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IEICE Transactions on Communications
Online ISSN : 1745-1345
Print ISSN : 0916-8516
Special Section on Technologies and Proof-of-Concept Activities for 5G Advanced and 6G
Smart Radio Environments with Intelligent Reflecting Surfaces for 6G Sub-Terahertz-Band Communications
Yasutaka OGAWAShuto TADOKOROSatoshi SUYAMAMasashi IWABUCHIToshihiko NISHIMURATakanori SATOJunichiro HAGIWARATakeo OHGANE
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2023 Volume E106.B Issue 9 Pages 735-747

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Technology for sixth-generation (6G) mobile communication system is now being widely studied. A sub-Terahertz band is expected to play a great role in 6G to enable extremely high data-rate transmission. This paper has two goals. (1) Introduction of 6G concept and propagation characteristics of sub-Terahertz-band radio waves. (2) Performance evaluation of intelligent reflecting surfaces (IRSs) based on beamforming in a sub-Terahertz band for smart radio environments (SREs). We briefly review research on SREs with reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RISs), and describe requirements and key features of 6G with a sub-Terahertz band. After that, we explain propagation characteristics of sub-Terahertz band radio waves. Important feature is that the number of multipath components is small in a sub-Terahertz band in indoor office environments. This leads to an IRS control method based on beamforming because the number of radio waves out of the optimum beam is very small and power that is not used for transmission from the IRS to user equipment (UE) is little in the environments. We use beams generated by a Butler matrix or a DFT matrix. In simulations, we compare the received power at a UE with that of the upper bound value. Simulation results show that the proposed method reveals good performance in the sense that the received power is not so lower than the upper bound value.

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