ETHER – sElf-evolving terrestrial/non-Terrestrial Hybrid nEtwoRks

Project Information

ETHER

Grant agreement ID: 101096526

DOI

10.3030/101096526

EC signature date 22 November 2022

Start date 1 January 2023

End date 31 March 2026

Funded under

• Digital, Industry and Space

Total cost

€ 4 901 867,50

EU contribution

€ 4 660 693,25

Coordinated by

UNIVERSITE DU LUXEMBOURG
Luxembourg

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Deliverables

Documents, reports (4)

Initial report on ETHER network architecture, interfaces and architecture evaluation

This deliverable will be an initial report on the ETHER network architecture, the interfaces, the supported functions, including initial architecture evaluation results, T2.2.

Final report on ETHER network architecture, interfaces and architecture evaluation

This deliverable is the final report on the ETHER network architecture, the interfaces and the architecture evaluation, T2.2.

Dissemination, Communication Report- 1st update

Intermediate version of the report on ETHER's communication and dissemination activities carried out during the first half of the project together with the exploitation objectives and plan, T6.1-T6.2.

Use cases and KPIs/KVIs

This deliverable will report on the Use Cases and the associated KPIs/KVIs targeted by ETHER, T2.1.

Publications

Conference proceedings (50)

Deep Reinforcement Learning for Power Control in Secure Broadcast Channels

Author(s): A. Arvanitaki, G. Stamatakis, N. Carlsson, P. Mohapatra and N. Pappas
Published in: 2023 21st International Symposium on Modeling and Optimization in Mobile, Ad Hoc, and Wireless Networks (WiOpt),, 2023, ISSN 2690-3342
Publisher: IEEE
DOI: 10.23919/WIOPT58741.2023.10349852

Direct-to-Device Connectivity for Aviation: Opportunities for Integrated CNS Services

Author(s): Asad Ullah, Vadim Kramar, Hamada Alshaer
Published in: 8th Winter Satellite Workshop 2026 - Dipoli, Espoo, Finland, January 2026. ( https://spaceworkshop.fi/ ), 2026
Publisher: VTT

Integrating Geographical Information Systems in Management and Orchestration of Satellites Constellation to Achieve a Spatial-Aware 6G Non-Terrestrial Networks Architecture

Author(s): Jose Avila, Anna Calveras, Joan Adrià Ruiz De Azúa Ortega, Hossein Rouzegar, Sergi Figuerola
Published in: IAF Symposium on Integrated Applications, 2025
Publisher: International Astronautical Federation (IAF)
DOI: 10.52202/078366-0011

Architectural Aspects of Unified Terrestrial and Non-terrestrial Mobile Networks

Author(s): Lechosław Tomaszewski, Mohammadreza Mosahebfard, Joan A. Ruiz-de-Azua, Angelos Antonopoulos, Alexis Duque, Agapi Mesodiakaki, Konstantinos Ntontin, Sergio Aguilar, Nikolaos Pappas, Hamada Alshaer
Published in: IFIP Advances in Information and Communication Technology, Artificial Intelligence Applications and Innovations. AIAI 2025 IFIP WG 12.5 International Workshops, 2025
Publisher: Springer Nature Switzerland
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-97317-8_5

Goal-Oriented Estimation of Multiple Markov Sources in Resource-Constrained Systems

Author(s): J. Luo and N. Pappas
Published in: 2024 IEEE 35th International Symposium on Personal, Indoor and Mobile Radio Communications (PIMRC), 2025, ISSN 2166-9589
Publisher: IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/PIMRC59610.2024.10817179

On the Information Freshness of A Two-Sensor Status Update System

Author(s): T. Yang et al.
Published in: 2023 IEEE 98th Vehicular Technology Conference (VTC2023-Fall), 2023, ISSN 2577-2465
Publisher: IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/VTC2023-FALL60731.2023.10333820

AoI Minimization with Timely-Throughput Constraints over Time-Correlated Wireless Channels

Author(s): E. Fountoulakis, T. Charalambous, A. Ephremides, N. Pappas
Published in: ICC 2023 - IEEE International Conference on Communications, 2023, ISSN 1938-1883
Publisher: IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/ICC45041.2023.10279146

Age of Actuation in a Wireless Power Transfer System

Author(s): Ali Nikkhah, Anthony Ephremides, Nikolaos Pappas
Published in: IEEE INFOCOM 2023 - IEEE Conference on Computer Communications Workshops (INFOCOM WKSHPS), 2023, ISSN 2833-0587
Publisher: IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/INFOCOMWKSHPS57453.2023.10226099

