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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

The promising coverage and spectral efficiency gains of intelligent reflecting surfaces (IRSs) are attracting increasing interest. In order to realize these surfaces in practice, however, several challenges need to be addressed. One of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-02-26 Abdelrahman Taha , Yu Zhang , Faris B. Mismar , Ahmed Alkhateeb

Intelligent reflecting surfaces (IRSs) have emerged as a promising economical solution to implement cell-free networks. However, the performance gains achieved by IRSs critically depend on smartly tuned passive beamforming based on the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-02-22 Xie Xie , Chen He , Xiaoya Li , Zhu Han , Z. Jane Wang

Spectrum sensing is a key enabling technique for cognitive radio (CR), which provides essential information on the spectrum availability. However, due to severe wireless channel fading and path loss, the primary user (PU) signals received…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-02-08 Shaoe Lin , Beixiong Zheng , Fangjiong Chen , Rui Zhang

Reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS)-aided wireless communications have drawn significant attention recently. We study the physical layer security of the downlink RIS-aided transmission framework for randomly located users in the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-04-09 Jiayi Zhang , Hongyang Du , Qiang Sun , Bo Ai , Derrick Wing Kwan Ng

Recently, the use of intelligent reflecting surface (IRS) has gained considerable attention in wireless communications. By intelligently adjusting the passive reflection angle, IRS is able to assist the base station (BS) to extend the…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-06-02 Mingjie Shao , Qiang Li , Wing-Kin Ma

Intelligent reflecting surface (IRS) is envisioned as a promising technology to broaden signal coverage and enhance transmission in terahertz (THz) communications. Due to the passivity of IRS, the channel measurement can not be achieved by…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-03-17 Boyu Ning , Zhi Chen , Wenrong Chen , Yiming Du

Intelligent reflecting surface (IRS) is a new and revolutionary technology capable of reconfiguring the wireless propagation environment by controlling its massive low-cost passive reflecting elements. Different from prior works that focus…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-11-05 Bifeng Ling , Jiangbin Lyu , Liqun Fu

In this paper, we propose to use a hybrid relay-reflecting intelligent surface (HR-RIS) to enhance the performance of a covert communication system. Specifically, the HR-RIS consists of passive reflecting elements and active relay elements…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-06-22 Jinsong Hu , Xiaoqiang Shi , Youjia Chen , Tiesong Zhao , Feng Shu

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

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

In this article, we study the collocated and distributed deployment of intelligent reflecting surfaces (IRS) for a fixed total number of IRS elements to support enhanced mobile broadband (eMBB) and ultra-reliable low-latency communication…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-11-15 Yixin Zhang , Saeed R. Khosravirad , Xiaoli Chu , Mikko A. Uusitalo

Intelligent reflective surface (IRS) technologies help mitigate undesirable effects in wireless links by steering the communication signal between transmitters and receivers. IRS elements are configured to adjust the phase of the reflected…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-05-02 Jorge Torres Gómez , Joana Angjo , Moritz Garkisch , Vahid Jamali , Robert Schober , Falko Dressler

In this paper, we investigate the robust outage constrained transmission design for an intelligent reflecting surface (IRS) aided secure communication system. We assume that a single-antenna legitimate receiver (Bob) served by a…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-10-30 Sheng Hong , Cunhua Pan , Gui Zhou , Hong Ren , Kezhi Wang

Intelligent reflecting surface (IRS), which is capable to adjust propagation conditions by controlling phase shifts of the reflected waves that impinge on the surface, has been widely analyzed for enhancing the performance of wireless…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-06-29 Shuhang Zhang , Hongliang Zhang , Boya Di , Yunhua Tan , Marco Di Renzo , Zhu Han , H. Vincent Poor , Lingyang Song

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

Reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS) has been regarded as a promising technique due to its high array gain and low power. However, the traditional passive RIS suffers from the ``double fading'' effect, which has restricted the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-04-27 Hao Xie , Dong Li

Intelligent reflecting surface (IRS), composed of a large number of hardware-efficient passive elements, is deemed as a potential technique for future wireless communications since it can adaptively enhance the propagation environment. In…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-01-27 Wanning Yang , Hongyu Li , Ming Li , Yang Liu , Qian Liu

This paper presents a theoretical framework to analyze the performance of integrated unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV)-intelligent reflecting surface (IRS) relaying system in which IRS provides an additional degree of freedom combined with the…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-06-22 Taniya Shafique , Hina Tabassum , Ekram Hossain

This work extends the concept of channel hardening to multi-antenna systems that are aided by intelligent reflecting surfaces (IRSs). For fading links between a multi-antenna transmitter and a single-antenna receiver, we derive an accurate…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-06-01 Ali Bereyhi , Saba Asaad , Chongjun Ouyang , Ralf R. Müller , Rafael F. Schaefer , H. Vincent Poor