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Book:

• B. Maham, "Resource-Constrained Cooperative Wireless Networks: Theory and Practice," LAP Lambert Academic Publishing AG & Co. KG, Saarbrucken, Germany, June 2010, ISBN 978-3-8383-6953-2.

International Journal Articles:

• A. Behnad, N. C. Beaulieu, and B. Maham, "Multihop Amplify-and-Forward Relaying over Nakagami-0.5 Fading Channels," IEEE Wireless Communications Letters, March 2012, DOI: 10.1109/WCL.2012.030912.110222.

• X. Zhou, B. Maham, and A. Hjorungnes, "Pilot Contamination for Active Eavesdropping" IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, vol. 11, no. 3, pp. 903 - 907, Mar. 2012.

• B. Maham and A. Hjorungnes, "Opportunistic Relaying for MIMO Amplify-and-Forward Cooperative Networks", Springer: Wireless Personal Communications, 2012, DOI: 10.1007/s11277-011-0499-9.

• B. Maham, O. Tirkkonen, and A. Hjorungnes, "Impact of Transceiver I/Q Imbalance on Transmit Diversity of Beamforming OFDM Systems," IEEE Transactions on  Communications, vol. 60, no. 3, pp. 643 - 648, Mar. 2012.
  

• B. Maham and O. Tirkkonen, "Transmit Antenna Selection OFDM Systems with Transceiver I/Q Imbalance,"  IEEE Transactions on  Vehicular Technology, vol. 61, no. 2, pp. 865 - 871, Feb. 2012.
  

• B. Maham, A. Hjorungnes, R. Narasimhan, "Energy-Efficient Space-Time Coded Cooperation in Outage-Restricted Multihop Wireless Networks," IEEE Transactions on Communications, vol. 59, no. 11, pp. 3111 - 3121, Nov. 2011.

• B. Maham, R. Popovski, X. Zhou, and A. Hjoungnes, "Cognitive Multiple Access Network with Outage Margin in the Primary System,"  IEEE Transactions on  Wireless Communications, vol. 10, no. 10, pp. 3343-3353, Oct. 2011.

• X. Zhou, M. McKay, B. Maham, and A. Hjorungnes, "Rethinking the Secrecy Outage Formulation: A Secure Transmission Design Perspective," IEEE Communications Letters, vol. 15, no. 3, pp. 302 - 304, March 2011.

• B. Maham and A. Hjorungnes, "Differential Space-Time Coded Cooperation for Decode-and-Forward Based Wireless Relay Networks," in IET Communications (former IEE Proc. COM), vol. 4, no. 6, pp. 631-638, June 2010.

• B. Maham and A. Hjorungnes, "Power Allocation Strategies for Distributed Space-Time Codes in Amplify-and-Forward Mode," EURASIP Journal on Advances in Signal Processing, vol. 2009, Article ID 612719, 13 pages, 2009.

• B. Maham and A. Hjorungnes, "Performance Analysis of Amplify-and-Forward Opportunistic Relaying in Rician Fading," IEEE Signal Processing Letters, vol. 16, no. 8, pp. 643 - 646, Aug. 2009.

• B. Maham, A. Hjorungnes, and M. Debbah, "Power Allocations in Minimum-Energy SER Constrained Cooperative Networks," special issue on cognitive radio, Annals of Telecommunications, vol. 64, no. 7, pp. 545-555, Aug. 2009.

• B. Maham, M. Debbah, and A. Hjorungnes, "Energy-Efficient Cooperative Routing in BER Constrained Multihop Networks," invited paper, Springer Journal of Frontiers of Computer Science in China, vol. 3, no. 2, pp. 263-271, Jun. 2009.

• B. Maham and A. Hjorungnes, "Asymptotic Performance Analysis of Amplify-and-Forward Cooperative Networks in a Nakagami-m Fading Environment," IEEE Communications Letters, vol. 13, no 5, pp. 300-302, May 2009.

• B. Maham and A. Hjorungnes, "Symbol Error Rate of Amplify-and-Forward Distributed Space-Time Codes over Nakagami-m Fading Channel," IET Electronics Letters (former IEE), vol. 45, no. 3, pp. 174-175, Jan. 2009.

