Publications/Technical Reports

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2009

• Jamshid Abouei, Alireza Bayesteh and Amir K. Khandani, "On the Delay-Throughput Tradeoff in Distributed Wireless Networks", Technical Report UW-ECE #2009-5, Feb. 3, 2009 (posted here on Feb. 17, 2009)
  

• Seyed Ali Ahmadzadeh, Seyed Abolfazl Motahari, and Amir K. Khandani, "Signal Space Cooperative Communication for Single Relay Model", Technical Report UW-ECE #2009-1, Jan. 5, 2009 (posted here on Jan. 15, 2009)
  

2008

• Seyed Saeed Changiz Rezaei, Shahab Oveis Gharan, and Amir Keyvan Khandani "A New Achievable Rate for the Gaussian Parallel Relay Channel", Technical Report UW-ECE #2008-23, Sep 22, 2008 (posted here on Jan. 14, 2009)
  

• Seyed Saeed Changiz Rezaei, Shahab Oveis Gharan, and Amir Keyvan Khandani, "Cooperative Strategies for the Half-Duplex Gaussian Parallel Relay Channel: Simultaneous Relaying versus Successive Relaying", Technical Report UW-ECE #2008-15, July 16, 2008 (posted here on Jan. 14, 2009)
  

• Kamyar Moshksar and Amir K. Khandani, "Coexistence in Wireless Decentralized Networks in the Low SNR Regime: To Hop or Not to Hop?", Technical Report UW-ECE #2008-14, July 15, 2008 (posted here on Sep. 2, 2008)
  

• Kamyar Moshksar and Amir K. Khandani, "Coexistence in Wireless Decentralized Networks", Technical Report UW-ECE #2008-13, July 15, 2008 (posted here on Sep. 2, 2008)
  

• Hamid Farmanbar and Amir K. Khandani, "Capacity of Block-Memoryless Channels with Causal Channel Side Information", Technical Report UW-ECE #2008-10, June 5, 2008 (posted here on June 6, 2008)
  

• Shervan Fashandi, Shahab Oveis Gharan and Amir K. Khandani, "Path Diversity over Packet Switched Networks: Performance Analysis and Rate Allocation", Technical Report UW-ECE #2008-9, May 2008 (posted here on May 8, 2008)
  Revised version is available here.
  

• Shervan Fashandi, Shahab Oveis Gharan and Amir K. Khandani, "Coding over an Erasure Channel with a Large Alphabet Size", Technical Report UW-ECE #2008-6, Mar. 19, 2008 (posted here on Mar. 30, 2008)
  

• Shahab Oveis Gharan, Alireza Bayesteh and Amir Keyvan Khandani "On Diversity-Multiplexing Tradeoff in Multiple-Relay Networks", Technical Report UW-ECE #2008-4, March 12, 2008 (posted here on June 5, 2008)
  

• Alireza Bayesteh, Kamyar Moshksar, and Amir K. Khandani, "On the Capacity of MIMO Rician Broadcast Channels", Technical Report UW-ECE #2008-3, Jan. 7, 2008 (posted here on Feb. 18, 2008)
  

• Seyed Saeed Changiz Rezaei, Shahab Oveis Gharan, and Amir Keyvan Khandani, "Cooperative Strategies for Half-Duplex Parallel Relay Channel: Simultaneous Relaying versus Successive Relaying", Technical Report UW-ECE #2008-2, Jan. 24, 2008 (posted here on Feb. 17, 2008)
  

2007

• Shervan Fashandi, Shahab Oveis Gharan and Amir K. Khandani, "Achieving Path Diversity over the Internet using MDS Codes", Library and Archives Canada Technical Report UW-ECE #2007-38, Dec. 19, 2007 (posted here on Apr. 20, 2008)
  

• Jamshid Abouei, Hossein Bagheri and Amir K. Khandani, "A New Adaptive Distributed Space-Time-Coding Scheme for Cooperative Relaying", Library and Archives Canada Technical Report UW-ECE #2007-37, Nov. 28, 2007 (posted here on Nov. 29, 2007)
  

• Shahab Oveis Gharan, Alireza Bayesteh and Amir Keyvan Khandani, "Optimum Diversity-Multiplexing Tradeoff in The Multiple Relays Network", Library and Archives Canada Technical Report UW-ECE #2007-35, Nov. 9, 2007 (posted here on Jun. 5, 2008)
  

