Journals
C. Chaccour, M. Naderi Soorki, W. Saad, M. Bennis, P. Popovski, and M. Debbah, "Seven Defining Features of Terahertz (THz) Wireless Systems: A Fellowship of Communication and Sensing", IEEE Communications Surveys & Tutorials, vol. 24, no. 2, pp. 967 - 993, Second Quarter 2022.
C. Chaccour, M. Naderi Soorki, W. Saad, M. Bennis, and P. Popovski, "Can Terahertz Provide High-Rate Reliable Low Latency Communications for Wireless VR?", IEEE Internet of Things Journal, vol. 9, no. 12, pp. 9712 - 9729, June 2022.
M. Abdel-Aziz, C. Perfecto, S. Samarakoon, M. Bennis, and W. Saad, "Vehicular Cooperative Perception Through Action Branching and Federated Reinforcement Learning", IEEE Trans. on Communications, vol. 70, no. 2, pp. 891 - 903, February 2022.
S. Samarakoon, M. Bennis, W. Saad, and M. Debbah, "Predictive Ultra-Reliable Communication: A Survival Analysis Perspective", IEEE Communications Letters, 2021.
T. Park, G. Lee, W. Saad, and M. Bennis, "Sum-Rate and Reliability Analysis for Power-Domain Non-Orthogonal Multiple Access (PD-NOMA)", IEEE Internet of Things Journal, 2021.
I. Donevski, N. Babu, J. J. Nielsen, P. Popovski, and W. Saad, "Federated Learning with a Drone Orchestrator: Path Planning for Minimized Staleness", IEEE Open Journal of the Communications Society, to appear, 2021.
M. Naderisoorki, W. Saad, M. Bennis, and C. S. Hong, "Ultra-Reliable Indoor Millimeter Wave Communications using Multiple Artificial Intelligence-Powered Intelligent Surfaces", IEEE Transactions on Communications, to appear, 2021.
Z. Yang, M. Chen, W. Saad, W. Xu, and M. Shikh-Bahaei, "Sum-Rate Maximization of Uplink Rate Splitting Multiple Access (RSMA) Communication", IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing, to appear, 2021.
A. T. Z. Kasgari, W. Saad, M. Mozaffari, and H. V. Poor, "Experienced Deep Reinforcement Learning with Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) for Model-Free Ultra Reliable Low Latency Communication", IEEE Transactions on Communications, to appear, 2020.
S. Ali, A. Ferdowsi, W. Saad, N. Rajatheva, and J. Haapola, "Sleeping Multi-Armed Bandit Learning for Fast Uplink Grant Allocation in Machine Type Communications", IEEE Transactions on Communications, to appear, 2020.
R. Amer, W. Saad, and N. Marchetti, "Mobility in the Sky: Performance and Mobility Analysis for Cellular-Connected UAVs", IEEE Transactions on Communications, to appear, 2020.
S. Ali, H. Asgharimoghaddam, N. Rajatheva, W. Saad, and J. Haapola, "Contextual Bandit Learning for Machine Type Communications in the Null Space of Multi-Antenna Systems", IEEE Transactions on Communications, vol. 68, no. 2, pp. 1284-1296, Feb. 2020.
W. Saad, M. Bennis, and M. Chen, "A Vision of 6G Wireless Systems: Applications, Trends, Technologies, and Open Research Problems", IEEE Network, vol. 34, no. 3, pp. 134 - 142, May 2020.
M. Chen, O. Semiari, W. Saad, X. Liu, and C. Yin, "Federated Echo State Learning for Minimizing Breaks in Presence in Wireless Virtual Reality Networks", IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, vol. 19, no. 1, pp. 177-191, Jan. 2020.
O. Semiari, W. Saad, M. Bennis, and M. Debbah, "Integrated Millimeter Wave and Sub-6 GHz Wireless Networks: A Roadmap for Joint Mobile Broadband and Ultra-Reliable Low-Latency", IEEE Wireless Communications Magazine, vol. 26, no. 2, pp. 109-115, April 2019.
B. Zhou and W. Saad, "Joint Status Sampling and Updating for Minimizing Age of Information in the Internet of Things", IEEE Transactions on Communications, vol. 67, no. 11, pp. 7468-7482, Nov. 2019.
M. Jung, W. Saad, Y. Jang, G. Kong, and S. Choi, "Reliability Analysis of Large Intelligent Surfaces (LISs): Rate Distribution and Outage Probability", IEEE Wireless Communications Letters, vol. 8, no. 6, pp. 1662-1666, Dec. 2019.
R. Amer, W. Saad, and N. Marchetti, "Towards a Connected Sky: Performance of Beamforming with Down-tilted Antennas for Ground and UAV User Co-existence", IEEE Communications Letters, vol. 23, no. 10, pp. 1840-1844, Oct. 2019.
M. Chen, U. Challita, W. Saad, C. Yin, and M. Debbah, "Artificial Neural Networks-Based Machine Learning for Wireless Networks: A Tutorial", IEEE Communications Surveys and Tutorials, vol. 21, no. 4, pp. 3039-3071, Fourthquarter 2019 (longer, pre-print version found here: "https://arxiv.org/pdf/1710.02913v1.pdf").
