UMass Boston

Journal Publications

• M.B. Rahaim and S. Govindasamy "Analyzing the impact of medium access control protocol design and control-plane uplink in asymmetric RF/OWC networks with RF congestion," in Journal of Optical Communications and Networking (JOCN), December 2022.
• M.B. Rahaim, T.D.C. Little, and M. Hella, "Multi-Tier Heterogeneous Beam Management for Future Indoor FSO Networks," in Applied Sciences - Special Issue on New Trends in Optical Networks, vol. 11, no. 8, April 2021.
• M. Khadr, H. Elgala, M.B. Rahaim, A. Khreishah, M. Ayyash, and T.D.C. Little, "Machine Learning-Based Security Aware Spatial Modulation for Heterogeneous Radio-Optical Wireless Networks," in Proceedings of the Royal Society A, vol. 477, April 2021.
• I. Abdalla, M.B. Rahaim, and T.D.C. Little, "Interference Mitigation through User Association and Receiver Field of View Optimization in a Multi-User Indoor Hybrid RF/VLC Illuminance-Constrained Network," in IEEE Access, vol. 8, December 2020.
• I. Abdalla, M.B. Rahaim, and T.D.C. Little, "Interference in Multi-User Optical Wireless Communication Systems," in Philosophical Transactions A, vol. 378, March 2020 (Invited).
• S. Shao, G. Liu, A. Khreishah, M. Ayyash, H. Elgala, T.D.C. Little, and M.B. Rahaim, "Optimizing Handover Parameters by Q-Learning for Heterogeneous Radio-Optical Wireless Networks," in IEEE Photonics Journal, vol. 12, no. 1, February 2020.
• M.B. Rahaim, I. Abdalla, M. Ayyash, H. Elgala, A. Khreishah, and T.D.C. Little, "Welcome to the CROWD: Design Decisions for Coexisting Radio and Optical Wireless Deployments," in IEEE Networks, vol. 33, no. 5, pp. 174-182, September 2019.
• I. Abdalla, M.B. Rahaim, and T.D.C. Little, "Dynamic FOV Visible Light Communications Receiver for Dense Optical Networks," in IET Communications, vol. 13, n0. 7, pp. 822-830, April 2019.
• A. Aldalbahi, M.B. Rahaim, A. Khreishah, M. Ayyash, and T.D.C. Little, "Visible Light Communication Module: An Open Source Extension to the ns3 Network Simulator with Real System Validation," in IEEE Access, vol. 5, pp. 22144-22158, October 2017.
• M.B. Rahaim, J. Morrison, and T.D.C. Little, "Beam Control for Indoor FSO and Dynamic Dual-Use VLC Lighting Systems," in Journal of Communications and Information Networks (JCIN), vol. 2, no. 4, pp. 11-27, December 2017.
• M.B. Rahaim and T.D.C. Little, "Interference in IM/DD Optical Wireless Communication Networks," in Journal of Optical Communications and Networking (JOCN), vol. 9, no. 9, pp. D51-D63, September 2017.

