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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

Recently, terahertz (THz) communication has drawn considerable attention as one of the promising technologies for the future wireless communications owning to its ultra-wide bandwidth. Nonetheless, one major obstacle that prevents the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-09-15 Wanming Hao , Gangcan Sun , Ming Zeng , Zhengyu Zhu , Zheng Chu , Octavia A. Dobre , Pei Xiao

In this paper, we consider a reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS)-assisted multiple-input multiple-output communication system with multiple antennas at both the base station (BS) and the user. We plan to maximize the achievable rate…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-05-28 Yaqiong Zhao , Jindan Xu , Wei Xu , Kezhi Wang , Xinquan Ye , Chau Yuen , Xiaohu You

Next-generation cellular networks will witness the creation of smart radio environments (SREs), where walls and objects can be coated with reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RISs) to strengthen the communication and localization coverage…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-09-08 Ahmed Elzanaty , Anna Guerra , Francesco Guidi , Mohamed-Slim Alouini

This paper considers a hybrid reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS) assisted integrated sensing and communication (ISAC) system, where each RIS element can flexibly switch between the active and passive modes. Subject to the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-12-06 Yingbin Lin , Feng Wang , Xiao Zhang , Guojun Han , Vincent K. N. Lau

Intelligent reflecting surface (IRS) has been deemed as a transformative technology to achieve smart and reconfigurable environment for wireless communication. This letter studies a new IRS-aided communication system, where multiple IRSs…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-10-27 Weidong Mei , Rui Zhang

Autonomous driving and intelligent transportation applications have dramatically increased the demand for high-accuracy and low-latency localization services. While cellular networks are potentially capable of target detection and…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-01-08 Kaitao Meng , Qingqing Wu , Wen Chen , Deshi Li

In this paper, we investigate the beam training problem in the multi-user millimeter wave (mmWave) communication system, where multiple reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RISs) are deployed to improve the coverage and the achievable rate.…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-04-10 Yuan Xu , Chongwen Huang , Li Wei , Zhaohui Yang , Xiaoming Chen , Zhaoyang Zhang , Chau Yuen , Mérouane Debbah

In this letter, we focus on the hybrid precoding (HP) design for the reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS) aided multi-user (MU) millimeter wave (mmWave) communication systems. Specifically, we aim to minimize the mean-squared-error…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2019-12-03 Chandan Pradhan , Ang Li , Lingyang Song , Branka Vucetic , Yonghui Li

An intelligent reflecting surface (IRS) can greatly improve the channel quality over a frequency-flat channel, if it is configured to reflect the incident signal as a beam towards the receiver. However, the fundamental limitations of the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-09-16 Emil Björnson

Intelligent reflecting surface (IRS) that enables the control of the wireless propagation environment has been looked upon as a promising technology for boosting the spectrum and energy efficiency in future wireless communication systems.…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-02-26 Samith Abeywickrama , Rui Zhang , Chau Yuen

Conventional beamforming methods for intelligent reflecting surfaces (IRSs) or reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RISs) typically entail the full channel state information (CSI). However, the computational cost of channel acquisition…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-01-10 Fan Xu , Jiawei Yao , Wenhai Lai , Kaiming Shen , Xin Li , Xin Chen , Zhi-Quan Luo

A potential candidate technology for the development of future 6G networks has been recognized as Reconfigurable Intelligent Surface (RIS). However, due to the variation in radio link quality, traditional passive RISs only accomplish a…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-09-26 Rashed Hasan Ratul , Muhammad Iqbal , Tabinda Ashraf , Jen-Yi Pan , Yi-Han Wang , Shao-Yu Lien

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

This paper considers the application of reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RISs) (a.k.a. intelligent reflecting surfaces (IRSs)) to assist multiuser multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) uplink transmission from several multi-antenna user…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-09-14 Li You , Jiayuan Xiong , Yufei Huang , Derrick Wing Kwan Ng , Cunhua Pan , Wenjin Wang , Xiqi Gao

Intelligent reflecting surface (IRS) is a promising solution to build a programmable wireless environment for future communication systems. In practice, an IRS consists of massive low-cost elements, which can steer the incident signal in…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-05-31 Huayan Guo , Ying-Chang Liang , Jie Chen , Erik G. Larsson

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

Reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS) provides a promising way to build programmable wireless transmission environments. Owing to the massive number of controllable reflecting elements on the surface, RIS is capable of providing…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-10-03 Xiaoyan Ma , Yuguang Fang , Haixia Zhang , Shuaishuai Guo , Dongfeng Yuan

In this paper, we study an intelligent reflecting surface (IRS)-assisted system where a multi-antenna base station (BS) serves a single-antenna user with the help of a multi-element IRS in the presence of interference generated by a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-09-25 Yuhang Jia , Chencheng Ye , Ying Cui

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