A single layer wideband metasurface absorber for electromagnetic interference minimization in Ku-band applications

In this paper, a wideband ultrathin metasurface absorber is investigated. The proposed absorber comprises a periodic array of a unit cell ring structure. The ring structure and patch inside are tuned to realize the desired frequency bandwidth. The structure has a frequency bandwidth of 7.4 GHz with a center frequency of 15 GHz and fractional bandwidth of 50%. Simulated and measured results show that the absorption at normal incidence is above 90% in the frequency range of 11.3–18.7 GHz. Furthermore, the thickness of the structure is 1.6 mm. The physical mechanism of the metasurface absorber has been analyzed and justified experimentally.

Interference Minimization Resource Allocation for V2X Communication Underlaying 5G Cellular Networks

In this paper, the resource allocation for vehicle-to-everything (V2X) underlaying 5G cellular mobile communication networks is considered. The optimization problem is modeled as a mixed binary integer nonlinear programming (MBINP), which minimizes the interference to 5G cellular users (CUs) subject to the quality of service (QoS), the total available power, the interference threshold, and the minimal transmission rate. To achieve that, the original MBINP is decomposed into three steps: transmission power initialization, subchannel assignment, and power allocation. Firstly, the minimum transmission power required by the V2X users (VUs) is set as the initial power value. Secondly, the Hungarian algorithm is used to obtain the appropriate subchannel. Finally, an optimization mechanism is proposed to the power allocation. Simulation results show that the proposed algorithm can not only ensure the minimal transmission rate of VUs but also further improve the CUs’ channel capacity under the premise of guaranteeing the QoS of the CUs.