Bassant Abdelhamid

Research Interests

• Multiple Input Multiple Output (MIMO), Massive MIMO.

• Orthogonal Frequency Multiple Access (OFDM)

• Cognitive Radio (Spectrum Sensing, Spectrum Sharing)

• Signal Processing (Interference Alignment, Beamforming, Adaptive filters, …)

• Compressive Sensing (CS)

• Fractional Frequency Reuse (FFR)

• Mobile communications (2G, 3G, 4G, 5G)

• Digital Image Processing

• Wireless Body Area Networks (WBAN)

• Machine Learning

• Internet of Things (IoT)

Book Chapters

1. Bassant Abdelhamid, Awab Al-Habal, and Ahmed Khattab, ”Energy-Efficient Layered IoT Smart Home System,” in El Dimeery I. et al. (eds), Design and Construction of Smart Cities, Springer, 2021.

Journal Publications

1.  Moustafa Mohamed, Salwa Elramly, Bassant Abdelhamid, “Robust Precoder Design with Transmit Antenna Selection for Overlay Cognitive Radio Massive MIMO System”, Digital Signal Processing, Vol. 142, pp. 1 - 10, Sep. 2023. 

2.  Mai Adel, Salwa Elramly, Bassant Abdelhamid, “Adaptive Rate Polar Code for DCT-Based Digital Image Transmission”, IEEE Access, Vol. 11, pp. 56196 - 56213, May. 2023. 

3.  Mayada Osama Mohamed, Salwa Elramly, Bassant Abdelhamid, “Binary PSO with Classification Trees Algorithm for Enhancing Power Effi ciency in 5G Networks”, Sensors: Energy-Efficient Communication Networks and Systems, MDPI, Vol. 22, No. 21: 8570, pp. 211 – 229, Nov. 2022.

4. Mohamed Salah, Mohamed Dessouky, Bassant Abdelhamid, “Design and Implementation of Improved Variable Step Size NLMS-Based Algorithm for Acoustic Noise Cancellation”, Circuits, Systems, and Signal Processing (CSSP), Springer, Vol. 41, No. 1, pp. 551–578, Jan. 2022.

5. Karim El-Abbasy,Ramy Taki ElDin, Salwa Elramly, Bassant Abdelhamid, “Optimized Polar Codes as Forward Error Correction Coding for Digital Video Broadcasting Systems”, Electronics, MDPI, Vol. 10,  No. 2152, pp. 1-20, Sep. 2021.

6. Mayada Osama Mohamed, Salwa Elramly, Bassant Abdelhamid, “Interference Mitigation and Power Minimization in 5G Heterogeneous Networks”, Electronics: Microwave and Wireless Communications, MDPI, Vol. 10, No. 14:1723, pp. 1 – 21, July 2021.

7. Karim El-Abbasy,Ramy Taki ElDin, Salwa Elramly, Bassant Abdelhamid, “Polar codes Bhattacharyya parameter generalisation”, IET Communications, Vol. 14, issue 11, pp. 1718 – 1730, July 2020.

8. Albashir Youssef, Bassant Abdelhamid, Salwa Elramly, Hussein Elattar, Hazem Ali, “Joint VMIMO and LDPC Decoders for IR-UWB Wireless Body Area Network”, IEEE Access, Vol. 7, pp. 4400-4409, Dec. 2018.

9. Ahmed Ebian, Bassant Abdelhamid, Salwa Elramly, “New Measurement Matrix for Compressive Sensing in Cognitive Radio Networks”, IET Communications, Vol. 12, issue 11, pp. 1297 – 1306, July 2018.

10.  Albashir Youssef, Bassant Abdelhamid, Salwa Elramly, Hussein Elattar, Hazem Ali, “LDPC Decoding Algorithms for Implant to Implant Wireless Body Area Network”, IEEE Access, Vol. 6, pp. 13200-13212, March 2018.

11. Bassant Abdelhamid, Mohamed Elkattan, “Cancellation of Dynamic ON/OFF Effects in Airborne Magnetic Survey”, Springer Sensing and Imaging, Vol. 18, Issue 1, article 26, pp. 1-13, Dec. 2017.

12. Amr AbdElHamid, Peng Zong, and Bassant Abdelhamid, “Advanced Software Ground Station and UAV Development for NLoS Control Using Mobile Communications”, Discrete Dynamics in Nature and Society, vol. 2015, pp. 1- 20, August 2015.

