passive…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-06-27 Zhenyu Kang , Changsheng You , Rui Zhang

Integrating wireless sensing capabilities into base stations (BSs) has become a widespread trend in the future beyond fifth-generation (B5G)/sixth-generation (6G) wireless networks. In this paper, we investigate intelligent reflecting…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2024-04-09 Taotao Ji , Meng Hua , Xuanhong Yan , Chunguo Li , Yongming Huang , Luxi Yang

Emerged as a promising solution for future wireless communication systems, intelligent reflecting surface (IRS) is capable of reconfiguring the wireless propagation environment by adjusting the phase-shift of a large number of reflecting…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2023-02-06 Hongguang Sun , Zelun Zhao , Hu Cheng , Jiangbin Lyu , Xijun Wang , Yan Zhang , Tony Q. S. Quek

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

In this paper, we investigate an intelligent reflecting surface (IRS) aided wireless communication system, where active IRSs (AIRSs) are deployed to assist communication between a base station (BS) and users of both the uplink (UL) and…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-10-14 Qiaoyan Peng , Qingqing Wu , Guangji Chen , Wen Chen , Shaodan Ma

In this paper, an intelligent reflecting surface (IRS)-aided two-way decode-and-forward (DF) relay wireless network is considered, where two users exchange information via IRS and DF relay. To enhance the sum rate performance, three power…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-03-29 Xuehui Wang , Peng Zhang , Feng Shu , Weiping Shi , Jiangzhou Wang