• B. Maham and A. Hjorungnes, G. Abreu, "Distributed GABBA Space-Time Codes in Amplify-and-Forward Relay Networks," IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, vol. 8, no. 2, pp. 2036-2045, Apr. 2009.

• B. Maham and A. Hjorungnes, "Performance Analysis of Repetition-Based Cooperative Networks with Partial Statistical CSI at Relays," IEEE Communications Letters, vol. 8, no. 4, pp. 828-830, Nov. 2008.

IEEE International Conference Articles:

• B. Maham, P. Popovski, and X. Zhou, "Opportunistic Interference Cancelation and User Selection in Cognitive Multiple Access Network," in the 13th IEEE Workshop on Signal Processing Advances for Wireless Communications (SPAWC'12), Izmir, Turkey, June 17-20, 2012.

• V. Naghshin, B. Maham, W. Saad, and M. Nickray, "Lifetime Maximization in Cluster-based Outage-restricted Wireless Sensor Networks," in the 13th IEEE Workshop on Signal Processing Advances for Wireless Communications (SPAWC'12), Izmir, Turkey, June 17-20, 2012.

• B. Maham, A. Hjorungnes, M. Debbah, "Outage Probability Analysis of Multi-Relays Delay-Limited Hybrid-ARQ Channels," in IEEE VTC-Fall 2010, Ottawa, Canada, Sep. 2010.

• B. Maham, W. Saad, M. Debbah, Z. Han, and A. Hjorungnes, "Efficient Cooperative Protocols for General Outage-Limited Multihop Wireless Networks," in IEEE PIMRC 2010, Istanbul, Turkey, September 2010.

• B. Maham, A. Hjorungnes, and Z. Han, "Multihop Transmission with Interference Using Spatial Reused and Incremental Relaying Cooperative-Routing," invited paper, in Proc. Advanced Satellite Mobile Systems Conference (ASMS) and the 11th Signal Processing for Space Communications Workshop (SPSC), pp. 512 – 515, Cagliari, Italy, September 2010.

• B. Maham and A. Hjorungnes, "Near-Optimum Power Allocation for BER Restricted Multihop Cooperative Networks," in  Proc. IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC 2010), Cape Town, South Africa, May 2010.

• B. Maham, A. Hjorungnes, and B. Sundar Rajan, "Quasi-Orthogonal Design and Performance Analysis of Amplify-and-Forward Relay Networks with Multiple-Antennas," in  Proc. IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference (WCNC'10),  Sydney, Australia, April 2010.

• B. Maham, B. Sundar Rajan, A. Hjorungnes, "Performance Analysis of Single-Symbol Maximum Likelihood Decodable Linear STBCs," invited paper, in International Symposium on Communications, Control, and Signal Processing (ISCCSP'10 ), Limassol, Cyprus, March 2010.

• B. Maham and A. Hjorungnes, "Orthogonal Code Design for MIMO Amplify-and-Forward Cooperative Networks," in Proc. IEEE Information Theory Workshop (ITW'10), Cairo, Egypt, January 2010.

• B. Maham, R. Narasimhan, and A. Hjorungnes, "Energy-Efficient Space-Time Coded Cooperative Routing in Multihop Wireless Networks," in Proc. of IEEE Global Telecommunications Conference, GLOBECOM 2009, Honolulu, Hawaii, USA, November - December 2009.

• B. Maham and A. Hjorungnes, "Opportunistic Relaying for Space-Time Coded Cooperation with Multiple Antennas Terminals," in the 20th Personal, Indoor and Mobile Radio Communications Symposium (PIMRC 2009), Tokyo, Japan, September 2009.

• B. Maham and A. Hjorungnes, "Minimum Power Allocation for Cooperative Routing in Multihop Wireless Networks," in Proc. 32th IEEE Sarnoff Symposium, (SARNOFF 2009), Princeton, NJ, USA, March 2009.

• B. Maham and A. Hjorungnes, "Opportunistic Relaying through Amplify-And-Forward Distributed Space-Time Codes with Partial Statistical CSI at Relays," in Proc. the Forty-Sixth Annual Allerton Conference on Communication, Control, and Computing (Allerton 2008), IEEE index, pp. 1004-1009, Urbana-Champaign, IL, USA, Sep. 23-27, 2008.

