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By applying tunable phase shifts to incident waves via passive signal reflection, intelligent reflecting surface (IRS) can offer significant performance improvement for wireless communication systems. To reap such performance gain, channel…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-07-01 Ge Yan , Lipeng Zhu , He Sun , Rui Zhang

Intelligent reflecting surface (IRS) as a promising technology rendering high throughput in future communication systems is compatible with various communication techniques such as non-orthogonal multiple-access (NOMA). In this paper, the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-03-17 Yasaman Omid , S. M. Mahdi Shahabi , Cunhua Pan , Yansha Deng , Arumugam Nallanathan

In this letter, secure beamforming in a multiple intelligent reflecting surfaces (IRSs)-aided millimeter-wave (mmWave) system is investigated. In this system, the secrecy rate is maximized by controlling the on-off status of each IRS as…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-12-29 Yue Xiu , Jun Zhao , Chau Yuen , Zhongpei Zhang , Guan Gui

Intelligent reflecting surfaces (IRSs) constitute a disruptive wireless communication technique capable of creating a controllable propagation environment. In this paper, we propose to invoke an IRS at the cell boundary of multiple cells to…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-04-27 Cunhua Pan , Hong Ren , Kezhi Wang , Wei Xu , Maged Elkashlan , Arumugam Nallanathan , Lajos Hanzo

Intelligent reflecting surface (IRS) technology offers more feasible propagation paths for millimeter-wave (mmWave) communication systems to overcome blockage than existing technologies. In this paper, we consider a downlink wireless system…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-01-22 Yue Xiu , Yang Zhao , Yang Liu , Jun Zhao , Osman Yagan , Ning Wei

Physical layer security (PLS) is an important technology in wireless communication systems to safeguard communication privacy and security between transmitters and legitimate users. The integration of large-scale antenna arrays (LSAA) and…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-11-20 Weijie Xiong , Jingran Lin , Zhiling Xiao , Qiang Li

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…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-07-03 L. Yashvanth , Chandra R. Murthy

Intelligent reflecting surface (IRS) is an emerging technology for wireless communication composed of a large number of low-cost passive devices with reconfigurable parameters, which can reflect signals with a certain phase shift and is…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-02-16 Feng Shu , Lili Yang , Yan Wang , Xuehui Wang , Weiping Shi , Chong Shen , Jiangzhou 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

In a practical massive MIMO (multiple-input multiple-output) system, the number of antennas at a base station (BS) is constrained by the space and cost factors, which limits the throughput gain promised by theoretical analysis. This paper…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-05-06 Zhaorui Wang , Liang Liu , Shuguang Cui

Intelligent reflecting surface (IRS) is of low-cost and energy-efficiency and will be a promising technology for the future wireless communications like sixth generation. To address the problem of conventional directional modulation (DM)…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-08-13 Feng Shu , Jiayu Li , Mengxing Huang , Weiping Shi , Yin Teng , Jun Li , Yongpeng Wu , Jiangzhou Wang

This short tutorial presents several ideas for designing dual function radar communication (DFRC) systems aided by intelligent reflecting surfaces (IRS). These problems are highly nonlinear in the IRS parameter matrix, and further, the IRS…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-05-12 Yi-Kai Li , Athina Petropulu

Intelligent reflecting surface (IRS) has been widely considered as one of the key enabling techniques for future wireless communication networks owing to its ability of dynamically controlling the phase shift of reflected electromagnetic…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-09-02 Wenhao Cai , Ming Li , Yang Liu , Qingqing Wu , Qian Liu

Rotatable intelligent reflecting surfaces (IRSs) introduce a new degree of freedom (DoF) for shaping wireless propagation by adaptively adjusting the orientation of IRSs. This paper considers an angle-dependent reflection model in a…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-12-17 Qiaoyan Peng , Qingqing Wu , Guangji Chen , Wen Chen , Shanpu Shen , Shaodan Ma

This paper investigates an intelligent reflective surface (IRS) assisted secure multi-user two-way communication system. The aim of this paper is to enhance the physical layer security by optimizing the minimum secrecy-rate among all…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-01-27 Harindu Jayarathne , Tharindu Wickremasinghe , Kasun T. Hemachandra , Tharaka Samarasinghe , Saman Atapattu

Intelligent reflecting surface (IRS) is a promising technique to extend the network coverage and improve spectral efficiency. This paper investigates an IRS-assisted terahertz (THz) multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO)-nonorthogonal…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-06-13 Jinlei Xu , Zhengyu Zhu , Zheng Chu , Hehao Niu , Pei Xiao , Inkyu Lee

Intelligent reflecting surfaces (IRSs) have shown huge advantages in many potential use cases and thus have been considered a promising candidate for next-generation wireless systems. In this paper, we consider an IRS-assisted multigroup…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-08-16 Muhammad Farooq , Vaibhav Kumar , Markku Juntti , Le-Nam Tran

In this letter, the use of intelligent reflecting surface (IRS) to enhance the physical layer security of downlink wireless communication is investigated. Assuming a single-antenna legitimate user and a multi-antenna eavesdropper, we…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-12-07 Keming Feng , Xiao Li , Yu Han , Shi Jin , Yijian Chen

Intelligent reflecting surface (IRS) is a potential candidate for massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) 2.0 technology due to its low cost, ease of deployment, energy efficiency and extended coverage. This chapter investigates the…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-02-24 Yashuai Cao , Hetong Wang , Tiejun Lv , Wei Ni

Due to the broadcast nature of wireless communications, physical layer security has always been a fundamental but challenging problem. Recent advance of Intelligent Reflecting Surface (IRS) introduces a new dimension for secure…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-10-29 Jian Li , Lan Zhang , Kaiping Xue , Yuguang Fang