Software Defined-High Altitude Platform Relays in Integrated Terrestrial-HAP-Satellite Networks

Author(s): Hamada Alshaer, Fadhil Firyaguna, Chih-Kuang Lin, Philip Harris
Published in: 2024 AIAA DATC/IEEE 43rd Digital Avionics Systems Conference (DASC), 2024, ISSN 2155-7209
Publisher: IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/DASC62030.2024.10749070

AI-Driven RSMA Beamforming for Integrated Sensing and Communication in Terrestrial-Satellite Networks

Author(s): M. Camana, C. Garcia, K. Ntontin, K. Qaraqe, and S. Chatzinotas
Published in: 2025 IEEE Globecom Workshops, 2025
Publisher: IEEE

Goal-Oriented Transport Layer Protocols for Wireless Control

Author(s): P. Kutsevol, O. Ayan, N. Pappas, W. Kellerer
Published in: 2023 20th Annual IEEE International Conference on Sensing, Communication, and Networking (SECON), 2023, ISSN 2155-5494
Publisher: IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/SECON58729.2023.10287494

Real-time Reconstruction of Markov Sources and Remote Actuation over Wireless Channels

Author(s): Salimnejad, Mehrdad; Kountouris, Marios; Pappas, Nikolaos
Published in: 2023 IEEE International Conference on Communications Workshops (ICC Workshops), 2024, ISSN 0090-6778
Publisher: IEEE Transactions on Communications
DOI: 10.48550/ARXIV.2302.01132

Hierarchical Deep Reinforcement Learning-based Load Balancing Algorithm for Multi-domain Software-Defined Networks

Author(s): Robert Kołakowski, Sławomir Kukliński, Lechosław Tomaszewski
Published in: IFIP/IEEE Networking 2024, 2024, ISSN 1861-2288
Publisher: IEEE
DOI: 10.5281/ZENODO.12805544

Effective Communication: When to Pull Updates?

Author(s): Agheli, Pouya; Pappas, Nikolaos; Popovski, Petar; Kountouris, Marios
Published in: ICC 2024 - IEEE International Conference on Communications, 2024, ISSN 1938-1883
Publisher: IEEE
DOI: 10.48550/arxiv.2311.06432

On 6G-enabled SDN-based mobile network User Plane with DRL-based Traffic Engineering

Author(s): R. Kołakowski, L. Tomaszewski, S. Kukliński
Published in: Artificial Intelligence Applications and Innovations. AIAI 2024 IFIP WG 12.5 International Workshops, 2024, ISSN 1868-4238
Publisher: Springer
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-63227-3_9

Adaptive Gradient Methods For Over-the-Air Federated Learning

Author(s): Ch. Wang, Z. Chen, H. H. Yang, N. Pappas
Published in: 2023 IEEE 24th International Workshop on Signal Processing Advances in Wireless Communications (SPAWC), 2023, ISSN 1948-3252
Publisher: IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/SPAWC53906.2023.10304465

Analysis of the Age of Information in Age-Threshold Slotted ALOHA

Author(s): H. H. Yang, N. Pappas, T. Q. S. Quek and M. Haenggi
Published in: 2023 21st International Symposium on Modeling and Optimization in Mobile, Ad Hoc, and Wireless Networks (WiOpt), 2023, ISSN 2690-3342
Publisher: IEEE
DOI: 10.48550/ARXIV.2306.09787

Understanding Channel Access in Timely Status Updates: Random Access or Scheduled Access?

Author(s): Zhiling Yue, Yuting Tang, Nikolaos Pappas, Yaru Fu, Howard H. Yang
Published in: 2025 23rd International Symposium on Modeling and Optimization in Mobile, Ad Hoc, and Wireless Networks (WiOpt), 2025, ISSN 2690-3342
Publisher: IEEE
DOI: 10.23919/WIOPT66569.2025.11123265

Graph-Based Handover for Future Aeronautical 6G Integrated Terrestrial and Non-Terrestrial Networks

Author(s): Fadhil Firyaguna, Chih-Kuang Lin, Hamada Alshaer, Phil Harris
Published in: 2024 AIAA DATC/IEEE 43rd Digital Avionics Systems Conference (DASC), 2024, ISSN 2155-7209
Publisher: IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/DASC62030.2024.10749672

Optimizing Version Innovation Age for Monitoring Markovian Source in Energy-Harvesting Systems

