Characterization of Indoor RIS-Assisted Channels at 304 GHz: Experimental Measurements, Challenges, and Future Directions
| Autor: | Alexandropoulos, George C., Jung, Bo Kum, Gavriilidis, Panagiotis, Matos, Sérgio, Loeser, Lorenz H. W., Elesina, Varvara, Clemente, Antonio, D'Errico, Raffaele, Pessoa, Luís M., Kürner, Thomas |
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| Rok vydání: | 2024 |
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| Druh dokumentu: | Working Paper |
| Popis: | Reconfigurable Intelligent Surfaces (RISs) are expected to play a pivotal role in future indoor ultra high data rate wireless communications as well as highly accurate three-dimensional localization and sensing, mainly due to their capability to provide flexible, cost- and power-efficient coverage extension, even under blockage conditions. However, when considering beyond millimeter wave frequencies where there exists GHz-level available bandwidth, realistic models of indoor RIS-parameterized channels verified by field-trial measurements are unavailable. In this article, we first present and characterize three RIS prototypes with $100\times100$ unit cells of half-wavelength inter-cell spacing, which were optimized to offer a specific non-specular reflection with $1$-, $2$-, and $3$-bit phase quantization at $304$ GHz. The designed static RISs were considered in an indoor channel measurement campaign carried out with a $304$ GHz channel sounder. Channel measurements for two setups, one focusing on the transmitter-RIS-receiver path gain and the other on the angular spread of multipath components, are presented and compared with both state-of-the-art theoretical models as well as full-wave simulation results. The article is concluded with a list of challenges and research directions for RIS design and modeling of RIS-parameterized channels at THz frequencies. Comment: 7 pages, 5 figures, submitted to an IEEE magazine |
| Databáze: | arXiv |
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