Ali Arshad Nasir


Post Doctoral Research Fellow
Applied Signal Proessing Group
College of Engineering and Computer Science
Research School of Information Sciences and Engineering (RSISE)
The Australian National University, ANU
Building 115, Daley Road, Canberra.
ACT 0200, Australia
Phone: +61 2 6125 1531 Email: ali.nasir@anu.edu.au



Academic Bio

I am a Post Doctoral Research Fellow in the College of Engineering and Computer Science in Department of Information Engineering at the Australian National University. My supervisors are Dr. Xiangyun (Sean) Zhou, Dr. Salman Durrani and Prof. Rodney Kennedy.

I did my Ph.D. at the Australian National University under the supervision of Dr. Salman Durrani, Dr. Hani Mehrpouyan, and Prof. Rodney Kennedy. My Ph.D. reserach topic was "Synchronization in wireless communication systems". During my PhD, I visited Chalmers univesity of technology, Sweden as a research visitor for six months. I completed my undergraduation in Electrical Engineering at University of Engineering & Technology , Lahore, Pakistan. My CV can be found here .


Research Interests

  • Timing and Carrier Synchronization
  • Channel Estimation
  • Phase Noise Tracking
  • Blind Equalization
  • Cooperative Communication
  • MIMO and Distributed MISO Systems
  • OFDM Systems
  • Particle Filter and Kalman Filter
  • Simultaneous Wireless Information and Power Transfer


Awards

  • Awarded research scholarship by Chalmers university of Technology (Jul. 2011 - Oct. 2011).
  • Awarded ANU Vice Chancellor’s HDR Travel Grants 3 and 3A (Apr. 2011 - Jul. 2011).
  • Awarded ANU International PhD Scholarship (Jun. 2009 - Sep. 2012).
  • Gold Medal - Final Year B.Sc. Electrical Engineering (Electronics & Telecommunication), UET Lahore.


Journal Publications

  • [J10] O. H. Salim, A. A. Nasir, H. Mehrpouyan, W. Xiang, S. Durrani, and R. A. Kennedy, ``Channel, Phase Noise, and Frequency Offset in OFDM Systems: Joint Estimation, Data Detection, and Hybrid Cramer-Rao Lower Bound", to appear in IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications.
  • [J9] A. O Isikman, H. Mehrpouyan, A. A. Nasir, A. G. Amat, and R. A. Kennedy, ``Joint phase noise estimation and data detection in coded multi-input–multi- output systems", IET Communications, vol. 8, no. 7, pp. 981-989, May. 2014.
  • [J8] A. A. Nasir, X. Zhou, S. Durrani, and R. A. Kennedy, ``Relaying Protocols for Wireless Energy Harvesting and Information Processing", IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, vol. 12, no. 7, pp. 3622–3636, Jul. 2013.
  • [J7] A. A. Nasir, H. Mehrpouyan, S. Durrani, S. Blostein, R. A. Kennedy and B. Ottersten, ``Optimal Training Sequences for Joint Timing Synchronization and Channel Estimation in Distributed Communication Networks", IEEE Transactions on Communications, vol. 61, no. 7, pp. 3002-3015, July 2013.
  • [J6] A. A. Nasir, H. Mehrpouyan, R. Schober, and Y. Hua, ``Phase Noise in MIMO Systems: Bayesian Cramer-Rao Bounds and Soft-Input Estimation", IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, vol. 61, no. 10, pp. 2675-2692, May 2013.
  • [J5] A. A. Nasir, H. Mehrpouyan, S. Durrani, S. Blostein, R. A. Kennedy and B. Ottersten ``Transceiver Design for Distributed STBC Based AF Cooperative Networks in the Presence of Timing and Frequency Offsets", IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, vol. 61, no. 12, pp. 3143-3158, June 2013.
  • [J4] H. Mehrpouyan, A. A. Nasir, S. D. Blostein, T. Eriksson, G. K. Karagiannidis, and T. Svensson ``Joint Estimation of Channel and Oscillator Phase Noise in MIMO Systems", IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, vol. 60, no. 9, pp. 4790-4807, Sep. 2012.pdf
  • [J3] A. A. Nasir, S. Durrani and R. A. Kennedy, ``Particle Filters for Joint Timing and Carrier Estimation: Improved Resampling Guidelines and Weighted Bayesian Cramer-Rao Bounds", IEEE Transactions on Communications, vol. 60, no. 5, pp. 1407-1419, May 2012.pdf
  • [J2] A. A. Nasir, H. Mehrpouyan, S. D. Blostein, S. Durrani and R. A. Kennedy, ``Timing and Carrier Synchronization with Channel Estimation in Multi-Relay Cooperative Networks", IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, vol. 60, no. 2, pp. 793-811, Feb. 2012.pdf
  • [J1] A. A. Nasir, S. Durrani and R. A. Kennedy, ``Blind Timing and Carrier Synchronization in Distributed MIMO Communication Systems", in IET Communications, vol. 5, no. 7, pp. 1028-1037, May 2011. pdf


