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Future Wireless Communications Empowered by Reconfigurable Intelligent Meta-Materials (META WIRELESS)

Projektbeschreibung

Die Wegbereitung einer neuen Generation der Konnektivität

Drahtlose Netzwerke haben eine erstaunliche Entwicklung hinter sich, von der Entdeckung von Funkwellen im Jahr 1880 bis hin zu den 5G-Netzwerken des 21. Jahrhunderts. Auch heute noch wandelt sich die drahtlose Konnektivität – von der mobilen Telekommunikation und WLAN bis hin zu Bluetooth und der Kommunikation über das Internet der Dinge – und entwickelt sich kontinuierlich weiter. Das EU-finanzierte Projekt META WIRELESS ebnet Netzwerken auf der Grundlage von 6G und darüber hinaus den Weg. Um den Anforderungen zukünftiger Netzwerke gerecht zu werden, wird das Projekt die Umgebung als Größe behandeln, die gesteuert und optimiert werden muss. Es wird rekonfigurierbare intelligente Oberflächen einbinden, um die Manipulation der drahtlosen Umgebung möglich zu machen. Diese Oberflächen bestehen aus elektromagnetisch diskreten Meta-Materialien und sind ebene Strukturen, die zur Modifizierung der Phase und Wellenfront auftreffender Funkwellen eingesetzt werden können.

Ziel

Wireless connectivity has become a pillar of our society. The growth of wireless traffic is relentless, forecast to reach a staggering worldwide aggregate of 5,016 exabytes by 2030, along with bit rates of 1 Tb/s and new services related to sensing, localization, low-latency, and ultra-reliability.

While the performance of wireless networks has improved phenomenally over the last decades, progress is by now pushing against fundamental limits and the mechanisms that have sustained these huge improvements are starting to falter. New evolutionary leaps are called for in order to ensure that the aforementioned forecasts can become a reality.

To date, every wireless system has abided by the premise that the propagation radio channel is fixed by nature and cannot be tampered with, but only compensated through ever more sophisticated transmission/reception schemes. A potential evolutionary leap for 6G-and-beyond networks is to break free from the postulate that channels are uncontrollable factors. Serving such a vision, META WIRELESS pursues the disruptive idea of designing wireless networks by treating the environment itself as a quantity to be controlled and optimized. Precisely, the manipulation of the wireless environment can be made possible by incorporating reconfigurable intelligent surfaces. These are planar structures, made of meta-materials and electromagnetically discontinuous, which do not adhere to conventional reflection and diffraction laws; rather, they can modify in a controllable fashion the phase and wavefront of impinging radio waves. If deployed to coat objects, walls, or building facades, they could allow customizing in real time the electromagnetic response of environments.

Making this vision a reality requires the training of a new generation of researchers and a multidisciplinary effort involving wireless communications, physics, electromagnetic theory, and computational learning, which are the ingredients that define the META WIRELESS project.

Koordinator

CONSORZIO NAZIONALE INTERUNIVERSITARIO PER LE TELECOMUNICAZIONI
Netto-EU-Beitrag
€ 522 999,36
Adresse
VIALE G. P. USBERTI 181A
43124 Parma
Italien

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Region
Nord-Est Emilia-Romagna Parma
Aktivitätstyp
Higher or Secondary Education Establishments
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Gesamtkosten
€ 522 999,36

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