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Assistant Professor, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering

Dr. Hani Mehrpouyan joined Boise State University in 2015, and is an Assistant Professor for the Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering. He has published over 40 journal articles and conference papers in such publications such as “IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing” and “IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications”. Dr. Mehrpouyan’s research interests include millimeter-wave and microwave communications, the effect of circuit impairments in communications, and cooperative communication systems. He received his Ph.D. from Queen’s University in Kingston, Ontario, Canada and a B.Sc. from Simon Fraser University in Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada. Dr. Mehrpouyan is currently an Associate Editor for “IEEE Communication Letters” and the “Canadian Journal of Electrical Engineering”.

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Dr. Hani Mehrpouyan joined Boise State University in 2015, and is an Assistant Professor for the Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering. He has published over 40 journal articles and conference papers in such publications such as “IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing” and “IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications”. Dr. Mehrpouyan’s research interests include millimeter-wave and microwave communications, the effect of circuit impairments in communications, and cooperative communication systems. He received his Ph.D. from Queen’s University in Kingston, Ontario, Canada and a B.Sc. from Simon Fraser University in Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada. Dr. Mehrpouyan is currently an Associate Editor for “IEEE Communication Letters” and the “Canadian Journal of Electrical Engineering”.

Present	Assistant Professor, Boise State University ‐ Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
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Electrical and Computer Engineering

Systems and Communications

2012 - Exemplary Reviewer Award, IEEE Communications Society
2004 - Wireless Innovation Award of British Columbia, Wireless Innovation

Articles (35)

Multi-Beam High Gain Steerable Transmitarray Lens for Satellite Communication and 5G mm-Wave Systems (Shafaq Kausar, A. U. Kausar, Muhammad Usman Hadi, et al.) AEU: International Journal of Electronics and Communications (2024)

This paper presents the design of a high gain multi-beam transmitarray antenna. Designed antenna is capable of independently steering multiple beams in the azimuth and elevation plane by the two dimensional displacement of feed radiators ...

Tropospheric Attenuation Prediction for Future Millimeter Wave Terrestrial Systems: Estimating Statistics and Extremes (Jinwen Liu, David W. Matolak, Ismail Güvenç, et al.) International Journal of Communication Systems (2022)

Tropospheric attenuations can be significant in the millimeter wave (mmWave) frequency bands; hence, accurate prediction modeling of tropospheric attenuation is important for reliable mmWave communication. Several models have been established by the International Telecommunication Union ...

Attenuation of Several Common Building Materials: Millimeter-Wave Frequency Bands 28, 73, and 91 GHz (Mahfuza Khatun, Changyu Guo and Hani Mehrpouyan) IEEE Antennas and Propagation Magazine (2021)

Future cellular systems will make use of millimeter-wave (mm-wave) frequency bands. Many users in these bands are located indoors, i.e., inside buildings, homes, and offices. The typical building material attenuations in these high-frequency ranges are ...

Beam-Steering Lens Antenna for Point to Multipoint Communications at 28 GHz Band (Saeideh Shad, Zahra Rahimian Omam and Hani Mehrpouyan) International Journal of RF and Microwave Computer-Aided Engineering (2021)

In this article, we propose a new design of a multibeam cylindrical Luneburg lens antenna designed in the 28 GHz band. The proposed antenna is based on the parallel plate waveguide technique, in which the ...

Joint Beamwidth and Power Optimization in MmWave Hybrid Beamforming-NOMA Systems (Mojtaba Ahmadi Almasi, Lisi Jiang, Hamid Jafarkhani, et al.) IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications (2021)

The use of directional transmission in millimeter-Wave (mmWave) frequencies results in limited channel coherence time. In this paper, we take the limited channel coherence time into account for non-orthogonal multiple access (NOMA) in mmWave hybrid ...

mmWave Lens-Based MIMO System for Suppressing Small-Scale Fading and Shadowing (Mojtaba Ahmadi Almasi, Roohollah Amiri, Hamid Jafarkhani, et al.) IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications (2020)

In this paper, we propose a generalized millimeter-Wave (mmWave) reconfigurable antenna multiple-input multiple-output (RA-MIMO) architecture that takes advantage of lens antennas. The considered antennas can generate multiple independent beams simultaneously using a single RF chain. ...

