
Mohamad
Awad Charafeddine, PhD
Smart Antennas Research Group
Information Systems Lab
Electrical Engineering Dept
Packard 225
Stanford, CA 94305
Research interests
· Interference channel
· Resource allocation
· MIMO communications
· Multi-user communications
· Opportunistic access
· Optimization theory
· Random matrix theory
Publications
·
M. Charafeddine, Z. Han, A. Paulraj, J. Cioffi,
“Crystallized rates region of the
interference channel via correlated equilibrium
with interference as noise”, Proc.
IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC), Dresden, Germany,
June 14-18, 2009. Best Paper Award. (slides,
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slides)
·
M. Charafeddine, A. Paulraj, “Maximum sum rates via analysis of
2-user interference channel achievable rates region”,
Proc. Conference on Information Sciences
and Systems (CISS), Johns Hopkins Univ., Baltimore, MD, USA, March 18-20,
2009.
·
M. Charafeddine, A. Paulraj, “2-sector interference channel
communication for sum rates and minimum rate maximization”,
Proc. Conference on Information Sciences
and Systems (CISS), Johns Hopkins Univ., Baltimore, MD, USA, March 18-20,
2009.
·
A. Sezgin, E.A. Jorswieck, M. Charafeddine,
"Interaction between scheduling and user
locations in an OSTBC coded downlink system",
Proc. 7th International ITG Conference on Source and Channel Coding (SCC'08),
Ulm, Germany, January 2008.
·
M. Charafeddine, A. Paulraj, "Simplified eigenvalues distributions of 2 x 2
complex noncentral Wishart",
Asilomar Conference on Signals, Systems, and Computers ACSSC’07,
Monterey, California, USA, November 2007.
·
M. Charafeddine, A. Sezgin and A. Paulraj,
"Rate region frontiers for n-user
interference channel with interference as noise",
The Forty-Fifth Annual Allerton
Conference on Communication, Control, and Computing,
Monticello , Illinois, USA, September 26- 28, 2007. (slides, printer-friendly slides)
·
A. Sezgin, M. Charafeddine, S. Pereira and A.
Paulraj. "Diversity-multiplexing
tradeoff of stacked cyclic delay diversity schemes",
The Forty-Fifth Annual Allerton
Conference on Communication, Control, and Computing,
Monticello , Illinois, USA, September 26- 28, 2007.
·
A. Sezgin, M. Charafeddine and A. Paulraj.
"On the ergodic sum-rate performance of CDD in
multi-user systems",
to be presented at ITW 2007, Lake Tahoe, California, USA, September 2-6,
2007.
·
M. Charafeddine, A. Paulraj. "Sequential geometric programming for 2 x 2
interference channel power control",
Proc. Conference on Information Sciences and Systems (CISS), March 2007.
·
M. Charafeddine, Ö. Oyman, S. Sandhu. "System-level performance of cellular
multihop relaying with multiuser scheduling",
Proc. Conference on Information Sciences and Systems (CISS), March 2007.
·
E. Stauffer, M. Charafeddine, A. Paulraj. "On precoding of high spatial rate space
time codes",
Proc. Asilomar Conf. on Signals, Systems, and Computers ACSSC’06, Monterey,
California, USA, November 2006.
· O. Oteri, N. Chiurtu, F. K. Lee, M. Charafeddine, A. Paulraj. "Studies in downlink spectral efficiency of OFDMA networks with MIMO and opportunistic scheduling", Proc. Global Telecommunications Conference GLOBECOM’06, San Francisco, California, USA, November 2006.
· C. Jennings, M. Charafeddine, J. D. Powell, S. Taamallah. "Flight demonstration of 3D perspective synthetic vision and ADS-B for closely spaced parallel approaches", Proc The 21st Digital Avionics Systems Conference, DASC’02, Vol.2, 2002.
Talks
· Communication Theory Workshop CTW 2007: Invited Talk. A. Paulraj, M.Charafeddine, S. Pereira, A. Sezgin. Interference- The last frontier?. Sedona, Arizona, USA, May 2007.
· Kailtah Colloquia 2005: A. Paulraj, E. Stauffer, Ö . Oyman, M. Vu, K. Oteri, M. Charafeddine, F. Lee, E. Yoon, N. Chiurtu. Multiple Antennas in Next Generation Mobile Broadband - From Theory to Practice Stanford University, California, USA, June 2005
Patent
· M. Charafeddine, S. Sandhu, Ö . Oyman, "Interference mitigation for cellular multihop systems through bursty link-adaptive transmission", filed invention disclosure form, Intel Corporation. Sept 2006.
Freeware
· IEEE802.16d-2004 PHY Simulink encoding/decoding simulator, 2004.