RIS-aided Wireless Communications: Can RIS Beat Metal Plate?

Autor:	Hu, Jiangfeng, Yin, Haifan, Tan, Li, Cao, Lin, Pei, Xilong
Rok vydání:	2023
Předmět:	Electrical Engineering and Systems Science - Signal Processing
Druh dokumentu:	Working Paper
Popis:	Reconfigurable Intelligent Surface (RIS) has recently been regarded as a paradigm-shifting technology beyond 5G, for its flexibility on smartly adjusting the response to the impinging electromagnetic (EM) waves. Usually, RIS can be implemented by properly reconfiguring the adjustable parameters of each RIS unit to align the signal phase on the receiver side. And it is believed that the phase alignment can be also mechanically achieved by a metal plate with the same physical size. However, we found in the prototype experiments that, a well-rotated metal plate can only approximately perform as well as RIS under limited conditions, although its scattering efficiency is relatively higher. When it comes to the case of spherical wave impinging, RIS outperforms the metal plate even beyond the receiving near-field regions. We analyze this phenomenon with wave optics theory and propose explicit scattering models for both the metal plate and RIS in general scenarios. Finally, the models are validated by simulations and field measurements. Comment: 5 pages, 5 figures
Databáze:	arXiv
Externí odkaz:	http://arxiv.org/abs/2303.02938 Zobrazit plný text záznamu View this record from Arxiv