Signal correction based on environmental factors in metasurfaces for non-terrestrial network transcoder nodes

A system, comprising:

• a trained model that obtains environmental data representative of current environmental conditions;
• and
• a unit cell, the unit cell comprising a resonating metallic portion, and a slotted plane comprising a first opening configured to pass an impinging electromagnetic wave to a first microstrip line coupled to the unit cell, the unit cell coupled to:
• a power amplifier that amplifies the impinging electromagnetic wave into an amplified electromagnetic wave, and
• a variable attenuator device that attenuates the amplified electromagnetic wave to output an attenuated instance of the amplified electromagnetic wave to a second microstrip line coupled to the unit cell,
• wherein the power amplifier power and the variable attenuator device are coupled to the trained model, and the trained model adaptively controls the power amplifier and the variable attenuator device based on predicted network communication conditions estimated from the environmental data, and
• wherein the slotted plane further comprises a second opening configured to pass the attenuated instance of the amplified electromagnetic wave from the second microstrip line to the resonating metallic portion to redirect the attenuated instance of the amplified electromagnetic wave as a redirected attenuated instance of the amplified electromagnetic wave.

A system, comprising:

• a controller;
• and
• a group of unit cells of a reconfigurable intelligent surface, the group of unit cells electrically coupled to signal processing circuitry shared by the group, the signal processing circuitry comprising a power amplifier and a variable attenuator device, wherein the controller controls the variable attenuator device, based on network condition data, to select among respective resistor networks corresponding to respective different attenuation levels for the attenuated electromagnetic signals;
• and
• each unit cell of the group of unit cells comprising:
• a respective resonating metallic pattern corresponding to a respective resonating frequency;
• and
• a respective slotted plane comprising a respective first opening that passes impinging electromagnetic signals to a first contact of a first microstrip line, the first microstrip line electrically coupled to:
• an input of the signal processing circuitry to obtain processed electromagnetic signals comprising at least one of:
• amplified electromagnetic signals, or attenuated electromagnetic signals, and
• an output of the signal processing circuitry coupled to a second contact of a second microstrip line that passes the processed electromagnetic signals through a respective second opening of the respective slotted plane to the respective resonating metallic pattern to redirect the impinging electromagnetic signals as respective processed electromagnetic signals.