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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…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-11-25 Dongfang Xu , Xianghao Yu , Derrick Wing Kwan Ng , Robert Schober

Integrating large intelligent reflecting surfaces (IRS) into millimeter-wave (mmWave) massive multi-input-multi-ouput (MIMO) has been a promising approach for improved coverage and throughput. Most existing work assumes the ideal channel…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-09-01 Shicong Liu , Zhen Gao , Jun Zhang , Marco Di Renzo , Mohamed-Slim Alouini

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

In intelligent reflecting surface (IRS) assisted communication systems, the acquisition of channel state information (CSI) is a crucial impediment for achieving the beamforming gain of IRS because of the considerable overhead required for…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-06-25 Zhaorui Wang , Liang Liu , Shuguang Cui

We consider futuristic, intelligent reflecting surfaces (IRS)-aided communication between a base station (BS) and a user equipment (UE) for two distinct scenarios: a single-input, single-output (SISO) system whereby the BS has a single…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-01-22 Waqas Aman , M. Mahboob Ur Rahman , Shuja Ansari , Ali Arshad Nasir , Khalid Qaraqe , M. Ali Imran , Qammer H. Abbasi

This paper studies the feasibility of deploying intelligent reflecting surfaces (IRSs) in massive MIMO (multiple-input multiple-output) systems to improve the performance of users in the service dead zone. To reduce the channel training…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-01-13 Zhaorui Wang , Liang Liu , Shuowen Zhang , Shuguang Cui

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…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-11-05 Jun Zhao

Intelligent reflecting surface (IRS) is a promising solution to build a programmable wireless environment for future communication systems, in which the reflector elements steer the incident signal in fully customizable ways by passive…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-09-14 Feng Shu , Xinyi Jiang , Wenlong Cai , Weiping Shi , Mengxing Huang , Jiangzhou Wang , Xiaohu You

Intelligent reflecting surface (IRS) has emerged as a promising technology to reconfigure the radio propagation environment by dynamically controlling wireless signal's amplitude and/or phase via a large number of reflecting elements. In…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-05-26 Xiaodan Shao , Changsheng You , Wenyan Ma , Xiaoming Chen , Rui Zhang

Intelligent reflection surface (IRS) is emerging as a promising technique for future wireless communications. Considering its excellent capability in customizing the channel conditions via energy-focusing and energy-nulling, it is an ideal…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-08-31 Shihao Yan , Xiaobo Zhou , Derrick Wing Kwan Ng , Jinhong Yuan , Naofal Al-Dhahir

In intelligent reflecting surface IRS assisted multiple input multiple output MIMO systems, a strong line of sight LoS link is required to compensate for the severe cascaded path loss. However, such a link renders the effective channel…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-01-13 Yuxuan Chen , Qingqing Wu , Guangji Chen , Qiaoyan Peng , Wen Chen

Intelligent reflecting surface (IRS) has recently received significant attention in wireless networks owing to its ability to smartly control the wireless propagation through passive reflection. Although prior works have employed the IRS to…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-05-01 Guangji Chen , Qingqing Wu

Intelligent reflecting surfaces (IRSs) are a promising technology for enhancing coverage and spectral efficiency, both in the sub-6 GHz and the millimeter wave (mmWave) bands. Existing approaches to leverage the benefits of IRS involve the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-07-03 L. Yashvanth , Chandra R. Murthy

Intelligent reflective surfaces (IRSs) are invoked for improving both spectral efficiency (SE) and energy efficiency (EE). Specifically, an IRS-aided multiple-input multiple-output network is considered, where the performance of randomly…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-02-25 Tianwei Hou , Yuanwei Liu , Zhengyu Song , Xin Sun , Yue Chen , Lajos Hanzo

In this letter, we consider an intelligent reflecting surface (IRS)-aided wireless communication system, where an active or passive IRS is employed to assist the communication between an access point and a user. First, we consider the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-09-13 Changsheng You , Rui Zhang

Intelligent reflecting surfaces (IRSs) have been regarded as a promising enabler for future wireless communication systems. In the literature, IRSs have been considered power-free or assumed to have constant power consumption. However,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-08-06 Qiucen Wu , Tian Lin , Xianghao Yu , Yu Zhu , Robert Schober

In intelligent reflecting surface (IRS) aided wireless communication systems, channel state information (CSI) is crucial to achieve its promising passive beamforming gains. However, CSI errors are inevitable in practice and generally…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-10-17 Ming-Min Zhao , An Liu , Rui Zhang

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

In this paper, we study the waveform and passive beamforming design for intelligent reflecting surface (IRS)-aided wireless power transfer (WPT). Generalized multi-user and low complexity single-user algorithms are derived based on…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-07-12 Zhenyuan Feng , Bruno Clerckx , Yang Zhao

The performance of wireless communication systems is fundamentally constrained by the random and uncontrollable wireless channel. By leveraging the recent advance in digitally-controlled metasurface, intelligent reflecting surface (IRS) has…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-04-06 Changsheng You , Beixiong Zheng , Weidong Mei , Rui Zhang