RESEARCH INTEREST
General research Interests are in the area of signal processing with applications to communications:
- Millimeter-wave Communications:
- Specific focus on utilizing the millimeter-wave band for the development of next generation ultra high-speed wireless and cellular networks.
- Heterogeneous networks:
- Interference cancelation, Cooperation in femtocell networks, and Timing synchronization.
- Effect of Circuit Impairments on Communication systems:
- Analyzing and mitigating the effect of oscillator phase noise and amplifier nonlinearities in millimeter-wave communication systems.
- Wireless Energy Harvesting Systems:
- Design of transceiver structures and algorithms that allow for wireless communication systems to capture energy from the received signal for low energy application, e.g., sensor networks.
- Satellite Communications:
- Interference mitigation and synchronization algorithms for satellite networks, with specific focus on TV broadcasting and broadband applications.
- Molecular Communications:
- Receiver design, synchronization, and practical issues associated with enabling molecular communications in the medical field.
- Cooperative communications:
- System parameter estimation, e.g., phase noise, frequency offset, timing offset, in multi-relay setups,
- Bandwidth efficient algorithms, and
- Performance enhancement schemes.
- Heterogeneous networks:
- Interference cancelation,
- Cooperation in femtocell networks, and
- Timing synchronization.
- Adaptive signal processing and filter design:
- Estimation and prediction.