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Planning of EM Skins for Improved Quality-of-Service in Urban Areas

Year: 2022

Type: article

Abstract: The optimal planning of electromagnetic skins (EMSs) installed on the building facades to enhance the received signal strength, and thus the wireless coverage and/or the Quality-of-Service (QoS) in large-scale urban areas, is addressed. More specifically, a novel instance of the System-by-Design (SbD) paradigm is proposed toward the implementation of a smart electromagnetic environment (SEME) where low-cost passive static reflective skins are deployed to enhance the level of the power received within selected Regions of Interest (RoIs). Thanks to the ad hoc customization of the SbD functional blocks, which includes the exploitation of a digital twin (DT) for the accurate yet fast assessment of the wireless coverage condition, effective solutions are yielded. Numerical results, dealing with real-world test beds, are shown to assess the capabilities, the potentialities, and the current limitations of the proposed EMSs’ planning strategy.

Source: IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation

DOI: 10.1109/tap.2022.3177284

Authors: Arianna Benoni, Marco Salucci, Giacomo Oliveri, Paolo Rocca, Baozhu Li, Andrea Massa

Institutions: University of Trento, Xidian University, Tsinghua University, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China

Language: English

Topic: Millimeter-Wave Propagation and Modeling

Subfield: Electrical and Electronic Engineering

Field: Engineering

Domain: Physical Sciences

SDGs: Sustainable cities and communities, Industry, innovation and infrastructure

Open Access status: green

Funders: National Natural Science Foundation of China, Natural Science Basic Research Program of Shaanxi Province