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In this paper, we study the resource allocation for an intelligent reflecting surface (IRS)-assisted uplink system, where the base station is equipped with multiple antennas. We propose to jointly optimize the transmit power of the users,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-07-21 M Zeng , E. B. Mohamed , O. A. Dobre , P. Fortier , Q. V. Pham

Intelligent reflecting surfaces (IRSs) are being widely investigated as a potential low-cost and energy-efficient alternative to active relays for improving coverage in next-generation cellular networks. However, technical constraints in…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-02-13 Alberto Rech , Matteo Pagin , Leonardo Badia , Stefano Tomasin , Marco Giordani , Jonathan Gambini , Michele Zorzi

In this letter, we investigate an intelligent reflecting surface (IRS) aided device-to-device (D2D) offloading system, where an IRS is employed to assist in computation offloading from a group of users with intensive tasks to another group…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-01-13 Yanzhen Liu , Qiyu Hu , Yunlong Cai , Markku Juntti

In this paper, we investigate an intelligent reflect surface (IRS) assisted multi-user millimeter wave (mmWave) downlink communication system, exploiting IRS to alleviate the blockage effect and enhance the performance of the mmWave system.…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-10-23 Dan Zhao , Hancheng Lu , Yazheng Wang , Huan Sun

Intelligent reflecting surface (IRS) and rate-splitting multiple access (RSMA) technologies are at the forefront of enhancing spectrum and energy efficiency in the next generation multi-antenna communication systems. This paper explores a…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-06-06 Chunjie Wang , Xuhui Zhang , Huijun Xing , Liang Xue , Shuqiang Wang , Yanyan Shen , Bo Yang , Xinping Guan

Intelligent reflecting surface (IRS)-assisted mobile edge computing (MEC) systems have shown notable improvements in efficiency, such as reduced latency, higher data rates, and better energy efficiency. However, the resource competition…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-28 Yinyu Wu , Xuhui Zhang , Yingchao Jiao , Jinke Ren , Yanyan Shen , Bo Yang , Shuqiang Wang , Dusit Niyato

This paper investigates a downlink multiple-input single-output intelligent reflecting surface (IRS) aided non-orthogonal multiple access (NOMA) system, where a base station (BS) serves multiple users with the aid of IRSs. Our goal is to…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-11-12 Xidong Mu , Yuanwei Liu , Li Guo , Jiaru Lin , Naofal Al-Dhahir

In this letter, we design passive beamforming in an intelligent reflecting surface (IRS) assisted multiple-user wireless network. Two different scenarios are considered, namely, multicasting and multi-user downlink transmission. We optimize…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-07-22 Ke-Wen Huang , Hui-Ming Wang

An intelligent reflecting surface (IRS)-aided wireless powered mobile edge computing (WP-MEC) system is conceived, where each device's computational task can be divided into two parts for local computing and offloading to mobile edge…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-08-24 Guangji Chen , Qingqing Wu , Wen Chen , Derrick Wing Kwan Ng , Lajos Hanzo

In this paper, we propose a rate-splitting multiple access (RSMA) scheme for uplink wireless communication systems with intelligent reflecting surface (IRS) aided. In the considered model, IRS is adopted to overcome power attenuation caused…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-09-07 Shanshan Zhang , Wen Chen

Intelligent reflecting surface (IRS) and device-to-device (D2D) communication are two promising technologies for improving transmission reliability between transceivers in communication systems. In this paper, we consider the design of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-07-12 Jing Cheng , Chao Shen , Zheng Chen , Nikolaos Pappas

This paper investigates a joint beamforming and resource allocation problem in downlink reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS)-assisted orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) systems to minimize the average delay, where data…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-07-25 Yu Ma , Xiao Li , Chongtao Guo , Le Liang , Michail Matthaiou , Shi Jin

The technical limitations of the intelligent reflecting surface (IRS) (re)configurations in terms of both communication overhead and energy efficiency must be considered when IRSs are used in cellular networks. In this paper, we investigate…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-01-09 Alberto Rech , Leonardo Badia , Stefano Tomasin

In this paper, we consider that the unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) with attached intelligent reflecting surfaces (IRSs) play the role of flying reflectors that reflect the signal of users to the destination, and utilize the power-domain…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-11-09 Hussein M. Hariz , Saeed Sheikhzadeh , Nader Mokari , Mohammad R. Javan , B. Abbasi-Arand , Eduard A. Jorswieck

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

Rotatable antenna (RA) enhances wireless coverage through directional gain steering, yet suffers from performance degradation under physical blockages. Intelligent reflecting surface (IRS) establishes reflective paths to bypass obstacles,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-01-19 Guoying Zhang , Qingqing Wu , Ziyuan Zheng , Qiaoyan Peng , Yanze Zhu , Wen Chen , Penghui Huang

Intelligent reflecting surface (IRS) has been considered as a promising technology to alleviate the blockage effect and enhance coverage in millimeter wave (mmWave) communication. To explore the impact of IRS on the performance of mmWave…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-10-05 Renlong Wei , Qing Xue , Shaodan Ma , Yongjun Xu , Li Yan , Xuming Fang

Intelligent reflecting surface (IRS) as a promising technology rendering high throughput in future communication systems is compatible with various communication techniques such as non-orthogonal multiple-access (NOMA). In this paper, the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-03-17 Yasaman Omid , S. M. Mahdi Shahabi , Cunhua Pan , Yansha Deng , Arumugam Nallanathan

This paper studies the fair transmission design for an intelligent reflecting surface (IRS) aided rate-splitting multiple access (RSMA). IRS is used to establish a good signal propagation environment and enhance the RSMA transmission…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-03-18 Shanshan Zhang , Wen Chen , Qingqing Wu , Ziwei Liu , Shunqing Zhang , Jun Li

This paper proposes a general optimization framework for rate splitting multiple access (RSMA) in beyond diagonal (BD) reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS) assisted ultra-reliable low-latency communications (URLLC) systems. This…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-10-16 Mohammad Soleymani , Ignacio Santamaria , Eduard Jorswieck , Bruno Clerckx