M. Baghani, S. Parsaeefard, M. Derakhshani, and W. Saad, "Dynamic Non-Orthogonal Multiple Access (NOMA) and Orthogonal Multiple Access (OMA) in 5G Wireless Networks", IEEE Transactions on Communications, vol. 67, no. 9, pp. 6360-6373, Sept. 2019.
U. Challita, W. Saad, and C. Bettstetter, "Cellular-Connected UAVs over 5G: Deep Reinforcement Learning for Interference Management", IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, vol. 18, no.4, pp. 2125-2140, April 2019.
S. Ali, N. Rajatheva, and W. Saad, "Fast Uplink Grant for Machine Type Communications: Challenges and Opportunities", IEEE Communications Magazine, vol. 53, no. 3, pp. 97-103, March 2019.
Conferences
C. Chaccour, W. Saad, O. Semiari, M. Bennis, and P. Popovski, "Joint Sensing and Communication for Situational Awareness in Wireless THz Systems", in Proc. of the IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC), Mobile and Wireless Networks Symposium, Seoul, South Korea, May 2022.
O. Hashash, C. Chaccour, and W. Saad, "Edge Continual Learning for Dynamic Digital Twins over Wireless Networks", in Proc. 23rd IEEE International Workshop on Signal Processing Advances in Wireless Communications, Special Session on Intelligence and Processing at the Edge for Next Generation Networks, Oulu, Finland, June 2022.
M. Chen, H. V. Poor, W. Saad, and S. Cui, "Performance Optimization of Federated Learning over Mobile Wireless Networks", invited, in Proc. of 21st IEEE International Workshop on Signal Processing Advances in Wireless Communications (SPAWC), Atlanta, GA, USA, May 2020.
C. Chaccour, M. Naderi Soorki, W. Saad, M. Bennis, and P. Popovski, "Risk-Based Optimization of Virtual Reality over Terahertz Reconfigurable Intelligent Surfaces", in Proc. of the IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC), Next-Generation Networking and Internet Symposium, Dublin, Ireland, June 2020.
Z. Yang, M. Chen, W. Saad, and M. Shikh-Bahaei , "Downlink Sum-Rate Maximization for Rate Splitting Multiple Access (RSMA)", in Proc. of the IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC), Mobile and Wireless Networks Symposium, Dublin, Ireland, June 2020.
B. Zhou, W. Saad, M. Bennis, and P. Popovski, "Risk-Aware Optimization of Age of Information in the Internet of Things", in Proc. of the IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC), Communication Theory Symposium, Dublin, Ireland, June 2020.
C. Chaccour, R. Amer, B. Zhou, and W. Saad, "On the Reliability of Wireless Virtual Reality at Terahertz (THz) Frequencies", in Proc. of 10th IFIP International Conference on New Technologies, Mobility and Security (NTMS), Mobility & Wireless Networks Track, Canary Islands, Spain, June 2019. Best Paper Award.
M. Jung, W. Saad, and G. Kong, "Spectral Efficiency in Large Intelligent Surfaces: Asymptotic Analysis Under Pilot Contamination", in Proc. of the IEEE Global Communications Conference (GLOBECOM), Communication Theory Symposium, Waikoloa, HI, USA, December 2019.
M. Chen, Z. Yang, W. Saad, C. Yin, H. V. Poor, and S. Cui, "Performance Optimization of Federated Learning over Wireless Networks", in Proc. of the IEEE Global Communications Conference (GLOBECOM), Cognitive Radio and AI-Enabled Networks Symposium, Waikoloa, HI, USA, December 2019.
M. Chen, O. Semiari, W. Saad, X. Liu, and C. Yin, "Federated Deep Learning for Immersive Virtual Reality over Wireless Networks", in Proc. of the IEEE Global Communications Conference (GLOBECOM), Cognitive Radio and AI-Enabled Networks Symposium, Waikoloa, HI, USA, December 2019.
Z. Yang, M. Chen, W. Saad, W. Xu, and M. Shikh-Bahaei, "Sum-Rate Maximization of Uplink Rate Splitting Multiple Access (RSMA) Communication", in Proc. of the IEEE Global Communications Conference (GLOBECOM), Wireless Communications Symposium, Waikoloa, HI, USA, December 2019.
Y. Zhao, B. Zhou, W. Saad, and X. Luo, "Age of Information Analysis for Dynamic Spectrum Sharing", in Proc. of the IEEE Global Conference on Signal and Information Processing (GlobalSIP), Ottawa, Canada, November 2019.
A. T. Z. Kasgari and W. Saad, "Model-Free Ultra Reliable Low Latency Communication (URLLC): a Deep Reinforcement Learning Framework", in Proc. of the IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC), Next-Generation Networking and Internet Symposium, Shanghai, China, May 2019.
M. Chen, W. Saad, and C. Yin, "Liquid State based Transfer Learning for 360 Image Transmission in Wireless VR Networks", in Proc. of the IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC), Cognitive Radio and Networks Symposium, Shanghai, China, May 2019.
R. Amer, W. Saad, H. Elsawy, M. Butt, and N. Marchetti, "Caching to the Sky: Performance Analysis of Cache-Assisted CoMP for Cellular-Connected UAVs", in Proc. of IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference (WCNC), Wireless Networks Track, Marrakech, Morocco, April 2019.