IEEE Access (Jan 2023)

Mathematical Model and Real-World Demonstration of Multi-Beam and Wide-Beam Reconfigurable Intelligent Surface

  • Amirmasood Bagheri,
  • Mahmood Safaei,
  • Ali Araghi,
  • S. M. Mahdi Shahabi,
  • Fan Wang,
  • Mohsen Khalily,
  • Rahim Tafazolli

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1109/ACCESS.2023.3248501
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 11
pp. 19613 – 19621

Abstract

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In this paper, a mathematical model is proposed to govern the phase distribution on a reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS) for anomalously reflecting the beam towards the directions of interest. To this end, two operational modes are defined with respect to the reflected pattern. In the first mode, the RIS is configured to form multi-reflected beams toward the directions of interest capable of being controlled independently. The second mode is when the RIS provides a wide reflected beam. Regarding to each mode, a cost function is derived and then, in order to enhance the reflected pattern characteristics, a genetic algorithm (GA) is employed to the model as optimization method. To validate the practicality of the method, the proposed model is applied to a fabricated RIS to assess its performance in a real-world outdoor scenario. In the first mode, an asymmetric dual-beam reflected pattern is obtained and tested with tilt angles of $\theta _{0}=60^{\circ }$ and $\theta _{1}=135^{\circ }$ . Furthermore, a wide-reflected beam is generated in the second mode with half-power beamwidth of $\theta _{HPBW}=30^{\circ }$ and tilt angle of $\theta _{0}=75^{\circ }$ . At both modes, the measured data are well aligned with the simulated results.

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