Metasurface-Coated Devices: A New Paradigm for Energy-Efficient and Secure 6G Communications
The sixth-generation (6G) era comes with the challenge of offering highly energy-efficient and autonomous communications securely. In this direction, we report energy efficiency (EE), energy harvesting (EH), and secure performance by employing power-collecting metasurface-coated devices capable of supporting ultra-low-power (ULP) transmissions. Contrary to reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RIS), where the reflected signal can be combined at the receiver by being treated as transmitted from a relay, the proposed metasurface claddings can be deployed at either or both the transmitter and receiver. The passive metasurface-coated devices can achieve ultra-high EE and EH besides the signal detection, combined with an enhanced secrecy rate at the legitimate user and/or improved spying capabilities of the eavesdroppers under ULP transmission. To quantify their efficiency, we provide a holistic model for the utilization of the metasurface shells. Building upon the aforementioned model, preliminary results are presented that reveal the unprecedented superiority of the proposed concept compared to the RIS paradigm. Additionally, we enumerate the main advantages of the new concept and define its role in the 6G era. Finally, possible research directions are discussed.
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