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Joint Secrecy and Covert Communication (JSACC): An Enhanced Physical Layer Security Approach

Yanyu Cheng, Haitao Du, Liqin Hu, Wei Yang Bryan Lim, Pan Li · 2026

In this paper, we propose an enhanced physical layer security approach, named joint secrecy and covert communication (JSACC), which aims to improve the performance of physical layer security (PLS). Th…

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Hiding Secrets in the CSI Quotient: A Robust Wi-Fi CSI Steganography System

Jiamu Guo, Hailang Jia, Guanxiong Shen, Junqing Zhang, Linning Peng, Liquan Chen · 2026

Physical layer (PHY) steganography conceals secrets by making subtle modifications to transmitted radio waveforms, which can be applied to establish covert communication systems. Given the widespread …

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Physics-informed, Generative Adversarial Design of Funicular Shells

Ruben Lourenco, Iciar Alfaro, Beatriz Moya, Elias Cueto · 2026

Shell structures are pivotal in the fields of architecture and engineering, due to their aesthetic appeal and structural efficiency. Recently, 3D concrete printing has reignited the interest in these …

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Stealthy Cyber-Attacks on Vehicle Lateral Dynamics: A System-Theoretic Analysis

Ali Eslami, Jiangbo Yu, Mohammad Pirani · 2026

This paper studies the vehicle bicycle model under three classes of stealthy cyber-attacks: replay attacks, zero dynamics attacks, and covert attacks. Using a system-theoretic framework, we analyze th…

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Minimal Embodiment Enables Efficient Learning of Number Concepts in Robot

Zhegong Shangguan, Alessandro Di Nuovo, Angelo Cangelosi · 2026

Robots are increasingly entering human-interactive scenarios that require understanding of quantity. How intelligent systems acquire abstract numerical concepts from sensorimotor experience remains a …

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Structural Limits of Soft Fusion in Multi-Warden Covert Communication

Abbas Arghavani, Subhrakanti Dey, Anders Ahlen · 2026

This paper investigates covert wireless communication with a Fusion Center (FC) that aggregates raw energy measurements from multiple Wardens via soft fusion. Extending our prior work on power-thresho…

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FM-CAC: Carbon-Aware Control for Battery-Buffered Edge AI via Time-Series Foundation Models

Kang Yang, Walid A. Hanafy, Prashant Shenoy, Mani Srivastava · 2026

As edge AI deployments scale to billions of devices running always-on, real-time compound AI pipelines, they represent a massive and largely unmanaged source of energy consumption and carbon emissions…

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INTERACT: An AI-Driven Extended Reality Framework for Accesible Communication Featuring Real-Time Sign Language Interpretation and Emotion Recognition

Nikolaos D. Tantaroudas, Andrew J. McCracken, Ilias Karachalios, Evangelos Papatheou · 2026

Video conferencing has become central to professional collaboration, yet most platforms offer limited support for deaf, hard-of-hearing, and multilingual users. The World Health Organisation estimates…

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AI-Driven Modular Services for Accessible Multilingual Education in Immersive Extended Reality Settings: Integrating Speech Processing, Translation, and Sign Language Rendering

N.D. Tantaroudas, A.J. McCracken, I. Karachalios, E. Papatheou · 2026

This work introduces a modular platform that brings together six AI services, automatic speech recognition via OpenAI Whisper, multilingual translation through Meta NLLB, speech synthesis using AWS Po…

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A Process-Aware Demand Response Framework for Hydrogen-Integrated Zero-Carbon Steel Plants Coupled with Methanol Production

Qiang Ji, Lin Cheng, Yue Zhou, Ning Qi, Kaidi Huang, Jianzhong Wu, Ming Cheng · 2026

The integration of the high penetration of intermittent renewable energy sources (RES) and the retirement of thermal units have significantly aggravated the flexibility scarcity and real-time balancin…

