Salam Akoum Ph.D. student Advisor: Prof. Robert W. Heath Jr. Wireless Networking and Communications Group Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering the University of Texas at Austin 1 University Station, Mail code: C0803 Austin, Texas 78712 Email: sakoum@ece.utexas.edu Resume

Education:

• The University of Texas at Austin
  Ph.D. student, Electrical and Computer Engineering (September 2008~).

• The University of Utah
  M.Sc., Electrical and Computer Engineering (July 2008).

• American University of Beirut
  B.E., Computer and Communication Engineering (June 2006).
  

Research Interests:

• Limited feedback for MIMO with other cell interference
• Intercell interference management
• Detection in MIMO systems.
• Cognitive radios: spectrum sensing for dynamic spectrum access.
• Cognitive beamforming

Currently Working on:

• Cooperative Frequency reuse for the downlink of cellular systems
  • (In collaboration with Prof. M. Debbah and Prof. M. Zwingelstein-Colin)
• Limited feedback precoding for temporally correlated channels in the presence of multi cell interference.
• Rate/precoder adaptation for limited feedback beamforming.

Courses:

• Advanced Wireless: Modulation and Multiple Access.
• Probability and Stochastic Processes.
• Information Theory
• Markov Decision Processes

Publications:

• S. Akoum, R. W. Heath Jr., "Limited feedback beamforming over temporally correlated channels with other cell interference", Submitted to International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing, ICASSP 2010.

• S. Akoum, M. Zwinglstein-Colin, R.W. Heath Jr., M. Debbah, "Cooperative Frequency Reuse for the Downlink of Cellular Systems", Submitted to IEEE International Conference on Communications, ICC 2010.

• S. Akoum, R. W. Heath Jr., "Limited feedback beamforming over temporally correlated channels with other cell interference", under revision to be submitted to IEEE transactions on Wireless Communications.

• S. Akoum, R. Peng, R. Chen, B. Farhang-Boroujeny, "Markov chain Monte Carlo methods for high SNR regimes", accepted to the proceedings of IEEE International conference on Communication, ICC 2009 [pdf].

• P. Amini, E. Azarnasab, P. Amini, S. Akoum, B. Farhang-Bouroujeny, "An Experimental Cognitive Radio for First Responders", 2008 IEEE Dynamic Spectrum Access Conference, October  14-17, 2008. Chicago, Illinois. [pdf]

• P. Amini, E. Azarnasab, S. Akoum, X. Mao, H. Rao, B. Farhang-Bouroujeny, "Implementation of a cognitive radio modem", 2007 Software Defined Radio Technical Conference, November 5-9, 2007. Denver, Colorado. [pdf] [presentation], [Poster Overview], [Poster Hardware] .

• S. Akoum, B. Farhang-Bouroujeny, “A phase locked loop with arbitrarily wide lock range for software defined radios, 2007 Software Defined Radio Technical Conference, November 5-9, 2007. Denver, Colorado [pdf].
  
  

Patents:

• B. Farhang-Boroujeny, S. Akoum, " Estimation of Log-likelihood values using constrained Markov Chain Monte Carlo simulations;. United States Provisional Patent Application, June 2008.
  

Links:

• WNCG: The Wireless Networking and Communication Group at University of Texas at Austin
• The WindoWSIL: The Wireless Systems Innovation Lab web journal
• The WSIL: The Wireless Systems Innovation Lab Group
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