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News record (2025)

  1. Best paper award
    (19.12.25) Our paper “Performance Analysis of Fluid Reconfigurable Intelligent Surface over Covert Communications” received the best short-paper award in the 4th International Conference on 6G Networking (6GNet 2025).

  2. New paper accepted
    (01.12.25) Our paper “Phase-mismatched STAR-RIS with FAS-assisted RSMA Users” was accepted for publication at IEEE Transactions on Communications.

  3. Featured at Stanford's World's Top 2% Scientists List 2025
    (21.09.25) I am included in this year's release of Stanford's World's Top 2% Scientists List.

  4. New paper accepted
    (18.09.25) Our paper “Performance Analysis of FAS-Aided NOMA-ISAC: A Backscattering Scenario” was accepted for publication at IEEE Internet of Things Journal.

  5. New paper accepted
    (07.09.25) Our paper “Performance Analysis of Wireless Communication Systems Assisted by Fluid Reconfigurable Intelligent Surfaces” was accepted for publication at IEEE Wireless Communications Letters.

  6. New paper accepted
    (21.08.25) Our paper “FIRES: Fluid Integrated Reflecting and Emitting Surfaces” was accepted for publication at IEEE Wireless Communications Letters.

  7. New paper accepted
    (13.08.25) Our paper “Fluid Antenna-Aided Rate-Splitting Multiple Access” was accepted for publication at IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology.

  8. New paper accepted
    (28.07.25) Our paper “User Selection in Near-Field Gigantic MIMO Systems with Modular Arrays” was accepted for publication at IEEE Transactions on Communications.

  9. New paper accepted
    (27.07.25) Our paper “How Should One Fit Channel Measurements to Fading Distributions for Performance Analysis?” was accepted for publication at IEEE Communications Letters.

  10. New tenure (UGR)
    (12.06.25) After an excruciatingly long wait, I confirmed my tenure at University of Granada.

  11. New paper accepted
    (06.06.25) Our paper “Fluid Antenna Multiple Access with Simultaneous Non-unique Decoding in Strong Interference Channel” was accepted for publication at IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications.

  12. Invited talk
    (01.05.25) I will be giving the invited talk “Toward a fluid and movable 6G air interface?” at Huawei's Munich Wireless Summit 2025.

  13. Conference paper accepted
    (27.04.25) The paper “On Performance of FAS-aided Covert Communications” has been accepted for presentation at IEEE VTC'Spring Workshop on Fluid Antenna System (FAS) for 6G, that will take place in Oslo in June 2025.

  14. Students awarded
    (24.03.25) My students Lucía del Carmen Soler Escámez and Alfonso Bailón Martínez were awarded in the “XVIII Premios Futuro de las Telecomunicaciones”, the yearly call for nationwide BSc thesis awards in the field of Telecommunication Engineering. Congratulations!

  15. New paper accepted
    (16.02.25) Our paper “Interference-Aware Precoding and User Selection for Multi-Cell Near-Field XL-MIMO Systems” was accepted for publication at IEEE Wireless Communications Letters.


News record (2024)

  1. New paper accepted at IEEE WNCN 2025
    (21.12.24) Our paper “Secrecy Performance Analysis of RIS-Aided Fluid Antenna Systems” was accepted for publication at IEEE WCNC 2025 conference.

  2. New paper accepted at IEEE COMML
    (01.12.24) Our paper “Analytical Characterization of the Operational Diversity Order in Fading Channels” was accepted for publication at IEEE Communications Letters.

  3. New paper accepted at IEEE TWC
    (26.11.24) Our paper “Empirical Validation of a Class of Ray-Based Fading Models” was accepted for publication at IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications.

  4. New paper accepted at IEEE OJCOMS
    (22.11.24) Our paper “Reliable and Secure Communications Through Compact Ultra-Massive Antenna Arrays” was accepted for publication at IEEE Open Journal of the Communications Society.

  5. New paper accepted at IEEE TWC
    (16.09.24) Our paper “Physical Layer Security over Fluid Antenna Systems: Secrecy Performance Analysis” was accepted for publication at IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications.

