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Prior research on intelligent reflection surface (IRS)-assisted unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) communications has focused on a fixed location for the IRS or mounted on a UAV. The assumption that the IRS is located at a fixed position will…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-07-11 Hazim Shakhatreh , Ahmad Sawalmeh , Ali H Alenezi , Sharief Abdel-Razeq , Muhannad Almutiry , Ala Al-Fuqaha

This paper considers an intelligent reflecting surface (IRS) assisted multi-input multi-output (MIMO) power splitting (PS) based simultaneous wireless information and power transfer (SWIPT) system with multiple PS receivers (PSRs). The…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-06-01 Chen He , Xie Xie , Kun Yang , Z. Jane Wang

In this paper, we study an active IRS-aided simultaneous wireless information and power transfer (SWIPT) system. Specifically, an active IRS is deployed to assist a multi-antenna access point (AP) to convey information and energy…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-08-05 Ying Gao , Qingqing Wu , Guangchi Zhang , Wen Chen , Derrick Wing Kwan Ng , Marco Di Renzo

Wireless sensing and wireless energy are enablers to pave the way for smart transportation and a greener future. In this paper, an intelligent reflecting surface (IRS) assisted integrated sensing and wireless power transfer (ISWPT) system…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-12-04 Zheng Li , Zhengyu Zhu , Zheng Chu , Yingying Guan , De Mi , Fan Liu , Lie-Liang Yang

Intelligent reflecting surface (IRS) assisted unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) systems provide a new paradigm for reconfigurable and flexible wireless communications. To enable more energy efficient and spectrum efficient IRS assisted UAV…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-10-22 Yiheng Wang

This paper unveils the importance of intelligent reflecting surface (IRS) in a wireless powered sensor network (WPSN). Specifically, a multi-antenna power station (PS) employs energy beamforming to provide wireless charging for multiple…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-03-22 Zheng Chu , Zhengyu Zhu , Miao Zhang , Fuhui Zhou , Li Zhen , Xueqian Fu , and Naofal Al-Dhahir

In this letter, we investigate an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) communication system, where an intelligent reflecting surface (IRS) is deployed to assist in the transmission from a ground node (GN) to the UAV in the presence of a jammer. We…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-01-17 Zhi Ji , Wendong Yang , Xinrong Guan , Xiao Zhao , Guoxin Li , Qingqing Wu

The performance of Simultaneous Wireless Information and Power Transfer (SWIPT) is mainly constrained by the received Radio-Frequency (RF) signal strength. To tackle this problem, we introduce an Intelligent Reflecting Surface (IRS) to…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-12-06 Yang Zhao , Bruno Clerckx , Zhenyuan Feng

This paper investigates the problem of secure energy efficiency maximization for a reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS) assisted uplink wireless communication system, where an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) equipped with an RIS works as…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-06-08 Hui Long , Ming Chen , Zhaohui Yang , Bao Wang , Zhiyang Li , Xu Yun , Mohammad Shikh-Bahaei

This paper studies an intelligent reflecting surface (IRS)-aided multi-antenna simultaneous wireless information and power transfer (SWIPT) system where an $M$-antenna access point (AP) serves $K$ single-antenna information users (IUs) and…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-01-11 Ying Gao , Qingqing Wu , Wen Chen , Yang Liu , Ming Li , Daniel Benevides da Costa

In this paper, unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) and intelligent reflective surface (IRS) are utilized to support terahertz (THz) communications. To this end, the joint optimization of UAV's trajectory, the phase shift of IRS, the allocation…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-03-02 Yijin Pan , Kezhi Wang , Cunhua Pan , Huiling Zhu , Jiangzhou Wang

With increasing interest in mmWave and THz communication systems, an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV)-mounted intelligent reflecting surface (IRS) has been suggested as a key enabling technology to establish robust line-of-sight (LoS)…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-10-02 Doyoung Kim , Seongah Jeong , Jinkyu Kang

This paper proposes a hybrid-relaying scheme empowered by a self-sustainable intelligent reflecting surface (IRS) in a wireless powered communication network (WPCN), to simultaneously improve the performance of downlink energy transfer (ET)…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-10-01 Bin Lyu , Parisa Ramezani , Dinh Thai Hoang , Shimin Gong , Zhen Yang , Abbas Jamalipour

Intelligent reflecting surface (IRS) is a cost-effective solution for achieving high spectrum and energy efficiency in future wireless networks by leveraging massive low-cost passive elements that are able to reflect the signals with…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-01-03 Qingqing Wu , Rui Zhang

This paper considers intelligent reflecting surface (IRS)-aided simultaneous wireless information and power transfer (SWIPT) in a multi-user multiple-input single-output (MISO) interference channel (IFC), where multiple transmitters (Txs)…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-01-31 Ying Gao , Qingqing Wu , Wen Chen , Celimuge Wu , Derrick Wing Kwan Ng , Naofal Al-Dhahir

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

Simultaneous wireless information and power transfer (SWIPT) has been envisioned as a promising technology to support ubiquitous connectivity and reliable sustainability in Internet-of-Things (IoT) networks, which, however, generally…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-11-17 Yanze Zhu , Qingqing Wu , Xinrong Guan , Ziyuan Zheng , Honghao Wang , Wen Chen , Yang Liu , Yuan Guo

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) can smartly adjust the wavefronts in terms of phase, frequency, amplitude and polarization via passive reflections and without any need of radio frequency (RF) chains. It is envisaged as an emerging…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-06-29 Syed Agha Hassnain Mohsan , Yanlong Li

In this paper, we study an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) enabled data collection system, where an intelligent reflecting surface (IRS) is deployed to assist in the communication from a cluster of Internet-of-Things (IoT) devices to a UAV in…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-09-01 Zhi Ji , Jia Tu , Xinrong Guan , Wendong Yang , Weiwei Yang , Qingqing Wu