Wireless Systems and Circuits Lab

Journal Publications

[J16]  Sudip Mondal, Ahmed M. Eltawil, and Khaled N. Salama, "Architectural Optimizations for Low-Power K-Best MIMO Decoders," IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technologies, Volume 58, Issue 7, Page(s):3145 – 3153, Sept. 2009.

Remarks (5 year ISI Impact Factor, 2.24, 2008) (Journal Info ) (PDF)

[J15] Alireza S. Behbahani, and Ahmed Eltawil, "Amplify-and-Forward Relay Networks Under Received Power Constraint," To be published in IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, (accepted August. 2009).

Remarks (5 year ISI Impact Factor, 3.3, 2008) (Journal Info ) (PDF)

[J14] Chitaranjan P. Sukumar, Hamid Eslami, Ahmed M. Eltawil and Bedri A. Cetiner," Link Performance Improvement using Reconfigurable Multi-Antenna Systems," To be published in IEEE Antennas and Wireless Propagation Letters, Volume 8,  2009 Page(s):873 – 876, (accepted July 2009).

Remarks (ISI Impact Factor, 1.3, 2008, 5 year impact factor not yet available) (Journal Info) (PDF)

[J13] Sudip Mondal, Ahmed M. Eltawil, Chung-An Shen, Khaled Salama, "Design and Implementation of a Sort Free K-Best Sphere Decoder " To be published in IEEE Transactions on Very Large Scale Integration Systems, (accepted June 2009).

Remarks (5 year ISI Impact Factor, 1.8, 2008) (Journal Info) (PDF)

[J12]  Hamid Eslami, Sang V. Tran, and Ahmed M. Eltawil, “Design and Implementation of a Scalable Channel Emulator for Wideband MIMO Systems," To be published in IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technologies, (accepted April. 2009).

Remarks (5 year ISI Impact Factor, 2.24, 2008) (Journal Info) (PDF)

[J11]  Fadi J. Kurdahi, Ahmed Eltawil, Kang Yi, Stanley Cheng, and Amin Khajeh "Low-Power Multimedia System Design by Aggressive Voltage Scaling" To be published in IEEE Transactions on Very Large Scale Integration Systems, (accepted February 2009).

Remarks (5 year ISI Impact Factor, 1.8, 2008) (Journal Info) (PDF)

[J10]    Mohammad A Makhzan (Avesta Sasan), Amin Khajeh, Ahmed Eltawil, and Fadi J. Kurdahi, "A Low Power JPEG2000 Encoder with Iterative and Fault Tolerant Error Concealment," IEEE Transactions on Very Large Scale Integration Systems, Volume 17,  Issue 6,  Page(s):827 – 837, June 2009.

Remarks (5 year ISI Impact Factor, 1.8, 2008) (Journal Info) (PDF)

[J09]  Alireza S. Behbahani, Ricardo Merched and Ahmed Eltawil, "Optimizations of a MIMO Relay Network," IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, vol.56, no.10, pp.5062-5073, Oct. 2008.

Remarks (5 year ISI Impact Factor, 3.5, 2008) (Journal Info) (PDF)

[J08]    Jean-François Frigon, Ahmed ElTawil, Eugene Grayver, Alireza Tarighat, and Hanli Zou, "Design and Implementation of a WCDMA Dual-Antenna Mobile Terminal," IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems I, Vol. 54, Issue 3, pp. 518-529, March 2007.

Remarks (5 year ISI Impact Factor, 2.4, 2008) (Journal Info) (PDF)

[J07]    Jean-François Frigon, Ahmed ElTawil, Babak Daneshrad, Eugene Grayver, Yuan Li and Gennady Poberezhskiy, “Simulation, Implementation and Performance Evaluation of a Diversity Enabled WCDMA Mobile Terminal,” Springer Wireless Personal Communications Magazine, April 2007.

Remarks (5 year ISI Impact Factor, 0.42, 2008) (Journal Info) (PDF)

[J06]    D. Cabric, A. Eltawil, H. Zou, S. Mohan and B. Daneshrad, ”Wireless Field Trial Results of a Fast Hopping FHSS-FSK Testbed,” IEEE Journal on selected areas in communications JSAC, Vol. 23,  Issue 5,  pp.1113 – 1122, May. 2005.

