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Intelligent reflecting surface (IRS) has been widely studied in recent years, it has emerged as a new technology which can reflect the incident signal by intelligently configuring the reflection elements, thus changing the signal…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-05-07 Jintao Luo , Sixing Yin

Integrated sensing and communication (ISAC) is expected to be offered as a fundamental service in the upcoming sixth-generation (6G) communications standard. However, due to the exposure of information-bearing signals to the sensing…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-05-09 Vaibhav Kumar , Marwa Chafii , A. Lee Swindlehurst , Le-Nam Tran , Mark F. Flanagan

This paper explores the potential of the intelligent reflecting surface (IRS) in realizing multi-user concurrent communication and localization, using the same time-frequency resources. Specifically, we propose an IRS-enabled multi-user…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-11-23 Zhouyuan Yu , Xiaoling Hu , Chenxi Liu , Mugen Peng , Caijun Zhong

Intelligent reflecting surface (IRS) has garnered growing interest and attention due to its potential for facilitating and supporting wireless communications and sensing. This paper studies a semi-passive IRS-enabled sensing system, where…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-02-06 Qiaoyan Peng , Qingqing Wu , Wen Chen , Shaodan Ma , Ming-Min Zhao , Octavia A. Dobre

Besides improving communication performance, intelligent reflecting surfaces (IRSs) are also promising enablers for achieving larger sensing coverage and enhanced sensing quality. Nevertheless, in the absence of a direct path between the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-11-08 Kaitao Meng , Qingqing Wu , Robert Schober , Wen Chen

Cognitive radio networks (CRNs) and millimeter wave (mmWave) communications are two major technologies to enhance the spectrum efficiency (SE). Considering that the SE improvement in the CRNs is limited due to the interference temperature…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-05-03 Xuewen Wu , Jingxiao Ma , Chenwei Gu , Xiaoping Xue , Xin Zeng

This paper proposes a novel location information aided multiple intelligent reflecting surface (IRS) systems. Assuming imperfect user location information, the effective angles from the IRS to the users are estimated, which is then used to…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-08-24 Xiaoling Hu , Caijun Zhong , Yu Zhang , Xiaoming Chen , Zhaoyang Zhang

The rapid development of sixth-generation (6G) wireless networks requires seamless integration of communication and sensing to support ubiquitous intelligence and real-time, high-reliability applications. Integrated sensing and…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-11-17 Qingqing Wu , Qiaoyan Peng , Ziheng Zhang , Xiaodan Shao , Yang Liu , Yifan Jiang , Yapeng Zhao , Yanze Zhu , Yilong Chen , Zixiang Ren , Jie Xu , Wen Chen , Rui Zhang

Compared to traditional electromagnetic stealth (ES) materials, which are effective only within specific frequencies and orientations, intelligent reflecting surface (IRS) technology introduces a novel paradigm for achieving dynamic and…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-03-10 Qingjie Wu , Beixiong Zheng , Guangchi Zhang , Derrick Wing Kwan Ng , A. Lee Swindlehurst

In this paper, the secure performance of multiuser multiple-input single-output wireless communications systems assisted by a multifunctional active intelligent reflection surface (IRS) is investigated. The active IRS can simultaneously…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-05-06 Shaokang Hu , Derrick Wing Kwan Ng , Jinhong Yuan

A novel Physical Layer Security (PLS) framework is conceived for enhancing the security of the wireless communication systems by exploiting multi-domain polarization in Multiple-Input Multiple-Output (MIMO) systems. We design a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-11-01 Luping Xiang , Yao Zeng , Jie Hu , Kun Yang , Lajos Hanzo

A core challenge in physical-layer security is the difficulty of obtaining the channel state information (CSI) of potential eavesdroppers. The inherent sensing functionality of integrated sensing and communication (ISAC) systems offers a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-04-28 Yaxuan Chen , Guangchi Zhang , Miao Cui , Hao Fu , Qingqing Wu , Rui Zhang

Intelligent reflecting surface (IRS) is an emerging technology for wireless communication composed of a large number of low-cost passive devices with reconfigurable parameters, which can reflect signals with a certain phase shift and is…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-02-16 Feng Shu , Lili Yang , Yan Wang , Xuehui Wang , Weiping Shi , Chong Shen , Jiangzhou Wang

Physical layer security (PLS) technologies are expected to play an important role in the next-generation wireless networks, by providing secure communication to protect critical and sensitive information from illegitimate devices. In this…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-09-12 Yun Wen , Gaojie Chen , Sisai Fang , Zheng Chu , Pei Xiao , Rahim Tafazolli

Intelligent reflecting surfaces (IRS) have been proposed as a revolutionary technology owing to its capability of adaptively reconfiguring the propagation environment in a cost-effective and hardware-efficient fashion. While the application…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-01-25 Rang Liu , Ming Li , Qian Liu , A. Lee Swindlehurst , Qingqing Wu

In this paper, we investigate integrated sensing and communication (ISAC) in high-mobility systems with the aid of an intelligent reflecting surface (IRS). To exploit the benefits of Delay-Doppler (DD) spread caused by high mobility,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-08-01 Xingyu Peng , Qin Tao , Xiaoling Hu , Richeng Jin , Chongwen Huang , Xiaoming Chen

Recently, the use of intelligent reflecting surface (IRS) has gained considerable attention in wireless communications. By intelligently adjusting the passive reflection angle, IRS is able to assist the base station (BS) to extend the…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-06-02 Mingjie Shao , Qiang Li , Wing-Kin Ma

This paper considers a MIMO secure wireless communication system aided by the physical layer security technique of sending artificial noise (AN). To further enhance the system security performance, the advanced intelligent reflecting…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-09-15 Sheng Hong , Cunhua Pan , Hong Ren , Kezhi Wang , Arumugam Nallanathan

In this paper, we consider a challenging secure wireless sensing scenario where a legitimate radar station (LRS) intends to detect a target at unknown location in the presence of an unauthorized radar station (URS). We aim to enhance the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-08-08 Xiaodan Shao , Rui Zhang

A simultaneously transmitting and reflecting surface (STARS) enabled integrated sensing and communications (ISAC) framework is proposed, where a novel bi-directional sensing-STARS architecture is devised to facilitate the full-space…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-01-10 Zheng Zhang , Yuanwei Liu , Zhaolin Wang , Jian Chen