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20
° with RIM with two different configurations in terms of
RIM, = 20
b
° beam width, and without RIM.
RIM, = 90
b
15 no RIM As a future piece of work, a factor that we have not consid-
Capacity [Gbps] 10 ered in this context is the presence of other sources and
interferences. We trust the integration of the RIM in the
system can improve the reduction of the interference im-
5 pact by properly addressing it. In order to account for this
point, we plan to extend the analytical model with the in-
terference factor and design RIM-based approaches that
reduce the impact of the interference.
0
0 100 200 300 400 500
Distance [m]
ACKNOWLEDGMENT
Fig. 10 – Capacity of the system with a rate set to 1 Gbps, in case of (i) a
∘ ∘
meta-surface with beam width = 20 and = 90 , and (ii) without This work is partially supported by the Exploratory Ac-
a meta-surface.
tion ETHICAM.
tion that is computed in real time and without error. In-
deed, in order to control the RIM and make it as a tunable
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