Author(s): Mehrdad Salimnejad, Anthony Ephremides, Marios Kountouris, Nikolaos Pappas
Published in: 2025 IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference (WCNC), 2025
Publisher: IEEE
DOI: 10.48550/ARXIV.2410.11521

Age of Information Under Frame Slotted ALOHA-Based Status Updating Protocol

Author(s): Z. Yue, H. H. Yang, M. Zhang, N. Pappas
Published in: 2023 IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory (ISIT), 2023, ISSN 2157-8117
Publisher: IEEE
DOI: 10.48550/ARXIV.2303.03895

Optimizing UE Context Dissemination in Sparse LEO Constellations for Cellular IoT Services in 5G/6G Networks

Author(s): Timo Kellermann, Roger Pueyo Centelles, Anna Calveras
Published in: IAF Space Communications and Navigation Symposium, 2025, ISSN 0074-1795
Publisher: International Astronautical Federation (IAF)
DOI: 10.52202/083082-0052

Importance-aware Sampling of a Two-State Markov Source for Real-time Tracking

Author(s): Salimnejad, Mehrdad; Kountouris, Marios; Pappas, Nikolaos
Published in: 2023 57th Asilomar Conference on Signals, Systems, and Computers, 2023
Publisher: Asilomar
DOI: 10.1109/ieeeconf59524.2023.10477015

Age of Information Under Frame Slotted ALOHA in Random Access Networks

Author(s): Z. Yue, H. H. Yang, M. Zhang, N. Pappas
Published in: 2023 IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory (ISIT), 2023, ISSN 2157-8117
Publisher: IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/ISIT54713.2023.10206703

Cost-Driven Handover and Routing for 6G Integrated Terrestrial and Non-Terrestrial Aeronautical Networks

Author(s): Fadhil Firyaguna, Hamada Alshaer
Published in: 2025 AIAA DATC/IEEE 44th Digital Avionics Systems Conference (DASC), 2025, ISSN 2155-7209
Publisher: IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/DASC66011.2025.11257399

Intelligent Message Routing and Optimization for Aircraft in 6G Terrestrial and Non-Terrestrial Networks

Author(s): Chih-Kuang Lin, Fadhil Firvaguna, Hamada Alshaer, Philip Harris
Published in: 2024 AIAA DATC/IEEE 43rd Digital Avionics Systems Conference (DASC), 2024, ISSN 2155-7209
Publisher: IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/DASC62030.2024.10748859

Deep Reinforcement Learning-Based Slice-aware Caching for Integrated TN/NTN 6G Networks

Author(s): Godfrey Kibalya, Michail Dalgitsis, Musbah Shaat, Angelos Antonopoulos
Published in: 2025 IEEE 36th International Symposium on Personal, Indoor and Mobile Radio Communications (PIMRC), 2025, ISSN 2166-9589
Publisher: IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/PIMRC62392.2025.11275617

Revisiting Estimation Quality: Significance-Aware Age of Consecutive Error

Author(s): Jiping Luo, Nikolaos Pappas
Published in: 2025 23rd International Symposium on Modeling and Optimization in Mobile, Ad Hoc, and Wireless Networks (WiOpt), 2025
Publisher: IEEE
DOI: 10.23919/WIOPT66569.2025.11123380

A Just-in-Time Medium-Transparent MAC Protocol for Multi-Service 5G X-haul Transport Networks

Author(s): M. Gatzianas, G. Kalfas, D. Palianopoulos, A. Mesodiakaki, C. Vagionas, R. Maximidis, A. Miliou, N. Pleros
Published in: 2024 IEEE Globecom Workshops (GC Wkshps), 2025, ISSN 2166-0077
Publisher: IEEE
DOI: 10.5281/ZENODO.14615959

IoT-NTN Communications via Store-and-Forward Core Network in Multi-LEO-Satellite Deployments

Author(s): Victor Monzon Baeza, Giovanni Rigazzi, Sergio Aguilar Romero, Ramon Ferrus, Josep Ferrer, Suvidha Mhatre, Marco Guadalupi
Published in: 2024 IEEE 35th International Symposium on Personal, Indoor and Mobile Radio Communications (PIMRC), 2025, ISSN 2166-9589
Publisher: IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/PIMRC59610.2024.10817343

Age of Information in Locally Adaptive Frame Slotted ALOHA

Author(s): Z. Yue, H. H. Yang, M. Zhang, N. Pappas
Published in: 2023 21st International Symposium on Modeling and Optimization in Mobile, Ad Hoc, and Wireless Networks (WiOpt), 2023, ISSN 2690-3342
Publisher: IEEE
DOI: 10.48550/ARXIV.2307.08499

