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We consider a wireless communication system, where a transmitting source is assisted by both a reconfigurable intelligent reflecting surface (IRS) and a decode-and-forward half-duplex relay (hybrid IRS-relay scheme) to communicate with a…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-09-20 Alberto Rech , Federico Moretto , Stefano Tomasin

Intelligent reflecting surface (IRS) that enables the control of wireless propagation environment has recently emerged as a promising cost-effective technology for boosting the spectrum and energy efficiency in future wireless communication…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-02-25 Samith Abeywickrama , Rui Zhang , Qingqing Wu , Chau Yuen

This paper investigates multiple intelligent reflecting surfaces (IRSs) aided wireless network, where the IRSs are deployed to cooperatively assist communications between a multi-antenna base station (BS) and multiple single-antenna…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-02-13 Zhengfeng Li , Meng Hua , Qingxia Wang , Qingheng Song

Intelligent reflecting surface (IRS) that enables the control of the wireless propagation environment has been looked upon as a promising technology for boosting the spectrum and energy efficiency in future wireless communication systems.…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-02-26 Samith Abeywickrama , Rui Zhang , Chau Yuen

Intelligent reflecting surface (IRS) is a proposing technology in 6G to enhance the performance of wireless networks by smartly reconfiguring the propagation environment with a large number of passive reflecting elements. However, current…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-02-17 Jinglian He , Kaiqiang Yu , Yuanming Shi

Intelligent reflecting surfaces (IRSs) have received considerable attention from the wireless communications research community recently. In particular, as low-cost passive devices, IRSs enable the control of the wireless propagation…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-04-30 Xianghao Yu , Dongfang Xu , Robert Schober

In this paper, we consider an intelligent reflecting surface (IRS)-aided cell-free massive multiple-input multiple-output system, where the beamforming at access points and the phase shifts at IRSs are jointly optimized to maximize energy…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-12-27 Si-Nian Jin , Dian-Wu Yue , Yi-Ling Chen , Qing Hu

The current literature on intelligent reflecting surface (IRS) focuses on optimizing the IRS phase shifts to yield coherent beamforming gains, under the assumption of perfect channel state information (CSI) of individual IRS-assisted links,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-03-19 Qurrat-Ul-Ain Nadeem , Alessio Zappone , Anas Chaaban

This paper investigates multiuser multi-input single-output downlink symbiotic radio communication systems assisted by an intelligent reflecting surface (IRS). Different from existing methods ideally assuming the secondary user (SU) can…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-10-22 Shaokang Hu , Chang Liu , Zhiqiang Wei , Yuanxin Cai , Derrick Wing Kwan Ng , Jinhong Yuan

In this paper, we propose an efficient joint precoding design method to maximize the weighted sum-rate in wideband intelligent reflecting surface (IRS)-assisted cell-free networks by jointly optimizing the active beamforming of base…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-12-10 Yajun Wang , Jinghan Jiang , Xin Du , Zhuxian Lian , Qingqing Wu , Wen Chen

This paper investigates an intelligent reflecting surface (IRS)-aided multi-cell multiple-input single-output (MISO) system with several multi-antenna base stations (BSs) each communicating with a single-antenna user, in which an IRS is…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-10-26 Hailiang Xie , Jie Xu , Ya-Feng Liu

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

The amalgamation of cell-free networks and reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS) has become a prospective technique for future sixth-generation wireless communication systems. In this paper, we focus on the precoding and beamforming…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-11-23 Peng Zhang , Jiayi Zhang , Huahua Xiao , Xiaodan Zhang , Derrick Wing Kwan Ng , Bo Ai

Intelligent reflecting surface (IRS) has emerged as a promising paradigm to improve the capacity and reliability of a wireless communication system by smartly reconfiguring the wireless propagation environment. To achieve the promising…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-01-12 Yi Wei , Ming-Min Zhao , Min-Jian Zhao , Yunlong Cai

Intelligent reflective surface (IRS) is an emergent technology for future wireless communications. It consists of a large 2D array of passive scattering elements that control the electromagnetic properties of radio-frequency waves so that…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-01-22 Gilderlan T. de Araújo , André L. F. de Almeida

This paper investigates the use of intelligent reflecting surfaces (IRS) to assist cellular communications and radar sensing operations in a communications and sensing setup. The IRS dynamically allocates reflecting elements to…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-10-24 Daniyal Munir , Atta Ullah , Danish Mehmood Mughal , Min Young Chung , Hans D. Schotten

The concept of reconfiguring wireless propagation environments using intelligent reflecting surfaces (IRS)s has recently emerged, where an IRS comprises of a large number of passive reflecting elements that can smartly reflect the impinging…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-05-05 Qurrat-Ul-Ain Nadeem , Hibatallah Alwazani , Abla Kammoun , Anas Chaaban , Merouane Debbah , Mohamed-Slim Alouini

Intelligent reflecting surface (IRS) is envisioned to have abundant applications in future wireless networks by smartly reconfiguring the signal propagation for performance enhancement. Specifically, an IRS consists of a large number of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-09-13 Qingqing Wu , Rui Zhang

Intelligent reflecting surfaces (IRSs) enable multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) transmitters to modify the communication channels between the transmitters and receivers. In the presence of eavesdropping terminals, this degree of freedom…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-02-03 Saba Asaad , Yifei Wu , Ali Bereyhi , Ralf R. Müller , Rafael F. Schaefer , H. Vincent Poor

This paper considers coordinated multicast beamforming in a multi-cell multigroup multiple-input single-output system. Each base station (BS) serves multiple groups of users by forming a single beam with common information per group. We…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-02-14 Oskari Tervo , Harri Pennanen , Dimitrios Christopoulos , Symeon Chatzinotas , Björn Ottersten