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In this paper, we propose a robust secrecy transmission scheme for intelligent reflecting surface (IRS) aided communication systems. Different from all the existing works where IRS has already been deployed at a fixed location, we take the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-08-01 Jiale Bai , Hui-Ming Wang , Peng Liu

Intelligent reflecting surface (IRS) has garnered growing interest and attention due to its potential for facilitating and supporting wireless communications and sensing. This paper studies a semi-passive IRS-enabled sensing system, where…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-02-06 Qiaoyan Peng , Qingqing Wu , Wen Chen , Shaodan Ma , Ming-Min Zhao , Octavia A. Dobre

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

Pixel-based reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RISs) employ a novel design to achieve high reflection gain at a lower hardware cost by eliminating the phase shifters used in traditional RIS. However, this design presents challenges for…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-10-24 Huayan Guo , Junhui Rao , Alex M. H. Wong , Ross Murch , Vincent K. N. Lau

We present distributed methods for jointly optimizing Intelligent Reflecting Surface (IRS) phase-shifts and beamformers in a cellular network. The proposed schemes require knowledge of only the intra-cell training sequences and…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-10-29 Reinhard Wiesmayr , Michael Honig , Michael Joham , Wolfgang Utschick

In this letter, an intelligent reflecting surface (IRS) enhanced full-duplex MIMO two-way communication system is studied. The system sum rate is maximized through jointly optimizing the source precoders and the IRS phase shift matrix.…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-03-03 Yu Zhang , Caijun Zhong , Zhaoyang Zhang , Weidang Lu

Intelligent reflecting surface (IRS) is an emerging technology for wireless communication composed of a large number of low-cost passive devices with reconfigurable parameters, which can reflect signals with a certain phase shift and is…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-02-16 Feng Shu , Lili Yang , Yan Wang , Xuehui Wang , Weiping Shi , Chong Shen , Jiangzhou Wang

In this paper, we investigate an intelligent reflecting surface (IRS)-assisted millimeter-wave multiple-input single-output downlink wireless communication system. By jointly calculating the active beamforming at the base station and the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-03-11 Wencai Yan , Gangcan Sun , Wanming Hao , Zhengyu Zhu , Zheng Chu , Pei Xiao

Physically accurate and mathematically tractable models are presented to characterize scattering and reflection properties of reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RISs). We take continuous and discrete strategies to model a single patch and…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-08-31 Tiebin Mi , Jianan Zhang , Rujing Xiong , Zhengyu Wang , Robert Caiming Qiu

Intelligent reflecting surface (IRS) is a new and revolutionizing technology for achieving spectrum and energy efficient wireless networks. By leveraging massive low-cost passive elements that are able to reflect radio-frequency (RF)…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-11-12 Qingqing Wu , Rui Zhang

Reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RIS) can improve signal propagation environments by adjusting the phase of the incident signal. However, optimizing the phase shifts jointly with the beamforming vector at the access point is challenging…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-10-28 Weijie Jin , Jing Zhang , Chao-Kai Wen , Shi Jin , Xiao Li , Shuangfeng Han

Intelligent reflecting surface (IRS) offers a cost effective solution to link blockage problem in mmWave communications, and the prerequisite of which is the accurate estimation of (1) the optimal beams for base station/access point (BS/AP)…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-01-13 Wei Wang , Wei Zhang

This paper focuses on the fundamental problem of maximizing the achievable weighted sum rate (WSR) at information receivers (IRs) in an intelligent reflecting surface (IRS) assisted simultaneous wireless information and power transfer…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-03-02 Vaibhav Kumar , Anastasios Papazafeiropoulos , Muhammad Fainan Hanif , Le-Nam Tran , Mark F. Flanagan

Intelligent reflecting surface (IRS) has been regarded as a promising and revolutionary technology for future wireless communication systems owing to its capability of tailoring signal propagation environment in an…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-04-14 Wenhao Cai , Rang Liu , Ming Li , Yang Liu , Qingqing Wu , Qian Liu

In this paper, we develop a physics-based model that allows a scalable optimization of large intelligent reflecting surfaces (IRSs). The basic idea is to partition the IRS unit cells into several subsets, referred to as tiles, and model the…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-06-09 Marzieh Najafi , Vahid Jamali , Robert Schober , Vincent H. Poor

We consider the problem of quantifying the Pareto optimal boundary in the achievable rate region over multiple-input single-output (MISO) interference channels, where the problem boils down to solving a sequence of convex feasibility…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-05-20 Jiaming Qiu , Rui Zhang , Zhi-Quan Luo , Shuguang Cui

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

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

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

Intelligent reflecting surface (IRS) has emerged as an appealing solution to enhance the wireless communication performance by reconfiguring the wireless propagation environment. In this paper, we propose to apply IRS to the physical-layer…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-11-17 Boyu Ning , Zhi Chen , Zhongbao Tian , Shaoqian Li