Remarks (5 year ISI Impact Factor, 5.6, 2008) (Journal Info) (PDF)

[J05]    E. Grayver,; J.F. Frigon, A. M. Eltawil, A. Tarighat, K. Shoarinejad, A. Abbasfar, D. Cabric, B. Daneshrad, "Design and VLSI Implementation for a WCDMA Multipath Searcher," IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology, Vol. 54, Issue 3, pp. 889-902,  May 2005.

Remarks (5 year ISI Impact Factor, 2.24, 2008) (Journal Info) (PDF)

[J04]    A.M. Eltawil, B. Daneshrad,"A low-power DS-CDMA RAKE receiver utilizing resource allocation techniques," IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits, Vol. 39, pp. 1321 - 1330, Aug. 2004.

[J03]    Ahmed M. Eltawil and Ahmed M. Soliman, "A Low-Voltage Low-Power Rail-To-Rail Constant Gm Transconductance Amplifier," Analog Integrated Circuits and Signal Processing, Kluwer Academic Publishers, pp.129-39, vol.24, (no.2), July 2000.

[J02]    K. N. Salama, A. M. ElTawil, A.M. Soliman, H.O. Elwan, "CMOS Programmable Imager Implementing Pre-processing Operations ,“ Analog Integrated Circuits and Signal Processing, Kluwer Academic Publishers, p. 279-293, June 1999.

[J01]    A.M. Eltawil, A. S. Elwakil, "Low Voltage Chaotic Oscillator With An Approximate Cubic Nonlinearity," AEU - International Journal Of Electronics and Communication, p.158-60, vol.53, (no.3), 1999.

More information regarding the impact factor can be found at ISI - Thomson Scientific “http://scientific.thomson.com/isi/”

Conference Publications

2009

[C37] Chung-An Shen and Ahmed M. Eltawil, "An Adaptive Reduced Complexity K-Best Decoding Algorithm with Early Termination," To be published in proceedings of the IEEE Consumer Communications and Networking Conference, January, 2010.

Remarks (Accepted, August 2009) (PDF)

[C36] Avesta Sasan, Houman Homayoun, Ahmed Eltawil, Fadi Kurdahi," A Fault Tolerant Cache Architecture for Sub 500mV Operation: Resizable Data Composer Cache (RDC-Cache)," To be published in proceedings of the International Conference on Compilers, Architecture, and Synthesis for Embedded Systems (Cases2009).

Remarks (Accepted, August 2009) (PDF)

[C35] Hamid Eslami, Gaurav Patel, Chitaranjan P. Sukumar, Sang V. Tran, Ahmed M. Eltawil, Raghu Rao, Chris Dick,” Demonstration of Highly Programmable Downlink OFDMA (WiMax) Transceivers for SDR Systems,” in proceedings of the ACM International Symposium on Mobile Ad Hoc Networking and Computing (MobiHoc’09), Pages 325-326, May 2009.

Remarks (Submissions 175, Accepted 31/175=17.7 %) (PDF)                  

[C34]  Amir Hossein Gholamipour, Hamid Eslami, Ahmed Eltawil and Fadi Kurdahi," Size-Reconfiguration Delay Trade-offs for a Class of DSP Blocks in Multi-mode Communication Systems," in proceedings of IEEE Symposium on Field-Programmable Custom Computing Machines (FCCM 2009), April 2009.

Remarks: Acceptance rate currently not available (PDF)

[C33] M A Makhzan, H Homayoun, F Kurdahi and A Eltawil, “Process Variation Aware Cache for Aggressive Voltage-Frequency Scaling,” in proceedings of Design Automation and Test in Europe (DATE), Page(s):911 – 916,April 2009.

Remarks (Submissions 965, Accepted 226/965=23.4 %) (PDF)                 

[C32] Amin Khajeh, Aseem Gupta, Nikil Dutt, Fadi Kurdahi and Ahmed Eltawil, “TRAM: A Tool for Temperature and Reliability Aware Memory Design,” in proceedings of Design Automation and Test in Europe (DATE), Page(s):340 – 345, April 2009.

Remarks (Submissions 965, Accepted 226/965=23.4 %) (PDF)                

2008

[C31] S. Modal, K.N. Salama, and Ahmed M. Eltawil,” On the VLSI Implementation of Low Complexity K-Best MIMO Decoders,” Accepted to IEEE International Conference on Microelectronics (ICM ‘08), December 2008.

