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Intelligent reflecting/refracting surface (IRS) is envisioned as a promising technology to reconfigure wireless propagation environment for enhancing the communication performance, by smartly controlling the signal reflection/refraction…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-10-18 Zixuan Huang , Lipeng Zhu , Rui Zhang

Compute-and-forward is a promising strategy to tackle interference and obtain high rates between the transmitting users in a wireless network. However, the quality of the wireless channels between the users substantially limits the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-06-25 Mahdi Jafari Siavoshani , Seyed Pooya Shariatpanahi , Naeimeh Omidvar

In this paper, we propose to utilize intelligent reflecting surfaces (IRSs) for enhancing the physical layer security of wireless communications systems. In particular, an IRS-assisted secure wireless system is considered, where a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-02-26 Xianghao Yu , Dongfang Xu , Robert Schober

Autonomous driving and intelligent transportation applications have dramatically increased the demand for high-accuracy and low-latency localization services. While cellular networks are potentially capable of target detection and…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-01-08 Kaitao Meng , Qingqing Wu , Wen Chen , Deshi Li

Existing works on IRS have mainly considered IRS being deployed in the environment to dynamically control the wireless channels between the BS and its served users. In contrast, we propose in this paper a new integrated IRS BS architecture…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-06-01 Yuwei Huang , Lipeng Zhu , Rui Zhang

Intelligent reflecting surface (IRS) is a potential candidate for massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) 2.0 technology due to its low cost, ease of deployment, energy efficiency and extended coverage. This chapter investigates the…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-02-24 Yashuai Cao , Hetong Wang , Tiejun Lv , Wei Ni

Intelligent Reflecting Surface (IRS) is envisioned to be a promising green and cost-effective solution to enhance wireless network performance by smartly reconfiguring the signal propagation. In this paper, we study an IRS-aided…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2020-12-25 Xu Huaqiang , Zhang Guodong , Zhao Jun , Quoc-Viet Pham

This paper studies a multiple intelligent reflecting surfaces (IRSs) collaborative localization system where multiple semi-passive IRSs are deployed in the network to locate one or more targets based on time-of-arrival. It is assumed that…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-06-18 Ziheng Zhang , Wen Chen , Qingqing Wu , Zhendong Li , Xusheng Zhu , Jingfeng Chen , Nan Cheng

This paper considers an angle-domain intelligent reflecting surface (IRS) system. We derive maximum likelihood (ML) estimators for the effective angles from the base station (BS) to the user and the effective angles of propagation from the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-03-02 Xiaoling Hu , Caijun Zhong , Zhaoyang Zhang

As a revolutionary paradigm for intelligently controlling wireless channels, intelligent reflecting surface (IRS) has emerged as a promising technology for future sixth-generation (6G) wireless communications. While IRS-aided communication…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-04-23 Shengsheng Zhang , Taotao Ji , Meng Hua , Yongming Huang , Luxi Yang

Intelligent reflecting surfaces (IRSs) are envisioned as a transformative method for enhancing the physical layer security of future communication networks. However, current IRS-assisted secure wireless system designs incur high time cost…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-01-23 Yifei Wu , Mehmet Emin Arslan , Niels Neumann , Wolfgang Gerstacker , Robert Schober

This work examines the performance gain achieved by deploying an intelligent reflecting surface (IRS) in covert communications. To this end, we formulate the joint design of the transmit power and the IRS reflection coefficients by taking…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-01-12 Xiaobo Zhou , Shihao Yan , Qingqing Wu , Feng Shu , Derrick Wing Kwan Ng

This paper studies the feasibility of deploying intelligent reflecting surfaces (IRSs) in massive MIMO (multiple-input multiple-output) systems to improve the performance of users in the service dead zone. To reduce the channel training…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-01-13 Zhaorui Wang , Liang Liu , Shuowen Zhang , Shuguang Cui

Intelligent reflecting surfaces (IRSs)-assisted wireless communication promises improved system performance, while posing new challenges in channel estimation (CE) due to the passive nature of the reflecting elements. Although a few CE…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-09-25 Hibatallah Alwazani , Qurrat-Ul-Ain Nadeem , Anas Chaaban

Intelligent reflecting surface (IRS) is envisioned to be a new and revolutionizing technology for achieving spectrum and energy efficient wireless communication networks cost-effectively in the future. Specifically, an IRS consists of a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-08-13 Qingqing Wu , Rui Zhang

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 surface (IRS) is deemed as a promising solution to improve the spectral and energy efficiency of wireless communications cost-effectively. In this paper, we consider a wireless network where multiple base stations…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-06-07 Weidong Mei , Rui Zhang

Intelligent reflecting surface (IRS) can be densely deployed in complex environments to create cascaded line-of-sight (LoS) links between base stations (BSs) and users, which significantly enhance the signal coverage. In this paper, we…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-07-18 Weidong Mei , Zhi Chen , Rui Zhang

Intelligent reflecting surface (IRS) is a promising technology to extend the wireless signal coverage and support the high performance communication. By intelligently adjusting the reflection coefficients of a large number of passive…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-03-01 Yitao Han , Shuowen Zhang , Lingjie Duan , Rui Zhang

Intelligent reflecting surface (IRS) has been widely recognized as an efficient technique to reconfigure the electromagnetic environment in favor of wireless communication performance. In this paper, we propose a new application of IRS for…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-01-24 Peilan Wang , Weidong Mei , Jun Fang , Rui Zhang