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LACE-S: Toward Sensitivity-consistent Locational Average Carbon Emissions via Neural Representation

Young-ho Cho, Min-Seung Ko, Hao Zhu · 2026

Carbon-aware grid optimization relies on accurate locational emission metrics to effectively guide demand-side decarbonization tasks such as spatial load shifting. However, existing metrics are only v…

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A Self-Calibrating SDR for High Fidelity Beam- and Null-forming Arrays

Yongjun Kim, Aditya Dhananjay, Sundeep Rangan, Sachin Shetty, C. Nicolas Barati, Michael Zappe, Kimberly Gold, Junil Choi · 2026

Null forming is increasingly essential in modern wireless systems for spectrum-sharing, anti-jamming, and covert communications in contested and congested environments. Achieving deep nulls, however, …

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VisG AV-HuBERT: Viseme-Guided AV-HuBERT

Aristeidis Papadopoulos, Rishabh Jain, Naomi Harte · 2026

Audio-Visual Speech Recognition (AVSR) systems nowadays integrate Large Language Model (LLM) decoders with transformer-based encoders, achieving state-of-the-art results. However, the relative contrib…

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Demand response potential evaluation of a zero carbon hydrogen metallurgy system considering shaft furnace's flexibility

Qiang Ji, Lin Cheng, Kaidi Huang, Junxin Lv, Yue Zhou, Zeng Liang · 2026

The increasing penetration of intermittent renewable energy sources and the retirement of thermal units have widened the power system flexibility gap. Industrial demand response (DR) driven by real-ti…

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Stacked Intelligent Metasurfaces for Near-Field Multi-User Covert Communications

Ahmed M. Benaya, Ali A. Nasir, Khaled M. Rabie, Daniel B. da Costa · 2026

Reconfigurable intelligent surfaces have emerged as a cutting-edge technology for next-generation wireless communications that are capable of reconfiguring the wireless environment using a large numbe…

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Joint Sensing and Covert Communications in RIS-NOMA Systems

Jiayi Lei, Xidong Mu, Tiankui Zhang, Wenjun Xu, Ping Zhang · 2026

A reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS)-assisted non-orthogonal multiple access (NOMA) system is investigated, where the transmitter (Alice) is a dual functional radar communication (DFRC) base sta…

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Multi-User Covert Communication in Spatially Heterogeneous Wireless Networks

Jinyoung Lee, Hyeonsik Yeom · 2026

This paper investigates an uplink multi-user covert communication system with spatially distributed users. Unlike prior works that approximate channel statistics using averaged parameters and homogene…

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Crab: Multi Layer Contrastive Supervision to Improve Speech Emotion Recognition Under Both Acted and Natural Speech Condition

Lucas H. Ueda, Joao G. T. Lima, Paula D. P. Costa · 2026

Speech Emotion Recognition (SER) in real-world scenarios remains challenging due to severe class imbalance and the prevalence of spontaneous, natural speech. While recent approaches leverage self-supe…

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Full Timescale Hierarchical MPC-MTIP Framework for Hybrid Energy Storage Management in Low-Carbon Industrial Microgrid

Daniyaer Paizulamu, Lin Cheng, Ning Qi, Zhengmao Li, Nikos D. Hatziargyriou · 2026

Uncertainties in balancing generation and load in low-carbon industrial microgrids (IMGs) make hybrid energy storage systems (HESS) crucial for their stable and economic operation. Existing model pred…

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RF-Fencing: A Novel RIS-Based Service for Proactive Covert Communications

Alexandros I. Papadopoulos, Dimitrios Tyrovolas, Alexandros Pitilakis, Panagiotis D. Diamantoulakis, Antonios Lalas, Konstantinos Votis, Nikolaos V. Kantartzis, Sotiris Ioannidis, Christos Liaskos · 2026

Programmable wireless environments (PWEs), empowered by reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RISes), have emerged as a transformative paradigm for next-generation networks, enabling deterministic cont…

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