5 papers
Nonlinear EM-based Signal Processing
Mattia Fabiani, Giulia Torcolacci, Davide Dardari
The use of high-frequency bands, combined with antenna arrays containing an extremely large number of elements (XL-MIMO), is pushing current technology to its limits in terms of ha…
A Grant-free Coded Random Access Scheme for Near-field Communications
Enrico Testi, Giulia Torcolacci, Nicolò Decarli +2
The industrial Internet of things (IIoT) is revolutionizing industrial processes by facilitating massive machine-type communications among countless interconnected devices. To effi…
Scalable RIS-Aided Beamforming Strategies for Near-Field MU-MISO via Multi-Antenna Feeder
Giulia Torcolacci, Malte Schellmann, Davide Dardari
This paper investigates a modular beamforming framework for reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS)-aided multi-user (MU) communications in the near-field regime, built upon a nov…
Extremely Large-Scale Dynamic Metasurface Antennas for 6G Near-Field Networks: Opportunities and Challenges
Haiyang Zhang, Nir Shlezinger, Giulia Torcolacci +6
6G networks will need to support higher data rates, high-precision localization, and imaging capabilities. Near-field technologies, enabled by extremely large-scale (XL)-arrays, ar…
An Overview on Over-the-air Electromagnetic Signal Processing
Davide Dardari, Giulia Torcolacci, Gianni Pasolini +1
This article provides a tutorial on over-the-air electromagnetic signal processing (ESP) for next-generation wireless networks, addressing the limitations of digital processing to…