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Intelligent reflecting surfaces (IRSs) have emerged as a transformative technology for wireless networks by improving coverage, capacity, and energy efficiency through intelligent manipulation of wireless propagation environments. This…

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Intelligent reflecting surfaces (IRSs) constitute a disruptive wireless communication technique capable of creating a controllable propagation environment. In this paper, we propose to invoke an IRS at the cell boundary of multiple cells to…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-04-27 Cunhua Pan , Hong Ren , Kezhi Wang , Wei Xu , Maged Elkashlan , Arumugam Nallanathan , Lajos Hanzo

Intelligent reflecting surfaces (IRSs) are a promising technology for enhancing coverage and spectral efficiency, both in the sub-6 GHz and the millimeter wave (mmWave) bands. Existing approaches to leverage the benefits of IRS involve the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-07-03 L. Yashvanth , Chandra R. Murthy

The recently completed 5G new radio standard is a result of several cutting-edge technologies, including massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO), millimeter (mm)-Wave communication and network densification. However, these…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-12-16 Qurrat-Ul-Ain Nadeem , Abla Kammoun , Anas Chaaban , Merouane Debbah , Mohamed-Slim Alouini

Intelligent reflecting surface (IRS) is a new and revolutionary technology capable of reconfiguring the wireless propagation environment by controlling its massive low-cost passive reflecting elements. Different from prior works that focus…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-11-05 Bifeng Ling , Jiangbin Lyu , Liqun Fu

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 a revolutionary and low-cost technology for boosting the spectrum and energy efficiencies in future wireless communication network. In order to create controllable multipath transmission in the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-07-12 Rongen Dong , Shaohua Jiang , Xinhai Hua , Yin Teng , Feng Shu , Jiangzhou Wang

Intelligent reflecting surface (IRS) has emerged as a transforming solution to enrich wireless communications by efficiently reconfiguring the propagation environment. In this paper, a novel IRS circuit characterization model is proposed…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-12-14 Bhupendra Sharma , Anirudh Agarwal , Deepak Mishra , Soumitra Debnath

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) have received considerable attention from the wireless communications research community recently. In particular, as low-cost passive devices, IRSs enable the control of the wireless propagation…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-04-30 Xianghao Yu , Dongfang Xu , Robert Schober

Intelligent reflecting surface (IRS) is an emerging technology to enhance the spectral and energy efficiency of wireless communications cost-effectively. This letter considers a new multi-IRS aided wireless network where a cascaded…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-08-12 Weidong Mei , Rui Zhang

In this letter, we design passive beamforming in an intelligent reflecting surface (IRS) assisted multiple-user wireless network. Two different scenarios are considered, namely, multicasting and multi-user downlink transmission. We optimize…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-07-22 Ke-Wen Huang , Hui-Ming Wang

In this paper, we focus on intelligent reflecting surface (IRS) assisted multi-antenna communications with transceiver hardware impairments encountered in practice. In particular, we aim to maximize the received signal-to-noise ratio (SNR)…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-10-22 Hong Shen , Wei Xu , Shulei Gong , Chunming Zhao , Derrick Wing Kwan Ng

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

This paper investigates multiple intelligent reflecting surfaces (IRSs) aided wireless network, where the IRSs are deployed to cooperatively assist communications between a multi-antenna base station (BS) and multiple single-antenna…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-02-13 Zhengfeng Li , Meng Hua , Qingxia Wang , Qingheng Song

In this letter, we consider an intelligent reflecting surface (IRS)-assisted multiuser communication system, where an IRS is deployed to provide virtual line-of-sight (LoS) links between an access point (AP) and multiple users. We consider…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-06-30 Changsheng You , Beixiong Zheng , Rui Zhang

An intelligent reflecting surface (IRS) is invoked for enhancing the energy harvesting performance of a simultaneous wireless information and power transfer (SWIPT) aided system. Specifically, an IRS-assisted SWIPT system is considered,…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-02-19 Cunhua Pan , Hong Ren , Kezhi Wang , Maged Elkashlan , Arumugam Nallanathan , Jiangzhou Wang , Lajos Hanzo

Intelligent reflecting surface (IRS) has drawn a lot of attention recently as a promising new solution to achieve high spectral and energy efficiency for future wireless networks. By utilizing massive low-cost passive reflecting elements,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-10-17 Ming-Min Zhao , Qingqing Wu , Min-Jian Zhao , Rui Zhang

In this work, we study the statistically robust beamforming design for an intelligent reflecting surfaces (IRS) assisted multiple-input single-output (MISO) wireless system under imperfect channel state information (CSI), where the channel…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-06-15 Jiezhi Zhang , Yu Zhang , Caijun Zhong , Zhaoyang Zhang

Reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS) provides a promising way to build the programmable wireless transmission environments in the future. Owing to the large number of reflecting elements used at the RIS, joint optimization for the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-01-11 Xiaoyan Ma , Shuaishuai Guo , Haixia Zhang , Yuguang Fang , Dongfeng Yuan