%0 Report
%9 Technical Report
%A ROCCA, Paolo
%A DA Rù, Pietro
%A ANSELMI, Nicola
%A SALUCCI, Marco
%A OLIVERI, Giacomo
%A MASSA, Andrea
%D 2024
%F elediasc12:890
%K Artificial materials, millimeter wave, mobile communications, multiobjective optimization, smart electromagnetic (EM) environment.
%T Designing Modular Reflective EM Skins to Improve Wireless Coverage in Urban Areas
%U http://www.eledia.org/students-reports/890/
%X This paper addresses the design of modular, passive, and static artificial meta-surfaces to be used as electromagnetic skins (EMSs) on buildings to enhance coverage in urban millimeter-wave communication scenarios. To achieve this, a specialized design strategy is proposed to find optimal trade-off solutions that ensure adequate coverage in areas where the base station signal is weak. The optimal EMS layout is obtained using a binary multi-objective optimization method. Representative numerical results are presented and discussed to highlight the features and potential of the EMS solution in a smart electromagnetic environment (SEME) and to demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed design method.