  6. New paper accepted at IEEE TCOM
    (15.09.24) Our paper “The Multi-cluster Two-Wave Fading Model” was accepted for publication at IEEE Transactions on Communications.

  7. New paper accepted at IEEE TWC
    (01.09.24) Our paper “A Gaussian Copula Approach to the Performance Analysis of Fluid Antenna Systems” was accepted for publication at IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications.

  8. New project granted
    (23.07.24) Our project application PID2023-149975OB-I00 COSTUME “COmmunicationS Through Ultra-massive Mimo technologiEs for 6G” has been selected for funding by the Spanish National Research Agency (AEI). This project, jointly led with my colleague David Morales, will fund our research between 01-Sep-2024 until 31-Ago-2027. Stay tuned for updates!

  9. Farewell
    (01.07.24) Group member Dr. Pablo Ramirez-Espinosa just left our team in University of Granada, to join our group section at University of Málaga as a MSCA Postdoctoral Fellow. Congrats Pablo on your new appointment!

  10. Qualification for Professorship
    (28.06.24) I received the Positive Accreditation for the position of Professor (Catedratico) by the Spanish National Agency ANECA.

  11. New paper accepted at IEEE TGCN
    (22.05.24) Our paper “Companding and Predistortion Techniques for Improved Efficiency and Performance in SWIPT” was accepted for publication at IEEE Transactions on Green Communications and Networking.

  12. New paper accepted at IEEE TVT
    (22.03.24) Our paper “The Second Order Scattering Fading Model with Fluctuating Line-of-Sight” was accepted for publication at IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology.

  13. New PhD graduation
    (23.02.24) My student Ivan Sanchez successfully defended his PhD dissertation “Unconventional Distributions for Wireless Fading Modeling”. Congrats Dr. Sanchez!

  14. New paper accepted at IEEE TCOM
    (17.01.24) Our paper “Performance Analysis of SWIPT Relay Networks over Arbitrary Dependent Fading Channels” was accepted for publication at IEEE Transactions on Communications.

  15. Farewell
    (08.01.24) Group member Dr. Gonzalo Anaya will be leaving our team in University of Granada, to join our group section at University of Málaga as a Postdoctoral Researcher. Congrats Gonzalo on your new appointment!

News record (2023)

  1. New PhD graduation
    (18.12.23) My student Gonzalo Anaya successfully defended his PhD dissertation “Physical Layer Security Techniques for Beyond 5G networks”. Congrats Dr. Anaya!

  2. New paper accepted at IEEE COML
    (15.12.23) Our paper “Fluid Antenna-Assisted Dirty Multiple Access Channels over Composite Fading” was accepted for publication at IEEE Communications Letters.

  3. New paper accepted at IEEE OJVT
    (05.12.23) Our paper “The Lomax Distribution for Wireless Channel Modeling: Theory and Applications” was accepted for publication at IEEE Open Journal of Vehicular Technology.

  4. Best paper award
    (30.10.23) Our paper “The Lomax Distribution for Wireless Channel Modeling: a Preliminary Study” received the best paper award in the Communications track at IEEE ETCM 2023.

  5. New paper accepted at IEEE COML
    (05.10.23) Our paper “Analytical Characterization of Coverage Regions for STAR-RIS-aided NOMA/OMA Communication Systems” was accepted for publication at IEEE Communications Letters.

  6. New group member
    (18.09.23) Dr. Santiago Fernández will join our group at University of Granada as a postdoctoral researcher in October’23. He will be working on signal processing techniques for 6G communications. Welcome Santi!

  7. New paper accepted at IEEE COML
    (13.09.23) Our paper “Copula-based Performance Analysis for Fluid Antenna Systems under Arbitrary Fading Channels” was accepted for publication at IEEE Communications Letters.

  8. New paper accepted at IEEE TWC
    (11.09.23) Our paper “The Multi-Cluster Fluctuating Two-Ray Fading Model” was accepted for publication at IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications.

