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

• 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.