13. Amr AbdElHamid, Peng Zong, and Bassant Abdelhamid, ”Advanced UAV Hybrid Simulator Model Based-on Dynamic Real Weather Data”, International Journal of Modeling and Optimization, vol. 5, no. 4, pp. 246-256, August 2015.

14. Bassant Abdelhamid, O. Muta, M. Elsabrouty, M. Alghoniemy, S. Elramly, and H. Furukawa, “Underlay MIMO Cognitive Transceivers Designs with Channel Uncertainty”, IEICE Communications, Vol.E97-B, No.11, pp. 2543-2551, Nov. 2014.

15. Bassant Abdelhamid, M. Elsabrouty, M. Alghoniemy, S. Elramly, O. Muta, and H. Furukawa, “Joint optimization design for single underlay cognitive transceiver with channel uncertainty,” IEICE ComEx, vol.2, no.3, pp.111-117, March 2013.

Conference Publications

1. Nada Nader, Mohamed Dessouky, Bassant Abdelhamid, “CLRGAN: Compressed Learning and Reconstruction Using GAN for Alzheimer’s Disease”, 5th Novel Intelligent and Leading Emerging Sciences Conference (NILES),pp. 327-332, Cairo, Egypt, Oct. 2023.

2. Mohab M. Youssef, Michael Ibrahim, Bassant Abdelhamid, “Deep Learning-Aided Channel Estimation for Universal Filtered Multi-Carrier Systems”, National Radio Science Conference (NRSC), pp. 159 - 166, Cairo, Egypt, June 2023.

3. Bassant Abdelhamid, Mohamed Elkattan, “Automatic Spike Removal Technique for Airborne Magnetic Data”, IEEE 18th International Colloquium on Signal Processing & Applications (CSPA), pp. 105 - 110, Selangor, Malaysia, May 2022.

4. Karim El-Abbasy, Ramy Taki ElDin, Salwa Elramly, Bassant Abdelhamid, “Generalized Schematic Successive Cancellation Decoding for Polar Codes”, IEEE International Black Sea Conference on Communications and Networking (BlackSeaCom), pp. 1 - 6, Bucharest, Romania, May 2021.

5. Bassant Abdelhamid, Awab Al-Habal, Ahmed Khattab, ”Energy-Efficient Layered IoT Smart Home System”, Joint International Conference on Design and Construction of Smart City Components (JIC Smart Cities), Cairo, Egypt, Dec. 2019.

6. Moustafa Mohamed, Bassant Abdelhamid, Salwa Elramly, “Rate Adaptive Precoder Design for Massive MIMO Cognitive Radio System”, IEEE Middle East & North Africa COMMunications Conference (MENA-COMM), pp. 1 - 6, Manama, Bahrain, Nov. 2019. (Second prize best paper award) 

7. Jiovana Elia, Bassant Abdelhamid, Salwa Elramly, “Spectrum Sensing With Sparsity Estimation For Cognitive Radio Systems”, IEEE Middle East & North Africa COMMunications Conference (MENA-COMM), pp. 1 - 6, Manama, Bahrain, Nov. 2019. 

8. Mohamed Salah, Bassant Abdelhamid, “Improved Variable Step Size Regularized NLMS-Based Algorithm for Speech Enhancement”, IEEE International Conference on Signal and Image Processing (ICSIP), pp.701-706„ Wuxi, China, July 2019.

9. Bassant Amin, Bassant Abdelhamid, Salwa Elramly, “Quantized Power Allocation Algorithms in Cell-Free Massive MIMO Systems”, International Japan-Africa Conference on Electronics, Communications and Computations (JAC-ECC), pp. 35-38, Alexanderia, Egypt, Dec. 2018.

10. Abdelrahman Anis, Bassant Abdelhamid, Salwa Elramly, ”Low Overhead Weighted-Graph-Coloring-Based Two-Layer Precoding for FDD Massive MIMO Systems”, International Conference on Computing, Communication and Networking Technologies (ICCCNT), pp. 1-7, Bengaluru, India, July 2018.

11. Mai Adel, Bassant Abdelhamid, Salwa Elramly, “Automatic Image Segmentation of Breast Thermograms”, International Conference on Bioinformatics and Biomedical Science (ICBBS), pp. 88-94, Shenzen, China, June 2018.