60 GHz Waveguide-Fed Cavity Array Antenna by Multistepped Slot Aperture (Saeideh Shad and Hani Mehrpouyan) IEEE Antennas and Wireless Propagation Letters (2020)

This letter presents a center-feed high-gain and high-efficiency 4 × 4-element slot array antenna in the 60 GHz band. The antenna feed network is designed using only a single-layered square quad-ridge cavity structure, which is ...

Reinforcement Learning for Self Organization and Power Control of Two-Tier Heterogeneous Networks (Roohollah Amiri, Mojtaba Ahmadi Almasi, Jeffrey G. Andrews, et al.) IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications (2019)

Self-organizing networks (SONs) can help manage the severe interference in dense heterogeneous networks (HetNets). Given their need to automatically configure power and other settings, machine learning is a promising tool for data-driven decision making in ...

Impact of Beam Misalignment on Hybrid Beamforming NOMA for mmWave Communications (Mojtaba Ahmadi Almasi, Mojtaba Vaezi and Hani Mehrpouyan) IEEE Transactions on Communications (2019)

This paper analyzes the effect of beam misalignment on rate performance in downlink of hybrid beamforming-based non-orthogonal multiple access (HB-NOMA) systems. First an HB-NOMA framework is designed in multiuser millimeter wave (mmWave) communications. A sum-rate ...

Joint Channel and Phase Noise Estimation for mmWave Full-Duplex Communication Systems (Abbas Koohian, Hani Mehrpouyan, Ali A. Nasir, et al.) EURASIP Journal on Advances in Signal Processing (2019)

Full-duplex (FD) communication at millimeter-wave (mmWave) frequencies suffers from a strong self-interference (SI) signal, which can only be partially canceled using conventional RF cancelation techniques. This is because current digital SI cancellation techniques, designed for ...

Interference Mitigating Satellite Broadcast Receiver using Reduced Complexity List-Based Detection in Correlated Noise (Zohair Abu-Shaban, Hani Mehrpouyan, Bhavani Shankar M.R., et al.) International Journal of Satellite Communications and Networking (2018)

The recent commercial trends towards using smaller dish antennas for satellite receivers, and the growing density of broadcasting satellites, necessitate the application of robust adjacent satellite interference (ASI) cancellation schemes. This orbital density growth along ...

Joint Pilot Allocation and Robust Transmission Design for Ultra-Dense User-Centric TDD C-RAN with Imperfect CSI (Cunhua Pan, Hani Mehrpouyan, Yuanwei Liu, et al.) IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications (2018)

This paper considers the unavailability of complete channel state information (CSI) in ultra-dense cloud radio access networks (C-RANs). The user-centric cluster is adopted to reduce the computational complexity, while the incomplete CSI is considered to ...

Superimposed Signaling Inspired Channel Estimation in Full-Duplex Systems (Abbas Koohian, Hani Mehrpouyan, Ali A. Nasir, et al.) EURASIP Journal on Advances in Signal Processing (2018)

Residual self-interference (SI) cancellation in the digital baseband is an important problem in full-duplex (FD) communication systems. In this paper, we propose a new technique for estimating the SI and communication channels in a FD ...

Multi-Relay Communications in the Presence of Phase Noise and Carrier Frequency Offsets (Omar H. Salim, Ali Arshad Nasir, Hani Mehrpouyan, et al.) IEEE Transactions on Communications (2017)

Impairments like time varying phase noise (PHN) and carrier frequency offset (CFO) result in loss of synchronization and poor performance of multi-relay communication systems. Joint estimation of these impairments is necessary in order to correctly ...

Residual Self-Interference Cancellation and Data Detection in Full-Duplex Communication Systems (Abbas Koohian, Hani Mehrpouyan, Ali Arshad Nasir, et al.) 2017 IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC) (2017)

Residual self-interference cancellation is an important practical requirement for realizing the full potential of full-duplex (FD) communication. Traditionally, the residual selfinterference is cancelled via digital processing at the baseband, which requires accurate knowledge of channel ...

