1. Exploration of Intercell Wireless Millimeter-Wave Communication in the Landscape of Intelligent Metasurfaces
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Tasolamprou, Anna C., Pitilakis, Alexandros, Abadal, Sergi, Tsilipakos, Odysseas, Timoneda, Xavier, Taghvaee, Hamidreza, Sajjad Mirmoosa, Mohammad, Liu, Fu, Liaskos, Christos, Tsioliaridou, Ageliki, Ioannidis, Sotiris, Kantartzis, Nikolaos V., Manessis, Dionysios, Georgiou, Julius, Cabellos-Aparicio, Albert, Alarcón, Eduard, Pitsillides, Andreas, Akyildiz, Ian F., Tretyakov, Sergei A., Economou, Eleftherios N., Kafesaki, Maria, Soukoulis, Costas M., Liaskos, Christos K., Pitsillides, Andreas [0000-0001-5072-2851], Liaskos, Christos [0000-0002-1271-8613], Tasolamprou, Anna C. [0000-0003-4652-5470], Kantartzis, Nikolaos V. [0000-0003-0959-7838], Tsilipakos, Odysseas [0000-0003-4770-0955], Pitilakis, Alexandros [0000-0001-5523-1621], Kafesaki, Maria [0000-0002-9524-2576], Georgiou, Julius [0000-0002-7474-5449], Publica, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya. Departament d'Arquitectura de Computadors, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya. Doctorat en Arquitectura de Computadors, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya. Departament d'Enginyeria Electrònica, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya. CBA - Sistemes de Comunicacions i Arquitectures de Banda Ampla, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya. EPIC - Energy Processing and Integrated Circuits, Foundation for Research and Technology - Hellas, Polytechnic University of Catalonia, Department of Electronics and Nanoengineering, Sergei Tretiakov Group, Fraunhofer Institute for Reliability and Microintegration, University of Cyprus, Foundation for Research and Technology-Hellas, Aalto-yliopisto, and Aalto University
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Transceivers ,Electromagnetics ,Fabrics ,General Computer Science ,Enginyeria de la telecomunicació::Telemàtica i xarxes d'ordinadors [Àrees temàtiques de la UPC] ,Computer science ,Wireless communication ,intercell wireless networks ,FOS: Physical sciences ,02 engineering and technology ,Applied Physics (physics.app-ph) ,Antenes de microones ,01 natural sciences ,Mm-wave communications ,Microwave antennas ,0103 physical sciences ,Electronic engineering ,Wireless ,General Materials Science ,Layer (object-oriented design) ,010306 general physics ,mm-wave devices ,Communication channels ,Enginyeria de la telecomunicació::Radiocomunicació i exploració electromagnètica::Antenes i agrupacions d'antenes [Àrees temàtiques de la UPC] ,business.industry ,General Engineering ,software defined metasurfaces ,Physics - Applied Physics ,021001 nanoscience & nanotechnology ,Wireless sensor networks ,artificially intelligent materials ,Wireless communication systems ,Communication system security ,Comunicació sense fil, Sistemes de ,millimeter wave wireless communications ,Extremely high frequency ,lcsh:Electrical engineering. Electronics. Nuclear engineering ,0210 nano-technology ,business ,antennas and propagation ,Wireless sensor network ,lcsh:TK1-9971 ,Microwave - Abstract
openaire: EC/H2020/736876/EU//VISORSURF Software-defined metasurfaces are electromagnetically ultra-thin, artificial components that can provide engineered and externally controllable functionalities. The control over these functionalities is enabled by the metasurface tunability, which is implemented by embedded electronic circuits that modify locally the surface resistance and reactance. Integrating controllers within the metasurface cells, able to intercommunicate and adaptively reconfigure it, thus imparting a desired electromagnetic operation, opens the path towards the creation of an artificially intelligent (AI) fabric where each unit cell can have its own sensing, programmable computing, and actuation facilities. In this work we take a crucial step towards bringing the AI metasurface technology to emerging applications, in particular exploring the wireless mm-wave intercell communication capabilities in a software-defined HyperSurface designed for operation in the microwave regime. We examine three different wireless communication channels within the landscape of the reflective metasurface: Firstly, in the layer where the control electronics of the HyperSurface lie, secondly inside a dedicated layer enclosed between two metallic plates, and, thirdly, inside the metasurface itself. For each case we examine the physical implementation of the mm-wave transceiver nodes, we quantify communication channel metrics, and we identify complexity vs. performance trade-offs.
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- 2019