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Intelligent reflecting surface (IRS) and unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) have emerged as two promising technologies to boost the performance of wireless communication networks, by proactively altering the wireless communication channels via…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-03-30 Changsheng You , Zhenyu Kang , Yong Zeng , Rui Zhang

Intelligent reflecting surface (IRS) has become a promising technology to aid next generation wireless communication systems. In this paper, we develop an alternating beamforming technique with a novel concept of IRS element allocation for…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-06-28 Hyesang Cho , Junil Choi

Millimeter wave communication is eminently suitable for high-rate wireless systems, which may be beneficially amalgamated with intelligent reflecting surfaces (IRS), relying on beam-index modulation. Explicitly, we propose three different…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-10-20 Sarath Gopi , Sheetal Kalyani , Lajos Hanzo

For intelligent reflecting surface (IRS)-aided wireless communications, channel estimation is essential and usually requires excessive channel training overhead when the number of IRS reflecting elements is large. The acquisition of…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-03-14 Yi Wei , Ming-Min Zhao , An Liu , Min-Jian Zhao

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

Intelligent reflecting surfaces (IRSs) are considered a promising technology that can smartly reconfigure the wireless environment to enhance the performance of future wireless networks. However, the deployment of IRSs still faces…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2022-11-08 Faisal Naeem , Georges Kaddoum , Saud Khan , Komal S. Khan

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

Intelligent reflecting surface (IRS) is a promising solution to build a programmable wireless environment for future communication systems. In practice, an IRS consists of massive low-cost elements, which can steer the incident signal in…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-05-31 Huayan Guo , Ying-Chang Liang , Jie Chen , Erik G. Larsson

Channel knowledge map (CKM) has emerged as a pivotal technology for environment-aware wireless communications and sensing, which provides a priori location-specific channel knowledge to facilitate network optimization. Efficient CKM…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-11-10 Zixiang Ren , Juncong Zhou , Jie Xu , Ling Qiu , Yong Zeng , Han Hu , Juyong Zhang , Rui Zhang

Intelligent reflective surfaces (IRSs) are invoked for improving both spectral efficiency (SE) and energy efficiency (EE). Specifically, an IRS-aided multiple-input multiple-output network is considered, where the performance of randomly…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-02-25 Tianwei Hou , Yuanwei Liu , Zhengyu Song , Xin Sun , Yue Chen , Lajos Hanzo

Terahertz (THz) communications have emerged as a promising candidate to support the heavy data traffic and exploding network capacity in the future 6G wireless networks. However, THz communications are facing many challenges for practical…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-08-24 Zhi Chen , Boyu Ning , Chong Han , Zhongbao Tian , Shaoqian Li

In this paper, the problem of training signal design for intelligent reflecting surface (IRS)-assisted millimeter-wave (mmWave) communication under a sparse channel model is considered. The problem is approached based on the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-12-29 Song Noh , Heejung Yu , Youngchul Sung

This paper considers machine learning for physical layer security design for communication in a challenging wireless environment. The radio environment is assumed to be programmable with the aid of a meta material-based intelligent…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-02-23 Yizhuo Song , Muhammad R. A. Khandaker , Faisal Tariq , Kai-Kit Wong , Apriana Toding

This paper studies a multiple intelligent reflecting surfaces (IRSs) collaborative localization system where multiple semi-passive IRSs are deployed in the network to locate one or more targets based on time-of-arrival. It is assumed that…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-06-18 Ziheng Zhang , Wen Chen , Qingqing Wu , Zhendong Li , Xusheng Zhu , Jingfeng Chen , Nan Cheng

Reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS) is a revolutionary technology that can customize the wireless channel and improve the energy efficiency of next-generation cellular networks. This letter proposes an environment-aware codebook design…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-04-25 Xing Jia , Jiancheng An , Hao Liu , Hongshu Liao , Lu Gan , Chau Yuen

Conventional wireless techniques are becoming inadequate for beyond fifth-generation (5G) networks due to latency and bandwidth considerations. To improve the error performance and throughput of wireless communication systems, we propose…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2021-03-23 Amanat Kafizov , Ahmed Elzanaty , Lav R. Varshney , Mohamed-Slim Alouini

Channel knowledge map (CKM) is viewed as a digital twin of wireless channels, providing location-specific channel knowledge for environment-aware communications. A fundamental problem in CKM-assisted communications is how to construct the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-12-30 Wenjun Jiang , Xiaojun Yuan , Boyu Teng , Hao Wang , Jing Qian

An intelligent reflecting surface (IRS) can adaptively adjust the phase shifts of its reflecting units to strengthen the desired signal and/or suppress the undesired signal. In this letter, we investigate an IRS-aided secure wireless…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-05-28 Miao Cui , Guangchi Zhang , Rui Zhang

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

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