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47 papers
5G-Shark: A Network Security Auditor for 5G Subscriber Privacy and Unauthenticated Signalling Resilience
Oscar Lasierra, Gines Garcia-Aviles, Antonio Skarmeta +1
The fifth generation of mobile networks was standardised with an explicit mandate to close long-standing privacy and security gaps, mandating the concealment of the subscriber's pe…
Enabling Beyond-Visual-Line-of-Sight Drones Operation over Open RAN 5G Networks with Slicing
Pau Baguer, Esteban Municio, Gines Garcia-Aviles +1
Among the foretold claims of the transition from 5G to 6G, Beyond-Visual-Line-of-Sight (BVLoS) drone operation has emerged as a prominent Internet-of-Robots enabler. However, safet…
Unified Evaluation Methodology for AI-Native Integrated Sensing and Communication
Filip Lemic, Andra Blaga, Francesco Devoti +24
Integrated Sensing and Communication (ISAC) couples radio sensing, data transmission, and control actions within a single closed-loop system. When Artificial Intelligence (AI)-driv…
Energy-aware Joint Orchestration of 5G and Robots: Experimental Testbed and Field Validation
Milan Groshev, Lanfranco Zanzi, Carmen Delgado +3
5G mobile networks introduce a new dimension for connecting and operating mobile robots in outdoor environments, leveraging cloud-native and offloading features of 5G networks to e…
REACT: Multi Robot Energy-Aware Orchestrator for Indoor Search and Rescue Critical Tasks
Fabio Maresca, Arnau Romero, Carmen Delgado +3
Smart factories enhance production efficiency and sustainability, but emergencies like human errors, machinery failures and natural disasters pose significant risks. In critical si…
TelecomRAG: Taming Telecom Standards with Retrieval Augmented Generation and LLMs
Girma M. Yilma, Jose A. Ayala-Romero, Andres Garcia-Saavedra +1
Large Language Models (LLMs) have immense potential to transform the telecommunications industry. They could help professionals understand complex standards, generate code, and acc…
COLoRIS: Localization-agnostic Smart Surfaces Enabling Opportunistic ISAC in 6G Networks
Guillermo Encinas-Lago, Francesco Devoti, Marco Rossanese +3
The integration of Smart Surfaces in 6G communication networks, also dubbed as Reconfigurable Intelligent Surfaces (RISs), is a promising paradigm change gaining significant attent…
MemorAI: Energy-Efficient Last-Level Cache Memory Optimization for Virtualized RANs
Ethan Sanchez Hidalgo, J. Xavier Salvat Lozano, Jose A. Ayala-Romero +3
The virtualization of Radio Access Networks (vRAN) is well on its way to become a reality, driven by its advantages such as flexibility and cost-effectiveness. However, virtualizat…
A Comprehensive Tutorial and Survey of O-RAN: Exploring Slicing-aware Architecture, Deployment Options, Use Cases, and Challenges
Khurshid Alam, Mohammad Asif Habibi, Matthias Tammen +8
Open-radio access network (O-RAN) seeks to establish the principles of openness, programmability, automation, intelligence, and hardware-software disaggregation with interoperable…
T3DRIS: Advancing Conformal RIS Design through In-depth Analysis of Mutual Coupling Effects
Placido Mursia, Francesco Devoti, Marco Rossanese +4
This paper presents a theoretical and mathematical framework for the design of a conformal reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS) that adapts to non-planar geometries, which is a…
Open Experimental Measurements of Sub-6GHz Reconfigurable Intelligent Surfaces
Marco Rossanese, Placido Mursia Andres, Garcia-Saavedra +3
In this paper, we present two datasets that we make publicly available for research. The data is collected in a testbed comprised of a custom-made Reconfigurable Intelligent Surfac…
Cellular-enabled Collaborative Robots Planning and Operations for Search-and-Rescue Scenarios
Arnau Romero, Carmen Delgado, Lanfranco Zanzi +2
