Control Plane for Reconfigurable Intelligent Surfaces
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| author | Saggese, Fabio Croisfelt, Victor Stylianopoulos, Kyriakos Alexandropoulos, George C. Popovski, Petar |
| author_facet | Saggese, Fabio Croisfelt, Victor Stylianopoulos, Kyriakos Alexandropoulos, George C. Popovski, Petar |
| contents | Research on reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RISs) has predominantly focused on purely physical (PHY)-layer aspects, particularly, on how signals are dynamically shaped by a controllable wireless propagation environment. However, integrating RISs as system-level network elements requires the development of an RIS-compatible control plane. In this article, we explore design options for such a control plane across two key dimensions: i) the allocation of spectral resources for the control plane (in- or out-of-band), and ii) the rate selection for the data plane (multiplexing or diversity). While our analysis is necessarily simplified, it reveals the fundamental trade-offs inherent in these design choices, which are crucial for integrating RIS technology into future networks. |
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| spellingShingle | Control Plane for Reconfigurable Intelligent Surfaces Saggese, Fabio Croisfelt, Victor Stylianopoulos, Kyriakos Alexandropoulos, George C. Popovski, Petar Signal Processing Research on reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RISs) has predominantly focused on purely physical (PHY)-layer aspects, particularly, on how signals are dynamically shaped by a controllable wireless propagation environment. However, integrating RISs as system-level network elements requires the development of an RIS-compatible control plane. In this article, we explore design options for such a control plane across two key dimensions: i) the allocation of spectral resources for the control plane (in- or out-of-band), and ii) the rate selection for the data plane (multiplexing or diversity). While our analysis is necessarily simplified, it reveals the fundamental trade-offs inherent in these design choices, which are crucial for integrating RIS technology into future networks. |
| title | Control Plane for Reconfigurable Intelligent Surfaces |
| topic | Signal Processing |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.01790 |