TY - RPRT TI - Enhancing Urban Wireless Networks with Modular Reflecting EM Skins UR - http://www.eledia.org/students-reports/891/ Y1 - 2024/// M1 - technical_report N2 - This paper focuses on designing modular, passive, and static artificial metasurfaces to serve as electromagnetic skins (EMSs) on buildings, aimed at enhancing coverage in urban millimeter-wave communication scenarios. A specialized design strategy is introduced to find optimal trade-off solutions that ensure sufficient coverage in areas with weak base station signals. The optimal EMS layout is achieved through a binary multi-objective optimization method. Representative numerical results are provided and discussed to showcase the features and potential of the EMS solution in a smart electromagnetic environment (SEME) and to demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed design approach. ID - elediasc12891 A1 - ROCCA, Paolo A1 - DA Rù, Pietro A1 - ANSELMI, Nicola A1 - SALUCCI, Marco A1 - OLIVERI, Giacomo A1 - MASSA, Andrea AV - public KW - Artificial materials KW - millimeter wave KW - mobile communications KW - multiobjective optimization KW - smart electromagnetic (EM) environment. PB - ELEDIA Research Center - University of Trento ER -