• B. Maham, M. Debbah, and A. Hjorungnes, "Energy-Efficient Cooperative Routing in BER Constrained Multihop Networks," invited paper, in Proc. International Conference on Communications and Networking in China (CHINACOM 2008), Hangzhou, China, pp. 168- 172, Aug. 25-27, 2008.

• B. Maham and A. Hjorungnes, "Power Allocation Strategies for Distributed Space-Time Codes in Amplify-and-Forward Mode," in Proc. IEEE International Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing Conference (IWCMC 2008), Crete Island, Greece, pp. 905-909, Aug. 6-8, 2008.

• B. Maham and A. Hjorungnes, G. Abreu, "Distributed GABBA Space-Time Codes with Complex Signal Constellations," in 5th IEEE Sensor Array and Multi-Channel Signal Processing Workshop (SAM’08), pp. 118-121, Darmstadt, Germany, July 21-23, 2008.

• B. Maham and A. Hjorungnes, "Minimum Power Allocation in SER Constrained Amplify-and- Forward Cooperation," in Proc. IEEE Vehicular Technology Conference (VTC 2008-Spring), pp. 2431-2435, Singapore, May 11-14, 2008.

• B. Maham and A. Hjorungnes, "ICI reduction in OFDM by using maximally flat windowing," in IEEE International Conference on Signal Processing and Communication (ICSPC'07), Dubai, United Arab Emirates, pp. 1039-1042, Nov. 24-27, 2007.

• B. Maham and A. Hjorungnes, "Amplify-and-Forward Space-Time Coded Cooperation via Incremental Relaying," in Proc. IEEE International Symposium on Wireless Communication Systems 2007 (ISWCS'07), pp. 407-411, Trondheim, Norway, Oct. 17-19, 2007.

• B. Maham, E. Jedari, and A. Enayati, "Adaptive Rate and Power Allocation Schemes for OFDM/SDMA Systems," in International conference on Wireless Broadband and Ultra Wideband Communication (AusWireless'07; Sponsored by IEEE), Sydney, Australia, Aug. 27-30, 2007.

• B. Maham and A. Hjorungnes, "Distributed GABBA Space-Time Codes in Amplify-and- Forward Cooperation," in Proc. IEEE Information Theory Workshop (ITW'07), pp. 189-193, Bergen, Norway, July 1-6, 2007.

• B. Maham and A. Hjorungnes, "Power Allocation in Cooperative Networks Using Differential Space-Time Codes," in Proc. IEEE Int. Symp. Information Theory (ISIT'07), pp. 1916-1920, Nice, France, June 24-29, 2007.

• B. Maham and S. Nader-Esfahani, "Performance Analysis of Distributed Space-Time Codes in Amplify-and-Forward Mode," in 8th IEEE Workshop on Signal Processing Advances for Wireless Communications (SPAWC'07), Helsinki, Finland, June 17-20, 2007.

• B. Maham and S. Nader-Esfahani, "Joint ICI and noise reduction in OFDM using a new windowing scheme," in IEEE International Conference on Wireless Communications, Networking and Mobile Computing (WiCOM'06), Wuhan, China, Sep. 22-24, 2006.

• B. Maham and F. Lahouti, "Cooperative communication using distributed differential space-time codes," in IEEE International Conference on Wireless Communications, Networking and Mobile Computing (WiCOM'06), Wuhan, China, Sep. 22-24, 2006.

• B. Maham and R. Ali-Hemmati, "DSP implementation aspects of an OFDM based wireless MAN modem," in IEEE International Conference on Wireless Communications, Networking and Mobile Computing (WiCOM'06), Wuhan, China, Sep. 22-24, 2006.

Other Publications:

• B. Maham and A. Hjorungnes, "Power Minimization for Fixed-Rate Space- Coded Cooperative Routing in Wireless Multihop Networks," in VERDIKT conference, Oslo, Norway, Nov. 3-4, 2009.

