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A low loss propagating electromagnetic wave is shown to exist at a gradual interface between two lossy conductive media. The electromagnetic frequency range of this phenomenon may span from UV optics to RF range. In particular, it is…

Classical Physics · Physics 2021-06-07 Igor I. Smolyaninov

Flexible intelligent metasurface (FIM) technology holds immense potential for increasing the spectral efficiency and energy efficiency of wireless networks. In contrast to traditional rigid reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RIS), an FIM…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-10-10 Hanwen Hu , Jiancheng An , Lu Gan , Naofal Al-Dhahir

Stacked intelligent metasurfaces (SIMs) have recently gained attention as a paradigm for wave-domain signal processing with reduced reliance on costly radio-frequency (RF) chains. However, conventional SIMs rely on uniform inter-layer…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-10-29 Hong Niu , Jiancheng An , Chau Yuen

We present an effective method for transmitting electromagnetic waves as surface waves with a tape-based metasurface design. This design incorporates silver square patches periodically patterned on an adhesive tape substrate. Specifically,…

Applied Physics · Physics 2024-05-02 K. Suzuki , P. T. Dang , H. Homma , A. A. Fathnan , Y. Ashikaga , Y. Tsuchiya , S. Phang , H. Wakatsuchi

Multiple-input multiple-output has been a key technology for wireless systems for decades. For typical MIMO communication systems, antenna array elements are usually separated by half of the carrier wavelength, thus termed as conventional…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-08-06 Huizhi Wang , Chao Feng , Yong Zeng , Shi Jin , Chau Yuen , Bruno Clerckx , Rui Zhang

A portable radio communication system operating in the 30 MHz band and capable of transmitting high-definition live underwater video images is presented. The system operation is based on launching electromagnetic surface waves propagating…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-10-13 Igor I. Smolyaninov , Quirino Balzano , Mark Barry

This paper studies the feasibility of deploying intelligent reflecting surfaces (IRSs) in massive MIMO (multiple-input multiple-output) systems to improve the performance of users in the service dead zone. To reduce the channel training…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-01-13 Zhaorui Wang , Liang Liu , Shuowen Zhang , Shuguang Cui

We provide a deterministic channel model for a scenario where wireless connectivity is established through a reflection from a planar smooth surface of an infinite extent. The developed model is rigorously built upon the physics of wave…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-05-04 Andrea Pizzo , Angel Lozano , Sundeep Rangan , Thomas Marzetta

Emerging wireless IoT applications increasingly venture beyond over-the-air communication, such as deep-tissue networking for implantable sensors, air-water communication for ocean monitoring, and soil sensing. These applications face the…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2023-06-06 Ruichun Ma , Wenjun Hu

Starting from first principles of wave propagation, we consider a multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) representation of a communication system between two spatially-continuous volumes. This is the concept of holographic MIMO…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-09-30 Luca Sanguinetti , Antonio A. D'Amico , Merouane Debbah

This paper provides a deterministic channel model for a scenario where wireless connectivity is established through a reflection off a smooth planar surface of an infinite extent. The developed model is rigorously built upon the physics of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-08-22 Andrea Pizzo , Angel Lozano , Sundeep Rangan , Thomas Marzetta

Intelligent metasurface has recently emerged as a promising technology that enables the customization of wireless environments by harnessing large numbers of low-cost reconfigurable scattering elements. However, prior studies have…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-05-05 Jiancheng An , Marco Di Renzo , Mérouane Debbah , H. Vincent Poor , Chau Yuen

Reconfigurable intelligent surfaces enhance wireless systems by reshaping propagation environments. However, dynamic metasurfaces (MSs) with numerous phase-shift elements incur undesired control and hardware costs. In contrast, static MSs…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-12-30 Ziyuan Zheng , Qingqing Wu , Wen Chen , Xiangming Wu , Weiren Zhu

Many concepts for future generations of wireless communication systems use coherent processing of signals from many distributed antennas. The aim is to improve communication reliability, capacity, and energy efficiency and provide…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-03-06 Christian Nelson , Xuhong Li , Aleksei Fedorov , Benjamin J. B. Deutschmann , Fredrik Tufvesson

Optical surface waves, highly localized modes bound to the surface of media, enable manipulation of light at nanoscale, thus impacting a wide range of areas in nanoscience. By applying metamaterials, artificially designed optical materials,…

This article introduces an approach that could tame wireless channels, making their behavior deterministic and software-defined. We investigate the novel idea of HyperSurfaces, which are software-controlled metamaterials embedded in any…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2018-06-13 Christos Liaskos , Ageliki Tsioliaridou , Andreas Pitsillides , Sotiris Ioannidis , Ian Akyildiz

Cascaded or stacked intelligent metasurfaces (SIMs) have emerged as a promising technology to overcome the physical limitations of single-layer reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RISs) in wideband wireless communication. By intelligently…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-03-02 Muhammad Ibrahim , Amine Mezghani , Ekram Hossain

Millimeter-wave (30-300 GHz) and Terahertz-band communications (0.3-10 THz) are envisioned as key wireless technologies to satisfy the demand for Terabit-per-second (Tbps) links in the 5G and beyond eras. The very large available bandwidth…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-04-18 Shuai Nie , Josep M. Jornet , Ian F. Akyildiz

We consider a multi-user Multiple-Input Single-Output (MISO) communication system comprising of a multi-antenna base station communicating in the downlink simultaneously with multiple single-antenna mobile users. This communication is…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-09-17 Chongwen Huang , George C. Alexandropoulos , Alessio Zappone , Merouane Debbah , Chau Yuen

Complementary to traditional approaches that focus on transceiver design for bringing the best out of unstable, lossy fading channels, one radical development in wireless communications that has recently emerged is to pursue a smart radio…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-05-29 Kai-Kit Wong , Kin-Fai Tong , Zhiyuan Chu , Yangyang Zhang