Battery-Aware Cyclic Scheduling in Energy-Harvesting Federated Learning

Author(s): Eunjeong Jeong, Nikolaos Pappas
Published in: 2025 IEEE 26th International Workshop on Signal Processing and Artificial Intelligence for Wireless Communications (SPAWC), 2025
Publisher: IEEE
DOI: 10.48550/ARXIV.2504.12181

Hybrid SDN-Based Data-Centric Mobile Core Network with Content-Based Routing

Author(s): Robert Kołakowski, Thierry Lejkin, Victorien Romain
Published in: 2025 4th International Conference on 6G Networking (6GNet), 2026
Publisher: IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/6GNET68413.2025.11314080

On the efficient architecture for 6G System

Author(s): L. Tomaszewski, R. Kołakowski
Published in: Artificial Intelligence Applications and Innovations. AIAI 2024 IFIP WG 12.5 International Workshops, 2024, ISSN 1868-4238
Publisher: Springer
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-63227-3_10

Distortion Minimization with Age of Information and Cost Constraints

Author(s): J. S, N. Pappas, R. V. Bhat
Published in: 2023 21st International Symposium on Modeling and Optimization in Mobile, Ad Hoc, and Wireless Networks (WiOpt), 2023, ISSN 2690-3342
Publisher: IEEE
DOI: 10.48550/ARXIV.2303.00850

An Optimized Medium-Transparent MAC Protocol for Multi-service FIWI 5G Transport Networks

Author(s): G. Kalfas, M. Gatzianas, D. Palianopoulos, A. Mesodiakaki, C. Vagionas, R. Maximidis, A. Miliou, N. Pleros
Published in: GLOBECOM 2023 - 2023 IEEE Global Communications Conference, 2024, ISSN 2576-6813
Publisher: IEEE
DOI: 10.5281/ZENODO.11174503

Techno-economic Analysis of Sustainable Terrestrial, Aerial and Space 6G Networks

Author(s): C. Bratsoudis, A. Mesodiakaki, P. Konstantinou, M. Gatzianas, G. Kalfas, N. Pleros, A. Miliou
Published in: 2024 IEEE Globecom Workshops (GC Wkshps), 2025, ISSN 2166-0077
Publisher: IEEE
DOI: 10.5281/ZENODO.18506594

Optimizing Version AoI in Energy-Harvesting IoT: Model-Based and Learning-Based Approaches

Author(s): Erfan Delfani, Nikolaos Pappas
Published in: 2025 IEEE Conference on Network Function Virtualization and Software-Defined Networking (NFV-SDN), 2026
Publisher: IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/NFV-SDN66355.2025.11349418

CoMOSat: Controller Placement in SDN-Enabled Multi-Orbit Satellite Networks

Author(s): Ilora Maity, Konstantinos Ntontin, Symeon Chatzinotas
Published in: 2025 IEEE International Conference on Communications Workshops (ICC Workshops), 2025, ISSN 2694-2941
Publisher: IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/ICCWORKSHOPS67674.2025.11162452

Demo: UE Context Dissemination in NTN for Global Store and Forward NB-IoT over LEO Satellites

Author(s): Timo Kellermann, Roger Pueyo Centelles, Sergio Aguilar, Shubham Gupta, Daniel Camps-Mur, Anna Calveras Augé
Published in: IEEE INFOCOM 2025 - IEEE Conference on Computer Communications Workshops (INFOCOM WKSHPS), 2025, ISSN 2833-0587
Publisher: IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/INFOCOMWKSHPS65812.2025.11152909

ETHER: Energy- and cost-efficient framework for seamless connectivity over the integrated terrestrial and non-terrestrial 6G networks

Author(s): L. Tomaszewski, R. Kołakowski, A. Mesodiakaki, K. Ntontin, A. Antonopoulos, N. Pappas, M. Fiore, M. Mohammadreza, S. Watts, P. Harris, Ch.-K. Lin, A. R. Santiago, F. Lazarakis, S. Chatzinotas
Published in: Artificial Intelligence Applications and Innovations. AIAI 2023 IFIP WG 12.5 International Workshops. AIAI 2023, 2023, ISSN 1868-4238
Publisher: Springer
DOI: 10.5281/ZENODO.7955004

Towards Federated Learning Over the Air: Why Scaling Up Helps?

