Shahrokh Farahmand

PhD Student

University of Minnesota

200 Union Street SE, 6-124, Minneapolis, MN 55414

Phone: (612) 626-7174        Email: shahrokh@umn.edu

Advisor: Prof. Georgios B. Giannakis

Affiliations: SPiNCOM Group, Electrical and Computer Engineering Department, University of Minnesota

Education:

• Ph.D. Student, University of Minnesota, Electrical and Computer Engineering
• M.S., University of Minnesota, Electrical and Computer Engineering
• B.S., Sharif University of Technology, Electrical Engineering

Current Research Interests:

• Distributed detection
• Distributed  decoding in the presence of jamming
• Jammer / anti-jammer games

 

Publications:

Journal

1. Sh. Farahmand, X. Wang, and G. B. Giannakis, ''Nash Equilibria for Multiuser Power Games with Correlated Jamming,'' IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications (submitted Aug'07)
2. Sh. Farahmand, X. Luo, and G. B. Giannakis, ''Orthogonally-spread block transmissions for ultra-wideband impulse radios,'' IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications (to appear).
3. Sh. Farahmand, X. Luo, and G. B. Giannakis, ''Demodulation and tracking with dirty templates for UWB impulse radio: algorithm and performance," IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology, vol. 54, no. 5, pp. 1595-1608, Sept. 2005.

Conference

1. Sh. Farahmand, A. Cano, and G. B. Giannakis, "Anti-jam distributed MIMO decoding using wireless sensor networks," Proc. of 33rd International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing, Las Vegas, NV, March 30 - April 4, 2008 (to appear).
2. Sh. Farahmand, X. Wang, and G. B. Giannakis, "Max-min strategies for power-limited games in the presence of correlated jamming,'' Proc. of 41th Conference on Information Science and Systems, Baltimore, MD, pp. 300-305, March 14-16, 2007.
3. Sh. Farahmand and G. B. Giannakis, ''A high-rate differential UWB radio,'' Proc. of Global Communications Conference, San Francisco, CA, Nov. 2006.
4. Sh. Farahmand, X. Luo, and G. B. Giannakis, ''Demodulation with dirty templates for UWB impulse radios,'' Proc. of Global Communications Conference, St. Louis, MO, Nov. 2005.
5. Sh. Farahmand, Z.-Q. Luo, G. B. Giannakis, and R. D'Andrea, ''An affine approximation to the robust beamforming problem,'' Proc. of 1st IEEE International Workshop on Computational Advances in Multi-Sensor Adaptive Processing, Puerto Vallarta, Mexico, pp. 117-20, Dec. 2005.
6. Sh. Farahmand, X. Luo, and G. B. Giannakis, ''Asymptotic performance of timing with dirty templates for UWB impulse radios,'' Proc. of IEEE International Conference on Ultra-Wideband, Zurich, Switzerland, pp. 469-473, Sept. 2005.