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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…
On the Capacity of Opportunistic Time-Sharing Downlink with a Reconfigurable Intelligent Surface
Donatella Darsena, Francesco Verde
We provide accurate approximations of the sum-rate capacity of an opportunistic time-sharing downlink, when a reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS) assists the transmission from…
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…
Visible light backscattering with applications to the Internet of Things: State-of-the-art, challenges, and opportunities
Muhammad Habib Ullah, Giacinto Gelli, Francesco Verde
Visible light backscatter (VLB) is an innovative optical transmission paradigm to enable ultra low-power passive communication and localization for the Internet of Things (IoT), by…
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…
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…
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…
Sensing Technologies for Crowd Management, Adaptation, and Information Dissemination in Public Transportation Systems: A Review
Donatella Darsena, Giacinto Gelli, Ivan Iudice +1
Management of crowd information in public transportation (PT) systems is crucial, both to foster sustainable mobility, by increasing the user's comfort and satisfaction during norm…
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…
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…
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…
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…
Achievable information rates of ambient backscatter communications
Donatella Darsena, Giacinto Gelli, Francesco Verde
Ambient backscatter is an intriguing wireless communication paradigm that allows small devices to compute and communicate by using only the power they harvest from radio-frequency…
Convolutive superposition for multicarrier cognitive radio systems
Donatella Darsena, Giacinto Gelli, Francesco Verde
Recently, we proposed a spectrum-sharing paradigm for single-carrier cognitive radio (CR) networks, where a secondary user (SU) is able to maintain or even improve the performance…
STiCMAC: A MAC Protocol for Robust Space-Time Coding in Cooperative Wireless LANs
Pei Liu, Chun Nie, Thanasis Korakis +4
Relay-assisted cooperative wireless communication has been shown to have significant performance gains over the legacy direct transmission scheme. Compared with single relay based…
Transmitting important bits and sailing high radio waves: a decentralized cross-layer approach to cooperative video transmission
Nicholas Mastronarde, Francesco Verde, Donatella Darsena +2
We investigate the impact of cooperative relaying on uplink and downlink multi-user (MU) wireless video transmissions. The objective is to maximize the long-term sum of utilities a…