In Part 4 of our 6G White Paper Breakdown, we enter the phase where the technology moves from your device to the environment around you. Section 4, “Intelligent Communication Environments,” details how 6G aims to turn walls, ceilings, and building facades into active components of the wireless network.
We explore the technology required to “steer beams” and control signal propagation, including Meta-Surfaces, Graphene-Based Plasmonic Antennas, and MEMS (Micro-Electrical-Mechanical Systems). But as we dig into the definitions, the darker side of this technology emerges. From the connection between MEMS and “Smart Dust” to the true meaning of the “SMART” acronym, we analyze how these “Intelligent Environments” are designed for total surveillance and control.
Urban’s Notes & Research on Programmable Metasurfaces: https://docs.urbanodyssey.xyz/biodigital-convergence/metasurfaces.html
In This Video:
Controlling the Medium: How 6G overcomes signal loss by manipulating the environment itself.
MEMS & Smart Dust: The connection between micro-switches and inhalable infrastructure.
Plasmonics: Understanding the physics of nano-scale antennas and biophotonics.
The “Meta” Meaning: Why the use of “Meta-Atoms” and “Meta-Surfaces” is significant.
Physical Layer Security: How the system acts as a central controller to verify user “authenticity.”
The Five Layers of “Intelligent Communication Environments”
“Recent research under the EU Research Project ‘‘VisorSurf’’ has demonstrated a structure with five main layers, which are (from top to bottom)”
EM behavior layer (Metamaterial Plane)
The Actuation and Sensing layer
The shielding layer
The computing layer
The communication layer
(See the additional links provided in the description of this YouTube Video by VisorSurf.eu Project)
Meta = Dead
Key Definitions
Download the Devil’s Dictionary: https://anab-whitehouse.com/Devil's-Dictionary.pdf
Urban’s Imgur Album of Sharable Images: https://imgur.com/a/devils-dictionary-by-anab-whitehouse-rvm3d2i
“Mesh Networking”
This is a form of networking architecture which arranges the nodes (whether switches, bridges, or human beings) of a network in non-hierarchical, self-organizing, fluid ways that enhance the degrees of freedom in which data is routed through a network. In addition, among other things, this sort of communication topology provides a certain amount of fault-tolerance for a network since if a certain number of nodes fail or do not perform in a functional manner, nonetheless, there are alternative pathways for connecting nodes which enable communication, signaling, or data transfer to continue without disruption.
Although the terms “non-hierarchical” and “self-organizing” are used to describe how a mesh network operates, nevertheless, such networks are intended to serve certain purposes and, therefore, there are structural and dynamic features within these networks which ensure that the purposes of the network will be served and, as a result, ‘non-hierarchical’ and ‘self-organizing’ dynamics take place within a set of constraints and degrees of freedom that are organized in ways that regulate the network so that it will be able to realize its purposes.
The “Borg” of Star Trek fame would seem to be a mesh network. Those who have power (whether in: Government, religion, corporations, the military, the media, unions, banking, science, or education) seek to establish mesh networks in conjunction with the people who are part of those networks to ensure that -- notwithstanding the presence of nodes who, for whatever reason, might fail or operate in a dysfunctional manner -- nonetheless, the purposes for which a given network has been established will serve the overseers of that network. Therefore, there are “corrective dynamics” or algorithms (often subtle and hidden) which are present in such systems to ensure that non-hierarchical and self-organizing activities will only occur in ways that will lead to the realization of a given network’s underlying purposes.
Currently, there is no set of common standards of interoperability governing mesh networking. This is what the International Bank of Settlements, WEF, transhumanists, technocrats, the W.H.O., and corporations like Blackrock, Vanguard, and State Street are seeking to establish … mesh networks in which all nodes (notwithstanding occasional node failures and node dysfunctions here and there) will help realize the purposes of one-world universal governance across all networks.
(Anab Whitehouse’s The Devil’s Dictionary)
“Plasmonics”
“MEMS: Micro-Electrical-Magnetic-Systems/Switches”
“Beam Steering”
“IEEE: Inst. of Electrical & Electronics Engineers”
“Internet of Things”
This series of videos will be setup on a section-by-section basis and then, following completion, will be edited into a final complete video.
Seeing as this paper covers so much information, I thought it would be best to present the information in chunks, this will make it easier to reference back to it in the future.
Previous Sections
Unmanned Future(s) Video
Downloads & Resources
(This page has all of the documents, dictionaries, playlists and more that you will need to follow along and/or to look up words you don’t know)
The document we’re reading is located in the very beginning of the “Section 3 - White Papers” section of the “Psinergy3” manual.
