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This paper investigates multiple intelligent reflecting surfaces (IRSs) aided wireless network, where the IRSs are deployed to cooperatively assist communications between a multi-antenna base station (BS) and multiple single-antenna…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-02-13 Zhengfeng Li , Meng Hua , Qingxia Wang , Qingheng Song

Intelligent reflecting surface (IRS) is a promising technology being considered for future wireless communications due to its ability to control signal propagation. This paper considers the joint active and passive beamforming problem for…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-02-09 Fangzhou Wang , Hongbin Li , Jun Fang

In cell-free multiple input multiple output (MIMO) networks, multiple base stations (BSs) collaborate to achieve high spectral efficiency. Nevertheless, high penetration loss due to large blockages in harsh propagation environments is often…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-03-16 Chen Chen , Sai Xu , Jiliang Zhang , Jie Zhang

In this paper, we investigate an intelligent reflecting surface (IRS) assisted multi-user multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) full-duplex (FD) system. We jointly optimize the active beamforming matrices at the access point (AP) and uplink…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-12-07 Yanzhen Liu , Qiyu Hu , Yunlong Cai , Guanding Yu , Geoffrey Ye Li

This paper considers a reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS)-aided millimeter wave (mmWave) downlink communication system where hybrid analog-digital beamforming is employed at the base station (BS). We formulate a power minimization…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-02-15 Renwang Li , Bei Guo , Meixia Tao , Ya-Feng Liu , Wei Yu

Most algorithms developed so far for the optimization of Intelligent Reflecting Surfaces (IRSs) require knowledge of full Channel State Information (CSI). However, the resulting acquisition overhead constitutes a major bottleneck for the…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2021-12-20 Vahid Jamali , George C. Alexandropoulos , Robert Schober , H. Vincent Poor

Intelligent reflecting surface (IRS) is an emerging technology to enhance spatial multiplexing in wireless networks. This letter considers the discrete passive beamforming design for IRS in order to maximize the minimum…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-08-29 Wenhai Lai , Zheyu Wu , Yi Feng , Kaiming Shen , Ya-Feng Liu

This paper addresses the problem of maximizing the received power at a user equipment via reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS) characterized by phase-dependent amplitude (PDA) and discrete phase shifts over a limited phase range. Given…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-07-11 Dogan Kutay Pekcan , Hongyi Liao , Ender Ayanoglu

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

Intelligent reflecting surface (IRS) is a promising technology to assist downlink information transmissions from a multi-antenna access point (AP) to a receiver. In this paper, we minimize the AP's transmit power by a joint optimization of…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-05-26 Jiaye Lin , Yuze Zou , Xiaoru Dong , Shimin Gong , Dinh Thai Hoang , Dusit Niyato

The concept of intelligent reflecting surfaces (IRSs) is considered as a promising technology for increasing the efficiency of mobile wireless networks. This is achieved by employing a vast amount of low-cost individually adjustable passive…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2020-12-01 Kevin Weinberger , Alaa Alameer Ahmad , Aydin Sezgin

In wideband systems operating at mmWave frequencies, intelligent reflecting surfaces (IRSs) equipped with many passive elements can compensate for channel propagation losses. Then, a phenomenon known as the beam-split (B-SP) occurs in which…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-03-11 P. Siddhartha , L. Yashvanth , Chandra R. Murthy

We present distributed methods for jointly optimizing Intelligent Reflecting Surface (IRS) phase-shifts and beamformers in a cellular network. The proposed schemes require knowledge of only the intra-cell training sequences and…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-10-29 Reinhard Wiesmayr , Michael Honig , Michael Joham , Wolfgang Utschick

This work focuses on wideband intelligent reflecting surface (IRS)-aided multiuser MIMO systems. One of the major challenges of this scenario is the joint design of the frequency-dependent base station (BS) precoder and user filters, and…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-01-30 Darian Pérez-Adán , Michael Joham , Óscar Fresnedo , José P. González-Coma , Luis Castedo , Wolfgang Utschick

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

Intelligent reflecting surfaces (IRS) have become the subject of many current research efforts, as the ongoing wireless spectrum crunch has made the need to open higher frequency bands a priority. IRS are one of the alternatives proposed to…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-12-01 Alessandro Nordio , Alberto Tarable , Francisco J. Escribano

In this paper, we study the intelligent reflecting surface (IRS) deployment problem where a number of IRSs are optimally placed in a target area to improve its signal coverage with the serving base station (BS). To achieve this, we assume…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-10-29 Min Fu , Lipeng Zhu , Rui Zhang

This paper focuses on studying orthogonal and non-orthogonal multiple access in intelligent reflecting surface (IRS)-aided systems. Unlike most prior works assuming continuous phase shifts, we employ the practical setup where only a finite…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-03-16 Wei Jiang , Hans Dieter Schotten

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

The low efficiency of far-field wireless power transfer (WPT) limits the fundamental rate-energy (R-E) performance trade-off of the simultaneous wireless information and power transfer (SWIPT) system. To address this challenge, we propose…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-01-03 Qingqing Wu , Rui Zhang