Conference / Workshop Publications

• V. Planchart, L. Martinez, H. Ali, M. Toole, and M.B. Rahaim. 2023. A Low-Cost Open-Source Testbed for Experimental Analysis of Ultra-Dense Wireless Networks. In Proceedings of the Int'l ACM Conference on Modeling Analysis and Simulation of Wireless and Mobile Systems (MSWiM '23). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, 93–97.
• A. Ahmed, G. Dzhezyan, H. Aboutahoun, V. Chu, J. Ohanian, S. Rezaeiboroujerdi, I. Saheb, E. Urban, H. Wu, M. Kulhandjian, H. Kulhandjian, and M.B. Rahaim, "SDR Beyond Radio: An Out-of-Tree GNURadio Library for Simulation and Deployment of Multi-Cell / Multi-User Optical Wireless Communication Systems," in GNURadio Conference (GRCon), September 2022.
• A. Ahmed and M.B. Rahaim, "gr-owc: An Open Source GNURadio-Based Toolkit for Optical Wireless Communications," in IEEE 17th International Conference on Wireless and Mobile Computing, Networking and Communications (WiMob), October 2021.
• I. Abdalla, M.B. Rahaim, and T.D.C. Little, "Illuminance Constrained Emission Pattern Optimization in Indoor VLC Networks," in IEEE Globecom Workshop on Optical Wireless Communications (OWC), December 2020.
• J. Li, R. Li, and M.B. Rahaim, "Design and Implementation of a Heterogeneous Multi-Hop OWC/RF Relay Architecture for Opportunistic Ultra-Dense Wireless Networks," in IEEE Ubiquitous Computing, Electronics, and Mobile Communication Conference (UEMCon), October 2020.
• M. Goldwater, P. Dhulipalla, M. Kang, T. Kim, N. Tan, S. Govindasamy, and M.B. Rahaim, "An 802.11 Compatible Asymmetric Hybrid Visible-Light and Radio-Frequency Communications System," in IEEE International Symposium on Personal, Indoor, and Mobile Radio Communications (PIMRC), September 2020.
• I. Abdalla, M.B. Rahaim, and T.D.C. Little, "On the Importance of Dynamic FOV Receivers for Dense Indoor Optical Wireless Networks," in IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC), June 2020
• I. Abdalla, M.B. Rahaim, and T.D.C. Little, "Dynamic FOV Tracking Receiver for Dense Optical Networks," in IEEE Globecom Optical Networks Symposium (ONS), December 2019.
• M. Khadr, H. Elgala, M. Ayyash, T.D.C. Little, M.B. Rahaim, and A. Khreishah, "Technology Independent Security Aware OFDM (SA-OFDM)," in IEEE International Symposium on Personal, Indoor and Mobile Radio Communications (PIMRC), September 2019.
• P. Dhulipalla, M. Kang, T. Kim, N. Tan, S. Govindasamy, and M.B. Rahaim, "An Integrated Visible-Light and Radio Frequency Communication System," in IEEE International Conference onf Computer, Information, and Telecommunication Systems (CITS), August 2019.
• T.D.C. Little, M.B. Rahaim, and I. Abdalla, "Impact of Variable Field of View in Indoor Visible Light Communications Networks," in Optical Society of America (OSA) Advanced Photonics Congress (AP), August 2019.
• I. Abdalla, M.B. Rahaim, and T.D.C. Little, "Investigation of Outage Probability and AP Placement for Mobile Users in Indoor VLC System Design," in IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference (WCNC), April 2019.
• I. Abdalla, M.B. Rahaim, and T.D.C. Little, "Impact of receiver FOV and Orientation on Dense Optical networks," in IEEE Global Communications Conference (Globecom), December 2018.
• M. Khadr, H. Elgala, M. Ayyash, T.D.C. Little, A. Khreishah, and M.B. Rahaim, "Security Aware Spatial Modulation," in IEEE Sarnoff Symposium, September 2018.
• J.H. Kim, A. Olson, S. Govindasamy, and M.B. Rahaim, “An Approach for Tomlinson-Harashima Precoding in Visible Light Communications Systems,” in International Conference on Computer, Information, and Telecommunication Systems (CITS), July 2018.
• Z. Li, S. Shao, A. Khreishah, M. Ayyash, I. Abdalla, H. Elgala, M.B. Rahaim, and T.D.C. Little, "Design and Implementation of a Hybrid RF-VLC System with Bandwidth Aggregation," in International Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing Conference, June 2018.
• T.D.C. Little, M.B. Rahaim, I. Abdalla, E. Lam, R. Mcallister, and A.M. Vegni, "A Multi-Cell Lighting Testbed for VLC and VLP," in Global LiFi Congress, February 2018.