A Multiband OFDMA Heterogeneous Network for Millimeter Wave 5G Wireless Applications (Solmaz Niknam, Ali Arshad Nasir, Hani Mehrpouyan, et al.) IEEE Access (2016)

Emerging fifth generation (5G) wireless networks require massive bandwidth in higher frequency bands, extreme network densities, and flexibility of supporting multiple wireless technologies in order to provide higher data rates and seamless coverage. It is ...

Energy Harvesting Wireless Sensor Networks: Delay Analysis Considering Energy Costs of Sensing and Transmission (Wanchun Liu, Xiangyun Zhou, Salman Durrani, et al.) IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications (2016)

Energy harvesting (EH) provides a means of greatly enhancing the lifetime of wireless sensor nodes. However, the randomness inherent in the EH process may cause significant delay for performing sensing operations and transmitting sensed information ...

High-Rate and Low-Complexity Space-Time Block Codes for 2 x 2 MIMO Systems (Vida Vakilian and Hani Mehrpouyan) IEEE Communications Letters (2016)

The main design criteria for space-time block codes (STBCs) are the code rate, diversity order, coding gain, and low decoder complexity. In this letter, we propose a full-rate full-diversity STBC for 2 × 2 multiple-input ...

Channel Estimation, Carrier Recovery, and Data Detection in the Presence of Phase Noise in OFDM Relay Systems (Rui Wang, Hani Mehrpouyan, Meixia Tao, et al.) IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications (2016)

Due to its time-varying nature, oscillator phase noise can significantly degrade the performance of channel estimation, carrier recovery, and data detection blocks in high-speed wireless communication systems. In this paper, we analyze joint channel, carrier ...

Timing and Carrier Synchronization in Wireless Communication Systems: A Survey and Classification of Research in the Last 5 Years (Ali A. Nasir, Salman Durrani, Hani Mehrpouyan, et al.) EURASIP Journal on Wireless Communications and Networking (2016)

Timing and carrier synchronization is a fundamental requirement for any wireless communication system to work properly. Timing synchronization is the process by which a receiver node determines the correct instants of time at which to ...

Spectrum Sensing of OFDM Signals in the Presence of Carrier Frequency Offset (Weiyang Xu, Wei Xiang, Maged Elkashlan, et al.) IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology (2015)

This paper addresses the important issue of detecting orthogonal frequency-division multiplexing (OFDM) signals in the presence of carrier frequency offset (CFO). The proposed algorithm utilizes the characteristics of the covariance matrix of the discrete Fourier ...

Channel Estimation and Optimal Training Design for Correlated MIMO Two-Way Relay Systems in Colored Environment (Rui Wang, Meixia Tao, Hani Mehrpouyan, et al.) IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications (2015)

In this paper, while considering the impact of antenna correlation and the interference from neighboring users, we analyze channel estimation and training sequence design for multi-input multi-output (MIMO) two-way relay (TWR) systems. To this end, ...

Hybrid Millimeter-Wave Systems: A Novel Paradigm for HetNets (Hani Mehrpouyan, Michail Matthaiou, Rui Wang, et al.) IEEE Communications Magazine (2015)

Heterogeneous Networks (HetNets) are known to enhance the bandwidth efficiency and throughput of wireless networks by more effectively utilizing the network resources. However, the higher density of users and access points in HetNets introduces significant ...

Channel, Phase Noise, and Frequency Offset in OFDM Systems: Joint Estimation, Data Detection, and Hybrid Cramér-Rao Lower Bound (Omar Hazim Salim, Ali A. Nasir, Hani Mehrpouyan, et al.) IEEE Transactions on Communications (2014)

Oscillator phase noise (PHN) and carrier frequency offset (CFO) can adversely impact the performance of orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) systems, since they can result in inter carrier interference and rotation of the signal constellation. ...

Joint Phase Noise Estimation and Data Detection in Coded MIMO Systems (Arif O. Isikman, Hani Mehrpouyan, Ali A. Nasir, et al.) IET Communications (2014)

In this paper, the problem of joint oscillator phase noise (PHN) estimation and data detection for multi-input multi-output (MIMO) systems using bit-interleaved coded modulation (BICM) is analyzed. A new MIMO receiver that iterates between the ...