Dr. Waqas Bin Abbas

Faculty Member

Dr. Waqas Bin Abbas

Assistant Professor (PhD)

(+9251 111 128 128) 254
waqas.abbas@nu.edu.pk

Education

PhD (Information Engineering), University of Padova, Italy, 2017

MS (Electrical Engineering), National University of Computer and Emerging Sciences (NUCES), 2012

BS (Telecom Engineering), National University of Computer and Emerging Sciences (NUCES), 2008

Summary

Waqas Bin Abbas received the bachelor’s degree and the master’s degree with a focus on underwater wireless communication from the National University of Computer and Emerging Sciences (NUCES), Islamabad, Pakistan, in 2008 and 2012, respectively, and the Ph.D. degree in information engineering with a focus on energy efficiency in 5G wireless networks from the University of Padova, Italy, in 2017. He is currently an Assistant Professor with NUCES. He has supervised multiple Bachelor’s Final year projects, Master thesis and co-supervising a PhD thesis.His current research interests include energy efficiency in 5G millimeter wave cellular networks, MIMO communication, Machine Learning, and multi-hop wireless networks.

Google Scholar:
https://scholar.google.it/citations?hl=en&user=lIbN3D8AAAAJ&view_op=list_works


Supervision:
Supervised 4 Master Thesis: Thesis Titles

  • PERFORMANCE EVALUATION OF ADC BIT ALLOCATION BASED mmWAVE UPLINK MIMO COMMUNICATION SYSTEM
  • Impact of ADC Bits and Transmit Power onEnergy Efficiency of a Millimeter WaveCommunication System
  • Performance Evaluation of Deep Neural Networks forMillimeter Wave Communication Systems
  • Performance Analysis of Fountain Coded Multi-hopNetworks


    • Co-Supervising a PhD Thesis: Thesis Title
  • Performance Enhancement of Massive MIMO communication systems byemploying Beamforming and Efficient Resource Allocation

    • Publications

    Journal Papers

    1. Waqas bin Abbas, , P. Casari and M. Zorzi, "Controlled Flooding of Fountain Codes," in IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, vol. 16, no. 7, pp. 4698-4710, July 2017 (IF: 4.951)
    2. Waqas bin Abbas, , Niaz Ahmed, Chaudhry Usama, and Affan A. Syed. 2015. Design and evaluation of a low-cost, DIY-inspired, underwater platform to promote experimental research in UWSN. Ad Hoc Netw. 34, C (November 2015), 239-251. (IF: 3.49)
    3. Waqas bin Abbas, , F. Gomez-Cuba and M. Zorzi, "Millimeter Wave Receiver Efficiency: A Comprehensive Comparison of Beamforming Schemes With Low Resolution ADCs," in IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, vol. 16, no. 12, pp. 8131-8146, Dec. 2017. (IF: 4.951)

    Conference Papers

    1. Waqas bin Abbas, , F. Gomez-Cuba and M. Zorzi, "Bit allocation for increased power efficiency in 5G receivers with variable-resolution ADCs," 2017 Information Theory and Applications Workshop (ITA), San Diego, CA, 2017, pp. 1-7.
    2. Waqas bin Abbas, and M. Zorzi, "Towards an Appropriate Receiver Beamforming Scheme for Millimeter Wave Communication: A Power Consumption Based Comparison," European Wireless 2016; 22th European Wireless Conference, Oulu, Finland, 2016, pp. 1-6
    3. Waqas bin Abbas, and M. Zorzi, "Context information based initial cell search for millimeter wave 5G cellular networks," 2016 European Conference on Networks and Communications (EuCNC), Athens, 2016, pp. 111-116.
    4. Waqas bin Abbas, , Niaz Ahmed and Affan A. Syed. 2012. A low-cost and flexible underwater platform to promote experiments in UWSN research. In Proceedings of the Seventh ACM International Conference on Underwater Networks and Systems (WUWNet 12). ACM, New York, NY, USA, , Article 4 , 8 pages.
    5. Waqas bin Abbas, , F. Gomez-Cuba and M. Zorzi, "Millimeter Wave Receiver Comparison Under Energy vs Spectral Efficiency Trade-off," European Wireless 2017; 23th European Wireless Conference, Dresden, Germany, 2017, pp. 1-7.