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ASM (Advanced Spectrum Management) CN (Cognitive Network) Slot Allocation CR (Cognitive Radio) DCA (Dynamic Channel Allocation) DSA (Dynamic Spectrum Allocation) Femtocells and small cells Green Networking HetNet (Heterogeneous Network) Machine Learning and Data Mining Shadowing models MDT (Minimization of Drive-Tests) PC (Power control) Propagation models REM (Radio Environmental Map) RRM (Radio Resource Management) SON (Self-Orgnanizing Network) TDD (Time Division Duplex) Search for your Keyword

Book Chapters

Green Networking

B. Maaz, K. khawam, S. Lahoud, J. Nasreddine, S. Tohme, " Achieving Spectral and Energy Efficiencies in Smart Cities Multi-Cell Networks", Chapter in Information Innovation Technology in Smart Cities, Springer, 2017.

Spectrum Management and HetNet

J. Pérez-Romero, O. Sallent, R. Agustí, J. Nasreddine, M. Muck, "A decentralized RAT selection algorithm enabled by IEEE P1900.4", chapter of Advances in mobile and wireless communications – views of the 16th IST Mobile and Wireless Communication Summit, Springer, 2008.

Journals

Cognitive Radio and Radio Environmental Maps

E. Meshkova, Z. Wang, K. Rerkrai, J. Ansari, J. Nasreddine et al., "Designing a Self-Optimization System for Cognitive Wireless Home Networks," IEEE Transactions on Cognitive Communications and Networking, Sept. 2017 [pdf],
J. van de Beek, T. Cai, S. Grimoud, P. Mähönen, J. Nasreddine, J. Riihijärvi, B. Sayrac, "How a layered REM architecture brings cognition to today's mobile networks," IEEE Wireless Communications Magazine, August 2012 [pdf],
T. Cai, J. van de Beek, J. Nasreddine, M. Petrova, P. Mähönen, "A TD-LTE Prototype System with Modules for General-Purpose Cognitive Resource Management and Radio-Environmental Mapping," International Journal of Wireless Information Networks (IJWIN), Springer, 2011 [pdf].

Green Networking

S. Lahoud, K. Khawam, S. Martin, G. Feng, Z. Liang, J. Nasreddine, "Energy Efficient Joint Scheduling and Power Control in Multi-Cell Wireless Networks," IEEE JSAC special issue on Green Communications and Networking, Sept. 2016 [pdf].

Power Control

J. Nasreddine, Loutfi Nuaymi and X. Lagrange, "Adaptive Power Control Algorithm with Stabilization Zone for Third Generation Mobile Networks," Annals of telecommunications, vol. 61 n°9-10, Sept-Oct 2006 [pdf].

Simulation and Propagation Models

R. Fraile, J. Nasreddine, N. Cardona and X. Lagrange, "Multiple Diffraction Shadowing Simulation Model", IEEE communication letters, vol. 11, n°4, pp. 319 - 321, 2006 [pdf].

Spectrum Management and HetNet

A. Gelonch, X. Revés, V. Marojevic, J. Nasreddine, J. Pérez-Romero, O. Sallent, "A Real Time Emulator Demonstrating Advanced Resource Management Solutions," Wireless Personal Communications Journal, Springer, 2009 [pdf],
J. Nasreddine, O. Sallent, J. Pérez-Romero, R. Agustí, "Positioning-based Framework for Secondary Spectrum Usage," Physical Communication, Elsevier, vol.1, n° 2, pp. 121-133,2008 [pdf],
O. Sallent, L. Giupponi, J. Nasreddine, R. Agustí, J. Pérez-Romero, "Spectrum and radio resource management," IEEE Vehicular Technology magazine, vol. 3, n° 4, pp. 56-64, 2008 [pdf],
J. Nasreddine, O. Sallent, J. Pérez-Romero and R. Agustí, " Advanced spectrum management in wideband code division multiple access systems enabling cognitive radio usage," IET Communications, vol. 2, n°6, pp. 794 - 805, 2008 [pdf].

