6 papers
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…
Viterbi State Selection for Discrete Pinching Antenna Systems
Victoria E. Galanopoulou, Thrassos K. Oikonomou, Odysseas G. Karagiannidis +2
Pinching antennas enable dynamic control of electromagnetic wave propagation through reconfigurable radiating structures, but selecting an optimal subset of antennas remains a comb…
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…
OFDMA for Pinching Antenna Systems
Thrassos K. Oikonomou, Sotiris A. Tegos, Panagiotis D. Diamantoulakis +2
Pinching-antenna (PA) systems route millimeter wave (mmWave) signals through a leaky waveguide and radiate them at "pinch" apertures, offering low-cost line-of-sight (LoS) coverage…
Elliptic Curve Modulation (ECM) for Extremely Robust Physical Layer Encryption
Thrassos K. Oikonomou, George K. Karagiannidis
This paper introduces Elliptic Curve Modulation (ECM), a novel modulation scheme that can be leveraged to effectively shuffle transmitted data while maintaining symbol error probab…
Cross-Band Modulation Design for Hybrid RF-Optical Systems
Thrassos K. Oikonomou, Sotiris A. Tegos, Panagiotis D. Diamantoulakis +1
We present a novel cross-band modulation framework that combines 3D modulation in the RF domain with intensity modulation and direct detection in the optical domain, the first such…