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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,…
In this text I present a couple of new principles and thereon based iterative methods for numerical solution of sequences of systems of linear equations with fixed system matrix and changing right-hand-sides. The use of the new methods is…
A method for model reduction in nonlinear ODE systems is demonstrated through computational examples. The method does not require an implicit separation of time-scales in the fine dynamics to be effective. From the computational standpoint,…