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Using any surface to realize a new paradigm for wireless communications

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Programmable wireless environments use unique customizable software processes rather than traditional rigid channel models.

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      cover image Communications of the ACM
      Communications of the ACM  Volume 61, Issue 11
      November 2018
      156 pages
      ISSN:0001-0782
      EISSN:1557-7317
      DOI:10.1145/3289258
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