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In this work, we characterize the outage probability (OP) of an intelligent reflecting surface (IRS) assisted multi-user multiple-input-single-output (MU-MISO) communication system. Using a two-step approximation method, we approximate the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-08-09 Lakshmi Jayalal , Shashank Shekhar , Athira Subhash , Sheetal Kalyani

This letter presents a detailed performance analysis of the intelligent reflecting surface (IRS) aided single-input single-output communication systems, taking into account of the direct link between the transmitter and receiver. A…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-08-04 Qin Tao , Junwei Wang , Caijun Zhong

Intelligent reflecting surfaces (IRSs) have emerged as a promising technology to improve the efficiency of wireless communication systems. However, passive IRSs suffer from the ``multiplicative fading" effect, because the transmit signal…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-05-11 Zeyan Zhuang , Xin Zhang , Dongfang Xu , Shenghui Song

Intelligent reflecting surface (IRS) is a potential candidate for massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) 2.0 technology due to its low cost, ease of deployment, energy efficiency and extended coverage. This chapter investigates the…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-02-24 Yashuai Cao , Hetong Wang , Tiejun Lv , Wei Ni

Mobile edge computing (MEC) is envisioned as a promising technique to support computation-intensive and timecritical applications in future Internet of Things (IoT) era. However, the uplink transmission performance will be highly impacted…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-05-05 Yizhen Yang , Yi Gong , Yik-Chung Wu

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

In this paper, a comprehensive performance analysis of a distributed intelligent reflective surfaces (IRSs)-aided communication system is presented. First, the optimal signal-to-noise ratio (SNR), which is attainable through the direct and…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-02-10 Diluka Loku Galappaththige , Dhanushka Kudathanthirige , Gayan Amarasuriya Aruma Baduge

Intelligent reflecting surface (IRS) is envisioned as a promising solution for controlling radio propagation environments in future wireless systems. In this paper, we propose a distributed intelligent reflecting surface (IRS) assisted…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-11-02 Yashuai Cao , Tiejun Lv , Wei Ni

This paper considers an angle-domain intelligent reflecting surface (IRS) system. We derive maximum likelihood (ML) estimators for the effective angles from the base station (BS) to the user and the effective angles of propagation from the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-03-02 Xiaoling Hu , Caijun Zhong , Zhaoyang Zhang

Intelligent reflecting surface (IRS) has recently been emerging as an enabler for smart radio environment in which passive antenna arrays can be used to actively tailor/control the radio propagation. With multiple IRSs being launched to…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-12-09 Tu V. Nguyen , Diep N. Nguyen

In this paper, we consider a multi-user multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) system aided by multiple intelligent reflecting surfaces (IRSs) that are deployed to increase the coverage and, possibly, the rank of the channel. We propose an…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-12-22 Andrea Abrardo , Davide Dardari , Marco Di Renzo

The concept of reconfiguring wireless propagation environments using intelligent reflecting surfaces (IRS)s has recently emerged, where an IRS comprises of a large number of passive reflecting elements that can smartly reflect the impinging…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-05-05 Qurrat-Ul-Ain Nadeem , Hibatallah Alwazani , Abla Kammoun , Anas Chaaban , Merouane Debbah , Mohamed-Slim Alouini

Intelligent reflecting surface (IRS) is envisioned to be a promising solution for designing spectral and energy efficient wireless systems. In this letter, we study a multi-IRS-assisted system under Rician fading where the phase shifts…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-09-17 Zijian Zhang , Ying Cui , Feng Yang , Lianghui Ding

Intelligent reflecting surface (IRS) is a promising solution to build a programmable wireless environment for future communication systems. In practice, an IRS consists of massive low-cost elements, which can steer the incident signal in…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-05-31 Huayan Guo , Ying-Chang Liang , Jie Chen , Erik G. Larsson

An emerging technology to enhance the spectral efficiency (SE) and energy efficiency (EE) of wireless communication systems is reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS), which is shown to be very powerful in single-carrier systems. However,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-01-23 Mohammad Soleymani , Ignacio Santamaria , Aydin Sezgin , Eduard Jorswieck

One of the main challenges facing optical wireless communication (OWC) systems is service disconnection in high blockage probability scenarios where users might lose the line of sight (LoS) connection with their corresponding access points…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-04-04 Ahrar N. Hamad , Ahmad Adnan Qidan , Taisir E. H. El-Gorashi , Jaafar M. H. Elmirghani

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

We investigate the capacity of a broadcast channel with a multi-antenna base station (BS) sending independent messages to multiple users, aided by IRSs with N elements. In particular, both the distributed and centralized IRS deployment…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-10-24 Guangji Chen , Qingqing Wu , Wen Chen , Yanzhao Hou , Mengnan Jian , Shunqing Zhang , Jun Li

In this paper, non-orthogonal multiple access (NOMA) networks assisted by multiple intelligent reflecting surfaces (IRSs) with discrete phase shifts are investigated, in which each user device (UD) is served by an IRS to improve the quality…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-05-27 Yanyu Cheng , Kwok Hung Li , Yuanwei Liu , Kah Chan Teh , George K. Karagiannidis

Intelligent reflecting surface (IRS) has the potential to significantly enhance the network performance by reconfiguring the wireless propagation environments. It is however difficult to obtain the accurate downlink channel state…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-05-18 Wenzhi Fang , Min Fu , Yuanming Shi , Yong Zhou