Hussein A. Ammar

I love to process work in a skillful and professional way, and I always look for chances to improve skills, contribute innovatively and reveal my potential. If you have an interesting research idea or interested in collaboration, please feel free to reach out to me.

The Royal Military College (RMC) of Canada was founded in 1876 by Alexander Mackenzie to educate officers for the Canadian military. Originally a military-focused institution, it has evolved into a modern, bilingual university offering degrees in Arts. Science, and Engineering. Its campus is located on the historic Point Fredrick peninsula in Kingston, Ontario, Canada.

For information about graduate studies at RMC please check the following useful pages:

• Graduate Studies Programs Offered 

• Academic Regulations for Graduate Studies

• General Program Requirements for Graduate Studies 

Teaching

• EEE412 Wireless Communication Systems (Spring 2026)
• ECE307 Computer Interfacing Techniques (Spring 2026, Spring 2025, Spring 2024)
• EEE411 Communication Theory (Fall 2025)
• ECE513 Applied Deep Reinforcement Learning (Graduate course; Spring 2025, Fall 2025)
• GEE293 Managing Engineering Projects (Fall 2024)

• ECE216 Signals and Systems (Spring 2023, Spring 2022, Spring 2019)
• ECE316 Communication Systems (Fall 2022)
• MAT291 Calculus III (Fall 2022, Fall 2021)
• STA260 Probability and Statistics II (Summer 2021)
• ECE464 Wireless Communications (Spring 2021)
• ECE286 Probability and Statistics (Spring 2020)
• INF1339 Introduction to Computational Thinking (Fall 2020, Fall 2019)
• ECE321 Computer Organization Laboratory (Sprint 2016, Spring 2017)
• ECE310 Electric Circuits Laboratory (Fall 2016)
• ECE442 Communication Systems (Fall 2015)

Publications

Journal papers

[J14] X. Sun, H. A. Ammar, I. Bahceci, R. Adve, G. Boudreau, and Z. Li, “Robust Remote Interference Suppression: A Limited-Information Exchange Framework via Fractional Programming and Null Precoding,” Under Review.

[J13] A. S. Mohammed, K. S. Tharakan, H. A. Ammar, H. ElSawy, and H. S. Hassanein, "Fronthaul Network Planning for Hierarchical and Radio-Stripes-Enabled CF-mMIMO in O-RAN," Under Review.

[J12] F. Al-Kamali, F. Chan, H. A. Ammar, J. Bayes, and C. D’Amours, "UAV-Mounted Aerial Relays in Military Communications: A Comprehensive Survey," Under review.

[J11] H. A. Ammar, R. Adve, S. Shahbazpanahi, G. Boudreau, and I. Bahceci, "Handoff Design in User-Centric Cell-Free Massive MIMO Networks Using DRL," in IEEE Transactions on Communications, doi: 10.1109/TCOMM.2025.3592581. (IEEEXplore) (arXiv)

[J10] A. S. Mohammed, H. A. Ammar, K. S. Tharakan, H. ElSawy, and H. S. Hassanein, "Traffic-Aware Cost-Optimized Fronthaul Planning for Ultra-Dense Networks," IEEE Wireless Communications Letters, vol. 14, no. 2, pp. 529–533, 2025. (IEEEXplore) (arXiv)

[J9] H. A. Ammar, R. Adve, S. Shahbazpanahi, G. Boudreau, and K. V. Srinivas, "Handoffs in User-Centric Cell-Free MIMO Networks: A POMDP Framework," IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, vol. 23, no. 8, pp. 10319–10335, 2024. (IEEEXplore) (arXiv)

[J8] H. A. Ammar, R. Adve, S. Shahbazpanahi and G. Boudreau, "Analysis and Design of Distributed MIMO Networks with a Wireless Fronthaul," in IEEE Transactions on Communications, vol. 70, no. 2, pp. 980-998, Feb. 2022. (IEEEXplore)(arXiv)(Demo)

[J7] H. A. Ammar, R. Adve, S. Shahbazpanahi, G. Boudreau and K. V. Srinivas, "User-centric Cell-free massive MIMO Networks: A Survey of Opportunities, Challenges and Solutions", in IEEE Communications Surveys & Tutorials, vol. 24, no. 1, pp. 611-652, Firstquarter 2022. (IEEEXplore)(arXiv)

[J6] H. A. Ammar, R. Adve, S. Shahbazpanahi, G. Boudreau and K. V. Srinivas, "Downlink Resource Allocation in Multiuser Cell-free MIMO Networks with User-centric Clustering", in IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, vol. 21, no. 3, pp. 1482-1497, March 2022. (IEEEXplore)(arXiv)

[J5] H. A. Ammar, R. Adve, S. Shahbazpanahi, G. Boudreau and K. Srinivas, "Distributed Resource Allocation Optimization for User-centric Cell-free MIMO Networks", in IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, 2021. (IEEEXplore)(arXiv)

