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Intelligent reflecting surface (IRS) can bring significant performance enhancement for wireless communication systems by reconfiguring wireless channels via passive signal reflection. However, such performance improvement generally relies…

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Intelligent reflecting surface (IRS) has been widely recognized as an efficient technique to reconfigure the electromagnetic environment in favor of wireless communication performance. In this paper, we propose a new application of IRS for…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-01-24 Peilan Wang , Weidong Mei , Jun Fang , Rui Zhang

Visible Light Communication (VLC) offers a promising solution to satisfy the increasing demand for wireless data. However, link blockages remain a significant challenge. This paper addresses this issue by investigating the combined use of…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-05-16 Borja Genoves Guzman , Maximo Morales-Cespedes , Ana Garcia Armada , Maite Brandt-Pearce

In this paper, we investigate the use of intelligent reflecting surfaces (IRSs) (i.e., smart mirrors) to relax the line-of-sight requirement of free space optical (FSO) systems. We characterize the impact of the physical parameters of the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-05-06 Marzieh Najafi , Robet Schober

Reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS) is a promising candidate technology for the upcoming Sixth Generation (6G) communication system for its ability to manipulate the wireless communication environment by controlling the coefficients of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-09-29 Haochen Li , Zhiwen Pan , Bin Wang , Nan Liu , Xiaohu You

To achieve the more promising passive beamforming gains in the double-intelligent reflecting surface (IRS) assisted system over the conventional single-IRS system, channel estimation is practically indispensable but also a more challenging…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-10-14 Beixiong Zheng , Changsheng You , Rui Zhang

Recent development of the fifth-generation (5G) of cellular networks has led to their deployment worldwide. As part of the implementation, one of the challenges that must be addressed is the skip-zone problem, which occurs when objects…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-11-30 Sylvester Aboagye , Alain R. Ndjiongue , Telex M. N. Ngatched , Octavia Dobre , H. Vincent Poor

This paper investigates the uplink cascaded channel estimation for intelligent-reflecting-surface (IRS)-assisted multi-user multiple-input-single-output systems. We focus on a sub-6 GHz scenario where the channel propagation is not sparse…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-09-07 Huayan Guo , Vincent K. N. Lau

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

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

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

The emergence of visible light communication (VLC) technology as a solution to solve radio frequency impediments, such as spectrum shortage, is continuously appealing. In addition to its large and unlicensed bandwidth, VLC provides a high…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-09-16 Alain R. Ndjiongue , Telex M. N. Ngatched , Octavia A. Dobre , Harald Haas

In this paper, we investigate the use of intelligent reflecting surfaces (IRSs) to relax the line-of-sight requirement of free space optical (FSO) systems. Considering a Gaussian laser beam, we first design a phase-shift distribution across…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-04-22 Marzieh Najafi , Bernhard Schmauss , Robert Schober

In this paper, an intelligent reflecting surface (IRS) assisted spectrum sharing underlay cognitive radio (CR) wiretap channel (WTC) is studied, and we aim at enhancing the secrecy rate of secondary user in this channel subject to total…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-04-13 Limeng Dong , Hui-Ming Wang , Haitao Xiao

In this paper, we investigate a self-sensing intelligent reflecting surface (IRS) aided millimeter wave (mmWave) integrated sensing and communication (ISAC) system. Unlike the conventional purely passive IRS, the self-sensing IRS can…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-11-15 Zijian Chen , Ming-Min Zhao , Min Li , Fan Xu , Qingqing Wu , Min-Jian Zhao

Reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RIS) are passive controllable arrays of small reflectors that direct electromagnetic energy towards or away from the target nodes, thereby allowing better management of signals and interference in a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-01-13 Bharath Shamasundar , Negar Daryanavardan , Aria Nosratinia

Channel estimation is a practical challenge for intelligent reflecting surface (IRS) aided wireless communication. As the number of IRS reflecting elements or IRS-aided users increases, the channel training overhead becomes excessively…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-08-27 Xinrong Guan , Qingqing Wu , Rui Zhang

Intelligent Reflecting Surfaces (IRS) are anticipated to serve as a key cornerstone of future wireless networks, providing an unmatched capability to deterministically shape electromagnetic wave propagation. Despite this potential, most…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2025-12-02 Fatih E. Bilgen , A. Sila Okcu , O. Tansel Baydas , Ozgur B. Akan

The emergence of optical intelligent reflecting surface (OIRS) technologies marks a milestone in optical wireless communication (OWC) systems, enabling enhanced control over light propagation in indoor environments. This capability allows…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-01-08 Jalal Jalali , Hina Tabassum , Jeroen Famaey , Walid Saad , Murat Uysal

Intelligent reflecting surface (IRS) has emerged as a key enabling technology to realize smart and reconfigurable radio environment for wireless communications, by digitally controlling the signal reflection via a large number of passive…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-02-02 Beixiong Zheng , Changsheng You , Weidong Mei , Rui Zhang