Publications

Journal and Conference Publications:

• Moosa Shariff, Brian Thoms, Jason T. Isaacs, Vida Vakilian, "Approaches in Fake News Detection: An Evaluation of Natural Language Processing and Machine Learning Techniques on the Reddit Social Network," AIRCC Publishing Corporation, 2022.


• Tazehkand, Behzad Mozaffari, Mohammad Reza Ghavidel Aghdam, Vida Vakilian, and Reza Abdolee. "Novel Successive Interference Cancellation (SIC) With Low-Complexity for GFDM Systems." IEEE Access, 40063-40072, 2022.


• Bharaswadkar, Apurva, Vida Vakilian, Brian Thoms, and Jason T. Isaacs. "Congestion Strategies for Clustered Central Place Foraging." In 2021 IEEE International Conference on Autonomous Robot Systems and Competitions (ICARSC), pp. 185-190. IEEE, 2021.


• Almasi, Mojtaba Ahmadi, Hani Mehrpouyan, Vida Vakilian, Nader Behdad, and Hamid Jafarkhani. "A new reconfigurable antenna MIMO architecture for mmWave communication." In 2018 IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC), pp. 1-7. IEEE, 2018.


• Cain, Korey, Vida Vakilian, and Reza Abdolee. "Low-complexity universal-filtered multi-carrier for beyond 5G wireless systems." In 2018 International Conference on Computing, Networking and Communications (ICNC), pp. 254-258. IEEE, 2018.


• Jeremy J. Ice, Reza Abdolee, and Vida Vakilian, "Generalized Space-Time Coded Massive MIMO System", in Journal of Communications, 2018.


• Korey Cain, Vida Vakilian, Reza Abdolee "Low-Complexity Universal-Filtered Multi-Carrier for Beyond 5G Wireless Systems," in IEEE International Conference on Computing, Networking and Communications (ICNC), Sept. 2017.


• Reza Abdolee, Vida Vakilian, "An Iterative Scheme for Computing Combination Weights in Diffusion Wireless Networks", in IEEE Wireless Communications Letters, Vol. 6, Issue: 4, Aug. 2017.
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• Jeremy J. Ice, Reza Abdolee, and Vida Vakilian, "Space-Time Coded Massive MIMO for Next Generation Wireless Systems", in International Conference on Wireless Networks (ICWN), Nevada, Las Vegas, July 2017.


• Vida Vakilian, Hani Mehrpouyan,"High Rate and Low Complexity Space-Time Block Codes for 2X2 MIMO Systems," in IEEE Communications Letters, Vol. 20, NO. 6, June 2016.


• Vida Vakilian, Jean-Francois Frigon, Sebastien Roy, "On Increasing the Slow Fading Channel Diversity Using Block Coded MIMO-OFDM with Reconfigurable Antennas," in IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology, Vol. 65, pp. 7207-7218, Sept. 2016.


• Reza Abdolee, Vida Vakilian, Benoit Champagne, "Tracking Performance and Optimal Step-Sizes of Diffusion LMS Algorithms in Nonstationary Signal Environment", in IEEE Transactions on Control of Network Systems, Vol: PP, Issue: 99, June 2016 .
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• Vida Vakilian, Hani Mehrpouyan, Yingbo Hua,"High Rate Space-Time Codes for Millimeter-Wave Systems with Reconfigurable Antennas," in IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference (WCNC), pp. 591-596, March 2015.


• Vida Vakilian, Jean-Francois Frigon, Sebastien Roy,"On the Covariance Matrix and Capacity Evaluation of Reconfigurable Antenna Array Systems," in IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, vol. 13, pp. 3452-3463, June 2014.


• Vida Vakilian, Jean-Francois Frigon, Sebastien Roy, "Space-Frequency Block Code for MIMO-OFDM Communication Systems with Reconfigurable Antennas," in IEEE GLOBECOM 2013, Atlanta, USA, December 2013.


• Vida Vakilian, Thorsten Wild, Frank Schaich, Stephan ten Brink, Jean-Francois Frigon, "Universal-Filtered Multi-Carrier Technique For Wireless Systems Beyond LTE," in IEEE GLOBECOM 2013, Atlanta, USA, December 2013.


• Vida Vakilian, Jean-Francois Frigon, Sebastien Roy, "Experimental Study of Direction-of-Arrival Estimation Using Reconfigurable Antennas," Accepted for Publication in 2014 IEEE Canadian Conf. on Electrical and Computer Engineering (CCECE), Toronto, Canada.


• Vida Vakilian, Jean-Francois Frigon, Sebastien Roy, "Performance Evaluation of Reconfigurable MIMO Systems in Spatially Correlated Frequency-Selective Fading Channels," IEEE Vehicular Technology Conference,Quebec City, Canada, September 2012.


• Vida Vakilian, Jean-Francois Frigon, Sebastien Roy, "Direction-of-Arrival Estimation in a Clustered Channel Model," IEEE NEWCAS Conference, Montreal, Canada, June 2012.


• Vida Vakilian, Jean-Francois Frigon, Sebastien Roy, "Effects of Angle-of-Arrival Estimation Errors, Angular Spread and Antenna Beamwidth on the Performance of Reconfigurable SISO Systems," IEEE Pacific Rim Conf. on Comm., Computers and Signal Processing (PACRIM), Victoria, Canada, August 2011.


• Reza Abdolee, Vida Vakilian, Tharek A. Rahman, "Elements space and amplitude perturbation using genetic algorithm for antenna array sidelobe Cancellation," Signal Processing: An International Journal (SPIJ), Vol. 1, Issue 2, June 2008.


• Reza Abdolee, Tharek A.Rahman, Vida Vakilian, Final Research report "Smart Antenna Design," University Technology Malaysia, VOTE number 79029, Sponsored by Ministry of science and Technology and Innovation of Malaysia, June 2008.


• Final Research report "Optical time division multiplexing for optical communication system," University Technology Malaysia, Vote number 78025, Sponsored by Ministry of science and Technology and Innovation of Malaysia, June 2008.


• Reza Abdolee, Razali Ngah, Vida Vakilian, Tharek Abd Rahman, "Application of Radio-Over-Fiber (ROF) in mobile communication," Asia Pacific Conf. on Applied Electromagnetic, APACE 2007, Melaka, Malaysia, December 2007.


• Razali Ngah, Reza Abdolee, Tharek Abd Rahman, Vida Vakilian, "Comparative analysis of four wave mixing effect between conventional optical and radio over fiber system," Int. Conf. on Robotics, Visions, Information and signal processing, ROVISP 2007, Penang, Malaysia, November 2007.