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eess.SP2026

Physically Consistent Modeling of Dispersive Time-Modulated Reconfigurable Intelligent Surfaces for Wideband OFDM

Ivan Iudice, Donatella Darsena, Giacinto Gelli +1

The elements of a reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS) are commonly modeled either as frequency-selective time-invariant reflectors or as instantaneous time-varying reflection…

eess.SP2026

AI-Driven Design of Stacked Intelligent Metasurfaces for Software-Defined Radio Applications

Ivan Iudice, Giacinto Gelli, Donatella Darsena

The integration of reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RIS) into future wireless communication systems offers promising capabilities in dynamic environment shaping and spectrum ef…

eess.SP2025

Optimal transmit field distribution for partially obstructed continuous radiating surfaces in near-field communication systems

Francesco Verde, Donatella Darsena, Marco Di Renzo +1

This paper deals with the optimal synthesis of aperture fields for (radiating) near-field communications in obstructed environments. A physically consistent model based on knife-ed…

eess.SP2025★ 1 cited

Randomized Space-Time Stacked Intelligent Metasurfaces for Massive Multiuser Downlink Connectivity

Donatella Darsena, Ivan Iudice, Vincenzo Galdi +1

Stacked intelligent metasurfaces (SIMs) represent a key enabler for next-generation wireless networks, offering beamforming gains while significantly reducing radio-frequency chain…

eess.SP2025

Airy beams for radiative near-field communications: Fundamentals, potentials, and limitations

Donatella Darsena, Francesco Verde, Marco Di Renzo +1

In next-generation wireless networks, the combination of electrically large radiating apertures and high-frequency transmission extends the radiating near-field region around the t…

eess.SP2024★ 20 cited

Design of stacked intelligent metasurfaces with reconfigurable amplitude and phase for multiuser downlink beamforming

Donatella Darsena, Francesco Verde, Ivan Iudice +1

A novel technology based on stacked intelligent metasurfaces (SIM) has recently emerged. This platform involves cascading multiple metasurfaces, each acting as a digitally programm…

eess.SP2024

CycloDSP: A cyclostationary signal analysis tool for GNU Radio

Donatella Darsena, Giacinto Gelli, Ivan Iudice

In this paper, we present a first attempt to incorporate in the GNU Radio ecosystem a tool called CycloDSP, devoted to the analysis of complex-valued cyclostationary signals. Such…

eess.SP2023★ 5 cited

A Hybrid NOMA-OMA Scheme for Inter-plane Intersatellite Communications in Massive LEO Constellations

Donatella Darsena, Giacinto Gelli, Ivan Iudice +1

Communication between satellites in low-Earth orbit (LEO) constellations takes place through inter-satellite links (ISLs). Unlike intra-plane ISLs, which interconnect satellites be…

eess.SP2023★ 11 cited

Rapidly time-varying reconfigurable intelligent surfaces for downlink multiuser transmissions

Francesco Verde, Donatella Darsena, Vincenzo Galdi

Until now, researchers in wireless communications have mainly focused their attention on slowly time-varying designs of reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RISs), where the spatia…

eess.SP2021

Anti-jamming beam alignment in millimeter-wave MIMO systems

Donatella Darsena, Francesco Verde

In millimeter-wave (MMW) multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) communications, users and their corresponding base station (BS) have to align their beam during both initial access a…

eess.SP2021★ 3 cited

Channel State Acquisition in Uplink NOMA for Cellular-Connected UAV: Exploitation of Doppler and Modulation Diversities

Donatella Darsena, Ivan Iudice, Francesco Verde

Integration of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) for surveillance or monitoring applications into fifth generation (5G) New Radio (NR) cellular networks is an intriguing problem that…

eess.SP2021★ 45 cited

Detection and blind channel estimation for UAV-aided wireless sensor networks in smart cities under mobile jamming attack

Donatella Darsena, Giacinto Gelli, Ivan Iudice +1

Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) can be integrated into wireless sensor networks (WSNs) for smart city applications in several ways. Among them, a UAV can be employed as a relay in…

eess.SP2020★ 19 cited

Design and performance analysis of channel estimators under pilot spoofing attacks in multiple-antenna systems

Donatella Darsena, Giacinto Gelli, Ivan Iudice +1

In multiple antenna systems employing time-division duplexing, spatial precoder design at the base station (BS) leverages channel state information acquired through uplink pilot tr…

eess.SP2020

Beamforming and precoding techniques

Donatella Darsena, Giacinto Gelli, Francesco Verde

Beamforming and precoding/combining are techniques aimed at processing multiantenna signals at the transmitter and/or at the receiver of a wireless communication system. While they…

eess.SP2020★ 6 cited

On the design of multiple-relay cooperative MIMO networks with partial channel state information

Donatella Darsena, Giacinto Gelli, Francesco Verde

This paper deals with the problem of jointly designing the source precoder, the relaying matrices, and the destination equalizer in a multiple-relay amplify-and-forward (AF) cooper…

eess.SP2020★ 5 cited

Separable MSE-based design of two-way multiple-relay cooperative MIMO 5G networks

Donatella Darsena, Giacinto Gelli, Ivan Iudice +1

While the combination of multi-antenna and relaying techniques has been extensively studied for Long Term Evolution Advanced (LTE-A) and Internet of Things (IoT) applications, it i…