Author(s): Jiaqi Zhu, Bikramjit Das, Nikolaos Pappas, Howard H. Yang
Published in: 2025 23rd International Symposium on Modeling and Optimization in Mobile, Ad Hoc, and Wireless Networks (WiOpt), 2025
Publisher: IEEE
DOI: 10.23919/WIOPT66569.2025.11123201

Version Age-Optimal Cached Status Updates in a Gossiping Network with Energy Harvesting Sensor

Author(s): Erfan Delfani, Nikolaos Pappas
Published in: 2023 21st International Symposium on Modeling and Optimization in Mobile, Ad Hoc, and Wireless Networks (WiOpt), 2023, ISSN 2690-3342
Publisher: IEEE
DOI: 10.23919/WiOpt58741.2023.10349895

Flexible Optical Circuit Switched Network Architecture based on Tunable SFP+ Transceivers for Reconfigurable Low-Latency 5G/6G Networks

Author(s): G. Michail, M. Vargemidou, C. Vagionas, M. Gatzianas, G. Kalfas, R. Maximidis, A. Mesodiakaki et al.
Published in: 7th Panhellenic Conference on Electronics and Telecommunications (PACET 2024), 2024, ISBN 979-8-3503-1884-5
Publisher: IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/PACET60398.2024.10497001

ETHER: A 6G Architectural Framework for 3D Multi-Layered Networks

Author(s): K. Ntontin, L. Tomaszewski, J. A. Ruiz-de-Azua, A. Cárdenas, R. Pueyo Centelles, C.-K. Lin, A. Mesodiakaki et al.
Published in: IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference (WCNC 2024), 2024, ISSN 1558-2612
Publisher: IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/WCNC57260.2024.10570731

The Effect of Device Redundancy in Timeliness of Information

Author(s): K. Lang, Z. Chen, N. Pappas, H. H. Yang, Y. Jia and T. Q. S. Quek
Published in: ICC 2023 - IEEE International Conference on Communications, 2023, ISSN 1938-1883
Publisher: IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/ICC45041.2023.10278911

Spatially-Aware NFV Orchestration for Dynamic LEO Satellite Management in 6G Networks

Author(s): Jose Avila Acosta, Hossein Rouzegar, Anna Calveras Augé, Joan A. Ruiz-de-Azua
Published in: 2025 Joint European Conference on Networks and Communications & 6G Summit (EuCNC/6G Summit), 2025, ISSN 2575-4912
Publisher: IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/EUCNC/6GSUMMIT63408.2025.11037008

Online Energy-efficient Resource Allocation in Integrated Terrestrial and Satellite 6G Networks

Author(s): A. Mesodiakaki, M. Gatzianas, C. Bratsoudis, G. Kalfas, C. Vagionas, R. Maximidis, A. Antonopoulos, N. Pleros, A. Miliou
Published in: IEEE International Conference on Communications, 2024, ISSN 1938-1883
Publisher: IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/ICC51166.2024.10622725

Age of Information with On-Off Service

Author(s): A. Sinha, P. D. Mankar, N. Pappas, H. S. Dhillon
Published in: 2023 IEEE Information Theory Workshop (ITW), 2023, ISSN 2475-4218
Publisher: IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/ITW55543.2023.10161646

Network slicing vs. network neutrality – is consent possible?

Author(s): L. Tomaszewski, R. Kołakowski
Published in: Artificial Intelligence Applications and Innovations. AIAI 2023 IFIP WG 12.5 International Workshops. AIAI 2023, 2023, ISSN 1868-4238
Publisher: Springer
DOI: 10.5281/ZENODO.12804468

Peer reviewed articles (40)

Optimizing Information Freshness in Constrained IoT Systems: A Token-Based Approach

Author(s): Erfan Delfani, Nikolaos Pappas
Published in: IEEE Transactions on Communications, Issue 73, 2024, ISSN 0090-6778
Publisher: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
DOI: 10.48550/ARXIV.2405.04431

Goal-Oriented Communication, Estimation, and Control Over Bidirectional Wireless Links

Author(s): Jie Cao, Ernest Kurniawan, Amnart Boonkajay, Nikolaos Pappas, Sumei Sun, Petar Popovski
Published in: IEEE Transactions on Communications, Issue 73, 2024, ISSN 0090-6778
Publisher: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
DOI: 10.48550/ARXIV.2312.16061

Toward Integrated Satellite Operations and Network Management: A Review and Novel Framework

