Search Results for author: Andrea Massa

Found 21 papers, 2 papers with code

An Opportunistic Source Synthesis Method for Smart Electromagnetic Environments

no code implementations11 Jan 2024 Pietro Da Rù, Arianna Benoni, Marco Salucci, Paolo Rocca, Andrea Massa

In the framework of the "Smart ElectroMagnetic Environment" (SEME), an innovative strategy leveraging Equivalence Source concepts is introduced for enhancing the performance of large-scale outdoor wireless communication systems.

A Physics-Driven AI Approach for Microwave Imaging of Breast Tumors

no code implementations5 Jan 2024 Francesco Zardi, Luca Tosi, Marco Salucci, Andrea Massa

In this paper, an innovative microwave imaging (MI) approach for breast tumor diagnosis is proposed that employs a differential formulation of the inverse scattering problem (ISP) at hand to exploit arbitrary-fidelity priors on the inhomogeneous reference/healthy tissues.

Memory-Enhanced Dynamic Evolutionary Control of Reconfigurable Intelligent Surfaces

no code implementations8 Sep 2023 Francesco Zardi, Giacomo Oliveri, Andrea Massa

An innovative evolutionary method for the dynamic control of reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RISs) is proposed.

Optically-Transparent EM Skins for Outdoor-to-Indoor mm-Wave Wireless Communications

no code implementations17 Aug 2023 Giacomo Oliveri, Francesco Zardi, Andrea Massa

Optically-transparent opportunistic electromagnetic skins (OTO-EMSs) are proposed to enable outdoor-to-indoor (O2I) millimiter-wave (mmW) wireless communications with existing windows/glass-panels.

Reconfigurable and Static EM Skins on Vehicles for Localization

no code implementations8 Aug 2023 Dario Tagliaferri, Marouan Mizmizi, Giacomo Oliveri, Umberto Spagnolini, Andrea Massa

The advantage is twofold: \textit{(i)} by introducing a compact high-reflectivity structure on the target, we make vehicles behave like \textit{point targets}, avoiding perspective deformations and related ranging biases and \textit{(ii)} we increase the reflectivity the vehicle, improving localization performance.

Towards Real-World Indoor Smart Electromagnetic Environments -- A Large-Scale Experimental Demonstration

no code implementations18 Apr 2023 Arianna Benoni, Federico Capra, Marco Salucci, Andrea Massa

To the best of the authors' knowledge, this work presents the first large-scale indoor experimental assessment of an implementation of the emerging Smart ElectroMagnetic Environment (SEME) paradigm, which is based on the deployment of static-passive EM skins (SP-EMSs) to enhance the coverage in a 5 [GHz] Wi-Fi network.

Multi-Scaling Differential Contraction Integral Method for Inverse Scattering Problems with Inhomogeneous Media

no code implementations28 Nov 2022 Yu Zhong, Francesco Zardi, Marco Salucci, Giacomo Oliveri, Andrea Massa

Practical applications of microwave imaging often require the solution of inverse scattering problems with inhomogeneous backgrounds.

Features and Potentialities of Static Passive EM Skins for NLOS Specular Wireless Links

no code implementations23 Aug 2022 Giacomo Oliveri, Marco Salucci, Andrea Massa

The ability of passive flat patterned electromagnetic skins (EMSs) to overcome the asymptotic limit of the total path attenuation (TPA) of flat metallic reflectors of arbitrary size in non-line-of-sight (NLOS) specular wireless links is assessed.

Multi-Resolution Subspace-Based Optimization Method for the Retrieval of 2D Perfect Electric Conductors

no code implementations23 Aug 2022 Xiuzhu Ye, Francesco Zardi, Marco Salucci, Andrea Massa

Perfect Electric Conductors (PECs) are imaged integrating the subspace-based optimizationmethod (SOM) within the iterative multi-scaling scheme (IMSA).

Computational Efficiency Retrieval

Generalized Analysis and Unified Design of EM Skins

no code implementations18 Jul 2022 Giacomo Oliveri, Marco Salucci, Andrea Massa

A generalized formulation is derived for the analysis of the field manipulation properties of electromagnetic skins (EMSs) in the working regimes of interest for wireless communications.

Computational Efficiency

Building a Smart EM Environment -- AI-Enhanced Aperiodic Micro-Scale Design of Passive EM Skins

no code implementations18 Oct 2021 Giacomo Oliveri, Francesco Zardi, Paolo Rocca, Marco Salucci, Andrea Massa

An innovative process for the design of static passive smart skins (SPSSs) is proposed to take into account, within the synthesis, the electromagnetic (EM) interactions due to their finite (macro-level) size and aperiodic (micro-scale) layouts.

Planning of EM Skins for Improved Quality-of-Service in Urban Areas

no code implementations18 Oct 2021 Arianna Benoni, Marco Salucci, Giacomo Oliveri, Paolo Rocca, Baozhu Li, Andrea Massa

The optimal planning of electromagnetic skins (EMSs) installed on the building facades to enhance the received signal strength, thus the wireless coverage and/or the quality-of-service (QoS) in large-scale urban areas, is addressed.

On the Design of Modular Reflecting EM Skins for Enhanced Urban Wireless Coverage

no code implementations18 Oct 2021 Paolo Rocca, Pietro Da Rù, Nicola Anselmi, Marco Salucci, Giacomo Oliveri, Danilo Erricolo, Andrea Massa

Representative numerical results are reported and discussed to point out the features and the potentialities of the EMS solution in the smart electromagnetic environment (SEME) as well as the effectiveness of the proposed design method.

Modular Sparse Conical Multi-beam Phased Array Design for Air Traffic Control Radar

no code implementations18 Aug 2021 Paolo Rocca, Nicola Anselmi, Mohammad Abdul Hannan, Andrea Massa

The design of a conical phased array antenna for air traffic control (ATC) radar systems is addressed in this work.

Compressive Sensing

On the Design of Complex EM Devices and Systems through the System-by-Design Paradigm -- A Framework for Dealing with the Computational Complexity

no code implementations16 Jul 2021 Andrea Massa, Marco Salucci

The System-by-Design (SbD) is an emerging engineering framework for the optimization-driven design of complex electromagnetic (EM) devices and systems.

Holographic Smart EM Skins for Advanced Beam Power Shaping in Next Generation Wireless Environments

no code implementations21 Jun 2021 Giacomo Oliveri, Paolo Rocca, Marco Salucci, Andrea Massa

An innovative approach for the synthesis of inexpensive holographic smart electromagnetic (EM) skins with advanced beamforming features is proposed.

NASCaps: A Framework for Neural Architecture Search to Optimize the Accuracy and Hardware Efficiency of Convolutional Capsule Networks

1 code implementation19 Aug 2020 Alberto Marchisio, Andrea Massa, Vojtech Mrazek, Beatrice Bussolino, Maurizio Martina, Muhammad Shafique

Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) have made significant improvements to reach the desired accuracy to be employed in a wide variety of Machine Learning (ML) applications.

Neural Architecture Search

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