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This work proposes linear time strategies to optimally configure the phase shifts for the reflective elements of an intelligent reflecting surface (IRS). Specifically, we show that the binary phase beamforming can be optimally solved in…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-09-14 Yaowen Zhang , Kaiming Shen , Shuyi Ren , Xin Li , Xin Chen , Zhi-Quan Luo

Conventional active array radars often jointly design the transmit and receive beamforming for effectively suppressing interferences. To further promote the interference suppression performance, this paper introduces a reconfigurable…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-01-30 Shengyao Chen , Qi Feng , Longyao Ran , Feng Xi , Zhong Liu

Spatial modulation (SM) is a particularly important form of multiple-input-multiple-output (MIMO). Unlike traditional MIMO, it uses both modulation symbols and antenna indices to carry information. In this paper, to avoid the high cost and…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-01-08 Feng Shu , Xiaoyu Liu , Xinyi Jiang , Ling Xu , Guiyang Xia , Jiangzhou Wang

In a practical massive MIMO (multiple-input multiple-output) system, the number of antennas at a base station (BS) is constrained by the space and cost factors, which limits the throughput gain promised by theoretical analysis. This paper…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-05-06 Zhaorui Wang , Liang Liu , Shuguang Cui

Intelligent reflecting surface (IRS) and movable antenna (MA) are promising technologies to enhance wireless communication by reconfiguring channels at the environment and transceiver sides. However, their performance is constrained by…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-12-18 Chao Zhou , Changsheng You , Cong Zhou , Liujia Yao , Weijie Yuan , Beixiong Zheng , Nan Wu

This paper studies the intelligent reflecting surface (IRS) deployment optimization problem for IRS-enabled integrated sensing and communications (ISAC) systems, in which multiple IRSs are strategically deployed at candidate locations to…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-09-08 Yilong Chen , Zixiang Ren , Jie Xu , Rui Zhang

Intelligent reflecting surfaces (IRSs) have emerged as a revolutionary solution to enhance wireless communications by changing propagation environment in a cost-effective and hardware-efficient fashion. In addition, symbol-level precoding…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-03-23 R. Liu , M. Li , Q. Liu , A. L. Swindlehurst

An intelligent reflecting surface (IRS) is invoked for enhancing the energy harvesting performance of a simultaneous wireless information and power transfer (SWIPT) aided system. Specifically, an IRS-assisted SWIPT system is considered,…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-02-19 Cunhua Pan , Hong Ren , Kezhi Wang , Maged Elkashlan , Arumugam Nallanathan , Jiangzhou Wang , Lajos Hanzo

In this paper, we investigate the secure beamforming design in an intelligent reflection surface (IRS) assisted millimeter wave (mmWave) system, where the hybrid beamforming (HB) and the passive beamforming (PB) are employed by the…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-12-21 Long Yang , Jiangtao Wang , Xuan Xue , Jia Shi , Yongchao Wang

This paper considers unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV)-carried intelligent reflecting surface (IRS) for secure data collection in wireless sensor networks. An eavesdropper (Eve) lurks within the vicinity of the main receiver (Bob) while several…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-01-19 Christantus O. Nnamani , Muhammad R. A. Khandaker , Mathini Sellathurai

The application of intelligent reflecting surface (IRS) depends on the knowledge of channel state information (CSI), and has been hindered by the heavy overhead of channel training, estimation, and feedback in fast-changing channels. This…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-06-16 Yashuai Cao , Tiejun Lv , Wei Ni

This paper attempts to jointly optimize the hybrid precoding (HP) and intelligent reflecting surfaces (IRS) beamforming matrices in a multi-IRS-aided mmWave communication network, utilizing the Alamouti scheme at the base station (BS).…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-03-20 Fardad Rahkheir , Soroush Akhlaghi

Intelligent reflecting surface (IRS) has emerged as a promising technique to enhance wireless communication performance cost effectively. The existing literature has mainly considered IRS being deployed near user terminals to improve their…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-05-27 Yuwei Huang , Weidong Mei , Rui Zhang

In practice, residual transceiver hardware impairments inevitably lead to distortion noise which causes the performance loss. In this paper, we study the robust transmission design for a reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS)-aided secure…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-03-09 Gui Zhou , Cunhua Pan , Hong Ren , Kezhi Wang , Zhangjie Peng

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

This paper studies multi-active intelligent-reflecting-surface (IRS) cooperative sensing, in which multiple active IRSs are deployed in a distributed manner to help the base station (BS) provide multi-view sensing. We focus on the scenario…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-04-23 Yuan Fang , Xianghao Yu , Jie Xu

Reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS) is considered to be an energy-efficient approach to reshape the wireless environment for improved throughput. Its passive feature greatly reduces the energy consumption, which makes RIS a promising…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-01-20 Keke Ying , Zhen Gao , Shanxiang Lyu , Yongpeng Wu , Hua Wang , Mohamed-Slim Alouini

In this paper, we investigate an intelligent reflecting surface (IRS) assisted multi-user multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) full-duplex (FD) system. We jointly optimize the active beamforming matrices at the access point (AP) and uplink…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-12-07 Yanzhen Liu , Qiyu Hu , Yunlong Cai , Guanding Yu , Geoffrey Ye Li

This work gives a blind beamforming strategy for intelligent reflecting surface (IRS), aiming to boost the received signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) by coordinating phase shifts across reflective elements in the absence of channel information.…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-11-04 Shuyi Ren , Kaiming Shen , Yaowen Zhang , Xin Li , Xin Chen , Zhi-Quan Luo

An intelligent reflecting surface (IRS) can adaptively adjust the phase shifts of its reflecting units to strengthen the desired signal and/or suppress the undesired signal. In this letter, we investigate an IRS-aided secure wireless…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-05-28 Miao Cui , Guangchi Zhang , Rui Zhang