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Intelligent reflecting surface (IRS) has drawn a lot of attention recently as a promising new solution to achieve high spectral and energy efficiency for future wireless networks. By utilizing massive low-cost passive reflecting elements,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-10-17 Ming-Min Zhao , Qingqing Wu , Min-Jian Zhao , Rui Zhang

Rotatable antenna (RA) enhances wireless coverage through directional gain steering, yet suffers from performance degradation under physical blockages. Intelligent reflecting surface (IRS) establishes reflective paths to bypass obstacles,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-01-19 Guoying Zhang , Qingqing Wu , Ziyuan Zheng , Qiaoyan Peng , Yanze Zhu , Wen Chen , Penghui Huang

Intelligent reflective surfaces (IRSs) capable of reconfiguring their electromagnetic absorption and reflection properties in real-time are offering unprecedented opportunities to enhance wireless communication experience in challenging…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2020-02-03 Dong Ma , Ming Ding , Mahbub Hassan

Intelligent Reflecting Surface (IRS) is envisioned to be a technical enabler for the sixth-generation (6G) wireless system. Its potential lies in delivering high performance while maintaining both power efficiency and cost-effectiveness.…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-05-17 Wei Jiang , Hans Schotten

Intelligent reflecting surface (IRS), which is capable to adjust propagation conditions by controlling phase shifts of the reflected waves that impinge on the surface, has been widely analyzed for enhancing the performance of wireless…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-06-29 Shuhang Zhang , Hongliang Zhang , Boya Di , Yunhua Tan , Marco Di Renzo , Zhu Han , H. Vincent Poor , Lingyang Song

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 cost-efficient technique to improve power efficiency and spectral efficiency. However, IRS-aided multi-antenna transmission needs to jointly optimize the passive and active beamforming, imposing a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-05-03 Wei Jiang , Hans Dieter Schotten

Intelligent reflecting surface (IRS) technology offers more feasible propagation paths for millimeter-wave (mmWave) communication systems to overcome blockage than existing technologies. In this paper, we consider a downlink wireless system…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-01-22 Yue Xiu , Yang Zhao , Yang Liu , Jun Zhao , Osman Yagan , Ning Wei

This paper proposes a novel relay-aided intelligent reconfigurable surface (IRS) architecture for future wireless communication systems. The proposed architecture, which consists of two side-by-side intelligent surfaces connected via a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-06-12 Xiaoyan Ying , Umut Demirhan , Ahmed Alkhateeb

Wireless sensing and wireless energy are enablers to pave the way for smart transportation and a greener future. In this paper, an intelligent reflecting surface (IRS) assisted integrated sensing and wireless power transfer (ISWPT) system…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-12-04 Zheng Li , Zhengyu Zhu , Zheng Chu , Yingying Guan , De Mi , Fan Liu , Lie-Liang Yang

In this paper, we propose a rate-splitting multiple access (RSMA) scheme for uplink wireless communication systems with intelligent reflecting surface (IRS) aided. In the considered model, IRS is adopted to overcome power attenuation caused…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-09-07 Shanshan Zhang , Wen Chen

Intelligent reflecting surface (IRS) has recently been emerging as an enabler for smart radio environment in which passive antenna arrays can be used to actively tailor/control the radio propagation. With multiple IRSs being launched to…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-12-09 Tu V. Nguyen , Diep N. Nguyen

This chapter is devoted to discussing the integration of intelligent reflecting surfaces (IRSs), or intelligent walls, in optical wireless communication (OWC) systems. IRS technology is a revolutionary concept that enables communication…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-04-11 Anil Yesilkaya , Hanaa Abumarshoud , Harald Haas

Rotatable intelligent reflecting surfaces (IRSs) introduce a new degree of freedom (DoF) for shaping wireless propagation by adaptively adjusting the orientation of IRSs. This paper considers an angle-dependent reflection model in a…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-12-17 Qiaoyan Peng , Qingqing Wu , Guangji Chen , Wen Chen , Shanpu Shen , Shaodan Ma

We consider an Intelligent Reflecting Surface (IRS)-aided multiple-input single-output (MISO) system for downlink transmission. We compare the performance of Deep Reinforcement Learning (DRL) and conventional optimization methods in finding…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-07-27 Amal Feriani , Amine Mezghani , Ekram Hossain

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

The use of automotive radars is gaining popularity as a means to enhance a vehicle's sensing capabilities. However, these radars can suffer from interference caused by transmissions from other radars mounted on nearby vehicles. To address…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-04-26 Shree Prasad Maruthi , Karrthik G. K. , Vijaya Krishna A. , Mahbub Hassan , Jinhong Yuan

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

Integrating intelligent reflecting surface (IRS) and Rate-Splitting Multiple Access (RSMA) is an effective solution to improve the spectral/energy efficiency in next-generation (beyond 5G (B5G) and 6G) wireless networks. In this paper, we…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-06-09 Aditya Jolly , Sudip Biswas , Keshav Singh

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