An Outlook on the Interplay of Artificial Intelligence and Software-Defined Metasurfaces: An Overview of Opportunities and Limitations

Recent advances in programmable metasurfaces, known as software-defined metasurfaces (SDMs), offer a paradigm shift from uncontrollable to fully tunable and customizable wireless propagation environments, enabling a plethora of new applications and technological trends. To explore this cutting-edge technological concept, the authors review the architecture and electromagnetic (EM) wave manipulation functionalities of SDMs, detail recent advances toward realizing these programmable functionalities in wireless communication applications, elaborate on how artificial intelligence (AI) can address various constraints introduced by the real-time deployment of SDMs, review state-of-the-art research on the integration of AI with SDMs, and offer a look ahead toward unexplored possibilities of AI mechanisms in the context of SDMs.

• Record URL:
  • https://doi.org/10.1109/MVT.2020.3023550
• Availability:
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• Supplemental Notes:
  • Copyright © 2020, IEEE.
• Authors:
  • Mohjazi, Lina
  • Zoha, Ahmed
  • Bariah, Lina
  • Muhaidat, Sami
  • Sofotasios, Paschalis C
  • Imran, Muhammad Ali
  • Dobre, Octavia A
• Publication Date: 2020-12

Language

• English

Media Info

• Media Type: Web
• Features: References;
• Pagination: pp 62-73
• Serial:
  • IEEE Vehicular Technology Magazine
  • Volume: 15
  • Issue Number: 4
  • Publisher: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
  • ISSN: 1556-6072
  • Serial URL: http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/tocresult.jsp?isnumber=34840

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Artificial intelligence; Computer architecture; Radio wave propagation; Smart materials; Software; State of the art; Surfaces
• Subject Areas: Data and Information Technology; Transportation (General); Vehicles and Equipment;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01760904
• Record Type: Publication
• Files: TRIS
• Created Date: Dec 22 2020 9:34AM