Conferences

Cognitive Radio, Spectrum Management, Green Networking, and HetNet

J. Nasreddine, K. Fakih, B. Haidar, D. Serhal, S. Haidar, "Estimating Base Station Power Consumption Using Regression," BioSmart 2019, Paris, France, 2019 [pdf],
B. Maaz, K. Khawam, S. Lahoud, J. Nasreddine, and S. Tohme, "Joint User Association, Power Control and Scheduling in Multi-Cell 5G Networks," IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference (WCNC 2017), San Francisco, USA, 2017,
B. Maaz, K. Khawam, J. Nasreddine, S. Lahoud, and S. Tohme, "Achieving Power and Energy Efficiency in Self-Organizing Networks," 14th IEEE Annual Consumer Communications & Networking Conference (CCNC 2017), Las Vegas, USA, Jan. 2017 [pdf],
J. Nasreddine and S. El Hajj Hassan, "Interference Mitigation and Traffic Adaptation Using Cell Clustering For LTE-TDD Systems," IEEE International Multidisciplinary Conference on Engineering Technology (IMCET 2016), Beirut, Lebanon, November, 2016 [pdf],
B. Maaz, K. Khawam, S. Tohme, S. Martin, S. Lahoud, and J. Nasreddine, "Joint scheduling and power control in multi-cell networks for inter-cell interference coordination," IEEE 11th International Conference on Wireless and Mobile Computing, Networking and Communications (WiMob), Abu Dhabi, UAE, Oct. 2015, pp. 778-785 [pdf],
B. Maaz, K. Khawam, S. Tohme, S. Lahoud and J. Nasreddine, "Inter-Cell Interference Coordination based on Power Control for Self-Organized 4G Systems," in Proceedings of the Fifth International Conference on Digital Information and Communication Technology and its Applications (DICTAP 2015), Beirut, Lebanon, Apr-May 2015 [pdf],
J. Riihijärvi, J. Nasreddine and P. Mähönen, "Influence of Spatial Statistics of Spectrum Use on the Performance of Cognitive Wireless Networks," in Proceedings of the 15th ACM International Conference on Modeling, Analysis and Simulation of Wireless and Mobile Systems (MSWIM 2012), Paphos, Cyprus Island, Oct. 2012 (Best paper award) [pdf],
J. Nasreddine, N. Miliou, J. Riihijärvi, A. Polydoros and P. Mähönen, "Using Geolocation Information for Dynamic Spectrum Access in Cellular Networks," the 6th ACM Workshop on Performance Monitoring and Measurement of Heterogeneous Wireless and Wired Networks (PM²HW²N 2011) in conjunction with MSWIM 2011 [pdf][Copyright],
K. Rerkrai, J. Nasreddine, J. Riihijärvi and P. Mähönen, "Enabling Run-Time Utility-Based Optimization Through Generic Interfaces in Wireless Networks," IEEE Workshop on Mobile Computing and Emerging Communication Networks in conjunction with IEEE GLOBECOM 2011 [pdf],
X. Li, J. Nasreddine, P. Mähönen and M. Petrova, "Cross-layer optimal spectrum sensing duration and scheduling in cognitive networks," invited paper in ACM CoRoNet 2011 in conjunction with Mobicom 2011 Coronet11 [pdf],
J. Nasreddine, J. Riihijärvi, X. Li and P. Mähönen, "Exploring Opportunistic Access Techniques Using Stochastic Models: Dynamic Spectrum Access Without Sensing," MILCOM 2011 [pdf],
E. Meshkova, J. Ansari, D. Denkovski, J. Riihijärvi, J. Nasreddine, M. Pavloski, L. Gavrilovska and P. Mähönen, "Experimental Spectrum Sensor Testbed for Constructing Indoor Radio Environmental Maps," DySPAN 2011-Poster session [pdf],
