Towards a Heterogeneous Smart Electromagnetic Environment for Millimeter-Wave Communications:
An Industrial Viewpoint
Danilo De Donno, Roberto Flamini, Jonathan Gambini, Angelo Milani
Milan Research Center, Huawei Technologies Italia
DEIB - Alpha Room (building 24)
Via Golgi, 40 - Milano
May 9th, 2022
12.15 pm
Contacts:
Ilario Filippini
Research Line:
Networking
Milan Research Center, Huawei Technologies Italia
DEIB - Alpha Room (building 24)
Via Golgi, 40 - Milano
May 9th, 2022
12.15 pm
Contacts:
Ilario Filippini
Research Line:
Networking
Abstract
On May 9th, 2022 at 12.15 pm, a new CommTech Talk will take place at DEIB Alpha Room – Building 24.
Fifth-generation (5G) and beyond communication systems open the door to millimeter Wave (mmWave) frequency bands to leverage the extremely large operating bandwidths and deliver unprecedented network capacity. These frequency bands are affected by high propagation losses that severely limit the achievable coverage. The simplest way to address this problem would be to increase the number of installed mmWave base stations (BSs), at the same time augmenting the overall network cost, power consumption, and ElectroMagnetic Field (EMF) levels.
As an alternative direction, in this talk, we will introduce our proposal to complement the macro-layer of mmWave BSs with a heterogeneous deployment of Smart Electromagnetic (Smart EM) Entities – namely IAB nodes, Smart Repeaters, Reconfigurable Intelligent Surfaces (RISs), and passive surfaces – that is judiciously planned to minimize the total installation costs while at the same time optimizing the network spectral efficiency. Initial network planning results underline the effectiveness of the proposed approach. The available technologies and the key research directions for achieving this view will be thoroughly discussed by accounting for issues ranging from system-level design to the development of new materials.
CommTech Talks @ POLIMI are a series of seminars and panels organized weekly by the study program in Telecommunications Engineering and the master of science track in Internet Engineering of Politecnico di Milano for stimulating the networking between students and people from industry and research.
Registration: https://bit.ly/CommTechRegistration
The event will be held online by Webex
Fifth-generation (5G) and beyond communication systems open the door to millimeter Wave (mmWave) frequency bands to leverage the extremely large operating bandwidths and deliver unprecedented network capacity. These frequency bands are affected by high propagation losses that severely limit the achievable coverage. The simplest way to address this problem would be to increase the number of installed mmWave base stations (BSs), at the same time augmenting the overall network cost, power consumption, and ElectroMagnetic Field (EMF) levels.
As an alternative direction, in this talk, we will introduce our proposal to complement the macro-layer of mmWave BSs with a heterogeneous deployment of Smart Electromagnetic (Smart EM) Entities – namely IAB nodes, Smart Repeaters, Reconfigurable Intelligent Surfaces (RISs), and passive surfaces – that is judiciously planned to minimize the total installation costs while at the same time optimizing the network spectral efficiency. Initial network planning results underline the effectiveness of the proposed approach. The available technologies and the key research directions for achieving this view will be thoroughly discussed by accounting for issues ranging from system-level design to the development of new materials.
CommTech Talks @ POLIMI are a series of seminars and panels organized weekly by the study program in Telecommunications Engineering and the master of science track in Internet Engineering of Politecnico di Milano for stimulating the networking between students and people from industry and research.
Registration: https://bit.ly/CommTechRegistration
The event will be held online by Webex
