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As a revolutionary paradigm for intelligently controlling wireless channels, intelligent reflecting surface (IRS) has emerged as a promising technology for future sixth-generation (6G) wireless communications. While IRS-aided communication…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-04-23 Shengsheng Zhang , Taotao Ji , Meng Hua , Yongming Huang , Luxi Yang

Compared to traditional intelligent reflecting surfaces(IRS), aerial IRS (AIRS) has unique advantages, such as more flexible deployment and wider service coverage. However, modeling AIRS in the channel presents new challenges due to their…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-09-06 Shaoyi Liu , Nan Ma , Yaning Chen , Ke Peng , Dongsheng Xue

The upper mid-band (UMB) spectrum is a key enabler for 6G systems, yet reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS)-assisted UMB communications face severe channel estimation challenges due to near-field propagation and transitional scattering,…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-03-09 Jeongjae Lee , Chanwon Kim , Songnam Hong

Most works in IRS-assisted systems have ignored the impact of the inevitable residual hardware impairments (HWIs) at both the transceiver hardware and the IRS while any relevant works have addressed only simple scenarios, e.g., with…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-09-07 Anastasios Papazafeiropoulos , Cunhua Pan , Pandelis Kourtessis , Symeon Chatzinotas , John M. Senior

Integrated sensing and communication (ISAC) and intelligent reflecting surface (IRS) are viewed as promising technologies for future generations of wireless networks. This paper investigates the channel estimation problem in an IRS-assisted…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-04-09 Yu Liu , Ibrahim Al-Nahhal , Octavia A. Dobre , Fanggang Wang

Intelligent reflecting surfaces (IRSs) are promising enablers for next-generation wireless communications due to their reconfigurability and high energy efficiency in improving poor propagation condition of channels, e.g., limited…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-01-03 Xin Zhang , Xianghao Yu , S. H. Song , Khaled B. Letaief

This paper investigates robust and secure multiuser multiple-input single-output (MISO) downlink communications assisted by a self-sustainable intelligent reflection surface (IRS), which can simultaneously reflect and harvest energy from…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-08-05 Shaokang Hu , Zhiqiang Wei , Yuanxin Cai , Chang Liu , Derrick Wing Kwan Ng , Jinhong Yuan

In this paper, we investigate a cascaded channel estimation method for a millimeter wave (mmWave) massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) system aided by a reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS) with the BS equipped with…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-01-17 Ruizhe Wang , Hong Ren , Cunhua Pan , Shi Jin , Petar Popovski , Jiangzhou Wang

This paper investigates downlink channel estimation in frequency-division duplex (FDD)-based massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) systems. To reduce the overhead of downlink channel estimation and uplink feedback in FDD systems,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-08-24 Yinsheng Liu , Yinjun Liu , Qimei Cui , Riku Jantti

Reconfigurable intelligent surface is a potential technology component of future wireless networks due to its capability of shaping the wireless environment. The promising MIMO systems in terms of extended coverage and enhanced capacity…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-07-07 Paulo R. B. Gomes , Gilderlan T. de Araújo , Bruno Sokal , André L. F. de Almeida , Behrooz Makki , Gábor Fodor

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

Accurate cascaded channel state information is pivotal for extremely large-scale intelligent reflecting surfaces (XL-IRS) in next-generation wireless networks. However, the large XL-IRS aperture induces spherical wavefront propagation due…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-02-17 Wenzhou Cao , Yashuai Cao , Tiejun Lv , Mugen Peng

Intelligent reflecting surface (IRS), composed of a large number of hardware-efficient passive elements, is deemed as a potential technique for future wireless communications since it can adaptively enhance the propagation environment. In…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-01-27 Wanning Yang , Hongyu Li , Ming Li , Yang Liu , Qian Liu

Accurate channel estimation is essential to achieve the performance gains promised by the use of reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RISs) in wireless communications. In the uplink of multi-user orthogonal frequency division multiple…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-01-25 Sumin Jeong , Arman Farhang , Nemanja Stefan Perović , Mark F. Flanagan

This paper develops a self-contained framework for studying a mobility-aware intelligent reflecting surface (IRS)-assisted multi-node uplink under simplified but explicit modeling assumptions. The considered system combines direct and…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-03-18 Ardavan Rahimian

A reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS) can be used to improve the channel gain between a base station (BS) and user equipment (UE), but only if its $N$ reflecting elements are configured properly. This requires accurate estimation of…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-05-24 Özlem Tuğfe Demir , Emil Björnson , Luca Sanguinetti

Accurate estimation of the cascaded channel from a user equipment (UE) to a base station (BS) via each reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS) element is critical to realizing the full potential of the RIS's ability to control the overall…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-11-08 Özlem Tuğfe Demir , Emil Björnson , Luca Sanguinetti

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

This article aims to reduce huge pilot overhead when estimating the reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS) relayed wireless channel. Motivated by the compelling grasp of deep learning in tackling nonlinear mapping problems, the proposed…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-04-26 Shen Gao , Peihao Dong , Zhiwen Pan , Geoffrey Ye Li

This chapter focuses on a hardware architecture for semi-passive Reconfigurable Intelligent Surfaces (RISs) and investigates its consideration for boosting the performance of Multiple-Input Multiple-Output (MIMO) communication systems. The…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-06-19 George C. Alexandropoulos , Konstantinos D. Katsanos , Evangelos Vlachos