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 …

Channel estimation and passive beamforming for intelligent reflecting surface: Discrete phase shift and progressive refinement

C You, B Zheng, R Zhang - IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Prior studies on intelligent reflecting surface (IRS) have mostly assumed perfect channel
state information (CSI) available for designing the IRS passive beamforming as well as the …

Weighted sum power maximization for intelligent reflecting surface aided SWIPT

Q Wu, R Zhang - IEEE Wireless Communications Letters, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The low efficiency of far-field wireless power transfer (WPT) limits the fundamental rate-
energy (RE) performance trade-off of the simultaneous wireless information and power …

Intelligent reflecting surface-assisted multiple access with user pairing: NOMA or OMA?

B Zheng, Q Wu, R Zhang - IEEE Communications Letters, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The integration of intelligent reflecting surface (IRS) to multiple access networks is a cost-
effective solution for boosting spectrum/energy efficiency and enlarging network …

A survey of rate-optimal power domain NOMA with enabling technologies of future wireless networks

O Maraqa, AS Rajasekaran… - … Surveys & Tutorials, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The ambitious high data-rate applications in the envisioned future beyond fifth-generation
(B5G) wireless networks require new solutions, including the advent of more advanced …

Exploiting intelligent reflecting surfaces in NOMA networks: Joint beamforming optimization

X Mu, Y Liu, L Guo, J Lin… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
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) …

Low-complexity channel estimation and passive beamforming for RIS-assisted MIMO systems relying on discrete phase shifts

J An, C Xu, L Gan, L Hanzo - IEEE Transactions on …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RISs) are capable of enhancing the capacity of wireless
networks at a low cost. In practical RIS-assisted communication systems, the acquisition of …

A systematic review on NOMA variants for 5G and beyond

I Budhiraja, N Kumar, S Tyagi, S Tanwar, Z Han… - IEEE …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Over the last few years, interference has been a major hurdle for successfully implementing
various end-user applications in the fifth-generation (5G) of wireless networks. During this …

Reconfigurable intelligent surface aided NOMA networks

T Hou, Y Liu, Z Song, X Sun, Y Chen… - IEEE Journal on …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RISs) constitute a promising performance enhancement
for next-generation (NG) wireless networks in terms of enhancing both their spectral …

Sum rate maximization for IRS-assisted uplink NOMA

M Zeng, X Li, G Li, W Hao… - IEEE Communications …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
An intelligent reflecting surface (IRS) consists of a large number of low-cost reflecting
elements, which can steer the incident signal collaboratively by passive beamforming. This …