Publications
Journal, Conference, and Workshop Papers
[28] Jiguang He, Charles Vanwynsberghe, Hui Chen, Chongwen Huang, and Aymen Fakhreddine
Device-Free 3D Drone Localization in RIS-Assisted mmWave MIMO Networks [PDF]
under review, IEEE Global Communications Conference (GLOBECOM) 2024
[27] José Gómez-delaHiz, Aymen Fakhreddine, Juan Manuel Murillo Rodriguez, and Jaime Galán-Jiménez (June 2024)
Joint Optimization of Throughput and Energy Consumption in Microservices-Based UAV Networks
accepted at IEEE INFOCOM WKSHPS: NetRobiCS 2024: The 17th International Workshop on Networked Robotics and Communication Systems (ex WiSARN) - NetRobiCS 2024
[26] Ahmed Alhammadi, Anuj Abraham, Aymen Fakhreddine, Yu Tian, Jun Du, and Faouzi Bader (February 2024)
Envisioning the Future Role of 3D Wireless Networks in Preventing and Managing Disasters and Emergency Situations [PDF]
under review, IEEE Open Journal of the Communications Society (OJ-COMS)
[25] Jiguang He, Aymen Fakhreddine, and George Alexandropoulos (February 2024)
RIS-Augmented Millimeter-Wave MIMO Systems for Passive Drone Detection [PDF]
accepted at IEEE PIMRC 2024
[24] Yu Tian, Ahmed Alhammadi, Jiguang He, Aymen Fakhreddine, Faouzi Bader (June 2024)
Fairness-Driven Optimization of RIS-Augmented 5G Networks for Seamless 3D UAV Connectivity Using DRL Algorithms [PDF]
Accepted at IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC), 9–13 June 2024, Denver, CO, USA
[23] Florian Posch, Aymen Fakhreddine, Enrique Caballero, and Christian Bettstetter (December 2023)
A Classifier for Aerial Devices in 5G Networks [PDF]
IEEE Global Communications Conference, Workshop on Cellular UAV and Satellite Communications (IEEE Globecom CelUAVSatCom 2023), 04-08 December 2023, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
[22] Hualei Zhang, Jun Du, Chunxiao Jiang, Aymen Fakhreddine, Ahmed Alhammadi and Jintao Wang (December 2023)
MATD3-Based Joint User Association and Resource Allocation in UAV Network [PDF]
IEEE Global Communications Conference (GLOBECOM), 04–08 December 2023, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
[21] Jiguang He, Aymen Fakhreddine, Arthur S. de Sena, Yu Tian, and Merouane Debbah (May 2023)
Unleashing 3D Connectivity in Beyond 5G Networks with Reconfigurable Intelligent Surfaces [PDF]
IEEE Asilomar Conference on Signals, Systems, and Computers 2023
[20] Enrique Caballero, Aymen Fakhreddine, and Christian Bettstetter (June 2023)
Interference by Drones to 5G Ground Users: A Simulation Study [PDF]
ACM MobiSys Workshop on Micro Aerial Vehicle Networks, Systems, and Applications (DroNet), 18 June 2023, Helsinki, Finland
[19] Jiguang He, Aymen Fakhreddine and George Alexandropoulos (April 2023)
STAR-RIS-Enabled Simultaneous Indoor and Outdoor 3D Localization: Theoretical Analysis and Algorithmic Design [PDF]
IET Signal Processing
[18] Jiguang He, Aymen Fakhreddine, Charles Vanwynsberghe, Henk Wymeersch and George Alexandropoulos (May 2023)
3D Localization with a Single Partially-Connected Receiving RIS: Positioning Error Analysis and Algorithmic Design [PDF]
IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology (IEEE TVT)
[17] Jiguang He, Aymen Fakhreddine, and George Alexandropoulos (June 2023)
Joint Channel and Direction Estimation for Ground-to-UAV Communications Enabled by A Simultaneous Reflecting and Sensing RIS [PDF]
IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (IEEE ICASSP 2023), 04-10 June 2023, Rhodes Island, Greece
[16] Jiguang He, Aymen Fakhreddine, Henk Wymeersch, and George Alexandropoulos (June 2023)
Compressed-Sensing-Based 3D Localization with Distributed Passive Reconfigurable Intelligent Surfaces [PDF]
IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (IEEE ICASSP 2023), 04-10 June 2023, Rhodes Island, Greece
[15] Aymen Fakhreddine, Christian Raffelsberger, Micha Sende, and Christian Bettstetter (December 2022)
Experiments on Drone-to-Drone Communication with Wi-Fi, LTE-A, and 5G [PDF]
IEEE Global Communications Conference, Workshop on Cellular UAV and Satellite Communications (IEEE Globecom CelUAVSatCom 2022), 04-08 December 2022, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
[14] Jiguang He, Aymen Fakhreddine, and George Alexandropoulos (September 2022)
Simultaneous Indoor and Outdoor 3D Localization with STAR-RIS-Assisted Millimeter Wave Systems [PDF]
IEEE 96th Vehicular Technology Conference (VTC2022-Fall), September 26-29 2022, London/Beijing
[13] Daniel Neuhold, Aymen Fakhreddine, and Christian Bettstetter (October 2022)
HiPR+: A Protocol for Centimeter 3D Localization based on UWB [PDF]
ACM 25th International Conference on Modeling, Analysis and Simulation of Wireless and Mobile Systems (ACM MSWiM 2022), 25-27 October 2022, Montreal, Canada
[12] Igor Donevski , Christian Raffelsberger, Micha Sende, Aymen Fakhreddine, and Jimmy Jessen Nielsen (June 2021)
An Experimental Analysis on Drone-Mounted Access Points for Improved Latency-Reliability [PDF]
ACM MobiSys Workshop on Micro Aerial Vehicle Networks, Systems, and Applications (DroNet), 2021
[11] Antonia Stornig, Aymen Fakhreddine, Hermann Hellwagner, Petar Popovski, and Christian Bettstetter (April 2021)
Video Quality and Latency for UAV Teleoperation over LTE: A Study with ns3
IEEE Vehicular Technology Conference (VTC-Spring), online conference, April 25–28, 2021.
