Wireless sensing with reconfigurable intelligent surface (ris) assistance

A sensing node, comprising:

• one or more memories;
• one or more transceivers;
• and
• one or more processors communicatively coupled to the one or more memories and the one or more transceivers, the one or more processors, either alone or in combination, configured to:
• transmit, via the one or more transceivers, to a sensing server, an indication that one or more reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RIS) are present in an environment of the sensing node;
• receive, via the one or more transceivers, a configuration of one or more sensing reference signals;
• transmit, via the one or more transceivers, to the sensing server, a first sensing measurement report including one or more first sensing measurements of the one or more sensing reference signals obtained during a period of time that the one or more RIS are not configured to reflect the one or more sensing reference signals;
• and
• transmit, via the one or more transceivers, to the sensing server, a second sensing measurement report including one or more second sensing measurements of the one or more sensing reference signals obtained during a period of time that the one or more RIS are configured to reflect the one or more sensing reference signals.

A controller, comprising:

• one or more memories;
• one or more transceivers;
• and
• one or more processors communicatively coupled to the one or more memories and the one or more transceivers, the one or more processors, either alone or in combination, configured to:
• receive, via the one or more transceivers, from a first network node, a first request to reflect one of more first wireless signals during a first period of time, wherein the first request indicates a first priority associated with the one or more first wireless signals;
• receive, via the one or more transceivers, from a second network node, a second request to reflect one of more second wireless signals during the first period of time, wherein the second request indicates a second priority associated with the one or more second wireless signals;
• and
• configure the RIS to reflect the one or more first wireless signals during the first period of time based on the first priority being higher than the second priority.

A network node, comprising:

• one or more memories;
• one or more transceivers;
• and
• one or more processors communicatively coupled to the one or more memories and the one or more transceivers, the one or more processors, either alone or in combination, configured to:
• transmit, via the one or more transceivers, to a controller of a reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS), a first request for the RIS to reflect one of more first wireless signals during a first period of time, wherein the first request indicates a first priority associated with the one or more first wireless signals;
• and
• receive, via the one or more transceivers, reflections of the one of more first wireless signals during the first period of time based on the first priority being higher than priorities of other wireless signals requested to be reflected by the RIS during the first period of time.