English
Related papers

Related papers: Covert Beamforming Design for Intelligent Reflecti…

200 papers

In this letter, secure beamforming in a multiple intelligent reflecting surfaces (IRSs)-aided millimeter-wave (mmWave) system is investigated. In this system, the secrecy rate is maximized by controlling the on-off status of each IRS as…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-12-29 Yue Xiu , Jun Zhao , Chau Yuen , Zhongpei Zhang , Guan Gui

In this paper, a novel intelligent reflecting surface (IRS)-assisted wireless powered communication network (WPCN) architecture is proposed for power-constrained Internet-of-Things (IoT) smart devices, where IRS is exploited to improve the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-12-07 Zhendong Li , Wen Chen , Qingqing Wu , Huanqing Cao , Kunlun Wang , Jun Li

In this paper, we investigate an intelligent reflecting surface (IRS) assisted cell-free multiple input multiple output (MIMO) communication system, where distributed multiple IRSs are dedicated deployed to assist distributed multiple base…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-08-18 Xie Xie , Chen He , Xiaoya Li , Kun Yang , Z. Jane Wang

This work investigates the fundamental limits of \emph{perfect} covert communication assisted by an Intelligent Reflecting Surface (IRS). We first characterize the necessary and sufficient conditions for perfect covertness, defined as zero…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-03-03 Or Elimelech , Asaf Cohen

Reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS) or intelligent reflecting surface (IRS) has recently been envisioned as one of the most promising technologies in the future sixth-generation (6G) communications. In this paper, we consider the joint…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-12-14 Zhangjie Peng , Zhiwei Chen , Cunhua Pan , Gui Zhou , Hong Ren

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 covert communication in an intelligent reflecting surface (IRS)-assisted symbiotic radio (SR) system under the parasitic SR (PSR) and the commensal SR (CSR) cases, where an IRS is exploited to create a double reflection link…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-11-18 Yunpeng Feng , Jian Chen , Lu Lv , Yuchen Zhou , Long Yang , Naofal Al-Dhahir , Fumiyuki Adachi

This work proposes linear time strategies to optimally configure the phase shifts for the reflective elements of an intelligent reflecting surface (IRS). Specifically, we show that the binary phase beamforming can be optimally solved in…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-09-14 Yaowen Zhang , Kaiming Shen , Shuyi Ren , Xin Li , Xin Chen , Zhi-Quan Luo

In this letter, we study efficient channel estimation and passive beamforming designs for a double-intelligent reflecting surface (IRS) aided single-user communication system, where a user communicates with an access point (AP) via the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-08-27 Changsheng You , Beixiong Zheng , Rui Zhang

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

The idea of Integrated Sensing and Communication (ISAC) offers a promising solution to the problem of spectrum congestion in future wireless networks. This paper studies the integration of intelligent reflective surfaces (IRS) with ISAC…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-09-06 Mahmoud AlaaEldin , Emad Alsusa , Karim G. Seddik , Christos Masouros , Iman Valiulahi

Reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS)-empowered communication is a revolutionary technology that enables to manipulate wireless propagation environment via smartly controllable low-cost reflecting surfaces. However, in order to…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-12-13 Zehra Yigit , Ertugrul Basar , Ibrahim Altunbas

Intelligent reflecting surface (IRS) is of low-cost and energy-efficiency and will be a promising technology for the future wireless communications like sixth generation. To address the problem of conventional directional modulation (DM)…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-08-13 Feng Shu , Jiayu Li , Mengxing Huang , Weiping Shi , Yin Teng , Jun Li , Yongpeng Wu , Jiangzhou Wang

We investigate transmission optimization for intelligent reflecting surface (IRS) assisted multi-antenna systems from the physical-layer security perspective. The design goal is to maximize the system secrecy rate subject to the source…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-05-12 Hong Shen , Wei Xu , Shulei Gong , Zhenyao He , Chunming Zhao

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

Intelligent reflecting surfaces (IRSs) have been introduced into wireless communications systems due to their great potential to smartly customize and reconfigure radio propagation environments in a cost-effective manner. Despite the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-03-15 Xianghao Yu , Vahid Jamali , Dongfang Xu , Derrick Wing Kwan Ng , Robert Schober

We consider in this paper a new intelligent reflecting surface (IRS)-aided LEO satellite communication system, by utilizing the controllable phase shifts of massive passive reflecting elements to achieve flexible beamforming, which copes…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-01-11 Beixiong Zheng , Shaoe Lin , Rui Zhang

The high reflect beamforming gain of the intelligent reflecting surface (IRS) makes it appealing not only for wireless information transmission but also for wireless power transfer. In this letter, we consider an IRS-assisted wireless…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-04-28 Dingcai Zhang , Qingqing Wu , Miao Cui , Guangchi Zhang , Dusit Niyato

In this paper, we investigate an intelligent reflecting surface (IRS)-assisted millimeter-wave multiple-input single-output downlink wireless communication system. By jointly calculating the active beamforming at the base station and the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-03-11 Wencai Yan , Gangcan Sun , Wanming Hao , Zhengyu Zhu , Zheng Chu , Pei Xiao

Energy-efficient design and secure communications are of crucial importance in wireless communication networks. However, the energy efficiency achieved by using physical layer security can be limited by the channel conditions. In order to…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-12-10 Qun Wang , Fuhui Zhou , Rose Qingyang Hu , Yi Qian