Impact of a transmitting-RIS on the geometrical structure of indoor mmWave channels

Alfred Mudonhi (1, 2, 3) , Marina Lotti (1) , Antonio Clemente (1) , Raffaele d'Errico (1) , Claude Oestges (2)

1 CEA-LETI - Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives - Laboratoire d'Electronique et de Technologie de l'Information
2 ICTEAM - Institute of Information and Communication Technologies, Electronics and Applied Mathematics
3 UGA - Université Grenoble Alpes

In this paper we investigate the impact of the use of Transmitting Reconfigurable Intelligent Surfaces (T-RISs) on the indoor millimeter wave (mmWave) radio channel characteristics. To this purpose, two measurement campaigns were conducted by employing a T-RIS array and a virtual cubic array (VCA). The multipath component extraction was performed to embed the T-RIS based antenna pattern and evaluate the effect on large-scale parameters such as the path loss, delay and angular spreads.

Keywords: Indoor Propagation; Millimeter waves; Massive MIMO; Reconfigurable Intelligent Surfaces; Transmitarray

Domains: Engineering Sciences [physics]

Alfred Mudonhi, Marina Lotti, Antonio Clemente, Raffaele d'Errico, Claude Oestges. Impact of a transmitting-RIS on the geometrical structure of indoor mmWave channels. EuCAP 2022 - The 16th European Conference on Antennas and Propagation, Mar 2022, Madrid, Spain. ⟨cea-03637065⟩