RIS, mmWave and Terahertz Communications 

This page provides key resources on the research results developed by our group with respect to reflective intelligent surfaces (RIS), mmWave, and THz Communications.

Journals:

• 1. C. Kim, W. Saad, T. Kim, and M. Jung, "Asymptotic Achievable Rate and Scheduling Gain in RIS-aided Massive MIMO Systems", IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing, to appear, 2024.

  2. C. Chaccour, M. Naderi Soorki, W. Saad, M. Bennis, and P. Popovski, "Can Terahertz Provide High-Rate Reliable Low Latency Communications for Wireless VR?", IEEE Internet of Things Journal, vol. 9, no. 12, pp. 9712 - 9729, June 2022.

  3. Q. Zhang, A. Ferdowsi, W. Saad, and M. Bennis, "Distributed Conditional Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) for Data-Driven Millimeter Wave Communications in UAV Networks", IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, vol. 21, no. 3, pp. 1438 - 1452, March 2022.

  4. Q. Zhang, W. Saad, and M. Bennis, "Millimeter Wave Communications with an Intelligent Reflector: Performance Optimization and Distributional Reinforcement Learning", IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, vol. 21, no. 3, pp. 1836 - 1850, March 2022.

  5. C. Chaccour, M. Naderi Soorki, W. Saad, M. Bennis, P. Popovski, and M. Debbah, "Seven Defining Features of Terahertz (THz) Wireless Systems: A Fellowship of Communication and Sensing", IEEE Communications Surveys & Tutorials, vol. 24, no. 2, pp. 967 - 993, Second Quarter 2022.

  6. L. Xu, M. Chen, M. Chen, Z. Yang, C. Chaccour, W. Saad, and C. S. Hong, "Joint Location, Bandwidth and Power Optimization for THz-enabled UAV Communications", IEEE Communications Letters, to appear, 2021.

  7. M. Naderi Soorki, W. Saad, M. Bennis, and C. S. Hong, "Ultra-Reliable Indoor Millimeter Wave Communications using Multiple Artificial Intelligence-Powered Intelligent Surfaces", IEEE Transactions on Communications, to appear, 2021.

  8. J. Kibilda, A. MacKenzie, M. Abdel-Rahman, S. K. Yoo, G. Galati, S. Cotton, N. Marchetti, W. Saad, W. Scanlon, A. Garcia-Rodriguez, D. Lopez-Perez, H. Claussen, and L. DaSilva, "Indoor Millimeter-Wave Systems: Design and Performance Evaluation", Proceedings of the IEEE, vol. 108, no. 6, pp. 923 - 944, May 2020.

  9. M. T. Dabiri , H. Safi,  S. Parsaeefard ,  and W. Saad, "Analytical Channel Models for Millimeter Wave UAV Networks Under Hovering Fluctuations", IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, vol. 19, no. 4, pp. 2868 - 2883, April 2020.

  10. M. Naderi Soorki, W. Saad, and M. Bennis, "Optimized Deployment of Millimeter Wave Networks for In-venue Regions with Stochastic Users' Orientation", IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, vol. 18, no. 11, pp. 5037-5049, Nov. 2019.

  11. N. Abuzainab, W. Saad, and A. B. MacKenzie, "Distributed Uplink Power Control in an Ultra-Dense Millimeter Wave Network: A Mean-field Game Approach", IEEE Wireless Communications Letters, vol. 8, no. 5, pp. 1328-1332, Oct. 2019.

  12. O. Semiari, W. Saad, M. Bennis, and M. Debbah, "Integrated Millimeter Wave and Sub-6 GHz Wireless Networks: A Roadmap for Joint Mobile Broadband and Ultra-Reliable Low-Latency", IEEE Wireless Communications Magazine, vol. 26, no. 2, pp. 109-115, April 2019.

  13. O. Semiari, W. Saad, M. Bennis, and B. Maham, "Caching Meets Millimeter Wave Communications for Enhanced Mobility Management in 5G Networks", IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, vol. 17, no. 2, pp. 779 - 793, February 2018.

  14. O. Semiari, W. Saad, and M. Bennis, "Joint Millimeter Wave and Microwave Resources Allocation in Cellular Networks with Dual-Mode Base Stations", IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, vol. 16, no. 7, pp. 4802 - 4816, July 2017.

  15. O. Semiari, W. Saad, M. Bennis, and Z. Dawy, "Inter-Operator Resource Management for Millimeter Wave, Multi-Hop Backhaul Networks", IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, vol. 16, no. 8, pp. 5258 - 5272, August 2017.

  16. D. Li, W. Saad, and C. S. Hong, "Decentralized Renewable Energy Pricing and Allocation for Millimeter Wave Cellular Backhaul," IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications (JSAC), Special issue on Green Networks, vol. 34, no. 5, pp. 1140-1159, May 2016.

Conference Publications:

1.  C. Chaccour, W. Saad, O. Semiari, M. Bennis, and P. Popovski, "Joint Sensing and Communication for Situational Awareness in Wireless THz Systems", in Proc. of the IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC),  Mobile and Wireless Networks Symposium, Seoul, South Korea, May 2022.

2. S. S. Hassan, Y. M. Park, Y. K. Tun, W. Saad, Z. Han, and C. S. Hong, "3TO: THz-Enabled Throughput and Trajectory Optimization of UAVs in 6G Networks by Proximal Policy Optimization Deep Reinforcement Learning", in Proc. of the IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC),  Next-Generation Networking and Internet Symposium, Seoul, South Korea, May 2022.

