English
Related papers

Related papers: Multi-Active Multi-Passive (MAMP)-IRS Aided Wirele…

200 papers

The performance of mobile edge computing (MEC) depends critically on the quality of the wireless channels. From this viewpoint, the recently advocated intelligent reflecting surface (IRS) technique that can proactively reconfigure wireless…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-02-10 Huilian Zhang , Xiaofan He , Qingqing Wu , Huaiyu Dai

Movable antenna (MA) and intelligent reflecting surface (IRS) are considered promising technologies for the next-generation wireless communication systems due to their shared channel reconfiguration capabilities. This, however, raises a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-07-04 Xin Wei , Weidong Mei , Qingqing Wu , Qiaoran Jia , Boyu Ning , Zhi Chen , Jun Fang

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…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-03-06 Qingqing Wu , Guangji Chen , Qiaoyan Peng , Wen Chen , Yifei Yuan , Zhenqiao Cheng , Jianwu Dou , Zhiyong Zhao , Ping Li

This paper presents a literature review on recent applications and design aspects of the intelligent reflecting surface (IRS) in the future wireless networks. Conventionally, the network optimization has been limited to transmission control…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-07-28 Shimin Gong , Xiao Lu , Dinh Thai Hoang , Dusit Niyato , Lei Shu , Dong In Kim , Ying-Chang Liang

Cognitive radio (CR) is an effective solution to improve the spectral efficiency (SE) of wireless communications by allowing the secondary users (SUs) to share spectrum with primary users (PUs). Meanwhile, intelligent reflecting surface…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-03-12 Weiheng Jiang , Yu Zhang , Jun Zhao , Zehui Xiong , Zhiguo Ding

This study considers a dual-polarized intelligent reflecting surface (DP-IRS)-assisted multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) single-user wireless communication system. The transmitter and receiver are equipped with DP antennas, and each…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-07-13 Muteen Munawar , Kyungchun Lee

Intelligent reflecting surface (IRS) has emerged as a promising technique to extend the wireless signal coverage of access point (AP) and improve the communication performance cost-effectively. In order to reduce the path-loss of the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-01-17 Yuwei Huang , Lipeng Zhu , Rui Zhang

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

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

The intelligent reflecting surface (IRS) is emphasized as a controlled scattering cluster. To this end, scatterers and traveling paths of multipath components are classified to build a new channel model. Unlike the conventional modeling,…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-11-18 Musab Alayasra , Huseyin Arslan

Intelligent reflecting surfaces (IRSs) are regarded as a key enabler of green wireless communication, due to their capability of customizing favorable wireless propagation environments. In this paper, we investigate resource allocation for…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-11-13 Xianghao Yu , Dongfang Xu , Derrick Wing Kwan Ng , Robert Schober

In this paper, we develop a hybrid multiple access (MA) protocol for an intelligent reflecting surface (IRS) aided uplink transmission network by incorporating the IRS-aided time-division MA (I-TDMA) protocol and the IRS-aided…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-06-27 Piao Zeng , Guangji Chen , Qingqing Wu , Deli Qiao , Abbas Jamalipour

Rotatable intelligent reflecting surfaces (IRSs) introduce a new degree of freedom (DoF) for shaping wireless propagation by adaptively adjusting the orientation of IRSs. This paper considers an angle-dependent reflection model in a…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-12-17 Qiaoyan Peng , Qingqing Wu , Guangji Chen , Wen Chen , Shanpu Shen , Shaodan Ma

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

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

This paper proposes a novel location information aided multiple intelligent reflecting surface (IRS) systems. Assuming imperfect user location information, the effective angles from the IRS to the users are estimated, which is then used to…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-08-24 Xiaoling Hu , Caijun Zhong , Yu Zhang , Xiaoming Chen , Zhaoyang Zhang

Intelligent reflecting surface (IRS) can effectively enhance the energy and spectral efficiency of wireless communication system through the use of a large number of lowcost passive reflecting elements. In this paper, we investigate…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2020-07-21 Yuan Zheng , Suzhi Bi , Ying-Jun Angela Zhang , Hui Wang

This paper proposes an intelligent reflecting surface (IRS) assisted integrated sensing and communication (ISAC) system operating at the millimeter-wave (mmWave) band. Specifically, the ISAC system combines communication and radar…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-04-10 Zhengyu Zhu , Zheng Li , Zheng Chu , Gangcan Sun , Wanming Hao , Pei Xiao , Inkyu Lee

Intelligent reflecting surface (IRS) has recently emerged as a promising technology for beyond fifth-generation (B5G) and 6G networks conceived from metamaterials that smartly tunes the signal reflections via a large number of low-cost…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-08-22 Jyotsna Rani , Deepak Mishra , Ganesh Prasad , Ashraf Hossain , Swades De , Kuntal Deka

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