Author(s): Arnau Singla, Franco Criscola, David Canales, Juan A. Fraire, Anna Calveras, Joan A. Ruiz-de-Azua
Published in: Technologies, Issue 13, 2025, ISSN 2227-7080
Publisher: MDPI AG
DOI: 10.3390/TECHNOLOGIES13080312

Goal-Oriented Policies for Cost of Actuation Error Minimization in Wireless Autonomous Systems

Author(s): E. Fountoulakis, N. Pappas and M. Kountouris
Published in: IEEE Communications Letters, 2023, ISSN 1089-7798
Publisher: IEEE
DOI: 10.48550/ARXIV.2303.04908

Hierarchical Traffic Engineering in 3D Networks Using QoS-Aware Graph-Based Deep Reinforcement Learning

Author(s): Robert Kołakowski, Lechosław Tomaszewski, Rafał Tępiński, Sławomir Kukliński
Published in: Electronics, Issue 14, 2025, ISSN 2079-9292
Publisher: MDPI AG
DOI: 10.3390/ELECTRONICS14051045

Mobile Services for Smart Agriculture and Forestry, Biodiversity Monitoring, and Water Management: Challenges for 5G/6G Networks

Author(s): L. Tomaszewski, R. Kołakowski
Published in: MDPI Telecom, 2023, ISSN 2673-4001
Publisher: MDPI
DOI: 10.3390/TELECOM4010006

UE Context Dissemination in Sparse LEO Constellations for 5G/6G Cellular IoT in Store and Forward Operation

Author(s): Kellermann, Timo Nicolas; Pueyo Centelles, Roger; Calveras Augé, Anna M.
Published in: IEEE Open Journal of the Communications Society, Issue 6, 2025, ISSN 2644-125X
Publisher: IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/OJCOMS.2025.3556318

Value of Information and Timing-aware Scheduling for Federated Learning

Author(s): M. A. Khan, H. H. Yang, Z. Chen, A. Iera, N. Pappas
Published in: 2023 IEEE Conference on Standards for Communications and Networking (CSCN), 2023, ISSN 2644-3244
Publisher: IEEE
DOI: 10.48550/ARXIV.2312.10512

Age of Information in Random Access Networks With Energy Harvesting

Author(s): Fangming Zhao, Nikolaos Pappas, Meng Zhang, Howard H. Yang
Published in: IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications, Issue 43, 2025, ISSN 1558-0008
Publisher: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
DOI: 10.48550/ARXIV.2412.01192

Adaptive Federated Learning Over the Air

Author(s): Chenhao Wang, Zihan Chen, Nikolaos Pappas, Howard H. Yang, Tony Q. S. Quek, H. Vincent Poor
Published in: IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, Issue 73, 2025, ISSN 1053-587X
Publisher: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
DOI: 10.48550/ARXIV.2403.06528

Semantic-Aware Remote Estimation of Multiple Markov Sources Under Constraints

Author(s): Jiping Luo, Nikolaos Pappas
Published in: IEEE Transactions on Communications, Issue 73, 2025, ISSN 0090-6778
Publisher: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
DOI: 10.48550/ARXIV.2403.16855

HORIZON: Holistic Online Heuristic for Power and QoS-Aware Service Provisioning in Sliced 6G Networks

Author(s): Mohammadreza Mosahebfard, John S. Vardakas, Christos Verikoukis
Published in: IEEE Open Journal of the Communications Society, Issue 7, 2026, ISSN 2644-125X
Publisher: IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/OJCOMS.2026.3651975

Forecasting Trends in Cloud-Edge Computing: Unleashing the Power of Attention Mechanisms

Author(s): Berend J. D. Gort, Godfrey M. Kibalya, Maria A. Serrano, Angelos Antonopoulos
Published in: IEEE Communications Magazine, Issue 63, 2024, ISSN 0163-6804
Publisher: IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/MCOM.001.2300583

IEEE Transactions on Communications

Author(s): Erfan Delfani; Nikolaos Pappas 0001
Published in: IEEE Transactions on Communications, 2024, ISSN 0090-6778
Publisher: IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/TCOMM.2024.3471969

Spatial-Aware MANO Systems for Efficient Mobility Management of Satellite-Based Non-Terrestrial Networks

Author(s): Jose Luis Avila; Hossein Rouzegar; Anna Calveras Augé; Joan Adrià Ruiz-de-Azua
Published in: IEEE Open Journal of the Communications Society, 2025, ISSN 2644-125X
Publisher: IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/OJCOMS.2025.3568892