12. Ahmed Ebian, Bassant Abdelhamid, Salwa Elramly, “Blind Compressive Sensing for Cognitive Radio Networks using l2-Minimization Recovery and Spectrum Segmentation”, International Conference on Information and Communication Technology (ICOIACT), pp. 584-589, Yogyakarta, Indonesia, March 2018.

13.  Abanoub M. Girgis, Bassant Abdelhamid, Salwa Elramly, “Improved Pilot Sequences Allocation in Massive MIMO Systems”, IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference Workshops (WC-NCW), pp. 1-6, San Francisco-CA, March 2017. 

14. Ahmed Deiaa, Bassant Abdelhamid, Amr Elkeyi, Salwa Elramly, “Mitigation of Both Doubly Selective Channels and Phase Noise Effects in OFDM Systems”, 24th Telecommunications Forum (TELFOR), pp.427-430, Belgrade-Serbia, Nov. 2016.

15. Mayada Osama, Bassant Abdelhamid, Salwa Elramly, “Interference Mitigation in Heterogeneous Networks Using Fractional Frequency Reuse”, International Conference on Wireless Networks and Mobile Communications (WINCOM), pp. 154-159, Fez- Morocco, Oct. 2016.

16. Karim El-Abbasy, Bassant Abdelhamid, Salwa Elramly, “Performance Evaluation of DVB-S2 and DVB-S2X Systems”, IEEE International Conference on Communication, Networks and Satellite (COMNET-SAT), pp. 115-120, Bandung-Indonesia, Dec. 2015.

17. Bassant Abdelhamid, M. Elsabrouty, M. Alghoniemy, S. Elramly, O. Muta, and H. Furukawa, “Underlay MIMO Cognitive Transceivers Design with Channel Uncertainty,” IEEE International Symposium on Personal, Indoor and Mobile Radio Communications  (PIMRC), pp.1024-1028, Sept. 2013.

18. Bassant Abdelhamid, M. Elsabrouty, M. Alghoniemy, S. Elramly, O. Muta, and H. Furukawa, “A Distributed Cooperative MIMO Secondary Transceivers Design for Overlay Cognitive Radio Systems,” Technical Report of IEICE RCS, Vol. 113, No. 8, pp. 75-80, April 2013.

19. Bassant Abdelhamid, M. Elsabrouty, M. Alghoniemy, S. Elramly, O. Muta, and H. Furukawa, “Joint Optimization Design for Multiple Underlay MIMO Cognitive Transceiver with Channel Uncertainty”, Technical Report of IEICE CS, Vol. 112, No. 484, pp. 235-240, March 2013.

20. Bassant Abdelhamid, M. Elsabrouty, M. Alghoniemy, S. Elramly, O. Muta, and H. Furukawa, “Joint Optimization Design for Underlay Cognitive Transceiver with Channel Uncertainty”, Technical Report of IEICE RCS, Vol. 112, No. 423, pp. 177-182, Jan. 2013.

21. Bassant Abdelhamid, M. Elsabrouty, M.Alghoniemy and S. Elramly, “Cooperative and Non-Cooperative Multi- Secondary users Cognitive Radio Systems with Channel Uncertainty”, IEEE International Symposium on Personal, Indoor and Mobile Radio Communications  (PIMRC), pp. 1582-1587, Sept. 2012.

22. Bassant Abdelhamid, M. Elsabrouty, and S. Elramly, “Novel Interference Alignment in Multi-Secondary Users Cognitive Radio Systems”, IEEE symposium on Computers and Communications  (ISCC), pp. 785-789, July 2012.

23. Bassant Abdelhamid, M. Elsabrouty, M. Alghoniemy and S. Elramly, “Opportunistic Interference Alignment for MIMO Cognitive Networks with Channel Imperfection”, Mosharaka International Conference on Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing (MIC-WCMC), pp. 62-67, June 2012. 

24. Bassant A. M. Ahmed, Mirette M. Sadek, Salwa H. Elramly, “Channel Estimation for Alamouti Coded OFDM Over Time Variant Channel With Different Receivers”. IARIA International Conference on Systems and Networks Communications  (ICSNC), p.p.312-319, Aug. 2010.

25. Bassant A. M. Ahmed, Mirette M. Sadek, Salwa H. Elramly, ”Analysis and Simulation for Alamouti Coded OFDM System over Time Variant Channel”, National Radio Science Conference (NRSC), March 2010.