Synthesis of Modular Electromagnetic Skins for Multiple Blind Spot Coverage in Urban Scenarios

The importance of the SEME paradigm is emerging with ever-increasing strength as a founding stone for next-generation wireless communications. Limits on the possibility of installation of new base stations (BTSs) for future standards and the amount of power that they can radiate have pushed the telecommunication community towards the study and development of innovative solutions. Among them, the possibility of exploiting the characteristics of the environment itself as an enabling factor (as opposed to being viewed as an obstacle, as in the communication technologies of the past) is envisaged [1]-[5]. This work aims at presenting and preliminary analysing the performance of a SEME-enabling technology, in which the architecture of a modular and passive EMS [6] is designed to reflect the EM signal incoming from a nearby BTS towards blind areas inside the scenario, where coverage would otherwise be insufficient.