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Near-Field NLOS Localization via Position-Unknown HRIS:From Self-Localization to Target Positioning

Hua Chen, Linke Yu, Tuo Wu, Maged Elkashlan, Naofal Al-Dhahir, Merouane Debbah, K. C. Ho ยท 2026

Current reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS)-aided near-field (NF) localization methods assume the RIS position is known a priori, and it has limited their practical applicability. This paper applโ€ฆ

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Performance Analysis of Flexible Duplex Inter-Satellite Links in LEO Networks

Yomali Lokugama, Charith Dissanayake, Saman Atapattu, Kandeepan Sithamparanathan ยท 2026

This paper investigates energy-efficient inter-satellite communication in Low Earth Orbit (LEO) networks, where satellites exchange both buffered and newly generated data through half-duplex inter-satโ€ฆ

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Load Balancing in Non-Terrestrial Networks Using Free Space Optical Inter-satellite Links

Abid Afridi, Alexis A. Dowhuszko, Jevgenij Krivochiza, Risto Wichman, Jyri Hamalainen ยท 2026

Non-terrestrial networks (NTNs) increasingly rely on non-geostationary (NGSO) constellations that combine radio frequency (RF) feeder links (FLs) with free space optical (FSO) inter-satellite links (Iโ€ฆ

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BER Analysis and Optimization for Continuous RIS-Enabled NOMA

Mahmoud AlaaEldin, Amy S. Inwood, Peter J. Smith, Michail Matthaiou ยท 2026

This letter investigates a novel uplink (UL) system that integrates power-domain non-orthogonal multiple access (PD-NOMA) with a continuous reconfigurable intelligent surface (CRIS). We analyze the efโ€ฆ

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Performance Bounds and Robust Filtering for LEO Inter-Satellite Synchronization under Cross-Epoch Doppler Coupling

Haofan Dong, Houtianfu Wang, Hanlin Cai, Ozgur B. Akan ยท 2026

Low Earth orbit (LEO) inter-satellite links (ISLs) must achieve joint synchronization and ranging under severe hardware impairments, namely oscillator phase noise, clock drift, and measurement outlierโ€ฆ

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A Fast Solver for Interpolating Stochastic Differential Equation Diffusion Models for Speech Restoration

Bunlong Lay, Timo Gerkmann ยท 2026

Diffusion Probabilistic Models (DPMs) are a well-established class of diffusion models for unconditional image generation, while SGMSE+ is a well-established conditional diffusion model for speech enhโ€ฆ

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Deep Reinforcement Learning for Hybrid RIS Assisted MIMO Communications

Phuong Nam Tran, Nhan Thanh Nguyen, Markku Juntti ยท 2026

Hybrid reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (HRIS) enhance wireless systems by combining passive reflection with active signal amplification. However, jointly optimizing the transmit beamforming with tโ€ฆ

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QoS- and Physics-Aware Routing in Optical LEO Satellite Networks via Deep Reinforcement Learning

Mohammad Taghi Dabiri, Rula Ammuri, Mazen Hasna, Khalid Qaraqe ยท 2025

Optical inter-satellite links (ISLs) are becoming the principal communication backbone in modern large-scale LEO constellations, offering multi-Gb/s capacity and near speed-of-light latency. However, โ€ฆ

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Dual-Encoder Transformer-Based Multimodal Learning for Ischemic Stroke Lesion Segmentation Using Diffusion MRI

Muhammad Usman, Azka Rehman, Muhammad Mutti Ur Rehman, Abd Ur Rehman, Muhammad Umar Farooq ยท 2025

Accurate segmentation of ischemic stroke lesions from diffusion magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) is essential for clinical decision-making and outcome assessment. Diffusion-Weighted Imaging (DWI) and โ€ฆ

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AFDM for LEO Inter-Satellite Links: Path-Level CSI Prediction and CRLB-Guided Pre-Equalization

Houtianfu Wang, Ozgur Akan ยท 2025

Low-Earth-orbit (LEO) inter-satellite links must cope with strongly doubly selective channels and aged channel state information (CSI). In this paper, the term ``sensing'' refers to the receiver-side โ€ฆ

