Khoa Nguyen

Dr Khoa Nguyen

Senior Lecturer

School of Electrical and Mechanical Engineering

College of Engineering and Information Technology

Eligible to supervise Masters and PhD - email supervisor to discuss availability.

Khoa Nguyen received the B.Eng. (Electrical and Electronics Engineering) at University of Melbourne in Dec. 2005 and the Ph.D. degree in telecommunications at Institute for Telecommunications Research, University of South Australia in March 2010.
He is currently a Research Fellow at STEM. 
His research interests include adaptive transmission, communciation with delay constraints, communications for interactive control, coding theory and satellite communications.

Year Citation
2025 Nguyen, K. D., Lechner, G., & Ahmad, I. (2025). Zero-feedback open-loop distributed transmit beamforming. Digital Signal Processing: A Review Journal, 156(104875), 1-9.
DOI Scopus1
2023 Waqas, A., Nguyen, K., Lechner, G., & Chan, T. (2023). Joint parameter estimation and decoding in a distributed receiver. International Journal of Satellite Communications and Networking, 41(1), 59-81.
DOI Scopus1
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.
DOI Scopus3
2022 Waqas, A., Lechner, G., Chan, T., & Nguyen, K. (2022). Enhanced data-aided frequency estimation by collaboration in a distributed receiver. IET Communications, 16(7), 760-771.
DOI Scopus1 WoS1
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.
DOI Scopus23 WoS17
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.
DOI Scopus41 WoS34
2019 Timo, R., Vellambi, B. N., Grant, A., & Nguyen, K. D. (2019). Tracking unstable autoregressive sources over discrete memoryless channels. IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, 65(12, article no. 8768349), 8140-8163.
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2018 Noor A Rahim, M., Khyam, M. O., Guan, Y. L., Ali, G. G., Nguyen, K. D., & Lechner, G. (2018). Delay-universal channel coding with feedback. IEEE Access, 6, 37918-37931.
DOI Scopus10 WoS9
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.
DOI Scopus5 WoS5
2018 Noor A Rahim, M., Nguyen, K. D., Lechner, G., & Guan, Y. L. (2018). Design and analysis of anytime codes for relay channels. IEEE transactions on communications, 66(4), 1349-1362.
DOI Scopus3 WoS3
2017 Noor A Rahim, M., Nguyen, K. D., & Lechner, G. (2017). SC-LDPC code design for half-duplex relay channels. Wireless personal communications, 92(2), 771-783.
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2016 Noor A Rahim, M., Nguyen, K. D., & Lechner, G. (2016). SC-LDPC code design for Gaussian multiple access channel. IET communications, 10(17), 2402-2406.
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2016 Noor A Rahim, M., Nguyen, K. D., & Lechner, G. (2016). Delay-universal codes for multiple access channels. Transactions on emerging telecommunications technologies, 27(4), 612-619.
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2016 Zhang, N., Noor, A. R. M., Vellambi, B. N., & Nguyen, K. D. (2016). Anytime characteristics of protograph-based LDPC convolutional codes. IEEE transactions on communications, 64(10), 4057-4069.
DOI Scopus10 WoS9
2015 Noor A Rahim, M., Nguyen, K. D., & Lechner, G. (2015). Anytime reliability of spatially coupled codes. IEEE transactions on communications, 63(4), 1069-1080.
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2012 Nguyen, K., Rasmussen, L., Fabregas, A. G., & Letzepis, N. A. (2012). MIMO ARQ with multibit feedback: outage analysis. IEEE transactions on information theory, 58(2), 765-779.
DOI Scopus27 WoS25
2011 Lechner, G., Nguyen, K. D., Guillen i Fabregas, A., & Rasmussen, L. K. (2011). Optimal power control for LDPC codes in block-fading channels. IEEE transactions on communications, 59(7), 1759-1765.
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2010 Nguyen, D. K., Fabregas, A., & Rasmussen, L. (2010). Outage exponents of block-fading channels with power allocation. IEEE transactions on information theory, 56(5), 2373-2381.
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2010 Tung, K. T., Nguyen, D. K., & Fabregas, A. (2010). Coded modulation with mismatched CSIT over MIMO block-fading channels. IEEE transactions on information theory, 56(11), 5631-5640.
DOI Scopus6 WoS5
2009 Nguyen, D. K., Fabregas, A., & Rasmussen, L. (2009). Power Allocation for Block-Fading Channels with Arbitrary Input Constellations. IEEE transactions on wireless communications, 8(5), 2514-2523.
DOI Scopus16 WoS10
2009 Letzepis, N., Nguyen, D. K., Guillen, I. F. A., & Cowley, W. G. (2009). Outage analysis of the hybrid free-space optical and radio-frequency channel. IEEE journal on selected areas in communications, 27(9), 1709-1719.
DOI Scopus50 WoS39
2007 Nguyen, D. K., Guillen i Fabregas, A., & Rasmussen, L. (2007). A tight lower bound to the outage probability of discrete-input block-fading channels. IEEE transactions on information theory, 53(11), 4314-4322.
DOI Scopus20 WoS17