• B. Maham and A. Hjorungnes, "Differential Space-Time Coded Cooperation for Decode-and-Forward Wireless Relay Networks," in VERDIKT conference, Trondheim, Norway, Oct. 29-30, 2007.

• B. Maham and S. Nader-Esfahani, "PEP Analysis in cooperative systems using distributed differential space-time codes," in Proc. 15th Iranian Conference on Electrical Engineering (ICEE 2007), pp. 300-304, Tehran, Iran, May 2007 (in Persian).

Submitted Journals:

• W. Saad, X. Zhou, B. Maham, T. Basar, and V. Poor, "Network Formation with Physical Layer Security Considerations in Wireless Multi-Hop Networks" submitted IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications.

• B. Maham, A. Behnad, and M. Debbah, "Efficient Relay Selection Scheme for Delay-Limited Space-Time Coded Hybrid-ARQ Relay Channels," submitted to  IEEE Transactions on  Vehicular Technologies.

Editor of ISI Technical Journals

• Executive Editorial member of the European Transactions on Telecommunications (ETT), John Wiley & Sons, Inc., ISSN: 1124-318X, ISI Web of Science Journal, from April 18, 2011.

http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/10.1002/%28ISSN%291541-8251/homepage/EditorialBoard.html

Technical Program Chair

• Co-Chair, the 20th IEEE International Conference on Computer Communications and Networks (ICCCN 2011), the Optical and Backbone Networks (OBN) track, to be held in Maui, Hawaii, in August 2011.

Technical Program Committee (TPC) Member

• IEEE Vehicular Technology Conference (VTC2012-Fall), Wireless applications and services track, Quebec City, Canada, September 2012.
  
• IEEE Vehicular Technology Conference (VTC2012-Spring), Transmission Technologies Track, Yokohama, Japan, May 2012.
• Iranian Conference on Electrical Engineering (ICEE'11), Tehran, Iran, May 2011.
• NTMS'2012-Mobility & Wireless Networks Track (NTMS - Mobility and Wireless Networks Track), Istanbul, Turkey, May 2012
• IEEE 74th Vehicular Technology Conference (VTC2011-Fall), Wireless Services and Applications track, 20-23 September 2009, San Francisco, USA
• IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC11), PlanNet Workshop (Planning and Optimization of Wireless Communication Networks), Kyoto, Japan, June 5-9, 2011.
• IEEE International Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing Conference (IWCMC 2011), Istanbul, Turkey, July 2011.
• International Conference on Mobile Services, Resources, and Users, MOBILITY 2011, Barcelona, Spain, October 2011.
• IEEE International Conference on Computer Communications and Networks (ICCCN 2011), the Wireless Communications track, Maui, Hawaii, August 2011.
• IEEE International Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing Conference (IWCMC 2010), MIMO Systems Symposium, Caen, Normandie, France, June 28-July 2, 2010.
• IEEE WCNC (Wireless Communications & Networking Conference), PlanNet 2010, Sydney, Australia, 18-21 April, 2010.
• IEEE 70th Vehicular Technology Conference (VTC2009-Fall), Wireless Services and Applications track, 20–23 September 2009, Anchorage, Alaska, USA
• IEEE International Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing Conference (IWCMC 2009), MIMO Systems Symposium (IWCMC 2009 MIMO Systems Symposium)
• International Workshop on Planning and Optimization of Wireless Communication Networks (PlanNet2009), Leipzig, Germany, June 2009.
• Technical Committee member for choosing best theses awards in School of ECE, University of Tehran, Oct. 2011.

Session Chair

• International Conference on Communications (IEEE ICC 2010), session at Selected Areas in Communications symposium, SA-C5: Collaboration in Cognitive Networks
• The 5th National Conference on Iran's Scientific Society of Command, Control, Communications, Computer, and Intelligence (C4I), Nov. 2011, Session: Wireless Sensor Networks

• Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden, "Energy-Efficient Cooperative Transmission in Outage Restricted Multihop Wireless Networks", April 7, 2011.
• Luxembourg University, Luxembourg, "Opportunistic Interference Cancellation in Cognitive Multiple Access Network", April 1, 2011.

http://wwwen.uni.lu/snt/news_events/opportunistic_interference_cancellation_in_cognitive_multiple_access_network

