Experimental Verification of Broadband mmWave RIS-Aided Communications: Codebook-Based Beam Steering and Indoor Channel Measurements

Ferhad Kasem; Gabriel Machado; Simon Cotton; Muhammad Ali Babar Abbasi; Dmitry Zelenchuk

doi:10.23919/EuCAP63536.2025.10999970

Experimental Verification of Broadband mmWave RIS-Aided Communications: Codebook-Based Beam Steering and Indoor Channel Measurements

Ferhad Kasem
, Gabriel Machado
, Simon Cotton
, Muhammad Ali Babar Abbasi
, Dmitry Zelenchuk

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Abstract

This paper summarises the design and channel measurements of a wide band Reconfigurable Intelligent Surface RIS operating within the millimeter wave spectrum for 5G and beyond communication. RIS elements are controlled by a p-i-n diode and biased via RF chokes operating within the n257 millimeter wave 5G band. The RIS operates in both vertical and horizontal polarizations. Experiments have been performed to validate the performance of the RIS in both near-field and far-field regions. It has been experimentally demonstrated that the proposed RIS can reflect incident beams towards desired locations with channel gain enhancement of up to 16.3 dB when appropriate phase profiles are applied.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	2025 19th European Conference on Antennas and Propagation (EuCAP)
Publisher	IEEE Xplore
Pages	1-5
Number of pages	5
ISBN (Electronic)	978-88-31299-10-7
ISBN (Print)	979-8-3503-6632-7
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.23919/EuCAP63536.2025.10999970
Publication status	Published online - 21 May 2025
Event	2025 19th European Conference on Antennas and Propagation (EuCAP) - Stockholm, Sweden Duration: 30 Mar 2025 → 4 Apr 2025

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Conference	2025 19th European Conference on Antennas and Propagation (EuCAP)
Country/Territory	Sweden
City	Stockholm
Period	30/03/25 → 4/04/25

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© 2025 European Association on Antennas and Propagation.

Funding

This work is partially supported by the Department for the Economy of Northern Ireland under U.S. Ireland Research and Development Partnership under Grant USI 199, in part by the Horizon Europe Project 6G-SANDBOX funded by UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) under Grant 101096328, and in part by the Project REASON sponsored by the Department of Science Innovation and Technology (DSIT).

Funders	Funder number
Horizon Europe Project 6G-SANDBOX
Department for the Economy	USI 199
101096328

Keywords

Power measurement
Phase measurement
Beam steering
5G mobile communication
Millimeter wave measurements
Reconfigurable intelligent surfaces
Reflection
Millimeter wave communication
P-i-n diodes
Gain
5G
6G
beam steering
channel measurements
phase shift
p-i-n diodes
power spectrum
RIS
unit cell
varactors

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Kasem, F., Machado, G., Cotton, S., Babar Abbasi, M. A., & Zelenchuk, D. (2025). Experimental Verification of Broadband mmWave RIS-Aided Communications: Codebook-Based Beam Steering and Indoor Channel Measurements. In 2025 19th European Conference on Antennas and Propagation (EuCAP) (pp. 1-5). IEEE Xplore. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.23919/EuCAP63536.2025.10999970

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Experimental Verification of Broadband mmWave RIS-Aided Communications: Codebook-Based Beam Steering and Indoor Channel Measurements. / Kasem, Ferhad; Machado, Gabriel; Cotton, Simon et al.
2025 19th European Conference on Antennas and Propagation (EuCAP). IEEE Xplore, 2025. p. 1-5.

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Experimental Verification of Broadband mmWave RIS-Aided Communications: Codebook-Based Beam Steering and Indoor Channel Measurements

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