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.
DOI Scopus1 WoS1
2023 Ur Rehman, S., Rice, M., Gardner Stephen, P., & Nguyen, K. (2023). Threat analysis and secure communication design for search and rescue satellite communication system. In 40th International Communications Satellite Systems Conference (ICSSC 2023) Vol. 2023 (pp. 89-94). UK: Institution of Engineering and Technology.
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2023 Rice, M., Nguyen, K., Rehman, S., Rice, F., & Kelly, C. (2023). Distress monitoring and tracking for future lunar exploration. In 40th International Communications Satellite Systems Conference (ICSSC 2023) Vol. 2023 (pp. 37-44). US: IET.
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2021 Waqas, A., Lechner, G., Nguyen, K., & Chan, T. (2021). Particle filter for joint carrier phase, doppler shift and doppler rate estimation and data detection. In R. Velazque (Ed.), Proceedings - 2021 IEEE Latin-American Conference on Communications, LATINCOM 2021 (pp. 1-6). US: IEEE.
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2017 Mulinde, R., Nguyen, K. D., & Cowley, W. G. (2017). Analytical estimation schemes for optical unipolar OFDM transmission over AWGN. In Proceedings of the International conference on communications (pp. 1-6). US: IEEE.
DOI Scopus1 WoS1
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 Vol. 2018-January (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 Vol. 7 (pp. 4790-4795). France: International Astronautical Federation.
2016 Noor A Rahim, M., Lechner, G., & Nguyen, K. D. (2016). Density evolution analysis of spatially coupled LDPC codes over BIAWGN channel. In Proceedings of the Australian Communications Theory Workshop (pp. 13-17). US: IEEE.
DOI Scopus13 WoS11
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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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. 1972-1977). SPAIN, Valencia: IEEE.
2016 Ahmad, I., Nguyen, K. D., Pollok, A., & Letzepis, N. (2016). Multi-hopping Loss in MIMO Decode-and-Forward Cooperative Relaying. In 2016 IEEE 27TH ANNUAL INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM ON PERSONAL, INDOOR, AND MOBILE RADIO COMMUNICATIONS (PIMRC) (pp. 577-582). SPAIN, Valencia: IEEE.
2016 Mulinde, R., Nguyen, K. D., Cowley, W. G., & Noor A Rahim, M. (2016). Coding architecture for optical eU-OFDM transmission over AWGN. In 2016 Australian Communications Theory Workshop (AusCTW) Vol. 16 (pp. 175-180). US: IEEE.
DOI Scopus1 WoS1
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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2015 Nguyen, K. D., Timo, R., & Rasmussen, L. K. (2015). Causal-CSIT rate adaptation for block-fading channels. In International Symposium on Information Theory Vol. 2015-June (pp. 351-355). United States: IEEE.
DOI Scopus5 WoS5
2015 Noor A Rahim, M., Nguyen, K. D., & Lechner, G. (2015). Anytime reliable bilayer codes with uncoded relaying. In Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Communications Vol. 2015-September (pp. 4054-4059). US: IEEE.
DOI Scopus1 WoS1
2015 Zhang, N., Noor A Rahim, M., Vellambi, B. N., & Nguyen, K. D. (2015). Protograph-based anytime reliable channel coding design. In Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Communications Vol. 2015-September (pp. 4048-4053). US: IEEE.
DOI Scopus2 WoS1
2015 Zhang, N., Noor A Rahim, M., Vellambi, B. N., & Nguyen, K. D. (2015). Anytime properties of protograph-based repeat-accumulate codes. In ITW2015 : 2015 IEEE Information Theory Workshop (pp. 177-181). US: IEEE.
DOI Scopus3 WoS3
2015 Mulinde, R., Nguyen, K. D., & Cowley, W. G. (2015). BER analysis of optical eU-OFDM transmission over AWGN. In 2015 9th International Conference on Signal Processing and Communication Systems (ICSPCS) (pp. 1-6). US: IEEE.
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2014 Noor, A. R. M., Nguyen, D. K., & Lechner, G. (2014). Anytime spatially coupled codes for relay channel. In 2014 Australian Communications Theory Workshop, AusCTW 2014 (pp. 39-44). Australia: IEEE Press.
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2014 Zhang, N., Vellambi, B. N., & Nguyen, K. D. (2014). Delay exponent of variable-length random binning for point-to-point transmission. In Information Theory Workshop (ITW) (pp. 207-211). US: IEEE.
DOI Scopus5 WoS5
2014 Noor A Rahim, M., Nguyen, D. K., & Lechner, G. (2014). Delay-exponent of bilayer anytime code. In Proceedings of the 2014 IEEE Information theory workshop (ITW) (pp. 451-455). United States: IEEE Press.
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2014 Noor A Rahim, M., Nguyen, K. D., & Lechner, G. (2014). Finite Length Analysis of LDPC Codes. In 2014 IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference (pp. 206-211). US: IEEE.
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2014 Abdullah, A. N., Nguyen, K. D., & Chan, T. H. (2014). Algorithm to improve the outage performance of IF virtual MIMO system. In 2014 Australian Communications Theory Workshop, AusCTW 2014 (pp. 68-72). US: IEEE.
