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20202026
most citedA Comparison between Network-Controlled Repeaters and Reconfigurable Intelligent Surfaces

8 citations · 12 across the 13 of their papers we have counts for

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13 papers

cs.NI2026

User-Mobility-Aware Optimization of Fiber Placement in Hybrid Fiber-IAB Networks

Piotr Lechowicz, Charitha Madapatha, Carlos Natalino +2

Metaheuristic optimization of hybrid fiber-IAB networks demonstrates that integrating user dynamics into topology design enables more adaptive and cost-efficient backhaul architect…

cs.NI2026

Energy-Efficient FSO Reconfiguration under User Mobility in Hybrid Fiber-IAB Backhaul

Piotr Lechowicz, Charitha Madapatha, Carlos Natalino +2

User mobility creates stochastic, time-varying backhaul demand that static capacity provisioning cannot match. We propose a closed-loop, load-aware hysteresis controller for hybrid…

cs.IT2026

RIS-Assisted D-MIMO for Energy-Efficient 6G Indoor Networks

Akshay Vayal Parambath, Jose Flordelis, Venkatesh Tentu +4

We propose an alternating optimization framework for maximizing energy efficiency (EE) in reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS) assisted distributed MIMO (D-MIMO) systems under…

cs.NI2025★ 2 cited

Joint Fiber and Free Space Optical Infrastructure Planning for Hybrid Integrated Access and Backhaul Networks

Charitha Madapatha, Piotr Lechowicz, Carlos Natalino +2

Integrated access and backhaul (IAB) is one of the promising techniques for 5G networks and beyond (6G), in which the same node/hardware is used to provide both backhaul and cellul…

cs.IT2025

Reconfigurable Intelligent Surfaces-Assisted Integrated Access and Backhaul

Charitha Madapatha, Behrooz Makki, Hao Guo +1

In this paper, we study the impact of reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RISs) on the coverage extension of integrated access and backhaul (IAB) networks. Particularly, using a f…

cs.IT2024★ 1 cited

Integrated Communication, Localization, and Sensing in 6G D-MIMO Networks

Hao Guo, Henk Wymeersch, Behrooz Makki +10

Future generations of mobile networks call for concurrent sensing and communication functionalities in the same hardware and/or spectrum. Compared to communication, sensing service…

cs.IT2023

Beamforming in Wireless Coded-Caching Systems

Sneha Madhusudan, Charitha Madapatha, Behrooz Makki +2

Increased capacity in the access network poses capacity challenges on the transport network due to the aggregated traffic. However, there are spatial and time correlation in the us…

cs.NI2022★ 8 cited

A Comparison between Network-Controlled Repeaters and Reconfigurable Intelligent Surfaces

Hao Guo, Charitha Madapatha, Behrooz Makki +4

Network-controlled repeater (NCR) has been recently considered as a study-item in 3GPP Release 18, and the discussions are continuing in a work-item. In this paper, we introduce th…

cs.NI2022

Constrained Deployment Optimization in Integrated Access and Backhaul Networks

Charitha Madapatha, Behrooz Makki, Hao Guo +1

Integrated access and backhaul (IAB) is one of the promising techniques for 5G networks and beyond (6G), in which the same node/hardware is used to provide both backhaul and cellul…

cs.NI2021

Uplink Power Control in Integrated Access and Backhaul Networks

Olalekan Peter Adare, Haitham Babbili, Charitha Madapatha +2

Integrated access and backhaul (IAB) network is a novel radio access network (RAN) solution, enabling network densification for 5G and beyond. In this paper, we use power control c…

eess.SP2021★ 1 cited

Joint Scheduling and Throughput Maximization in Self-backhauled Millimeter Wave Cellular Networks

Chao Fang, Charitha Madapatha, Behrooz Makki +1

Integrated access and backhaul (IAB) networks have the potential to provide high data rate in both access and backhaul networks by sharing the same spectrum. Due to the dense deplo…

cs.NI2021

On Topology Optimization and Routing in Integrated Access and Backhaul Networks: A Genetic Algorithm-based Approach

Charitha Madapatha, Behrooz Makki, Ajmal Muhammad +3

In this paper, we study the problem of topology optimization and routing in integrated access and backhaul (IAB) networks, as one of the promising techniques for evolving 5G networ…

cs.IT2020

On Integrated Access and Backhaul Networks: Current Status and Potentials

Charitha Madapatha, Behrooz Makki, Chao Fang +4

In this paper, we introduce and study the potentials and challenges of integrated access and backhaul (IAB) as one of the promising techniques for evolving 5G networks. We study IA…