Multi-Antenna Systems by Transmissive Reconfigurable Meta-Surface

TL;DR

This paper introduces a low-cost, low-power transmissive reconfigurable meta-surface multi-antenna system that enhances beamforming capabilities, reduces costs, and offers a new approach for future wireless communication infrastructure.

Contribution

It proposes a novel transmissive RMS multi-antenna system with detailed architecture, transmission mechanisms, and optimization strategies, addressing high power and cost issues of traditional systems.

Findings

Numerical results verify the effectiveness of the proposed algorithms.

The system demonstrates advantages in passive beamforming and cost reduction.

Potential future research directions are outlined.

Abstract

Reconfigurable meta-surface (RMS) is proposed as a very promising and novel technology, which is composed of a large number of low-cost passive elements, and can achieve passive beamforming by controlling the amplitude and phase of incident electromagnetic (EM) waves. Therefore, in order to solve the challenges of high power consumption and high cost of existing base stations (BSs), we propose a low-cost and low-power consumption transmissive RMS multi-antenna system in this paper. Specifically, we first provide an overview of the transmissive RMS multi-antenna system, including its advantages, network architecture, transmission mechanism, modulation principle, channel model and channel estimation technique. Then, we address transceiver design and optimization for downlink (DL) and uplink (UL), and some numerical results are also given to verify the effectiveness of the proposed algorithm. Finally, several potential research directions of the transmissive RMS multi-antenna system are given to inspire further investigation in future work.