Publications

Thesis

[t2] T. Elkourdi, "Distributed Spectrum Leasing via Cooperation", Ph.D. Dissertation, New Jersey Institute of Technology, Newark, NJ, USA, 2011.

[t1] T. Elkourdi, "Optimal Design of Cognitive Radio Networks", Masters Thesis, New Jersey Institute of Technology, Newark, NJ, USA, 2008.

Conferences

[c3] T. Elkourdi and O. Simeone,  “Outage and Diversity-Multiplexing Trade-off Analysis of Closed and Open-Access Femtocells,” in Proc.  IEEE GLOBECOM 2010,  Miami, FL, Dec. 6-10, 2010.

[c2] T. Elkourdi, O. Simeone,"An Information-Theoretic View of Spectrum Leasing via Secondary Cooperation", in Proc. International Communications Conference (ICC), Cape town, South Africa, May 2010.

[c1] T. Elkourdi, O. Simeone, "Impact of Secondary MAC Cooperation on Spectrum Sharing in Cognitive Radio Networks", in Proc. Conference on Information Sciences and Systems (CISS), Baltimore, MA, Mar. 18-20, 2009. Slides.

Journals

[j1] T. Elkourdi and O. Simeone, “Femtocell as a Relay: An Outage Analysis,” to appear in IEEE Trans. Wireless Commun.

[j2] T. Elkourdi and O. Simeone, "Spectrum Leasing via Interference Forwarding," submitted to IEEE Trans. Veh. Technol.

[j3] T. Elkourdi and O. Simeone, "Spectrum Leasing via Cooperation with Multiple Primary Users" to appear in IEEE Trans. Veh. Technol.

Patents

[p1] T. Elkourdi and O. Simeone, "A Method for Uplink Transmissions of a Macrocell Overlaid with a Femtocell", pending patent, Aug. 2010.

[p2] T. Elkourdi and O. Simeone, "A Method for Cooperative Interference Management in Spectrum Leasing", pending patent, Jul. 2011.

[p3] T. Elkourdi and O. Simeone, "A Method for Spectrum Leasing with Multiple Primary Users", pending patent, Jul. 2011.