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A new STEM Activity of the METAWIRELESS project was organized

A STEM Activity of the METAWIRELESS project was organized on May 5, 2023, by TUW in the school Volksschule Pannaschgasse, 1050 Wien, Austria, where Prof. Markus Rupp interacted with 25 ten-years-old children …
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May 8, 2023 / News

Issue #05 (March 2022) of MetaWireless Project Newsletter

The Issue #05 (March 2023) of MetaWireless Project Newsletter has been published here. In this issue: 1. MetaWireless Training, 2. MetaWireless Dissemination, 3. ESRs Research Activities. Subscribe to our newsletter (in the website footer) to receive updates on MetaWireless Project …
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March 17, 2023 / News

The first STEM Activity of the METAWIRELESS project

The first STEM Activity of the METAWIRELESS project was organized on February 1, 2023 by CNIT where Dr. Carmen D’Andrea illustrated to the students of the high school “ISISS Piedimonte Matese” (Italy) the technology of the reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RISs) for wireless communications and its benefits with respect to the traditional approach. Audio/video recording is available here. First Stem Activity – Carmen D’Andrea First Stem Activity – Carmen D’Andrea – Students First Stem Activity – …
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February 7, 2023 / News

DEM-1 Job Position Has Been Reopened!

DEM-1 job position in the METAWIRELESS Project has been reopened. Please apply here! …
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January 30, 2023 / Jobs

Issue #04 (December 2022) of MetaWireless Project Newsletter

The Issue #04 (December 2022) of MetaWireless Project Newsletter has been published here. In this issue: 1. MetaWireless Training, 2. MetaWireless Dissemination, 3. First MetaWireless ESR Award, 4. ESRs Presentation, 5. ESRs Research Activities. Subscribe to our newsletter (in the website footer) to receive updates on MetaWireless Project …
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December 23, 2022 / News

ESR Award assigned to Javad Shabanpour

During the MetaWireless Plenary Meeting, held on Monday 14 November 2022 at the headquarters of the University of Cassino at the Medieval Castle of Gaeta, the ESR Award was assigned to Javad Shabanpour. The evaluation commission, composed of a subset of the PIs of the project, assigned the award to Javad with the following reasons: “For his production, the cooperation within the network, and the raising of public awareness, and the clarity and quality of the application …
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December 5, 2022 / News

Project summary

MetaWireless puts forth the disruptive idea to design wireless networks by treating the wireless environment as an optimization variable to be adapted to maximize the network performance. But how to implement this vision? How to modify in real-time the propagation properties of the environment between two communicating devices? The answer lies in realizing reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RISs), incorporating them into 6G wireless networks. To succeed, this vision needs to advance and merge the inter-disciplinary fields of wireless communications, physics, electromagnetic meta-surfaces, computational learning, software networks that have never been combined before.

MetaWireless will lay the theoretical, algorithmic, and architectural foundation of RIS-enabled future wireless networks, and will develop the first open access system-level simulator for network optimization.

The above overall objective is decomposed into the following four research objectives of MetaWireless:

Objective 1 – Developing RISs. Bring to light the third generation of meta-materials technology by developing RISs that can be reconfigured in real-time and are able to perform joint communication and sensing tasks.
Objective 2 – Theoretical frameworks. Develop new mathematical techniques to introduce a novel communication theory that overcomes conventional Shannon’s theory and unveils the ultimate performance of RIS-based networks.
Objective 3 – Algorithmic frameworks. Develop new communication schemes, optimization protocols, and algorithms for RIS-based networks, coping with the large degrees of freedom and the passive nature of RISs.
Objective 4 – System-level simulator. Develop RIS-tailored ray tracing modules and build the first open access simulation (software) platform to analyze, optimize, and test large-scale RIS-based intelligent radio environments.