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Meeting the continued growth in data traffic volume, Dynamic Time Division Duplex (D-TDD) has been introduced as a solution to deal with the uplink (UL) and downlink (DL) traffic asymmetry, mainly observed for dense heterogeneous network…

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Recently, terahertz (THz) communication has drawn considerable attention as one of the promising technologies for the future wireless communications owning to its ultra-wide bandwidth. Nonetheless, one major obstacle that prevents the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-09-15 Wanming Hao , Gangcan Sun , Ming Zeng , Zhengyu Zhu , Zheng Chu , Octavia A. Dobre , Pei Xiao

We investigate the capacity of a broadcast channel with a multi-antenna base station (BS) sending independent messages to multiple users, aided by IRSs with N elements. In particular, both the distributed and centralized IRS deployment…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-10-24 Guangji Chen , Qingqing Wu , Wen Chen , Yanzhao Hou , Mengnan Jian , Shunqing Zhang , Jun Li

Reflecting Surfaces (RSs) are being lately envisioned as an energy efficient solution capable of enhancing the signal coverage in cases where obstacles block the direct communication from Base Stations (BSs), especially at high frequency…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-11-04 Kun Chen-Hu , George C. Alexandropoulos , Ana García Armada

Intelligent reflecting surface (IRS) assisted unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) systems provide a new paradigm for reconfigurable and flexible wireless communications. To enable more energy efficient and spectrum efficient IRS assisted UAV…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-10-22 Yiheng Wang

Most algorithms developed so far for the optimization of Intelligent Reflecting Surfaces (IRSs) require knowledge of full Channel State Information (CSI). However, the resulting acquisition overhead constitutes a major bottleneck for the…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2021-12-20 Vahid Jamali , George C. Alexandropoulos , Robert Schober , H. Vincent Poor

In this paper, we investigate the modeling and design of intelligent reflecting surface (IRS)-assisted optical communication systems which are deployed to relax the line-of-sight (LOS) requirement in multi-link free space optical (FSO)…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-10-19 Hedieh Ajam , Marzieh Najafi , Vahid Jamali , Bernhard Schmauss , Robert Schober

Dynamic time-division duplex (D-TDD) has emerged as an effective solution to accommodate the unaligned downlink and uplink traffic in small cell networks. However, the flexibility of traffic configuration also introduces additional…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-10-13 Meiyan Song , Hangguan Shan , Howard H. Yang , Tony Q. S. Quek

In this work, in order to achieve higher spectrum efficiency, we propose a reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS)-assisted multi-user communication uplink system. Different from previous work in which the RIS only optimizes the phase of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-11-19 Liang Yang , Fanxu Meng , Mazen O. Hasna , Ertugrul Basar

In dual-function radar-communication (DFRC) systems the probing signal contains information intended for the communication users, which makes that information vulnerable to eavesdropping by the targets. We study the security of a DFRC…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-04-25 Yi-Kai Li , Athina Petropulu

We consider the reciprocity of the information-theoretic channel of Time Division Duplex (TDD) Multi-User-Multiple Input Multiple Output (MU-MIMO) systems in the up- and downlink. Specifically, we assume that the transmit and receive chains…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-11-13 Tobias Laas , Josef A. Nossek , Samer Bazzi , Wen Xu

Dynamic time-division duplex (D-TDD) aided mobile communication systems bear the potential to achieve significantly higher spectral efficiency than traditional static TDD based systems. However, strong cross-link interference (CLI) may be…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-05-13 Jia-Hui Bi , Shaoshi Yang , Xiao-Yang Wang , Yu-Song Luo , Sheng Chen

This paper investigates an intelligent reflecting surface (IRS) aided cooperative communication network, where the IRS exploits large reflecting elements to proactively steer the incident radio-frequency wave towards destination terminals…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-12-21 Yulan Gao , Chao Yong , Zehui Xiong , Dusit Niyato , Yue Xiao , Jun Zhao

Intelligent reflecting surfaces (IRSs) are emerging as promising enablers for the next generation of wireless communication systems, because of their ability to customize favorable radio propagation environments. However, with the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-11-25 Dongfang Xu , Xianghao Yu , Derrick Wing Kwan Ng , Robert Schober

This paper investigates an intelligent reflective surface (IRS) assisted secure multi-user two-way communication system. The aim of this paper is to enhance the physical layer security by optimizing the minimum secrecy-rate among all…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-01-27 Harindu Jayarathne , Tharindu Wickremasinghe , Kasun T. Hemachandra , Tharaka Samarasinghe , Saman Atapattu

In this paper, we study the intelligent reflecting surface (IRS) deployment problem where a number of IRSs are optimally placed in a target area to improve its signal coverage with the serving base station (BS). To achieve this, we assume…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-10-29 Min Fu , Lipeng Zhu , Rui Zhang

Intelligent reflecting surface (IRS) and device-to-device (D2D) communication are two promising technologies for improving transmission reliability between transceivers in communication systems. In this paper, we consider the design of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-07-12 Jing Cheng , Chao Shen , Zheng Chen , Nikolaos Pappas

Intelligent reflecting surface (IRS) operating in the terahertz (THz) band has recently gained considerable interest due to its high spectrum bandwidth. Due to the exploitation of large scale of IRS, there is a high probability that the…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-05-28 Chi Qiu , Qingqing Wu , Wen Chen , Meng Hua , Wanming Hao , Mengnan Jian , Fen Hou

With the evolution of the 5G, 6G and beyond, device-to-device (D2D) communication has been developed as an energy-, and spectrum-efficient solution. In cellular network, D2D links need to share the same spectrum resources with the cellular…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-07-03 Yali Chen , Bo Ai , Hongliang Zhang , Yong Niu , Lingyang Song , Zhu Han , H. Vincent Poor

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