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Minimum-Latency Scheduling For Partial-Information Multiple Access Schemes
Alberto Rech, Stefano Tomasin, Lorenzo Vangelista +1
Partial-information multiple access (PIMA) is an orthogonal multiple access (OMA) uplink scheme where time is divided into frames, each composed of two parts. The first part is use…
Semi-Grant-Free Orthogonal Multiple Access with Partial-Information for Short Packet Transmissions
Alberto Rech, Stefano Tomasin, Lorenzo Vangelista +1
Next-generation internet-of-things (IoT) networks require extremely low latency, complexity, and collision probability. We introduce the novel partial-information multiple access (…
Downlink Clustering-Based Scheduling of IRS-Assisted Communications With Reconfiguration Constraints
Alberto Rech, Matteo Pagin, Leonardo Badia +4
Intelligent reflecting surfaces (IRSs) are being widely investigated as a potential low-cost and energy-efficient alternative to active relays for improving coverage in next-genera…
Estimation of Interference Correlation in mmWave Cellular Systems
Stefano Tomasin, Raphael Hasler, Antonia M. Tulino +1
We consider a cellular network, where the uplink transmissions to a base station (BS) are interferenced by other devices, a condition that may occur, e.g., in cell-free networks or…
Partial-Information Multiple Access Protocol for Orthogonal Transmissions
Alberto Rech, Stefano Tomasin, Lorenzo Vangelista +1
With the stringent requirements introduced by the new sixth-generation (6G) internet-of-things (IoT) use cases, traditional approaches to multiple access control have started to sh…
Secret-Key-Agreement Advantage Distillation With Quantization Correction
Francesco Ardizzon, Francesco Giurisato, Stefano Tomasin
We propose a novel advantage distillation strategy for physical layer-based secret-key-agreement (SKA). We consider a scenario where Alice and Bob aim at extracting a common bit se…
Downlink TDMA Scheduling for IRS-aided Communications with Block-Static Constraints
Alberto Rech, Matteo Pagin, Stefano Tomasin +5
Intelligent reflecting surfaces (IRSs) are being studied as possible low-cost energy-efficient alternatives to active relays, with the goal of solving the coverage issues of millim…
Intelligent Reflecting Surfaces Assisted Millimeter Wave MIMO Full Duplex Systems
Chandan Kumar Sheemar, Stefano Tomasin, Dirk Slock +1
Full duplex (FD) systems suffer from very high hardware cost and high power consumption to mitigate the self-interference (SI) in the analog domain. Moreover, in millimeter wave (m…
Learning The Likelihood Test With One-Class Classifiers for Physical Layer Authentication
Francesco Ardizzon, Stefano Tomasin
In physical layer authentication (PLA) mechanisms, a verifier decides whether a received message has been transmitted by a legitimate user or an intruder, according to some feature…
Machine Learning-Based Distributed Authentication of UWAN Nodes with Limited Shared Information
Francesco Ardizzon, Roee Diamant, Paolo Casari +1
We propose a technique to authenticate received packets in underwater acoustic networks based on the physical layer features of the underwater acoustic channel (UWAC). Several sens…
Unmanned Aerial Vehicles Meet Reflective Intelligent Surfaces to Improve Coverage and Secrecy
Alessandro Brighente, Mauro Conti, Hanan Idriss +1
The high configurability and low cost of Reflective Intelligent Surfaces (RISs) made them a promising solution for enhancing the capabilities of Beyond Fifth-Generation (B5G) netwo…
End-to-End Simulation of 5G Networks Assisted by IRS and AF Relays
Matteo Pagin, Marco Giordani, Amir Ashtari Gargari +5
The high propagation and penetration loss experienced at millimeter wave (mmWave) frequencies requires ultra-dense deployments of 5th generation (5G) base stations, which may be in…
Virtual Private Mobile Network with Multiple Gateways for B5G Location Privacy
Stefano Tomasin, Javier German Luzon Hidalgo
In a beyond-5G (B5G) scenario, we consider a virtual private mobile network (VPMN), i.e., a set of user equipments (UEs) directly communicating in a device-to-device (D2D) fashion,…
Coordinated Random Access for Industrial IoT With Correlated Traffic By Reinforcement-Learning
Alberto Rech, Stefano Tomasin
We propose a coordinated random access scheme for industrial internet-of-things (IIoT) scenarios, with machine-type devices (MTDs) generating sporadic correlated traffic. This occu…
Maximum-Rate Optimization of Hybrid Intelligent Reflective Surface and Relay Systems
Alberto Rech, Federico Moretto, Stefano Tomasin
We consider a wireless communication system, where a transmitting source is assisted by both a reconfigurable intelligent reflecting surface (IRS) and a decode-and-forward half-dup…
Interference Prediction for Low-Complexity Link Adaptation in Beyond 5G Ultra-Reliable Low-Latency Communications
Alessandro Brighente, Jafar Mohammadi, Paolo Baracca +2
Traditional link adaptation (LA) schemes in cellular network must be revised for networks beyond the fifth generation (b5G), to guarantee the strict latency and reliability require…
Game-Theoretic Mode Scheduling for Dynamic TDD in 5G Systems
Chandan Kumar Sheemar, Leonardo Badia, Stefano Tomasin
Dynamic time-division duplexing (TDD) enables independent uplink/downlink mode scheduling at each cell, based on the local traffic. However, this creates cross-interference among c…
Localization Attack by Precoder Feedback Overhearing in 5G Networks and Countermeasures
Stefan Roth, Stefano Tomasin, Marco Maso +1
In fifth-generation (5G) cellular networks, users feed back to the base station the index of the precoder (from a codebook) to be used for downlink transmission. The precoder is st…
Cascaded WLAN-FWA Networking and Computing Architecture for Pervasive In-Home Healthcare
Sergio Martiradonna, Giulia Cisotto, Gennaro Boggia +3
Pervasive healthcare is a promising assisted-living solution for chronic patients. However, current cutting-edge communication technologies are not able to strictly meet the requir…
Machine Learning for Intelligent Authentication in 5G-and-Beyond Wireless Networks
He Fang, Xianbin Wang, Stefano Tomasin
The fifth generation (5G) and beyond wireless networks are critical to support diverse vertical applications by connecting heterogeneous devices and machines, which directly increa…
Performance Requirements of Advanced Healthcare Services over Future Cellular Systems
Giulia Cisotto, Edoardo Casarin, Stefano Tomasin
The fifth generation (5G) of communication systems has ambitious targets of data rate, end-to-end latency, and connection availability, while the deployment of a new flexible netwo…
Total Energy Efficiency of TD- and FD-MRC Receivers for Massive MIMO Uplink
Jose Carlos Marinello, Cristiano Panazio, Taufik Abrao +1
This paper proposes a detailed investigation on the uplink (UL) performance of massive multiple-input-multiple-output (maMIMO) systems employing maximum-ratio combining at the rece…
Machine Learning For In-Region Location Verification In Wireless Networks
Alessandro Brighente, Francesco Formaggio, Giorgio Maria Di Nunzio +1
In-region location verification (IRLV) aims at verifying whether a user is inside a region of interest (ROI). In wireless networks, IRLV can exploit the features of the channel bet…
Location-Verification and Network Planning via Machine Learning Approaches
Alessandro Brighente, Francesco Formaggio, Marco Centenaro +2
In-region location verification (IRLV) in wireless networks is the problem of deciding if user equipment (UE) is transmitting from inside or outside a specific physical region (e.g…