Research At COMSATS

Baseband Communications and Signal Processing

Dr. Alam Zaib

	Designation:	Associate Professor
	Email:	alamzaib@cuiatd.edu.pk
	Phone No. :	N/A
	Role:	Faculty
	Research Interests:	My research interests are in statistical signal processing with applications to wireless communications over fading channels. Specifically, I am interested in low-complexity, adaptive and distributed algorithms for channel estimation and data detection for massive MIMO-OFDM systems, and in exploring Random Matrix Theory & Stochastic Geometry for analysis of these systems. I am also interested in solving blind source separation problem using ICA and sparse signal processing for seismic applications.

Academics/ Degrees

PhD Electrical Engineering – KFUPM, Dhahran, Saudi Arabia.
MSc Electrical Engineering & Info. Tech – KIT, Karlsruhe, Germany.
BSc Electrical Engineering – UET, Peshawar Pakistan

Profile/Bio

May 2023 – till now: Tenured Associate Professor at Department of ECE, CUI-Abbottabad
Apr 2016 – May 2023: Assistant Professor (TTS) at Department of ECE, CUI-Abbottabad
Mar 2010 – Sep 2011: Assistant Professor at Department of ECE, CUI-Abbottabad
2006 – 2007: NSS Deployment Engineer-WLL at PTCL, Islamabad, Pakistan
2004 – 2006: Assistant Divisional Engineer – Tech, at PTCL, Islamabad, Pakistan

Publications/Papers

2024

Journal

A. Zaib,I.Ullah,S.Khattak "AESA Antennas using Machine Learning with Reduced Dataset" , Radioengineering ,Volume 33 ,Issue 3 , 2024

2022

Journal

A. Khan,A. Zaib,Hazrat Ali,S.Khattak "Link-level Performance Abstraction for MIMO Receivers using Artificial Neural Network" , Telecommunication Systems ,Volume 80 ,Issue 4 ,Page 559-572 , 2022

2021

Journal

A. Zaib,Tarig Ballal,S.Khattak,Tareq Y. Al-Naffouri "A Doubly Regularized Linear Discriminant Analysis Classifier With Automatic Parameter Selection" , IEEE Access ,Volume 9 ,Page 51343 - 51354 , 2021

Muhammad Idrees,Xiaomin Qi,A. Zaib,Adnan Tariq,I.Ullah,Z. Mahmood "Throughput Maximization in Clustered Cellular Networks by using Joint Resource Scheduling and Fractional Frequency Reuse aided Coordinated Multipoint" , Arabian Journal of Science and Engineering, 2021. ,Volume 1 ,Issue 1 ,Page 1-15 , 2021

XIAOMIN Q,I.Khan,A. Zaib,SHAHID KHATTAK "Energy Efficient Resource Allocation for 5G Heterogeneous Networks using Genetic Algorithm" , IEEE Access ,Volume 9 ,Page 160510-160520 , 2021

2020

Journal

A. Khan,A. Zaib,I.Ullah,S.Khattak "MIMO iterative receiver SNR estimation strategies for link to system interfacing" , International Journal of Communication Systems ,Volume 33 ,Issue 6 ,Page e4303 , 2020

Weiyu Xu,Haider Ali Jasim Alshamary,Tareq Al-Naffouri,A. Zaib "Optimal Joint Channel Estimation and Data Detection for Massive SIMO Wireless Systems: A Polynomial Complexity Solution" , IEEE Transactions on Information Theory ,Volume 66 ,Issue 3 ,Page 1822-1844 , 2020

2019

Conference

Inaamullah Khan,A. Zaib,S.Khattak,Dr. Shoaib Azmat "Data Aided Channel Estimation for OFDM Wireless Systems using Reliable Carriers" , International Conference on Electrical, Communication and Computer Engineering, (ICECCE2019) July 24th – 25th, 2019 Pakistan , 2019

Adnan Tariq,S.Khattak,J.kazim,I.Ullah,A. Zaib,Muhammad Ayaz,Rashid Ahmed Bhatti "Interpolation Based Radiation Pattern Correction in Conformal Beamforming Arrays" , 2019 2nd World Symposium on Communication Engineering (WSCE) , 2019

2017

Journal

F. Masood,A. Zaib,S.Khattak "Sphere decoding algorithm for multiuser detection in a distributed antenna system" , Turkish Journal of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science ,Volume 25 ,Issue 5 ,Page 4242-4253 , 2017

A. Zaib,S.Khattak "Structure-based Low-Complexity MMSE Channel Estimator for OFDM Wireless Systems" , Wireless Personal Communications , 2017

A. Khan,A. Zaib,S.Khattak "Low Complexity Link Level Performance Prediction for SIMO Systems" , Turkish Journal of Electrical Engineering & Computer Sciences ,Volume 25 ,Issue 6 ,Page 4734-4745 , 2017

2016

Journal

A. Zaib,M. Masood,A. Ali,W. Xu,Tariq Y. Al-Naffouri "Distributed Channel Estimation and Pilot Contamination Analysis for Massive MIMO-OFDM Systems" , IEEE Transactions on Communications ,Volume 64 ,Page 4607-4621 , 2016

2015

Conference

A. Zaib,M. Masood,M. Ghogho,Tariq Y. Al-Naffouri "Distributive estimation of frequency selective channels for massive MIMO systems" , EUSIPCO 2015 , 2015

H. A. J. Alshamary,Tariq Y. Al-Naffouri,A. Zaib,W. Xu "Optimal non-coherent data detection for massive SIMO wireless systems: A polynomial complexity solution" , IEEE Signal Processing Workshop (SPW2015), Utah, Aug. 2015. , 2015

2014

Journal

A. Zaib,Tariq Y. Al-Naffouri "Blind and semi-blind ML detection for space-time block-coded OFDM wireless systems" , EURASIP Journal on Advances in Signal Processing ,Volume 2014 ,Page 131 , 2014

2010

Conference

Sandmair,A. Zaib,F. P. Le´on "Adaptive underdetermined ICA for handling an unknown number of sources" , Latent Variable Analysis and Signal Separation – 9th International Conference, LVA/ICA 2010, St. Malo, France, September 27-30, 2010 , 2010

Associations/Memberships

Member Pakistan Engineering Council (PEC), since 2003
Member Erasmus Mundus Students and Alumni Association (EMA), since 2009

Awards/ Appreciations

Scholarship for PhD studies at KFUPM, Dhahran, Saudi Arabia
Erasmus Mundus scholarship for MERIT master program at KIT, Karlsruhe, Germany and UPC, Barcelona, Spain.
NWFP merit scholarship in BSc EE at UET, Peshawar, Pakistan
Exceptional Teaching Award at EE Department, KFUPM, Saudi Arabia
Research Productivity Award from COMSATS University Islamabad, Pakistan.