Wireless Sensing Using Dynamic Metasurface Antennas: Challenges and Opportunities

Guohao Lan; Mohammadreza F. Imani; Philipp Del Hougne; Wenjun Hu; David R. Smith; Maria Gorlatova

doi:10.1109/MCOM.001.1900696

Wireless Sensing Using Dynamic Metasurface Antennas: Challenges and Opportunities

Guohao Lan, Mohammadreza F. Imani, Philipp Del Hougne, Wenjun Hu, David R. Smith, Maria Gorlatova

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Using wireless communication infrastructure to recognize human behaviors has achieved great success over the last decade. This article presents the opportunities and challenges posed by a novel class of antennas referred to as DMA for wireless sensing. In contrast to conventional solutions that rely on either frequency diversity or spatial diversity for sensing, the proposed system exploits the antenna pattern diversity and software programmability of the DMA to achieve high-performance wireless sensing. We present a general framework for DMA-based wireless sensing, and demonstrate the feasibility and benefits of the DMA in sensing using custom hardware. We identify several research challenges and future directions to fully realize this new concept.

Original language	English (US)
Article number	9141218
Pages (from-to)	66-71
Number of pages	6
Journal	IEEE Communications Magazine
Volume	58
Issue number	6
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/MCOM.001.1900696
State	Published - Jun 2020
Externally published	Yes

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Computer Networks and Communications
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