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Reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS) is an emerging technology for application to wireless communications. In this paper, we consider the problem of anomalous reflection and model the RIS as a periodic surface impedance boundary. We…
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Intelligent reflecting surface (IRS) is a promising technology for wireless communications, thanks to its potential capability to engineer the radio environment. However, in practice, such an envisaged benefit is attainable only when the…
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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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…
In this paper, the adoption of an intelligent reflecting surface (IRS) for multiple single-antenna source terminal (ST)-DT pairs in two-hop networks is investigated. Different from the previous studies on IRS that merely focused on tuning…
The accuracy of indoor wireless localization systems can be substantially enhanced by map-awareness, i.e., by the knowledge of the map of the environment in which localization signals are acquired. In fact, this knowledge can be exploited…
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