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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

Prospective mobile networks will be heterogeneous multi-tier networks, with different classes of base stations (BS) installed dependent on user demand. Multi-tier networks enable operators to enhance system capacity and coverage through…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-08-30 Mobasshir Mahbub , Raed M. Shubair

In this letter, we study the simultaneously transmitting and reflecting reconfigurable intelligent surface (STAR-RIS) assisted unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) communications. Our goal is to maximize the sum rate of all users by jointly…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-09-09 Qin Zhang , Yang Zhao , Hai Li , Shujuan Hou , Zhengyu Song

In this paper, we study an intelligent reflecting surface (IRS)-aided communication system with single-antenna transmitter and receiver, under imperfect channel state information (CSI). More specifically, we deal with the robust selection…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-06-12 Christos N. Efrem , Ioannis Krikidis

In the realm of wireless communications in 5G, 6G and beyond, deploying unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) has been an innovative approach to extend the coverage area due to its easy deployment. Moreover, reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS)…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2022-12-09 Pyae Sone Aung , Yu Min Park , Yan Kyaw Tun , Zhu Han , Choong Seon Hong

This paper investigates a downlink multiple-input single-output intelligent reflecting surface (IRS) aided non-orthogonal multiple access (NOMA) system, where a base station (BS) serves multiple users with the aid of IRSs. Our goal is to…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-11-12 Xidong Mu , Yuanwei Liu , Li Guo , Jiaru Lin , Naofal Al-Dhahir

Over-the-air computation (AirComp) based federated learning (FL) is capable of achieving fast model aggregation by exploiting the waveform superposition property of multiple access channels. However, the model aggregation performance is…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-04-01 Zhibin Wang , Jiahang Qiu , Yong Zhou , Yuanming Shi , Liqun Fu , Wei Chen , Khaled B. Lataief

In this paper, intelligent reflecting surfaces (IRSs) are employed to enhance the physical layer security in a challenging radio environment. In particular, a multi-antenna access point (AP) has to serve multiple single-antenna legitimate…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-04-21 Xianghao Yu , Dongfang Xu , Ying Sun , Derrick Wing Kwan Ng , Robert Schober

This paper proposes an intelligent reflecting surface (IRS) assisted integrated sensing and communication (ISAC) system operating at the millimeter-wave (mmWave) band. Specifically, the ISAC system combines communication and radar…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-04-10 Zhengyu Zhu , Zheng Li , Zheng Chu , Gangcan Sun , Wanming Hao , Pei Xiao , Inkyu Lee

The high configurability and low cost of Reflective Intelligent Surfaces (RISs) made them a promising solution for enhancing the capabilities of Beyond Fifth-Generation (B5G) networks. Recent works proposed to mount RISs on Unmanned Aerial…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-05-06 Alessandro Brighente , Mauro Conti , Hanan Idriss , Stefano Tomasin

In the future 6G integrated sensing and communication (ISAC) cellular systems, networked sensing is a promising technique that can leverage the cooperation among the base stations (BSs) to perform high-resolution localization. However, a…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-05-05 Qipeng Wang , Liang Liu , Shuowen Zhang , Boya Di , Francis C. M. Lau

With a motive of ubiquitous connectivity over the globe with enhanced spectral efficiency, intelligent reflecting surfaces (IRS) integrated satellite-terrestrial communications is a topic of research interest in an infrastructure-deficient…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-01-02 Parvez Shaik , Kamal Kishore Garg , Praveen Kumar Singya , Vimal Bhatia , Mohamed-Slim Alouini

Intelligent reflecting surface (IRS) is a promising paradigm to reconfigure the wireless environment for enhanced communication coverage and quality. However, to compensate for the double pathloss effect, massive IRS elements are required,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-08-12 Zhenyu Jiang , Xintong Chen , Jiangbin Lyu , Liqun Fu , Rui Zhang

Intelligent reflecting surface (IRS) has recently been envisioned to offer unprecedented massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO)-like gains by deploying large-scale and low-cost passive reflection elements. By adjusting the reflection…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-07-15 Gui Zhou , Cunhua Pan , Hong Ren , Kezhi Wang , Arumugam Nallanathan

Autonomous driving and intelligent transportation applications have dramatically increased the demand for high-accuracy and low-latency localization services. While cellular networks are potentially capable of target detection and…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-01-08 Kaitao Meng , Qingqing Wu , Wen Chen , Deshi Li

This paper investigates intelligent reflecting surface (IRS) enabled non-line-of-sight (NLoS) wireless sensing, in which an IRS is dedicatedly deployed to assist an access point (AP) to sense a target at its NLoS region. It is assumed that…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-07-05 Xianxin Song , Jie Xu , Fan Liu , Tony Xiao Han , Yonina C. Eldar

Intelligent reflecting surfaces (IRSs) have recently received significant attention for 6G wireless communications as they enable the control of the wireless propagation environment. The use of IRS also provides reducing the hardware…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-10-06 Ahmet M. Elbir , Kumar Vijay Mishra

Intelligent reflecting surfaces (IRSs) are envisioned as a transformative method for enhancing the physical layer security of future communication networks. However, current IRS-assisted secure wireless system designs incur high time cost…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-01-23 Yifei Wu , Mehmet Emin Arslan , Niels Neumann , Wolfgang Gerstacker , Robert Schober

In this paper, we investigate the design of secure transmission frameworks with an intelligent reflecting surface (IRS). Our design aims to minimize the system energy consumption in cases of rank-one and full-rank access point (AP)-IRS…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-09-04 Biqian Feng , Yongpeng Wu , Mengfan Zheng

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