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most citedEnergy Optimization in Massive MIMO UAV-Aided MEC-Enabled Vehicular Networks

26 citations · 48 across the 28 of their papers we have counts for

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32 papers

eess.SY2026

Digital Twin Networks for 6G Wireless Systems: Architecture, Enabling Technologies, Intelligent Control, and Open Challenges

Charalampos Oikonomidis, Emmanouel T. Michailidis, Nikolaos I. Miridakis

The transition to the Sixth Generation (6G) of mobile networks requires proactive and deterministic orchestration to satisfy the stringent key performance indicators of future serv…

cs.IT2025

Spatially Correlated multi-RIS Communication: The Effect of Inter-Operator Interference

Nikolaos I. Miridakis, Panagiotis A. Karkazis

A multi-operator wireless communication system is studied where each operator is equipped with a reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS) to enhance its communication quality. RISs…

cs.IT2024

Impact of Inter-Operator Interference via Reconfigurable Intelligent Surfaces

Nikolaos I. Miridakis, Theodoros A. Tsiftsis, Panagiotis A. Karkazis +2

A wireless communication system is studied that operates in the presence of multiple reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RISs). In particular, a multi-operator environment is cons…

cs.IT2023

Extreme Level Crossing Rate: A New Performance Indicator for URLLC Systems

Nikolaos I. Miridakis, Theodoros A. Tsiftsis, Panagiotis A. Karkazis +2

Level crossing rate (LCR) is a well-known statistical tool that is related to the duration of a random stationary fading process \emph{on average}. In doing so, LCR cannot capture…

cs.IT2022

Zero Forcing Uplink Detection through Large-Scale RIS: System Performance and Phase Shift Design

Nikolaos I. Miridakis, Theodoros A. Tsiftsis, Rugui Yao

A multiple-input multiple-output wireless communication system is analytically studied, which operates with the aid of a large-scale reconfigurable intelligent surface (LRIS). LRIS…

cs.IT2022

Outage Performance of Cross-Packet HARQ

Jiahui Feng, Zheng Shi, Guanghua Yang +3

As opposed to hybrid automatic repeat request with incremental redundancy (HARQ-IR) that all the resources are occupied to resend the redundant information, cross-packet HARQ (XP-H…

cs.IT2022

Extreme Age of Information for Wireless-Powered Communication Systems

Nikolaos I. Miridakis, Zheng Shi, Theodoros A. Tsiftsis +1

The extreme or maximum age of information (AoI) is analytically studied for wireless communication systems. In particular, a wireless powered single-antenna source node and a recei…

cs.IT2021

Non-Linear Age of Information: An Energy Efficient Receiver-Centric Approach

Nikolaos I. Miridakis, Theodoros A. Tsiftsis, Guanghua Yang

The age of information (AoI) performance metric for point-to-point wireless communication systems is analytically studied under Rician-faded channels and when the receiver is equip…

cs.IT2021

Semi-Blind Multiuser Detection Under the Presence of Reconfigurable Intelligent Surfaces

Nikolaos I. Miridakis, Theodoros A. Tsiftsis, Guanghua Yang +2

A multiuser multiple-input multiple-output wireless communication system is analytically studied, which operates with the aid of a reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS). The int…

cs.IT2021

Performance of Uplink NOMA with User Mobility Under Short Packet Transmission

Nikolaos I. Miridakis, Emmanouel T. Michailidis, Angelos Michalas +3

The scenario of an uplink two-user non-orthogonal multiple access (NOMA) communication system is analytically studied when it operates in the short packet transmission regime. The…

eess.SY2021★ 26 cited

Energy Optimization in Massive MIMO UAV-Aided MEC-Enabled Vehicular Networks

Emmanouel T. Michailidis, Nikolaos I. Miridakis, Angelos Michalas +3

This paper presents a novel unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) aided mobile edge computing (MEC) architecture for vehicular networks. It is considered that the vehicles should complete…

cs.IT2020

Generalized Energy Detection Under Generalized Noise Channels

Nikolaos I. Miridakis, Theodoros A. Tsiftsis, Guanghua Yang

Generalized energy detection (GED) is analytically studied when operates under fast-faded channels and in the presence of generalized noise. For the first time, the McLeish distrib…

cs.IT2020

Moment-based Spectrum Sensing Under Generalized Noise Channels

Nikolaos I. Miridakis, Theodoros A. Tsiftsis, Guanghua Yang

A new spectrum sensing detector is proposed and analytically studied, when it operates under generalized noise channels. Particularly, the McLeish distribution is used to model the…

eess.SP2020

Metasurface-Coated Devices: A New Paradigm for Energy-Efficient and Secure 6G Communications

