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Site Geometry and Calibration Uncertainties in Digital Twin-enabled Channel Estimation
Lorenzo Del Moro, Francesco Linsalata, Umberto Spagnolini +1
Fast ray tracing (RT) has stimulated the Digital Twin (DT) as an emerging technology for environment-aware communications. Since wireless propagation is governed by the interaction…
Indoor 60 GHz Radio Channel Dataset Enabling Digital Twin Construction
Davide Scazzoli, Daniele de Santis, Francesco Linsalata +3
The ambitious performance targets of modern wireless networks, including 6G and Industrial IoT (IIoT) systems, necessitate advanced hardware platforms utilizing millimeter-wave (mm…
Mobile Radio Networks and Weather Radars Dualism: Rainfall Measurement Revolution in Densely Populated Areas
Davide Tornielli Bellini, Mario Montopoli, Dario Tagliaferri +5
This study demonstrates, for the first time, how a network of cellular base stations (BSs) - the infrastructure of mobile radio networks - can be used as a distributed opportunisti…
Echo-Side Integrated Sensing and Communication via Space-Time Reconfigurable Intelligent Surfaces
Marouan Mizmizi, Stefano Tebaldini, Umberto Spagnolini
This paper presents an echo-side modulation framework for integrated sensing and communication (ISAC) systems. A space-time reconfigurable intelligent surface (ST-RIS) impresses a…
Enabling NLOS Imaging Capabilities at the Initial Access of 6G Base Stations
Davide Tornielli Bellini, Dario Tagliaferri, Pietro Grassi +3
Sensing in non-line-of-sight (NLOS) is one of the major challenges for integrated sensing and communication systems. Existing countermeasures for NLOS either use prior knowledge on…
Towards Channel Charting Enhancement with Non-Reconfigurable Intelligent Surfaces
Mahdi Maleki, Reza Agahzadeh Ayoubi, Marouan Mizmizi +1
We investigate how fully-passive electromagnetic skins (EMSs) can be engineered to enhance channel charting (CC) in dense urban environments. We employ two complementary state-of-t…
Chartwin: a Case Study on Channel Charting-aided Localization in Dynamic Digital Network Twins
Lorenzo Cazzella, Francesco Linsalata, Mahdi Maleki +3
Wireless communication systems can significantly benefit from the availability of spatially consistent representations of the wireless channel to efficiently perform a wide range o…
Channel Charting in Smart Radio Environments
Mahdi Maleki, Reza Agahzadeh Ayoubi, Marouan Mizmizi +1
This paper introduces the use of static electromagnetic skins (EMSs) to enable robust device localization via channel charting (CC) in realistic urban environments. We develop a ri…
High-Fidelity RF Mapping: Assessing Environmental Modeling in 6G Network Digital Twins
Lorenzo Cazzella, Francesco Linsalata, Damiano Badini +3
The design of accurate Digital Twins (DTs) of electromagnetic environments strictly depends on the fidelity of the underlying environmental modeling. Evaluating the differences amo…
Exploiting Age of Information in Network Digital Twins for AI-driven Real-Time Link Blockage Detection
Michele Zhu, Francesco Linsalata, Silvia Mura +3
The Line-of-Sight (LoS) identification is crucial to ensure reliable high-frequency communication links, especially those vulnerable to blockages. Network Digital Twins and Artific…
AI-empowered Real-Time Line-of-Sight Identification via Network Digital Twins
Michele Zhu, Silvia Mura, Francesco Linsalata +3
The identification of Line-of-Sight (LoS) conditions is critical for ensuring reliable high-frequency communication links, which are particularly vulnerable to blockages and rapid…
Low-Complexity CNN-Based Classification of Electroneurographic Signals
Arek Berc Gokdag, Silvia Mura, Antonio Coviello +3
Peripheral nerve interfaces (PNIs) facilitate neural recording and stimulation for treating nerve injuries, but real-time classification of electroneurographic (ENG) signals remain…