State-aware real-time tracking and remote reconstruction of a Markov source

Author(s): Salimnejad, Mehrdad; Kountouris, Marios; Pappas, Nikolaos
Published in: Journal of Communications and Networks, 2023, ISSN 1976-5541
Publisher: IEEE
DOI: 10.48550/arxiv.2309.11950

Age of Information Versions: A Semantic View of Markov Source Monitoring

Author(s): Mehrdad Salimnejad, Marios Kountouris, Anthony Ephremides, Nikolaos Pappas
Published in: IEEE Transactions on Communications, Issue 73, 2025, ISSN 0090-6778
Publisher: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
DOI: 10.48550/ARXIV.2406.14594

Towards Natively Intelligent Semantic Communications and Networking

Author(s): S. E. Trevlakis, N. Pappas, A.-A. Boulogeorgos
Published in: IEEE Open Journal of the Communications Society, 2024, ISSN 2644-125X
Publisher: IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/OJCOMS.2024.3371871

Short-Packet Communication Over a Two-User Rayleigh Fading Z-Interference Channel: From Stability Region to the Age of Information

Author(s): J. D. Kumar, P. Mohapatra, N. Pappas
Published in: IEEE Open Journal of the Communications Society, 2023, ISSN 2644-125x
Publisher: IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/OJCOMS.2023.3309758

Experimental Study of Transport Layer Protocols for Wireless Networked Control Systems

Author(s): Kutsevol, Polina; Ayan, Onur; Pappas, Nikolaos; Kellerer, Wolfgang
Published in: 2023 20th Annual IEEE International Conference on Sensing, Communication, and Networking (SECON), 2023, ISSN 2155-5494
Publisher: IEEE
DOI: 10.48550/arxiv.2306.10578

Integrated Push-and-Pull Update Model for Goal-Oriented Effective Communication

Author(s): Pouya Agheli, Nikolaos Pappas, Petar Popovski, Marios Kountouris
Published in: IEEE Transactions on Communications, Issue 73, 2025, ISSN 0090-6778
Publisher: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
DOI: 10.48550/ARXIV.2407.14092

Semantics-Aware Active Fault Detection in Status Updating Systems

Author(s): G. Stamatakis, N. Pappas, A. Fragkiadakis, N. Petroulakis, A. Traganitis
Published in: IEEE Open Journal of the Communications Society, 2024, ISSN 2644-125X
Publisher: IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/OJCOMS.2024.3363731

Age-Threshold Slotted ALOHA for Optimizing Information Freshness in Mobile Networks

Author(s): Fangming Zhao, Nikolaos Pappas, Chuan Ma, Xinghua Sun, Tony Q. S. Quek, Howard H. Yang
Published in: IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, Issue 23, 2024, ISSN 1536-1276
Publisher: IEEE
DOI: 10.48550/ARXIV.2312.10888

Semantics-Aware Updates From Remote Energy Harvesting Devices to Interconnected LEO Satellites

Author(s): Erfan Delfani, Nikolaos Pappas
Published in: IEEE Communications Letters, Issue 29, 2025, ISSN 1089-7798
Publisher: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
DOI: 10.48550/ARXIV.2502.07069

So Timely, Yet So Stale: The Impact of Clock Drift in Real-Time Systems

Author(s): Mehrdad Salimnejad, Nikolaos Pappas, Marios Kountouris
Published in: IEEE Communications Letters, Issue 29, 2025, ISSN 1089-7798
Publisher: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
DOI: 10.48550/ARXIV.2501.00549

Advanced Air Mobility and evolution of mobile networks

Author(s): L. Tomaszewski, R. Kołakowski
Published in: MDPI Drones special issue on AAM, 2023, ISSN 2504-446X
Publisher: MDPI
DOI: 10.3390/DRONES7090556

Scheduling Policies for AoI Minimization With Timely Throughput Constraints

Author(s): E. Fountoulakis, T. Charalambous, A. Ephremides, N. Pappas
Published in: IEEE Transactions on Communications, Issue 71, 2023, ISSN 0090-6778
Publisher: IEEE
DOI: 10.48550/ARXIV.2109.04784

IEEE Communications Magazine

Author(s): Erfan Delfani, Agapi Mesodiakaki, Leandros Tassiulas, Nikolaos Pappas
Published in: IEEE Communications Magazine, 2025, ISSN 0163-6804
Publisher: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
DOI: 10.48550/ARXIV.2505.01796

