Strengthening 6G Expertise in the North: AI and Meta-Surfaces for Tomorrow’s Connectivity

As a complement to today's costly and energy-intensive mobile networks, meta-surfaces have been viewed as a promising enabling technology for 6G.

As a direct result of recent advances in material engineering, a meta-surface is a planar surface composed of a dense and massive amount of passive reflecting elements, each of which can independently reflect an impinging radio wave with a configurable phase shift. This configurability provides meta-surfaces with the fascinating property that it can reflect signals in various directions, seemingly not following the classical laws of optics. The overall purpose of this project is to deepen, broaden and strengthen LTU’s expertise and leading position in tomorrow’s cellular radio systems: 6G. In particular, this project will provide a means to tie together some key research topics, Signal Processing, AI, and reconfigurable meta-surfaces, into new emerging 6G applications.