Nonlocal Reconfigurable Intelligent Surfaces for Wireless Communication: Modeling and Physical Layer Aspects

10/12/2022
by   Amine Mezghani, et al.
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Delivering wireless ultrahigh-speed access at wider coverage is becoming considerably challenging due to the prohibitive investment costs per user and the necessary shift to range-limited millimeter-wave (mmWave) transmissions. Reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RIS) are expected to extend the reach of mmWave and TeraHz signals more cost-effectively in situations where fiber backhaul and fronthaul are not accessible or infrastructure densification is costly. This paper investigates some challenges facing this technology, particularly in terms of scalability and the question of what type of RIS configurations would be appropriate for mmWave networks and what design strategies can be adopted to optimize the performance and minimize the signaling overhead. We conclude that RIS configurations for the wireless infrastructure likely need to be nonlocal (i.e., redirective, wavefront-selective) rather than local (i.e., reflective) to support communications and networking tasks such as integrated fronthaul and access (IFA) most efficiently.

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