[J4] H. A. Ammar, R. Adve, S. Shahbazpanahi, G. Boudreau and K. V. Srinivas, "RWP+: A New Random Waypoint Model for High-Speed Mobility", in IEEE Communications Letters, vol. 25, no. 11, pp. 3748-3752, Nov. 2021. (IEEEXplore)(arXiv)

[J3] A. K. Ajami, H. A. Ammar, H. Artail, "Analyzing the coexistence of DSRC and Wi-Fi networks using the Poisson line Cox process", Physical Communication, Volume 50, ISSN 1874-4907, Nov 2021. (Link)

[J2] H. A. Ammar, R. Adve, S. Shahbazpanahi and G. Boudreau, "Statistical Analysis of Downlink Zero-Forcing Beamforming," in IEEE Wireless Communications Letters, vol. 9, no. 11, pp. 1965-1969, Nov. 2020. (IEEEXplore)(arXiv)

[J1] H. A. Ammar, A. Ajami and H. Artail, "A Poisson Line Process-Based Framework for Determining the Needed RSU Density and Relaying Hops in Vehicular Networks," in IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, vol. 19, no. 10, pp. 6643-6659, Oct. 2020. (IEEEXplore)

Conference papers

[C9] X. Sun, H. A. Ammar, R. Adve, I. Bahceci, and G. Boudreau, “Remote Interference Mitigation through Null Precoding and Fractional Programming,” Accepted in IEEE GLOBECOM 2025 - 2025 IEEE Global Communications Conference. (arXiv)

[C8] X. Sun, H. A. Ammar, R. Adve, I. Bahceci, and G. Boudreau, "Channel estimation with asynchronous reception for user-centric cell-free MIMO systems," in ICC 2025 - IEEE International Conference on Communications, pp. 1–6, 2025. (IEEEXplore) (arXiv)

[C7] H. A. Ammar, R. Adve, S. Shahbazpanahi, G. Boudreau, and K. V. Srinivas, "POMDP-based Handoffs for User-Centric Cell-Free MIMO Networks," GLOBECOM 2022 - 2022 IEEE Global Communications Conference, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, 2022, pp. 341-346. (IEEEXplore) (arXiv)

[C6] Z. Li, T. Gamvrelis, H. A. Ammar, and R. Adve, "Decentralized User Scheduling and Beamforming in Multi-cell MIMO Networks", ICC 2022 - IEEE International Conference on Communications, 2022, pp. 1-6. (IEEEXplore)

[C5] H. A. Ammar, R. Adve, S. Shahbazpanahi, G. Boudreau and K. Srinivas, "Resource Allocation and Scheduling in Non-coherent User-centric Cell-free MIMO",  ICC 2021 - IEEE International Conference on Communications, 2021, pp. 1-6. (IEEEXplore)(arXiv)

[C4] H. A. Ammar, R. Adve, S. Shahbazpanahi and G. Boudreau, "Optimizing RRH Placement Under a Noise-Limited Point-to-Point Wireless Backhaul", ICC 2021 - IEEE International Conference on Communications, 2021, pp. 1-6. (IEEEXplore)(arXiv)

[C3] H. A. Ammar, and R. Adve, "Power Delay Profile in Coordinated Distributed Networks: User-Centric v/s Disjoint Clustering", 2019 IEEE Global Conference on Signal and Information Processing (GlobalSIP), Ottawa, ON, Canada, 2019, pp. 1-5. (IEEEXplore)(Presentation)

[C2] H. A. Ammar, Y. Nasser and H. Artail, "Closed Form Expressions for the Probability Density Function of the Interference Power in PPP Networks", 2018 IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC), Kansas City, MO, 2018, pp. 1-6. (IEEEXplore)(arXiv)

[C1] H. A. Ammar, Y. Nasser and A. Kayssi, "Dynamic SDN controllers-switches Mapping for Load Balancing and Controller Failure Handling", 2017 International Symposium on Wireless Communication Systems (ISWCS), Bologna, Italy, 2017, pp. 216-221. (IEEEXplore)

Selected Papers

Research Community Service

• IEEE, Technical Peer Reviewer: I am a very active peer reviewer for top-ranked scientific journals and conferences. I have more than 60 peer reviews (2025). Journals include:

News

• June 2025: I attended IEEE ICC 2025 Conference in Montreal. A workshop paper was presented.
• April 30, 2024: I delivered a talk during the Ericsson - UofT technology day held in Ericsson Canada in Kanata, Ottawa. 
• February 2024: Journal paper accepted in IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, 2024. Title: "Handoffs in User-Centric Cell-Free MIMO Networks: A POMDP Framework" (Link) (arXiv)
• January 2024: Exemplary Reviewer for IEEE Communications Letters for 2023.
• April 2023: Funding accepted by Mitacs Accelerate program to perform a summer internship in machine learning for wireless communications at Ericsson Canada. The internship was completed and a patent has been filed.
• April 2023: Delivered a presentation titled "Handoff Design in User-Centric Cell-Free Massive MIMO Networks" at Ericsson Canada in Kanata, Ottawa.
• January 2023: My SGS Conference Grant application from the University of Toronto was accepted to cover the expenses of IEEE Global Communications Conference (Globecom) 2022.

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