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Intelligent Reflecting Surface (IRS) is envisioned to be a promising green and cost-effective solution to enhance wireless network performance by smartly reconfiguring the signal propagation. In this paper, we study an IRS-aided…
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Reservoir computing (RC) is an innovative paradigm in neuromorphic computing that leverages fixed, randomized, internal connections to address the challenge of overfitting. RC has shown remarkable effectiveness in signal processing and…
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In this paper, we investigate the two-way communication between two users assisted by a re-configurable intelligent surface (RIS). The scheme that two users communicate simultaneously over Rayleigh fading channels is considered. The…
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