Dr. Amine Mezghani

Area

Wireless Communication and Digital Signal Processing.

Expertise

Communication Systems
Wireless Transmission
Signal Processing
Antenna Engineering

Research description

The Team of Dr. Mezghani is exploring concepts for a sustainable and multifunctional wireless infrastructure at a wide range of frequency bands. Following research topics are being investigated:
-Hardware constrained communications
-Combined Shannon theory and Maxwell theory
-Reconfigurable Intelligent surfaces
-V2X communications
-Joint radar sensing and communications
-Millimeter-wave Massive MIMO
-One-Bit Transceivers
-Nonlinear Multi-user Precoding
-Blind Estimation of Sparse Channels
-UWB Communications
-Message Passing Algorithms and Large-Scale Signal Processing.

Amine Mezghani received the Dipl.-Ing. degree in Electrical Engineering from the Technical University of Munich, Germany, the Diplome d'Ingénieur degree from the école Centrale Paris, Paris, France, and the Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering from the Technical University of Munich, Germany, in 2015. Prior to joining the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Manitoba in 2019, he was a Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Texas at Austin, the USA, and a Postdoctoral Scholar with the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, University of California, Irvine, USA. His current research interests include millimeter-wave communications, massive MIMO, hardware constrained radar and communication systems, antenna theory, and large-scale signal processing algorithms. He was the recipient of 2021 IEEE signal processing society best paper award and the 2016 joint Rohde & Schwarz and EE department Outstanding Dissertation Award. He is an associate editor of the IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications. He has published more than hundred papers, particularly on the topic of signal processing and communications under restricted analog hardware.

Mohamed Akrout, Volodymyr Shyianov, Faouzi Bellili, Mezghani, Amine, and Robert W. Heath. Achievable rate of near-field communications based on physically consistent models. IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, 2022.

Khurram Usman Mazher, Mezghani, Amine, and Robert W. Heath. Multi-user downlink beamforming using uplink downlink duality with 1-bit converters for flat fading channels. IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology, 2022.

Haseeb Ur Rehman, Faouzi Bellili, Mezghani, Amine, and Ekram Hossain. Modulating intelligent surfaces for multiuser mimo systems: Beamforming and modulation design. IEEE Transactions on Communications, 70(5):3234–3249, 2022.

Bamelak Tadele, Volodymyr Shyianov, Faouzi Bellili, Mezghani, Amine, and Ekram Hossain. Age-limited capacity of massive mimo. IEEE Transactions on Communications, 70(11):7384–7399, 2022.

Mezghani, Amine, and Robert W. Heath. Massive MIMO Precoding and Spectral Shaping with Low Resolution Phase-only DACs and Active Constellation Extension. IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, 2022.

Sandy Saab, Mezghani, Amine, and Robert W. Heath. Optimizing the mutual information of frequency-selective multi-port antenna arrays in the presence of mutual coupling. IEEE Transactions on Communications, 2022.

Volodymyr Shyianov, Mohamed Akrout, Faouzi Bellili, Mezghani, Amine, and Robert W. Heath. Achievable Rate with Antenna Size Constraint: Shannon meets Chu and Bode. IEEE Transactions on Communications, 2022.

Haseeb Ur Rehman, Faouzi Bellili, Mezghani, Amine, and Ekram Hossain. Joint Active and Passive Beamforming Design for IRS-Assisted Multi-User MIMO Systems: A VAMP-Based Approach. IEEE Transactions on Communications, 69(10):6734–6749, 2021.

Khurram Usman Mazher, Mezghani, Amine, and Robert W. Heath. Improved CRB for Millimeter-Wave Radar With 1-Bit ADCs. IEEE Open Journal of Signal Processing, 2:318–335, 2021.

P. Kumari, A. Mezghani, and R. W. Heath. JCR70: A Low-Complexity Millimeter-Wave Proof-of-Concept Platform for a Fully-Digital SIMO Joint Communication-Radar. IEEE Open Journal of Vehicular Technology, vol. 2, pp. 218-234, 2021.

V. Shyianov, F. Bellili, A. Mezghani, and E. Hossain. Massive unsourced random access based on uncoupled compressive sensing: Another blessing of massive MIMO. IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications, vol. 39, no. 3, pp. 820-834, March 2021.

A. K. Saxena, A. Mezghani, and R. W. Heath. Linear CE and 1-bit quantized precoding with optimized dithering. IEEE Open Journal of Signal Processing, vol. 1, pp. 310-325, 2020.

A. Mezghani, J. A. Nossek, and A. L. Swindlehurst. Low SNR Asymptotic Rates of Vector Channels
with One-Bit Outputs. IEEE Transaction on Information Theory, to appear, vol. 66, no. 12, pp. 7615-7634, Dec. 2020.

N. J. Myers, A. Mezghani, and R. W. Heath. FALP: Fast beam alignment in mmWave systems with low-resolution phase shifters. IEEE Transactions on Communications, vol. 67, no. 12, pp. 8739-8753, Dec., 2019.

S. Rao, A. Mezghani, and A. L. Swindlehurst. Channel Estimation in One-Bit Massive MIMO Systems: Angular Versus Unstructured Models. IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Signal Processing, vol. 13, no. 5, pp. 1017-1031, Sept., 2019.

N. J. Myers, A. Mezghani, and R. W. Heath. Swift-Link: A compressive beam alignment algorithm for practical mmWave radios. IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, vol. 67, no. 4, pp. 1104-1119, Feb. 15, 2019.

Oliver De Candido, Hela Jedda, Amine Mezghani, A. Lee Swindlehurst, and Josef A. Nossek. Reconsidering Linear Transmit Signal Processing in 1-Bit Quantized Multi-User MISO Systems. IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, vol. 18, no. 1, pp. 254-267, Jan. 2019.

Amine Mezghani, and A. Lee Swindlehurst. Blind Estimation of Sparse Broadband Massive MIMO Channels with Ideal and One-bit ADCs. IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, vol. 66, no. 11, pp. 2972-2983, June 1, 2018.