Mohamad Awad Charafeddine, PhD
MalumniAdd 
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, printer-friendly 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.


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