A Generalized Electromagnetic-Domain Channel Modeling for LOS Holographic MIMO with Arbitrary Surface Placements

Abstract: Holographic multiple-input multiple-output (H-MIMO) is considered as one of the most promising technologies to enable future wireless communications in supporting the expected extreme requirements, such as high energy and spectral efficiency. Empowered by the powerful capability in electromagnetic (EM) wave manipulations, H-MIMO has the potential to reach the fundamental limit of the wireless environment, and opens up the possibility of signal processing in the EM-domain, which needs to be depicted carefully from an EM perspective, especially the wireless channel. To this aim, we study the line-of-sight (LOS) H-MIMO communications with arbitrary surface placements and establish an exact expression of the wireless channel in the EM-domain. To further obtain a more explicit and computationally-efficient channel models, we solve the implicit integrals of the exact channel model with moderate and reasonable assumptions. Numerical studies are executed and the results show good agreements of our established approximated channel models to the exact channel model.