Welcome

I am a Lecturer in Computer Networking at Western Sydney University and an ARC DECRA Fellow. My research combines communication theory, optimisation, and machine learning to build energy-efficient and ultra-reliable wireless networks for 6G.

Current directions: cell-free massive MIMO and millimetre-wave networks, wireless federated learning, and AI-based resource allocation, with applications in smart cities, healthcare, agriculture, and Australia's remote regions.

I welcome enquiries from prospective Master of Research/PhD students and from industry partners working on wireless connectivity, networking, and applied AI.

Research interests: Communication theories, signal processing, optimization, machine learning, and their applications in:

• Millimeter Wave Communications

• Massive MIMO/Cell-Free Massive MIMO

• Federated Learning

• 6G systems

• Full-Duplex Communications

• Physical Layer Security

• Next-generation satellites

Email: t.vu4@westernsydney.edu.au 

Phone: +61 416 409 938

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Teaching

• TSKS14 (Multiple-Antenna Communications) for Master's and PhD students at Linköping University 

Professional Activities:

• Editor of Elsevier Physical Communication (PHYCOM)

• Technical Program Committee (TPC):  IEEE GLOBECOM (2024, 2023, 2021), IEEE ATC (2024), IEEE MeditCom (2024), IEEE ISEE (2023)

• Track Chair: IEEE ATC (2023), IEEE ICCE (2022)

• Session Chair: IEEE TENCON (2020)

Latest News:

• August 2026: Joined Western Sydney University as Lecturer in Computer Networking, School of Computer, Data and Mathematical Sciences.

• 16 August 2026: Our recent paper, "Leveraging Slowly Time-Varying AP-AP Channels for Interference Mitigation in Dynamic TDD", has been accepted at IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing

• 25 November 2025: I received the ARC Discovery Early Career Researcher Award (DECRA), 2026–2029, AU$529,672

• 11 November 2025: Our recent paper, "Base Station Beam Scheduling for mmWave Networks with Full-Frequency Reuse", has been accepted at IEEE Access

• 31 July 2024: Our recent paper, "Joint OMA-NOMA Cell-Free Massive MIMO with Limited Fronthaul," has been accepted to present at the IEEE Global Communications Conference (GLOBECOM).

• 02 July 2024: Our recent paper, "User-to-User Interference Mitigation in Dynamic TDD MIMO Systems with Multi-Antenna Users," has been accepted for presentation at the IEEE International Conference on Signal Processing Advances in Wireless Communications (SPAWC).

• 05 March 2024: Our recent paper, "Minimizing Clearing Time in mmWave Networks with Overlapping Coverage", has been accepted for presentation at the 2024 IEEE 99th Vehicular Technology Conference (VTC2024-Spring). 

• 01 March 2024: Our recent paper, "Cell-Free Massive MIMO with Phase Misalignments and Multi-Antenna Users: A Novel Partially Coherent Transmission Framework", has been accepted at IEEE Open Journal of the Communications Society.

• 07 February 2024: I delivered a technical talk on "Interference management for dynamic full-duplex cell-free networks" at the Australian Communications Theory Workshop (AusCTW'24), 4-7 February, Melbourne, Australia 

• 31 December 2023: Our recent paper, "Joint User Association and Power Control for Cell-Free Massive MIMO", has been accepted to appear in IEEE Internet of Things Journal.  

• 14 December 2023: Our recent paper, "Uplink Symbol Detection In Dynamic TDD MIMO Systems With AP-AP Interference", has been accepted to present at the 2024 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP). 

• 15 July 2023: Our recent paper, "Joint Optimization of Switching Point and Power Control in Dynamic TDD Cell-Free Massive MIMO", has been accepted to present at the 57th IEEE Asilomar Conference on Signals, Systems, and Computers (ASILOMAR). 

• 29 May 2023: Our two recent papers, "User association and power control in cell-free massive MIMO with the APG method" and "Multipair DF Relaying with Network-Assisted Full-Duplex Cell-Free Massive MIMO" have been accepted to present at the 31st European Signal Processing Conference (EUSIPCO). 

• 03 May 2023: Our recent paper, "Massive MIMO for Serving Federated Learning and Non-Federated Learning Users", has been accepted at IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications. 

• 10 April 2023: Our recent paper, "Network-Assisted Full-Duplex Cell-Free Massive MIMO: Spectral and Energy Efficiencies", has been accepted at IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications.

• 25 November 2022: I delivered an invited lecture on "Fundamentals of MIMO Communications" at Ho Chi Minh City University of Science, Vietnam. 

• 12 November 2022: Our recent paper, "A New Look and Convergence Rate of Federated Multi-Task Learning with Laplacian Regularization", has been accepted at IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems.

• 08 November 2022: Our recent paper, "Energy-Efficient Massive MIMO for Federated Learning: Transmission Designs and Resource Allocations", has been accepted at IEEE Open Journal of the Communications Society.

• 07 June 2022: Our recent paper, "Joint Resource Allocation to Minimize Execution Time of Federated Learning in Cell-Free Massive MIMO", has been accepted at the IEEE Internets of Things Journal.

• 07 May 2022: Our recent paper, "Data size-aware downlink massive MIMO: Session-based approach", has been accepted at the IEEE Wireless Communications Letters.

• 03 May 2022: Our recent papers, "Virtually full-duplex cell-free massive MIMO with access point mode assignment," "Serving Federated Learning and Non-Federated Learning Users: A Massive MIMO Approach", and "Channel estimation in RIS-assisted downlink massive MIMO: A learning-based approach,'' have been accepted to present at the IEEE International Conference on Signal Processing Advances in Wireless Communications (SPAWC).