Designing Modular Reflective EM Skins to Improve Wireless Coverage in Urban Areas

ROCCA, Paolo and DA Rù, Pietro and ANSELMI, Nicola and SALUCCI, Marco and OLIVERI, Giacomo and MASSA, Andrea (2024) Designing Modular Reflective EM Skins to Improve Wireless Coverage in Urban Areas. Technical Report. ELEDIA Research Center - University of Trento.

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Abstract

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.

Item Type: Monograph (Technical Report)
Uncontrolled Keywords: Artificial materials, millimeter wave, mobile communications, multiobjective optimization, smart electromagnetic (EM) environment.
Subjects: A Areas > A WC Next Generation Wireless Communications
URI: http://www.eledia.org/students-reports/id/eprint/890

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