Technology Spreadsheet: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/e/2PACX-1vTjFubVoA60qFjP6fquRlSxMDtgLLDOt_jTgKaKxUwkUfhMeTXTJM8M5TMzip162Hqq64mfN4qDtEAq/pubhtml
The ISO-20022 Standard: https://iso20022.officialurban.com
Internet of Nano Things: https://iont.officialurban.com
Juxtaposition1 Glossary: https://docs.urbanodyssey.xyz/biodigital-convergence/juxta-glossary.html
Urban’s Dictionaries: https://drive.google.com/drive/u/0/folders/1qbIKb9GEs25cFIC4lEz3g6IbVCyv8ANc
Articles by Juxtaposition1
Please, if you haven’t, be sure to follow Juxtaposition1 as he has at least twice the amount of expertise on these topics as I do. These topics are incredibly advanced, and it takes significant time to fully understand how they work, both individually and when they come together (used in combination). It cannot be understated how important it is to find individuals who have said knowledge and who can also articulate/communicate it well.
Urban & Juxtaposition1 are currently running a weekly podcast series on a variety of topics: https://theofficialurban.substack.com/s/urban-juxtaposition1
Juxtaposition1 & Sabrina Wallace
Many of these videos discuss Terahertz Radiation and Sabrina does very well to explain it:
More Information & Research
These citations & links were provided in the description of the YouTube Video at the beginning of the post:
Introducing the Programmable Wireless Environments!
Liaskos C., Tsioliaridou A., Pitsillides A., Ioannidis S, Akyildiz IF,
“Using any Surface to Realize a New Paradigm for Wireless Communications”.
Communications of the ACM, 2018.
http://users.ics.forth.gr/cliaskos/files/jrn/CACM18.pdf
A Ray-tracing-based Evaluation of the Programmable Wireless Environment potential.
Liaskos C., Nie S., Tsioliaridou A., Pitsillides A., Ioannidis S, Akyildiz IF.
“A New Wireless Communication Paradigm through Software-controlled Metasurfaces”.
IEEE Communications Magazine, 2018.
http://arxiv.org/abs/1806.01792
(WoWMoM’18 Conference version: http://arxiv.org/abs/1805.06677 )
A look into how we expect to design the nanocomputers and nanonetworks inside metamaterials.
S. Abadal, C. Liaskos, A. Tsioliaridou, S. Ioannidis, A. Pitsillides, J. Solé-Pareta, E. Alarcón, A. Cabellos, “Computing and Communications for the Software-Defined Metamaterial Paradigm: A Context Analysis”, IEEE Access, 2017.
http://www.n3cat.upc.edu/papers/Computing-and-Communications-for-the-Software-Defined-Metamaterial-Paradigm-A-Context-Analysis.pdf
What if the internal nanonetworks of a metamaterial are wireless?
S. Abadal, A. Mestres, J. Torrellas, E. Alarcón, and A. Cabellos-Aparicio,
"Medium Access Control in Wireless Network-on-Chip: A Context Analysis",
IEEE Communications Magazine, 2018.
http://iacoma.cs.uiuc.edu/iacoma-papers/comm2018.pdf
Challenges of Nano-communications within metamaterials.
X. Timoneda, S. Abadal, A. Cabellos-Aparicio, D. Manessis, J. Zhou, A. Franques, J. Torrellas, E. Alarcon. “Millimeter-Wave Propagation within a Computer Chip Package”,
In Proceedings of the International Symposium on Circuits and Systems (ISCAS), 2018.
http://www.n3cat.upc.edu/papers/Millimeter-Wave_Propagation_within_a_Computer_Chip_Package.pdf
Intelligent metasurfaces where unit cells communicate with each other and provide multiple functions.
A. C. Tasolamprou, M. S. Mirmoosa, O. Tsilipakos, A. Pitilakis, F. Liu, S. Abadal, A. Cabellos-Aparicio, E. Alarcon, C. Liaskos, N. V. Kantartzis, S. Tretyakov, M. Kafesaki, E. N. Economou, C. M. Soukoulis,
''Intercell Wireless Communication in Software-defined Metasurfaces','
IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems (ISCAS), 2018.
http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?tp=&arnumber=8351865&isnumber=8350884
What functionalities can programmable metasurfaces provide?
F. Liu, A. Pitilakis, M. S. Mirmoosa, O. Tsilipakos, X. Wang, A. C. Tasolamprou, S. Abadal, A. Cabellos-Aparicio, E. Alarcon, C. Liaskos, N. V. Kantartzis, M. Kafesaki, E. N. Economou, C. M. Soukoulis, S. Tretyakov,
''Programmable Metasurfaces: State of the Art and Prospects'
IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems (ISCAS), 2018.
http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?tp=&arnumber=8351817&isnumber=8350884
Ultra-thin metasurfaces performing arbitrarily phase manipulation to broadband pulses.
Odysseas Tsilipakos, Thomas Koschny, and Costas M. Soukoulis,
“Antimatched Electromagnetic Metasurfaces for Broadband Arbitrary Phase Manipulation in Reflection”,
ACS Photonics, 2018.
https://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/acsphotonics.7b01415