• Masoud Ebrahimi and Amir Khandani, "Rate-Constrained Wireless Networks with Fading Channels: Interference-Limited and Noise-Limited Regimes", Library and Archives Canada Technical Report UW-ECE #2007-34, Oct. 2007 (posted here on Nov. 3, 2007)
  

• Jamshid Abouei, Alireza Bayesteh, Masoud Ebrahimi and Amir K. Khandani, "On the Throughput Maximization in Decentralized Wireless Networks", Library and Archives Canada Technical Report UW-ECE #2007-33, Nov. 19, 2007 (posted here on Nov. 20, 2007)
  

• Shahab Oveis Gharan, Alireza Bayesteh and Amir Keyvan Khandani, "Optimum Diversity-Multiplexing Tradeoff in The Multiple Relays Network", Library and Archives Canada Technical Report UW-ECE #2007-32, Sep. 27, 2007 (posted here on Jun. 5, 2008)
  

• H. Farmanbar, S. Oveis Gharan, and A. K. Khandani, "Channel code design with causal side information at the encoder", Library and Archives Canada Technical Report UW-ECE #2007-30, Sep. 27, 2007 (posted here on Oct. 4, 2007)
  

• Kamyar Moshksar, Alireza Bayesteh and Amir K. Khandani, "Spectrum Sharing vs Spectral Efficiency in Decentralized Networks", Library and Archives Canada Technical Report UW-ECE #2007-28, Jan. 14, 2008 (posted here on Jan. 17, 2008)
  

• Abolfazl S. Motahari and A. K. Khandani, "Capacity Bounds for the Gaussian Interference Channel", Library and Archives Canada Technical Report UW-ECE #2007-26, Aug. 2007 (posted here on Dec. 18, 2007), Revised Version
  

• Alireza Bayesteh, Mehdi Ansari, and Amir K. Khandani, "Throughput and Fairness Maximization in Wireless Downlink Systems", Library and Archives Canada Technical Report UW-ECE #2007-23, Sep. 4, 2007 (posted here on Sep. 10, 2007)
  

• Jamshid Abouei, Alireza Bayesteh, Masoud Ebrahimi and Amir K. Khandani, "On the Delay-Throughput Tradeoff in Multi-User Wireless Networks", Library and Archives Canada Technical Report UW-ECE #2007-20, Aug. 14, 2007 (posted here on Sep. 21, 2007)
  

• Shahab Oveis Gharan, Alireza Bayesteh and Amir Keyvan Khandani, "Optimum Diversity-Multiplexing Tradeoff in The Multiple Relays Network", Library and Archives Canada Technical Report UW-ECE #2007-19, Apr. 11, 2007 (posted here on Jun. 5, 2008)
  

• Shervan Fashandi, Shahab Oveis Gharan, and Amir K. Khandani, "Path Diversity over the Internet: Performance Analysis and Rate Allocation", Library and Archives Canada Technical Report UW-ECE #2007-16, Jul. 9, 2007 (posted here on Jul. 27, 2007)
  

• Jamshid Abouei, Alireza Bayesteh, Masoud Ebrahimi, and Amir K. Khandani, "Sum-Rate Maximization in Single-Hop Wireless Networks with the On-Off Power Scheme", Library and Archives Canada Technical Report UW-ECE #2007-14, Apr. 2007 (posted here on May. 15, 2007)
  

• Masoud Ebrahimi, Mohammad A. Maddah-Ali, and Amir K. Khandani, "Throughput Scaling Laws for Wireless Networks with Fading Channels", Library and Archives Canada Technical Report UW-ECE #2007-12, Apr. 2007 (posted here on Aug. 10, 2007)
  

• Shahab Oveis Gharan, Alireza Bayesteh, and Amir K. Khandani, "Asymptotic Analysis of Amplify and Forward Relaying in a Parallel MIMO Relay Network", Library and Archives Canada Technical Report UW-ECE #2007-11, Apr. 11, 2007 (posted here on Apr. 11, 2007)
  

• Alireza Bayesteh, and Amir K. Khandani, "How much feedback is required in mimo broadcast channels?", Library and Archives Canada Technical Report UW-ECE #2007-10, Apr. 10, 2007 (posted here on Apr. 11, 2007)
  

• Mehdi Ansari, Mohammad Ali Maddah-Ali, and Amir K. Khandani, "On The Capacity Of Time-Varying Channels With Periodic Feedback", Technical Report UW-ECE #2007-08, (posted here on Mar. 29, 2007)
  

