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RIS Simulator has been successfully developed!

🚀 Exciting Achievement from the ITN METAWIRELESS Project! A system-level simulator for Reconfigurable Intelligent Surfaces (RIS) has been successfully developed — a key milestone in advancing the next generation of wireless networks. 👏 Kudos to our partners TU Wien and Aalto University for leading the development of this powerful tool that will enable the evaluation and optimization of RIS-enabled wireless systems at scale …
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April 23, 2025 / News

Women’s Workshop on next-gen 6G wireless networks

🚀 As the rollout of 5G continues worldwide, industry and academia are already looking to the future with 6G! 🌐 Join us on November 25th, 2024, for an inspiring Women’s Workshop on next-gen 6G wireless networks, organized by the EU-funded META WIRELESS and ISLANDS projects. This event will delve into key 6G advancements, such as Reconfigurable Intelligent Surfaces (RIS) and Integrated Sensing and Communications (ISAC), with insights from female experts in the field. This workshop …
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November 7, 2024 / News

Issue #09 (July 2024) of MetaWireless Project Newsletter

The Issue #09 (July 2024) of MetaWireless Project Newsletter has been published here. In this issue: 1. MetaWireless Dissemination, 2. 2024 EUCNC and 6G Summit, 3. ESRs Research Activities. Subscribe to our newsletter (in the website footer) to receive updates on MetaWireless Project …
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July 23, 2024 / News

Issue #08 (March 2024) of MetaWireless Project Newsletter

The Issue #08 (March 2024) of MetaWireless Project Newsletter has been published here. In this issue: 1. MetaWireless Dissemination, 2. EuCAP 2024, 3. ESR Award. Subscribe to our newsletter (in the website footer) to receive updates on MetaWireless Project …
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April 5, 2024 / News

A New Open Day by CNIT and UNICLAM

A New Open Day of the METAWIRELESS project was organized on February 6-8, 2024, by CNIT and UNICLAM where Georgios Mylonopoulos (ESR CNIT-2) presented the research activities of the project to high school students visiting the UNICLAM Engineering Departments …
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February 8, 2024 / News

A new STEM Activity by CNIT and UNICLAM in the school “IIS Medaglia D’Oro” di Cassino (FR)

A new STEM Activity of the METAWIRELESS project was organized on February 2, 2024, by CNIT and UNICLAM in the school “IIS Medaglia D’Oro” di Cassino (FR), where Dr. Carmen D’Andrea presented topics related to the project to high school students …
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February 2, 2024 / 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.