This invention belongs to the field of radio
positioning technology, specifically relating to a
signal source positioning method based on a smart metasurface assisted by maximum parallelism. Utilizing the phase
reconfigurability of the smart metasurface, a zero-mean phase coefficient is constructed. The user-access point direct channel matrix and the user-smart metasurface-access point cascaded channel
tensor are separated, and parallelism operations are performed with the array response
codebook matrix of the direct channel and the array response
codebook tensor of the cascaded channel, respectively, to obtain the parallelism
spatial spectrum of the user-access point and user-smart metasurface. The user's position is estimated by finding the angle corresponding to the peak of the
spatial spectrum and using the
least squares method. Compared to the traditional 2D-MUSIC method, which requires two-dimensional peak search, this invention employs two one-dimensional peak searches, significantly reducing computational and search complexity. Simultaneously, by
setting time-varying smart metasurface phase coefficients, this invention maximizes the spatial
degrees of freedom of the smart metasurface through spatiotemporal transformation.