Tailored time variations, nonlinearities and active elements can endow metasurfaces with unique opportunities for next-generation wireless communication systems, enriching the growing platform of reconfigurable intelligent surfaces.
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December 2022
We investigate a novel multi-user mobile Virtual Reality (VR) arcade system for streaming scalable 8K 360° video with low interactive latency, while providing high remote scene immersion fidelity and application reliability. This is achieved through the integration of embedded multi-layer 360° tiling, edge computing, and wireless multi-connectivity that comprises sub-6 GHz and mmWave (millimeter wave) links. The sub-6 GHz band is used for broadcast of the base layer of the entire 360° panorama to all users, while the directed mmWave links are used for high-rate transmission of VR-enhancement layers that are specific to the viewports of the individual users.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFIn recent years, industrial manufacturing has undergone massive technological changes that embrace digitalization and automation towards the vision of intelligent manufacturing plants. With the aim of maximizing efficiency and profitability in production, an important goal is to enable flexible manufacturing, both, for the customer (desiring more individualized products) and for the manufacturer (to adjust to market demands). Manufacturing-as-a-service can support this through manufacturing plants that are used by different tenants who utilize the machines in the plant, which are offered by different providers.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFWireless mobile networks from the fifth generation (5G) and beyond serve as platforms for flexible support of heterogeneous traffic types with diverse performance requirements. In particular, the broadband services aim for the traditional rate optimization, while the time-sensitive services aim for the optimization of latency and reliability, and some novel metrics such as Age of Information (AoI). In such settings, the key question is the one of spectrum slicing: how these services share the same chunk of available spectrum while meeting the heterogeneous requirements.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFAlthough there are several existing methods for human motion capture, they all have important limitations and hence there is the need to explore fundamentally new approaches. Here, we present a method based on a radio frequency identification (RFID) system with passive ultra high frequency (UHF) tags placed on the body segments whose kinematics is to be captured. Dual polarized antennas are used to estimate the inclination of each tag based on the polarization of the tag responses.
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