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Intelligent reflecting surface (IRS) is a cost-effective solution for achieving high spectrum and energy efficiency in future wireless networks by leveraging massive low-cost passive elements that are able to reflect the signals with…

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

Intelligent reflecting surfaces (IRSs) are envisioned as a low-cost solution to achieve high spectral and energy efficiency in future communication systems due to their ability to customize wireless propagation environments. Although…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-02-27 Yifei Wu , Dongfang Xu , Derrick Wing Kwan Ng , Robert Schober , Wolfgang Gerstacker

As a low-cost and low-power-consumption passive reflector, intelligent reflecting surface (IRS) can make a significant rate improvement by building a programmable wireless environment. To improve the rate performance and coverage range of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-03-29 Xuehui Wang , Feng Shu , Weiping Shi , Xiaopeng Liang , Rongen Dong , Jun Li , Jiangzhou Wang

In this paper, we propose a rate-splitting multiple access (RSMA) scheme for uplink wireless communication systems with intelligent reflecting surface (IRS) aided. In the considered model, IRS is adopted to overcome power attenuation caused…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-09-07 Shanshan Zhang , Wen Chen

Intelligent reflecting surfaces (IRSs) are regarded as a key enabler of green wireless communication, due to their capability of customizing favorable wireless propagation environments. In this paper, we investigate resource allocation for…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-11-13 Xianghao Yu , Dongfang Xu , Derrick Wing Kwan Ng , Robert Schober

We propose and analyze secret key generation using intelligent reflecting surface (IRS) assisted wireless communication networks. To this end, we first formulate the minimum achievable secret key capacity for an IRS acting as a passive…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-03-10 Zijie Ji , Phee Lep Yeoh , Deyou Zhang , Gaojie Chen , Yan Zhang , Zunwen He , Hao Yin , Yonghui Li

An intelligent reflecting surface (IRS) consists of a large number of low-cost reflecting elements, which can steer the incident signal collaboratively by passive beamforming. This way, IRS reconfigures the wireless environment to boost the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-10-01 M. Zeng , X. Li , G. Li , W. Hao , O. A. Dobre

This paper investigates an intelligent reflecting surface (IRS)-aided multi-cell multiple-input single-output (MISO) system consisting of several multi-antenna base stations (BSs) each communicating with a single-antenna user, in which an…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-02-10 Hailiang Xie , Jie Xu , Ya-Feng Liu

Recently, simultaneously transmitting and reflecting reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (STAR-RISs) have emerged as a novel technology that provides 360 coverage and new degrees-of-freedom (DoFs). They are also capable of manipulating…

Integrating massive multiple-input multiple-output (mMIMO) systems with intelligent reflecting surfaces (IRS) presents a promising paradigm for enhancing physical-layer security (PLS) in wireless communications. However, deploying…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-02-17 Weijie Xiong , Jian Yang , Jingran Lin , Hongli Liu , Zhiling Xiao , Qiang Li

As the excellent tools for aiding communication,intelligent reflecting surface (IRS) and unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) can extend the coverage area, remove blind area, and achieve a dramatic rate improvement. In this paper, we improve the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-05-17 Yeqing Lin , Feng Shu , Yuxiang Zheng , Jing Liu , Rongen Dong , Xun Chen , Yue Wu , Feng Shu , Jiangzhou Wang

One of the main challenges facing optical wireless communication (OWC) systems is service disconnection in high blockage probability scenarios where users might lose the line of sight (LoS) connection with their corresponding access points…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-04-04 Ahrar N. Hamad , Ahmad Adnan Qidan , Taisir E. H. El-Gorashi , Jaafar M. H. Elmirghani

This work examines the performance gain achieved by deploying an intelligent reflecting surface (IRS) in covert communications. To this end, we formulate the joint design of the transmit power and the IRS reflection coefficients by taking…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-01-12 Xiaobo Zhou , Shihao Yan , Qingqing Wu , Feng Shu , Derrick Wing Kwan Ng

Wireless powered mobile edge computing (WP-MEC) has been recognized as a promising technique to provide both enhanced computational capability and sustainable energy supply to massive low-power wireless devices. However, its energy…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-03-13 Tong Bai , Cunhua Pan , Hong Ren , Yansha Deng , Maged Elkashlan , Arumugam Nallanathan

In this paper, we study an intelligent reflecting surface (IRS) assisted communication system with single-antenna transmitter and receiver, under imperfect channel state information (CSI). More specifically, we deal with the robust…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-03-01 Christos N. Efrem , Ioannis Krikidis

In this paper, intelligent reflecting surfaces (IRSs) are employed to enhance the physical layer security in a challenging radio environment. In particular, a multi-antenna access point (AP) has to serve multiple single-antenna legitimate…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-04-21 Xianghao Yu , Dongfang Xu , Ying Sun , Derrick Wing Kwan Ng , Robert Schober

The dual use of radio signals for simultaneous wireless information and power transfer (SWIPT) has recently drawn significant attention. To meet the practical requirement that energy receivers (ERs) operate with much higher received power…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-17 Liang Liu , Rui Zhang , K. C. Chua

In this letter, the achievable rate maximization problem is considered for intelligent reflecting surface (IRS) assisted multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) systems in an underlay spectrum sharing scenario, subject to interference power…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-06-10 Vaibhav Kumar , Mark Flanagan , Rui Zhang , Le-Nam Tran

The high reflect beamforming gain of the intelligent reflecting surface (IRS) makes it appealing not only for wireless information transmission but also for wireless power transfer. In this letter, we consider an IRS-assisted wireless…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-04-28 Dingcai Zhang , Qingqing Wu , Miao Cui , Guangchi Zhang , Dusit Niyato

Intelligent reflecting surface (IRS) is a promising technology that enables the precise control of the electromagnetic environment in future wireless communication networks. To leverage the IRS effectively, the acquisition of channel state…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-10-25 Jiancheng An , Chao Xu , Lu Gan , Chau Yuen , Lajos Hanzo