Publications

2022

  • 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. [bibtex] [link]

  • 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. [bibtex] [link]

2021

  • 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. [bibtex] [link]

  • 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, April 2021. [bibtex] [link]

  • 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, April 2021. [bibtex] [link]

2020

    • 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. [bibtex] [link]

    • 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. [bibtex] [link]

    • 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. [bibtex] [link]

    • 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. [bibtex] [link]

    • 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. [bibtex] [link]

    • 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. [bibtex] [link]

  • 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). [bibtex] [link]

2019

  • 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, 2019. [bibtex] [link]

  • 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. [bibtex] [link]

  • 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. [bibtex] [link]

  • 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 on Computer, Information, and Telecommunication Systems (CITS), August 2019. [bibtex] [link]

  • 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. [bibtex] [link]

  • 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, no. 7, pp. 822-830, April 2019. [bibtex] [link]

  • 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. [bibtex] [link]

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. [bibtex] [link]

    • 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. [bibtex] [link]

  • 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. [bibtex] [link]

  • 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 [bibtex] [link].

  • 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. [bibtex] [link]

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. [bibtex] [link]

    • 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. [bibtex] [link]

  • M.B. Rahaim and T.D.C. Little, "Optical Small Cells, RF/VLC Heterogeneous Networks, and Software Defined VLC," chapter in Visible Light Communications: Theory and Applications, OPTICWISE, June 2017. [bibtex] [link]

  • M.B. Rahaim and T.D.C. Little, "Reconciling Approaches to SNR Analysis in Optical Wireless Communications," in Wireless Communications and Networking Conference (WCNC), pp. 1-6, March 2017. [bibtex] [link]

  • M.B. Rahaim, T.D.C. Little, H. Elgala, and S. Govindasamy, "An Ultra-Dense IoT Architecture using Hybrid CSMA with Sector Based Scheduling (CSMA/SS) via Visible Light Communications," in International Conference on Embedded Wireless Systems and Networks (EWSN) - MadCom Workshop, pp. 335-336, February 2017. [bibtex] [link]

  • A. Aldalbahi, M. 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. [bibtex] [link]

  • T.D.C. Little and M.B. Rahaim, "Driving Visible Light Communications Towards the Tipping Point for Broad Scale Adoption," in ACM Workshop on Visible Light Communication Systems (VLCS), (Invited), October 2017. [bibtex] [link]

2016

    • M.B. Rahaim and T.D.C. Little, "Integration of RF and VLC Systems," chapter in Handbook of Advanced Lighting Technology, 2016. [bibtex] [link]

  • M.B. Rahaim and T.D.C. Little, "Bounding SINR with the Constraints of an Optical Wireless Channel," in IEEE International Conference on Communication (ICC) Second Workshop on Optical Wireless Communications, pp. 417-422, May 2016. [bibtex] [link]

  • J. Morrison, M.B. Rahaim, Y. Miao, M. Imboden, T.D.C. Little, V. Koomson, and D. Bishop, "Directional Visible Light Communication Signal Enhancement using a Varifocal Micromirror with Four Degrees of Freedom," in International Conference on Solid State Lighting and LED-based Illumination Systems, SPIE Proceedings, September 2016. [bibtex] [link]

  • A. Aldalbahi, M.B. Rahaim, A. Khreishah, M. Ayyash, R. Ackerman, J. Basuino, W. Berreta, and T.D.C. Little, "Extending NS3 to Simulate Visible Light Communication at Network-Level," in International Conference on Telecommunications (ICT), pp. 1-6, May 2016. [bibtex] [link]

  • M. Ayyash, H. Elgala, A. Khreishah, V. Jungnickel, T.D.C. Little, S. Shao, M.B. Rahaim, D. Schulz, J. Hilt, and R. Freund, "Coexistence of WiFi and LiFi towards 5G: Concepts, Opportunities, and Challenges," in IEEE Communications Magazine, vol.54, no. 2, pp. 64-71, February 2016. [bibtex] [link]

2015

    • M.B. Rahaim and T.D.C. Little, "Toward practical integration of dual-use VLC within 5G networks," in IEEE Wireless Communications, vol.22, no.4, pp.97-103, August 2015. [bibtex] [link]

    • M.B. Rahaim and T.D.C. Little, "Optical interference analysis in Visible Light Communication networks," in IEEE International Conference on Communication Workshop (ICCW), vol., no., pp.1410-1415, June 2015. [bibtex] [link]

