Physics-based modeling and scalable optimization of large intelligent reflecting surfaces

M Najafi, V Jamali, R Schober… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Intelligent reflecting surfaces (IRSs) have the potential to transform wireless communication
channels into smart reconfigurable propagation environments. To realize this new paradigm …

Smart and reconfigurable wireless communications: From IRS modeling to algorithm design

X Yu, V Jamali, D Xu, DWK Ng… - IEEE Wireless …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Intelligent reflecting surfaces (IRSs) have been introduced into wireless communications
systems due to their great potential to smartly customize and reconfigure radio propagation …

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 …

How to deploy intelligent reflecting surfaces in wireless network: BS-side, user-side, or both sides?

C You, B Zheng, W Mei, R Zhang - Journal of Communications …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The performance of wireless communication systems is fundamentally constrained by the
random and uncontrollable wireless channel. By leveraging the recent advances in digitally …

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 …

Beamforming optimization for intelligent reflecting surface with discrete phase shifts

Q Wu, R Zhang - … 2019-2019 IEEE International Conference on …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Intelligent reflecting surface (IRS) is a cost-effective solution for achieving high spectrum and
energy efficiency in future wireless communication systems by leveraging massive low-cost …

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 …

Deep reinforcement learning for intelligent reflecting surfaces: Towards standalone operation

A Taha, Y Zhang, FB Mismar… - 2020 IEEE 21st …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The promising coverage and spectral efficiency gains of intelligent reflecting surfaces (IRSs)
are attracting increasing interest. To adopt these surfaces in practice, however, several …

Toward smart wireless communications via intelligent reflecting surfaces: A contemporary survey

S Gong, X Lu, DT Hoang, D Niyato… - … Surveys & Tutorials, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper presents a literature review on recent applications and design aspects of the
intelligent reflecting surface (IRS) in the future wireless networks. Conventionally, the …

Active-IRS-aided wireless communication: Fundamentals, designs and open issues

Z Kang, C You, R Zhang - IEEE Wireless Communications, 2024 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Intelligent reflecting surface (IRS) has emerged as a promising technology to realize smart
radio environments for future wireless communication systems. Existing works in this line of …