Mission-critical operations, particularly in the context of Search-and-Rescue (SAR) and emergency response situations, demand optimal performance and efficiency from every componen…
Are you a robot? Detecting Autonomous Vehicles from Behavior Analysis
Fabio Maresca, Filippo Grazioli, Antonio Albanese +3
The tremendous hype around autonomous driving is eagerly calling for emerging and novel technologies to support advanced mobility use cases. As car manufactures keep developing SAE…
Fair Resource Allocation in Virtualized O-RAN Platforms
Fatih Aslan, George Iosifidis, Jose A. Ayala-Romero +2
O-RAN systems and their deployment in virtualized general-purpose computing platforms (O-Cloud) constitute a paradigm shift expected to bring unprecedented performance gains. Howev…
ORANUS: Latency-tailored Orchestration via Stochastic Network Calculus in 6G O-RAN
Oscar Adamuz-Hinojosa, Lanfranco Zanzi, Vincenzo Sciancalepore +2
The Open Radio Access Network (O-RAN)-compliant solutions lack crucial details to perform effective control loops at multiple time scales. In this vein, we propose ORANUS, an O-RAN…
RIShield: Enabling Electromagnetic Blackout in Radiation-Sensitive Environments
G. Encinas-Lago, M. Rossanese, V. Sciancalepore +2
Reconfigurable Intelligent Surfaces (RIS) have emerged as a disruptive technology with the potential to revolutionize wireless communication systems. In this paper, we present RISh…
Empirical Validation of the Impedance-Based RIS Channel Model in an Indoor Scattering Environment
Placido Mursia, Taghrid Mazloum, Frederic Munoz +7
Ensuring the precision of channel modeling plays a pivotal role in the development of wireless communication systems, and this requirement remains a persistent challenge within the…
A Leakage-based Method for Mitigation of Faulty Reconfigurable Intelligent Surfaces
N. Moghadas Gholian, M. Rossanese, P. Mursia +4
Reconfigurable Intelligent Surfaces (RISs) are expected to be massively deployed in future beyond-5th generation wireless networks, thanks to their ability to programmatically alte…
Unlocking Metasurface Practicality for B5G Networks: AI-assisted RIS Planning
Guillermo Encinas-Lago, Antonio Albanese, Vincenzo Sciancalepore +2
The advent of reconfigurable intelligent surfaces(RISs) brings along significant improvements for wireless technology on the verge of beyond-fifth-generation networks (B5G).The pro…
Analytical Modelling of Raw Data for Flow-Guided In-body Nanoscale Localization
Guillem Pascual, Filip Lemic, Carmen Delgado +1
Advancements in nanotechnology and material science are paving the way toward nanoscale devices that combine sensing, computing, data and energy storage, and wireless communication…
A Multi-Agent Deep Reinforcement Learning Approach for RAN Resource Allocation in O-RAN
Farhad Rezazadeh, Lanfranco Zanzi, Francesco Devoti +4
Artificial intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML) are considered as key enablers for realizing the full potential of fifth-generation (5G) and beyond mobile networks, particul…
Explainable AI in 6G O-RAN: A Tutorial and Survey on Architecture, Use Cases, Challenges, and Future Research
Bouziane Brik, Hatim Chergui, Lanfranco Zanzi +5
The recent O-RAN specifications promote the evolution of RAN architecture by function disaggregation, adoption of open interfaces, and instantiation of a hierarchical closed-loop c…
Optimization of RIS-Aided MIMO -- A Mutually Coupled Loaded Wire Dipole Model
H. El Hassani, X. Qian, S. Jeong +5
We consider a reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS) assisted multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) system in the presence of scattering objects. The MIMO transmitter and receive…
European 5G Security in the Wild: Reality versus Expectations
Oscar Lasierra, Gines Garcia-Aviles, Esteban Municio +2
5G cellular systems are slowly being deployed worldwide delivering the promised unprecedented levels of throughput and latency to hundreds of millions of users. At such scale secur…