articleIEEE Transactions on Wireless CommunicationsSep 25, 2020GREEN OA

Wireless Communications With Reconfigurable Intelligent Surface: Path Loss Modeling and Experimental Measurement

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Abstract

Reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RISs) comprised of tunable unit cells have recently drawn significant attention due to their superior capability in manipulating electromagnetic waves. In particular, RIS-assisted wireless communications have the great potential to achieve significant performance improvement and coverage enhancement in a cost-effective and energy-efficient manner, by properly programming the reflection coefficients of the unit cells of RISs. In this article, free-space path loss models for RIS-assisted wireless communications are developed for different scenarios by studying the physics and electromagnetic nature of RISs. The proposed models, which are first validated through extensive…

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Keywords
  • Path loss
  • Wireless
  • Anechoic chamber
  • Transmitter
  • Computer science
  • Electronic engineering
  • Reflection (computer programming)
  • Field (mathematics)
UN Sustainable Development Goals
  • Affordable and clean energy
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