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Intelligent reflecting surfaces (IRSs) have been introduced into wireless communications systems due to their great potential to smartly customize and reconfigure radio propagation environments in a cost-effective manner. Despite the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-03-15 Xianghao Yu , Vahid Jamali , Dongfang Xu , Derrick Wing Kwan Ng , Robert Schober

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

With the continuous development of Intelligent Reflecting Surfaces (IRSs) and Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs), their combination has become foundational technologies to complement the terrestrial network by providing communication…

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Intelligent reflecting surface (IRS) has been widely studied in recent years, it has emerged as a new technology which can reflect the incident signal by intelligently configuring the reflection elements, thus changing the signal…

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The idea of Integrated Sensing and Communication (ISAC) offers a promising solution to the problem of spectrum congestion in future wireless networks. This paper studies the integration of intelligent reflective surfaces (IRS) with ISAC…

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Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) are envisioned to be extensively employed for assisting wireless communications in Internet of Things (IoT) applications. On the other hand, terahertz (THz) enabled intelligent reflecting surface (IRS) is…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-04-04 Milad Tatar Mamaghani , Yi Hong

Intelligent reflecting surface (IRS) is envisioned to be a new and revolutionizing technology for achieving spectrum and energy efficient wireless communication networks cost-effectively in the future. Specifically, an IRS consists of a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-08-13 Qingqing Wu , Rui Zhang

This study investigates the integration of an intelligent reflecting surface (IRS) into an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) platform to utilize the advantages of these leading technologies for sixth-generation communications, e.g., improved…

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Intelligent reflecting surfaces (IRSs) are considered a promising technology that can smartly reconfigure the wireless environment to enhance the performance of future wireless networks. However, the deployment of IRSs still faces…

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Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) have steadily gained attention to overcome the harsh propagation loss and blockage issue of millimeter-wave communication. However, UAV communication systems suffer from energy consumption, which limits the…

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Intelligent reflecting surfaces (IRSs) tune wireless environments to increase spectrum and energy efficiencies. In view of much recent attention to the IRS concept as a promising technology for 6G wireless communications, we present a…

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Intelligent reflecting surfaces (IRSs) are emerging as promising enablers for the next generation of wireless communication systems, because of their ability to customize favorable radio propagation environments. However, with the…

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Aiming at the limited battery capacity of widely deployed low-power smart devices in the Internet-of-things (IoT), this paper proposes a novel intelligent reflecting surface (IRS) empowered unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) simultaneous…

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Intelligent reflecting surface (IRS) is a promising technology for achieving high spectrum efficiency in future wireless networks by leveraging massive low-cost reflecting elements with each reflecting the incident signal with a proper…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-10-29 Qingqing Wu , Rui Zhang

Intelligent reflecting surface (IRS) has emerged as a cost-effective solution to enhance wireless communication performance via passive signal reflection. Existing works on IRS have mainly focused on investigating IRS's passive…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-07-19 Beixiong Zheng , Rui Zhang

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