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Simultaneous wireless information and power transfer (SWIPT) and intelligent reflecting surface (IRS) are two promising techniques for providing enhanced wireless communication capability and sustainable energy supply to energy-constrained…

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Intelligent reflecting surface (IRS) is an emerging technique to enhance the wireless communication spectral efficiency with low hardware and energy cost. In this letter, we consider the integration of IRS to an orthogonal frequency…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-12-04 Yifei Yang , Shuowen Zhang , Rui Zhang

The intelligent reflecting surface (IRS) technology has recently attracted a lot of interest in wireless communications research. An IRS consists of passive reflective elements capable of tuning the phase, amplitude, frequency and…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-06-06 Zahra Esmaeilbeig , Kumar Vijay Mishra , Mojtaba Soltanalian

Intelligent reflecting/refracting surface (IRS) has recently emerged as a promising solution to reconfigure wireless propagation environment for enhancing the communication performance. In this paper, we study a new IRS-aided high-mobility…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-12-14 Zixuan Huang , Beixiong Zheng , Rui Zhang

The employment of intelligent reflecting surfaces (IRSs) is a potential and promising solution to increase the spectral and energy efficiency of wireless communication networks. Despite their many advantages, IRS-aided communications have…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-03-26 Constantinos Psomas , Ioannis Krikidis

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

The fundamental performance metrics of an intelligent reflective surface (IRS)-aided wireless system are presented. By optimizing the IRS phase-shift matrix, the received signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) is maximized at the destination in the…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-10-26 Dulaj Gunasinghe , Dhanushka Kudathanthirige , Gayan Amarasuriya Aruma Baduge

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

Emerged as a promising solution for future wireless communication systems, intelligent reflecting surface (IRS) is capable of reconfiguring the wireless propagation environment by adjusting the phase-shift of a large number of reflecting…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2023-02-06 Hongguang Sun , Zelun Zhao , Hu Cheng , Jiangbin Lyu , Xijun Wang , Yan Zhang , Tony Q. S. Quek

This work examines the performance gain achieved by deploying an intelligent reflecting surface (IRS) in covert communications. To this end, we formulate the joint design of the transmit power and the IRS reflection coefficients by taking…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-01-12 Xiaobo Zhou , Shihao Yan , Qingqing Wu , Feng Shu , Derrick Wing Kwan Ng

The low efficiency of far-field wireless power transfer (WPT) limits the fundamental rate-energy (R-E) performance trade-off of the simultaneous wireless information and power transfer (SWIPT) system. To address this challenge, we propose…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-01-03 Qingqing Wu , Rui Zhang

In this work, we study the statistically robust beamforming design for an intelligent reflecting surfaces (IRS) assisted multiple-input single-output (MISO) wireless system under imperfect channel state information (CSI), where the channel…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-06-15 Jiezhi Zhang , Yu Zhang , Caijun Zhong , Zhaoyang Zhang

Intelligent reflecting surfaces (IRSs) are revolutionary enablers for next-generation wireless communication networks, with the ability to customize the radio propagation environment. To fully exploit the potential of IRS-assisted wireless…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-10-12 Yifan Ma , Yifei Shen , Xianghao Yu , Jun Zhang , S. H. Song , Khaled B. Letaief

Intelligent reflecting surface (IRS) is envisioned to be widely applied in future wireless networks. In this paper, we investigate a multi-user communication system assisted by cooperative IRS devices with the capability of energy…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2022-03-29 Jie Zhang , Jun Li , Yijin Zhang , Qingqing Wu , Xiongwei Wu , Feng Shu , Shi Jin , Wen Chen

In this letter, we analyze the spectral and energy efficiency of an intelligent reflecting surface (IRS)-assisted multiple-input single-output (MISO) downlink system with hardware impairments. An extended error vector magnitude (EEVM) model…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-04-22 Shaoqing Zhou , Wei Xu , Kezhi Wang , Marco Di Renzo , Mohamed-Slim Alouini

Driven by intelligent reflecting surface (IRS) and movable antenna (MA) technologies, movable IRS (MIRS) has been proposed to improve the adaptability and performance of conventional IRS, enabling flexible adjustment of the IRS reflecting…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-05-19 Yue Geng , Tee Hiang Cheng , Kai Zhong , Kah Chan Teh , Qingqing Wu

Intelligent reflecting surface (IRS) has drawn a lot of attention recently as a promising new solution to achieve high spectral and energy efficiency for future wireless networks. By utilizing massive low-cost passive reflecting elements,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-10-17 Ming-Min Zhao , Qingqing Wu , Min-Jian Zhao , Rui Zhang

This letter investigates the reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS)-aided massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) systems with a two-timescale design. First, the zero-forcing (ZF) detector is applied at the base station (BS) based…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-11-18 Kangda Zhi , Cunhua Pan , Hong Ren , Kezhi Wang

In this paper, the feasibility of adopting an intelligent reflective surface (IRS) in a cell-free wireless communication system is studied. The received signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) for this IRS-enabled cell-free set-up is optimized by…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-09-28 Diluka Loku Galappaththige , Dhanushka Kudathanthirige , Gayan Amarasuriya

A statistical characterization of the fundamental performance bounds of an intelligent reflective surface (IRS) intended for aiding wireless communications is presented. To this end, the outage probability, average symbol error probability,…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-02-14 Dhanushka Kudathanthirige , Dulaj Gunasinghe , Gayan Amarasuriya