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10 papers

cs.IT2026

MISO Downlink with Fluid Antenna Multiple Access

Anastasios Papazafeiropoulos

Fluid antenna multiple access (FAMA) enables each user to rapidly switch among several closely spaced ports and select the strongest received signal. Although this mechanism offers…

cs.IT2026

Stacked Intelligent Metasurface-Assisted Fluid Antenna Systems: Outage Probability

Anastasios Papazafeiropoulos

Stacked intelligent metasurfaces (SIMs) and fluid antenna systems (FAS) are emerging technologies for wave-domain and spatial signal manipulation, respectively.This letter proposes…

cs.LG2026

FRIEND: Federated Learning for Joint Optimization of multi-RIS Configuration and Eavesdropper Intelligent Detection in B5G Networks

Maria Lamprini A. Bartsioka, Ioannis A. Bartsiokas, Anastasios K. Papazafeiropoulos +3

As wireless systems evolve toward Beyond 5G (B5G), the adoption of cell-free (CF) millimeter-wave (mmWave) architectures combined with Reconfigurable Intelligent Surfaces (RIS) is…

eess.SP2026

Achievable Rate Optimization for Large Flexible Intelligent Metasurface Assisted Downlink MISO under Statistical CSI

Ling He, Vaibhav Kumar, Anastasios Papazafeiropoulos +3

The integration of electromagnetic metasurfaces into wireless communications enables intelligent control of the propagation environment. Recently, flexible intelligent metasurfaces…

eess.SP2025

Flexible Intelligent Metasurface for Downlink Communications under Statistical CSI

Vaibhav Kumar, Anastasios Papazafeiropoulos, Pandelis Kourtessis +4

Flexible intelligent metasurface (FIM) is a recently developed, groundbreaking hardware technology with promising potential for 6G wireless systems. Unlike conventional rigid anten…

cs.IT2025

On the Ergodic Capacity for SIM-Aided Holographic MIMO Communications

Anastasios Papazafeiropoulos, Ioannis Bartsiokas, Dimitra I. Kaklamani +1

We derive a novel closed-form lower bound on the ergodic capacity of holographic multiple-input multiple-output (HMIMO) systems enhanced by stacked intelligent metasurfaces (SIMs)…