Kambiz Azarian

Postdoctoral Researcher
Department of Electrical Engineering
University of Notre Dame
275 Fitzpatrick Hall
Notre Dame, IN 46556
E-mail: kazarian@nd.edu

Resume

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Education

• Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering, Aug 2006.
  The Ohio State University, Columbus OH.
  Thesis title: Cooperative Channels, Protocols and Analysis.
  Advisors: Hesham El Gamal and Philip Schniter.
• M.S. in Electrical Engineering, March 1999.
  Amirkabir University of Technology, Tehran IRAN.
  Thesis title: Efficient algorithms for computation of MPEG2 motion-vectors.
  Advisor: Hassan Aghaeinia.
• B.S. in Electrical Engineering, September 1996.
  Shahid Beheshti University, Tehran IRAN.

Research

• My research interests include topics in wireless communications, information theory, coding theory and sensor networks. In particular, I am interested in the design and analysis of cooperative protocols (for both, narrowband and wideband regimes) and their associated encoders and decoders. Among my other research interests are development of information theoretical tools for design and analysis of wireless protocols and space-time codes. I am also interested in the design and analysis of sensor network protocols.
• A more detailed statement of research is available in pdf format.

Publications

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Journal Papers

• K. Azarian, H. El Gamal and P. Schniter, "On the Achievable Diversity-Multiplexing Tradeoff in Half-Duplex Cooperative Channels," IEEE Trans. Info. Theory, vol. 51, no. 12, Dec. 2005, pp. 4152-4172.
• K. Azarian and H. El Gamal, "The Throughput-Reliability Tradeoff in Block-Fading MIMO Channels," IEEE Trans. Info. Theory, vol. 53, no. 2, Feb. 2007, pp. 488-501.
• A. Murugan, K. Azarian and H. El Gamal, "Cooperative Lattice Coding and Decoding in Half-Duplex Channels," IEEE Jour. On Select Areas in Comm., vol. 25, no 2, Feb. 2007, pp. 268-279.
• K. Azarian, H. El Gamal and P. Schniter, "On the Optimality of ARQ-DDF Protocols," IEEE Trans. Info. Theory, accepted subject to revisions, Jan. 2006.
• D. Chen, K. Azarian and J. N. Laneman, "A Case for Amplify-Forward Relaying in the Block-Fading Multi-Access Channel," IEEE Trans. Info. Theory, submitted, Jan. 2007.

Conference Papers

• K. Azarian, A. Murugan and H. El Gamal, "Cooperative Lattice Coding and Decoding," 2007 UCSD Workshop on Information Theory and Its Applications, Feb. 2007, La Jolla, CA.
• A. Murugan, K. Azarian and H. El Gamal, "Cooperative Lattice Coding and Decoding," 2007 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing, submitted, Sep. 2006.
• K. Azarian and H. El Gamal, "On the Utility of a 3dB SNR Gain in MIMO Channels," 2006 IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory (ISIT06), 9-14 Jul. 2006, Seattle, WA.
• K. Azarian and H. El Gamal,"What Does a 3dB Buy in MIMO Channels?" Invited Paper, 2006 UCSD Workshop on Information Theory and Its Applications, 6-10 Feb. 2006, UCSD Campus, La Jolla, CA.
• K. Azarian and H. El Gamal, "Cooperation in Outage-Limited Multiple-Access Channels," Invited Paper, 2006 IEEE International Zurich Seminar on Communications (IZS06).
• K. Azarian, H. El Gamal, "Beyond the Multiplexing-Gain: The Throughput-Reliability Tradeoff," Allerton Conf. on Communication, Control, and Computing, 2005, Monticello, IL.
• K. Azarian, Y. Nam and H. El Gamal, "Multi-User Diversity without Transmitter CSI," 2005 IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory (ISIT05) , 4-9 Sept. 2005, Adelaide, Australia, pp. 2055-2059.
• K. Azarian, H. El Gamal, "From Diversity-Multiplexing to Diversity-Rate Tradeoff," Invited Talk, 2005 IEEE Communication Theory Workshop (CTW05), June 12-15 2005, Park City, Utah.
• Y. Nam, K. Azarian and H. El Gamal , "Cooperation Through ARQ," Invited Paper, 2005 IEEE 6th Workshop on Signal Processing Advances in Wireless Communications (SPAWC05), June 5-8 2005, New York City, New York, pp. 1023-1027.
• K. Azarian, H. El Gamal and P. Schniter, "Achievable Diversity-vs-Multiplexing Tradeoffs in Half-Duplex Cooperative Channels," Proc. 2004 IEEE Information Theory Workshop (ITW04), Oct. 24-29 2004, San Antonio, TX, pp. 292-297.
• K. Azarian, H. El Gamal and P. Schniter, "On the Achievable Diversity-Multiplexing Tradeoff in Half Duplex Cooperative Channels," Invited Paper, Proc. Allerton Conf. on Communication, Control, and Computing, Oct. 2004, Monticello, IL.
• K. Azarian, H. El Gamal and P. Schniter, "On the Achievable Diversity-vs-Multiplexing Tradeoff in Cooperative Channels," Proc. Conference on Information Sciences and Systems (CISS04), Mar. 2004, Princeton, NJ.
• K. Azarian, H. El Gamal, and P. Schniter, "On the Design of Cooperative Transmission Schemes," Proc. Allerton Conf. on Communication, Control, and Computing, Oct. 2003, Monticello, IL.

Ph.D. Dissertation

• K. Azarian, "Outage Limited Cooperative Channels: Protocols and Analysis," Ph.D. dissertation, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, Aug. 2006.