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2014 Salah, M. S., Cowley, W. G., & Nguyen, K. D. (2014). Adaptive transmission schemes for free-space optical channel. In 2014 8th International Conference on Signal Processing and Communication Systems (ICSPCS) (pp. 1-7). US: IEEE.
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2013 Noor A Rahim, M., Nguyen, K. D., & Lechner, G. (2013). Anytime characteristics of spatially coupled code. In 51st Annual Allerton Conference on Communication, Control, and Computing (pp. 335-341). US: IEEE.
DOI Scopus10 WoS5
2013 Cowley, W. G., Nguyen, K. D., & Giggenbach, D. (2013). Adaptive symbol-rate free-space-optical communications. In 2013 Australian Communications Theory Workshop, AusCTW 2013 (pp. 122-127). US: IEEE.
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2013 Khan, M. N., Cowley, W. G., & Nguyen, D. K. (2013). Puncturing optimization algorithm and its applications in free space communications. In AusCTW 2013 (pp. 152-157). US: IEEE Press.
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2013 Ho, S. W., Cowley, W. G., Nguyen, K., & Duan, J. (2013). An integrated wireless system using visible light. In 2013 IEEE International Conference on Communications in China (ICCC) (pp. 61-67). US: IEEE.
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2013 Nguyen, K. D., & Rasmussen, L. K. (2013). Delay-exponent of decode-forward streaming. In 2013 IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory : ISIT 2013 (pp. 2805-2809). US: IEEE.
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2012 Khan, M. N., Cowley, W. G., & Nguyen, K. D. (2012). Link adaptation of FAHOR communication system. In 2012 Australian Communications Theory Workshop (AusCTW) (pp. 120-125). US: IEEE.
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2012 Nguyen, K. D. (2012). Delay-exponent of delay-universal compress-and-forward relaying. In 2012 IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory proceedings (pp. 2851-2855). US: IEEE.
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2011 Nguyen, K. D., & Rasmussen, L. K. (2011). Delay-universal decode and forward relaying. In B. Krongold (Ed.), Communications Theory Workshop (AusCTW), 2011 Australian (pp. 170-175). US: IEEE.
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2010 Letzepis, N. A., Nguyen, D. K., Fabregas, A., & Cowley, W. G. (2010). Hybrid free space optical and radio frequency communications: outage analysis. In ISIT 2010, IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory (pp. 2048-2052). US: IEEE.
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2010 Nguyen, D. K., Letzepis, N. A., Fabregas, A., & Rasmussen, L. (2010). Outage Diversity of MIMO Block Fading Channels with Causal Channel State Information. In ISIT 2010, IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory (pp. 2168-2172). US: IEEE.
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2009 Nguyen, D. K., Rasmussen, L., Fabregas, A., & Letzepis, N. A. (2009). MIMO ARQ systems with multi-level feedback. In Proceedings IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory, ISIT 2009 (pp. 254-258). US: IEEE.
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2009 Nguyen, D. K., Rasmussen, L., Guillen, I. F. A., & Letzepis, N. A. (2009). Rate-diversity-delay tradeoff for ARQ systems over MIMO block-fading channels. In 2009 Australian Communications Theory Workshop (pp. 116-121). US: IEEE.
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2008 Nguyen, D. K., Guillen, I. F. A., & Rasmussen, L. (2008). Asymptotic outage performance of power allocation in block-fading channels. In IEEE international symposium on information theory (pp. 275-279). US: IEEE.
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2008 Nguyen, D. K., Guillen, I. F. A., & Rasmussen, L. (2008). Power control for block-fading channels with peak-to-average power constraints. In IEEE international symposium on information theory (pp. 265-269). US: IEEE.
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2007 Nguyen, D. K., Guillen i Fabregas, A., & Rasmussen, L. (2007). Power allocation for discrete-input non-ergodic block-fading channels. In P. Pradhan, & S. S (Eds.), 2007 ITW: Information Theory Workshop: Proceedings (pp. 48-53). Tahoe City, CA, USA: IEEE.
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2007 Nguyen, D. K., Guillen i Fabregas, A., & Rasmussen, L. (2007). Analysis and computation of the outage probability of discrete-input block-fading channels. In Proceedings of the 2007 IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory (pp. 1196-1200). USA: IEEE.
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Courses I teach

  • EEET 2045 Microcontroller Interfacing and Applications (2025)
  • EEET 3028 Digital Communications (2025)
  • MATH 4044 Statistics for Data Science (2025)
  • EEET 2045 Microcontroller Interfacing and Applications (2024)
  • EEET 3028 Digital Communications (2024)
  • EEET 5102 Mobile Communications and Wireless Access (2024)
  • MATH 4044 Statistics for Data Science (2024)

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