• Amin Mobasher and Amir K. Khandani, "Matrix-Lifting SDP for Decoding in Multiple Antenna Systems", Technical Report UW-ECE #2007-06, Feb. 16, 2007 (posted here on Sep. 21, 2007)
  

• Jamshid Abouei, Alireza Bayesteh, and Amir K. Khandani, "Delay-Throughput Analysis in Decentralized Single-Hop Wireless Networks", Library and Archives Canada Technical Report UW-ECE #2007-04, Jan. 2007 (posted here on Jan. 29, 2007)
  

• Abdorreza Heidari, and Amir K. Khandani, "Adaptive Modeling, Prediction, and Tracking of Wireless Fading Channels", Library and Archives Canada Technical Report UW-ECE #2007-01, Jan. 2007 (posted here on Feb. 4, 2007)
  

2006

• M. A. Maddah-Ali, S. A. Motahari, and Amir K. Khandani, “Communication over MIMO X Channels: Signaling and Performance Analysis,” Technical Report, UW-E&CE #2006-27
  

• Jamshid Abouei, Masoud Ebrahimi, and Amir K. Khandani, “A New Decentralized Power Allocation Strategy in Single-Hop Wireless Networks,” Technical Report, UW-E&CE #2006-26
  

• Reza Mirghaderi, Alireza Bayesteh, and Amir K. Khandani, “On the Capacity of Wireless Multicast Networks,” Technical Report, UW-E&CE #2006-25
  

• H. Farmanbar and A. K. Khandani, “Precoding for channels with discrete interference,” Technical Report, UW-E&CE #2006-24
  

• H. Farmanbar and A. K. Khandani, “Precoding for channels with two-level interference,” Technical Report, UW-E&CE #2006-23
  

• Hajar Mahdavi-Doost, Masoud Ebrahimi, and Amir K. Khandani, “Characterization of Rate Region in Interference Channels with Constrained Power”, Technical Report, UW-E&CE #2006-19
  

• Hajar Mahdavi-Doost, Masoud Ebrahimi, and Amir K. Khandani, “An Efficient User Removal Algorithm for Interference Channels with Constraints on Power”, Technical Report, UW-E&CE #2006-18
  

• M. Ebrahimi, M. A. Maddah-Ali, and A. K. Khandani, “Throughput scaling in decentralized single-hop wireless networks with fading channels,” Technical Report, UW-E&CE #2006-13
  

• M. A. Maddah-Ali, S. A. Motahari, and Amir K. Khandani, “Communication over MIMO X Channels: Signaling and Multiplexing Gain,” Technical Report, UW-E&CE #2006-12 (revised version is presented in technical report UW-E&CE #2006-27)
  

• A. Heidari, A. K. Khandani, "Efficient Closed-Loop Communication in the Presence of Feedback Delay and Error", Technical Report UW-E&CE #2006-03
  

• A. Heidari, A.K. Khandani, "Adaptive Modeling and Long-Range Prediction of Wireless Channel Fading", Technical Report UW-E&CE #2006-04
  

• Mehdi Ansari Sadrabadi, Alireza Bayesteh, and Amir K. Khandani, "Scheduling and Codeword Length Optimization in Time Varying Wireless Networks", Technical Report UW-E&CE#2006-01

2005

• Alireza Bayesteh and Amir K. Khandani, "On the User Selection for MIMO Broadcast Channels", Technical Report UW-E&CE#2005-16
   

• Abdorreza Heidari, Farshad Lahouti, and Amir K. Khandani, "Efficient Reconstruction of Channel State Information for Low-Rate Feedback Schemes", Technical Report UW-E&CE#2004-19 (revised)
   

• Mahmoud Taherzadeh, Amin Mobasher, and Amir K. Khandani, "Communication Over MIMO Broadcast Channels Using Lattice-Basis Reduction," Technical report UW-E&CE #2005-18
   

• Amin Mobasher, Mahmoud Taherzadeh, Renata Sotirov, and Amir K. Khandani, "A Near Maximum Likelihood Decoding Algorithm for MIMO Systems Based on Semi-Definite Programming", Technical Report UW-E&CE#2005-12
   

• Mehdi Ansari Sadrabadi, Amir K. Khandani, and Farshad Lahouti, "Channel Feedback Quantization for High Data Rate MIMO Systems", Technical Report UW-E&CE#2005-10
   