[10] Raheeb Muzaffar, Christian Raffelsberger, Aymen Fakhreddine, José López Luque, Driton Emini, and Christian Bettstetter (June 2020)
First Experiments with a 5G-Connected Drone [PDF]
ACM MobiSys Workshop on Micro Aerial Vehicle Networks, Systems, and Applications (DroNet), June 19, 2020, Toronto, Canada
[9] Aymen Fakhreddine, Christian Bettstetter, Samira Hayat, Raheeb Muzaffar, and Driton Emini (June 2019)
Handover Challenges for Cellular-Connected Drones [PDF]
ACM MobiSys Workshop on Micro Aerial Vehicle Networks, Systems, and Applications (DroNet), June 21, 2019, Seoul, South Korea
[8] Samira Hayat, Christian Bettstetter, Aymen Fakhreddine, Raheeb Muzaffar, and Driton Emini (June 2019)
An Experimental Evaluation of LTE-A Throughput for Drones [PDF]
ACM MobiSys Workshop on Micro Aerial Vehicle Networks, Systems, and Applications (DroNet), June 21, 2019, Seoul, South Korea
[7] Aymen Fakhreddine, Nils Ole Tippenhauer, Domenico Giustiniano (May 2018)
Design and Large-Scale Evaluation of WiFi Proximity Metrics [PDF ]
In: The 24th European Wireless Conference (EW 2018), 2-4 May 2018, Catania, Italy
[6] Aymen Fakhreddine, Domenico Giustiniano, Vincent Lenders (April 2018)
Data Fusion for Hybrid and Autonomous Time-of-Flight Positioning [PDF]
In: The 17th ACM/IEEE International Conference on Information Processing in Sensor Networks (IPSN 2018), 11-13 April 2018, Porto, Portugal
[5] Maurizio Rea, Aymen Fakhreddine, Domenico Giustiniano, Vincent Lenders (August 2017)
Filtering Noisy 802.11 Time-of-Flight Ranging Measurements From Commoditized WiFi Radios [PDF ]
IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking, 25 (4). pp. 2514-2527. ISSN 1063-6692
[4] Roberto Calvo-Palomino, Domenico Giustiniano, Vincent Lenders, Aymen Fakhreddine (May 2017)
Crowdsourcing Spectrum Data Decoding [PDF ]
In: The 36th IEEE International Conference on Computer Communications (IEEE INFOCOM 2017), 1-4 May 2017, Atlanta, GA, USA
[3] Aymen Fakhreddine, Domenico Giustiniano, Vincent Lenders (May 2016)
Evaluation of Self-Positioning Algorithms for Time-of-Flight based Localization [PDF ]
In: The 14th International Symposium on Modelling and Optimization in Mobile, Ad Hoc and Wireless Networks (WiOpt 2016), 9-13 May 2016, Tempe, Arizona, USA
[2] Andreas Marcaletti, Maurizio Rea, Domenico Giustiniano, Vincent Lenders, Aymen Fakhreddine (December 2014)
Filtering Noisy 802.11 Time-of-Flight Ranging Measurements [PDF ]
In: The 10th ACM International Conference on emerging Networking EXperiments and Technologies (ACM CoNEXT 2014), 2-5 December 2014, Sydney, Australia
[1] Veronique Capdevielle, Afef Feki, Aymen Fakhreddine (May 2013)
Self-Optimization of Handover Parameters in LTE Networks [PDF]
In: 2013 11th International Symposium on Modeling & Optimization in Mobile, Ad Hoc & Wireless Networks (WiOpt), Publication Year: 2013 , Page(s): 133 - 139, Tsukuba Science City, Japan
White papers and reports
[2] Reconfigurable Intelligent Surface Technology Alliance RISTA (Feb 2023)
Reconfigurable Intelligent Surface Technology - White Paper [English version, Chinese version]
[1] Dr. Shreekant (Ticky) Thakkar, Dr. Baker Mohammad, Dr. Hoda A. Alkhzaimi, Dr. Luca Benini, Dr. Ernesto Damiani, Prof. Mérouane Debbah, Dr. Chaouki Kasmi, Dr. Aymen Fakhreddine, Imad Lakim, Umesh Panicker (May 2022)
Egalitarian Approach Required To Unlock Hardware Innovation [PDF]
World Government Summit 2022
Theses
[3] Aymen Fakhreddine (June 2018)
Opportunistic Timing Signals for Pervasive Mobile Localization [PDF ]
PhD thesis, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Spain
Supervisor: Dr. Domenico Giustiniano, IMDEA Networks Institute, Madrid, Spain
[2] Aymen Fakhreddine (September 2014)
Towards Commoditized Time-of-Flight based Mobile Device Tracking
MSc thesis, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Spain
Supervisor: Dr. Domenico Giustiniano, IMDEA Networks Institute, Madrid, Spain
[1] Aymen Fakhreddine (September 2012)
LTE Mobility Optimization: Self Configuration and Optimization of Handover Parameters
MSc thesis, CentraleSupélec, Gif-sur-Yvette, France
Supervisor: Dr. Véronique Capdevielle, Bell Labs, France, and Prof. Hikmet Sari, CentraleSupélec, France