T-Parameters Based Modeling for Stacked Intelligent Metasurfaces: Tractable and Physically Consistent Model

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Main Authors: Yahya, Hamad, Nerini, Matteo, Clerckx, Bruno, Debbah, Merouane
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Published: 2025
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author Yahya, Hamad
Nerini, Matteo
Clerckx, Bruno
Debbah, Merouane
author_facet Yahya, Hamad
Nerini, Matteo
Clerckx, Bruno
Debbah, Merouane
contents This work develops a physically consistent model for stacked intelligent metasurfaces (SIM) using multiport network theory and transfer scattering parameters (T-parameters). Unlike the scattering parameters (S-parameters) model, the developed T-parameters model is simpler and more tractable. Moreover, the T-parameters constraints for lossless reciprocal reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RISs) are derived. Additionally, a gradient descent algorithm (GDA) is introduced to maximize sum-rate in SIM-aided multiuser scenarios, demonstrating that mutual coupling and feedback between consecutive layers enhance performance. However, increasing SIM layers with a fixed total number of elements typically degrades sum-rate, unless the simplified channel model employing Rayleigh-Sommerfeld diffraction coefficients is utilized.
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spellingShingle T-Parameters Based Modeling for Stacked Intelligent Metasurfaces: Tractable and Physically Consistent Model
Yahya, Hamad
Nerini, Matteo
Clerckx, Bruno
Debbah, Merouane
Signal Processing
This work develops a physically consistent model for stacked intelligent metasurfaces (SIM) using multiport network theory and transfer scattering parameters (T-parameters). Unlike the scattering parameters (S-parameters) model, the developed T-parameters model is simpler and more tractable. Moreover, the T-parameters constraints for lossless reciprocal reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RISs) are derived. Additionally, a gradient descent algorithm (GDA) is introduced to maximize sum-rate in SIM-aided multiuser scenarios, demonstrating that mutual coupling and feedback between consecutive layers enhance performance. However, increasing SIM layers with a fixed total number of elements typically degrades sum-rate, unless the simplified channel model employing Rayleigh-Sommerfeld diffraction coefficients is utilized.
title T-Parameters Based Modeling for Stacked Intelligent Metasurfaces: Tractable and Physically Consistent Model
topic Signal Processing
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2503.09777