Remarks: Acceptance rate currently not available (PDF)

[C30] C. P. Sukumar, R. Merched, and A. Eltawil, "Joint Power Loading of Data and Pilots in OFDM using Imperfect Channel State Information at the Transmitter," in Proceedings of IEEE Global Telecommunications Conference, 2008. GLOBECOM '08, pp. 4550-4554, 2008.

Remarks (Submissions 2854, Accepted 1051/2854=36.8 %) (PDF)                  

[C29] A. S. Behbahani, and Ahmed Eltawil," On Channel Estimation and Capacity for Amplify and Forward Relay Networks," in proceedings of IEEE Global Telecommunications Conference, 2008. GLOBECOM '08, pp. 3685-3689, 2008.

Remarks (Submissions 2854, Accepted 1051/2854=36.8 %) (PDF)                  

[C28] Amin Khajeh, Minyoung Kim, , Nikil Dutt, Ahmed M. Eltawil, Fadi J. Kurdahi, “Cross-Layer Co-Exploration For Mobile Multimedia,” in proceedings of IEEE Workshop on Embedded Systems for Real-time Multimedia (ESTIMedia’08) in part of ESWEEK, pp. 13-18, Oct. 2008, Atlanta, GA, USA.

Remarks (Submissions 37, Accepted 18/37=48.6 %) (PDF)

[C27] Aseem Gupta, Amin Khajeh,  Nikil Dutt, Fadi Kurdahi and Ahmed Eltawil “ Managing Leakage Power and Reliability in Hot Chips Using System Floorplanning and SRAM Design,” International Workshop on Thermal Investigation of ICs and Systems, THERMINIC 2008. 14th, vol., no., pp.37-42, 24-26 Sept. 2008.

Remarks: IEEE workshop (PDF)

[C26] Mohammad A Makhzan (Avesta Sasan), Ahmed Eltawil, and Fadi J. Kurdahi, “Architectural and Algorithm level Fault Tolerant Techniques for Low Power High Yield Multimedia Devices”, International Conference on Embedded Computer Systems: Architectures, Modelling, and Simulation. SAMOS 2008, vol., no., pp.124-131, 21-24 July 2008.

Remarks (Submissions 79, Accepted 29/79=36.7 %) (PDF)

2007

[C25] Fadi Kurdahi, Ahmed Eltawil, Amin K. Djahromi, Mohammad Makhzan, and Stanley Cheng, "Error Aware Design,” in proceedings of the 10th Euromicro Conference on Digital System Design Architectures, Pages 8-15, Aug. 2007.

             Remarks (Submissions 172, Full papers 33/172=19.2 %, Short Papers 36/172 =20.9%, Posters 32/172=18.6%) (PDF)

[C24] Mohammad A Makhzan, Amin K. Djahromi, Fadi Kurdahi, Ahmed Eltawil, "Limits on voltage scaling for caches utilizing fault tolerant techniques," in proceedings of  IEEE ICCD, International Conference on Computer Design ’07, Page(s): 488-495, Oct. 2007.

             Remarks (Submissions 184, Full papers 54/184=29.3 %, Short Papers or Posters 30/184=16.3%) based on 06 data (PDF)

[C23] Alireza S. Behbahani, Ricardo Merched and Ahmed Eltawil, "On Signal Processing Methods for MIMO Relay Architectures," in proceedings of IEEE Global Telecommunications Conference, 2007. GLOBECOM '07, pp. 2967 – 2971, 26-30 Nov. 2007.

             Remarks (Submissions 2576, acceptance rate 1018/2576 = 39.5%) (PDF)

[C22] Amin Khajeh Djahromi, Stanley Cheng, Ahmed M. Eltawil, and Fadi J. Kurdahi, "Power Management for Cognitive Radio Platforms," in proceedings of IEEE Global Telecommunications Conference, 2007. GLOBECOM '07, pp. 4066 - 4070, 26-30 Nov. 2007.

             Remarks (Submissions 2576, acceptance rate 1018/2576 = 39.5%) (PDF)

[C21] Hamid Eslami and Ahmed M. Eltawil, "A Scalable Wireless Channel Emulator for Broadband MIMO Systems," in proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Communications ICC-2007, pp. 2592-2597, June, 2007.

