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This paper proposes a novel transmission policy for an intelligent reflecting surface (IRS) assisted wireless powered sensor network (WPSN). An IRS is deployed to enhance the performance of wireless energy transfer (WET) and wireless…

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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…

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An intelligent reflecting surface (IRS) is invoked for enhancing the energy harvesting performance of a simultaneous wireless information and power transfer (SWIPT) aided system. Specifically, an IRS-assisted SWIPT system is considered,…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-02-19 Cunhua Pan , Hong Ren , Kezhi Wang , Maged Elkashlan , Arumugam Nallanathan , Jiangzhou Wang , Lajos Hanzo

In this paper, we investigate an intelligent reflecting surface (IRS) aided wireless communication system, where active IRSs (AIRSs) are deployed to assist communication between a base station (BS) and users of both the uplink (UL) and…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-10-14 Qiaoyan Peng , Qingqing Wu , Guangji Chen , Wen Chen , Shaodan Ma

Intelligent reflecting surface (IRS) has emerged as a key enabling technology to realize smart and reconfigurable radio environment for wireless communications, by digitally controlling the signal reflection via a large number of passive…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-02-02 Beixiong Zheng , Changsheng You , Weidong Mei , Rui Zhang

Intelligent reflecting surface (IRS) is a promising technology being considered for future wireless communications due to its ability to control signal propagation. This paper considers the joint active and passive beamforming problem for…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-02-09 Fangzhou Wang , Hongbin Li , Jun Fang

As a low-cost and low-power-consumption passive reflector, intelligent reflecting surface (IRS) can make a significant rate improvement by building a programmable wireless environment. To improve the rate performance and coverage range of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-03-29 Xuehui Wang , Feng Shu , Weiping Shi , Xiaopeng Liang , Rongen Dong , Jun Li , Jiangzhou Wang

Wireless powered mobile edge computing (WP-MEC) has been recognized as a promising solution to enhance the computational capability and sustainable energy supply for low-power wireless devices (WDs). However, when the communication links…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-09-08 Nana Li , Wanming Hao , Fuhui Zhou , Zheng Chu , Shouyi Yang , Pei Xiao

This paper presents a literature review on recent applications and design aspects of the intelligent reflecting surface (IRS) in the future wireless networks. Conventionally, the network optimization has been limited to transmission control…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-07-28 Shimin Gong , Xiao Lu , Dinh Thai Hoang , Dusit Niyato , Lei Shu , Dong In Kim , Ying-Chang Liang

Simultaneous wireless information and power transfer (SWIPT) and intelligent reflecting surface (IRS) are two promising techniques for providing enhanced wireless communication capability and sustainable energy supply to energy-constrained…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-09-10 Wei Sun , Qingyang Song , Lei Guo , Jun Zhao

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

The low efficiency of far-field wireless power transfer (WPT) limits the fundamental rate-energy (R-E) performance trade-off of the simultaneous wireless information and power transfer (SWIPT) system. To address this challenge, we propose…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-01-03 Qingqing Wu , Rui Zhang

This paper proposes a hybrid-relaying scheme empowered by a self-sustainable intelligent reflecting surface (IRS) in a wireless powered communication network (WPCN), to simultaneously improve the performance of downlink energy transfer (ET)…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-10-01 Bin Lyu , Parisa Ramezani , Dinh Thai Hoang , Shimin Gong , Zhen Yang , Abbas Jamalipour

This paper studies an intelligent reflecting surface (IRS)-assisted multiuser multiple-input single-output (MISO) simultaneous wireless information and power transfer (SWIPT) system. In this system, a multi-antenna access point (AP) uses…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-10-17 Yizheng Tang , Ganggang Ma , Hailiang Xie , Jie Xu , Xiao Han

Due to its ability of breaking the double-fading effect experienced by passive intelligent reflecting surface (IRS), active IRS is evolving a potential technique for future 6G wireless networks. To fully exploit the amplifying gain achieved…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-05-17 Feng Shu , Jing liu , Yeqing Lin , Yang Liu , Zhilin Chen , Xuehui Wang , Rongen Dong , Jiangzhou Wang

Intelligent reflecting surface (IRS) has emerged as a promising technology to enhance the wireless communication network coverage and capacity by dynamically controlling the radio signal propagation environment. In contrast to the existing…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-07-06 Zhenyu Kang , Changsheng You , Rui Zhang

Wireless sensing and wireless energy are enablers to pave the way for smart transportation and a greener future. In this paper, an intelligent reflecting surface (IRS) assisted integrated sensing and wireless power transfer (ISWPT) system…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-12-04 Zheng Li , Zhengyu Zhu , Zheng Chu , Yingying Guan , De Mi , Fan Liu , Lie-Liang Yang

Intelligent reflecting surface (IRS) has emerged as a promising technique to enhance wireless communication performance cost effectively. The existing literature has mainly considered IRS being deployed near user terminals to improve their…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-05-27 Yuwei Huang , Weidong Mei , Rui Zhang

Prior studies on intelligent reflecting surface (IRS) have mostly considered wireless communication systems aided by a single passive IRS, which, however, has limited control over wireless propagation environment and suffers from…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-08-26 Yunpu Zhang , Changsheng You

We consider an intelligent reflecting surface (IRS)-assisted wireless powered communication network (WPCN) in which a multi antenna power beacon (PB) sends a dedicated energy signal to a wireless powered source. The source first harvests…

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