The Statistical Estimation Averaging Method to Express the Effective Electromagnetic Parameters over a Planar Information Meta-Surface

The electromagnetic scattering of a meta-surface, formed by a honeycomb substrate or periodical arranged meta-materials, has great meanings to communication technologies. In a conventional treatment to investigate the properties of these interfaces, either a variational approach or series expansions had been applied, instead of estimating the effective permittivity or permeability by the mean value of its spatial discretized statistics due to spatiotemporal fusion. Following this, this study has re-examined the problem by the Statistic Estimation Averaging method (SEAm), through the transferred conditional structural Probability Density Functions (PDFs) to realize the structural determinations by homogenization. The parameters estimated by SEAm, which exploited the concept of a homogenized medium to express properties of a structural complex medium, has been verified of validity and accuracy by comparing with the measured results of a honeycomb structure. The method can be extended to estimate the parameters of an equivalent surface, such as randomly scattering from information metamaterials. As a new wireless communication relay technology, considering that information metamaterials can modulate the electromagnetic characteristics of communication links and wireless channels simultaneously by means of spatiotemporal sequence coding, the study also gives a preliminary proposition on state estimation method of information meta-surface, which would interpret the modulation effect of wireless channels caused by its inhomogeneity of antenna wavefront by statistical estimation average information entropy.

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This study investigates the electromagnetic scattering of a meta-surface using the Statistic Estimation Averaging method (SEAm) and verifies its validity and accuracy. It also proposes a state estimation method for information meta-surface and explains its modulation effect on wireless channels.