             Remarks (Submissions 2600, acceptance rate = 983/2600= 37.8% ) (PDF)

[C20] Amin Khajeh Djahromi, Ahmed M. Eltawil, and Fadi J. Kurdahi, "Fault Tolerant Approaches Targeting Ultra Low Power Communications System Design," in proceedings of  the IEEE Vehicular Technology Conference (VTC07), pp. 2600 – 2604, April, 2007.

             Remarks (Submissions 1364, Full papers 481/1364= 35.2%, Short Papers or Posters 134/1364=9.8 %) (PDF)

[C19] Amin Khajeh Djahromi, Ahmed Eltawil, Fadi Kurdahi, Rouwaida Kanj "Cross Layer Error Exploitation for Aggressive Voltage Scaling," in proceedings of IEEE 8th International Symposium on Quality Electronic Design, ISQED '07, pp. 192-197, March 2007.

             Remarks (Submissions=292, acceptance rate 93/292 = 31.8%) (PDF)

[C18] Amin Khajeh Djahromi, Ahmed M. Eltawil, Fadi J. Kurdahi, "Exploiting Fault Tolerance Towards Power Efficient  Wireless Multimedia Applications," in proceedings of the IEEE Consumer Communications and Networking Conference, pp. 400-404,  8-10 January, 2007. 

             Remarks (Submissions 540, Full papers 181/540 = 33.5%, Short Papers or Posters  46/540 = 8.5 %) (PDF)

2006

[C17]  Fadi Kurdahi, Ahmed Eltawil, Kang Yi, Young-Hwan Park, Amin Khajeh Djahromi, and Yervant Zorian, "Accounting for Chip Yield at the Application Level" in proceedings of the IEEE Design for Manufacturability and Test (DFM&Y), Oct. 2006.

             Remarks: IEEE workshop. (PDF)   

[C16] Mohammad Makhzan, Fadi J. Kurdahi, Ahmed Eltawil, and Yervant Zorian," A Cross-layer approach to hardware error mitigation: A Case Study of a JPEG2000 Imaging Application," in proceedings of the IEEE International Design and Test Conference, Nov 19-20, 2006.     

             Remarks: IEEE workshop. (PDF)

[C15] Hamid Eslami and Ahmed M. Eltawil, "A Real-Time Wireless Channel Emulator For MIMO Systems," Vehicular Technology Conference, 2006. VTC-2006 Fall. 2006 IEEE 64th , vol., no., pp.1-5, Sept. 2006.

             Remarks (Submissions 1126, Full papers 409/1126= 36.3%, Short Papers or Posters 208/1126 = 18.4 %) (PDF)

[C14] Ahmed M. Eltawil and Fadi Kurdahi, “System Redundancy; A Means of Improving Process Variation Yield Degradation in Memory Arrays,” in proceedings of IEEE international symposium on VLSI design, automation and test (VLSI-DAT), April 2006.

             Remarks (Submissions 191, Full papers 49/191= 25.6%, Short Papers or Posters 23/191 = 12 %) (PDF)

[C13] Hamid Eslami and Ahmed M. Eltawil, "Implementation of a Carrier Frequency Recovery Loop for MIMO-CDMA Systems," in proceedings of IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference (WCNC), April, 2006.

             Remarks: acceptance rate not available (PDF)

[C12] F.J. Kurdahi, A.M. Eltawil, Young-Hwan Park ; R.N. Kanj, S.R. Nassif, "System-Level SRAM Yield Enhancement," in proceedings of IEEE 7th International Symposium on Quality Electronic Design, ISQED '06. pp.179 - 184, March 2006.

             Remarks: (BEST PAPER AWARD)

             Remarks: (Submissions 256, acceptance rate 93/256 = 36.3%) (PDF)

2005

[C11] Ahmed M. Eltawil and Fadi Kurdahi, “Improving Effective Yield Through Error Tolerant System Design,” in proceedings of IEEE International Conference on Electronics, Circuits and Systems (ICECS), Dec 2005.

             Remarks (Submissions 548, acceptance rate 340/548 = 62%) (PDF)

[C10] A. Eltawil, E. Grayver , A. Tarighat, J-F Frigon and A. Abbasfar, "Implementation of a Digital Timing Recovery Circuit for CDMA Applications," in proceedings of IEEE Custom Integrated Circuits Conference (CICC), pp. 73-76, Sept. 2005.

