Publications

LTE, 5G, and NextG

Md Rabiul Hossein and Marwan Krunz, "PCI classification in 5G NR: Deep learning unravels synchronization signal blocks," to appear in the Proc. of the IEEE SECON 2024 Conference, December 2024.
Marwan Krunz, Irmak Aykin, and Berk Akgun, "A method for fast beam sweeping and device discovery in 5G millimeter wave and upper centimeter-wave systems," U.S. Patent No. 10,972,172, issued April 6, 2021.
Sopan Sarkar, Mohammad Hossein Manshaei, Marwan Krunz, and Hamid Ravaee, "RecuGAN: A novel generative AI approach for synthesizing RF coverage maps," Proc. of the IEEE International Conference on Computer Communications and Networks Conference, July 29-31, 2024, Kona, Hawaii.
Mingjie Feng and Marwan Krunz, "Online learning-based beamwidth optimization for initial access in millimeter wave cellular networks," IEEE Transactions on Cognitive Communications and Networking, June 2024.
Marwan Krunz, Irmak Aykin, Sopan Sarkar, and Berk Akgun, "Online reinforcement learning for beam tracking and rate adaptation in millimeter-wave systems," IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing, vol. 23, issue 2, pp. 1830-1845, Feb. 2024.
Sopan Sarkar, Hossein Manshaei, and Marwan Krunz, "RADIANCE: Radio-frequency adversarial deep-learning inference for automated network coverage estimation," Proc. of the IEEE GLOBECOM Conference, Dec. 2023.
Islam Shaban, Xiao Han, Loukas Lazos, Ming Li, Yong Xiao, and Marwan Krunz, "Misbehavior detection in Wi-Fi/LTE coexistence over unlicensed bands," IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing (TMC), vol. 22, no. 8, pp. 4773-4791, Aug. 2023.
Sopan Sarkar, Marwan Krunz, Irmak Aykin, and David Manzi, "Machine learning for robust beam tracking in mobile millimeter-wave systems," Proc. of the IEEE GLOBECOM Conference, Madrid, Spain, Dec. 2021.
Mingjie Feng, Berk Akgun, Irmak Aykin, and Marwan Krunz, "Beamwidth optimization for initial access in 5G NR millimeter wave cellular networks," Proc. of the IEEE ICC 2021 - Next-Generation Networking and Internet Symposium, June 2021.
Mohammed Hirzallah, Marwan Krunz, Balkan Kecicioglu, and Belal Hamzel, "5G New Radio Unlicensed: Challenges and evaluation," IEEE Transactions on Cognitive Communications and Networking, vol. 7, no. 3, pp. 689-701, Sept. 2021.
Irmak Aykin, Berk Akgun, Mingjie Feng, and Marwan Krunz, "MAMBA: A multi-armed bandit framework for beam tracking in millimeter-wave systems," Proc. of the IEEE INFOCOM 2020, July 2020.
Irmak Aykin and Marwan Krunz, "Efficient beam sweeping algorithms and initial access protocols for millimeter-wave networks," IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, vol. 19, no. 4, pp. 2504-2514, Apr. 2020.
Irmak Aykin, Berk Akgun, and Marwan Krunz, "Multi-beam transmissions for blockage resilience and reliability in millimeter-wave systems," IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications (JSAC) - Special Issue on Millimeter-wave Networking, vol. 37, no. 12, pp. 2772-2785, Dec. 2019.
Yong Xiao, Marwan Krunz, and Tao Shu, "Multi-operator network sharing for massive IoT," IEEE Communications Magazine, vol. 57, no. 4, pp. 96-101, Apr. 2019.
Yong Xiao, Marwan Krunz, Haris Volos, and Takashi Bando, "Driving in the fog: Latency measurement, modeling, and optimization of LTE-based fog computing for smart vehicles," Proc. of the IEEE International Conference on Sensing, Communication, and Networking (SECON) Conference, Boston, MA, USA, 2019.
Irmak Aykin, Berk Akgun, and Marwan Krunz, "Smartlink: Exploiting channel clustering effects for reliable millimeter wave communications," Proc. of the IEEE INFOCOM 2019 Conference, Paris, France, Apr. 2019.
Irmak Aykin and Marwan Krunz, "FastLink: An efficient initial access protocol for millimeter wave systems," Proc. of the ACM International Conference on Modeling, Analysis and Simulation of Wireless and Mobile Systems (MSWiM 2018), pp. 109-117, Montreal, Canada, Oct. 2018 (Best Paper Award).
Mohammed Hirzallah, Yong Xiao, and Marwan Krunz, "On modeling and optimizing LTE/Wi-Fi coexistence with prioritized traffic classes," Proc. of the EEE International Symposium on Dynamic Spectrum Access Networks (DySPAN'18), Seoul, South Korea, 2018.
Islam Samy, Loukas Lazos, Yong Xiao, Ming Li, and Marwan Krunz, "LTE misbehavior detection in Wi-Fi/LTE coexistence under the LAA-LTE standard," Proc. of the 11th ACM Conference on Security and Privacy in Wireless and Mobile Networks (WiSec’18), June 2018, Stockholm, Sweden.
Bushra Ismaiel, Mehran Abolhasan, Wei Ni, David Smith, Daniel Franklin, Eryk Dutkiewicz, Marwan Krunz, and Abbas Jamalipour, "PCF-based LTE Wi-Fi aggregation for coordinating and offloading the cellular traffic to D2D network," IEEE Trans. on Vehicular Technology (TVT), vol. 67, issue 12, pp. 12193-12203, Dec. 2018.
Mohammed Hirzallah, Wessam Afifi, and Marwan Krunz, "Full-duplex-based rate/mode adaptation strategies for Wi-Fi/LTE-U coexistence: A POMDP approach," IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications (JSAC) - Special Issue on Spectrum Sharing and Aggregation for Future Wireless Networks, vol. 35, no. 1, pp. 20-29, Jan. 2017.
Mohammed Hirzallah, Wessam Afifi, and Marwan Krunz, "Full-duplex spectrum sensing and fairness mechanisms for Wi-Fi/LTE-U coexistence," Proc. of the IEEE GLOBECOM 2016 Conference, Washington D.C., Dec. 2016.