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In this paper, we propose a new dynamic IRS beamforming framework to boost the sum throughput of an intelligent reflecting surface (IRS) aided wireless powered communication network (WPCN). Specifically, the IRS phase-shift vectors across…

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This paper studies the codebook-based configuration of a reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS) that extends the coverage of a base station (BS) while utilizing energy harvesting to facilitate self-sustainable operation. For a given…

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In this paper, we investigate the design of secure transmission frameworks with an intelligent reflecting surface (IRS). Our design aims to minimize the system energy consumption in cases of rank-one and full-rank access point (AP)-IRS…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-09-04 Biqian Feng , Yongpeng Wu , Mengfan Zheng

Intelligent reflecting surfaces (IRSs) have become a vital technology for improving the spectrum and energy efficiency of forthcoming wireless networks. Nevertheless, practical implementation is obstructed by the excessive overhead…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-11-07 Xianhua Yu , Dong Li , Bowen Gu , Liuqing Yang , Sumei Sun , George K. Karagiannidis

Reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RIS) is a revolutionary technology to cost-effectively improve the performance of wireless networks. We first review the existing framework of channel estimation and passive beamforming (CE & PBF) in…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-11-17 Jiancheng An , Chao Xu , Qingqing Wu , Derrick Wing Kwan Ng , Marco Di Renzo , Chau Yuen , Lajos Hanzo

We investigate transmission optimization for intelligent reflecting surface (IRS) assisted multi-antenna systems from the physical-layer security perspective. The design goal is to maximize the system secrecy rate subject to the source…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-05-12 Hong Shen , Wei Xu , Shulei Gong , Zhenyao He , Chunming Zhao

Intelligent reflecting surface (IRS) has emerged as a revolutionizing solution to enhance wireless communications by intelligently changing the propagation environment. Prior studies on IRS are based on an ideal reflection model with a…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-06-03 Wenhao Cai , Hongyu Li , Ming Li , Qian Liu

We study the secrecy rate maximization problem in a millimeter wave (mmWave) network, consisting of a base station (BS), multiple intelligent reflecting surfaces (IRSs) (or reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RISs)), multiple users, and a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-10-02 Anahid Rafieifar , Hosein Ahmadinejad , S. Mohammad Razavizadeh , Jiguang He

This paper studies intelligent reflecting surface (IRS) assisted active device detection. Since the locations of the devices are a priori unknown, optimal IRS beam alignment is not possible and a worst-case design for a given coverage area…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-10-30 Friedemann Laue , Vahid Jamali , Robert Schober

In this paper, we introduce an intelligent reflecting surface (IRS) to provide a programmable wireless environment for physical layer security. By adjusting the reflecting coefficients, the IRS can change the attenuation and scattering of…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-06-21 Jie Chen , Ying-Chang Liang , Yiyang Pei , Huayan Guo

In this paper, we investigate resource allocation algorithm design for large intelligent reflecting surface (IRS)-assisted simultaneous wireless information and power transfer (SWIPT) systems. To this end, we adopt a physics-based IRS model…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-10-05 Dongfang Xu , Xianghao Yu , Vahid Jamali , Derrick Wing Kwan Ng , Robert Schober

The impacts of channel estimation errors, inter-cell interference, phase adjustment cost, and computation cost on an intelligent reflecting surface (IRS)-assisted system are severe in practice but have been ignored for simplicity in most…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-01-06 Yuhang Jia , Wuyang Jiang , Ying Cui

In this paper, large-scale intelligent reflecting sur-face (IRS)-assisted multiple-input single-output (MISO) system is considered in the presence of channel uncertainty. To maximize the average sum rate of the system by jointly optimizing…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-03-22 Yasaman Omid , Seyyed MohammadMahdi Shahabi , Cunhua Pan , Yansha Deng , Arumugam Nallanathan

Intelligent reflecting surface (IRS) is a promising paradigm to reconfigure the wireless environment for enhanced communication coverage and quality. However, to compensate for the double pathloss effect, massive IRS elements are required,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-08-12 Zhenyu Jiang , Xintong Chen , Jiangbin Lyu , Liqun Fu , Rui Zhang

In this paper, channel estimation techniques and phase shift design for intelligent reflecting surface (IRS)-empowered single-user multiple-input multiple-output (SU-MIMO) systems are proposed. Among four channel estimation techniques…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-08-17 Sucheol Kim , Hyeongtaek Lee , Jihoon Cha , Sung-Jin Kim , Jaeyong Park , Junil Choi

To make a good balance between performance, cost, and power consumption, a hybrid intelligent reflecting surface (IRS)-aided directional modulation (DM) network is investigated in this paper, where the hybrid IRS consists of passive and…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-02-15 Rongen Dong , Hangjia He , Feng Shu , Riqing Chen , Jiangzhou Wang

In this paper, we investigate resource allocation algorithm design for intelligent reflecting surface (IRS)-assisted multiuser cognitive radio (CR) systems. In particular, an IRS is deployed to mitigate the interference caused by the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-03-03 Dongfang Xu , Xianghao Yu , Robert Schober

Power splitting based simultaneous wireless information and power transfer (PS-SWIPT) appears to be a promising solution to support future self-sustainable Internet of Things (SS-IoT) networks. However, the performance of these networks is…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-01-12 Haleema Sadia , Ahmad Kamal Hassan , Ziaul Haq Abbas , Ghulam Abbas , Thar Baker

Intelligent reflecting surface (IRS), which consists of a large number of tunable reflective elements, is capable of enhancing the wireless propagation environment in a cellular network by intelligently reflecting the electromagnetic waves…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-06-10 Tao Jiang , Hei Victor Cheng , Wei Yu

Intelligent reflecting surface (IRS) has recently been emerging as an enabler for smart radio environment in which passive antenna arrays can be used to actively tailor/control the radio propagation. With multiple IRSs being launched to…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-12-09 Tu V. Nguyen , Diep N. Nguyen