Cascaded Composite Turbulence and Misalignment: Statistical Characterization and Applications to Reconfigurable Intelligent Surface-Empowered Wireless Systems
Abstract: Reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RISs)-enabled high-frequency wireless systems will support reliability and data rate-hungry applications. However, misalignment and turbulence affect such systems. Most performance assessments of RIS-empowered wireless systems ignore these phenomena. This motivates the…