• Mohammad Ali Maddah-Ali, Mehdi Ansari Sadrabadi, and Amir K. Khandani, "An Efficient Signaling Scheme for MIMO Broadcast Systems: Design and Performance Evaluation', Technical report UW-E&CE #2005-09
   

• Amin Mobasher and Amir K. Khandani, "Integer-Based Constellation Shaping Method for PAPR Reduction in OFDM Systems'', Technical report UW-E&CE #2005-08
   

• Mahmoud Taherzadeh, Amin Mobasher, and Amir K. Khandani, "LLL Reduction Achieves Receive Diversity in MIMO Decoding," Technical report UW-E&CE #2005-03
   

• Amin Mobasher, Mahmoud Taherzadeh, Renata Sotirov, and Amir K. Khandani, “An Efficient Quasi-Maximum Likelihood Decoding for Finite Constellations,” Technical report UW-E&CE #2005-01

2004

• Mehdi Ansari Sadrabadi, Amir K. Khandani, and Farshad Lahouti, "A New Method of Channel Feedback Quantization for High Data Rate MIMO Systems," Technical report UW-E&CE #2004-05, 2004
   

• Hosein Nikopour Deilami, Amir K. Khandani and S. Hamidreza Jamali, "Turbo-Coded OFDM Transmission over a Nonlinear Channel", Technical Report UW-E&CE#2004-16, June 2004
   

• Mohammad Ali Maddah-Ali, Mehdi Ansari, and Amir K. Khandani, "An Efficient Algorithm for User Selection and Signalling over MIMO Multiuser Systems", Technical Report UW-E&CE#2004-xx, 2004
   

• F. Lahouti and A. K. Khandani, "Reconstruction of Multi-Stage Vector Quantized Sources Over Noisy Channels-Applications to MELP Codec", Technical Report UW-E&CE#2004-15, 2004
   

• F. Lahouti, A. R. Fazel, A. H. Safavi-Naeini and A. K. Khandani, "Single and Double Frame Coding of Speech LPC Parameters Using a Lattice-based Quantization Scheme", Technical Report UW-E&CE#2004-10, 2004
   

• Amin Mobasher and Amir K. Khandani, "PAPR Reduction Using Integer Structures in OFDM Systems'', Technical report UW-E&CE #2004-06, 2004
   

• Mahmoud Taherzadeh and Amir K. Khandani, "Spectral-Efficient Differential Space-Time Coding Using Non-Full-Diverse Constellations,'' Technical report UW-E&CE #2004-07, 2004
   
• Mohammad Ali Maddah-Ali and Amir K. Khandani, "A New Non-Orthogonal Space-Time Code with Low Decoding Complexity, " Technical Report UW-E&CE #2004-04, 2004
   
• Mohammad Hadi Baligh and Amir K. Khandani, "Asymptotic Effect of Interleaver Structure on the Performance of Turbo Codes,'' Technical report UW-E&CE #2004-03, 2004
   
• A. Abedi, A. K. Khandani, "A New Method for Performance Evaluation of Turbo-Codes Using Statistics of the Log Likelihood Ratio,'' Technical report UW-E&CE #2004-01, 2004

2003

• F. Lahouti, A. K. Khandani, "Soft reconstruction of speech in the presence of noise and packet loss," Technical Report, Dept. of E&CE, University of Waterloo, UW-E&CE #2003-04

• Ali Abedi and A. K. Khandani, "Some Properties of Bit Decoding Algorithms for Binary Linear Block Codes," Technical Report, Department of E&CE, University of Waterloo, UW-E&CE #2003-5

• Ali Abedi and A. K. Khandani, "An Analytical Method for Performance Evaluation of Binary Linear Block Codes," Technical Report, Department of E&CE, University of Waterloo, UW-E&CE #2003-1

2002

• S. Nikneshan and A. K. Khandani, "Soft Decision Decoding of Fixed-rat Entropy-code Trellis Coded Quantization over a Noisy Channel", Technical Report UW-E&CE 2002-19

• James Yang, Amir K. Khandani, and Noel Tin, "Adaptive Modulation and Coding in 3G Wireless Systems", Technical Report UW-E&CE 2002-15

• S. Nikneshan, A. K. Khandani and E. Hons, "A Low Complexity Method for Fixed-rate Entropy-coded Vector Quantization based on Integer Programming", Technical Report UW-E&CE 2002-14

