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Intelligent reflecting surface (IRS) is a promising technique to extend the network coverage and improve spectral efficiency. This paper investigates an IRS-assisted terahertz (THz) multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO)-nonorthogonal…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-06-13 Jinlei Xu , Zhengyu Zhu , Zheng Chu , Hehao Niu , Pei Xiao , Inkyu Lee

In this paper, we investigate the resource allocation design for intelligent reflecting surface (IRS)-assisted full-duplex (FD) cognitive radio systems. In particular, a secondary network employs an FD base station (BS) for serving multiple…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-03-18 Dongfang Xu , Xianghao Yu , Yan Sun , Derrick Wing Kwan Ng , Robert Schober

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

This letter investigates a sum rate maximizationproblem in an intelligent reflective surface (IRS) assisted non-orthogonal multiple access (NOMA) downlink network. Specif-ically, the sum rate of all the users is maximized by…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-06-18 Ximing Xie , Shiyu Jiao , Zhiguo Ding

Intelligent reflecting surfaces (IRSs) have emerged as a promising solution to mitigate line-of-sight (LoS) blockages and enhance signal coverage in optical wireless communication (OWC) systems with minimal additional power. In this work,…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-10-15 Ahrar N. Hamad , Ahmad Adnan Qidan , Taisir E. H. El-Gorashi , Jaafar M. H. Elmirghani

Terahertz (THz) communication is envisioned as one of the candidate technologies for future wireless communications to enable achievable data rates of up to several terabits per second (Tbps). However, the high pathloss and molecular…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-03-14 Muddasir Rahim , Thanh Luan Nguyen , Georges Kaddoum , Tri Nhu Do

Recently, intelligent reflecting surface (IRS)-aided millimeter-wave (mmWave) and terahertz (THz) communications are considered in the wireless community. This paper aims to design a beam-based multiple-access strategy for this new…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-01-03 Wei Jiang , Hans Dieter Schotten

Intelligent reflecting surface (IRS) is an emerging technology to enhance spatial multiplexing in wireless networks. This letter considers the discrete passive beamforming design for IRS in order to maximize the minimum…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-08-29 Wenhai Lai , Zheyu Wu , Yi Feng , Kaiming Shen , Ya-Feng Liu

In reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS)-assisted wireless communication systems, the pointing accuracy and intensity of reflections depend crucially on the 'profile,' representing the amplitude/phase state information of all elements in…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-09-12 Wei Wang , Peizheng Li , Angela Doufexi , Mark A Beach

Wireless communication in the TeraHertz band (0.1--10 THz) is envisioned as one of the key enabling technologies for the future sixth generation (6G) wireless communication systems scaled up beyond massive multiple input multiple output…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-06-23 Chongwen Huang , Zhaohui Yang , George C. Alexandropoulos , Kai Xiong , Li Wei , Chau Yuen , Zhaoyang Zhang , Merouane Debbah

We investigate the joint uplink-downlink configuration of an intelligent reflecting surface (IRS) for multi-user frequency-division-duplexing (FDD) and time-division-duplexing (TDD) systems. This is motivated in FDD since uplink and…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-08-01 Mahmoud Saad Abouamer , Patrick Mitran

Intelligent reflecting surface (IRS) has recently been envisioned to offer unprecedented massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO)-like gains by deploying large-scale and low-cost passive reflection elements. By adjusting the reflection…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-07-15 Gui Zhou , Cunhua Pan , Hong Ren , Kezhi Wang , Arumugam Nallanathan

This letter investigates the reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS)-assisted multiple-input single-output (MISO) wireless system, where both half-duplex (HD) and full-duplex (FD) operating modes are considered together, for the first time…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-10-12 Alice Faisal , Ibrahim Al-Nahhal , Octavia A. Dobre , Telex M. N. Ngatched

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

The fundamental intelligent reflecting surface (IRS) deployment problem is investigated for IRS-assisted networks, where one IRS is arranged to be deployed in a specific region for assisting the communication between an access point (AP)…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-10-07 Xidong Mu , Yuanwei Liu , Li Guo , Jiaru Lin , Robert Schober

This paper investigates the uplink cascaded channel estimation for intelligent-reflecting-surface (IRS)-assisted multi-user multiple-input-single-output systems. We focus on a sub-6 GHz scenario where the channel propagation is not sparse…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-09-07 Huayan Guo , Vincent K. N. Lau

The promising coverage and spectral efficiency gains of intelligent reflecting surfaces (IRSs) are attracting increasing interest. In order to realize these surfaces in practice, however, several challenges need to be addressed. One of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-02-26 Abdelrahman Taha , Yu Zhang , Faris B. Mismar , Ahmed Alkhateeb

Low-cost passive intelligent reflecting surfaces (IRSs) have recently been envisioned as a revolutionary technology capable of reconfiguring the wireless propagation environment through carefully tuning reflection elements. This paper…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-09-14 Zhangjie Peng , Zhenkun Zhang , Cunhua Pan , Li Li , A. Lee Swindlehurst

Intelligent reflecting surface (IRS)-assisted full-duplex (FD) terahertz (THz) communication systems have emerged as a promising paradigm to satisfy the escalating demand for ultra-high data rates and spectral efficiency in future wireless…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-10-30 Chi Qiu , Wen Chen , Qingqing Wu , Fen Hou , Wanming Hao , Ruiqi Liu , Derrick Wing Kwan Ng

Intelligent reflecting surface (IRS) is envisioned to change the paradigm of wireless communications from "adapting to wireless channels" to "changing wireless channels". However, current IRS configuration schemes, consisting of sub-channel…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-05-12 Wei Wang , Wei Zhang