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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…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-04-17 Boyu Ning , Zhi Chen , Wenjie Chen , Jun Fang

Intelligent reflecting surfaces (IRSs) are promising enablers for next-generation wireless communications due to their reconfigurability and high energy efficiency in improving poor propagation condition of channels, e.g., limited…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-01-03 Xin Zhang , Xianghao Yu , S. H. Song , Khaled B. Letaief

In this paper, a novel robust beamforming for an intelligent reflecting surface (IRS) assisted FD system is presented. Since perfect channel state information (CSI) is often challenging to acquire in practice, we consider the case of…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-08-17 Chandan Kumar Sheemar , Jorge Querol , Sourabh Solanki , Sumit Kumar , Symeon Chatzinotas

This paper considers an intelligent reflecting surface (IRS) aided multiple-input single-output communication system, where statistical channel state information (CSI) is exploited for transmit beamforming and IRS beamforming. A tight upper…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-08-21 Xiaoling Hu , Junwei Wang , Caijun Zhong

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 as a promising technology to broaden signal coverage and enhance transmission in terahertz (THz) communications. Due to the passivity of IRS, the channel measurement can not be achieved by…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-03-17 Boyu Ning , Zhi Chen , Wenrong Chen , Yiming Du

An intelligent reflecting surface (IRS), consisting of reconfigurable metamaterials, can be used to partially control the radio environment and thereby bring new features to wireless communications. Previous works on IRS have particularly…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-02-07 Özgecan Özdogan , Emil Björnson , Erik G. Larsson

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…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-04-01 Zhibin Wang , Jiahang Qiu , Yong Zhou , Yuanming Shi , Liqun Fu , Wei Chen , Khaled B. Lataief

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

Intelligent reflecting surface (IRS) is a promising technology to improve the performance of wireless powered communication networks (WPCNs) due to its capability to reconfigure signal propagation environments via smart reflection. In…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-03-16 Qingqing Wu , Xiaobo Zhou , Robert Schober

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

In this paper, the secure performance of multiuser multiple-input single-output wireless communications systems assisted by a multifunctional active intelligent reflection surface (IRS) is investigated. The active IRS can simultaneously…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-05-06 Shaokang Hu , Derrick Wing Kwan Ng , Jinhong Yuan

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

Intelligent Reflecting Surface (IRS) has been a promising solution to enhance wireless networks both spectral-efficiently and energy-efficiently. This paper considers an IRS-assisted the Internet of Things network for massive connectivity.…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-11-28 Shuhao Xia , Yuanming Shi

In this paper, we focus on intelligent reflecting surface (IRS) assisted multi-antenna communications with transceiver hardware impairments encountered in practice. In particular, we aim to maximize the received signal-to-noise ratio (SNR)…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-10-22 Hong Shen , Wei Xu , Shulei Gong , Chunming Zhao , Derrick Wing Kwan Ng

The intelligent reflecting surface (IRS) alters the behavior of wireless media and, consequently, has potential to improve the performance and reliability of wireless systems such as communications and radar remote sensing. Recently,…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-04-13 Ahmet M. Elbir , Kumar Vijay Mishra , M. R. Bhavani Shankar , Symeon Chatzinotas

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

This paper investigates a multi-intelligent reflecting surface (IRS) aided integrated sensing and communication (ISAC) system, where multiple IRSs are strategically deployed not only to assist the communication from a multi-antenna base…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-06-30 Guangji Chen , Qingqing Wu , Shihang Lu , Meng Hua , Wen Chen

Intelligent reflecting surface (IRS) technology offers more feasible propagation paths for millimeter-wave (mmWave) communication systems to overcome blockage than existing technologies. In this paper, we consider a downlink wireless system…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-01-22 Yue Xiu , Yang Zhao , Yang Liu , Jun Zhao , Osman Yagan , Ning Wei

Intelligent reflecting surfaces (IRSs) have recently received significant attention for 6G wireless communications as they enable the control of the wireless propagation environment. The use of IRS also provides reducing the hardware…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-10-06 Ahmet M. Elbir , Kumar Vijay Mishra