Integrating Base Station with Intelligent Surface for 6G Wireless Networks: Architectures, Design Issues, and Future Directions
<|reference_start|>Integrating Base Station with Intelligent Surface for 6G Wireless Networks: Architectures, Design Issues, and Future Directions: Intelligent surface (IS) is envisioned as a promising technology for the sixth-generation (6G) wireless networks, which can effectively reconfigure the wireless propagation environment via dynamically controllable signal reflection/transmission. In particular, integrating passive intelligent surface (IS) into the base station (BS) is a novel solution to enhance the wireless network throughput and coverage both cost-effectively and energyefficiently. In this article, we provide an overview of IS-integrated BSs for wireless networks, including their motivations, practical architectures, and main design issues. Moreover, numerical results are presented to compare the performance of different IS-integrated BS architectures as well as the conventional BS without IS. Finally, promising directions are pointed out to stimulate future research on IS-BS/terminal integration in wireless networks.<|reference_end|>
@article{huang2024integrating,
    title={Integrating Base Station with Intelligent Surface for 6G Wireless
  Networks: Architectures, Design Issues, and Future Directions},
    author={Yuwei Huang, Lipeng Zhu, and Rui Zhang},
    journal={arXiv preprint arXiv:2407.10986},
    year={2024},
    archivePrefix={arXiv},
    eprint={2407.10986},
    primaryClass={eess.SP cs.NI}
}