Conference Publications

  • [C17] M. S. Karim, N. Aboutorab, A. A. Nasir, and P. Sadeghi, ``Decoding Delay Reduction in Network Coded Cooperative Systems with Intermittent Status Up- date", in Proc. IEEE Information Theory Workshop (ITW) , Hobart, Tasamania, Australia, November 2-5, 2014.
  • [C16] O. H. Salim, A. A. Nasir, W. Xiang, and R. A. Kennedy, ``Joint Channel, Phase Noise, and Carrier Frequency Offset Estimation in Cooperative OFDM Systems", in Proc. IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC) , Sydney, Australia, June 10-14, 2014.
  • [C15] A. A. Nasir, X. Zhou, S. Durrani and R. A. Kennedy, ``Throughput and Ergodic Capacity of Wireless Energy Harvesting Based DF Relaying Network", in Proc. IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC) , Sydney, Australia, June 10-14, 2014.
  • [C14] A. A. Nasir, H. Mehrpouyan, S. Durrani, S. Blostein, and R. A. Kennedy, ``Training-Based Synchronization and Channel Estimation in AF Two-Way Relay- ing Network", in Proc. International Workshop on Signal Processing Advances in Wireless Communications (SPAWC) , Toronto, Canada, Jun. 22-25 2014.
  • [C13] A. A. Nasir, H. Mehrpouyan, and R. A. Kennedy, ``New Expression for the Functional Transformation of the Vector Cramer-Rao Lower Bound", in Proc. International Workshop on Signal Processing Advances in Wireless Communications (SPAWC) , Darmstadt, Germany, Jun. 16-19, 2013.
  • [C12] O. H. Salim, A. A. Nasir, H. Mehrpouyan, and W. Xiang, ``Phase Noise and Carrier Frequency Offset in OFDM systems: Joint Estimation and Hybrid Cramer-Rao Lower Bound", in Proc. International Workshop on Signal Processing Advances in Wireless Communications (SPAWC) , Darmstadt, Germany, Jun. 16-19, 2013.
  • [C11] A. A. Nasir, H. Mehrpouyan, S. Durrani, S. Blostein, R. A. Kennedy and B. Ottersten, ``DSTBC based DF Cooperative Networks in the Presence of Timing and Frequency Offsets", in Proc. International Workshop on Signal Processing Advances in Wireless Communications (SPAWC) , Darmstadt, Germany, Jun. 16-19, 2013.
  • [C10] H. Mehrpouyan, A. A. Nasir, T. Eriksson, S. D. Blostein, G. K. Karagiannidis, and T. Svensson ``Time-Varying Phase Noise and Channel Estimation in MIMO Systems", in Proc. International Workshop on Signal Processing Advances in Wireless Communications (SPAWC) , Cesme, Turkey, Jun. 17-20, 2012.
  • [C9] A. A. Nasir, S. Durrani and R. A. Kennedy, ``Estimation of Synchronization Parameters in AF Cooperative Networks", in Proc. International Conference on Communications (ICC), Ottawa, Canada, June 10-15, 2012.
  • [C8] A. A. Nasir, S. Durrani and R. A. Kennedy, ``Achieving Cooperative Diversity with Multiple Frequency Offset Estimation", in Proc. International Conference on Signal Processing and Communication Systems (ICSPCS), Honolulu, USA, Dec. 12-14, 2011. pdf
  • [C7] A. A. Nasir, S. Durrani and R. A. Kennedy, ``Blind Timing and Carrier Synchronization in Decode and Forward Cooperative Systems", in Proc. IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC), Kyoto, Japan, June 5-9, 2011. pdf
  • [C6] A. A. Nasir, S. Durrani and R. A. Kennedy, ``Mixture Kalman Filtering for joint carrier recovery and channel estimation in time-selective Rayleigh fading channels", in Proc. IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP), Prague, Czech Republic, May 22-27, 2011. pdf
  • [C5] A. A. Nasir, S. Durrani and R. A. Kennedy, ``Particle Filter for Joint Blind Carrier Frequency Offset Estimation and Data Detection", in Proc. IEEE International Conference on Signal Processing and Communication Systems (ICSPCS), Gold Coast, Australia, Dec. 13-15, 2010. pdf
  • [C4] A. A. Nasir, S. Durrani and R. A. Kennedy, ``Performance of Coarse and Fine Timing Synchronization in OFDM Receivers", in Proc. 2nd International Conference on Future Computer and Communication (ICFCC), vol. 2, Wuhan, China, 21-24 May, 2010, pp. 412-416 pdf
  • [C3] A. A. Nasir, S. Durrani and R. A. Kennedy, ``Blind Fractionally Spaced Equalization and Timing Synchronization in Wireless Fading Channels", in Proc. 2nd International Conference on Future Computer and Communication (ICFCC), vol. 3, Wuhan, China, 21-24 May, 2010, pp. 15-19. pdf
  • [C2] A. A. Nasir, S. Durrani and R. A. Kennedy, ``Modified Constant Modulus Algorithm for joint blind equalization and synchronization", in Proc. IEEE Australian Communication Theory Workshop (AUSCTW), Canberra, Australia, pp. 59-64, Feb. 2010. pdf
  • [C1] F. A. Khan, R. A. Ashraf, Q. H. Abbasi and A. A. Nasir, ``Resource Efficient Parallel Architectures of Linear Matrix Algebra for Real Time Control Systems on Reconfigurable Logic", in Proc. IEEE 2nd International Conference on Electrical Engineering (ICEE), Lahore, Pakistan. 25-26 Mar. 2008. pdf


