{"id":7797,"date":"2026-02-20T18:35:19","date_gmt":"2026-02-20T22:35:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lincslab.ca\/?p=7797"},"modified":"2026-04-24T13:11:36","modified_gmt":"2026-04-24T17:11:36","slug":"new-publication-in-ieee-transactions-on-network-and-service-management","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lincslab.ca\/en\/new-publication-in-ieee-transactions-on-network-and-service-management\/","title":{"rendered":"New Publication in IEEE Transactions on Network and Service Management"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-post\" data-elementor-id=\"7797\" class=\"elementor elementor-7797\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-b03616f e-flex e-con-boxed e-con e-parent\" data-id=\"b03616f\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"e-con-inner\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-b67a72f elementor-widget elementor-widget-spacer\" data-id=\"b67a72f\" 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[<strong><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"emoji\" role=\"img\" draggable=\"false\" src=\"https:\/\/s.w.org\/images\/core\/emoji\/17.0.2\/svg\/1f513.svg\" alt=\"\ud83d\udd13\" \/><\/strong>:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/arxiv.org\/abs\/2604.01238\">arxiv<\/a>\u00a0]<\/p><p data-start=\"671\" data-end=\"1066\">In this work, the authors <span style=\"font-size: 16px;\">\u2014<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0<\/span><a style=\"font-size: 16px; background-color: #ffffff;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/deematashman\/\">Dr. Deemah H. Tashman<\/a><span style=\"font-size: 16px;\">, and <\/span><a style=\"font-size: 16px; background-color: #ffffff;\" href=\"https:\/\/lincslab.ca\/en\/cherkaoui-biography\/\">Prof. Soumaya Cherkaoui <\/a><span style=\"font-size: 16px;\"> \u2014 propose an adaptive, energy-aware hybrid reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS) framework for underlay multiple-input single-output (MISO) cognitive radio networks. The proposed approach dynamically alternates between passive and active RIS operation modes based on harvested energy availability, enabling efficient and practical deployment in energy-constrained environments.<\/span><\/p><p data-start=\"1068\" data-end=\"1475\">To jointly optimize transmit beamforming and RIS phase configuration, we leverage soft actor-critic (SAC) deep reinforcement learning. 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