A method for performing monitoring, commissioning, upgrading, analyzing, load balancing, remediating, and optimizing the operation, control, and maintenance of a plurality of remotely located RF signal repeater devices in a wireless network arranged to operate as an Internet of Things (IoT) network. Electronic RF signal repeater devices are employed as elements in the wireless network and communicate wireless radio frequency (RF) signals for a plurality of users. An RF signal repeater device may be arranged to operate as a donor unit device that provides RF signal communication between one or more remotely located wireless base stations, or other donor unit devices on the wireless network. Also, an RF signal repeater device may be arranged to operate as a service unit device that provides wireless RF signal communication between one or more user equipment devices (UEs) and a donor unit device or a wireless base station.

A reflection direction control method includes an arrival direction estimation step of estimating an arrival direction of radio waves transmitted by a wireless terminal to one or more reflection units each including a plurality of reflection elements capable of dynamically changing phase characteristics when the radio wave is reflected, a phase control step of controlling a phase of a radio wave reflected by each of the plurality of reflection elements so that the reflection unit reflects, in a predetermined direction, the radio wave transmitted from the estimated arrival direction, and a switching step of switching between an antenna mode in which the reflection unit is caused to receive the radio wave of which the arrival direction is estimated and a reflection mode in which the reflection unit is caused to reflect the radio wave.

A relay system includes: one or more radiation units configured to form a beam in a predetermined direction by radiating radio waves from each of a plurality of elements; a detection unit configured to detect a physical environment on a radio wave propagation path that affects the beam formed by the radiation unit; a direction determination unit configured to determine a direction in which the radiation unit should form the beam based on the physical environment detected by the detection unit; a phase calculation unit configured to calculate a phase of radio wave to be radiated by each of the plurality of elements such that the radiation unit forms a beam in the direction determined by the direction determination unit; and a phase control unit configured to control the phase of the radio wave radiated by each of the plurality of elements based on the phase calculated.

A method and an apparatus for determining an operation mode, a device, and a storage medium are provided. The method includes: determining first information, where the first information is at least one of position information and positioning error information of a target terminal; and determining at least one first operation mode based on the first information, where the first operation mode is associated with at least one of the following: a first beam direction of a reflected signal or a refracted signal of a first device; a beamforming mode of a reflected signal or a refracted signal of a first device; and a polarization mode of a reflected signal or a refracted signal of a first device.

Provided are a positioning method, device and system for a transmitting device, and a storage medium and an electronic device. The method includes that: control information is determined by a receiving device, wherein the control information includes temporal information and control direction information, and the control direction information is used for instructing a meta-surface control unit to adjust a reflection coefficient of a meta-surface to a target reflection coefficient corresponding to a preset direction within a target time period; a pilot signal is transmitted to the meta-surface by a transmitting device; the control information is sent to the meta-surface control unit by the receiving device ; and a signal measurement result corresponding to the preset direction is determined, and the transmitting device is positioned according to the preset direction and the signal measurement result.

Examples disclosed herein relate to a meta-structure based active reflectarray for passive and active reflection. A control module is coupled to reflection elements to provide energy and change the phase of the elements.

Certain aspects of the present disclosure provide techniques for user equipment (UE) positioning using one or more intelligent reflecting surfaces (IRSs). A method that may be performed by a UE includes for each IRS of the one or more IRSs: identifying a first IRS reflection center, measuring a first impulse response from the IRS to obtain a first measured impulse response representation, determining a first impulse response for a first ray reflected from the first IRS reflection center of the IRS, estimating a first position of the UE based on, at least, the first IRS reflection centers for each of the one or more IRSs and the first impulse responses for each of the one or more IRSs, and estimating a second position of the UE in an iterative manner until one or more conditions are satisfied.

A system and methods by which a reconfigurable intelligent surface device is dynamically configured to control the reflection of transmissions made between an access point and one or more client devices so as to protect the transmissions from being properly received by an unauthorized device. These methods may be used to maintain data confidentiality, particular for remote workers. The positions of the access point and client devices are used to configure the reconfigurable intelligent surface device to reflect the transmissions inward and avoid/minimize leakage outside a physical space.

In an information transmission process, a terminal device determines a first antenna unit to be assisted and uses a reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS) module to assist the first antenna unit in transmitting target information by the RIS module generating an additional transmit beam or receive beam.

Provided is a method for transmitting power in wireless communication using reconfigurable intelligent reflecting surfaces (RIS) of an electronic device, which includes: determining a value of a reflection coefficient of each unit cell or tile by scanning each tile of a reconfigurable intelligent reflecting surface (RIS) by a signal radiated through a transmitter; sending a beam to the reconfigurable intelligent reflecting surface (RIS) by controlling the transmitter; and multi-focusing an electromagnetic wave signal incident on the reconfigurable intelligent reflecting surface (RIS) on a plurality of receivers by setting an on/off state in each unit cell of the reconfigurable intelligent reflecting surface (RIS) based on the determined control parameter value, in which the tile is a partial array of the RIS having the same size, and supports far-field communication for the plurality of receivers.