Abstract: Provided herein are reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RIS) including a surface, a source tile positioned on or proximate a first side of the surface and including a source power layer including a power amplifier and a transmitter coil configured to generate an electromagnetic field and a radio frequency (RF) layer configured to receive power from the source electromagnetic field, and a patch antenna grid for reflecting a RF signal, and a plurality of extender tiles positioned on or proximate the first side of the surface, the extender tiles each including an extender power layer including a passive transceiver coil for receiving the source electromagnetic field and relaying the source electromagnetic field as an extender electromagnetic field and an extender RF layer configured to receive power from the extender electromagnetic field, and an extender patch antenna grid for reflecting at least one of the RF signal or a second RF signal.

Abstract: Provided herein are systems and methods for implementing an over-the-air neural network (OANN) including by receiving, at a relay receiver of a relay node, a signal of interest from a transmitter, directionally re-transmitting the signal of interest from each of a plurality of relay transmitters of the relay node to a corresponding one of a plurality of programmable reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RIS), reflecting, by each of the plurality of RIS, the corresponding re-transmitted signal of interest, and adjusting, by a neural network controller, a reflection angle of each of the plurality of RIS to direct the reflected signals of interest to combine in a deterministic manner at the relay receiver.

Abstract: Provided herein are methods and apparatus for a self-synchronizing software defined radio apparatus wherein the method includes instructing, by a leader module of an RF clock module of the software defined radio apparatus and via a controller module comprising a central coordinator operative to provide a data bridge, a radio frequency (RF) transceiver to transmit a two-tone frequency signal at f1 and f2 over air, separated by a desired input clock frequency, the RF transceiver operative to receive and transmit RF signals, receiving, at a follower module, a transmitted signal, extracting, by the follower module, an envelope of the received signal, and passing the received signal through a filter to obtain a reference clock without modifying existing physical/link layer protocols.