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most citedXR-RF Imaging Enabled by Software-Defined Metasurfaces and Machine Learning: Foundational Vision, Technologies and Challenges

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34 papers

eess.SP2026

Electromagnetic Modeling of Deformation-Based Pinching Antennas

Dimitrios Tyrovolas, Nikos C. Sagias, Ke Guan +2

Pinching-antenna systems (PAS) rely on local perturbations of a guiding structure to radiate part of the guided electromagnetic energy, making the physical response of the resultin…

eess.SP2026

Curved Waveguide-Enabled Pinching-Antenna System (C-PAS): Communication Performance Analysis

Yayun Qu, Kunrui Cao, Tao Wang +5

Existing studies on the pinching-antenna system (PAS) assume that waveguides are deployed straight, which fails to serve communication regions with curved boundaries. To address th…

eess.SP2026

Vertical Pinching Antenna Systems (V-PAS) Aided UAV Communications

Tao Wang, Kunrui Cao, Yayun Qu +4

To address the limitation that existing horizontal pinching antenna systems (PAS) are primarily designed for ground users and confined to two-dimensional (2D) coverage, this paper…

cs.IT2026

Non-Uniform Codebook Design for Optical IRS-Assisted VLC Systems

Rashid Iqbal, Dimitrios Bozanis, Dimitrios Tyrovolas +4

Optical intelligent reflecting surfaces (OIRS) can improve the coverage of indoor visible light communication (VLC) systems, however, practical deployment requires a finite offline…

cs.IT2026

Quantized Zero-Energy RIS: Residual Phase Modeling and Outage Analysis

Dimitrios Tyrovolas, Sotiris A. Tegos, Kunrui Cao +6

Zero-energy reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (zeRISs) have recently emerged as a promising solution for enabling energy-efficient and scalable programmable wireless environments…

eess.SP2026

SCROOGE: A Physics-Aware Framework for Efficient Orchestration of RIS-Assisted Networks

Alexandros I. Papadopoulos, Sotiris Kopsinos, Dimitrios Tyrovolas +4

Reconfigurable Intelligent Surfaces (RISs) are emerging as a key enabler of Programmable Wireless Environments for 6G, but their practical integration into operational networks sti…

cs.IT2026

Enabling mmWave Communications with VCSEL-Based Light-Emitting Reconfigurable Intelligent Surfaces

Rashid Iqbal, Dimitrios Bozanis, Dimitrios Tyrovolas +4

This paper proposes a light-emitting reconfigurable intelligent surface (LeRIS) architecture that integrates vertical cavity surface-emitting lasers (VCSELs) to jointly support use…

eess.SP2026

RF-Fencing: A Novel RIS-Based Service for Proactive Covert Communications

Alexandros I. Papadopoulos, Dimitrios Tyrovolas, Alexandros Pitilakis +6

Programmable wireless environments (PWEs), empowered by reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RISes), have emerged as a transformative paradigm for next-generation networks, enablin…

eess.SP2026

Physics-Aware RIS Codebook Compilation for Near-Field Beam Focusing under Mutual Coupling and Specular Reflections

Alexandros I. Papadopoulos, Maria Anna Pistela, Dimitrios Tyrovolas +5

Next-generation wireless networks are envisioned to achieve reliable, low-latency connectivity within environments characterized by strong multipath and severe channel variability.…

eess.SP2026

Constellation Design for Robust Interference Mitigation

Athanasios T. Papadopoulos, Thrassos K. Oikonomou, Dimitrios Tyrovolas +4

This paper investigates symbol detection for single-carrier communication systems operating in the presence of additive interference with Nakagami-m statistics. Such interference d…

cs.RO2026

When Simultaneous Localization and Mapping Meets Wireless Communications: A Survey

Konstantinos Gounis, Sotiris A. Tegos, Dimitrios Tyrovolas +2

This paper surveys the state-of-the-art in the nexus of SLAM and Wireless Communications, attributing the bidirectional impact of each with a focus on visual SLAM (V-SLAM) integrat…

cs.NI2026

A Tutorial on Controlling Metasurfaces from the Network Perspective

Christos Liaskos, Evangelos Papapetrou, Kostas Katsalis +6

Metasurfaces have emerged as transformative electromagnetic structures for wireless communications, enabling the real-time control over wave propagation, yielding potential for imp…

cs.LG2026

A novel RF-enabled Non-Destructive Inspection Method through Machine Learning and Programmable Wireless Environments

Stavros Tsimpoukis, Dimitrios Tyrovolas, Sotiris Ioannidis +4

Contemporary industrial Non-Destructive Inspection (NDI) methods require sensing capabilities that operate in occluded, hazardous, or access restricted environments. Yet, the curre…

cs.NI2025

How Many Pinching Antennas Are Enough?

