Using any surface to realize a new paradigm for wireless communications

C Liaskos, A Tsioliaridou, A Pitsillides… - Communications of the …, 2018 - dl.acm.org
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COMMUNICATIONS OF THE ACM | NOVEMBER 2018 | VOL. 61 | NO. 11 viewpoints data rates in
5G pushes for very high communication frequencies, at 60GHz for example, where the described
effects become extremely acute.This Viewpoint introduces an approach that could tame and
control these effects, producing a wireless environment with software-defined electromagnetic
behavior. We introduce the novel idea of HyperSurfaces, which are software-controlled …
Programmable wireless environments use unique customizable software processes rather than traditional rigid channel models.
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