Kamran Kiasaleh
Professor of Electrical Engineering
Director of Optical Communication Lab
Sources of Support
– National Institute of Justice
– Texas Instruments
– State of Texas (RCIC)-Emerging Technology Program
Research Areas
– Software-Define Radios
– Cognitive Radios
– RF and Optical Wave Interaction with Biological Systems
– Free Space Optical Communication Systems
– Code Division Multiple Access (CDMA)
– Novel Multiple Access Schemes for Wireless Communications
– Channel Estimation and Synchronization for Wireless Channels
– Network Synchronization
Awards
– NASA Group Achievement Award in 1993 for contribution to the success of Galileo Optical Experiment (GOPEX) demonstration (first successful demonstration of an optical communications link between a ground-based transmitter and a deep-space vehicle) at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory.
Invited Talks
"Time transfer technique for global positioning in master-slave systems," presented at The Center for Engineering and Mathematical Sciences, The University of Texas at Dallas, Richardson, Texas, Oct. 1987.
"Galileo Optical Experiment," Laser and Electro-Optical Society (LEOS) Meeting, The University at Texas at Dallas, Richardson, TX, Jan. 13, 1993.
"On the Statistics of Signal Intensity in Free-Space Optical Communications System Impaired by Pointing Jitter and Turbulence," IEEE Microwave Theory and Techniques Society (MTTS) Chapter Meeting, Hewlette Packard, Richardson, TX , Dec. 1994.
"Spectral Efficiency: A Key Performance Measure in Wireless Communications," IEEE/ACM Computer Society Meeting, Texas Instruments, Inc., Dallas, TX, Oct. 1996.
Kiasaleh, A Robust Multi-hop Virtual topology for WDM Communications in the Presence of Link Failures, DIMACS Workshop on Network Switching, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, July 7-9, 1997.
Kiasaleh, T-PPM: A novel modulation scheme for Optical PPM Communications Systems Impaired by Pulse width Inaccuracies, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Aug. 3, 1998.
Patents
Channel-aided, decision-directed delay-locked loop (USPTO:6,373,862)
Synchronization and clock recovery (USPTO:6,324,234)
Interferometric, self-homodyne optical receiver and method and optical transmission system incorporating same (USPTO:5,319,438)
A low complexity CDMA receiver (pending, with Mahant Shett
Selected Recent Publications
Journal
K. Kiasaleh, "Turbo-coded optical PPM communication systems," IEEE/OSA Journal of Lightwave Technology, vol. 16, no. 1, pp. 18-26, Jan. 1998.
K. Kiasaleh, M. Srinivasan, T. Yan,"Trellis-coded pulse-position modulation for optical communication systems impaired by pulsewidth inaccuracies," IEEE/OSA Journal of Lightwave Technology, vol. 17, no. 8, pp. 1336-1346, Aug. 1999.
K. Kiasaleh, “A post-detection strategy for the reduction of error floors of optical DPSK receivers impaired by laser phase noise,” IEEE/OSA Journal of Lightwave Technology, vol. 17, no. 2, pp. 165-170, Feb. 1999.
K. Kiasaleh, "Channel-aided, decision-directed delay-locked loop for pilot symbol aided CDMA communications impaired by frequency-selective Rayleigh fading and user interference," IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology, vol. 49, no. 4, pp. 1392-1407, July 2000.
G. Burnham, C. D. Cantrell, A. Farago, A. Fumagalli, K. Kiasaleh, W. O. Osborne, and R. Prakash, “The first Telecommunications Engineering program in the United States,” IEEE Journal of Engineering Education, pp. 653-657, Oct. 2001.
M. Cole and Kamran Kiasaleh, “Signal intensity estimators for free-space optical communications through turbulent atmosphere,” IEEE/JOSA Photonics Technology Letters, Vol. 16, No. 10, 2395-2397, Oct. 2004.
K. Kiasaleh, “Scintillation index of a multi-wavelength beam in turbulent atmosphere,” Journal of Optical Society of America (JOSA) A, Volume 21, Issue 8, 1452-1454, August 2004.
K. Kiasaleh, “Performance of APD-based, PPM Free-space Optical Communication Systems in Atmospheric Turbulence,” IEEE Transactions on Communications, Vol. 53, No. 9, pp. 1455-1461, Sep. 2005.
K. Kiasaleh, “Performance of Coherent DPSK Free-Space Optical Communication Systems in K-distributed Turbulence,” IEEE Transactions on Communications, vol. 54, no. 4, pp. 604-607, April 2006.
K. Kiasaleh, “On the Scintillation Index of a Multiwavelength Gaussian Beam in Turbulent Free-Space Optical Communications Channel,” Journal of Optical Society of America A, vol. 23, no. 3, pp. 557-566, March 2006.
K. Kiasaleh, "Erlang Capacity of Time-Hopping /TDMA Multiple-Access Scheme for Wireless Communications," IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, vol. 6, no. 1, pp. 320-329, Jan. 2007.
Michael Cole and K. Kiasaleh, “Signal Intensity Estimators for Free-Space Optical Communication with Array Detectors,” IEEE Transactions on Communications, vol. 55, no. 12, pp. 2341-2350, Dec. 2007.