J. Riihijärvi, J. Nasreddine and P. Mähönen, "Influence of Primary Network Structure and Dynamics on Achievable Performance of Cognitive Wireless Networks," IEEE DySPAN 2011 [pdf],
J. Nasreddine, J. Riihijärvi, P. Mähönen, "Transmit Power Control for Secondary Use in Environments with Correlated Shadowing," ICC 2011,
K. Rerkrai, J. Nasreddine, Z. Wang, J. Riihijärvi, P. Mähönen, "Design and Implementation of Utility-Based Radio Resource Optimization Using CAPRI," accepted in IWCMC 2011 [pdf],
E. Meshkova, Z. Wang, J. Nasreddine, D. Denkovski, C. Zhao, K. Rerkrai, T. Farnham, A. Ahmad, A. Gefflaut, L. Gavrilovska, P. Mähönen, "Using Cognitive Radio Principles for Wireless Resource Management in Home Networking," in Proceedings of the IEEE Consumer Communications and Networking Conference (CCNC 2011), pp.669-673, Las Vegas, USA, January 2011,
J. Nasreddine, A. Achtzehn, J. Riihijärvi, P. Mähönen, "Enabling Secondary Access through Robust Primary User Channel Assignment," in Proceedings of the IEEE Global Telecommunications Conference (GLOCECOM 2010), Miami, USA, December 2010,
J. Nasreddine, M. Petrova, P. Mähönen, T. Cai, G. P. Koudouridis, J. Johansson, J. van de Beek, "An Implementation of Cognitive Resource Management on LTE Platform," in Proceedings of the IEEE 21st International Symposium on Personal Indoor and Mobile Radio Communications (PIMRC 2010), pp.2663-2668, Istanbul, Turkey, September 2010,
E. Meshkova, J. Nasreddine, J Riihijärvi, M. Petrova, P. Mähönen, "Improving QoE in wireless networks through cognitive network optimization," in Proceedings of the Future Networks and Mobile Summit, June 2010,
F. Novillo, R. Ferrus, R. Agustí, J. Nasreddine, "Opportunistic Channel Allocation Algorithms for WLANs Based on IEEE802.11," in Proceedings of the Future Networks and Mobile Summit, June 2010,
J. Riihijärvi, J. Nasreddine, P. Mähönen, "Impact of Primary User Activity Patterns on Spatial Spectrum Reuse Opportunities," in Proceedings of the European Wireless (EW 2010), Lucca, Italy, April 2010,
J. Nasreddine, J. Riihijärvi, P. Mähönen, "Location-Based Adaptive Detection Threshold for Dynamic Spectrum Access," in Proceedings of the IEEE Dynamic Spectrum Access Networks (DySPAN 2010), Singapore, April 2010,
C. N. Ververidis, J. Nasreddine, P. Mähönen, "Distributed Channel Selection Protocol for Single-Hop Transmissions in Cognitive Radio Networks," in Proceedings of the Sixth ACM International Symposium on Performance Evaluation of Wireless Ad Hoc, Sensor, and Ubiquitous Networks(PE-WASUN 2009), Tenerife, Canary Islands, Spain, 2009,
J. Nasreddine, J. Pérez-Romero, O. Sallent, "Advanced Spectrum Management for the Downlink of WCDMA Systems using Genetic Algorithms," in Proceedings of the 69th IEEE Vehicular Technology Conference (VTC2009-Spring), Barcelona-Spain, 2009,
J. Nasreddine, J. Pérez-Romero, O. Sallent, R. Agustí, "A Primary Spectrum Management Solution Facilitating Secondary Usage Exploitation," in Proceedings of the ICT-Mobile Summit, Stockholm-Sweden, 2008,
