Performance Evaluation of Dynamic Metasurface Antennas: Impact of Insertion Losses and Coupling

Pablo Ramírez-Espinosa, Robin Jess Williams, Jide Yuan, Elisabeth De Carvalho

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Abstract

This paper evaluates the performance of multi-user massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) systems in which the base station is equipped with a dynamic metasurface antenna (DMA). Due to the physical implementation of DMAs, conventional models widely-used in MIMO are no longer valid, and electromagnetic phenomena such as mutual coupling, insertion losses and reflections inside the waveguides need to be considered. Hence, starting from a recently proposed electromagnetic model for DMAs, we formulate a zero-forcing optimization problem, yielding an unconstrained objective function with known gradient. The performance is compared with that of full-digital and hybrid massive MIMO, focusing on the impact of insertion losses and mutual coupling.
Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationGLOBECOM 2022 - 2022 IEEE Global Communications Conference
Number of pages6
PublisherIEEE
Publication date8 Dec 2022
Pages2493-2498
Article number10001283
ISBN (Print)978-1-6654-3541-3
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 8 Dec 2022
EventGLOBECOM 2022 - 2022 IEEE Global Communications Conference - Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Duration: 4 Dec 20228 Dec 2022

Conference

ConferenceGLOBECOM 2022 - 2022 IEEE Global Communications Conference
LocationRio de Janeiro, Brazil
Period04/12/202208/12/2022

Keywords

  • Performance evaluation
  • Mutual coupling
  • Upper bound
  • Surface waves
  • Insertion loss
  • Electromagnetic waveguides
  • Metasurfaces

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