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Space and Terrestrial Systems
 Dr. Placido Mursia

Dr. Placido Mursia

Senior Research Scientist

Placido Mursia is a Senior Research Scientist in the Space and Terrestrial Systems group at NEC Laboratories Europe, Germany. His research interests lie in non-terrestrial networks, reconfigurable intelligent surfaces, integrated sensing and communication, wireless communications, convex optimization, and signal processing. He received his B.Sc. and M.Sc. degrees in Telecommunication Engineering from Politecnico di Torino in 2015 and 2018, respectively. He obtained his Ph.D from Sorbonne Université, Paris, at the Communication Systems department of EURECOM in 2021.

Group Involvement, NEC Laboratories Europe

Space and Terrestrial Systems

Research Interests

  • Intelligent integrated terrestrial-space networking
  • Reflective Intelligent Surfaces
  • Joint Communication and Sensing

Publications

  • F. Costanzo, Sami Mekki, Placido Mursia, Kyriakos Stylianopoulos, Ghassen Zafzouf, Ali Al Khansa, Tan-Tho Luc, Benoit Denis, Giyyarpuram Madhusudan, Maurizio Crozzoli, George C. Alexandropoulos, and Henk Wymeersch, "DISAC Architecture: Functions, Semantics, Protocols, Orchestration, and Demonstrator," 2026 Joint European Conference on Networks and Communications & 6G Summit (EuCNC/6G Summit), Málaga, Spain, 2026, pp. 890-895
  • P. Baguer, J. X. S. Lozano, G. Encinas-Lago, P. Mursia, E. Municio, M. Rossanese, V. Sciancalepore, and X. Costa-Perez, “Echoes: An open ran-enabled system for indoors localization using smart surfaces,” IEEE Open Journal of the Communications Society, vol. 6, pp. 7215–7232, 2025.
  • A. T. Joy, A. Tishchenko, H. Taghvaee, P. Mursia, V. Sciancalepore, and M. Khalily, “Ris-enabled isac in 6g: Exploring the role of wave domain computing,” IEEE Communications Standards Magazine, 2025.
  • T. A. Yusuf, S. S. Petersen, P. Li, J. Ren, P. Mursia, V. Sciancalepore, X. C. Pérez, G. Berardinelli, and M. Shen, “Ai-assisted nlos sensing for ris-based indoor localization in smart factories,” in 2025 IEEE 101st Vehicular Technology Conference (VTC2025-Spring), 2025, pp. 1–7.
  • K. Stylianopoulos, G. Madhusudan, G. Jornod, S. Mekki, F. Costanzo, H. Chen, P. Mursia, M. Crozzoli, E. C. Strinati, G. C. Alexandropoulos, and H. Wymeersch, “Distributed intelligent sensing and communications for 6g: Architecture and use cases,” in 2025 Joint European Conference on Networks and Communications & 6G Summit (EuCNC/6G Summit), 2025, pp. 583–588.
  • A. L. Goshu, P. Mursia, V. Sciancalepore, M. Di Renzo, and X. Costa-Perez, “Realistic evaluation of impedance-based ris modeling: Practical insights and applications,” in 2025 19th European Conference on Antennas and Propagation (EuCAP), 2025, pp. 1–5.
  • J. C. Ruiz-Sicilia, M. Di Renzo, P. Mursia, V. Sciancalepore, and M. Debbah, “Degrees of freedom of holographic mimo - fundamental theory and analytical methods,” in 2025 19th European Conference on Antennas and Propagation (EuCAP), 2025, pp. 1–5.
  • P. Mursia, F. Devoti, M. Rossanese, V. Sciancalepore, G. Gradoni, M. D. Renzo, and X. Costa-Pérez, “T3dris: Advancing conformal ris design through in-depth analysis of mutual coupling effects,” IEEE Transactions on Communications, vol. 73, no. 2, pp. 889–903, 2025.
  • J. C. Ruiz-Sicilia, M. D. Renzo, P. Mursia, A. Kaushik, and V. Sciancalepore, “Spatial multiplexing in near-field line-of-sight mimo communications: Paraxial and non-paraxial deployments,” IEEE Transactions on Green Communications and Networking, vol. 9, no. 1, pp. 338–353, 2025.
  • M. Rossanese, P. Mursia, A. Garcia-Saavedra, V. Sciancalepore, A. Asadi, and X. Costa-Perez, “Open experimental measurements of sub-6ghz reconfigurable intelligent surfaces,” IEEE Internet Computing, vol. 28, no. 2, pp. 19–28, 2024.
  • P. Mursia, T. Mazloum, F. Munoz, V. Sciancalepore, G. Gradoni, R. D’Errico, M. Di Renzo, X. Costa-Pérez, A. Clemente, and G. Lerosey, “Empirical validation of the impedance-based ris channel model in an indoor scattering environment,” in 2024 18th European Conference on Antennas and Propagation (EuCAP), 2024, pp. 1–4.
  • M. Rossanese, P. Mursia, A. Garcia-Saavedra, V. Sciancalepore, A. Asadi, and X. Costa-Perez, “Design and validation of scalable reconfigurable intelligent surfaces,” Computer Networks, vol. 241, p. 110208, 2024. [Online]. Available: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1389128624000409
