5 papers
Taming Aerial Communication with Flight-assisted Smart Surfaces in 6G Era
Francesco Devoti, Placido Mursia, Vincenzo Sciancalepore +1
Aerial communication is gradually taking an assertive role within common societal behaviors by means of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), high-altitude platforms (HAPs), and fixed-w…
A Frequency-Agnostic RIS-based solution to control the Smart Radio Propagation Environment
Fabio Maresca, Antonio Albanese, Placido Mursia +2
The disruptive reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS) technology is steadily gaining relevance as a key element in future 6G networks. However, a one-size-fits-all RIS hardware d…
RISe of Flight: RIS-Empowered UAV Communications for Robust and Reliable Air-to-Ground Networks
Placido Mursia, Francesco Devoti, Vincenzo Sciancalepore +1
Next generation mobile networks need to expand towards uncharted territories in order to enable the digital transformation of society. In this context, aerial devices such as unman…
D2D-Aided Multi-Antenna Multicasting under Generalized CSIT
Placido Mursia, Italo Atzeni, Mari Kobayashi +1
Multicasting, where a base station (BS) wishes to convey the same message to several user equipments (UEs), represents a common yet highly challenging wireless scenario. In fact, g…
D2D-Aided Multi-Antenna Multicasting
Placido Mursia, Italo Atzeni, David Gesbert +1
Multicast services, whereby a common valuable message needs to reach a whole population of user equipments (UEs), are gaining attention on account of new applications such as vehic…