Conference / Workshop Poster Sessions

• V. Planchart, L. Martinez, and M.B. Rahaim, "An Open Source Experimental Testbed for Performance Analysis of Ultra-Dense Networks," in MIT Undergraduate Research Technology Conference, September 2022.
• H. Ali, M. Toole, and M.B. Rahaim, "Performance Improvement of Neighboring Networks When Implementing Data Off-Loading with Optical Wireless Communications," in Massachusetts Undergraduate Research Conference (MassURC), virtual presentation. April 2022.
• E. Urban, V. Chu, S. Rezaeiboroujerdi, H. Aboutahoun, I. Saheb, V. Ohanian, H. Wu, M. Kulhandjian, H. Kulhandjian, and M.B. Rahaim, "SDR-Enabled Multi-Cell Resource Allocation for multi-cell/multi-user optical wireless communication networks," in Massachusetts Undergraduate Research Conference (MassURC), virtual presentation. April 2022.
• M. Toole, D. Andrade, H. Ali, D. Foto, N. Alshammari, and M.B. Rahaim, "SDR Testbed for Ultra-Dense Wireless Networks," in Massachusetts Undergraduate Research Conference (MassURC), virtual presentation. April 2022.
• M. Toole, R. Agasti, A. Ahmed, Z. Garnes, J.C. Laude, K.C. Kerby-Patel, and M.B. Rahaim, "Dual Security System with Link Signature Keying and Optical Wireless Communications," in Massachusetts Undergraduate Research Conference (MassURC), virtual presentation. April 2021.
• J.C. Laude, K. Cai, H. Gao, M. Toole, and M.B. Rahaim, "Testbed System for Ultra-Dense Wireless Communication," in Massachusetts Undergraduate Research Conference (MassURC), virtual presentation. April 2021.
• M. Toole and M.B. Rahaim, "Evaluating the Impact of Data Offloading in Dense Wireless Networks with Optical Communication," in MIT Undergraduate Research Technology Conference, October 2020.
• J. Nguyen and M.B. Rahaim, Visible Light Communication Testbed and Open Source Toolkit for Optical Communication," in New England Workshop for Software Defined Radio (NEWSDR), June 2019.
• J. Nguyen and M.B. Rahaim, Visible Light Communication Testbed and Open Source Toolkit for Optical Communication," in Massachusetts Undergraduate Research Conference (MassURC), Amherst, MA. April 2019.
• M. Toole, J. Hinkey, and M.B. Rahaim, "Evaluating the Impact of Data Offloading in Dense Wireless Networks with Optical Communication," in Massachusetts Undergraduate Research Conference (MassURC), Amherst, MA. April 2019.
• S. Shao, Z. Kahn, G. Liu, A. Khreishah, M. Ayyash, H. Elgala, T.D.C. Little, and M.B. Rahaim, "Optimizing Handover Parameters by Q-Learning for Heterogeneous RF-VLC Networks," in IEEE International Conference on Computer Communications (INFOCOM), Paris, France. April, 2019.
• I. Abdalla, M.B. Rahaim, and T.D.C. Little, "Connectivity Under Mobility in a VLC Dense Network," in LESA ERC Industry-Academia Days, Troy, NY. April, 2018.

Invited Talks and Panel Sessions

• M.B. Rahaim, “Software Defined Radio Beyond RF: Integrating SDR techniques for optical wireless communications”, in OPTICSMEET 2021, (Virtual) Nice, France, November 2021.
• M.B. Rahaim, "Lighting as a Platform for Wireless Connectivity: Enabling Data Delivery via Light," Middle East Electricity, IoT Lighting Conference, March 2019.
• M.B. Rahaim, "Welcome to the CROWD: Coexisting Radio and Optical Wireless Deployments for Added Capacity in Ultra Dense Environments," Lighting Enabled Systems and Applications (LESA) Engineering Research Center's Industry-Academia Days, April 2018.