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Applications of intelligent reflecting surfaces (IRSs) in wireless networks have attracted significant attention recently. Most of the relevant literature is focused on the single cell setting where a single IRS is deployed and perfect…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-04-02 Junghoon Kim , Seyyedali Hosseinalipour , Taejoon Kim , David J. Love , Christopher G. Brinton

Intelligent reflecting surface (IRS) has emerged as an enabling technology to achieve smart and reconfigurable wireless communication environment cost-effectively. Prior works on IRS mainly consider its passive beamforming design and…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-03-12 Beixiong Zheng , Changsheng You , Rui Zhang

Intelligent reflecting surface (IRS) has emerged as a cost-effective solution to enhance wireless communication performance via passive signal reflection. Existing works on IRS have mainly focused on investigating IRS's passive…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-07-19 Beixiong Zheng , Rui Zhang

This paper investigates the joint design of the beamforming scheme in intelligent reflecting surface (IRS) assisted multiuser (MU) multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) downlink transmissions. Channel estimation errors associated with the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-07-15 Piao Zeng , Deli Qiao , Haifeng Qian

This study explores the synergy between rate-splitting multiple access (RSMA) and simultaneous transmitting and reflecting reconfigurable intelligent surface (STAR-RIS) as a unified framework to enable ubiquitous, intelligent, and resilient…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-10-21 Muhammad Asif , Asim Ihsan , Zhu Shoujin , Ali Ranjha , Xingwang Li , Khaled M. Rabie , Symeon Chatzinotas

Intelligent reflecting surfaces (IRSs) constitute passive devices, which are capable of adjusting the phase shifts of their reflected signals, and hence they are suitable for passive beamforming. In this paper, we conceive their design with…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-06-03 Chenghao Feng , Wenqian Shen , Xinyu Gao , Jianping An

In this paper, we investigate the intelligent reflecting surface (IRS)/reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS)-aided integrated sensing and communication (ISAC) system based on sensing mutual information (MI). Specifically, the base…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-04-03 Jin Li , Gui Zhou , Tantao Gong , Nan Liu , Rui Zhang

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 surface (IRS) has recently received significant attention in wireless networks owing to its ability to smartly control the wireless propagation through passive reflection. Although prior works have employed the IRS to…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-05-01 Guangji Chen , Qingqing Wu

In this letter, we consider the fundamental problem of jointly designing the transmit beamformers and the phase-shifts of the intelligent reflecting surface (IRS) / reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS) to minimize the transmit power,…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-11-22 Vaibhav Kumar , Rui Zhang , Marco Di Renzo , Le-Nam Tran

Conventional beamforming methods for intelligent reflecting surfaces (IRSs) or reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RISs) typically entail the full channel state information (CSI). However, the computational cost of channel acquisition…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-01-10 Fan Xu , Jiawei Yao , Wenhai Lai , Kaiming Shen , Xin Li , Xin Chen , Zhi-Quan Luo

We study the beamforming optimization for an intelligent reflecting surface (IRS)-aided full-duplex (FD) communication system in this letter. Specifically, we maximize the sum rate of bi-directional transmissions by jointly optimizing the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-10-22 Hong Shen , Tian Ding , Wei Xu , Chunming Zhao

This paper studies the feasibility of deploying intelligent reflecting surfaces (IRSs) in massive MIMO (multiple-input multiple-output) systems to improve the performance of users in the service dead zone. To reduce the channel training…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-01-13 Zhaorui Wang , Liang Liu , Shuowen Zhang , Shuguang Cui

Beamforming design for intelligent reflecting surface (IRS)-assisted multi-user communication (IRS-MUC) systems critically depends on the acquisition of accurate channel state information (CSI). However, channel estimation (CE) in IRS-MUC…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-11-24 Chang Liu , Xuemeng Liu , Zhiqiang Wei , Derrick Wing Kwan Ng , Robert Schober

To boost the secrecy rate (SR) of the conventional directional modulation (DM) network and overcome the double fading effect of the cascaded channels of passive intelligent reflecting surface (IRS), a novel active IRS-assisted DM system…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-02-27 Rongen Dong , Feng Shu , Yongzhao Li , Jun Li , Yongpeng Wu , Jiangzhou Wang

The realization of practical intelligent reflecting surface (IRS)-assisted multi-user communication (IRS-MUC) systems critically depends on the proper beamforming design exploiting accurate channel state information (CSI). However, channel…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-04-27 Chang Liu , Xuemeng Liu , Zhiqiang Wei , Shaokang Hu , Derrick Wing Kwan Ng , Jinhong Yuan

In this paper, a novel robust beamforming for an intelligent reflecting surface (IRS) assisted FD system is presented. Since perfect channel state information (CSI) is often challenging to acquire in practice, we consider the case of…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-08-17 Chandan Kumar Sheemar , Jorge Querol , Sourabh Solanki , Sumit Kumar , Symeon Chatzinotas

In this paper, we study the problem of joint active and passive beamforming for intelligent reflecting surface (IRS)-assisted massive MIMO systems, where multiple IRSs equipped with a large number of passive elements are deployed to assist…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-12-03 Xingjian Li , Jun Fang , Feifei Gao , Hongbin Li

Considering intelligent reflecting surface (IRS), we study a multi-cluster multiple-input-single-output (MISO) non-orthogonal multiple access (NOMA) downlink communication network. In the network, an IRS assists the communication from the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-09-17 Yiqing Li , Miao Jiang , Qi Zhang , Jiayin Qin

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