Smart Wireless Environments Enabled by RISs: Deployment Scenarios and Two Key Challenges
Paper i proceeding, 2022

Reconfigurable Intelligent Surfaces (RISs) constitute the enabler for programmable propagation of electromagnetic signals, and are lately being considered as a candidate physicallayer technology for the demanding connectivity, reliability, localization, and sustainability requirements of next generation wireless communications networks. In this paper, we present various deployment scenarios for RIS-enabled smart wireless environments that have been recently designed by the ongoing EU H2020 RISE-6G project. The scenarios are taxonomized according to performance objectives, in particular, connectivity and reliability, localization and sensing, as well as sustainability and secrecy. We identify various deployment strategies and sketch the core architectural requirements in terms of RIS control and signaling, depending on the RIS hardware architectures and their respective capabilities. Furthermore, we introduce and discuss, via preliminary simulation results and reflectarray measurements, two key novel challenges with RIS-enabled smart wireless environments, namely, the area of influence and the bandwidth of influence of RISs, which corroborate the need for careful deployment and planning of this new technology.

Reconfigurable intelligent surfaces

scenarios

propagation control

area of influence

bandwidth of influence

Författare

G. C. Alexandropoulos

University of Athens

Maurizio Crozzoli

TIM

D.T. Phan-Huy

Orange

Konstantinos D. Katsanos

University of Athens

Henk Wymeersch

Chalmers, Elektroteknik, Kommunikation, Antenner och Optiska Nätverk

Petar Popovski

Le Commissariat à l’Énergie Atomique et aux Énergies Alternatives (CEA)

Philippe Ratajczak

Orange

Yohann Benedic

Orange

Marie Helene Hamon

Orange

Sebastien Herraiz Gonzalez

Orange

R. D'Errico

Aalborg Universitet

Emilio Calvanese Strinati

Aalborg Universitet

2022 Joint European Conference on Networks and Communications and 6G Summit, EuCNC/6G Summit 2022

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9781665498715 (ISBN)

2022 Joint European Conference on Networks and Communications and 6G Summit, EuCNC/6G Summit 2022
Grenoble, France,

Reconfigurable Intelligent Sustainable Environments for 6G Wireless Networks

Europeiska kommissionen (EU) (EC/2020/101017011), 2021-01-01 -- 2023-12-31.

Ämneskategorier

Datorteknik

Telekommunikation

Kommunikationssystem

Styrkeområden

Informations- och kommunikationsteknik

DOI

10.1109/EuCNC/6GSummit54941.2022.9815617

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