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Intelligent Reflecting Surfaces (IRS) enhance spectral efficiency by adjusting reflection phase shifts, while Non-Orthogonal Multiple Access (NOMA) increases system capacity. Consequently, IRS-assisted NOMA communications have garnered…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-06-09 Linlin Liang , Zongkai Tian , Haiyan Huang , Xiaoyan Li , Zhisheng Yin , Dehua Zhang , Nina Zhang , Wenchao Zhai

In this paper, we consider intelligent reflecting surface (IRS) in a non-orthogonal multiple access (NOMA)-aided Integrated Sensing and Multicast-Unicast Communication (ISMUC) system, where the multicast signal is used for sensing and…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-07-27 Yang Gou , Yinghui Ye , Guangyue Lu , Lu Lv , Rose Qingyang Hu

Intelligent reflecting surface (IRS) has recently received much attention from the research community due to its potential to achieve high spectral and power efficiency cost-effectively. In addition to traditional cellular networks, the use…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-03-17 Wei Jiang , Hans D. Schotten

Combining intelligent reflecting surface (IRS) and non-orthogonal multiple access (NOMA) is an effective solution to enhance communication coverage and energy efficiency. In this paper, we focus on an IRS-assisted NOMA network and propose…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-09-14 Fang Fang , Yanqing Xu , Quoc-Viet Pham , Zhiguo Ding

The ever-increasing reliance on wireless communication and sensing has led to growing concerns over the vulnerability of sensitive information to unauthorized detection and interception. Traditional anti-detection methods are often…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-04-23 Beixiong Zheng , Xue Xiong , Tiantian Ma , Jie Tang , Derrick Wing Kwan Ng , A. Lee Swindlehurst , Rui Zhang

Non-Orthogonal Multiple Access (NOMA) has been recognized as one of the most significant enabling technologies for future wireless systems due to its eminent spectral efficiency, ability to provide an additional degree of freedom for Ultra…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-07-14 Haji M. Furqan , Jehad. M. Hamamreh , Huseyin Arslan

Intelligent reflecting surface (IRS) as a promising technology rendering high throughput in future communication systems is compatible with various communication techniques such as non-orthogonal multiple-access (NOMA). In this paper, the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-03-17 Yasaman Omid , S. M. Mahdi Shahabi , Cunhua Pan , Yansha Deng , Arumugam Nallanathan

The potential of Reconfigurable Intelligent Surfaces (RISs) for energy-efficient and performance-boosted wireless communications is recently gaining remarkable research attention, motivating their consideration for various $5$-th Generation…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-12-06 George C. Alexandropoulos , Konstantinos D. Katsanos , Miaowen Wen , Daniel B. da Costa

This paper investigates an intelligent reflecting surface (IRS) aided cooperative communication network, where the IRS exploits large reflecting elements to proactively steer the incident radio-frequency wave towards destination terminals…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-12-21 Yulan Gao , Chao Yong , Zehui Xiong , Dusit Niyato , Yue Xiao , Jun Zhao

Reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS)-aided wireless communications have drawn significant attention recently. We study the physical layer security of the downlink RIS-aided transmission framework for randomly located users in the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-04-09 Jiayi Zhang , Hongyang Du , Qiang Sun , Bo Ai , Derrick Wing Kwan Ng

Intelligent reflecting surface (IRS) has recently been recognized as a promising technology to enhance the energy and spectrum efficiency of wireless networks by controlling the wireless medium with the configurable electromagnetic…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-07-02 Min Fu , Yong Zhou , Yuanming Shi

A critical concern within the realm of visible light communications (VLC) pertains to enhancing system data rate, particularly in scenarios where the direct line-of-sight (LoS) connection is obstructed by obstacles. The deployment of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-01-08 Omar Maraqa , Sylvester Aboagye , Telex M. N. Ngatched

Due to the broadcast nature of wireless communications, physical layer security has always been a fundamental but challenging problem. Recent advance of Intelligent Reflecting Surface (IRS) introduces a new dimension for secure…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-10-29 Jian Li , Lan Zhang , Kaiping Xue , Yuguang Fang

In this paper, we investigate covert communication in an intelligent reflecting surface (IRS)-assisted non-orthogonal multiple access (NOMA) system, where a legitimate transmitter (Alice) applies NOMA for downlink and uplink transmissions…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-12-08 Lu Lv , Qingqing Wu , Zan Li , Zhiguo Ding , Naofal Al-Dhahir , Jian Chen

In this paper, intelligent reflecting surfaces (IRSs) are employed to enhance the physical layer security in a challenging radio environment. In particular, a multi-antenna access point (AP) has to serve multiple single-antenna legitimate…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-04-21 Xianghao Yu , Dongfang Xu , Ying Sun , Derrick Wing Kwan Ng , Robert Schober

This letter studies an active intelligent reflecting surface (IRS)-enabled non-line-of-sight (NLoS) target detection system, in which an active IRS equipped with active reflecting elements and sensors is strategically deployed to facilitate…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-09-18 Xianxin Song , Xiaoqi Qin , Xianghao Yu , Jie Xu , Derrick Wing Kwan Ng

In this work, we examine an intelligent reflecting surface (IRS) assisted downlink non-orthogonal multiple access (NOMA) scenario with the aim of maximizing the sum rate of users. The optimization problem at the IRS is quite complicated,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-04-06 Muhammad Shehab , Bekir S. Ciftler , Tamer Khattab , Mohamed Abdallah , Daniele Trinchero

Intelligent reflecting surfaces (IRS) have been proposed as a revolutionary technology owing to its capability of adaptively reconfiguring the propagation environment in a cost-effective and hardware-efficient fashion. While the application…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-01-25 Rang Liu , Ming Li , Qian Liu , A. Lee Swindlehurst , Qingqing Wu

This letter investigates secure transmission in an intelligent reflecting surface (IRS) assisted non-orthogonal multiple access (NOMA) network. Consider a practical eavesdropping scenario with imperfect channel state information of the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-09-02 Zheng Zhang , Lu Lv , Qingqing Wu , Hao Deng , Jian Chen

With the emergence of the internet of things (IoT) technology, wireless connectivity should be more ubiquitous than ever. In fact, the availability of wireless connection everywhere comes with security threats that, unfortunately, cannot be…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-09-11 Abdullateef Almohamad , Anas M. Tahir , Ayman Al-Kababji , Haji M. Furqan , Tamer Khattab , Mazen O. Hasna , Huseyin Arslan