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Intelligent reflecting surfaces (IRSs) are a promising technology for enhancing coverage and spectral efficiency, both in the sub-6 GHz and the millimeter wave (mmWave) bands. Existing approaches to leverage the benefits of IRS involve the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-07-03 L. Yashvanth , Chandra R. Murthy

Intelligent reflecting surface (IRS) is a new and promising paradigm to substantially improve the spectral and energy efficiency of wireless networks, by constructing favorable communication channels via tuning massive low-cost passive…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-05-18 Jiangbin Lyu , 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

We analyze the outage probability of an intelligent reflecting surface (IRS)-assisted communication network. A tight upper bound on the outage probability is formulated based on the Chernoff inequality. Furthermore, through an exact…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-08-13 Tianxiong Wang , Gaojie Chen , Justin P. Coon , Mihai-Alin Badiu

Intelligent reflecting surfaces (IRSs) have attracted considerable attention because of their ability to dynamically control electromagnetic wave propagation. While most existing IRSs have been developed for low-power communication and…

Malicious jamming launched by smart jammers can attack legitimate transmissions, which has been regarded as one of the critical security challenges in wireless communications. With this focus, this paper considers the use of an intelligent…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-04-28 Helin Yang , Zehui Xiong , Jun Zhao , Dusit Niyato , Qingqing Wu , H. Vincent Poor , Massimo Tornatore

Reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS) provides a promising way to build the programmable wireless transmission environments in the future. Owing to the large number of reflecting elements used at the RIS, joint optimization for the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-01-11 Xiaoyan Ma , Shuaishuai Guo , Haixia Zhang , Yuguang Fang , Dongfeng Yuan

Reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS) can effectively control the wavefront of the impinging signals and has emerged as a cost-effective promising solution to improve the spectrum and energy efficiency of wireless systems. Most existing…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-06-07 Yiming Liu , Erwu Liu , Rui Wang , Binyu Lu , Zhu Han

In this letter, we propose to exploit an intelligent reflecting surface (IRS) to secure multiuser two-way communications. Specifically, two end users simultaneously transmit their signals, where the signal of one user is exploited as…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-11-03 Lu Lv , Qingqing Wu , Zan Li , Naofal Al-Dhahir , Jian Chen

Cognitive radio networks (CRNs) and millimeter wave (mmWave) communications are two major technologies to enhance the spectrum efficiency (SE). Considering that the SE improvement in the CRNs is limited due to the interference temperature…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-05-03 Xuewen Wu , Jingxiao Ma , Chenwei Gu , Xiaoping Xue , Xin Zeng

Compared to traditional electromagnetic stealth (ES) materials, which are effective only within specific frequencies and orientations, intelligent reflecting surface (IRS) technology introduces a novel paradigm for achieving dynamic and…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-03-10 Qingjie Wu , Beixiong Zheng , Guangchi Zhang , Derrick Wing Kwan Ng , A. Lee Swindlehurst

Intelligent reflecting surface (IRS) has emerged as a promising technique for wireless communication networks. By dynamically tuning the reflection amplitudes/phase shifts of a large number of passive elements, IRS enables flexible wireless…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-04-26 Weidong Mei , Beixiong Zheng , Changsheng You , Rui Zhang

By moving from massive antennas to antenna surfaces for software-defined wireless systems, the reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RISs) rely on arrays of unit cells to control the scattering and reflection profiles of signals, mitigating…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-12-22 Brian Kim , Tugba Erpek , Yalin E. Sagduyu , Sennur Ulukus

In this paper, we propose intelligent reflecting surfaces (IRS) assisted secure wireless communications with multi-input and multi-output antennas (IRS-MIMOME). The considered scenario is an access point (AP) equipped with multiple antennas…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-01-27 Weiheng Jiang , Yu Zhang , Jinsong Wu , Wenjiang Feng , Yi Jin

Intelligent reflecting surface (IRS) is envisioned to be a promising solution for designing spectral and energy efficient wireless systems. In this letter, we study a multi-IRS-assisted system under Rician fading where the phase shifts…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-09-17 Zijian Zhang , Ying Cui , Feng Yang , Lianghui Ding

This paper investigates an intelligent reflective surface (IRS) assisted secure multi-user two-way communication system. The aim of this paper is to enhance the physical layer security by optimizing the minimum secrecy-rate among all…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-01-27 Harindu Jayarathne , Tharindu Wickremasinghe , Kasun T. Hemachandra , Tharaka Samarasinghe , Saman Atapattu

Reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RISs) are potential enablers of future wireless communications and sensing applications and use-cases. The RIS is envisioned as a dynamically controllable surface that is capable of transforming…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-12-09 Robin J. Williams , Pablo Ramirez-Espinosa , Olena Semenovska , Petar Popovski

An accurate and simple analytical model for the computation of the reflection amplitude and phase of Reconfigurable Intelligent Surfaces is presented. The model is based on a transmission-line circuit representation of the RIS which takes…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-11-16 Filippo Costa , Michele Borgese

Intelligent reflecting surface (IRS) has emerged as a cost-effective solution to enhance wireless communication performance via passive signal reflection. Existing works on IRS have mainly focused on investigating IRS's passive…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-07-19 Beixiong Zheng , Rui Zhang

As a means to control wireless propagation environments, the use of emerging and novel intelligent reflecting surfaces (IRS) is envisioned to enhance and broaden many applications in future wireless networks. This paper is concerned with a…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-03-23 Dian-Wu Yue , Ha H. Nguyen , Yu Sun