https://vlachos.science/tags/conference/ConferenceHugo Blox Builder (https://hugoblox.com)enTue, 29 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://vlachos.science/media/icon_hu_2beab1606e98fa9.pnghttps://vlachos.science/tags/conference/https://vlachos.science/post/nextgcom-2026-kefalonia/Tue, 29 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://vlachos.science/post/nextgcom-2026-kefalonia/<p>I attended the <strong>2026 Next Generation Communications conference (NextGCom 2026)</strong>, held on 28-30 September 2026 at the Ionian University in Argostoli, Kefalonia, Greece.</p> <p>On 29 September I chaired <strong>Special Session 3: Integrated Sensing and AI-Driven Communication in 6G Perceptive Mobile Networks</strong>, which brought together four papers on sensing-aided and AI-driven physical-layer design for 6G. In the same session I presented our paper:</p> <h3 id="semantically-informed-predictive-control-for-autonomous-uav-connectivity-in-urban-environments">Semantically-Informed Predictive Control for Autonomous UAV Connectivity in Urban Environments</h3> <p><em>Evangelos Vlachos, Dimitrios Tsourounis, and Aryan Kaushik</em></p> <p>The work fuses radar sensing with visual semantic classification into an effective capacity metric, so that a UAV path planner avoids both hard blockers and unreliable multipath zones in mmWave urban links.</p> <div class="photo-strip"> <figure class="photo-strip-item" style="flex: 1.3339285714285714 1 0"> <img src="https://vlachos.science/media/news/nextgcom2026/title_hu_5b038451caad185d.webp" srcset="https://vlachos.science/media/news/nextgcom2026/title_hu_dcd23e12f8c767ab.webp 373w, https://vlachos.science/media/news/nextgcom2026/title_hu_5b038451caad185d.webp 747w" sizes="(max-width: 576px) 70vw, 33vw" width="747" height="560" alt="Title slide of the paper on semantically-informed predictive control for UAV connectivity" loading="lazy" decoding="async"> <figcaption>Title slide, NextGCom 2026</figcaption> </figure> <figure class="photo-strip-item" style="flex: 1.3339285714285714 1 0"> <img src="https://vlachos.science/media/news/nextgcom2026/contributions_hu_48b2f0c8e3a2b38d.webp" srcset="https://vlachos.science/media/news/nextgcom2026/contributions_hu_5303f1e984029a12.webp 373w, https://vlachos.science/media/news/nextgcom2026/contributions_hu_48b2f0c8e3a2b38d.webp 747w" sizes="(max-width: 576px) 70vw, 33vw" width="747" height="560" alt="Evangelos Vlachos explaining the contributions slide at NextGCom 2026" loading="lazy" decoding="async"> <figcaption>Sensing-assisted communication for UAV links</figcaption> </figure> </div> <p>Our group also presented <strong>Geometry-Aware Regularization for Deep-Unfolded MIMO-OTFS Detection</strong> (Nikolaos Ntavanelos and Evangelos Vlachos) in the technical sessions.</p> <p>This work is part of the <a href="https://eusome.eu/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">EUSOME</a> project, funded by the European Union under Horizon Europe Grant Agreement 101187121.</p>