Students

  • Omar Hazim Salim: Ph.D. student at the University of Southern Queensland, Australia. Signal processing algorithms for cooperative and MIMO-OFDM systems and digital signal processing implementation for 3-D video digital receivers. Aug. 2012-preesent (co-supervision).
  • Ghulam Mujaddad: Master student at the Australian National University, Canberra, Australia. Smart Grid Communications. Dec. 2012-present (thesis supervisor).
  • Chian Chuah: Undergraduate student at the Australian National University, Canberra, Australia. Channel estimation for AF relaying cooperative systems. Nov. 2012-present (thesis supervisor).


Technical Reviewer

  • IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing
  • IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications
  • IEEE Transactions on Communications
  • IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Tehcnology
  • IEEE Communications Magazine
  • IEEE Signal Processing Letters
  • IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications
  • IEEE Communication Letters
  • IEEE Wireless Communication Letters
  • EURASIP Journal on Wireless Communications and Networking
  • IET Transactions in Radar, Sonar and Navigation
  • IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC), 2012, 2013
  • IEEE Global Communications Conference (GLOBECOM), 2010, 2012
  • IEEE International Conference on Personal Indoor Mobile Radio Communications , (PIMRC), 2011, 2012
  • IEEE Vehicular Technology Conference, (VTC), Fall 2011, Spring 2011, Spring 2012, Fall 2012, Spring 2013
  • IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference, (WCNC), 2012
  • IEEE International Conference on Signal Processing and Communication Systems (ICSPCS), 2010, 2011, 2012
  • IEEE International Conference on ICT Convergence, (ICTC), 2012
  • IEEE Australian Commun. Theory Workshop (AusCTW), 2010, 2011, 2012