庞海舰,陈健锋,张广驰,崔苗,武庆庆

• 1:广东工业大学
• 2:澳门大学智慧城市物联网国家重点实验室

摘要(Abstract)：

智能反射面（IRS）是6G的关键技术之一。优化IRS的被动反射波束赋形，能够对无线信息传输（WIT）与无线能量传输（WPT）进行辅助，从而大幅提高频谱效率。全面介绍了IRS的研究现状。首先，对IRS辅助WIT的研究现状进行了归纳分析，表明IRS对提升系统通信性能起到关键作用；然后，对IRS辅助WPT的研究进行了梳理，揭示了IRS在大幅提升能量传输效率方面的潜能；随后，重点叙述了IRS辅助无线携能通信的研究现状，并展望了物理层安全、无人机通信和多IRS协同辅助等6个新研究主题和方向。

关键词(KeyWords)： IRS;WIT;WPT;无线携能通信

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基金项目(Foundation): 广东省科技计划项目（2021A0505030015、2020A050515010）;; 广东特支计划项目（2019TQ05X409）;; 智慧城市物联网国家重点实验室（澳门大学）开放课题（SKL-IoTSC(UM)-2021-2023/ORPF/A04/2022）;; 澳门科学技术发展基金项目（SKL-IOTSC(UM)-2021-2023、0119/2020/A3、0108/2020/A）;; 广东省自然科学基金（2021A1515011900）

作者(Author): 庞海舰,陈健锋,张广驰,崔苗,武庆庆

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