Arthur S. de Sena

Short biography

Arthur Sousa de Sena is currently a postdoctoral researcher in the 6G Flagship program at the University of Oulu, Finland. In this role, he has been actively carrying out research and supervising students on cutting-edge subjects for future communication systems, encompassing reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RISs), next-generation multiple access schemes, massive and holographic MIMO technologies, and their intersection with machine learning techniques. Additionally, he collaborates on impactful projects, including the European Union Hexa-X-II project and joint research initiatives with the Commonwealth Cyber Initiative at Virginia Tech, USA. Dr. Sena also serves as Work Package Leader and Project Manager for the Business Finland projects Local 6G and 6G-WISECOM.

Before his current role, from November 2022 to May 2023, he was a researcher at the AI and Digital Science Research Center at the Technology Innovation Institute, Abu Dhabi, UAE. From 2019 to 2022, he was a junior researcher with the Laboratory of Control Engineering and Digital Systems at Lappeenranta-Lahti University of Technology (LUT), Lappeenranta, Finland. He received his D.Sc. degree (with distinction) in Electrical Engineering from LUT, Finland, in 2022, and the M.Sc. and B.Sc. degrees in Teleinformatics Engineering and Computer Engineering from the Federal University of Ceará, Brazil, in 2019 and 2017, respectively. Dr. Sena was awarded the Brazil Scientific Mobility Program scholarship for the period August 2014 to December 2015, in which he studied Computer Engineering as an exchange student at the Armour College of Engineering, Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago, USA. Due to his outstanding research work in wireless communication, he received the Nokia Foundation Award in October 2020, the LUT Research Foundation Award in December 2020, and the IEEE Global Communications Conference (GLOBECOM) Best Paper Award in December 2022. He has authored several peer-reviewed papers in prestigious journals and flagship conferences. He serves as an Editor for IEEE Communications Letters and is a member of the IEEE Communications Society.

Postdoctoral Researcher, 6G Flagship
Editor of IEEE Communications Letters
Email: arthurssena@ieee.org

Research Interests

  • Wireless communication
  • Signal processing
  • Multi-linear algebra
  • Random matrix theory
  • Statistical performance analysis
  • Resource allocation
  • Machine learning
  • Physical-layer security
  • Next-generation multiple access techniques
  • Intelligent reflecting surfaces
  • Massive and Holographic MIMO
  • Cell-free massive MIMO
  • Integrated Sensing and Communication
  • Near-field communication

