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Thanks to the recent advances in metamaterials, reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS) has emerged as a promising technology for future 6G wireless communications. Benefiting from its high array gain, low cost, and low power consumption,…

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Intelligent reflecting surface (IRS) has recently been emerged as an effective way for improving the performance of wireless networks by reconfiguring the propagation environment through a large number of passive reflecting elements. This…

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Intelligent reflecting surface (IRS) has recently emerged as a new solution to enhance wireless communication performance via passive signal reflection. In this letter, we unlock the potential of IRS controller in relaying information and…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-06-24 Beixiong Zheng , Rui Zhang

Reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RISs) have attracted wide interest from industry and academia since they can shape the wireless environment into a desirable form with a low cost. In practice, RISs have three types of implementations:…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-02-16 Shuhao Zeng , Hongliang Zhang , Boya Di , Yunhua Tan , Zhu Han , H. Vincent Poor , Lingyang Song

In this letter, we consider an intelligent reflecting surface (IRS)-aided wireless communication system, where an active or passive IRS is employed to assist the communication between an access point and a user. First, we consider the…

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Integrated sensing and communication (ISAC) has attracted growing interests for enabling the future 6G wireless networks, due to its capability of sharing spectrum and hardware resources between communication and sensing systems. However,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-01-27 Renwang Li , Xiaodan Shao , Shu Sun , Meixia Tao , Rui Zhang

The demand for unprecedented performance in the upcoming 6G wireless networks is fomenting the research on THz communications empowered by Reconfigurable Inteligent Surfaces (RISs). A wide range of use cases have been proposed, most of…

Both unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) and intelligent reflecting surfaces (IRS) are gaining traction as transformative technologies for upcoming wireless networks. The IRS-aided UAV communication, which introduces IRSs into UAV…

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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

As one of the key technologies for the sixth generation (6G) mobile communications, intelligent reflecting surface IRS) has the advantages of low power consumption, low cost, and simple design methods. But channel modeling is still an open…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-12-04 Yingzhuo Sun , Cheng-Xiang Wang , Jie Huang , Jun Wang

In this paper, we survey state-of-the-art research outcomes in the burgeoning field of reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS) in view of its potential for significant performance enhancement for next generation wireless communication…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-10-16 Miguel Dajer , Zhengxiang Ma , Leonard Piazzi , Narayan Prasad , Xiao-Feng Qi , Baoling Sheen , Jin Yang , Guosen Yue

Intelligent reflecting surfaces (IRSs) are revolutionary enablers for next-generation wireless communication networks, with the ability to customize the radio propagation environment. To fully exploit the potential of IRS-assisted wireless…

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The sixth-generation (6G) wireless networks are expected to deliver ubiquitous connectivity, resilient coverage, and intelligence-driven services in highly dynamic environments. To achieve these goals, distributed wireless architectures…

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Reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RISs) are regarded as a promising emerging hardware technology to improve the spectrum and energy efficiency of wireless networks by artificially reconfiguring the propagation environment of…

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The increasing demand for reliable connectivity in industrial environments necessitates effective spectrum utilization strategies, especially in the context of shared spectrum bands. However, the dynamic spectrum-sharing mechanisms often…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-04-03 Sicheng Liu , Qun Wang , Zhuwei Qin , Weishan Zhang , Jingyi Wang , Xiang Ma

Intelligent reflecting surfaces (IRS) will represent a key technology in the upcoming sixth-generation (6G) communication networks to extend the network coverage and overcome link blockage. Research on IRS is expected to take a giant leap…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-08-16 Marouan Mizmizi , Dario Tagliaferri , Misagh Khosronejad , Laura Resteghini , Gian Guido Gentili , Lorenza Draghi , Umberto Spagnolini

Intelligent reflecting surface (IRS)-assisted wireless communication is widely deemed a key technology for 6G systems. The main challenge in deploying an IRS-aided terahertz (THz) link, though, is the severe propagation losses at high…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-08-19 Konstantinos Dovelos , Stylianos D. Assimonis , Hien Quoc Ngo , Boris Bellalta , Michail Matthaiou

The next generation of wireless systems will take the concept of communications and networking to another level through the seamless integration of terrestrial, aerial, satellite, maritime and underwater communication systems.…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2022-08-02 Parisa Ramezani , Bin Lyu , Abbas Jamalipour

The integration of Reconfigurable Intelligent Surfaces (RIS) holds substantial promise for revolutionizing 6G wireless networks, offering unprecedented capabilities for real-time control over communication environments. However, determining…

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