Joint Optimization of Uplink and Downlink Power in Full-Duplex Integrated Access and Backhaul
Giovanni Interdonato, Silvia Mura, Marouan Mizmizi +2
We examine the performance of an Integrated Access and Backhaul (IAB) node as a range extender for beyond-5G networks, focusing on the significant challenges of effective power all…
Hybrid MIMO in the Upper Mid-Band: Architectures, Processing, and Energy Efficiency
Marouan Mizmizi, Ahmed Alkhateeb, Umberto Spagnolini
As 6G networks evolve, the upper mid-band spectrum (7 GHz to 24 GHz), or frequency range 3 (FR3), is emerging as a promising balance between the coverage offered by sub-6 GHz bands…
Bayesian EM Digital Twins Channel Estimation
Lorenzo Del Moro, Francesco Linsalata, Marouan Mizmizi +3
This letter proposes a Bayesian channel estimation method that leverages on the a priori information provided by the Electromagnetic Digital Twin's (EM-DT) representation of the en…
Toward Digital Network Twins: Integrating Sionna RT in ns-3 for 6G Multi-RAT Networks Simulations
Roberto Pegurri, Francesco Linsalata, Eugenio Moro +2
The increasing complexity of 6G systems demands innovative tools for network management, simulation, and optimization. This work introduces the integration of ns-3 with Sionna RT,…
Optimal Planning for Heterogeneous Smart Radio Environments
Reza Aghazadeh Ayoubi, Eugenio Moro, Marouan Mizmizi +3
Smart Radio Environment (SRE) is a central paradigms in 6G and beyond, where integrating SRE components into the network planning process enables optimized performance for high-fre…
Advanced Network Planning in 6G Smart Radio Environments
Reza Aghazadeh Ayoubi, Marouan Mizmizi, Eugenio Moro +2
The growing demand for high-speed, reliable wireless connectivity in 6G networks necessitates innovative approaches to overcome the limitations of traditional Radio Access Network…
Multi-View Integrated Imaging and Communication
Davide Tornielli Bellini, Dario Tagliaferri, Marouan Mizmizi +2
Non-line-of-sight (NLOS) operation is one of the open issues to be solved for integrated sensing and communication (ISAC) systems to become a pillar of the future wireless infrastr…
Sensing in NLOS: a Stroboscopic Approach
Davide Tornielli Bellini, Dario Tagliaferri, Marouan Mizmizi +2
Sensing in non-line-of-sight (NLOS) is a well-known issue that limits the effective range of radar-like sensors. Existing approaches for NLOS sensing consider the usage of either m…
Optimized Waveform Design for OFDM-based ISAC Systems Under Limited Resource Occupancy
Silvia Mura, Dario Tagliaferri, Marouan Mizmizi +2
The sixth generation (6G) of wireless networks introduces integrated sensing and communication (ISAC), a technology in which communication and sensing functionalities are inextrica…
Stochastic Analysis of Homogeneous Wireless Networks Assisted by Intelligent Reflecting Surfaces
Ali H. Abdollahi Bafghi, Mahtab Mirmohseni, Masoumeh Nasiri-Kenari +2
In this paper, we study the impact of the existence of multiple IRSs in a homogeneous wireless network, in which all BSs, users (U), and IRSs are spatially distributed by an indepe…
Toward Real-Time Digital Twins of EM Environments: Computational Benchmark of Ray Launching Software
Michele Zhu, Lorenzo Cazzella, Francesco Linsalata +3
Digital Twin has emerged as a promising paradigm for accurately representing wireless communication electromagnetic environments. The resulting virtual representation of reality fa…
Optimizing Curved EM Skins for Opportunistic Relaying in Vehicular Networks
Reza Aghazadeh Ayoubi, Silvia Mura, Dario Tagliaferri +2
Electromagnetic skins (EMSs) are recognized for enhancing communication performance, spanning from coverage to capacity. While much of the scientific literature focuses on reconfig…