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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

In intelligent reflecting surface (IRS) assisted communication systems, the acquisition of channel state information (CSI) is a crucial impediment for achieving the beamforming gain of IRS because of the considerable overhead required for…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-06-25 Zhaorui Wang , Liang Liu , Shuguang Cui

In cell-free multiple input multiple output (MIMO) networks, multiple base stations (BSs) collaborate to achieve high spectral efficiency. Nevertheless, high penetration loss due to large blockages in harsh propagation environments is often…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-03-16 Chen Chen , Sai Xu , Jiliang Zhang , Jie Zhang

The accurate estimation of Channel State Information (CSI) is of crucial importance for the successful operation of Multiple-Input Multiple-Output (MIMO) communication systems, especially in a Multi-User (MU) time-varying environment and…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-02-22 Jide Yuan , George C. Alexandropoulos , Eleftherios Kofidis , Tobias Lindstrm Jensen , Elisabeth De Carvalho

This chapter focuses on a hardware architecture for semi-passive Reconfigurable Intelligent Surfaces (RISs) and investigates its consideration for boosting the performance of Multiple-Input Multiple-Output (MIMO) communication systems. The…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-06-19 George C. Alexandropoulos , Konstantinos D. Katsanos , Evangelos Vlachos

The intelligent reflecting surface (IRS) is emphasized as a controlled scattering cluster. To this end, scatterers and traveling paths of multipath components are classified to build a new channel model. Unlike the conventional modeling,…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-11-18 Musab Alayasra , Huseyin Arslan

Compared to traditional intelligent reflecting surfaces(IRS), aerial IRS (AIRS) has unique advantages, such as more flexible deployment and wider service coverage. However, modeling AIRS in the channel presents new challenges due to their…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-09-06 Shaoyi Liu , Nan Ma , Yaning Chen , Ke Peng , Dongsheng Xue

We consider the problem of downlink channel estimation for intelligent reflecting surface (IRS)-assisted millimeter Wave (mmWave) orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) systems. By exploring the inherent sparse scattering…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-03-31 Xi Zheng , Peilan Wang , Jun Fang , Hongbin Li

The recently completed 5G new radio standard is a result of several cutting-edge technologies, including massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO), millimeter (mm)-Wave communication and network densification. However, these…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-12-16 Qurrat-Ul-Ain Nadeem , Abla Kammoun , Anas Chaaban , Merouane Debbah , Mohamed-Slim Alouini

This paper considers the channel estimation of a single user in a MISO system with an intelligent reflecting surface (IRS). The performances of the minimum variance unbiased (MVU) and minimum mean square error (MMSE) estimators using the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-09-01 Rıfat Volkan Şenyuva

Intelligent reflecting surface (IRS), which consists of a large number of tunable reflective elements, is capable of enhancing the wireless propagation environment in a cellular network by intelligently reflecting the electromagnetic waves…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-06-10 Tao Jiang , Hei Victor Cheng , Wei Yu

Recently, intelligent reflecting surface (IRS)-assisted communication has gained considerable attention due to its advantage in extending the coverage and compensating the path loss with low-cost passive metasurface. This paper considers…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-10-03 Silei Wang , Qiang Li , Jingran Lin

Channel estimation is fundamental to wireless communications, yet it becomes increasingly challenging in massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) systems where base stations employ hundreds of antennas. Traditional least-squares…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-11-04 Pinjun Zheng , Md. Jahangir Hossain , Anas Chaaban

Intelligent reflecting surfaces (IRSs) are poised to revolutionize next-generation wireless communication systems by enhancing channel quality and spectrum efficiency through advanced wave manipulation. However, extremely large-scale IRS…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-03-12 Wenzhou Cao , Yashuai Cao , Tiejun Lv , Jie Zeng

This study considers a dual-polarized intelligent reflecting surface (DP-IRS)-assisted multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) single-user wireless communication system. The transmitter and receiver are equipped with DP antennas, and each…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-07-13 Muteen Munawar , Kyungchun Lee

This paper studies the feasibility of deploying intelligent reflecting surfaces (IRSs) in massive MIMO (multiple-input multiple-output) systems to improve the performance of users in the service dead zone. To reduce the channel training…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-01-13 Zhaorui Wang , Liang Liu , Shuowen Zhang , Shuguang Cui

Intelligent reflective surfaces (IRSs) are invoked for improving both spectral efficiency (SE) and energy efficiency (EE). Specifically, an IRS-aided multiple-input multiple-output network is considered, where the performance of randomly…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-02-25 Tianwei Hou , Yuanwei Liu , Zhengyu Song , Xin Sun , Yue Chen , Lajos Hanzo

Accurate channel impulse response (CIR) is required for coherent detection and it can also help improve communication quality of service in next-generation wireless communication systems. One of the advanced systems is multi-input…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2013-02-07 Guan Gui , Wei Peng , Fumiyuki Adachi

Continuous efforts have been devoted to integrate millimeter wave (mmWave) and terahertz (THz) bands into future communication standards in order to overcome the bandwidth shortage problem and achieve high data rates, primarily through…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-03-05 Sung Hyuck Hong , Junil Choi

Intelligent reflecting surfaces (IRS) have been proposed in millimeter wave (mmWave) and terahertz (THz) systems to achieve both coverage and capacity enhancement, where the design of hybrid precoders, combiners, and the IRS typically…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-05-31 Shuntian Zheng , Sheng Wu , Chunxiao Jiang , Wei Zhang , Xiaojun Jing