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可重构智能表面和超材料:第六代无线通信波传播控制的潜力

Reconfigurable Intelligent Surfaces and Metamaterials: The Potential of Wave Propagation Control for 6G Wireless Communications

George C. Alexandropoulos, Geoffroy Lerosey, Merouane Debbah, Mathias Fink

摘要:

无线通信网络的未来6 G将不得不满足日益苛刻水平的多种要求,无论是单独还是以小组组合的方式。这种趋势刺激了最近的收发器硬件架构和新的无线连接概念的研究活动。在新兴的无线硬件体系结构中,有可重构智能表面(RIS),其是具有集成电子电路的人造平面结构,所述集成电子电路可以被编程以在各种各样的功能中操纵输入的电磁(EM)场。在无线网络中嵌入RISs是一种革命性的手段,可以将任何自然的被动无线通信环境转变为主动环境。这可以通过将成本有效且易于涂覆的RI部署到环境的物体(例如,建筑物立面和室内墙壁/天花板),从而为各种无线联网目标的范围提供增加的环境智能。在本文中,我们首先提供了一个简短的历史波传播控制的光学和声学,并概述了两个代表性的室内无线试验在2.47 GHz的空间电磁调制与无源离散RIS。第一次试验可以追溯到2014年,展示了高度精确的时空聚焦和调零的可行性,而最近的第二次试验表明,无源RISs可以丰富多径散射,从而实现吞吐量提升的通信链路。出于对智能电磁波传播调制的RIS潜力的最新研究兴奋,我们描述了RIS硬件架构的现状,并提出了RIS设计和RIS授权的6 G无线通信的关键开放挑战和未来的研究方向。

英文摘要:

The future 6G of wireless communication networks will have to meet multiple requirements in increasingly demanding levels, either individually or in combinations in small groups. This trend has spurred recent research activities on transceiver hardware architectures and novel wireless connectivity concepts. Among the emerging wireless hardware architectures belong the Reconfigurable Intelligent Surfaces (RISs), which are artificial planar structures with integrated electronic circuits that can be programmed to manipulate an incoming ElectroMagnetic (EM) field in a wide variety of functionalities. Incorporating RISs in wireless networks has been recently advocated as a revolutionary means to transform any naturally passive wireless communication environment to an active one. This can be accomplished by deploying cost-effective and easy to coat RISs to the environment's objects (e.g., building facades and indoor walls/ceilings), thus, offering increased environmental intelligence for the scope of diverse wireless networking objectives. In this paper, we first provide a brief history on wave propagation control for optics and acoustics, and overview two representative indoor wireless trials at 2.47GHz for spatial EM modulation with a passive discrete RIS. The first trial dating back to 2014 showcases the feasibility of highly accurate spatiotemporal focusing and nulling, while the second very recent one demonstrates that passive RISs can enrich multipath scattering, thus, enabling throughput boosted communication links. Motivated by the late research excitement on the RIS potential for intelligent EM wave propagation modulation, we describe the status on RIS hardware architectures and present key open challenges and future research directions for RIS design and RIS-empowered 6G wireless communications.

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