Metasurfaces for Wireless Communications: Designs and Implementations

This book provides a comprehensive coverage of reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS) based wireless communications by covering all the technology stages from working principles, processing theories and algorithms, system architectures, real-time implementations and programming platforms through performance measurements and system testing. Metasurface for Wireless Communications: Designs and Implementations serves as a must-be read for everything related to the use of RIS in wireless networks. Authored by three experts in the related fields, the book is organized into sixteen chapters in five parts. Part one discusses the fundamentals of metasurfaces for wireless communications and the evolution and requirements of RIS related in 6G. Part two examines modeling and analyses of RIS for wireless communications and includes information on large and small scale channel models as well as electromagnetic field modeling. Part three discusses properties characterizations and design of metasurface devices. Part four examines relay and system implementations of RIS for wireless communications through basic system models, key design aspects, and system simulations and architectures. Part five discusses standardization of RIS aided wireless communications by providing an overview relay technologies in standardization and field trials and standardization roadmaps in 3GPP. This book serves not only as a comprehensive reference for professional engineers, researchers, manufacturers, network operators, software developers, service provider and regulatory bodies aiming at development, standardization, deployment and applications of B5G and 6G mobile communications, but also as a textbook for graduate students in circuits, signal processing, wireless communications, information theory, microwave technology, and antenna and propagation.