Theodoros A. Tsiftsis, Constantinos Valagiannopoulos, Hongwu Liu +2

The sixth-generation (6G) era comes with the challenge of offering highly energy-efficient and autonomous communications securely. In this direction, we report energy efficiency (E…

cs.IT2020

Air-to-Air Communications Beyond 5G: A Novel 3D CoMP Transmission Scheme

Yan Li, Nikolaos I. Miridakis, Theodoros A. Tsiftsis +2

In this paper, a novel D cellular model consisting of aerial base stations (aBSs) and aerial user equipments (aUEs) is proposed, by integrating the coordinated multi-point (CoMP…

cs.NI2019★ 1 cited

Traffic-aware Two-stage Queueing Communication Networks: Queue Analysis and Energy Saving

Nan Qi, Nikolaos I. Miridakis, Ming Xiao +3

To boost energy saving for the general delay-tolerant IoT networks, a two-stage and single-relay queueing communication scheme is investigated. Concretely, a traffic-aware -thre…

cs.IT2019

Zero Forcing Detection For Short Packet Transmission Under Channel Estimation Errors

Nikolaos I. Miridakis, Theodoros A. Tsiftsis, Hui-Ming Wang

A multiuser multiple-input multiple-output wireless communication system is analytically studied under the short-packet transmission regime. The practical scenario of channel estim…

cs.IT2018

All-Optical FSO Relaying Under Mixture-Gamma Fading Channels and Pointing Errors

Nikolaos I. Miridakis, Dimitrios D. Vergados, Angelos Michalas

The performance of all-optical dual-hop relayed free-space optical communication systems is analytically studied and evaluated. We consider the case when the total received signal…

cs.IT2018

A New Interweave Cognitive Radio Scheme for Out-band Energy Harvesting Systems

Nikolaos I. Miridakis, Theodoros A. Tsiftsis

In this paper, a new interweave cognitive radio (CR) transmission scheme is analytically presented for energy harvesting (EH)-enabled transmitting nodes. EH is performed via a dedi…

cs.IT2018

MIMO Underlay Cognitive Radio: Optimized Power Allocation, Effective Number of Transmit Antennas and Harvest-Transmit Tradeoff

Nikolaos I. Miridakis, Theodoros A. Tsiftsis, George C. Alexandropoulos

In this paper, the performance of an underlay multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) cognitive radio system is analytically studied. In particular, the secondary transmitter operate…

cs.IT2017

All Cognitive MIMO: A New Multiuser Detection Approach with Different Priorities

Nikolaos I. Miridakis, Theodoros A. Tsiftsis, Dimitrios D. Vergados +1

A new detection scheme for multiuser multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) systems is analytically presented. In particular, the transmitting users are being categorized in two dis…

cs.IT2017

EGC Reception for FSO Systems Under Mixture-Gamma Fading Channels and Pointing Errors

Nikolaos I. Miridakis, Theodoros A. Tsiftsis

The performance of equal gain combining reception at free-space optical communication systems is analytically studied and evaluated. We consider the case when the total received si…

cs.IT2016

Distributed Spatial Multiplexing Systems with Hardware Impairments and Imperfect Channel Estimation under Rank- Rician Fading Channels

Nikolaos I. Miridakis, Theodoros A. Tsiftsis, Corbett Rowell

The performance of a multiuser communication system with single-antenna transmitting terminals and a multi-antenna base-station receiver is analytically investigated. The system op…

cs.IT2016

On the Joint Impact of Hardware Impairments and Imperfect CSI on Successive Decoding

Nikolaos I. Miridakis, Theodoros A. Tsiftsis

In this paper, a spatial multiplexing multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) system when hardware along with RF imperfections occur during the communication setup is analytically in…