J. Nasreddine, J. Pérez-Romero, O. Sallent, R. Agusti, "Simulated Annealing-Based Advanced Spectrum Management Methodology for WCDMA Systems," in Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC), Beijing-China, May 2008,
A. Gelonch, X. Revés, V. Marojevic, J. Nasreddine, J. Pérez-Romero, O. Sallent, "A Real Time Emulator Demonstrating Advanced Resource Management Solutions," The Tenth International Symposium on Wireless Personal Multimedia Communications (WPMC 2007) - Jaipur (India), December 3-6, 2007 (Best Paper Award),
O. Sallent, J. Pérez-Romero, X. Gelabert, J. Nasreddine, R. Agustí, F. Casadevall, A. Umbert, J. Olmos, "Gestión Integrada de Redes de Acceso Radio Celulares 2G, 2.5G y 3G", XXII Simpósium Nacional de la Unión Científica Internacional de Radio de 2007, URSI2007, La Laguna, Tenerife, Spain, September 2007,
O. Sallent, R. Agustí, J. Pérez-Romero, J. Nasreddine, L. Giupponi, "Integrated spectrum and radio resource management framework for joint optimisation of heterogeneous cognitive networks," in Proceedings of the 18th meeting of the Wireless World Research Forum (WWRF), Finland, 2007,
J. Pérez-Romero, O. Sallent, R. Agusti, J. Nasreddine, Markus Muck, "Radio Access Technology Selection enabled by IEEE P1900.4," in Proceedings of the 16th IST Mobile & Wireless Communications Summit 2007 [pdf],
J. Nasreddine, O. Sallent, J. Pérez-Romero, R. Agusti, "Novel Inter-Cell Interaction Approach for WCDMA-based Cognitive Networks", in Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC), Glasgow-Scotland, June 2007,
J. Nasreddine, J. Pérez-Romero, O. Sallent, R. Agusti, "Intra-RAT Spectrum Management Methodology for WCDMA Systems Encompassing Uplink and Downlink," in Proceedings of the IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference (WCNC 2007), Hong Kong, March 2007,
J. Nasreddine, J. Pérez-Romero, O. Sallent, R. Agusti, X. Lagrange, "A Proposal on Frequency Management Methodologies for WCDMA Systems using Statistical Coupling Matrices", in Proceedings of the IEEE Vehicular Technology Conference, Montreal, Que., 2006 [pdf],
J. Nasreddine, J. Pérez-Romero, O. Sallent, R. Agusti ,"Dynamic Spectrum Management Methodology for WCDMA Systems Based on Inter-Cell Interaction Approach," in Proceedings of the 9th Symposium on Wireless Personal Multimedia Communications, San Diego, CA., USA, September 2006,
J. Nasreddine, J. Pérez-Romero, O. Sallent, R. Agusti, X. Lagrange, "A Proposal on Frequency Management Methodologies for WCDMA Systems using Cell Coupling Matrices," in Proceedings of the 64th IEEE Vehicular Technology Conference, Montreal, Canada, September 2006,
O. Sallent, R. Agusti, J. Pérez-Romero, L. Giupponi, J. Nasreddine, "A Two-Layer Approach for Improved Intra-operator Radio Resource Usage," the 16th meeting of the Wireless World Research Forum (WWRF), Work Group 6 Reconfigurability, 2006,
J. Pérez-Romero, J. Nasreddine, R. Agusti, X. Lagrange, "On Managing Multiple WCDMA Carriers under Varying Traffic Conditions," Workshop Trends in Radio Resource Management (2nd Edition), Barcelona, Spain, 2005.

