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Intelligent reflecting surface (IRS) is a promising technology that enables the precise control of the electromagnetic environment in future wireless communication networks. To leverage the IRS effectively, the acquisition of channel state…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-10-25 Jiancheng An , Chao Xu , Lu Gan , Chau Yuen , Lajos Hanzo

In this paper, we propose intelligent reflecting surfaces (IRS) assisted secure wireless communications with multi-input and multi-output antennas (IRS-MIMOME). The considered scenario is an access point (AP) equipped with multiple antennas…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-01-27 Weiheng Jiang , Yu Zhang , Jinsong Wu , Wenjiang Feng , Yi Jin

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 surface (IRS) is envisioned as a revolutionary technology for future wireless communication systems since it can intelligently change radio environment and integrate it into wireless communication optimization.…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-01-05 Hongyu Li , Wenhao Cai , Yang Liu , Ming Li , Qian Liu , Qingqing Wu

This paper investigates robust and secure multiuser multiple-input single-output (MISO) downlink communications assisted by a self-sustainable intelligent reflection surface (IRS), which can simultaneously reflect and harvest energy from…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-08-05 Shaokang Hu , Zhiqiang Wei , Yuanxin Cai , Chang Liu , Derrick Wing Kwan Ng , Jinhong Yuan

While intelligent reflecting surface (IRS) assisted wireless communication has emerged as an important research paradigm, channel state information (CSI) acquisition remains a critical challenge to design the IRS phase-shifts and yield the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-09-10 Qurrat-Ul-Ain Nadeem , Anas Chaaban , Merouane Debbah

In this paper, we consider IRS-assisted transmissions from a multi-antenna access point (AP) to a receiver with uncertain channel information. By adjusting the magnitude of reflecting coefficients, the IRS can sustain its operations by…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-05-15 Yongchang Deng , Yuze Zou , Shimin Gong , Bin Lyu , Dinh Thai Hoang , Dusit Niyato

Intelligent Reflecting Surface (IRS) is a promising technology for next generation wireless networks. Despite substantial research in IRS-aided communications, the assumed antenna and channel models are typically simplified without…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-05-07 Dongsheng Fu , Xintong Chen , Jiangbin Lyu , Liqun Fu

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

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

This paper studies the active intelligent reflecting surface (IRS)-enabled integrated sensing and communications (ISAC), in which an active IRS is deployed to assist the base station (BS) in serving multiple communication users (CUs) and…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-08-04 Yuan Fang , Xianxin Song , Huazhou Hou , Ziguo Zhong , Xianghao Yu , Jie Xu , Yongming Huang

Intelligent reflecting surface (IRS) has recently been identified as a prominent technology with the ability of enhancing wireless communication by dynamically manipulating the propagation environment. This paper investigates a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-09-15 Yuwei Gao , Jindan Xu , Wei Xu , Derrick Wing Kwan Ng , Mohamed Slim Alouini

This paper considers an intelligent reflecting surface (IRS) aided multiple-input single-output communication system, where statistical channel state information (CSI) is exploited for transmit beamforming and IRS beamforming. A tight upper…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-08-21 Xiaoling Hu , Junwei Wang , Caijun Zhong

Intelligent reflecting surfaces (IRSs) are envisioned as a low-cost solution to achieve high spectral and energy efficiency in future communication systems due to their ability to customize wireless propagation environments. Although…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-02-27 Yifei Wu , Dongfang Xu , Derrick Wing Kwan Ng , Robert Schober , Wolfgang Gerstacker

Intelligent reflecting surface (IRS) has recently been envisioned to offer unprecedented massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO)-like gains by deploying large-scale and low-cost passive reflection elements. By adjusting the reflection…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-07-15 Gui Zhou , Cunhua Pan , Hong Ren , Kezhi Wang , Arumugam Nallanathan

Intelligent reflecting surface (IRS) is regarded as a revolutionary paradigm that can reconfigure the wireless propagation environment for enhancing the desired signal and/or weakening the interference, and thus improving the quality of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-12-19 Xintong Chen , Jiangbin Lyu , Liqun Fu

Intelligent reflecting surface (IRS) has been recognized as a powerful technology for boosting communication performance. To reduce manufacturing and control costs, it is preferable to consider discrete phase shifts (DPSs) for IRS, which…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-11-07 Guojie Hu , Qingqing Wu , Dognhui Xu , Kui Xu , Jiangbo Si , Yunlong Cai , Naofal Al-Dhahir

This paper studies multi-active intelligent-reflecting-surface (IRS) cooperative sensing, in which multiple active IRSs are deployed in a distributed manner to help the base station (BS) provide multi-view sensing. We focus on the scenario…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-04-23 Yuan Fang , Xianghao Yu , Jie Xu

Wireless communications via intelligent reflecting surfaces (IRSs) has received considerable attention from both academia and industry. In particular, IRSs are able to create favorable wireless propagation environments with typically…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-01-31 Xianghao Yu , Dongfang Xu , Robert Schober

Intelligent reflecting surfaces (IRSs) tune wireless environments to increase spectrum and energy efficiencies. In view of much recent attention to the IRS concept as a promising technology for 6G wireless communications, we present a…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-11-05 Jun Zhao