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Integrated sensing and communication (ISAC) system has been envisioned as a promising technology to be applied in future applications requiring both communication and high-accuracy sensing. Different from most research focusing on…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-08-17 Jintao Wang , Chengwang Ji , Jiajia Guo , Shaodan Ma

Intelligent reflecting surface (IRS) is a cost-efficient technique to improve power efficiency and spectral efficiency. However, IRS-aided multi-antenna transmission needs to jointly optimize the passive and active beamforming, imposing a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-05-03 Wei Jiang , Hans Dieter Schotten

Integrated sensing and communication (ISAC) has been receiving a notable interest as an energy- and spectrum-efficient enabler for simultaneous communication and sensing. Notably, reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RIS) is among the key…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-04-07 Elmehdi Illi , Marwa Qaraqe

Intelligent reflective surfaces (IRSs) capable of reconfiguring their electromagnetic absorption and reflection properties in real-time are offering unprecedented opportunities to enhance wireless communication experience in challenging…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2020-02-03 Dong Ma , Ming Ding , Mahbub Hassan

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

This paper considers reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS)-aided integrated sensing and communication (ISAC) systems under dual-polarized (DP) channels. Unlike the existing ISAC systems, which ignored polarization of electromagnetic…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-01-03 Dongnan Xia , Cunhua Pan , Hong Ren , Zhiyuan Yu , Yasheng Jin , Jiangzhou Wang

This paper investigates the design of integrated sensing and communication (ISAC) systems assisted by simultaneously transmitting and reflecting reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (STAR-RISs), which act as multi-functional programmable…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-02-19 Ziming Liu , Tao Chen , Giacinto Gelli , Vincenzo Galdi , Francesco Verde

Bistatic backscatter communication (BackCom) allows passive tags to transmit over extended ranges, but at the cost of having carrier emitters either transmitting at high powers or being deployed very close to tags. In this paper, we examine…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-11-09 Xiaolun Jia , Xiangyun Zhou , Dusit Niyato , Jun Zhao

This paper studies a multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) integrated sensing and communication (ISAC) system, in which a multi-antenna base station (BS) sends unified wireless signals to estimate an extended target and communicate with a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-08-19 Haocheng Hua , Xianxin Song , Yuan Fang , Tony Xiao Han , Jie Xu

In this paper, we propose intelligent reflecting surfaces (IRS) assisted secure wireless communications with multi-input and multi-output antennas (IRS-MIMOME). The considered scenario is an access point (AP) equipped with multiple antennas…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-01-27 Weiheng Jiang , Yu Zhang , Jinsong Wu , Wenjiang Feng , Yi Jin

This letter presents a detailed performance analysis of the intelligent reflecting surface (IRS) aided single-input single-output communication systems, taking into account of the direct link between the transmitter and receiver. A…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-08-04 Qin Tao , Junwei Wang , Caijun Zhong

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

This paper studies transmit beamforming design in an integrated sensing and communication (ISAC) system, where a base station sends symbols to perform downlink multi-user communication and sense an extended target simultaneously. We first…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-12-19 Yiqiu Wang , Meixia Tao , Shu Sun

The concept of intelligent reflecting surfaces (IRSs) is considered as a promising technology for increasing the efficiency of mobile wireless networks. This is achieved by employing a vast amount of low-cost individually adjustable passive…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2020-12-01 Kevin Weinberger , Alaa Alameer Ahmad , Aydin Sezgin

Intelligent reflecting surface (IRS) is a new and revolutionary technology capable of reconfiguring the wireless propagation environment by controlling its massive low-cost passive reflecting elements. Different from prior works that focus…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-11-05 Bifeng Ling , Jiangbin Lyu , Liqun Fu

In this paper, we investigate an reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS)-aided integrated sensing and communication (ISAC) system. Our objective is to maximize the achievable sum rate of the multi-antenna communication users through the…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-02-09 Yasheng Jin , Hong Ren , Cunhua Pan , Zhiyuan Yu , Ruisong Weng , Boshi Wang , Gui Zhou , Yongchao He , Maged Elkashlan

This correspondence paper studies a network integrated sensing and communication (ISAC) system that unifies the interference channel for communication and distributed radar sensing. In this system, a set of distributed ISAC transmitters…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-03-24 Yi Huang , Yuan Fang , Xinmin Li , Jie Xu

In this paper, we propose to utilize intelligent reflecting surfaces (IRSs) for enhancing the physical layer security of wireless communications systems. In particular, an IRS-assisted secure wireless system is considered, where a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-02-26 Xianghao Yu , Dongfang Xu , Robert Schober

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

Emerging as a cornerstone for next-generation wireless networks, integrated sensing and communication (ISAC) systems demand innovative solutions to balance spectral efficiency and sensing accuracy. In this paper, we propose a coordinated…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-06-02 Chunjie Wang , Xuhui Zhang , Wenchao Liu , Jinke Ren , Huijun Xing , Shuqiang Wang , Yanyan Shen