English
Related papers

Related papers: Channel Characterization of IRS-assisted Resonant …

200 papers

Intelligent reflecting surface (IRS) has recently been emerged as an effective way for improving the performance of wireless networks by reconfiguring the propagation environment through a large number of passive reflecting elements. This…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-12-07 Parisa Ramezani , Abbas Jamalipour

Intelligent reflecting surfaces (IRSs) are promising enablers for next-generation wireless communications due to their reconfigurability and high energy efficiency in improving poor propagation condition of channels, e.g., limited…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-01-03 Xin Zhang , Xianghao Yu , S. H. Song , Khaled B. Letaief

An intelligent reflecting surface (IRS) can greatly improve the channel quality over a frequency-flat channel, if it is configured to reflect the incident signal as a beam towards the receiver. However, the fundamental limitations of the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-09-16 Emil Björnson

This work examines the performance gain achieved by deploying an intelligent reflecting surface (IRS) in covert communications. To this end, we formulate the joint design of the transmit power and the IRS reflection coefficients by taking…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-01-12 Xiaobo Zhou , Shihao Yan , Qingqing Wu , Feng Shu , Derrick Wing Kwan Ng

Intelligent reflecting surface (IRS) has been regarded as a promising and revolutionary technology for future wireless communication systems owing to its capability of tailoring signal propagation environment in an…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-04-14 Wenhao Cai , Rang Liu , Ming Li , Yang Liu , Qingqing Wu , Qian Liu

Intelligent reflecting surface (IRS)-aided communication is a promising technology for beyond 5G (B5G) systems, to reconfigure the radio environment proactively. However, IRS-aided communication in practice requires efficient channel…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-11-23 Dingyang Ding , Di Wu , Yong Zeng , Shi Jin , Rui Zhang

In this paper, intelligent reflecting surface (IRS) is introduced to enhance the network performance of cognitive radio (CR) systems. Specifically, we investigate robust beamforming design based on both bounded channel state information…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-01-08 Lei Zhang , Cunhua Pan , Yu Wang , Hong Ren , Kezhi Wang

Integrated sensing and communication (ISAC), and intelligent reflecting surface (IRS) are envisioned as revolutionary technologies to enhance spectral and energy efficiencies for next wireless system generations. For the first time, this…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-04-09 Yu Liu , Ibrahim Al-Nahhal , Octavia A. Dobre , Fanggang Wang

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

In the intelligent reflecting surface (IRS)-enhanced wireless communication system, channel state information (CSI) is of paramount importance for achieving the passive beamforming gain of IRS, which, however, is a practically challenging…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-01-30 Beixiong Zheng , Rui Zhang

As a critical technology for next-generation communication networks, integrated sensing and communication (ISAC) aims to achieve the harmonious coexistence of communication and sensing. The degrees-of-freedom (DoF) of ISAC is limited due to…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-10-28 Yongqing Xu , Yong Li , Tony Q. S. Quek

This paper studies the intelligent reflecting surface (IRS) deployment optimization problem for IRS-enabled integrated sensing and communications (ISAC) systems, in which multiple IRSs are strategically deployed at candidate locations to…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-09-08 Yilong Chen , Zixiang Ren , Jie Xu , Rui Zhang

By applying tunable phase shifts to incident waves via passive signal reflection, intelligent reflecting surface (IRS) can offer significant performance improvement for wireless communication systems. To reap such performance gain, channel…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-07-01 Ge Yan , Lipeng Zhu , He Sun , Rui Zhang

While intelligent reflecting surface (IRS) assisted wireless communication has emerged as an important research paradigm, channel state information (CSI) acquisition remains a critical challenge to design the IRS phase-shifts and yield the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-09-10 Qurrat-Ul-Ain Nadeem , Anas Chaaban , Merouane Debbah

In this paper, we investigate the modeling and design of intelligent reflecting surface (IRS)-assisted optical communication systems which are deployed to relax the line-of-sight (LOS) requirement in multi-link free space optical (FSO)…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-10-19 Hedieh Ajam , Marzieh Najafi , Vahid Jamali , Bernhard Schmauss , Robert Schober

Intelligent reflecting surface (IRS) has recently emerged as a new solution to enhance wireless communication performance via passive signal reflection. In this letter, we unlock the potential of IRS controller in relaying information and…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-06-24 Beixiong Zheng , Rui Zhang

Integrated sensing and communication (ISAC) and intelligent reflecting surface (IRS) are viewed as promising technologies for future generations of wireless networks. This paper investigates the channel estimation problem in an IRS-assisted…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-04-09 Yu Liu , Ibrahim Al-Nahhal , Octavia A. Dobre , Fanggang Wang

In this paper, we investigate the robust outage constrained transmission design for an intelligent reflecting surface (IRS) aided secure communication system. We assume that a single-antenna legitimate receiver (Bob) served by a…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-10-30 Sheng Hong , Cunhua Pan , Gui Zhou , Hong Ren , Kezhi Wang

Channel state information (CSI) is essential to the performance optimization of intelligent reflecting surface (IRS)-aided wireless communication systems. However, the passive and frequency-flat reflection of IRS, as well as the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-02-18 He Sun , Lipeng Zhu , Weidong Mei , Rui Zhang

This paper studies a multi-intelligent-reflecting-surface-(IRS)-enabled integrated sensing and communications (ISAC) system, in which multiple IRSs are installed to help the base station (BS) provide ISAC services at separate line-of-sight…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-12-19 Yuan Fang , Siyao Zhang , Xinmin Li , Xianghao Yu , Jie Xu , Shuguang Cui