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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

Intelligent reflecting surface (IRS) is a promising technology that enables the precise control of the electromagnetic environment in future wireless communication networks. To leverage the IRS effectively, the acquisition of channel state…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-10-25 Jiancheng An , Chao Xu , Lu Gan , Chau Yuen , Lajos Hanzo

This study considers the Joint Transmit/Reflect Beamforming and Power Splitting (JTRBPS) optimization problem in a spectrum underlay setting, such that the transmit sum-energy of the intelligent reflecting surface (IRS)-aided secondary…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-02-01 Konstantinos Ntougias , Ioannis Krikidis

The reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS) has arose an upsurging research interest recently due to its promising outlook in 5G-and-beyond wireless networks. With the assistance of RIS, the wireless propagation environment is no longer…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-12-28 Zepeng Zhang , Ziping Zhao

By reconfiguring the propagation environment of electromagnetic waves artificially, reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RISs) have been regarded as a promising and revolutionary hardware technology to improve the energy and spectrum…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-12-08 Huiyuan Yang , Xiaojun Yuan , Jun Fang , Ying-Chang Liang

Intelligent reflecting surface (IRS) is a cost-effective solution for achieving high spectrum and energy efficiency in future wireless networks by leveraging massive low-cost passive elements that are able to reflect the signals with…

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

This paper investigates the problem of secure energy efficiency maximization for a reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS) assisted uplink wireless communication system, where an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) equipped with an RIS works as…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-06-08 Hui Long , Ming Chen , Zhaohui Yang , Bao Wang , Zhiyang Li , Xu Yun , Mohammad Shikh-Bahaei

Rate-splitting multiple access (RSMA) is a general multiple access scheme for downlink multi-antenna systems embracing both classical spatial division multiple access and more recent non-orthogonal multiple access. Finding a linear…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-06-03 Jeonghun Park , Jinseok Choi , Namyoon Lee , Wonjae Shin , H. Vincent Poor

A simultaneously transmitting and reflecting reconfigurable intelligent surface (STAR-RIS) aided communication system is investigated. A robust joint beamforming design problem under the imperfect channel state information (CSI) is…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-01-13 Haochen Li , Xidong Mu , Yuanwei Liu , Yue Chen , Pan Zhiwen

In this paper, an intelligent reflecting surface (IRS) is leveraged to enhance the physical layer security of an integrated sensing and communication (ISAC) system in which the IRS is deployed to not only assist the downlink communication…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-07-20 Meng Hua , Qingqing Wu , Wen Chen , Octavia A. Dobre , A. Lee Swindlehurst

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…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-10-28 Zhendong Li , Wen Chen , Huanqing Cao , Hongying Tang , Kunlun Wang , Jun Li

The use of Intelligent Reflecting Surfaces (IRSs) is considered a potential enabling technology for enhancing the spectral and energy efficiency of beyond 5G communication systems. In this paper, a joint relay and intelligent reflecting…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-10-22 Uyoata E. Uyoata , Mobayode O. Akinsolu , Enoruwa Obayiuwana , Abimbola Sangodoyin , Ramoni Adeogun

Beyond diagonal intelligent reflecting surface (BD-IRS) is a new promising IRS architecture for which the reflection matrix is not limited to the diagonal structure as for conventional IRS. In this paper, we study a BD-IRS aided uplink…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-06-25 Shuo Zheng , Shuowen Zhang

Distributed intelligent reflecting surfaces (IRSs) deployed in multi-user wireless communication systems promise improved system performance. However, the signal-to-interference-plus-noise ratio (SINR) analysis and IRSs optimization in such…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-11-05 Hibatallah Alwazani , Qurrat-Ul-Ain Nadeem , Anas Chaaban

Since reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS) is considered to be a passive reflector for rate performance enhancement, a RIS-aided amplify-and-forward (AF) relay network is presented. By jointly optimizing the beamforming matrix at AF…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-03-01 Xuehui Wang , Feng Shu , Riqing Chen , Peng Zhang , Qi Zhang , Guiyang Xia , Weiping shi , Jiangzhou Wang

To mitigate the residual interference from imperfect successive interference cancellation (SIC) in Rate-Splitting Multiple Access (RSMA), this paper incorporates improper Gaussian signaling (IGS) into the downlink RSMA framework. Unlike…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-17 Wanting Shi , Hao Cheng , Zhe Li , Yili Xia , Wenjiang Pei

Recently, reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS), a planar metasurface consisting of a large number of low-cost reflecting elements, has received much attention due to its ability to improve both the spectrum and energy efficiencies by…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-03-18 Jiao Wu , Seungnyun Kim , Byonghyo Shim

Intelligent reflecting surfaces (IRS) have become the subject of many current research efforts, as the ongoing wireless spectrum crunch has made the need to open higher frequency bands a priority. IRS are one of the alternatives proposed to…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-12-01 Alessandro Nordio , Alberto Tarable , Francisco J. Escribano

The key advantage of successive relaying (SR) networks is their ability to mimic the full-duplex (FD) operation with half-duplex (HD) relays. However, the main challenge that comes with such schemes is the associated inter-relay…

In cognitive radio (CR) communication systems, achieving high secondary user (SU) rate in the presence of strong cross-link interference with the primary user (PU) is challenging. In this letter, we exploit the emerging intelligent…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-03-10 Xinrong Guan , Qingqing Wu , Rui Zhang