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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

Intelligent reflecting surface (IRS) has gained great attention for its ability to create favorable propagation environments. However, the power consumption of conventional IRSs cannot be ignored due to the large number of reflecting…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-06-13 Weibiao Zhao , Qiucen Wu , Yuanqi Tang , Yu Zhu

Intelligent reflecting surface (IRS) is a promising solution to build a programmable wireless environment for future communication systems. In practice, an IRS consists of massive low-cost elements, which can steer the incident signal in…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-05-31 Huayan Guo , Ying-Chang Liang , Jie Chen , Erik G. Larsson

Recently, intelligent reflecting surface (IRS)-assisted communication has gained considerable attention due to its advantage in extending the coverage and compensating the path loss with low-cost passive metasurface. This paper considers…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-10-03 Silei Wang , Qiang Li , Jingran Lin

In this paper, we consider a multi-user multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) system aided by multiple intelligent reflecting surfaces (IRSs) that are deployed to increase the coverage and, possibly, the rank of the channel. We propose an…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-12-22 Andrea Abrardo , Davide Dardari , Marco Di Renzo

Intelligent reflecting surface (IRS) is a new and promising paradigm to substantially improve the spectral and energy efficiency of wireless networks, by constructing favorable communication channels via tuning massive low-cost passive…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-05-18 Jiangbin Lyu , Rui Zhang

Mobile edge computing (MEC) is envisioned as a promising technique to support computation-intensive and timecritical applications in future Internet of Things (IoT) era. However, the uplink transmission performance will be highly impacted…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-05-05 Yizhen Yang , Yi Gong , Yik-Chung Wu

Intelligent reflecting surfaces (IRS) have been proposed in millimeter wave (mmWave) and terahertz (THz) systems to achieve both coverage and capacity enhancement, where the design of hybrid precoders, combiners, and the IRS typically…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-05-31 Shuntian Zheng , Sheng Wu , Chunxiao Jiang , Wei Zhang , Xiaojun Jing

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

With the rapid development of Internet of Things (IoT), massive machine-type communication has become a promising application scenario, where a large number of devices transmit sporadically to a base station (BS). Reconfigurable intelligent…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-01-26 Shuhao Xia , Yuanming Shi , Yong Zhou , Xiaojun Yuan

The Internet of Things (IoT) is going to be a few of the most influential and critical role spectators in the post-5G and 6G wireless networking paradigm because IoT is being deployed in a variety of applications and services such as smart…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-05-08 Mobasshir Mahbub , Raed M. Shubair

As intelligent reflecting surface (IRS) has emerged as a new and promising technology capable of configuring the wireless environment favorably, channel estimation for IRS-assisted multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) systems has garnered…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-12-22 Zhen Qin , Zhihui Zhu

Channel estimation is one of the main tasks in realizing practical intelligent reflecting surface-assisted multi-user communication (IRS-MC) systems. However, different from traditional communication systems, an IRS-MC system generally…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-08-03 Chang Liu , Xuemeng Liu , Derrick Wing Kwan Ng , Jinhong Yuan

Multi-user integrated sensing and communication (ISAC) assisted by intelligent reflecting surface (IRS) has been recently investigated to provide a high spectral and energy efficiency transmission. This paper proposes a practical channel…

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

Channel estimation is of great importance in realizing practical intelligent reflecting surface-assisted multi-user communication (IRS-MC) systems. However, different from traditional communication systems, an IRS-MC system generally…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-12-02 Chang Liu , Xuemeng Liu , Derrick Wing Kwan Ng , Jinhong Yuan

Intelligent Reflecting Surface (IRS) utilizes low-cost, passive reflecting elements to enhance the passive beam gain, improve Wireless Energy Transfer (WET) efficiency, and enable its deployment for numerous Internet of Things (IoT)…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-11-16 Cheng Luo , Jie Hu , Luping Xiang , Kun Yang , Kai-Kit Wong

As a recently proposed idea for future wireless systems, intelligent reflecting surface (IRS) can assist communications between entities which do not have high-quality direct channels in between. Specifically, an IRS comprises many low-cost…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-01-29 Huimei Han , Jun Zhao , Dusit Niyato , Marco Di Renzo , Quoc-Viet Pham

Usage of low-cost hardware in large antenna arrays and low-power wireless devices in Internet-of-Things (IoT) has led to the degradation of practical beamforming gains due to the underlying hardware impairments like…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-07-24 Deepak Mishra , Håkan Johansson

In this paper, we investigate resource allocation algorithm design for intelligent reflecting surface (IRS)-assisted multiuser cognitive radio (CR) systems. In particular, an IRS is deployed to mitigate the interference caused by the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-03-03 Dongfang Xu , Xianghao Yu , Robert Schober

We propose a channel estimation protocol to determine the uplink channel state information (CSI) at the base station for an intelligent reflecting surface (IRS) based wireless communication. More specifically, we develop a channel…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-04-15 Swapnil Saha , Md. Forkan Uddin