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Intelligent reflecting surface (IRS) has been deemed as a transformative technology to achieve smart and reconfigurable environment for wireless communication. This letter studies a new IRS-aided communication system, where multiple IRSs…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-10-27 Weidong Mei , Rui Zhang

In this paper, a reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS) assisted cell free massive MIMO (CFmMIMO) framework is designed to enhance physical layer security (PLS) and mitigate multi user (MU) interference in next generation wireless…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-12-16 Sumeyra Hassan , Bin Li , Yalcin Sadi , Erdal Panayirci , H. Vincent Poor

Physical-layer key generation (PKG) can generate symmetric keys between two communication ends based on the reciprocal uplink and downlink channels. By smartly reconfiguring the radio signal propagation, intelligent reflecting surface (IRS)…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-05-04 You Chen , Guyue Li , Cunhua Pan , Lei Hu , Aiqun Hu

In this paper, we consider a multi-user multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) system aided by multiple intelligent reflecting surfaces (IRSs) that are deployed to increase the coverage and, possibly, the rank of the channel. We propose an…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-12-22 Andrea Abrardo , Davide Dardari , Marco Di Renzo

This paper focuses on the fundamental problem of maximizing the achievable weighted sum rate (WSR) at information receivers (IRs) in an intelligent reflecting surface (IRS) assisted simultaneous wireless information and power transfer…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-03-02 Vaibhav Kumar , Anastasios Papazafeiropoulos , Muhammad Fainan Hanif , Le-Nam Tran , Mark F. Flanagan

This paper tackles the problem of joint active and passive beamforming optimization for an intelligent reflective surface (IRS)-assisted multi-user downlink multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) communication system. We aim to maximize…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-06-17 Haseeb Ur Rehman , Faouzi Bellili , Amine Mezghani , and Ekram Hossain

Intelligent reflecting surfaces (IRSs) are gaining attention as a low-cost solution to the coverage reduction in high-frequency bands used in next-generation communications. IRSs achieve low costs by controlling only the reflection of radio…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2025-04-03 Ryuhei Hibi , Hiroaki Hashida , Yuichi Kawamoto , Nei Kato

In this study, we investigate the use of intelligent reflecting surfaces (IRSs) in multi-operator communication systems for 6G networks, focusing on sustainable and efficient resource management. This research is motivated by two critical…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-11-10 Hiroaki Hashida , Yuichi Kawamoto , Nei Kato

Intelligent reflecting surface (IRS) has recently been identified as a prominent technology with the ability of enhancing wireless communication by dynamically manipulating the propagation environment. This paper investigates a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-09-15 Yuwei Gao , Jindan Xu , Wei Xu , Derrick Wing Kwan Ng , Mohamed Slim Alouini

Intelligent reflecting surface (IRS) has recently been emerging as an enabler for smart radio environment in which passive antenna arrays can be used to actively tailor/control the radio propagation. With multiple IRSs being launched to…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-12-09 Tu V. Nguyen , Diep N. Nguyen

Millimeter-wave (mmWave) communications provide access to spectra with bandwidths and in abundance. However, the high susceptibility of mmWave to blockage imposes crucial challenges, especially to low-latency services. In this paper, a…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-04-20 Yashuai Cao , Tiejun Lv , Zhipeng Lin , Wei Ni

Intelligent reflecting surfaces (IRSs) improve both the bandwidth and energy efficiency of wideband communication systems by using low-cost passive elements for reflecting the impinging signals with adjustable phase shifts. To realize the…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-06-08 Siqi Ma , Wenqian Shen , Jianping An , Lajos Hanzo

Considering intelligent reflecting surface (IRS), we study a multi-cluster multiple-input-single-output (MISO) non-orthogonal multiple access (NOMA) downlink communication network. In the network, an IRS assists the communication from the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-09-17 Yiqing Li , Miao Jiang , Qi Zhang , Jiayin Qin

While traditional electromagnetic stealth materials/metasurfaces can render a target virtually invisible to some extent, they lack flexibility and adaptability, and can only operate within a limited frequency and angle/direction range,…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-12-05 Beixiong Zheng , Xue Xiong , Jie Tang , Rui Zhang

In this paper, we study an intelligent reflecting surface (IRS)-aided wireless secure communication system for physical layer security, where an IRS is deployed to adjust its surface reflecting elements to guarantee secure communication of…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-12-25 Helin Yang , Zehui Xiong , Jun Zhao , Dusit Niyato , Liang Xiao , Qingqing Wu

Intelligent reflecting surface (IRS), composed of a large number of hardware-efficient passive elements, is deemed as a potential technique for future wireless communications since it can adaptively enhance the propagation environment. In…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-01-27 Wanning Yang , Hongyu Li , Ming Li , Yang Liu , Qian Liu

Intelligent reflecting surface (IRS) has been recognized as a powerful technology for boosting communication performance. To reduce manufacturing and control costs, it is preferable to consider discrete phase shifts (DPSs) for IRS, which…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-11-07 Guojie Hu , Qingqing Wu , Dognhui Xu , Kui Xu , Jiangbo Si , Yunlong Cai , Naofal Al-Dhahir

This paper investigates the security enhancement of an intelligent reflecting surface (IRS) assisted non-orthogonal multiple access (NOMA) network, where a distributed IRS enabled NOMA transmission framework is proposed to serve users…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-04-16 Zheng Zhang , Jian Chen , Qingqing Wu , Yuanwei Liu , Lu Lv , Xunqi Su

Intelligent reflecting surfaces (IRSs) are promising enablers for next-generation wireless communications due to their reconfigurability and high energy efficiency in improving poor propagation condition of channels, e.g., limited…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-01-03 Xin Zhang , Xianghao Yu , S. H. Song , Khaled B. Letaief

Intelligent reflecting surface (IRS) is an emerging technology to enhance spatial multiplexing in wireless networks. This letter considers the discrete passive beamforming design for IRS in order to maximize the minimum…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-08-29 Wenhai Lai , Zheyu Wu , Yi Feng , Kaiming Shen , Ya-Feng Liu