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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-generation cellular networks. However, technical constraints in the configuration ...

The selection of the most appropriate method for modeling the acoustic channel for underwater network simulation has always been a trade-off between computational cost, accuracy, and statistical significance. While some models, such as ray tracers [2], ...

What limits most the use of low-cost underwater unmanned vehicles is the lack of affordable and low-power acoustic modems and positioning systems able to provide satisfactory performance, such as accurate distance measurement, a transmission range of at ...

Wireless backhauling at millimeter-wave frequencies (mmWave) in static scenarios is a well-established practice in cellular networks. However, highly directional and adaptive beamforming in today’s mmWave systems have opened new possibilities for ...

Future wireless networks and sensing systems will benefit from access to large chunks of spectrum above 100 GHz, to achieve terabit-per-second data rates in 6th Generation (6G) cellular systems and improve accuracy and reach of Earth exploration and ...

In the last ten years several simulation studies on Autonomous Underwater Vehicle (AUV) swarm fleet formation have been performed, and some preliminary sea demonstrations of proof-of-concept prototypes were carried out. However, their actual ...

Within a recent line of research, age of information is supported as an alternate network performance metric with respect to throughput or delay, to evaluate the performance of medium access techniques, especially for remote sensing applications. ...

Over the past few years, the concept of Virtual Reality (VR) has attracted increasing interest thanks to its extensive industrial and commercial applications. Currently, the 3D models of the virtual scenes are generally stored in the VR visor itself, ...

The rapid development of Virtual Reality (VR) technology has led the industry and research community to look at its major challenges with increased interest. The main challenge in ensuring a high Quality of Experience (QoE) for users is represented by ...

In the past, underwater acoustic modems were mainly used in Oil & Gas and military scenarios, that need long range transmissions with high power emitters often deployed in deep water. For this reason, the development of low-cost acoustic modems was ...

Cooperation between sauv and sasv can greatly enhance their usefulness in wide-area underwater monitoring tasks for critical infrastructure such as offshore pipelines. The sauv can provide a close-up view of the pipeline and physically interact with it ...

The use of Autonomous Underwater Vehicles (AUVs) could provide a significant help to create fully automated and unmanned mine countermeasure (MCM) systems, with a significant reduction of risks for ships and their crew [7]. In this work, we present the ...

With the introduction of Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiple Access (OFDMA) in 802.11ax, the role of the Access Point (AP) in Wi-Fi networks changes significantly, thanks to the opportunity of implementing more complex scheduling logic to handle ...

Accurate scene understanding from multiple sensors mounted on cars is a key requirement for autonomous driving systems. Nowadays, this task is mainly performed through data-hungry deep learning techniques that need very large amounts of data to be ...

Channel modeling is a fundamental task for the design and evaluation of wireless technologies and networks, before actual prototyping, commercial product development and real deployments. The recent trends of current and future mobile networks, which ...

While the 5th generation (5G) of mobile networks has landed in the commercial area, the research community is exploring new functionalities for 6th generation (6G) networks, for example non-terrestrial networks (NTNs) via space/air nodes such as ...

The next generation of wireless networks will use sub-THz frequencies alongside mmWave frequencies to enable multi-Gbps and low latency applications. To enable different verticals and use cases, engineers must take a holistic approach to build, analyze, ...

In the last ten years several simulation studies on Autonomous Underwater Vehicle swarm fleet formation have been performed, and some preliminary sea demonstrations of proof-of-concept prototypes were carried out. However, their actual realization is ...

LoRaWAN is a Low Power Wide Area Network technology featuring long transmission ranges and a simple MAC layer, which can support sensor data collection, control applications and reliable services thanks to the flexibility offered by a large set of ...

We consider a remote contextual multi-armed bandit (CMAB) problem, in which the decision-maker observes the context and the reward, but must communicate the actions to be taken by the agents over a rate-limited communication channel. This can model, for ...