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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…

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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

We propose a novel design of a dual-function radar communication (DFRC) system aided by an Intelligent Reflecting Surface (IRS). We consider a scenario with one target and multiple communication receivers, where there is no line-of-sight…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-04-12 Yikai Li , Athina Petropulu

Intelligent reflecting surface (IRS) has emerged as a promising technology to enhance the wireless communication network coverage and capacity by dynamically controlling the radio signal propagation environment. In contrast to the existing…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-07-06 Zhenyu Kang , Changsheng You , Rui Zhang

In cognitive radio (CR) communication systems, achieving high secondary user (SU) rate in the presence of strong cross-link interference with the primary user (PU) is challenging. In this letter, we exploit the emerging intelligent…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-03-10 Xinrong Guan , Qingqing Wu , Rui Zhang

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…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-12-24 Changsheng You , Beixiong Zheng , Rui Zhang

The intelligent reflecting surface (IRS) is a planar array with massive reconfigurable passive elements, which can align the reflecting signals at the receivers via controlling the phase shifts at each element independently. Since IRS can…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-10-22 Silei Wang , Qiang Li , Sissi Xiaoxiao Wu , Jingran Lin

As the demand for ubiquitous connectivity and high-precision environmental awareness grows, integrated sensing and communication (ISAC) has emerged as a key technology for sixth-generation (6G) wireless networks. Intelligent metasurfaces…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-12-08 Shunyu Li , Tianqi Mao , Guangyao Liu , Fan Zhang , Ruiqi Liu , Meng Hua , Zhen Gao , Qingqing Wu , George K. Karagiannidis

Integrated Sensing and Communication (ISAC) has emerged as a key enabler for future wireless systems. The recently developed symbol-level precoding (SLP) technique holds significant potential for ISAC waveform design, as it leverages both…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-02-21 Peng Jiang , Ming Li , Rang Liu , Wei Wang , Qian Liu

In this paper, we propose a physical layer security (PLS) framework for an intelligent reflecting surface (IRS)-assisted integrated sensing and semantic communication (ISASC) system, where a multi-antenna dual-functional semantic base…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-07-21 Hamid Amiriara , Mahtab Mirmohseni , Ahmed Elzanaty , Yi Ma , Rahim Tafazolli

Intelligent reflecting surface (IRS) has been widely studied in recent years, it has emerged as a new technology which can reflect the incident signal by intelligently configuring the reflection elements, thus changing the signal…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-05-07 Jintao Luo , Sixing Yin

Achieving efficient and cost-effective transmit beampattern control for integrated sensing and communication (ISAC) systems is a significant challenge. This paper addresses this by proposing a dual-function radar communication (DFRC)…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-11-25 Emanuele Grossi , Marco Lops , Luca Venturino

The concept of reconfiguring wireless propagation environments using intelligent reflecting surfaces (IRS)s has recently emerged, where an IRS comprises of a large number of passive reflecting elements that can smartly reflect the impinging…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-05-05 Qurrat-Ul-Ain Nadeem , Hibatallah Alwazani , Abla Kammoun , Anas Chaaban , Merouane Debbah , Mohamed-Slim Alouini

The integration of intelligent reflecting surface (IRS) into over-the-air computation (AirComp) is an effective solution for reducing the computational mean squared error (MSE) via its high passive beamforming gain. Prior works on IRS aided…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-05-10 Guangji Chen , Jun Li , Qingqing Wu , Meng Hua , Kaitao Meng , Zhonghao Lyu

To exploit the potential of the RIS in supporting ISAC, this paper proposes a novel joint active and passive beamforming design for RIS-enabled ISAC system in consideration of the target size. First, the detection probability for target…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-10-28 Zhe Xing , Rui Wang , Xiaojun Yuan

Integrated sensing and communications (ISAC) are envisioned to be an integral part of future wireless networks, especially when operating at the millimeter-wave (mmWave) and terahertz (THz) frequency bands. However, establishing wireless…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-11-03 Sundeep Prabhakar Chepuri , Nir Shlezinger , Fan Liu , George C. Alexandropoulos , Stefano Buzzi , Yonina C. Eldar

We investigate transmission optimization for intelligent reflecting surface (IRS) assisted multi-antenna systems from the physical-layer security perspective. The design goal is to maximize the system secrecy rate subject to the source…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-05-12 Hong Shen , Wei Xu , Shulei Gong , Zhenyao He , Chunming Zhao

Cognitive radio (CR) is an effective solution to improve the spectral efficiency (SE) of wireless communications by allowing the secondary users (SUs) to share spectrum with primary users. Meanwhile, intelligent reflecting surface (IRS),…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-12-24 Jie Yuan , Ying-Chang Liang , Jingon Joung , Gang Feng , Erik G. Larsson

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

The potential of intelligent reflecting surfaces (IRSs) is investigated as a promising technique for enhancing the energy efficiency of wireless networks. Specifically, the IRS enables passive beamsteering by employing many low-cost…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-05-13 Kevin Weinberger , Alaa Alameer Ahmad , Aydin Sezgin , Alessio Zappone