Femtocells and Radio Environmental Maps

A. Patra, J. Riihijärvi, J. Nasreddine and P. Mähönen , "Environment-Aware Localization of Femtocells for Interference Management," in Proceedings of the IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference (WCNC 2014), Istanbul, Turkey, April 2014 [pdf],
R. El Kharsa, J. Nasreddine, J. Riihijärvi and P. Mähönen , "Interference Mitigation based on Channel Allocation Knowledge for Dense Femtocell Scenarios," in Proceedings of the IEEE ICC 2013 2nd International Workshop on Small Cell Wireless Networks (SmallNets 2013), Budapest, Hungary, June, 2013 [pdf],
A. Kliks, J. Nasreddine, F. Li, A. Zalonis, N. Dimitriou, Y. Ko, "Interference Management in heterogeneous wireless networks based on context information," in Proceedings of the International Symposium on Wireless Communication Systems (ISWCS 2012) [pdf],
A. Zalonis, N. Dimitriou, A. Polydoros, J. Nasreddine and P. Mähönen, "Femtocell Downlink Power Control based on Radio Environment Maps," in Proceedings of the IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference (WCNC 2012), Paris, France, April, 2012 [pdf],
T. Cai, J. van de Beek, B. Sayrac, S. Grimoud, J. Nasreddine, J. Riihijärvi and P. Mähönen, "Design of Layered Radio Environment Maps for RAN Optimization in Heterogeneous LTE Systems," in Proceedings of the annual IEEE International Symposium on Personal, Indoor and Mobile Radio Communications (PIMRC 2011), Toronto, Canada, September 2011[pdf],
E. Meshkova, J. Ansari, J. Riihijärvi, J. Nasreddine and P. Mähönen, "Estimating Transmitter Activity Patterns: an Empirical Study in the Indoor Environment," in Proceedings of the annual IEEE International Symposium on Personal, Indoor and Mobile Radio Communications (PIMRC 2011), Toronto, Canada, September 2011 [pdf],
E. Meshkova, J. Ansari, D. Denkovski, J. Riihijärvi, J. Nasreddine, M. Pavloski, L. Gavrilovska, P. Mähönen, "Experimental Spectrum Sensor Testbed for Constructing Indoor Radio Environmental Maps," IEEE DySPAN 2011-Poster session.

Simulation and Propagation Models

J. Nasreddine, J. Riihijärvi, A. Achtzehn, P. Mähönen, "The World is Not Flat: Wireless Communications in 3D Environments," accepted in the 14th IEEE International Symposium on a World of Wireless, Mobile and Multimedia Networks (WoWMoM 2013), Madrid, Spain, June 2013 [pdf],
J. Nasreddine, J. Riihijärvi and P. Mähönen, "Impact of Measurement Configurations on the Accuracy of Propagation Model Estimation with Applications to Dynamic Spectrum Access," in Proceedings of the IEEE Global Communications Conference (Globecom 2012), Anaheim, California, USA, December 2012 [pdf],
Z. Abbas, J. Nasreddine, J. Riihijärvi and P. Mähönen, "Long-term Indoor Propagation Models for Radio Resource Management," in Proceedings of the 13th IEEE International Symposium on a World of Wireless, Mobile and Multimedia Networks (WoWMoM 2012), San Francisco, California, USA, June 2012 [pdf],
R. Fraile, J. Monserrat, N. Cardona, J. Nasreddine, "Impact of shadowing modelling on TD-CDMA system-level simulations," in Proceedings of the 3rd International Symposium on Wireless Communication Systems, Valencia, Spain, September 2006 [pdf].

