Mobility-aware Beam Steering in Metasurface-based Programmable Wireless Environments

Christos Liaskos; Shuai Nie; Ageliki Tsioliaridou; Andreas Pitsillides; Sotiris Ioannidis; Ian Akyildiz

Mobility-aware Beam Steering in Metasurface-based Programmable Wireless Environments

Emerging Technologies 2020-03-24 v1 Networking and Internet Architecture Signal Processing

Authors: Christos Liaskos , Shuai Nie , Ageliki Tsioliaridou , Andreas Pitsillides , Sotiris Ioannidis , Ian Akyildiz

Abstract

Programmable wireless environments (PWEs) utilize electromagnetic metasurfaces to transform wireless propagation into a software-controlled resource. In this work we study the effects of user device mobility on the efficiency of PWEs. An analytical model is proposed, which describes the potential misalignment between user-emitted waves and the active PWE configuration, and can constitute the basis for studying queuing problems in PWEs. Subsequently, a novel, beam steering approach is proposed which can effectively mitigate the misalignment effects. Ray-tracing-based simulations evaluate the proposed scheme.

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wireless network wireless channel network protocol

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@article{arxiv.2003.10270,
  title  = {Mobility-aware Beam Steering in Metasurface-based Programmable Wireless Environments},
  author = {Christos Liaskos and Shuai Nie and Ageliki Tsioliaridou and Andreas Pitsillides and Sotiris Ioannidis and Ian Akyildiz},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2003.10270},
  year   = {2020}
}

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In proceedings of IEEE ICASSP 2020. This work was funded by the European Union via the Horizon 2020: Future Emerging Topics call (FETOPEN-RIA), grant EU736876, project VISORSURF (http://visorsurf.eu)

Mobility-aware Beam Steering in Metasurface-based Programmable Wireless Environments

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