Designing Smart Electromagnetic Environments for Next-Generation Wireless Communications
Andrea Massa,
Arianna Benoni,
Pietro Da Rù,
Sotirios K. Goudos,
Baozhu Li,
Giacomo Oliveri,
Alessandro Polo,
Paolo Rocca,
Marco Salucci
Affiliations
Andrea Massa
Consorzio Nazionale Interuniversitario per le Telecomunicazioni (CNIT)—“University of Trento” Research Unit, Via Sommarive 9, I-38123 Trento, Italy
Arianna Benoni
Consorzio Nazionale Interuniversitario per le Telecomunicazioni (CNIT)—“University of Trento” Research Unit, Via Sommarive 9, I-38123 Trento, Italy
Pietro Da Rù
Consorzio Nazionale Interuniversitario per le Telecomunicazioni (CNIT)—“University of Trento” Research Unit, Via Sommarive 9, I-38123 Trento, Italy
Sotirios K. Goudos
ELEDIA Research Center (ELEDIA@AUTH), Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, 54124 Thessaloniki, Greece
Baozhu Li
Beijing National Research Center for Information Science and Technology (BNRist), Tsinghua University, 30 Shuangqing Road, Haidian, Beijing 100084, China
Giacomo Oliveri
Consorzio Nazionale Interuniversitario per le Telecomunicazioni (CNIT)—“University of Trento” Research Unit, Via Sommarive 9, I-38123 Trento, Italy
Alessandro Polo
Consorzio Nazionale Interuniversitario per le Telecomunicazioni (CNIT)—“University of Trento” Research Unit, Via Sommarive 9, I-38123 Trento, Italy
Paolo Rocca
Consorzio Nazionale Interuniversitario per le Telecomunicazioni (CNIT)—“University of Trento” Research Unit, Via Sommarive 9, I-38123 Trento, Italy
Marco Salucci
Consorzio Nazionale Interuniversitario per le Telecomunicazioni (CNIT)—“University of Trento” Research Unit, Via Sommarive 9, I-38123 Trento, Italy
The design of a smart electromagnetic (EM) environment for next-generation wireless communication systems is addressed in this work. The proposed approach aims at synthesizing a desired EM field distribution over a target region, where the receiving terminals are located, through the opportunistic exploitation of the complex scattering interactions between the EM field generated by a reconfigurable primary source and the objects/scatterers present in the environment, which behave as application-driven passive metastructures. The effectiveness and the potentialities of the proposed design methodology are assessed with a proof-of-concept numerical result obtained by means of advanced and reliable simulation tools.