Publications

Journal Papers

N. Ginige, A. S. de Sena, N. H. Mahmood, N. Rajatheva and M. Latva-aho, "Efficient Channel Prediction for Beyond Diagonal RIS-Assisted MIMO Systems with Channel Aging," IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology, 2025.
F. Karim, N. H. Mahmood, A. S. de Sena, D. Kumar, B. Clerckx and M. Latva-aho, "Uplink Rate Splitting Multiple Access with Imperfect Channel State Information and Interference Cancellation," IEEE Wireless Communications Letters, 2025.
A. S. de Sena, M. Rasti, N. H. Mahmood, M. Latva-aho, “Beyond Diagonal RIS for Multi-Band Multi-Cell MIMO Networks: A Practical Frequency-Dependent Model and Performance Analysis,” IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, vol. 24, no. 1, pp. 749-766, Jan. 2025.
A. S. de Sena, J. Kibilda, N. H. Mahmood, A. Gomes, M. Latva-aho, “Malicious RIS versus Massive MIMO: Securing Multiple Access against RIS-based Jamming Attacks,” IEEE Wireless Communications Letters, vol. 13, no. 4, pp. 989-993, Apr. 2024.
P. E. G. Silva, P. H. J. Nardelli, A. S. de Sena, Harun Siljak, Niko Nevaranta, Nicola Marchetti, and Rausley A. A. de Souza, “Semantic-Functional Communications in Cyber-Physical Systems,” IEEE Network Magazine, vol. 38, no. 4, pp. 241-249, Jul. 2024.
A. S. de Sena, P. H. J. Nardelli, D. B. da Costa, P. Popovski, C. B. Papadias, and M. Debbah, “Dual-Polarized Massive MIMO-RSMA Networks: Tackling Imperfect SIC,” IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, vol. 22, no. 5, pp. 3194-3215, May 2023.
A. S. de Sena, P. H. J. Nardelli, D. B. da Costa, P. Popovski, C. B. Papadias, and M. Debbah, “Dual-Polarized RSMA for Massive MIMO Systems,” IEEE Wireless Communications Letters, vol. 11, no. 9, pp. 2000-2004, Sep. 2022.
A. S. de Sena, P. H. J. Nardelli, D. B. da Costa, P. Popovski, and C. B. Papadias, “Rate-Splitting Multiple Access and its Interplay with Intelligent Reflecting Surfaces”, IEEE Communications Magazine, vol. 60, no. 7, pp. 52-57, Jul. 2022.
B. K. S. Lima, A. S. de Sena, R. Dinis, D. B. Da Costa, M. Beko, R. Oliveira, M. Debbah, “Aerial Intelligent Reflecting Surfaces in MIMO-NOMA Networks: Fundamentals, Potential Achievements, and Challenges,” IEEE Open Journal of the Communications Society, vol. 3, pp. 1007-1024, Jun. 2022.
A. Narayanan, M. S. Korium, D. C. Melgarejo, H. M. Hussain, A. S. de Sena, P. E Goria Silva, D. G. Rojas, M. Ullah, A. E. Nezhad, M. Rasti, E. Pournaras, P. H. J. Nardelli, “Collective Intelligence Using 5G: Concepts, Applications, and Challenges in Sociotechnical Environments,” IEEE Access, vol. 10, pp. 70394-70417, Jun. 2022.
A. S. de Sena, P. H. J. Nardelli, D. B. da Costa, F. R. M. Lima, L. Yang, P. Popovski, Z. Ding, and C. B. Papadias, “IRS-Assisted Massive MIMO-NOMA Networks: Exploiting Wave Polarization,” IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, vol. 20, no. 11, pp. 7166-7183, Nov. 2021.
A. S. de Sena, P. H. J. Nardelli, D. B. d. Costa, U. S. Dias, P. Popovski and C. B. Papadias, “Dual-Polarized IRSs in Uplink MIMO-NOMA Networks: An Interference Mitigation Approach,” IEEE Wireless Communications Letters, vol. 10, pp. 2284-2288, Oct. 2021.
R. C. Moioli, P. H. J. Nardelli, M. T. Barros, W. Saad, A. Hekmatmanesh, P. E. G. Silva, A. S. de Sena, M. Dzaferagic, H. Siljak, W. V. Leekwijck, D. C. Melgarejo and S. Latré, “Neurosciences and Wireless Networks: The Potential of Brain-Type Communications and Their Applications,” IEEE Communications Surveys & Tutorials, vol. 23, pp. 1599-1621, Jun. 2021.
A. S. de Sena, D. Carrillo, F. Fang, P. H. J. Nardelli, D. B. da Costa, U. S. Dias, Z. Ding, C. B. Papadias, and W. Saad, “What Role Do Intelligent Reflecting Surfaces Play in Multi-Antenna Non-Orthogonal Multiple Access?”, IEEE Wireless Communications, vol. 27, no. 5, pp. 24-31, Oct. 2020.
A. Narayanan, A. S. de Sena, D. Gutierrez-Rojas, D. C. Melgarejo, H. M. Hussain, M. Ullah, S. Bayhan, and P. H. J. Nardelli, "Key Advances in Pervasive Edge Computing for Industrial Internet of Things in 5G and Beyond," IEEE Access, 8, pp. 206734–206754, Nov. 2020.
A. S. de Sena, F. R. M. Lima, D. B. da Costa, Z. Ding, P. H. J. Nardelli, U. S. Dias, and C. B. Papadias, “Massive MIMO-NOMA Networks with Imperfect SIC: Design and Fairness Enhancement”, IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, vol. 19, no. 9, pp. 6100-6115, Sep. 2020.
A. S. de Sena, D. B. da Costa, Z. Ding, P. H. J. Nardelli, U. S. Dias, and C. B. Papadias, “Massive MIMO-NOMA Networks with Successive Sub-Array Activation”, IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, vol. 19, no. 3, pp. 1622-1635, Mar. 2020.
A. S. de Sena, D. B. da Costa, Z. Ding, and P. H. J. Nardelli, “Massive MIMO-NOMA Networks with Multi-Polarized Antennas”, IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, vol. 18, no. 12, pp. 5630-5642, Dec. 2019.

