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20152025
most citedRealizing the Tactile Internet: Haptic Communications over Next Generation 5G Cellular Networks

242 citations · 382 across the 28 of their papers we have counts for

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30 papers

cs.ET2025

Anchor-and-Connect: Robotic Aerial Base Stations Transforming 6G Infrastructure

Wen Shang, Yuan Liao, Vasilis Friderikos +1

Despite the significant attention that aerial base stations (ABSs) have received recently, their practical implementation is severely weakened by their limited endurance due to the…

cs.NI2024

Joint Robotic Aerial Base Station Deployment and Wireless Backhauling in 6G Multi-hop Networks

Wen Shang, Yuan Liao, Vasilis Friderikos +1

Due to their ability to anchor into tall urban landforms, such as lampposts or street lights, robotic aerial base stations (RABSs) can create a hyper-flexible wireless multi-hop he…

eess.SY2023★ 5 cited

Swarm of Robotic Aerial Base Stations for mmWave Multi-Hop Backhauling

Yuan Liao, Vasilis Friderikos, Halim Yanikomeroglu

Robotic aerial base stations (RABSs) that are able to anchor at tall urban landforms are expected to bring further flexibility to millimeter-wave (mmWave) multi-hop backhaul networ…

cs.NI2023

Aerial IRS with Robotic Anchoring Capabilities: A Novel Way for Adaptive Coverage Enhancement

Xinyuan Wu, Vasilis Friderikos

It is widely accepted that integrating intelligent reflecting surfaces (IRSs) with unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV) or drones can assist wireless networks in improving network covera…

cs.NI2023

Robust Deployment and Resource Allocation for Robotic Aerial Base Station Enabled OFDM Integrated Sensing and Communication

Yuan Liao, Vasilis Friderikos, Halim Yanikomeroglu

The envisioned robotic aerial base station (RABS) concept is expected to bring further flexibility to integrated sensing and communication (ISAC) systems. In this letter, character…

cs.NI2023

Optimal Mobility Aware Wireless Edge Cloud Support for the Metaverse

Zhaohui Huang, Vasilis Friderikos

Mobile augmented reality (MAR) applications extended in the metaverse could provide mixed and immersive experiences by amalgamating the virtual and physical world. However, the joi…

cs.NI2022

Mobility Aware Optimization in the Metaverse

Zhaohui Huang, Vasilis Friderikos

Metaverse applications that incorporate Mobile Augmented Reality (MAR) provide mixed and immersive experiences by amalgamating the virtual with the physical world. Notably, due to…

cs.NI2022★ 5 cited

Multi-Objective Provisioning of Network Slices using Deep Reinforcement Learning

Chien-Cheng Wu, Vasilis Friderikos, Cedomir Stefanovic

Network Slicing (NS) is crucial for efficiently enabling divergent network applications in next generation networks. Nonetheless, the complex Quality of Service (QoS) requirements…

eess.SY2022

Interference Aware Path Planning for Mobile Robots in mmWave Multi Cell Networks

Yijing Ren, Vasilis Friderikos

The emerging beyond 5G and envisioned 6G wireless networks are considered as key enablers in supporting a diversified set of applications for industrial mobile robots (MRs). The sc…

cs.NI2022★ 2 cited

Max-min Rate Deployment Optimization for Backhaul-limited Robotic Aerial 6G Small Cells

Yuan Liao, Vasilis Friderikos

To overcome the limited on-board battery issue of nominal airborne base stations (ABSs), we are exploring the use of robotic airborne base station (RABS) with energy neutral graspi…

cs.NI2022

Robotic Aerial 6G Small Cells with Grasping End Effectors for mmWave Relay Backhauling

Jongyul Lee, Vasilis Friderikos

Deployment of small cells in dense urban areas dedicated to the heterogeneous network (HetNet) and associated relay nodes for improving backhauling is expected to be an important s…

math.OC2022

The Energy-Delay Pareto Front in Cache-enabled Integrated Access and Backhaul mmWave HetNets

