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Intelligent reflecting surface (IRS) technology offers more feasible propagation paths for millimeter-wave (mmWave) communication systems to overcome blockage than existing technologies. In this paper, we consider a downlink wireless system…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-01-22 Yue Xiu , Yang Zhao , Yang Liu , Jun Zhao , Osman Yagan , Ning Wei

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

This paper unveils the importance of intelligent reflecting surface (IRS) in a wireless powered sensor network (WPSN). Specifically, a multi-antenna power station (PS) employs energy beamforming to provide wireless charging for multiple…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-03-22 Zheng Chu , Zhengyu Zhu , Miao Zhang , Fuhui Zhou , Li Zhen , Xueqian Fu , and Naofal Al-Dhahir

This paper considers an active intelligent reflecting surface (IRS)-aided wireless powered communication network (WPCN), where devices first harvest energy and then transmit information to a hybrid access point (HAP). Different from the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-01-12 Piao Zeng , Deli Qiao , Qingqing Wu , Yuan Wu

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 recent development of reinforcement learning (RL) has boosted the adoption of online RL for wireless radio resource management (RRM). However, online RL algorithms require direct interactions with the environment, which may be…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-11-21 Kun Yang , Cong Shen , Jing Yang , Shu-ping Yeh , Jerry Sydir

Intelligent reflecting surfaces (IRSs) are regarded as key enablers of next-generation wireless communications, due to their capability of customizing the wireless propagation environment. In this paper, we investigate power-efficient…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-05-15 Xianghao Yu , Dongfang Xu , Derrick Wing Kwan Ng , Robert Schober

Intelligent reflecting surface (IRS) has emerged as a promising technique for wireless communication networks. By dynamically tuning the reflection amplitudes/phase shifts of a large number of passive elements, IRS enables flexible wireless…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-04-26 Weidong Mei , Beixiong Zheng , Changsheng You , Rui Zhang

Intelligent Reflecting Surface (IRS) technology is revolutionizing wireless communications by shifting from channel adaptation to a responsive wireless environment. This paper introduces a multi-IRS assisted millimeter wave (mm-wave)…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-01-04 Alireza Qazavi Khorasgani , Foroogh S. Tabataba , Mehdi Naderi Soorki , Mohammad Sadegh Fazel

Cognitive radio (CR) is an effective solution to improve the spectral efficiency (SE) of wireless communications by allowing the secondary users (SUs) to share spectrum with primary users. Meanwhile, intelligent reflecting surface (IRS),…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-12-24 Jie Yuan , Ying-Chang Liang , Jingon Joung , Gang Feng , Erik G. Larsson

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

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

This paper concentrates on the problem of associating an intelligent reflecting surface (IRS) to multiple users in a multiple-input single-output (MISO) downlink wireless communication network. The main objective of the paper is to maximize…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-10-10 Hamid Amiriara , Farid Ashtiani , Mahtab Mirmohseni , Masoumeh Nasiri-Kenari

Reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS) becomes a promising technique for 6G networks by reshaping signal propagation in smart radio environments. However, it also leads to significant complexity for network management due to the large…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2024-09-18 Hao Zhou , Chengming Hu , Xue Liu

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

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/refracting surface (IRS) is envisioned as a promising technology to reconfigure wireless propagation environment for enhancing the communication performance, by smartly controlling the signal reflection/refraction…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-10-18 Zixuan Huang , Lipeng Zhu , Rui Zhang

Flexible and efficient wireless resource sharing across heterogeneous services is a key objective for future wireless networks. In this context, we investigate the performance of a system where latency-constrained internet-of-things (IoT)…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-06-19 Anup Mishra , Čedomir Stefanović , Xiuqiang Xu , Petar Popovski , Israel Leyva-Mayorga

In this paper, secure wireless information and power transfer with intelligent reflecting surface (IRS) is proposed for a multiple-input single-output (MISO) system. Under the secrecy rate (SR) and the reflecting phase shifts of IRS…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-11-05 Weiping Shi , Xiaobo Zhou , Linqiong Jia , Yongpeng Wu , Feng Shu , Jiangzhou Wang

This paper presents an overview on intelligent reflecting surface (IRS)-enabled sensing and communication for the forthcoming sixth-generation (6G) wireless networks, in which IRSs are strategically deployed to proactively reconfigure…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-11-12 Xianxin Song , Yuan Fang , Feng Wang , Zixiang Ren , Xianghao Yu , Ye Zhang , Fan Liu , Jie Xu , Derrick Wing Kwan Ng , Rui Zhang , Shuguang Cui