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Initial access at millimeter wave frequencies is a challenging problem due to hardware non-idealities and low SNR measurements prior to beamforming. Prior work has exploited the observation that mmWave MIMO channels are sparse in the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-06-06 Nitin Jonathan Myers , Robert W. Heath

This paper investigates the performance of an intelligent reflecting surface (IRS)-assisted terahertz (THz) communication system, where the IRS facilitates connectivity between the source and destination nodes in the absence of a direct…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-12-11 Soumendu Das , Nagendra Kumar , Dharmendra Dixit

Reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS) is a candidate technology for future wireless networks. It enables to shape the wireless environment to reach massive connectivity and enhanced data rate. The promising gains of RIS-assisted networks…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-06-09 Paulo R. B. Gomes , Gilderlan T. de Araújo , Bruno Sokal , André L. F. de Almeida , Behrooz Makki , Gábor Fodor

Intelligent reflecting surfaces (IRSs) are regarded as promising enablers for future millimeter wave (mmWave) wireless communication, due to their ability to create favorable line-of-sight (LoS) propagation environments. In this paper, we…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-05-12 Tian Lin , Xianghao Yu , Yu Zhu , Robert Schober

Intelligent reflecting surface (IRS) is a revolutionary and low-cost technology for boosting the spectrum and energy efficiencies in future wireless communication network. In order to create controllable multipath transmission in the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-07-12 Rongen Dong , Shaohua Jiang , Xinhai Hua , Yin Teng , Feng Shu , Jiangzhou Wang

Near-field communications present new opportunities over near-field channels, however, the spherical wavefront propagation makes near-field signal processing challenging. In this context, this paper proposes efficient near-field channel…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-04-04 Songjie Yang , Chenfei Xie , Wanting Lyu , Boyu Ning , Zhongpei Zhang , Chau Yuen

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

The rapid development of 6G systems demands advanced technologies to boost network capacity and spectral efficiency, particularly in the context of intelligent reflecting surfaces (IRS)-aided millimeter-wave (mmWave) communications. A key…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-01-19 Xiaokun Tuo , Zijian Chen , Ming-Min Zhao , Changsheng You , Min-Jian Zhao

Integrated sensing and communication (ISAC), and intelligent reflecting surface (IRS) are envisioned as revolutionary technologies to enhance spectral and energy efficiencies for next wireless system generations. For the first time, this…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-04-09 Yu Liu , Ibrahim Al-Nahhal , Octavia A. Dobre , Fanggang Wang

Intelligent reflecting surface (IRS) is a promising technology to improve the performance of backscatter communication systems by smartly reconfiguring the multi-reflection channel. To fully exploit the passive beamforming gain of IRS in…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-03-17 Samith Abeywickrama , Changsheng You , Rui Zhang , Chau Yuen

Channel state information (CSI) is essential to the performance optimization of intelligent reflecting surface (IRS)-aided wireless communication systems. However, the passive and frequency-flat reflection of IRS, as well as the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-02-18 He Sun , Lipeng Zhu , Weidong Mei , Rui Zhang

Intelligent reflecting surface (IRS) is a promising technology for enhancing wireless communication systems. It adaptively configures massive passive reflecting elements to control wireless channel in a desirable way. Due to hardware…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-11-04 Rui Sun , Weidong Wang , Li Chen , Guo Wei , Wenyi Zhang

As intelligent reflecting surface (IRS) has emerged as a new and promising technology capable of configuring the wireless environment favorably, channel estimation for IRS-assisted multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) systems has garnered…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-12-22 Zhen Qin , Zhihui Zhu

As a low-cost and low-power-consumption passive reflector, intelligent reflecting surface (IRS) can make a significant rate improvement by building a programmable wireless environment. To improve the rate performance and coverage range of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-03-29 Xuehui Wang , Feng Shu , Weiping Shi , Xiaopeng Liang , Rongen Dong , Jun Li , Jiangzhou Wang

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

In this letter, we investigate the channel estimation problem for MIMO wireless communication systems with movable antennas (MAs) at both the transmitter (Tx) and receiver (Rx). To achieve high channel estimation accuracy with low pilot…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-01-07 Ruoyu Zhang , Lei Cheng , Wei Zhang , Xinrong Guan , Yueming Cai , Wen Wu , Rui Zhang

In a wireless system with Intelligent Reflective Surfaces (IRS) containing many passive elements, we consider the problem of channel estimation. All the links from the transmitter to the receiver via each IRS elements (or groups) are…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-11-25 Tobias Lindstrøm Jensen , Elisabeth De Carvalho

In this paper, we develop an analytical channel model for intelligent reflecting surface (IRS)-assisted free space optical (FSO) systems. Unlike IRS-assisted radio frequency systems, where it is typically assumed that a plane wave is…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-10-02 Hedieh Ajam , Marzieh Najafi , Vahid Jamali , Robert Schober

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

In this paper, the problem of training signal design for intelligent reflecting surface (IRS)-assisted millimeter-wave (mmWave) communication under a sparse channel model is considered. The problem is approached based on the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-12-29 Song Noh , Heejung Yu , Youngchul Sung