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An intelligent reflecting surface (IRS)-aided wireless powered mobile edge computing (WP-MEC) system is conceived, where each device's computational task can be divided into two parts for local computing and offloading to mobile edge…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-08-24 Guangji Chen , Qingqing Wu , Wen Chen , Derrick Wing Kwan Ng , Lajos Hanzo

Computation off-loading in mobile edge computing (MEC) systems constitutes an efficient paradigm of supporting resource-intensive applications on mobile devices. However, the benefit of MEC cannot be fully exploited, when the communications…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-05-14 Tong Bai , Cunhua Pan , Yansha Deng , Maged Elkashlan , Arumugam Nallanathan , Lajos Hanzo

The ever-growing popularity and rapid improving of artificial intelligence (AI) have raised rethinking on the evolution of wireless networks. Mobile edge computing (MEC) provides a natural platform for AI applications since it is with rich…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-12-29 Shanfeng Huang , Shuai Wang , Rui Wang , Miaowen Wen , Kaibin Huang

By employing powerful edge servers for data processing, mobile edge computing (MEC) has been recognized as a promising technology to support emerging computation-intensive applications. Besides, non-orthogonal multiple access (NOMA)-aided…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-09-22 Jiadong Yu , Yang Li , Xiaolan Liu , Bo Sun , Yuan Wu , Danny H. K. Tsang

Energy-efficient design is of crucial importance in wireless internet of things (IoT) networks. In order to serve massive users while achieving an energy-efficient operation, an intelligent reflecting surface (IRS) assisted mobile edge…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-09-22 Qun Wang , Fuhui Zhou , Han Hu , Rose Qingyang Hu

In this paper, we develop a hybrid multiple access (MA) protocol for an intelligent reflecting surface (IRS) aided uplink transmission network by incorporating the IRS-aided time-division MA (I-TDMA) protocol and the IRS-aided…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-06-27 Piao Zeng , Guangji Chen , Qingqing Wu , Deli Qiao , Abbas Jamalipour

This paper proposes a novel framework of resource allocation in multi-cell intelligent reflecting surface (IRS) aided non-orthogonal multiple access (NOMA) networks, where an IRS is deployed to enhance the wireless service. The problem of…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-11-16 Wanli Ni , Xiao Liu , Yuanwei Liu , Hui Tian , Yue Chen

This paper proposes a three-dimensional (3D) geometry-based channel model to accurately represent intelligent reflecting surfaces (IRS)-enhanced integrated sensing and communication (ISAC) networks using rate-splitting multiple access…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-01-28 Zhangfeng Ma , Ruichen Zhang , Bo Ai , Zhuxian Lian , Linzhou Zeng , Dusit Niyato

The merge of mobile edge computing (MEC) and millimeter-wave (mmWave) communications will hopefully enable the fast access for computational resources, where these two technologies can benefit from each other's potentials. However, the high…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-03-13 Yashuai Cao , Tiejun Lv

This paper investigates a downlink multiple-input single-output intelligent reflecting surface (IRS) aided non-orthogonal multiple access (NOMA) system, where a base station (BS) serves multiple users with the aid of IRSs. Our goal is to…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-11-12 Xidong Mu , Yuanwei Liu , Li Guo , Jiaru Lin , Naofal Al-Dhahir

Wireless powered mobile edge computing (WP-MEC) has been recognized as a promising solution to enhance the computational capability and sustainable energy supply for low-power wireless devices (WDs). However, when the communication links…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-09-08 Nana Li , Wanming Hao , Fuhui Zhou , Zheng Chu , Shouyi Yang , Pei Xiao

Rate splitting multiple access (RSMA) provides a flexible transmission framework that can be applied in mobile edge computing (MEC) systems. However, the research work on RSMA-assisted MEC systems is still at the infancy and many design…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-12-02 Ding Xu , Lingjie Duan , Haitao Zhao , Hongbo Zhu

Intelligent reflective surfaces (IRSs) are invoked for improving both spectral efficiency (SE) and energy efficiency (EE). Specifically, an IRS-aided multiple-input multiple-output network is considered, where the performance of randomly…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-02-25 Tianwei Hou , Yuanwei Liu , Zhengyu Song , Xin Sun , Yue Chen , Lajos Hanzo

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

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

Mobile edge computing (MEC) has been regarded as a promising technique to support latencysensitivity and computation-intensive serves. However, the low offloading rate caused by the random channel fading characteristic becomes a major…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-03-22 Hao Xie , Dong Li , Bowen Gu

Intelligent reflecting surfaces (IRSs) are being studied as possible low-cost energy-efficient alternatives to active relays, with the goal of solving the coverage issues of millimeter wave (mmWave) and terahertz (THz) network deployments.…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-01-26 Alberto Rech , Matteo Pagin , Stefano Tomasin , Federico Moretto , Leonardo Badia , Marco Giordani , Jonathan Gambini , Michele Zorzi

Intelligent Reflecting Surface (IRS) is envisioned to be a technical enabler for the sixth-generation (6G) wireless system. Its potential lies in delivering high performance while maintaining both power efficiency and cost-effectiveness.…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-05-17 Wei Jiang , Hans Schotten

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

Mounting a reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS) on an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) holds promise for improving traditional terrestrial network performance. Unlike conventional methods deploying passive RIS on UAVs, this study delves…