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Intelligent reflecting surfaces (IRSs) are envisioned as a transformative method for enhancing the physical layer security of future communication networks. However, current IRS-assisted secure wireless system designs incur high time cost…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-01-23 Yifei Wu , Mehmet Emin Arslan , Niels Neumann , Wolfgang Gerstacker , Robert Schober

This paper studies the active intelligent reflecting surface (IRS)-enabled integrated sensing and communications (ISAC), in which an active IRS is deployed to assist the base station (BS) in serving multiple communication users (CUs) and…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-08-04 Yuan Fang , Xianxin Song , Huazhou Hou , Ziguo Zhong , Xianghao Yu , Jie Xu , Yongming Huang

Compared to passive intelligent reflecting surface (IRS), active IRS is viewed as a more efficient promising technique to combat the double-fading impact in IRS-aided wireless network. In this paper, in order to boost the achievable rate of…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-05-16 Yeqing Lin , Feng Shu , Rongen Dong , Riqing Chen , Siling Feng , Weiping Shi , Jing Liu , Jiangzhou Wang

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

In this letter, we optimize the channel estimator of the cascaded channel in an intelligent reflecting surface (IRS)-assisted millimeter wave (mmWave) multi-antenna system. In this system, the receiver is equipped with a hybrid architecture…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-10-05 Wenhui Zhang , Jindan Xu , Wei Xu , Derrick Wing Kwan Ng , Huan Sun

Rotatable intelligent reflecting surface (IRS) introduces a new spatial degree of freedom (DoF) by dynamically adjusting orientations without the need of changing its elements' positions in real time. To unleash the full potential of…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-03-04 Qiaoyan Peng , Qingqing Wu , Guangji Chen , Wen Chen , Shaodan Ma , Shanpu Shen , Rui Zhang

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

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

In this paper, we investigate an intelligent reflecting surface (IRS) aided wireless communication system, where active IRSs (AIRSs) are deployed to assist communication between a base station (BS) and users of both the uplink (UL) and…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-10-14 Qiaoyan Peng , Qingqing Wu , Guangji Chen , Wen Chen , Shaodan Ma

We propose and analyze secret key generation using intelligent reflecting surface (IRS) assisted wireless communication networks. To this end, we first formulate the minimum achievable secret key capacity for an IRS acting as a passive…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-03-10 Zijie Ji , Phee Lep Yeoh , Deyou Zhang , Gaojie Chen , Yan Zhang , Zunwen He , Hao Yin , Yonghui Li

Channel state information (CSI) acquisition is essential for the base station (BS) to fully reap the beamforming gain in intelligent reflecting surface (IRS)-aided downlink communication systems. Recently, [1] revealed a strong correlation…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-12-02 Rui Wang , Zhaorui Wang , Liang Liu , Shuowen Zhang , Shi Jin

Prior studies on intelligent reflecting surface (IRS) have mostly considered wireless communication systems aided by a single passive IRS, which, however, has limited control over wireless propagation environment and suffers from…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-08-26 Yunpu Zhang , Changsheng You

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

Intelligent reflecting surface (IRS) has emerged as a revolutionizing solution to enhance wireless communications by intelligently changing the propagation environment. Prior studies on IRS are based on an ideal reflection model with a…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-06-03 Wenhao Cai , Hongyu Li , Ming Li , Qian Liu

In wireless networks assisted by intelligent reflecting surfaces (IRSs), jointly modeling the signal received over the direct and indirect (reflected) paths is a difficult problem. In this work, we show that the network geometry (locations…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-05-27 Konpal Shaukat Ali , Martin Haenggi , Arafat Al-Dweik , Marwa Chafii

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

For intelligent reflecting surface (IRS)-aided wireless communications, channel estimation is essential and usually requires excessive channel training overhead when the number of IRS reflecting elements is large. The acquisition of…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-03-14 Yi Wei , Ming-Min Zhao , An Liu , Min-Jian Zhao

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) is a new promising technology that is able to manipulate the wireless propagation channel via smart and controllable signal reflection. In this paper, we investigate the capacity region of a multiple…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-02-18 Shuowen Zhang , Rui Zhang

The intelligent reflecting surface (IRS) is emphasized as a controlled scattering cluster. To this end, scatterers and traveling paths of multipath components are classified to build a new channel model. Unlike the conventional modeling,…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-11-18 Musab Alayasra , Huseyin Arslan