Talha
Ahmad M.A.Sc. in Electrical and
Computer Engineering, 2011 Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada. B.Eng in Electrical
Engineering, 2009 Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada. Supervisor: Dr. Halim Yanikomeroglu Email: tahmad@sce.carleton.ca Tel: +1 613 520-2600 ext. 5729 Fax: +1 613 520-5727 Office: MacKenzie Building, Room
4463
Research Interests
- Coordinated Multipoint
Transmission and Reception (CoMP)
- Multiple-Input
Multiple-Output (MIMO)
- 4G, LTE, LTE-Advanced
- Transmission schemes in
Distributed Antenna Systems
Awards
- NSERC Alexander Graham Bell Canada Graduate Scholarship (CGS M),
2010-2011
- Ontario Graduate Scholarship (OGS), 2009-2010
- NSERC Undergraduate Student Research Award (USRA), May-August 2009
- Carleton University Senate Medal for Outstanding Academic
Achievement, 2009
- W.R. Davis Engineering Scholarship, 2008
- Carleton University Deans’ List, 2004-2005, 2005-2006, 2006-2007
and 2008-2009
Professional Activities
- Registration Chair and Volunteer
- IEEE Vehicular Technology
Conference (VTC) 2010 – Fall, September 2010, Ottawa, Canada
Publications
- Talha Ahmad, Ramy Gohary, Halim Yanikomeroglu,
Saad Al-Ahmadi, and
Gary Boudreau, “Coordinated port selection and beam steering
optimization in a multi-cell distributed antenna system using semidefinite relaxation”, under review in IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications
(submission: 30 June 2011). - Talha Ahmad, Ramy Gohary, Halim Yanikomeroglu, Saad
Al-Ahmadi, and Gary Boudreau, “Coordinated
max-min fair port selection in a
multi-cell distributed antenna system using semidefinite relaxation”, submitted to the IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC 2012),
10–15 June 2012, Ottawa, Canada. - Talha Ahmad, Saad Al-Ahmadi, Halim Yanikomeroglu, and Gary Boudreau, “Downlink
linear transmission schemes in a single-cell distributed
antenna system with port selection”, IEEE Vehicular Technology Conference (VTC2011-Spring), 15–18 May 2011, Budapest, Hungary.
Last Update: September 6, 2011