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通过可重构智能表面的无线通信

Wireless Communications Through Reconfigurable Intelligent Surfaces

Ertugrul Basar, Marco Di Renzo, Julien de Rosny, Merouane Debbah, Mohamed-Slim Alouini, Rui Zhang

摘要:

移动通信的未来看起来令人兴奋,因为潜在的新用例和未来第六代(6 G)及更高无线网络的挑战性要求。自从无线通信的现代时代开始以来,传播介质已经被感知为发射机和接收机之间的随机行为实体,由于所发射的无线电波与周围物体的不可控的相互作用,这降低了接收信号的质量。另一方面,无线通信中最近出现的可重构智能表面使得网络运营商能够通过克服自然无线传播的负面影响来控制无线电波的散射、反射和折射特性。最近的研究结果表明,可重构智能表面可以有效地控制波前,例如,相位、幅度、频率甚至极化,而不需要复杂的解码、编码和射频处理操作。受这种新兴技术潜力的推动,本文旨在为读者提供关于最先进解决方案的详细概述和历史视角,并详细阐述与其他技术的根本差异,最重要的开放研究问题,以及为什么使用可重构智能表面需要重新考虑通信的原因-目前在无线网络中使用的理论模型。本文还使用数学技术探讨了可重构智能表面辅助通信系统的理论性能极限,并详细阐述了智能表面在6 G及更高无线网络中的潜在用例。

英文摘要:

The future of mobile communications looks exciting with the potential new use cases and challenging requirements of future 6th generation (6G) and beyond wireless networks. Since the beginning of the modern era of wireless communications, the propagation medium has been perceived as a randomly behaving entity between the transmitter and the receiver, which degrades the quality of the received signal due to the uncontrollable interactions of the transmitted radio waves with the surrounding objects. The recent advent of reconfigurable intelligent surfaces in wireless communications enables, on the other hand, network operators to control the scattering, reflection, and refraction characteristics of the radio waves, by overcoming the negative effects of natural wireless propagation. Recent results have revealed that reconfigurable intelligent surfaces can effectively control the wavefront, e.g., the phase, amplitude, frequency, and even polarization, of the impinging signals without the need of complex decoding, encoding, and radio frequency processing operations. Motivated by the potential of this emerging technology, the present article is aimed to provide the readers with a detailed overview and historical perspective on state-of-the-art solutions, and to elaborate on the fundamental differences with other technologies, the most important open research issues to tackle, and the reasons why the use of reconfigurable intelligent surfaces necessitates to rethink the communication-theoretic models currently employed in wireless networks. This article also explores theoretical performance limits of reconfigurable intelligent surface-assisted communication systems using mathematical techniques and elaborates on the potential use cases of intelligent surfaces in 6G and beyond wireless networks.

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