An overview of signal processing techniques for RIS/IRS-aided wireless systems

C Pan, G Zhou, K Zhi, S Hong, T Wu… - IEEE Journal of …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In the past as well as present wireless communication systems, the wireless propagation
environment is regarded as an uncontrollable black box that impairs the received signal …

A survey on channel estimation and practical passive beamforming design for intelligent reflecting surface aided wireless communications

B Zheng, C You, W Mei, R Zhang - … Communications Surveys & …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Intelligent reflecting surface (IRS) has emerged as a key enabling technology to realize
smart and reconfigurable radio environment for wireless communications, by digitally …

Intelligent reflecting surface-aided wireless communications: A tutorial

Q Wu, S Zhang, B Zheng, C You… - IEEE transactions on …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Intelligent reflecting surface (IRS) is an enabling technology to engineer the radio signal
propagation in wireless networks. By smartly tuning the signal reflection via a large number …

Channel estimation with reconfigurable intelligent surfaces—A general framework

AL Swindlehurst, G Zhou, R Liu, C Pan… - Proceedings of the …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Optimally extracting the advantages available from reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RISs)
in wireless communications systems requires estimation of the channels to and from the RIS …

Double-IRS assisted multi-user MIMO: Cooperative passive beamforming design

B Zheng, C You, R Zhang - IEEE Transactions on Wireless …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Intelligent reflecting surface (IRS) has emerged as an enabling technology to achieve smart
and reconfigurable wireless communication environment cost-effectively. Prior works on IRS …

A joint precoding framework for wideband reconfigurable intelligent surface-aided cell-free network

Z Zhang, L Dai - IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Thanks to the strong ability against the inter-cell interference, cell-free network is considered
as a promising technique to improve network capacity. However, further capacity …

Intelligent reflecting surface-aided wireless networks: From single-reflection to multireflection design and optimization

W Mei, B Zheng, C You, R Zhang - Proceedings of the IEEE, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Intelligent reflecting surface (IRS) has emerged as a promising technique for wireless
communication networks. By dynamically tuning the reflection amplitudes/phase shifts of a …

Beamforming technologies for ultra-massive MIMO in terahertz communications

B Ning, Z Tian, W Mei, Z Chen, C Han… - IEEE Open Journal …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Terahertz (THz) communications with a frequency band 0.1–10 THz are envisioned as a
promising solution to future high-speed wireless communication. Although with tens of …

Intelligent reflecting surface aided multi-user communication: Capacity region and deployment strategy

S Zhang, R Zhang - IEEE Transactions on Communications, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Intelligent reflecting surface (IRS) is a new promising technology that is able to reconfigure
the wireless propagation channel via smart and passive signal reflection. In this paper, we …

Efficient channel estimation for double-IRS aided multi-user MIMO system

B Zheng, C You, R Zhang - IEEE Transactions on …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
To achieve the more significant passive beamforming gain in the double-intelligent reflecting
surface (IRS) aided system over the conventional single-IRS counterpart, channel state …