  9. New paper accepted at IEEE COMM-MAG
    (12.06.23) Our paper “Enabling Intelligent Omni-Surfaces in the Polarization Domain: Principles, Implementation and Applications” was accepted for publication at IEEE Communications Magazine.

  10. New paper accepted at IEEE COML
    (07.06.23) Our paper “RIS-Aided Communications over dirty MAC: Capacity region and Outage Probability” was accepted for publication at IEEE Communications Letters.

  11. New paper accepted at IEEE WCL
    (28.05.23) Our paper “Joint User Scheduling and Precoding for XL-MIMO Systems with Imperfect CSI” was accepted for publication at IEEE Wireless Communications Letters.

  12. New paper accepted at IEEE TVT
    (02.05.23) Our paper “Joint Distance and Angles Distribution in Finite Wireless Networks” was accepted for publication at IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology.

  13. New group member
    (25.04.23) Gonzalo Anaya has joined our group at University of Granada as an associate researcher in April’23. He will finalize his PhD after the summer, and will work on multiuser XL-MIMO and Dynamic Metasurface Arrays for 6G. Welcome Gonzalo!

  14. New group member
    (10.03.23) Dr. Hadi Hashemi has joined our group at University of Granada as a Postdoctoral researcher in April’23. He will work on communication theoretic aspects of RIS-assisted communications and NTN-related use cases. Welcome Hadi!

  15. Farewell
    (19.01.23) Group member Dr. Maryam Olyaee will be leaving our team in University of Granada, to join our group section at University of Málaga as a Principal Investigator for the project “ENERGY EFFICIENCY IN RIS-ASSISTED WIRELESS COMMUNICATIONS SYSTEMS”, in Feb’23. Congrats Maryam on your new appointment!

  16. New paper accepted at IEEE ICC 2023
    (18.01.23) Our paper “The IFTR Fading Model: Statistical Characterization and Empirical Validation” was accepted for presentation at the IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC) 2023, Wireless Communication Symposium.

News record (2022)

  1. New paper accepted at IEEE TVT
    (04.12.22) Our paper “The fluctuating two-ray fading model with independent specular components” was accepted for publication at IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology.

  2. New paper accepted at IEEE COML
    (27.11.22) Our paper “Leakage Subspace Precoding and Scheduling for Physical Layer Security in Multi-User XL-MIMO Systems” was accepted for publication at IEEE Communications Letters.

  3. Outstanding Service Award
    (17.11.22) I received the 2022's IEEE Communications Society “Outstanding Service Award” from the Communication Theory Technical Committee.

  4. New paper accepted at IEEE TIFS
    (27.09.22) Our paper “The Impact of Side Information on Physical Layer Security under Correlated Fading Channels” was accepted for publication at IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security.

  5. New paper accepted at IEEE COML
    (18.09.22) Our paper “Physical Layer Security of RIS-Assisted Communications under Electromagnetic Interference” was accepted for publication at IEEE Communications Letters.

  6. New group member
    (30.08.22) Dr. Pablo Ramirez Espinosa will join our group at University of Granada as a Maria Zambrano Postdoctoral researcher in Oct’22. He will work in modeling and applications of dynamic metasurface arrays for 6G communications. Welcome Pablo!

  7. New group member
    (15.08.22) Dr. Maryam Olyaee will join our group at University of Granada as a Postdoctoral researcher in Sept’22. She will work on communication theoretic aspects of RIS-assisted communications. Welcome Maryam!

  8. 10th Spanish Workshop on Signal Processing, Communication and Information Theory
    (26.07.22) We organize a new edition of the workshop in Granada, Nov 21-22 2022, with Sundeep Rangan (NYU), Joakim Jaldén (KTH) and Fernando Pérez-Cruz (ETHZ/Swiss Data Center) as invited speakers. Stay tuned for more details!

  9. New paper accepted at TWC
    (06.05.22) Our paper Alternative Formulations for the Fluctuating Two-Ray Fading Model was accepted for publication at IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications.

  10. New position
    (18.04.22) I started a new position at the Department of Signal Theory, Networking and Communications, Universidad de Granada.