Publications

Journals

  • Nie, S. and Akyildiz, I. F., “Channel Modeling and Analysis of Inter-Small-Satellite Links in Terahertz Band Space Networks,” IEEE Transactions on Communications, Sept. 2021, accepted.
  • Liaskos, C., Nie, S., Tsioliaridou, A., Pitsillides, A., Ioannidis, S., and Akyildiz, I. F., “End-to-end Wireless Path Deployment with Intelligent Surfaces Using Interpretable Neural Networks,” IEEE Transactions on Communications, January 2020, doi: 10.1109/TCOMM.2020.3012577.
  • Liaskos, C., Tsioliaridou, A., Nie, S., Pitsillides, A., Ioannidis, S., and Akyildiz, I. F., “On the Network-layer Modeling and Configuration of Programmable Wireless Environments,” in IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking, vol. 27, no. 4, pp. 1696-1713, Aug. 2019, doi: 10.1109/TNET.2019.2925658.
  • Liaskos, C., Nie, S., Tsioliaridou, A., Pitsillides, A., Ioannidis, S., and Akyildiz, I. F., “A Novel Paradigm for Wireless Performance and Security via Programmable Wireless Environments,” Ad Hoc Networks (Elsevier) Journal, vol. 87, pp. 1-16, May 2019.
  • Akyildiz, I. F., Jornet, J. M., and Nie, S., “A New CubeSat Design with Reconfigurable Multi-Band Radios for Satellite Communication in Dynamic Spectrum Frequencies,” Ad Hoc Networks (Elsevier) Journal, vol. 86, pp. 166-178, April 2019.
  • Liaskos, C., Nie, S., Tsioliaridou, A., Pitsillides, A., Ioannidis, S., and Akyildiz, I. F., “A New Wireless Communication Paradigm through Software-controlled Metasurfaces,” IEEE Communications Magazine, vol. 56, no. 9, pp. 162-169, September 2018.
  • Akyildiz, I. F., Han, C., Nie, S., “Combating the Distance Problem in the Millimeter Wave and Terahertz Frequency Bands,” IEEE Communications Magazine, vol. 56, no. 6, pp. 102-108, June 2018.
  • Akyildiz, I. F., Nie, S., Lin, S.-C., Chandrasekaran, M., “5G Roadmap: 10 Key Enabling Technologies,” Computer Networks (Elsevier) Journal, vol. 106, pp. 17 – 48, Sept. 2016.
  • A. Ghosh, T. A. Thomas, M. C. Cudak, R. Ratasuk, P. Moorut, F. W. Vook, T. S. Rappaport, G. R. MacCartney, Jr., S. Sun and S. Nie, “Millimeter-Wave Enhanced Local Area Systems: A High Data Rate Approach for Future Wireless Networks,” IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications, vol. 32, no. 6, pp. 1152-1163, June 2014.