Wen Shang, Vasilis Friderikos

In this paper, to address backhaul capacity bottleneck and concurrently optimize energy consumption and delay, we formulate a novel weighted-sum multi-objective optimization proble…

cs.RO2021★ 4 cited

A Minmax Utilization Algorithm for Network Traffic Scheduling of Industrial Robots

Yantong Wang, Vasilis Friderikos, Sebastian Andraos

Emerging 5G and beyond wireless industrial virtualized networks are expected to support a significant number of robotic manipulators. Depending on the processes involved, these ind…

cs.NI2021

Optimal Deployment and Operation of Robotic Aerial 6G Small Cells with Grasping End Effectors

Yuan Liao, Vasilis Friderikos

Although airborne base stations (ABSs) mounted on drones show a significant potential to enhance network capacity and coverage due to their flexible deployment, the system performa…

cs.NI2021★ 5 cited

Learning from Images: Proactive Caching with Parallel Convolutional Neural Networks

Yantong Wang, Ye Hu, Zhaohui Yang +3

With the continuous trend of data explosion, delivering packets from data servers to end users causes increased stress on both the fronthaul and backhaul traffic of mobile networks…

cs.NI2021★ 45 cited

Energy and Age Pareto Optimal Trajectories in UAV-assisted Wireless Data Collection

Yuan Liao, Vasilis Friderikos

This paper studies an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV)-assisted wireless network, where a UAV is dispatched to gather information from ground sensor nodes (SN) and transfer the collec…

cs.NI2021

Airborne Urban Microcells with Grasping End Effectors: A Game Changer for 6G Networks?

Vasilis Friderikos

Airborne (or flying) base stations (ABSs) embedded on drones or unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) can be deemed as a central element of envisioned 6G cellular networks where signific…

cs.NI2021★ 1 cited

Trajectory Design in Rechargeable UAV Aided Wireless Networks: A Unified Framework for Energy Efficiency and Flight Time Minimization

Yuan Liao, Vasilis Friderikos

This paper studies a rechargeable unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) assisted wireless network, where a UAV is dispatched to disseminate information to a group of ground terminals (GTs)…

cs.NI2021

Enhanced LSTM-based Service Decomposition for Mobile Augmented Reality

Zhaohui Huang, Vasilis Friderikos

Undoubtedly, Mobile Augmented Reality (MAR) applications for 5G and Beyond wireless networks are witnessing a notable attention recently. However, they require significant computat…

cs.NI2021★ 6 cited

Energy-Efficient Proactive Caching with Multipath Routing

Yantong Wang, Vasilis Friderikos

The ever-continuing explosive growth of on-demand content distribution has imposed great pressure on mobile/wireless network infrastructures. To ease congestion in the network and…

cs.NI2020★ 40 cited

A Survey of Deep Learning for Data Caching in Edge Network

Yantong Wang, Vasilis Friderikos

The concept of edge caching provision in emerging 5G and beyond mobile networks is a promising method to deal both with the traffic congestion problem in the core network as well a…

cs.NI2020★ 4 cited

Network Orchestration in Mobile Networks via a Synergy of Model-driven and AI-based Techniques

Yantong Wang, Vasilis Friderikos

As data traffic volume continues to increase, caching of popular content at strategic network locations closer to the end user can enhance not only user experience but ease the uti…

cs.NI2019★ 6 cited

Caching as an Image Characterization Problem using Deep Convolutional Neural Networks

Yantong Wang, Vasilis Friderikos

Caching of popular content closer to the mobile user can significantly increase overall user experience as well as network efficiency by decongesting backbone network segments in t…

cs.NI2018★ 5 cited

Dynamic Placement of VNF Chains for Proactive Caching in Mobile Edge Networks

Gao Zheng, Anthony Tsiopoulos, Vasilis Friderikos

Notwithstanding the significant research effort Network Function Virtualization (NFV) architectures received over the last few years little attention has been placed on optimizing…