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Intelligent reflecting surface (IRS) are able to amend radio propagation condition tasks on account of its functional properties in phase shift optimizing. In fact, there exists geometry manifold in the base-station (BS) beamforming matrix…
Energy-efficient design and secure communications are of crucial importance in wireless communication networks. However, the energy efficiency achieved by using physical layer security can be limited by the channel conditions. In order to…
This paper investigates an intelligent reflecting surface (IRS)-aided multi-cell multiple-input single-output (MISO) system consisting of several multi-antenna base stations (BSs) each communicating with a single-antenna user, in which an…
Intelligent reflecting surface (IRS) has been recently employed to reshape the wireless channels by controlling individual scattering elements' phase shifts, namely, passive beamforming. Due to the large size of scattering elements, the…
Recently, intelligent reflecting surface (IRS) has emerged as an appealing technique that enables wireless communications with low hardware cost and low power consumption. In this letter, we consider an IRS-assisted point-to-point…
In this paper, we develop a unified dynamic intelligent reflecting surface (IRS) beamforming framework to boost the sum computation rate of an IRS-aided mobile edge computing (MEC) system, where each device follows a binary offloading…
Intelligent reflecting surfaces (IRSs) are regarded as key enablers of next-generation wireless communications, due to their capability of customizing the wireless propagation environment. In this paper, we investigate power-efficient…
In this paper, we investigate the design of secure transmission frameworks with an intelligent reflecting surface (IRS). Our design aims to minimize the system energy consumption in cases of rank-one and full-rank access point (AP)-IRS…
Power splitting based simultaneous wireless information and power transfer (PS-SWIPT) appears to be a promising solution to support future self-sustainable Internet of Things (SS-IoT) networks. However, the performance of these networks is…
Cell-free networks are considered as a promising distributed network architecture to satisfy the increasing number of users and high rate expectations in beyond-5G systems. However, to further enhance network capacity, an increasing number…
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…
In this paper, we consider an intelligent reflecting surface (IRS)-aided single-user system where an IRS with discrete phase shifts is deployed to assist the uplink communication. A practical transmission protocol is proposed to execute…
Intelligent reflecting surface (IRS) has drawn a lot of attention recently as a promising new solution to achieve high spectral and energy efficiency for future wireless networks. By utilizing massive low-cost passive reflecting elements,…
Over-the-air computation (AirComp) based federated learning (FL) is capable of achieving fast model aggregation by exploiting the waveform superposition property of multiple access channels. However, the model aggregation performance is…
As an excellent aided communication tool, intelligent reflecting surface (IRS) can make a significant rate enhancement and coverage extension. In this paper, we present an investigation on beamforming in an IRS-aided directional modulation…
Driven by the growing demand for higher spectral efficiency in wireless communications, intelligent reflecting surfaces (IRS) have attracted considerable attention for their ability to dynamically reconfigure the propagation environment.…
Wireless powered mobile edge computing (WP-MEC) has been recognized as a promising solution to enhance the computational capability and sustainable energy supply for low-power wireless devices (WDs). However, when the communication links…
In millimeter wave (mmWave) systems, the advanced lens antenna array can effectively reduce the radio frequency chains cost. However, the mmWave signal is still vulnerable to blocking obstacles and suffers from severe path loss. To address…
This paper unveils the importance of intelligent reflecting surface (IRS) in a wireless powered sensor network (WPSN). Specifically, a multi-antenna power station (PS) employs energy beamforming to provide wireless charging for multiple…
Cell-free systems can effectively eliminate the inter-cell interference by enabling multiple base stations (BSs) to cooperatively serve users without cell boundaries at the expense of high costs of hardware and power sources due to the…