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Dr. Muhammad Khandaker

Currently working with the Communications and Information Systems Group (CISG) in the Department of Electronic and Electrical Engineering, University College London, UK, with Prof. Kai-Kit Wong and Dr. Christos Masouros.

Research Interests

His research interests are in signal processing for wireless communications with a particular focus on
  • 5G communication technologies
  • RF energy harvesting
  • Massive MIMO systems
  • Full-duplex communications
  • Cloud radio access networks (C-RAN)
  • Cognitive cooperative communications
  • Interference exploitation
  • Physical-layer security and
  • Convex optimization methods.

For a full list of his publications please click here.

Research Projects/Grants

  • Researcher Co-I, "Exploiting interference ... in 5G networks (CI-PHY)", EPSRC Standard Grant, awarded to UCL £770,513 (EPSRC contribution: £616,410), awarded to the University of Luxembourg €556,835 (FNR contribution), 2017-2020, (UCL is the lead and Investigators include Dr. Christos Masouros (PI), Prof. Kai-Kit Wong (Co-I), and Dr Muhammad RA Khandaker (Researcher Co-I)).
  • PI, "Signal processing algorithms for multi-user MIMO relay communications", Curtin International Postgraduate Research Scholarship (IPRS), PhD project, total value ~AU$200,000, 2009 -- 2012, Curtin University, Australia.

Research Supervision

  • 4. Mahmoud Tukur Kabir, Co-Supervisor (PhD) , 2016 -- , UCL, UK
  • 3. Jialing Liao, Co-Supervisor (PhD) , 2014 -- 2016, UCL, UK
  • 2. Alexander Okandeji, Co-Supervisor (PhD) , 2013 -- 2017, UCL, UK (completed).
  • 1. Yangke Sun, Co-Supervisor (MSc) , 2013 --2014, UCL, UK (completed).

Professional Activities

  • Editor, EURASIP Journal on Wireless Communications and Networking (EURASIP JWCN).
  • Lead Guest Editor, EURASIP Journal on Wireless Communications and Networking (Springer), Special Issue on Heterogeneous Cloud/Fog Radio Access Networks (H-CRANs), 2017.
  • Managing Guest Editor, Physical Communication (Elsevier), Special Issue on Self-Optimising Cognitive Radio Technologies, 2016.
  • Technical Program Committee (TPC) Member:

  • 12. IEEE 87th Vehicular Technology Conference (VTC2018-Spring), Porto, Portugal, 3–6 June 2018
  • 11. IEEE Global Communications Conference (Globecom), Singapore, 4-8 Dec. 2017
  • 10. IEEE International Conference on Wireless Communications and Signal Processing (WCSP), Nanjing, China, October 11-13, 2017
  • 09. European Signal Processing Conference (EUSIPCO), Kos island, Greece, 28 Aug. to 2 Sep. 2017
  • 08. IEEE 85th Vehicular Technology Conference (VTC2017-Spring), Sydney, Australia, 4–7 June 2017
  • 07. IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC), 21-25 May 2017, Paris, France
  • 06. IEEE Global Communications Conference (Globecom), Washington DC, USA, 4-8 Dec. 2016
  • 05. The 15th IEEE International Symposium on Signal Processing and Information Technology (ISSPIT 2015), Abu Dhabi, UAE, 7-10 December, 2015
  • 04. IEEE 82nd Vehicular Technology Conference (VTC2015-Fall), Boston, USA, 6-9 Sept. 2015
  • 03. International Conference on Advances in Computing, Communications and Informatics (ICACCI), India, 2014 - 2017
  • 02. International Conference on Signal Processing \& Data Mining (ICSPDM), Istanbul, Turkey, 26-28 July, 2015
  • 01. International Conference on Computing and Network Communications (CoCoNet'15), Trivandrum, Kerala, India, 16-19 Dec. 2015

Research Collaboration