    • S. Shao, A. Khreishah, M. Ayyash, M.B. Rahaim, H. Elgala, V. Jungnickel, D. Schulz, T.D.C. Little, J. Hilt, and R. Freund, "Design and analysis of a visible-light-communication enhanced WiFi system," in IEEE/OSA Journal of Optical Communications and Networking, vol.7, no.10, pp.960-973, October 2015. [bibtex] [link]

    • T.D.C. Little and M.B. Rahaim, "Network topologies for mixed RF-VLC HetNets," in IEEE Summer Topicals Meeting Series (SUM), vol., no., pp.163-164, July 2015. [bibtex] [link]

    • A. Mirvakili, V. Koomson, M.B. Rahaim, H. Elgala, and T.D.C. Little, "Wireless Access Testbed through Visible Light and Dimming Control," in Proc. IEE WCNC 2015, 2015 IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference (WCNC), March 2015. [bibtex] [link]

2014

    • M.B. Rahaim, M. Hella, A. Mirvakilli, S. Ray, V.J. Koomson, and T.D.C. Little, "Software Defined Visible Light Communication," in Proc. Wireless Innovation Forum Conference on Communications Technologies and Software Defined Radio (SDR-WinnComm 2014), April 2014. [bibtex] [link]

    • S. Shao, A. Khreishah, M.B. Rahaim, H. Elgala, T.D.C. Little, and M. Ayyash, "An Indoor Hybrid WiFi-VLC Internet Access System," in Proc. Workshop of CellulAR Traffic Offloading to Opportunistic Networks (CARTOON), Philadelphia, PA, October 2014. [bibtex] [link]

2013

    • M.B. Rahaim and T.D.C. Little, "SINR Analysis and Cell Zooming with Constant Illumination for Indoor VLC Networks," in Proc. 2nd Intl. Workshop on Wireless Optical Communications (IWOW), Northumbria University, Newcastle Upon Tyne, UK, October 21, 2013. [bibtex] [link]

2012

    • M.B. Rahaim, G.B. Prince, and T.D.C. Little, "State Estimation and Motion Tracking for Spatially Diverse VLC Networks," in Proc. IEEE Globecom 2012 3rd Workshop on Optical Wireless Communications, Anaheim, CA, December 2012. [bibtex] [link]

    • M.B. Rahaim, J. Carruthers, and T.D.C. Little, "Accelerated Impulse Response Calculation for Indoor Optical Communication Channels," in Proc. IEEE International Conference on Wireless Information Technology and Systems (ICWITS 2012), Maui, HI November 2012. [bibtex] [link]

2011

    • M.B. Rahaim, A.M. Vegni, and T.D.C. Little, "A Hybrid Radio Frequency and Broadcast Visible Light Communication System," in Proc. IEEE Globecom 2011 2nd Workshop on Optical Wireless Communications (OWC 2011), pp. 818-822, Dec. 5-9, 2011, Houston, TX, USA. [bibtex] [link]

    • M.B. Rahaim, A. Mirvakili, T. Borogovac, T.D.C. Little, and V. Joyner, "Demonstration of a Software Defined Visible Light Communication System," in Mobicom 2011, Poster and Demonstration Competition, September 2011. [bibtex] [link]

    • T. Borogovac, M.B. Rahaim, M. Tuganbayeva, and T.D.C. Little, "'Lights-off' Visible Light Communications," in Proc. IEEE Globecom 2011 2nd Workshop on Optical Wireless Communications (OWC 2011), pp. 823-827, Dec. 5-9, 2011, Houston, TX, USA. [bibtex] [link]

2010

    • M.B. Rahaim, T. Borogovac, and J.B. Carruthers, "CandLES: Communication and Lighting Emulation Software," in ACM International Workshop on Wireless Network Testbeds, Experimental Evaluation and Characterization (WiNTECH '10), pp. 9-14, September 2010, Chicago, IL, USA. [bibtex] [link]

    • T. Borogovac, M.B. Rahaim, and J.B. Carruthers, "Spotlighting for Visible Light Communications and Illumination," in IEEE Globecom Workshop on Optical Wireless Communications (OWC2010), pp. 1077-1081, Dec. 6-10, 2010, Miami, FL, USA. [bibtex] [link]