Slot Allocation and Power Control

J. Nasreddine, X. Lagrange, "On The Computation of the Maximum Capacity of TDMA-CDMA/TDD Systems," in Proceedings of the 17th IEEE International Symposium on Personal, Indoor and Mobile Radio Communications, Helsinki, Finland, September 2006,
J. Nasreddine and X. Lagrange, "Performance of TD-CDMA systems during crossed slots," in Proceedings of the 60th IEEE Semiannual Vehicular Technology Conference, Los Angeles, USA, Septembre 2004,
J. Nasreddine and X. Lagrange, "Time Slot Allocation Based on Normalized Path Gain for TD-CDMA TDD Systems," in Proceedings of the 1st International conference on Information & Communication technologies: From theory to Application, Damascus, Syria, 2004,
J. Nasreddine and X. Lagrange, "A Simplified Generic Optimum Power Control Scheme for CDMA Cellular Systems," in Proceedings of the IEEE Workshop on Adaptive Wireless Networks (in conjuction with GLOBECOM 2004), Dallas, USA 2004,
J. Nasreddine, L. Nuaymi and X. Lagrange, "Downlink Adpative Power Control Algorithm for 3G Cellular CDMA Networks," in Proceedings of the 15th IEEE international symposium on personal, indoor and mobile radio communications conference, Barcelona, Spain, 2004,
J. Nasreddine, L. Nuaymi and X. Lagrange, "Adaptive Power Control Algorithm for 3G Cellular CDMA Networks," in Proceedings of the 59th IEEE Semiannual Vehicular Technology Conference, Milan, Italy, May 2004.
J. Nasreddine, X. Lagrange, "Time slot allocation based on a path gain division scheme for TD-CDMA TDD systems," in Proceedings of the 57th IEEE Semiannual Vehicular Technology Conference, Jeju, Korea, April 2003, pp 880-884,
J. Nasreddine, X. Lagrange, "Comparison of different slot allocation schemes in a TD-CDMA TDD system," in Proceedings of the second IEEE Workshop on Applications and Services in Wireless Networks, Paris, France, July 2002,
J. Nasreddine, X. Lagrange, "Power control and slot allocation in a TD-CDMA system," in Proceedings of the 55th IEEE Vehicular Technology Conference, Birmingham, Al, USA, May 2002 [pdf].

Machine learning for Medical Applications

R. Brome, J. Nasreddine, F. Bonnardot, M. Diab, M. ElBadaoui, "Prediction of Elderly Falls Using the Degree of Cyclostationarity of Walk Pressure Signals," IEEE-EMBS Conference on Biomedical Engineering and Sciences (IECBES 2020), LANGKAWI, MALAYSIA, 2021 [pdf].

Miscellaneous

D. Noguet, J-P. Bouyoud, L. Zaghdoudi, D. Varreau, B. Jechoux, P. LeCorre, X. Lagrange, J. Nasreddine, "A hardware testbed for UMTS/TDD joint detection base-band receivers," in Proceedings of the IEEE International Symposium on Spread Spectrum Techniques and Applications, ISSSTA 2004.

Demonstrations

J. Riihijärvi, J. Nasreddine and P. Mähönen, "Demonstrating Radio Environment Map Construction from Massive Data Sets," in Proceedings of the IEEE Dynamic Spectrum Access Networks (DySPAN 2012), Bellevue, Washington, USA, October 2012 (Demo Paper) [pdf],
Z. Wang, J. Ansari, V. Atanasovski, et al., "Self-organizing Home Networking based on Cognitive Radio Technologies," in Proceedings of the IEEE Dynamic Spectrum Access Networks (DySPAN 2011), Aachen, Germay, May 2011 (Demo Paper) [pdf],
V. Atanasovski, D. Denkovski, T. Farnham, et al., "Cognitive Radio for Home Networking," in Proceedings of the IEEE Dynamic Spectrum Access Networks (DySPAN 2010), Singapore, April 2010 (Demo Paper) [pdf].

Presentations

Acropolis Summer School

J.Nasreddine, Cognitive Radio for Efficient Spectrum Use, COST Action IC0902 and Network of Excellence ACROPOLIS joint 2011 First Summer School on Cognitive Wireless Communications, July 12-15, 2011, Florence, Italy [pdf].

Thesis

J. Nasreddine, Radio Resource Management in TD-CDMA/TDD Systems, Ph.D Thesis, University of Rennes 1, March 2005 [pdf],
J. Nasreddine, Contrôle de puissance et allocation des slots dans les réseaux UMTS à duplexage temporal, thèse de diplôme d'ingénieur, Lebanese University-ENST de Bretagne, September 2001 (en français),
J. Nasreddine, Conception et simulation en langage SDL d’un appel téléphonique fixe/mobile, en relation avec une plateforme réseau intelligent, Lebanese University-ENST de Bretagne, Octobre 2000 (en français).

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