Ishtiaq Ahmad

Dr Ishtiaq Ahmad

School of Electrical and Mechanical Engineering

College of Engineering and Information Technology

Eligible to supervise Masters and PhD (as Co-Supervisor) - email supervisor to discuss availability.

Ishtiaq Ahmad received the B.S. degree (magna cum laude) in telecommunications engineering from NUCES-FAST, Islamabad, Pakistan, in 2007, the M.S. degree (Hons.) in electrical engineering from the King Saud University (KSU), Riyadh, KSA, in 2012, and the Ph.D. degree in information and communication technology from the Institute for Telecommunications Research (ITR), University of South Australia (UniSA), in 2018. From 2008 to 2012, he was a Research Assistant with the Prince Sultan Advanced Technologies Research Institute (PSATRI), KSU, where he worked on many national and international research projects. From 2012 to 2014, he was a Junior Lecturer with the Prince Sattam Bin Abdulaziz University, KSA. He joined UniSA in 2014, where he is now a Research Fellow (equiv. to Assistant Professor in North American academic ranks) at ITR. His current research interests include high throughput satellite systems, cooperative communications, nonlinear multi-hop MIMO-OFDM systems, and EEG signal processing. He has authored/co-authored over 25 internationally refereed journal and conference papers. His paper received the finalist Best Student Paper Award in the 2011 IEEE IB2Com conference, Melbourne, Australia.

Year Citation
2022 Ahmad, I., Boukhedimi, I., Nguyen, K., Kodithuwakkuge, J., & Ramamurthy, B. (2022). On the performance of hybrid beamforming for massive-mimo low earth orbit satellite systems. IET Conference Proceedings, 2022(29), 186-191.
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2022 Ahmad, I., Sung, C. K., Kramarev, D., Lechner, G., Suzuki, H., & Grivell, I. (2022). Outage probability and ergodic capacity of distributed transmit beamforming with imperfect CSI. IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology, 71(3), 3008-3019.
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2021 Ahmad, I., Nguyen, K. D., Letzepis, N., & Lechner, G. (2021). On the next-generation high throughput satellite systems with optical feeder links. IEEE Systems Journal, 15(2, article no. 9152013), 2000-2011.
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2021 Ahmad, I., Nguyen, K., Letzepis, N., Lechner, G., & Joroughi, V. (2021). Zero-forcing precoding with partial CSI in multibeam high throughput satellite systems. IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology, 70(2, article no. 9328170), 1410-1420.
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2019 Akhlaq, A., Ansari, I. S., Lechner, G., Rice, M., & Ahmad, I. (2019). Statistical characterisation and analysis of differential correlation-based frame detector. IET Communications, 13(17), 2678-2687.
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2018 Ahmad, I., Nguyen, K. D., Letzepis, N., & Pollok, A. (2018). On the Hopping Loss in MIMO Decode-and-Forward Cooperative Relaying. IEEE Transactions on Communications, PP(99), 1-10.
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2015 Alotaiby, T., El Samie, F. E. A., Alshebeili, S. A., & Ahmad, I. (2015). A review of channel selection algorithms for EEG signal processing. EURASIP journal on advances in signal processing, 2015(66), 1-21.
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2015 Ahmad, I., Sulyman, A. I., Abuhasel, K. A., Alshebeili, S., & Al Asmari, A. K. (2015). Ergodic capacity of nonlinear MIMO-OFDM relaying channels. Wireless Personal Communications: an international journal, 81(1), 207-224.
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2014 Alotaiby, T. N., Alshebeili, S. A., Alshawi, T., Ahmad, I., & Abd, E. S. F. E. (2014). EEG seizure detection and prediction algorithms: a survey. Eurasip Journal on Advances in Signal Processing, 2014(1, article no. 183), 1-21.
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Year Citation
2023 Boukhedimi, I., Chan, T., Ahmad, I., Nguyen, K., Karmokar, D., Ramamurthy, B., & Kodithuwakkuge, J. (2023). Angle of Arrival Estimation in Multi-User Massive MIMO LEO Satellite Networks. In IEEE International Conference on Communications Vol. 2023-May (pp. 6287-6293). US: IEEE.
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2019 Ahmad, I., Lechner, G., & Shakeel, I. (2019). On the error rate analysis of distributed transmit beamforming. In International Telecommunication Networks and Applications Conference (pp. 1-4). US: IEEE.
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2019 Kramarev, D., Ahmad, I., Layton, K., Lavenant, M., Soetiyono, H., Lechner, G., . . . Leak, S. (2019). Event-triggered synchronization for mobile distributed transmit beamforming. In Proceedings - IEEE Military Communications Conference MILCOM Vol. 2019-November (pp. 343-348). US: IEEE.
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2019 Sung, C. K., Ahmad, I., Lechner, G., & Suzuiki, H. (2019). Performance analysis of distributed transmit beamforming with quantized channel feedback. In IEEE Vehicular Technology Conference (pp. 1-5). US: IEEE.
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2018 Shakeel, I., Ahmad, I., & Suzuki, H. (2018). Construction of adaptive short LDPC codes for distributed transmit beamforming. In Proceedings of International Conference On Signal Processing And Communication Systems (Icspcs) TA Wysocki & BJ Wysocki (eds) (pp. 1-7). USA: IEEE.
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2017 Ahmad, I., Nguyen, K. D., & Letzepis, N. (2017). Performance analysis of high throughput satellite systems with Optical Feeder Links. In Globecom 2017: IEEE Global communications conference (pp. 1-7). US: IEEE.
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2017 Ahmad, I., Nguyen, K. D., Letzepis, N., & Pollok, A. (2017). Performance analysis of high throughput multibeam satellite uplink under rain fading. In Proceedings of the 68th international astronautical congress, IAC2017 (pp. 4790-4795). France: International Astronautical Federation.
2016 Ahmad, I., Nguyen, K. D., Pollok, A., & Letzepis, N. (2016). Capacity analysis of zero-forcing precoding in multibeam satellite systems with rain fading. In 2016 IEEE 27th Annual International Symposium on Personal, Indoor, and Mobile Radio Communications (PIMRC) (pp. 1-6). US: IEEE.
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2016 Ahmad, I., Nguyen, K. D., Pollok, A., & Letzepis, N. (2016). Multi-hopping Loss in MIMO Decode-and-Forward Cooperative Relaying. In Proceedings of the International Symposium on Personal, Indoor and Mobile Radio Communications (IEEE PIMRC'16) (pp. 1-6). US: IEEE.
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2015 Khawar, A., Ahmad, I., & Sulyman, A. I. (2015). Spectrum sharing between small cells and satellites: Opportunities and challenges. In 2015 IEEE International Conference on Communication Workshop, ICCW 2015 (pp. 1600-1605). US: IEEE.
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Date Role Research Topic Program Degree Type Student Load Student Name
2025 Co-Supervisor - Doctor of Philosophy Doctorate Full Time Rohit Joshi

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