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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…