• Aalto University (TKK, formerly Helsinki University of Technology), Finland, "Energy-Efficient Cooperative Transmission in Outage Restricted Multihop Wireless Networks", Dec. 9, 2010.
• University of Toronto, Canada, "Energy-Efficient Cooperative Routing in Outage Restricted Multihop Wireless Networks", Sep. 2, 2010.

http://www.comm.utoronto.ca/tons/BMaham.html

• Stanford University, USA, "Overview of Some Recent Work on Cooperative Communications",  Feb. 12, 2009.
• International Conference on Communications and Networking in China (CHINACOM 2008), Hangzhou, China, Aug. 25-27, 2008.

Memberships

• IEEE Member
• IEEE Communications Society Member
• Iran's National Elites Foundation
• Iranian Society of Smart Grid

Reviewer for

• Editorial Advisory Board of the book "Cooperative Communications for Improved Wireless Network Transmission: Frameworks for Virtual Antenna Array Applications," IGI Global (http://www.igi-pub.com/reference/details.asp?ID=34568&v=editorialBoard); Book chapter in "Spectrum Efficiency in OFDMA," Auerbach Publications, CRC Press; Book chapter in "Fourth-Generation (4G) Wireless Networks: Applications and Innovations," IGI Global
• IEEE Transaction on Communications; IEEE Transaction on Wireless Communications; IEEE Transaction on Signal Processing; IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology; IEEE Journal Selected Area in Communications; IEEE Communications Letters; IEEE Signal Processing Letters; IET Communications (formerly IEE Proceedings Communications); Electronics Letters (IET); Annals of telecommunications; EURASIP Journal on Advances in Signal Processing; European Transactions on Telecommunications; Journal of Communications and Networks (JCN); EURASIP Journal on Wireless Communications and Networking; Springer Journal on Wireless Networks; JEMWA/PIER Journals (organized by MIT); John Wiley & Sons Journal on Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing; Elsevier Journal on Computer Communications; Wireless Personal Communications Journal; International Journal of Computers and Applications; Springer Journal of Zhejiang University-SCIENCE A; Iranian Journal of Electrical and Computer Engineering (IJECE)
• IEEE Global Communications Conference (GLOBECOM08, GLOBECOM09, GLOBECOM10); IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC08, ICC09, ICC10, ICC11, ICC12); IEEE Vehicular Technology Conference (VTC08, VTC09, VTC10, VTC11); IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference (WCNC’09, WCNC’10, WCNC’11); IEEE International Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing Conference (IWCMC09, IWCMC10); IEEE International Symposium on Personal, Indoor and Mobile Radio Communications (PIMRC08, PIMRC09, PIMRC10); IEEE ISWPC’10; International Conference on Software, Telecommunications and Computer Networks (SoftCOM10); CHINACOM 2008; IEEE International Symposium on Wireless Communication Systems (ISWCS07); Iranian Conference on Electrical Engineering (ICEE07, ICEE12)

• 2010-2011: Post-doctoral Fellow, University of Oslo, Norway
  
• 2007-2010: PhD, University of Oslo, Norway
  
• 2008-2009: 2nd year PhD, Stanford University, USA
  
• 2005-2007: M.Sc., University of Tehran, Iran
  
• 2001-2005: B.Sc., University of Tehran, Iran
  

• Visiting researcher at the Department of Communications and Networking, Aalto University (TKK, formerly Helsinki University of Technology), Helsinki, Finland, three months stay from October to December, 2010.
• Visiting researcher at the Star Laboratory at Stanford University, Stanford, USA; one year stay from September 2008 to August 2009.
• Visiting researcher in the Alcatel-Lucent Chair on Flexible Radio, SUPELEC, Paris, France; April 2008 and November 2009.
• Visiting researcher in the Center for Wireless Communications at University of Oulu, Oulu, Finland; December 2007.

• Stochastic Processes, Fall 2011, Spring 2012, University of Tehran
• Engineering Probability and Statistics, Spring 2012, University of Tehran
• Digital Communications, Fall 2011, University of Tehran
• Teaching Assistantship (20% position): Digital Communications 1, UNIK 4170, University of Oslo