Ahmad (Farbod) Khoshnevis ECE Dep. Rice University MS-366, Room 2116 DH 6100 Main Street Houston, Texas 77005 Cell: 503.702.0078 e-mail: farbod at rice dot edu

My wife and I, after my defense, Jan 24,07

" If people knew how hard I worked to get my mastery, it wouldn't seem so wonderful at all", Michelangelo.

My Resume.

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Advisor: Dr. Ashutosh Sabharwal

Interests:

• Wireless communication and Information theory: Finite rate feedback, power control, beamforming
• Wireless networks: Fundamental limits on medium access protocol, network channel estimation

Publications:

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Books, Book Chapters:

• A. Khoshnevis and A. Sabharwal, Chpater 8: "Opportunism in Wireless Networks: Principles and Techniques", in the book: "Wireless Ad Hoc Networking: Personal-Area, Local-Area, and Sensory-Area Networks", Auerbach Publishing, 2006.

Journal Papers:

• A. Khoshnevis, O. Oyman, and S. Sandhu "Cooperative Multiple Access in Wireless Networks" in preparation for IEEE Transactions on Communication.
• A. Khoshnevis and A. Sabharwal, "Diversity-Multiplexing Tradeoff in Multiple Antenna Systems with Quantized Feedback," submitted to IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications, June. 2005.
• A. Sabharwal, A. Khoshnevis, and E. Knightly "Opportunistic Spectral Usage: Bounds and A Multi-Band CSMA/CA Protocol," accepted IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking, 2005.

Conference Papers:

• D. Dash, A. Khoshnevis, and A. Sabharwal "An Achievable Rate Region for a Multiuser Half-Duplex Two-Way Channel", Annual Conference on Signal, Systems, and Computers, Asilomar.
• C. Steger, A. Khoshnevis, A. Sabharwal, and B. Aazhang "The Case for Transmitter Training", in Proc. IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory, ISIT'06, July 9-14 2006, Seattle, WA.
• A. Khoshnevis, D. Dash, and A. Sabharwal "On Multiple-Access Channels with Bidirectional Links", Poster presented at IEEE Communication Theory Workshop, CTW'06, May 21-24 2006, Dorado, Puerto Rico.
• C. Steger, A. Khoshnevis, A. Sabharwal, B. Aazhang "Importance of Transmitter Side Information and the Value of Training,", in Proc. of 43rd Allerton Conference on Communication, Control and Computing, Sep 28-30 2005, Monticello, IL.
• A. Khoshnevis and A. Sabharwal, “On the Overhead-Delay Tradeoff in Carrier Sense Collision Channels,”in Proc. IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory, ISIT’05, Sep 4-9 2005, Adelaide, Australia. Recipient of Student Travel Grant.
• A. Khoshnevis and A. Sabharwal, “Achievable Diversity and Multiplexing in Multiple Antenna Systems with Quantized Power Control,” in Proc. of IEEE International Conference on Communication, ICC’05, May 16-20 2005, Seoul, South Korea. Recipient of IEEE Comm. Soc. Student Travel Grant.
• A. Khoshnevis and A. Sabharwal “On Diversity and Multiplexing Gain of Multiple Antennas Systems with Transmitter Channel Information” in Proc. of 42^nd Allerton Conference on Communication, Control and Computing, Sep 29- Oct 1 2004, Monticello, IL.
• A. Khoshnevis and A. Sabharwal "Performance of Quantized Power Control in Multiple Antenna Systems," in Proc. of IEEE International Conference on Communications, ICC'04, June 20-24 2004, Paris, France. Recipient of IEEE Comm. Soc. Student Travel Grant.
• A. Khoshnevis and A. Sabharwal "Network Channel Estimation in Cooperative Wireless Networks," in Proc. of Canadian Workshop on Information Theory, May 2003, Waterloo Canada.

Accepted

Submitted

Thesis:

• A. Khoshnevis "Coding-Spreading Tradeoff for Lattice Codes," Master's Thesis, Rice University, April 2001.

Must read articles:

• How to win an argument.
• You and your research (Hamming)

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Last revised: May 26, 2006.