• Shahram Yousefi and Amir K. Khandani, "A New Upper Bound on the ML Decoding Error Probability of Linear Binary Block Codes in AWGN Interference," Technical Report UW-E&CE 2002-12

• Farshad Lahouti and Amir K. Khandani, "Reconstruction of Predictively Encoded Signals Over Noisy Channels Using A Sequence MMSE Decoder," Technical Report UW-E&CE 2002-11

• Erik S. Hons, Amir K. Khandani and W. Tong, "An Optimized Transmitter Precoding Scheme for Synchronous DS-CDMA," Technical Report UW-E&CE 2002-8

• Amir K. Khandani and W. Tong, "Application of Shaping Technique to Multi-level Turbo-coded Modulation," Technical Report UW-E&CE 2002-7

• Shahram Yousefi and Amir K. Khandani, "Generalized Tangential Sphere Bound on the ML Decoding Error Probability of Linear Binary Block Codes in AWGN Interference," Technical Report UW-E&CE 2002-2

• Ali Abedi and A. K. Khandani, "Some Properties of Bit Decoding Algorithms Over A Generalized Channel Model," Technical Report, Department of E&CE, University of Waterloo, 2002-5

• F. Lahouti, A. K. Khandani, "Efficient MMSE Source Decoding Over Noisy Channels", Technical Report, Department of E&CE, University of Waterloo, March 2002, 2002-3

2001

• F. Lahouti, A. K. Khandani, "Sequential Vector Decorrelation Technique", Technical Report, Department of E&CE, University of Waterloo, Canada, March 2001.

• Farshad Lahouti and Amir K. Khandani, Quantization of LSF parameters using trellis modeling, University of Waterloo, 2001.

• S. Nikneshan and A. K. Khandani, Soft Decision Decoding of a Fixed-rate Entropy-coded  Trellis Quantizer over a Noisy Channel, Technical Report UW-E&CE#2001-9.

• S. Nikneshan and A. K. Khandani, A Step-Wise Search Approach to Fixed-rate Entropy-coded Quantization, Technical Report UW-E&CE#2001-10.

• S. Nikneshan and A. K. Khandani,  An Efficient Approach to Lattice-based Fixed-rate Entropy-coded Vector Quantization, Technical Report UW-E&CE#2001-11.

• J. Bakus and A. K. Khandani, Quantizer Design for Channel Codes with  Soft Output Decoding, Technical Report UW-E&CE#2001-12.

2000

• Farshad Lahouti and Amir K. Khandani, Intra-frame and inter-frame coding of speech LSF parameters using a trellis structure, Department of E&CE, University of Waterloo, Canada, 59 pages, 2000.

• Dwayne Stienstra and A.K. Khandani, Iterative multi-user turbo-code receiver for DS-CDMA, University of Waterloo, 2000.

1999

• A. K. Khandani, Dynamic generation of good turbo-code interleavers, Dept. of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Waterloo, 1999.

• Ahmad Fazel and A.K. Khandani, Switched lattice-based quantization of LSF parameters, University of Waterloo, 1999.

• J. Bakus and A.K. Khandani., Quantizer design for turbo-code channels, University of Waterloo, 1999.

1998

• Esmaeili, M. and Khandani A. K., Acyclic Tanner Graphs and maximum-likelihood decoding of linear block codes, University of Waterloo, 1998.

• Bingeman, Mark, and Khandani A. K., Design, performance analysis and decoding of combined turbo-code and modulation, University of Waterloo, 1998.

1997 and before

• Banihashemi, Amir H. and Khandani. A. K., Lattice decoding using the Korkin-Zolotarev reduced basis, University of Waterloo, 1995.

• Banihashemi, Amir H. and Khandani. A. K., On the complexity of decoding lattices using the Korkin-Zolotarev reduced basis, University of Waterloo, 1996.

• Khandani, Amir K., Group structure of turbo-codes with application to the inter-leaver design, University of Waterloo, 1997.

• An interior-point method for the Euclidean distance matrix completion problem Alfakih, Abdo Y. Khandani A. K. and Wolkowiz H., University of Waterloo, 1997.

• A.K. Khandani and M. Esmaeili, Successive minimization of the state complexity of the self-dual lattices using Korkin-Zolotarev reduced basis, University of Waterloo, 1997.