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20242026
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12 papers

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…

cs.IT2026

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…