3. Q. Zhang and W. Saad, "Semi-Supervised Learning for Channel Charting-Aided IoT Localization in Millimeter Wave Networks",  in Proc. of  the IEEE Global Communications Conference (GLOBECOM), IoT and Sensor Networks Symposium, Madrid, Spain, December 2021.

4. Y. Wang, M. Chen, Z. Yang, W. Saad, T. Luo, H. V. Poor, and S. Cui, "Meta-Reinforcement Learning for Immersive Virtual Reality over THz/VLC Wireless Networks",  Proc. of the IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC), Mobile and Wireless Networks Symposium, Montreal, Canada, June 2021.

5. Q. Zhang, A. Ferdowsi, and W. Saad, "Distributed Generative Adversarial Networks for mmWave Channel Modeling in Wireless UAV Networks",  in Proc. of the IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC), Next-Generation Networking and Internet Symposium, Montreal, Canada, June 2021.

6. C. Chaccour and W. Saad, "On the Ruin of Age of Information in Augmented Reality over Wireless Terahertz (THz) Networks", in Proc. of  the IEEE Global Communications Conference (GLOBECOM), Communication QoS, Reliability and Modeling Symposium, Taipei, Taiwan, December 2020.

7. Q. Zhang, W. Saad, and M. Bennis, "Distributional Reinforcement Learning for mmWave Communications with Intelligent Reflectors on a UAV",  in Proc. of  the IEEE Global Communications Conference (GLOBECOM), Next Generation Networking and Internet Symposium, Taipei, Taiwan, December 2020.

8. C. Chaccour, M. Naderi Soorki, W. Saad, M. Bennis, and P. Popovski, "Risk-Based Optimization of Virtual Reality over Terahertz Reconfigurable Intelligent Surfaces", in Proc. of the IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC), Next-Generation Networking and Internet Symposium, Dublin, Ireland, June 2020.

9. Q. Zhang, W. Saad, and M. Bennis, "Reflections in the Sky: Millimeter Wave Communication with UAV-Carried Intelligent Reflectors", in Proc. of  the IEEE Global Communications Conference (GLOBECOM), Next-Generation Networking and Internet Symposium, Waikoloa, HI, USA, December 2019.

10. M. Naderi Soorki, W. Saad, and M. Bennis, "Ultra-Reliable Millimeter-Wave Communications using an Artificial Intelligence-Powered Reflector", in  Proc. of  the IEEE Global Communications Conference (GLOBECOM), Wireless Communications Symposium, Waikoloa, HI, USA, December 2019.

11. C. Chaccour, R. Amer, B. Zhou, and W. Saad, "On the Reliability of Wireless Virtual Reality at Terahertz (THz) Frequencies", in Proc. of 10th IFIP International Conference on New Technologies, Mobility and Security (NTMS), Mobility & Wireless Networks Track, Canary Islands, Spain, June 2019. Best Paper Award.

12. O. Semiari, W. Saad, M. Bennis, and B. Maham, "Mobility Management for Heterogeneous Networks: Leveraging Millimeter Wave for Seamless Handover", in Proc. of  the IEEE Global Communications Conference (GLOBECOM), Mobile and Wireless Networks Symposium, Singapore, December 2017.

13. O. Semiari, W. Saad, M. Bennis, and M. Debbah, "Performance Analysis of Integrated Sub-6 GHz-Millimeter Wave Wireless Local Area Networks", in Proc. of  the IEEE Global Communications Conference (GLOBECOM), Mobile and Wireless Networks Symposium, Singapore, December 2017.

14. Q. Zhang, W. Saad, M. Bennis, and M. Debbah, "Network Formation Game for Multi-Hop Wearable Communications over Millimeter Wave Frequencies", in Proc. of  the IEEE Global Communications Conference (GLOBECOM), Mobile and Wireless Networks Symposium, Singapore, December 2017.

15. M. Naderi Soorki, A. B. MacKenzie, and W. Saad, "Millimeter Wave Network Coverage with Stochastic User Orientation", in Proc. of the  28th IEEE Annual International Symposium on Personal, Indoor, and Mobile Radio Communications (PIMRC) , Mobile and Wireless Networks Track, Montreal, Canada, October 2017.

16. M. Naderi soorki, M. J. Abdel-Rahman, A. MacKenzie, and W. Saad, "Joint Access Point Deployment and Assignment in mmWave Networks with Stochastic User Orientation", in Proc. of the 15th International Symposium on Modeling and Optimization in Mobile, Ad Hoc, and Wireless Networks (WiOpt), RAWNET Workshop, Paris, France, May 2017.

17. O. Semiari, W. Saad, and M. Bennis, "Downlink Cell Association and Load Balancing for Joint Millimeter Wave-Microwave Cellular Networks," in Proc. of the IEEE Global Communications Conference (GLOBECOM), Mobile and Wireless Networks Symposium, Washington, DC, USA, December 2016.

18. Q. Zhang, W. Saad, M. Bennis, and M. Debbah, "Quantum Game Theory for Beam Alignment in Millimeter Wave Device-to-Device Communications," in Proc. of the IEEE Global Communications Conference (GLOBECOM), Next Generation Networking Symposium, Washington, DC, USA, December 2016.

19. O. Semiari, W. Saad, and M. Bennis, "Context-Aware Scheduling of Joint Millimeter Wave and Microwave Resources for Dual-Mode Base Stations," in Proc. of the IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC), Mobile and Wireless Networks Symposium, Kualalumpur, Malaysia, May 2016.