  • E. C. Strinati, G. C. Alexandropoulos, M. Giyyarpuram, P. Sehier, S. Mekki, V. Sciancalepore, M. Stark, M. Sana, B. Denis, M. Crozzoli, N. Amani, P. Mursia, R. D’Errico, M. Boldi, F. Costanzo, F. Rivet, and H. Wymeersch, “Distributed intelligent integrated sensing and communications: The 6g-disac approach,” in 2024 Joint European Conference on Networks and Communications & 6G Summit (EuCNC/6G Summit), 2024, pp. 392–397.
  • H. E. Hassani, X. Qian, S. Jeong, N. S. Perović, M. Di Renzo, P. Mursia, V. Sciancalepore, and X. Costa-Pérez, “Optimization of ris-aided mimo—a mutually coupled loaded wire dipole model,” IEEE Wireless Communications Letters, vol. 13, no. 3, pp. 726–730, 2024.
  • N. M. Gholian, M. Rossanese, P. Mursia, A. Garcia-Saavedra, A. Asadi, V. Sciancalepore, and X. Costa-Pérez, “A leakage-based method for mitigation of faulty reconfigurable intelligent surfaces,” in GLOBECOM 2023 - 2023 IEEE Global Communications Conference, 2023, pp. 2009–2014.
  • G. C. Alexandropoulos, D.-T. Phan-Huy, K. D. Katsanos, M. Crozzoli, H. Wymeersch, P. Popovski, P. Ratajczak, Y. Bénédic, M.-H. Hamon, S. H. Gonzalez, P. Mursia, M. Rossanese, V. Sciancalepore, J.-B. Gros, S. Terranova, G. Gradoni, P. D. Lorenzo, M. Rahal, B. Denis, R. D’Errico, A. Clemente, and E. C. Strinati, “Ris-enabled smart wireless environments: deployment scenarios, network architecture, bandwidth and area of influence,” EURASIP Journal on Wireless Communications and Networking, vol. 2023, no. 103, pp. 1–24, 2023. [Online]. Available: https://doi.org/10.1186/s13638-023-02295-8
  • F. Devoti, P. Mursia, V. Sciancalepore, and X. Costa-Pérez, “Taming aerial communication with flight-assisted smart surfaces in the 6g era: Novel use cases, requirements, and solutions,” IEEE Vehicular Technology Magazine, vol. 18, no. 3, pp. 38–47, 2023.
  • P. Mursia, S. Phang, V. Sciancalepore, G. Gradoni, and M. D. Renzo, “Saris: Scattering aware reconfigurable intelligent surface model and optimization for complex propagation channels,” IEEE Wireless Communications Letters, vol. 12, no. 11, pp. 1921–1925, 2023.
  • M. Rossanese, P. Mursia, A. Garcia-Saavedra, V. Sciancalepore, A. Asadi, and X. Costa-Perez, “Designing, building, and characterizing rf switch-based reconfigurable intelligent surfaces,” in Proceedings of the 16th ACM Workshop on Wireless Network Testbeds, Experimental Evaluation & CHaracterization, ser. WiNTECH ’22. New York, NY, USA: Association for Computing Machinery, 2022, p. 69–76.
  • F. Maresca, A. Albanese, P. Mursia, V. Sciancalepore, and X. Costa-Pérez, “A frequency-agnostic ris-based solution to control the smart radio propagation environment,” in 2022 IEEE 23rd International Workshop on Signal Processing Advances in Wireless Communication (SPAWC), 2022, pp. 1–5.
  • P. Mursia, I. Atzeni, L. Cottatellucci, and D. Gesbert, “Enforcing statistical orthogonality in massive mimo systems via covariance shaping,” IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, vol. 21, no. 10, pp. 8106–8119, 2022.
  • F. Danufane, P. Mursia, and J. Liu, Channel Estimation in RIS-Aided Networks. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2022, pp. 203–220
  • A. Albanese, P. Mursia, V. Sciancalepore, and X. Costa-Pérez, “Papir: Practical ris-aided localization via statistical user information,” in 2021 IEEE 22nd International Workshop on Signal Processing Advances in Wireless Communications (SPAWC), 2021, pp. 531–535.
  • P. Mursia, F. Devoti, V. Sciancalepore, and X. Costa-Pérez, “Rise of flight: Ris-empowered uav communications for robust and reliable air-to-ground networks,” IEEE Open Journal of the Communications Society, vol. 2, pp. 1616–1629, 2021.
  • P. Mursia, V. Sciancalepore, A. Garcia-Saavedra, L. Cottatellucci, X. Costa-Perez, and D. Gesbert, “RISMA: Reconfigurable Intelligent Surfaces Enabling Beamforming for IoT Massive Access,” IEEE J. Sel. Areas Commun. (JSAC) Special Issue on Massive Access for 5G and Beyond, Aug. 2020.
  • P. Mursia, I. Atzeni, M. Kobayashi, and D. Gesbert, “D2D-Aided Multi-Antenna Multicasting in a Dense Network,” in Proc. Asilomar Conf. Signals, Syst., and Comput. (ASILOMAR), Pacific Grove, CA, USA, Nov. 2019.
  • P. Mursia, I. Atzeni, D. Gesbert, and M. Kobayashi, “D2D-Aided Multi-Antenna Multicasting,” in Proc. IEEE Int. Conf. Commun. (ICC), Shanghai, China, May 2019, (Best Paper Award).
  • P. Mursia, I. Atzeni, D. Gesbert, and L. Cottatellucci, “Covariance Shaping for Massive MIMO Systems,” in Proc. IEEE Global Commun. Conf. (GLOBECOM), Abu Dhabi, UAE, Dec. 2018.
  • P. Mursia, I. Atzeni, D. Gesbert, and L. Cottatellucci, “On the Performance of Covariance Shaping in Massive MIMO Systems,” in Proc. IEEE Int. Works. on Comp. Aided Model. and Design of Comm. Links and Netw. (CAMAD), Barcelona, Spain, Sept. 2018.

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