Smart Wireless Environment Enhanced Telecommunications: A Network Stabilisation Paradigm for Mobile Operators
Yangyishi Zhang, Khethiwe Mhlope, Aaron Walker, Fraser Burton

TL;DR
This paper discusses how holographic metasurfaces and intelligent sensing can transform 5G networks by stabilizing channels and overcoming fundamental capacity limits, leading to improved performance and user experience.
Contribution
It introduces a novel perspective on implementing smart wireless environments through a synergy of metasurfaces, sensing, and AI, addressing practical deployment challenges.
Findings
SWE can significantly enhance RAN capacity and stability.
Synergy of metasurfaces, sensing, and AI enables robust network architecture.
Identifies critical challenges for future commercial deployment.
Abstract
Due to the uncontrolled and complex real-life radio propagation environments, Claude Shannon's information theory of communications describes fundamental limits to state-of-the-art 5G radio access network (RAN) capacity, with respect to fixed radio resource usage. Fortunately, recent research has found that a holographic metasurface-based new physical layer architecture may hold the key to overcome these fundamental limits of current mobile networks under a new paradigm, smart wireless environment (SWE), where the long-standing challenge of mobile communications, fading channel hostility, may be solved, leading to a step-change boost in network performance and user experience. Despite recent research activities in SWE, the best way to implement it as a network operator remains an open challenge. In this industrial review, we adopt a novel yet realistic mobile channel stabilisation…
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Taxonomy
TopicsAdvanced MIMO Systems Optimization · Wireless Networks and Protocols · Advanced Wireless Network Optimization
