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In this letter, we consider an intelligent reflecting surface (IRS)-assisted multiple input multiple output (MIMO) communication and we optimize the joint active and passive beamforming by exploiting the geometrical structure of the…

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This paper considers a reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS)-aided millimeter wave (mmWave) downlink communication system where hybrid analog-digital beamforming is employed at the base station (BS). We formulate a power minimization…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-02-15 Renwang Li , Bei Guo , Meixia Tao , Ya-Feng Liu , Wei Yu

The impacts of channel estimation errors, inter-cell interference, phase adjustment cost, and computation cost on an intelligent reflecting surface (IRS)-assisted system are severe in practice but have been ignored for simplicity in most…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-01-06 Yuhang Jia , Wuyang Jiang , Ying Cui

In this paper, a hybrid IRS-aided amplify-and-forward (AF) relay wireless network is put forward, where the hybrid IRS is made up of passive and active elements. For maximum signal-to-noise ratio (SNR), a low-complexity method based on…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-11-27 Xuehui Wang , Yifan Zhao , Feng Shu , Yan Wang

Driven by the growing demand for higher spectral efficiency in wireless communications, intelligent reflecting surfaces (IRS) have attracted considerable attention for their ability to dynamically reconfigure the propagation environment.…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-10-31 Fuying Li , Yajun Wang , Zhuxian Lian , Wen Chen

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…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-09-08 Yilong Chen , Zixiang Ren , Jie Xu , Rui Zhang

In this paper, we investigate the integration of simultaneously transmitting and reflecting reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (STAR-RIS) with rate-splitting multiple access (RSMA) for improving physical layer security (PLS) in integrated…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-11-04 Thanh Nha To , Hoang Lai Pham , Quynh Nguyen Thi , Tuan Anh Pham , Le Thanh Bang

User privacy protection is considered a critical issue in wireless networks, which drives the demand for various secure information interaction techniques. In this paper, we introduce an intelligent reflecting surface (IRS)-aided security…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-06-14 Jintao Xing , Tiejun Lv , Yashuai Cao , Jie Zeng , Pingmu Huang

Driven by intelligent reflecting surface (IRS) and movable antenna (MA) technologies, movable IRS (MIRS) has been proposed to improve the adaptability and performance of conventional IRS, enabling flexible adjustment of the IRS reflecting…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-05-19 Yue Geng , Tee Hiang Cheng , Kai Zhong , Kah Chan Teh , Qingqing Wu

Intelligent reflecting surface (IRS) is envisioned as a promising solution for controlling radio propagation environments in future wireless systems. In this paper, we propose a distributed intelligent reflecting surface (IRS) assisted…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-11-02 Yashuai Cao , Tiejun Lv , Wei Ni

In this paper, we introduce an intelligent reflecting surface (IRS) to provide a programmable wireless environment for physical layer security. By adjusting the reflecting coefficients, the IRS can change the attenuation and scattering of…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-06-21 Jie Chen , Ying-Chang Liang , Yiyang Pei , Huayan Guo

Intelligent reflecting surface (IRS) is a promising technology to assist downlink information transmissions from a multi-antenna access point (AP) to a receiver. In this paper, we minimize the AP's transmit power by a joint optimization of…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-05-26 Jiaye Lin , Yuze Zou , Xiaoru Dong , Shimin Gong , Dinh Thai Hoang , Dusit Niyato

This paper studies multi-active intelligent-reflecting-surface (IRS) cooperative sensing, in which multiple active IRSs are deployed in a distributed manner to help the base station (BS) provide multi-view sensing. We focus on the scenario…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-04-23 Yuan Fang , Xianghao Yu , Jie Xu

Intelligent reflecting surface (IRS) has emerged as a revolutionizing solution to enhance wireless communications by intelligently changing the propagation environment. Prior studies on IRS are based on an ideal reflection model with a…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-06-03 Wenhao Cai , Hongyu Li , Ming Li , Qian Liu

This work investigates the physical layer security of rate-splitting multiple access (RSMA)-aided integrated communication and sensing (ISAC) systems. The ISAC base station (BS) transmits signals to communicate with users in an eavesdropped…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-06-05 Qian Dan , Hongjiang Lei , Ki-Hong Park , Gaofeng Pan

Millimeter-wave (mmWave) using conventional phased array (CPA) enables highly directional and fixed angular beamforming (FAB), therefore enhancing physical layer security (PLS) in the angular domain. However, as the eavesdropper is located…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-03-26 Yuanquan Hong , Xiaojun Jing , Hui Gao , Yuan He

In this letter, we investigate enhancing the physical layer security (PLS) for the dual-function radar-communication (DFRC) system with hybrid beamforming (HBF) architecture, where the base station (BS) achieves downlink communication and…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-09-04 Lingyun Xu , Bowen Wang , Huiyong Li , Ziyang Cheng

In this letter, we investigate whether the use of artificial noise (AN) is helpful to enhance the secrecy rate of an intelligent reflecting surface (IRS) assisted wireless communication system. Specifically, an IRS is deployed nearby a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-12-17 Xinrong Guan , Qingqing Wu , Rui Zhang

This paper studies a secrecy integrated sensing and communication (ISAC) system, in which a multi-antenna base station (BS) aims to send confidential messages to a single-antenna communication user (CU), and at the same time sense several…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-10-26 Zixiang Ren , Ling Qiu , Jie Xu

The integration of sensing and communication enables wireless communication systems to serve environment-aware applications. In this paper, we propose to leverage sensing to enhance physical layer security (PLS) in multiuser communication…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-12-27 Dongfang Xu , Yiming Xu , Zhiqiang Wei , Shenghui Song , Derrick Wing Kwan Ng