ECCS-EPSRC: Towards Quantum-assisted Reconfigurable Indoor Wireless Environments

室内场景已成为最拥挤、最具争议性和最具竞争力的无线环境之一。随着弹性万物互联(IoE)和第四次工业革命(Industry 4.0)基础设施的需求，我们希望在有限的室内环境中连接数千台设备，相互干扰，争夺有限的电磁频谱。虽然不断增长的数据流量需求满足了有限的空间和拥挤的频谱，但它创造了一个明显的和当前的技术挑战，以及创新的机会。该方案的研究目标是研究新的基本通信模型和方案，动态规划和定制室内无线传播环境，以增强无线通信。这一目标是通过综合波-混沌动力学的物理、随机矩阵理论的数学、可重构电磁表面的工程以及绝热量子退火炉的计算能力来实现的。该工作包括三个部分：(1)用于复杂受限室内环境中波动物理统计分析的严格数学模型；(2)基于可重构智能曲面的波浪混沌的配置和控制；(3)基于量子的、超快速的可重构智能曲面配置的大规模优化。

Indoor scenario has emerged as one of the most congested, contested, and competitive wireless environments. With the need of resilient Internet of Everything (IoE) and Fourth Industrial Revolution (Industry 4.0) infrastructures, we expect to connect thousands of devices within a confined indoor environment, interfering to each other and contending for limited electromagnetic spectrum. While the growing demand for data traffic meets confined space and congested spectrum, it creates a clear andpresent technical challenge, and opportunities for innovation. The research objective of this proposal is to investigate new fundamental communication models and schemes, which dynamically program and customize indoor wireless propagation environments for enhanced wireless communication. This objective is attained by integrating the physics of wave-chaotic dynamics, the mathematics of random matrix theory, the engineering of reconfigurable electromagnetic surfaces, and the computing power of adiabatic quantum annealer. The proposed work consists of three components: (1) rigorous mathematical model for the statistical analysis of wave physics in complex confined indoor environment; (2) the configuration and control of wave chaos using reconfigurable intelligent surfaces; (3) Quantum-enabled, ultra-fast large-scale optimization of reconfigurable intelligent surface configuration.