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Modeling the Doppler Shift in Cislunar Environment with Gaussian Mixture Models

Baris Donmez, Sebastien Loranger, Gunes Karabulut Kurt ยท 2025

This study investigates the RF-based Doppler shift distribution characterization of the Lunar South Pole (LSP) based inter-satellite link (ISL) in varying inclination. Doppler shift in parts per milliโ€ฆ

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VLSM-Ensemble: Ensembling CLIP-based Vision-Language Models for Enhanced Medical Image Segmentation

Julia Dietlmeier, Oluwabukola Grace Adegboro, Vayangi Ganepola, Claudia Mazo, Noel E. O'Connor ยท 2025

Vision-language models and their adaptations to image segmentation tasks present enormous potential for producing highly accurate and interpretable results. However, implementations based on CLIP and โ€ฆ

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CARIS: A Context-Adaptable Robot Interface System for Personalized and Scalable Human-Robot Interaction

Felipe Arias-Russi, Yuanchen Bai, Angelique Taylor ยท 2025

The human-robot interaction (HRI) field has traditionally used Wizard-of-Oz (WoZ) controlled robots to explore navigation, conversational dynamics, human-in-the-loop interactions, and more to explore โ€ฆ

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Joint Contact Planning for Navigation and Communication in GNSS-Libration Point Systems

Huan Yan, Juan A. Fraire, Ziqi Yang, Kanglian Zhao, Wenfeng Li, Xiyun Hou, Haohan Li, Yuxuan Miao, Jinjun Zheng, Chengbin Kang, Huichao Zhou, Xinuo Chang, Lu Wang, Linshan Xue ยท 2025

Deploying satellites at Earth-Moon Libration Points (LPs) addresses the inherent deep-space coverage gaps of low-altitude GNSS constellations. Integrating LP satellites with GNSS into a joint constellโ€ฆ

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Hybrid RISs for Simultaneous Tunable Reflections and Sensing

George C. Alexandropoulos, Nir Shlezinger, Ioannis Gavras, Haiyang Zhang ยท 2025

The concept of smart wireless environments envisions dynamic programmable propagation of information-bearing signals through the deployment of Reconfigurable Intelligent Surfaces (RISs). Typical RIS iโ€ฆ

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Flatten Wisely: How Patch Order Shapes Mamba-Powered Vision for MRI Segmentation

Osama Hardan, Omar Elshenhabi, Tamer Khattab, Mohamed Mabrok ยท 2025

Vision Mamba models promise transformer-level performance at linear computational cost, but their reliance on serializing 2D images into 1D sequences introduces a critical, yet overlooked, design choiโ€ฆ

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How We Won the ISLES'24 Challenge by Preprocessing

Tianyi Ren, Juampablo E. Heras Rivera, Hitender Oswal, Yutong Pan, William Henry, Sophie Walters, Mehmet Kurt ยท 2025

Stroke is among the top three causes of death worldwide, and accurate identification of stroke lesion boundaries is critical for diagnosis and treatment. Supervised deep learning methods have emerged โ€ฆ

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Communications-Centric Secure ISAC with Hybrid Reconfigurable Intelligent Surfaces

Ioannis Gavras, George C. Alexandropoulos ยท 2025

Hybrid reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (HRISs) constitute an emerging paradigm of metasurfaces that empowers the concept of smart wireless environments, inherently supporting simultaneously communโ€ฆ

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Tracking-Aided Multi-User MIMO Communications with Hybrid Reconfigurable Intelligent Surfaces

Ioannis Gavras, George C. Alexandropoulos ยท 2025

Hybrid Reconfigurable Intelligent Surfaces (HRISs) constitute a new paradigm that redefines smart metasurfaces, not only offering tunable reflections of incoming signals, but also incorporating signalโ€ฆ

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Physical Layer Authentication With Colored RIS in Visible Light Communications

Besra Cetindere Vela, Serkan Vela, Stefano Tomasin ยท 2025

We study a visible light communication (VLC) system that employs a colored reconfigurable intelligent surface (CRIS) based on dichroic mirrors that reflect light at tunable frequencies. A verifier canโ€ฆ

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