Conference Papers

A. Basaure, A. S. de Sena, M. Matinmikko-Blue, S. Yrjölä, and P. Ahokangas, “Utility-based Interference Coordination for Local Spectrum Licensing in 6G”, in Proc. IEEE International Symposium on Dynamic Spectrum Access Networks (DySPAN 2025), May 2025, London, United Kingdom (Accepted).
A. S. de Sena, A. Gomes, J. Kibiłda, N. H. Mahmood, L. A. DaSilva, M. Latva-aho, “Malicious RIS Meets RSMA: Unveiling the Robustness of Rate Splitting to RIS-Induced Attacks”, in Proc. IEEE Global Communications Conference (GLOBECOM 2024), Dec. 2024, Cape Town, South Africa.
A. Gomes, A. S. de Sena, N. H. Mahmood, M. Latva-aho, L. A. DaSilva and J. Kibiłda, "Beam Management Manipulation with Adversarial Reconfigurable Intelligent Surfaces," in Proc. IEEE Global Communications Conference (GLOBECOM 2024), Dec. 2024, Cape Town, South Africa.
I. R. Koralege, A. S. de Sena, N. H. Mahmood, F. Karim, D. Lesthuruge, S. Gunarathne, "A Deep-Unfolding Approach to RIS Phase Shift Optimization Via Transformer-Based Channel Prediction," in Proc. SIMS EUROSIM Conference on Modelling and Simulation, Sep. 2024, Oulu, Finland.
N. Ginige, A. S. de Sena, N. H. Mahmood, N. Rajatheva and M. Latva-aho, "Machine Learning-Based Channel Prediction for RIS-Assisted MIMO Systems with Channel Aging," in Proc. IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference (WCNC), Apr. 2024, Dubai, UAE.
F. Karim, N. H. Mahmood, A. S. de Sena, D. Kumar, O. L. A. Lopez and M. Latva-Aho, "SWIPT-Enabled RSMA Downlink Networks with Imperfect CSI and SIC," in Proc. IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference (WCNC), Apr. 2024, Dubai, UAE.
A. S. de Sena, J. He, A. A. Hammadi, C. Huang, F. Bader, M. Debbah, M. Fink, "On the Sum Secrecy Rate of Multi-User Holographic MIMO Networks", in Proc. IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC 2024), Jun. 2024, Denver, CO, USA.
J. He, A. Fakhreddine, A. S. de Sena, Y. Tian, and M. Debbah, "Unleashing 3D Connectivity in Beyond 5G Networks with Reconfigurable Intelligent Surfaces", in Proc. Asilomar Conf. Signals Syst. Comput., Nov. 2023, Pacific Grove, CA, USA.
A. S. de Sena, D. B. da Costa, P. H. J. Nardelli, F. Bader, and M. Debbah, “Massive IRS-MIMO-RSMA with Polarization Multiplexing: An Enhanced SIC-Free Approach”, in Proc. IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC 2023), May 2023, Rome, Italy.
A. S. de Sena, P. H. J. Nardelli, D. B. da Costa, P. Popovski, C. B. Papadias, and M. Debbah, “RSMA for Dual-Polarized Massive MIMO Networks: A SIC-Free Approach”, in Proc. IEEE Global Communications Conference (GLOBECOM 2022), Dec. 2022, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil (Best Paper Award).
S. K. Taskou, M. Rasti, P. H. J. Nardelli and A. S. de Sena, “Distributed Joint Power and Rate Control for NOMA/OFDMA in 5G and Beyond”, in Proc. IEEE Global Communications Conference (GLOBECOM 2021), Dec. 2021, Madrid, Spain.
A. S. de Sena, P. H. J. Nardelli, D. B. da Costa, F. R. M. Lima, L. Yang, P. Popovski, Z. Ding, and C. B. Papadias, “IRS-Assisted Massive MIMO-NOMA Networks with Polarization Diversity”, Accepted in Proc. IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC 2021), Jun. 2021, Montreal, Canada.
D. C. Melgarejo, C. Kalalas, A. S. de Sena, P. H. J. Nardelli and G. Fraidenraich, “Reconfigurable Intelligent Surface-Aided Grant-Free Access for Uplink URLLC”, in Proc. 6G Wireless Summit (6G SUMMIT 2020), Mar. 2020, Levi, Finland.
A. S. de Sena, D. B. da Costa, Z. Ding, P. H. J. Nardelli, U. S. Dias, and C. B. Papadias, “Successive Sub-Array Activation for Massive MIMO-NOMA Networks”, in Proc. IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC 2020), Jun. 2020, Dublin, Ireland.
A. S. de Sena, D. B. da Costa, Z. Ding, and P. H. J. Nardelli, “On the Performance of Massive MIMO-NOMA Networks with Dual-Polarized Antenna Array”, in Proc. IEEE Global Communications Conference (GLOBECOM 2019), Dec. 2019, Big Island, Hawaii, USA.
A. S. de Sena and C. A. R. Fernandes, “Análise de Sistemas OFDM com Modulação por Índice e Amplificador de Potência Não Linear”, in Proc. Brazilian Telecommun. Symp. (SBrT 2017), pp. 313-317, 2017, São Paulo, Brazil.
C. D. B. Borges, J. A. Carvalho, A. S. de Sena, and J. C Nascimento. “Interface de Aplicação NFC em Hardware Livre para Pagamentos Móveis”, in Proc. Unified Computing Meeting (ENUCOMP 2014), pp. 133-142, 2014, Parnaíba, Brazil.

Book Chapters

A. S. de Sena, M. Ullah, and P. H. J. Nardelli, “Edge Computing in Smart Grids”, Handbook of Smart Energy Systems, Springer, Cham, Switzerland, 2022.