Mohamad Awad Charafeddine

PhD Candidate
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

1. A. Sezgin, E.A. Jorswieck, M. Charafeddine. "Interaction between scheduling and user locations in an OSTBC coded downlink system",
   to be presented at the 7th International ITG Conference on Source and Channel Coding (SCC'08), Ulm, Germany, January 2008.

2. M. Charafeddine, A. Paulraj. "Simplified eigenvalues distributions of 2 x 2 complex noncentral Wishart",
   Asilomar Conf. on Signals, Systems, and Computers ACSSC’07, Monterey, California, USA, November 2007.

3. 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)

4. 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.

5. 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.

6. 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.

7. 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.

8. 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.

9. 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.

10. 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.