Conferences

  • Nie, S. and Akyildiz, I. F., “Codebook Design for Dual-Polarized Ultra-Massive MIMO Communications at Millimeter Wave and Terahertz Bands,” submitted for conference publication, Oct. 2020.
  • Liaskos, C., Nie, S., Tsioliaridou, A., Pitsillides, A., Ioannidis, S., and Akyildiz, I. F., “Mobility-aware Beam Steering in Metasurface-based Programmable Wireless Environments,” to appear in IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP), Barcelona, Spain, May 2020.
  • Nie, S. and Akyildiz, I. F., “Beamforming in Intelligent Environments based on Ultra-Massive MIMO Platforms in Millimeter Wave and Terahertz Bands,” to appear in IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP), Barcelona, Spain, May 2020.
  • Nie, S. and Akyildiz, I. F., “Deep Kernel Learning-Based Channel Estimation in Ultra-Massive MIMO Communications at 0.06-10 THz,” in 2019 IEEE Globecom Workshops (GC Wkshps), Waikoloa, HI, December 2019.
  • Mehrotra, R., Ansari, R. I., Pitilakis, A., Nie, S., Liaskos, C., Kantartzis, N. V., and Pitsillides, A., “3D Channel Modeling and Characterization for Hypersurface Empowered Indoor Environment at 60 GHz Millimeter-Wave Band,” in 2019 Summer Simulation Conference (SummerSim), Berlin, Germany, July 2019.
  • Liaskos, C., Tsioliaridou, A., Nie, S., Pitsillides, A., Ioannidis, S., and Akyildiz, I. F., “An Interpretable Neural Network for Configuring Programmable Wireless Environments,” in IEEE International Workshop on Signal Processing Advances in Wireless Communications (SPAWC), Cannes, France, May 2019.
  • Nie, S., Jornet, J. M., and Akyildiz, I. F., “Deep-Learning-Based Resource Allocation for Multi-band Communications in CubeSat Networks,” in IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC) Workshops, Shanghai, China, May 2019.
  • Nie, S., Jornet, J. M., and Akyildiz, I. F., “Intelligent Environments based on Ultra-Massive MIMO Platforms for Wireless Communication in Millimeter Wave and Terahertz Bands,” in IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP), Brighton, UK, May 2019.
  • Li, J., Nie, S., and Han, C., “ASMC-NOMA: Downlink Adaptive Subcarrier Spacing Multi-Carrier NOMA for 5G Time-Varying Channels,” in 2018 IEEE Global Communications Conference (GLOBECOM), Abu Dhabi, UAE, Dec. 2018.
  • Liaskos, C., Nie, S., Tsioliaridou, A., Pitsillides, A., Ioannidis, S., and Akyildiz, I. F., “Realizing Wireless Communication Through Software-defined HyperSurface Environments,” 2018 IEEE 19th International Symposium on “A World of Wireless, Mobile and Multimedia Networks” (WoWMoM), Chania, Greece, 2018, pp. 14-15.
  • Nie, S. and Akyildiz, I. F., “Three-Dimensional Dynamic Channel Modeling and Tracking for Terahertz Band Indoor Communications,” 2017 IEEE 28th Annual International Symposium on Personal, Indoor, and Mobile Radio Communications (PIMRC), Montreal, QC, Oct. 2017, pp. 1-5.
  • Nie, S., Han, C., and Akyildiz, I. F., “A Three-Dimensional Time-Varying Model for 5G Indoor Dual-Mobility Channels,” 2017 IEEE 86th Vehicular Technology Conference (VTC-Fall), Toronto, ON, Oct. 2017, pp. 1-5.
  • Nie, S., MacCartney, G. R., Jr., Sun, S., and Rappaport, T.S., “28 GHz and 73 GHz Signal Outage Study for Millimeter Wave Cellular and Backhaul Communications,” in 2014 IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC), June 2014, pp. 4856-4861.
  • Sun, S., MacCartney, G. R., Jr., Samimi, M.K., Nie, S., and Rappaport, T.S., “Millimeter Wave Multi-Beam Antenna Combining for 5G Cellular Link Improvement in New York City,” in 2014 IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC), June 2014, pp. 5468-5473.
  • MacCartney, G. R., Jr., Zhang, Z., Nie, S., and Rappaport, T.S., “Path Loss Models for 5G Millimeter Wave Propagation Channels in Urban Microcells,” in 2013 IEEE Global Communications Conference (GLOBECOM), Dec. 2013, pp. 3948-3953.
  • Nie, S., MacCartney, G. R., Jr., Sun, S., and Rappaport, T.S., “72 GHz Millimeter Wave Indoor Measurements for Wireless and Backhaul Communications,” in 2013 IEEE 24th International Symposium on Personal Indoor and Mobile Radio Communications (PIMRC), Sept. 8-11, 2013, pp. 2429-2433.

Patent(s)

  • Akyildiz, I. F., Kak, A., and Nie, S., “Network Employing Cube Satellites,” International Application No. PCT/US2019/066523, Priority Date: December 14, 2018.

Others

  • Nie, S., Samimi, M.K., Wu, T., Deng, S., MacCartney, G. R., Jr., and Rappaport, T.S., “73 GHz millimeter-wave indoor and foliage propagation channel measurements and results,” NYU WIRELESS Technical Report, TR-2014–003.