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This paper studies the intelligent reflecting surface (IRS) deployment optimization problem for IRS-enabled integrated sensing and communications (ISAC) systems, in which multiple IRSs are strategically deployed at candidate locations to…

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Intelligent reflecting surface (IRS) is a promising technology to extend the wireless signal coverage and support the high performance communication. By intelligently adjusting the reflection coefficients of a large number of passive…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-03-01 Yitao Han , Shuowen Zhang , Lingjie Duan , Rui Zhang

Intelligent reflecting surface (IRS) is recognized as an enabler of future dual-function radar-communications (DFRC) by improving spectral efficiency, coverage, parameter estimation, and interference suppression. Prior studies on IRS-aided…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-08-11 Tong Wei , Linlong Wu , Kumar Vijay Mishra , M. R. Bhavani Shankar

Intelligent reflecting surface (IRS) has become a cost-effective solution for constructing a smart and adaptive radio environment. Most previous works on IRS have jointly designed the active and passive precoding based on perfectly or…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-09-24 Beixiong Zheng , Tiantian Ma , Jie Tang , Changsheng You , Shaoe Lin , Kai-Kit Wong

In this paper, we propose to exploit movable elements of intelligent reflecting surface (IRS) to enhance the overall performance of integrated sensing and communication (ISAC) systems. Firstly, focusing on a single-user scenario, we reveal…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-08-01 Xingyu Peng , Qin Tao , Yong Liang Guan , Xiaoming Chen

Integrated sensing and communication (ISAC) is recognized as one of the key enabling technologies for sixth-generation (6G) wireless communication networks, facilitating diverse emerging applications and services in an energy and…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-03-04 Zehra Yigit , Ertugrul Basar

In this paper, we investigate the potential of employing reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS) in integrated sensing and communication (ISAC) systems. In particular, we consider an RIS-assisted ISAC system in which a multi-antenna base…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-01-27 Rang Liu , Ming Li , A. Lee Swindlehurst

In this paper, we investigate an intelligent reflecting surface (IRS) assisted cell-free multiple input multiple output (MIMO) communication system, where distributed multiple IRSs are dedicated deployed to assist distributed multiple base…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-08-18 Xie Xie , Chen He , Xiaoya Li , Kun Yang , Z. Jane Wang

Intelligent reflecting surface (IRS) can be densely deployed in wireless networks to significantly enhance the communication channels. In this letter, we consider the downlink transmission from a multi-antenna base station (BS) to a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-02-16 Weidong Mei , Rui Zhang

Integrated sensing and communications (ISAC) is a spectrum-sharing paradigm that allows different users to jointly utilize and access the crowded electromagnetic spectrum. In this context, intelligent reflecting surfaces (IRSs) have lately…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-08-31 Zahra Esmaeilbeig , Arian Eamaz , Kumar Vijay Mishra , Mojtaba Soltanalian

In this paper, we investigate a self-sensing intelligent reflecting surface (IRS) aided millimeter wave (mmWave) integrated sensing and communication (ISAC) system. Unlike the conventional purely passive IRS, the self-sensing IRS can…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-11-15 Zijian Chen , Ming-Min Zhao , Min Li , Fan Xu , Qingqing Wu , Min-Jian Zhao

This paper studies a multiple intelligent reflecting surfaces (IRSs) collaborative localization system where multiple semi-passive IRSs are deployed in the network to locate one or more targets based on time-of-arrival. It is assumed that…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-06-18 Ziheng Zhang , Wen Chen , Qingqing Wu , Zhendong Li , Xusheng Zhu , Jingfeng Chen , Nan Cheng

Prior studies on intelligent reflecting surface (IRS) have mostly considered wireless communication systems aided by a single passive IRS, which, however, has limited control over wireless propagation environment and suffers from…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-08-26 Yunpu Zhang , Changsheng You

This paper presents a new integrated sensing and communication (ISAC) framework, leveraging the recent advancements of reconfigurable distributed antenna and reflecting surface (RDARS). RDARS is a programmable surface structure comprising…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-01-11 Pingping Zhang , Jintao Wang , Yulin Shao , Shaodan Ma

Intelligent reflecting surface (IRS) has emerged as an enabling technology to achieve smart and reconfigurable wireless communication environment cost-effectively. Prior works on IRS mainly consider its passive beamforming design and…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-03-12 Beixiong Zheng , Changsheng You , Rui Zhang

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

Prior studies on intelligent reflecting surface (IRS) have mostly considered wireless communication systems aided by a single passive IRS, which, however, has limited control over wireless propagation environment and suffers severe…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-01-09 Yunpu Zhang , Changsheng You , Beixiong Zheng

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

Intelligent reflecting surfaces (IRSs) are a promising technology for enhancing coverage and spectral efficiency, both in the sub-6 GHz and the millimeter wave (mmWave) bands. Existing approaches to leverage the benefits of IRS involve the…

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