Michael Cole and Kamran Kiasaleh, “Receiver Architectures for Free-Space Optical Communications Systems with APD Detector Arrays," Journal of Optical Engineering, vol 47, no. 2, pp 025088-(1-15), Feb. 2008.
Beilei Zhang and Kamran Kiasaleh, “Partially-Coherent Receiver Architectures for QAM Communications in the Presence of Non-constant Phase Estimation Error,” IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, accepted for publication Jan. 2008.
Conference
K. Kiasaleh and Tsun-Yee Yan, “T-PPM: a novel modulation scheme for optical communication systems impaired by pulse width inaccuracies,” Photonics West International Symposia (SPIE), (San Jose, California), Jan. 1999.
K. Kiasaleh, “Performance analysis of free-space on-off-keying optical communication systems impaired by turbulence,” in proceedings of Free-Space Laser Communication Technologies XIV, (San Jose, CA), vol. 4635, pp. 150-161, Jan. 2002.
M. Simon and K. Kiasaleh, "Performance of computationally efficient multiple-symbol differential detection scheme in the presence of phase noise," in proceedings of IEEE Global Telecommunication Conference (GLOBECOM 2004), (Dallas, TX), Vol. 1, pp. 304 – 307, Nov. 2004.
M. Cole and K. Kiasaleh, "Signal estimators for p-i-n and APD-based free-space optical communication systems," in proceedings of IEEE Global Telecommunication Conference (GLOBECOM 2004), (Dallas, TX), Vol. 2, pp. 1221-1224, Nov. 2004.
K. Kiasaleh, “Impact of Turbulence on Multi-Wavelength Coherent Optical Communications,” in proceedings of the SPIE Symposium on Optics & Photonics,(San Diego, CA), August 2005.
K. Kiasaleh, “Performance of APD-based binary PPM FSO Systems,” in proceedings of the SPIE Symposium on Optics & Photonics, (San Diego, CA), August 2005.
M. Cole and K. Kiasaleh, “Receiver Architectures for On-Off-Keying, Free-Space Optical Communications with Avalanche Photodiode Arrays,” in proceedings of Frontier in Optics, the 89th OSA Annual Meeting, Laser Sciences XXI, (Tucson, AZ), Oct. 2005.
F. Teng and K. Kiasaleh, “A Joint Pre-coding and Scheduling Technique for Multi-user MIMO Systems,” 39th Asilomar Conference on Signals, Systems and Computers, (Monterey, CA), Nov. 2005.
Technical Reports
Kiasaleh, "Receiver structure for the spread-spectrum optical on-off-keying communication system," TR 89003, The University of Texas at Dallas, Richardson, TX, November 1988
Kiasaleh and T.- Y. Yan, "A statistical model for evaluating GOPEX uplink performance," TDA progress report vol. 42--111, Jet Propulsion Laboratory November, 1992.
Kiasaleh, "Optical design characterization and beam profile measurement," Jet Propulsion Laboratory Internal Memorandum (JPL IOM)-92.6--183, August 18, 1992.
M. Levine and K. Kiasaleh, "Probability Density Functions for the Compensated Earth Moon Earth Laser Link (CEMERLL) Experiment," TDA progress report , Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Dec. 1993.
Pilot Symbol Aided Channel Estimation for Code-Division Multiple-Access Communication Systems Impaired by Multipath Rayleigh Fading, Log-normal Shadowing, and Multi-use Interference, Technical Activity Report (TAR), Texas Instruments, August 1997.
An FFT-Based Joint Clock and Frame Recovery Scheme for M-ary PSK Signaling with Raised-Cosine Pulse Shape, Technical Activity Report (TAR), Texas Instruments, Sep. 1997.
Channel-Aided, Decision-Directed Delay-locked Loop for Pilot Symbol Aided CDMA Communications Impaired by Frequency-Selective Fading, Log-normal Shadowing, and User Interference, Technical Activity Report (TAR), Texas Instruments, Oct. 1997.
K. Kiasaleh and T.-Y. Yan, "T-PPM: A Novel Modulation Scheme for Optical Communication Systems Impaired by Pulse-width Inaccuracies," Telecommunications and Mission Operations (TMO) Progess Report, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, vol. 42-135, Nov 15, 1998. (http://tmo.jpl.nasa.gov/tmo/progress_report)
Courses Offered
– Introduction to RF Engineering-EE 5305
– Communication Systems-EE 4350
– Communications Laboratory-EE4250
– Introduction to Wireless Communications-EE6390
– Digital Communication Systems-EE6352
– Optical Communication Systems-EE6310
– Detection and Estimation-EE6343
– Random Processes-EE6349
– CDMA
Available Research Support
To be considered for any assistantship positions, please submit GRE scores, 3 letters of recommendation (preferably from your professors, supervisors, or other qualified people familiar with your work), and academic transcript to: K. Kiasaleh, UTD, P.O. Box 830688, EC33, Richardson, TX, USA 75083-0688. Before submitting the requested material, however, it is imperative that you provide Prof. Kiasaleh with a one-page letter of intent, which should describe your background, strengths, and other relevant information that are not included in your academic records. This document (in ASCII format) should be emailed to kamran@utdallas.edu. If there is an interest in your background, you will be contacted within one week. Please do not submit your material via mail unless you have been contacted by Prof. Kiasaleh.