On the Cost of Consecutive Estimation Error: Significance-Aware Non-Linear Aging

Author(s): Jiping Luo, Nikolaos Pappas
Published in: IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, Issue 71, 2025, ISSN 0018-9448
Publisher: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
DOI: 10.48550/ARXIV.2410.03637

Semantic Filtering and Source Coding in Distributed Wireless Monitoring Systems

Author(s): P. Agheli, N. Pappas, M. Kountouris
Published in: IEEE Transactions on Communications, 2024, ISSN 0090-6778
Publisher: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
DOI: 10.48550/ARXIV.2305.11549

Monitoring systems for nanosatellite constellations: towards end-to-end supervision

Author(s): Alex Lacueva, Victor Montilla, Jose Avila, Adrian Perez-Portero, Joan F. Munoz-Martin, Joan A. Ruiz-de-Azua
Published in: IET Conference Proceedings, Issue 2025, 2025, ISSN 2732-4494
Publisher: Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET)
DOI: 10.1049/ICP.2025.4062

Analysis of Age of Information in Dual Updating Systems

Author(s): Chen, Z., Deng, D., Yang, H.H., Pappas, N., Hu, L., Jia, Y., Wang, M. and Quek, T.Q.
Published in: IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, 2023, ISSN 1536-1276
Publisher: IEEE
DOI: 10.48550/ARXIV.2207.00781

RF-Assisted Uncertainty Cone Reduction in Free-Space Optical Inter-Satellite Links

Author(s): Elena Fernández-Niño; Juan A. Fraire; Adriano Camps; Joan Adrià Ruiz-de-Azua
Published in: IEEE Open Journal of the Communications Society, 2024, ISSN 2644-125X
Publisher: IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/OJCOMS.2024.3507555

Unified Framework for Dynamic Traffic Management in Integrated 6G Terrestrial and Non-Terrestrial Networks

Author(s): Mohammadreza Mosahebfard; Andrés Cárdenas; Sergio Giménez-Antón; Lechosław Tomaszewski
Published in: IEEE Open Journal of the Communications Society, Issue 6, 2025, ISSN 2644-125X
Publisher: IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/OJCOMS.2025.3636012

Age of Information of a Dual Queue Status Update System: A Stochastic Hybrid Systems Method

Author(s): Z. Chen, K. Lang, H. H. Yang, N. Pappas, M. Wang and T. Q. S. Quek
Published in: IEEE Communications Letters, 2023, ISSN 1089-7798
Publisher: IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/LCOMM.2023.3274348

A Vision, Survey, and Roadmap Toward Space Communications in the 6G and Beyond Era

Author(s): Konstantinos Ntontin, Eva Lagunas, Jorge Querol, Junaid ur Rehman, Joel Grotz, Symeon Chatzinotas, Björn Ottersten
Published in: Proceedings of the IEEE, 2025, ISSN 0018-9219
Publisher: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
DOI: 10.1109/JPROC.2024.3512934

Multi-level orchestration architecture for FPGA SoC-based flexible CubeSat payloads

Author(s): Victor Montilla, Alessandro Villegas, Hossein Rouzegar, Marcel Romero, Adrian Perez-Portero, Joan Francesc Muñoz Martin, Joan A. Ruiz-de-Azua
Published in: IET Conference Proceedings, Issue 2025, 2025, ISSN 2732-4494
Publisher: Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET)
DOI: 10.1049/ICP.2025.4035

IEEE Transactions on Communications

Author(s): Erfan Delfani; Nikolaos Pappas
Published in: Version Age-Optimal Cached Status Updates in a Gossiping Network with Energy Harvesting Sensor, 2024, ISSN 0090-6778
Publisher: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
DOI: 10.1109/tcomm.2024.3471969

Version Age of Information Minimization Over Fading Broadcast Channels

Author(s): Gangadhar Karevvanavar, Hrishikesh Pable, Om Patil, Rajshekhar Vishweshwar Bhat, Nikolaos Pappas
Published in: IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, Issue 24, 2024, ISSN 1536-1276
Publisher: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
DOI: 10.48550/ARXIV.2311.09975

State-Aware Timeliness in Energy Harvesting IoT Systems Monitoring a Markovian Source

Author(s): Erfan Delfani, George J. Stamatakis, Nikolaos Pappas
Published in: IEEE Transactions on Green Communications and Networking, Issue 9, 2024, ISSN 2473-2400
Publisher: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
DOI: 10.48550/ARXIV.2405.03628