             Remarks (Submissions 350, acceptance rate 178/350 = 50.8%) (PDF)

[C09] A. Tarighat, E. Grayver, A. Eltawil, J-F. Frigon, G. Poberezhskiy, H. Zou, and B. Daneshrad, "A Low-Power ASIC Implementation of 2Mbps Antenna-Rake Combiner for WCDMA with MRC and LMS Capabilities," in proceedings of IEEE Custom Integrated Circuits Conference (CICC), pp 69-72, Sept. 2005.

             Remarks (Submissions 350, acceptance rate 178/350 = 50.8%) (PDF)

2004

[C08] Ahmed M. Eltawil, Eugene Grayver, Alireza Tarighat, Jean Francois Frigon, Kambiz Shoarinejad, Hanli Zou and Danijela Cabric,” Diversity Processing WCDMA Cell Searcher Implementation ,” in proceedings of IEEE Vehicular Technology Conference, Vol. 6,  pp. 3900-3904, Sept. 2004.

[C07] Eugene Grayver, Ahmed M. ElTawil, Jean François Frigon, Kambiz Shoarinejad, Ali-Azam Abbasfar, Danijela Cabric,” A novel multipath searcher implementation for WCDMA receivers,” in proceedings of IEEE international symposium on circuits and system ISCAS, Vol. 4 , pp. 93-6, May 2004.

2003

[C06] Ahmed M. Eltawil and Babak Daneshrad, “Modified All Digital Timing Tracking Loop for Wireless Applications,” in proceedings of IEEE International Conference on Communication (ICC), vol. 5, pp. 3550 – 3554, May 2003.

[C05] Eugene Grayver, Ahmed Eltawil, Hanli Zou, Yuan Li, Victor Lin and Babak Daneshrad, “Dual Antenna UMTS Mobile Transceiver SoC for 2MBs Data Rate,” Proceedings of the 2003 World Wireless Congress, May 2003.

[C04] Ahmed M. Eltawil, Eugene Grayver, Hanli Zou, Jean Francois Frigon, Gennady Poberezhskiy and Babak Daneshrad, “Dual Antenna UMTS Mobile Station Transceiver ASIC for 2 Mbps Data Rate,” in proceedings of IEEE International Solid-State Circuits Conference (ISSCC), vol. 46, pp. 146-47, Feb. 2003.

2002 and prior

[C03] Ahmed M. Eltawil and Babak Daneshrad, “Interpolation based direct digital frequency synthesis for wireless communications,” in proceedings of the IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference (WCNC), vol.1, pp.73-7, March 2002.

[C02] Ahmed M. Eltawil and Babak Daneshrad, “Piece-wise Parabolic Interpolation for Direct Digital Frequency Synthesis,” in proceedings of the IEEE Custom Integrated Circuits Conference (CICC), p. 401-4, May 2002.

[C01] A.A. El-Khatib, A.A. El-Gammal, A.M. El-Tawil, K.N. Salama, A.M. Soliman, H.O. Elwan, “A CMOS Programmable Silicon Retina Implementing Vision algorithms,” in proceedings 40th Midwest Symposium on Circuits and Systems, p.1178-1180, August 1997.

Book Chapters

[B4]    Kang Yi, Shih-Yang Cheng, Fadi Kurdahi and Ahmed Eltawil, “A Partial Memory Protection Scheme for Higher Effective Yield of Embedded Memory for Video Data” Accepted to Advances in Computer Systems Architecture, Springer Publishers,  2008. (PDF)

[B3]    Kang Yi, Shih-Yang Cheng, Young-Hwan Park, Fadi Kurdahi and Ahmed Eltawil, “An Alternative Organization of Defect Map for Defect-Resilient Embedded On-Chip Memories,” Advances in Computer Systems Architecture, Springer Publishers, Vol. 4697, 2007. (PDF)

[B2]    Kang Yi, Kyeong Hoon Jung, Shih-Yang Cheng, Young-Hwan Park, Fadi Kurdahi and Ahmed Eltawil, “Design and Analysis of Low Power Image Filters Toward Defect-Resilient Embedded Memories for Multimedia SoCs,” Advances in Computer Systems Architecture, Springer Publishers, Vol. 4186, 2006. (PDF)

[B1]    Babak Daneshrad and Ahmed M. Eltawil "Integrated Circuit Technologies for Wireless Communications," Wireless Multimedia Network Technologies, Kluwer Academic Publishers, Chapter 13, Sept. 1999.