Dimitrios Tyrovolas, Sotiris A. Tegos, Yue Xiao +5

Programmable wireless environments (PWEs) have emerged as a key paradigm for next-generation communication networks, aiming to transform wireless propagation from an uncontrollable…

eess.SP2025

Constellation Design and Detection under Generalized Hardware Impairments

Thrassos K. Oikonomou, Dimitrios Tyrovolas, Sotiris A. Tegos +3

This paper presents a maximum-likelihood detection framework that jointly mitigates hardware (HW) impairments in both amplitude and phase. By modeling transceiver distortions as re…

eess.SP2025

RIS-Assisted 3D Spherical Splatting for Object Composition Visualization using Detection Transformers

Anastasios T. Sotiropoulos, Stavros Tsimpoukis, Dimitrios Tyrovolas +4

The pursuit of immersive and structurally aware multimedia experiences has intensified interest in sensing modalities that reconstruct objects beyond the limits of visible light. C…

cs.IT2025

Ergodic Rate Analysis of Two-State Pinching-Antenna Systems

Dimitrios Tyrovolas, Sotiris A. Tegos, Yue Xiao +5

Flexible Antenna Systems (FAS) are a key enabler of next-generation wireless networks, allowing the antenna aperture to be dynamically reconfigured to adapt to channel conditions a…

cs.IT2025

Integrated Localization, Mapping, and Communication through VCSEL-Based Light-emitting RIS (LeRIS)

Rashid Iqbal, Dimitrios Bozanis, Dimitrios Tyrovolas +5

Light-emitting reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (LeRISs) have recently emerged as a promising solution for providing the spatial awareness required for reliable millimeter-wave…

cs.ET2025

Cognitive-Radio Functionality: A Novel Configuration for STAR-RIS assisted RSMA Networks

Saeed Ibrahim, Yue Xiao, Dimitrios Tyrovolas +5

Cognitive radio rate-splitting multiple access (CR-RSMA) has emerged as a promising multiple access framework that can efficiently manage interference and adapt dynamically to hete…

cs.NI2025

Performance Analysis of Pinching-Antenna Systems

Dimitrios Tyrovolas, Sotiris A. Tegos, Panagiotis D. Diamantoulakis +3

The sixth generation of wireless networks envisions intelligent and adaptive environments capable of meeting the demands of emerging applications such as immersive extended reality…

cs.NI2024

Location-Driven Programmable Wireless Environments through Light-emitting RIS (LeRIS)

Dimitrios Bozanis, Dimitrios Tyrovolas, Vasilis K. Papanikolaou +5

As 6G wireless networks seek to enable robust and dynamic programmable wireless environments (PWEs), reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RISs) have emerged as a cornerstone for co…

cs.ET2024

Realizing RF Wavefront Copying with RIS for Future Extended Reality Applications

Stavros Tsimpoukis, Dimitrios Tyrovolas, Sotiris Ioannidis +3

Lately a new approach to Extended Reality (XR), denoted as XR-RF, has been proposed which is realized by combining Radio Frequency (RF) Imaging and programmable wireless environmen…

cs.IT2024

On the Design of Super Constellations

Thrassos K. Oikonomou, Dimitrios Tyrovolas, Sotiris A. Tegos +3

In the evolving landscape of sixth-generation (6G) wireless networks, which demand ultra high data rates, this study introduces the concept of super constellation communications. A…

cs.IT2024

Empowering Programmable Wireless Environments with Optical Anchor-based Positioning

Dimitrios Tyrovolas, Dimitrios Bozanis, Sotiris A. Tegos +5

The evolution toward sixth-generation (6G) wireless networks has introduced programmable wireless environments (PWEs) and reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RISs) as transformati…