“…The single antenna source is placed at the origin (x S , y S ) = (0, 0), the destinations at (x D 1 , y D 1 ) = (100, 0), (x D 2 , y D 2 ) = (90, 0), and the three IRSs at (x I 1 , y I 1 ) = (40, 10), (x I 2 , y I 2 ) = (50, 10), (x I 3 , y I 3 ) = (60, 10) [36]. The power allocation factor χ 1 = 0.6 [34], the path-loss α = 2 [34], SNR γ = 30 (dB) and reflection coefficients η= 0.7, N 1 = N 2 = N 3 = 200 [30,33], while the Rician-K factor for all links from and to the IRS was 10 (dB) [36], Υ S = Υ D 1 = Υ D 2 = 0.05 [32]. We adopt the principle of Monte Carlo simulations as shown in Figure 2.…”