Ahmed Mahmood

Ahmed Mahmood

PhD | Research Lead

Research Interests & Publication Page

Research Interests

  • Communication Theory
  • Estimation & Detection Theory
  • Error Control Coding & Information Theory
  • Robust Signal Processing
  • Underwater Acoustic Communications & Signal Processing
  • Underwater Acoustic Networks
  • Learning Methods for Oceanic Data
  • Spatiotemporal Signal Processing
  • Numerical Methods
  • Spatial Statistics
  • Time-Series Analysis
  • Non-Gaussian Modeling

Publications

Journals

  1. A. Mahmood, M. Chitre, and V. Hari, “Locally optimal inspired detection in snapping shrimp noise,” IEEE Journal of Oceanic Engineering, vol. 42, pp. 1049-1062, August 2017.
  2. A. Mahmood and M. Chitre, “Ambient Noise in Warm Shallow Waters: A Communications Perspective,” IEEE Communications Magazine, vol. 55, pp. 198-204, June 2017.
  3. A. Mahmood and M. Chitre, “Generating Random Variates for Stable Sub-Gaussian Processes with Memory,” Signal Processing, vol. 131, pp. 271-279, February 2017.
  4. A. Mahmood and M. Chitre, “Optimal and Near-Optimal Detection in Bursty Impulsive Noise,” IEEE Journal of Oceanic Engineering, vol. 42, pp. 639-653, October 2016.
  5. A. Mahmood, M. Chitre, and M. Armand, “Detecting OFDM Signals in Alpha-Stable Noise,” IEEE Transactions on Communications, vol. 62, no. 10, pp. 3571-3583, 2014.
  6. A. Mahmood, M. Chitre, and M. Armand, “On Single-Carrier Communication in Additive White Symmetric Alpha-Stable Noise,” IEEE Transactions on Communications, vol. 62, no. 10, pp. 3584-3599, 2014.
  7. A. Mahmood, M. Chitre, and M. Armand, “PSK communication with passband additive symmetric α-stable noise,” IEEE Transactions on Communications, vol. 60, no. 10, pp. 2990-3000, 2012.

Invited Papers, Talks and Abstracts

  1. A. Mahmood and M. Chitre, “Detecting OSDM Signals in Sparse Channels and Snapping Shrimp Noise,” accepted to IEEE Underwater Communications and Networking (UComms) 2018.
  2. A. Mahmood and M. Chitre, “Uncoded Acoustic Communication in Shallow Waters with Bursty Impulsive Noise,” in Underwater Communications Networking (Ucomms 2016), (Lerici, Italy), September 2016.
  3. A. Mahmood, V. Hari, and M. Chitre, “Model-Based Signal Detection in Snapping Shrimp Noise,” in Underwater Communications Networking (Ucomms 2016), (Lerici, Italy), September 2016.
  4. A. Mahmood, M. Chitre, and M. Armand, “Improving PSK performance in snapping shrimp noise with rotated constellations,” in WUWNet’12: 7th ACM International Conference on Underwater Networks & Systems, (Los Angeles, USA), pp. 1-8, November 2012.
  5. M. Chitre, A. Mahmood, and M. Armand, “Coherent communications in snapping-shrimp dominated ambient noise environments,” in Acoustics 2012 Hong Kong Conference and Exhibition, vol. 131, p. 3277, May 2012.

Conferences

  1. A. Mahmood and M. Chitre and H. Vishnu, “Spatial Ambient Noise Inversion Using a Single Hydrophone,” in OCEANS 2018 MTS/IEEE, (Kobe, Japan), May, 2018.
  2. Y.M Too, A. Mahmood and M. Chitre, “Feasibility of using acoustic scintillation due to underwater turbulence to measure flow speed,” in OCEANS 2018 MTS/IEEE, (Kobe, Japan), May, 2018.
  3. V. Kalaiarasu, V. Hari, A. Mahmood, and M. Chitre, “Predicting underwater acoustic network variability using machine learning techniques,” in OCEANS 2017 MTS/IEEE, (Anchorage, Alaska), 2017.
  4. A. Mahmood, M. Chitre, and V. Hari, “Spatial Ambient Noise Inversion Using a Single Hydrophone,” in OCEANS 2017 MTS/IEEE, (Anchorage, Alaska), 2017.
  5. A. Mahmood and M. Chitre, “Robust Communication in Bursty Impulsive Noise and Rayleigh Block Fading,” in WUWNet ‘16, (Shanghai, China), September 2016.
  6. A. Mahmood and M. Chitre, “Temporal Analysis of Stationary Markov α-sub-Gaussian Noise,” in OCEANS 2016 MTS/IEEE, (Monterey, CA, USA), September 2016.
  7. R. Agrawal, M. Chitre, and A. Mahmood, “Design of an Address Assignment and Resolution Protocol for Underwater Networks,” in OCEANS 2016 MTS/IEEE, (Shanghai, China), April 2016.
  8. A. Mahmood and M. Chitre, “Modeling Colored Impulsive Noise by Markov Chains and Alpha-Stable Processes,” in OCEANS 2015 MTS/IEEE, (Genoa, Italy), May 2015.
  9. A. Mahmood, M. Chitre, and M. Armand, “Maximum-likelihood detection performance of uncoded OFDM in impulsive noise,” in Global Telecommunications Conference (GLOBECOM 2013), 2013 IEEE, (Atlanta, GA, USA), December 2013.
  10. A. Mahmood, M. Chitre, and M. Armand, “Baseband characterization of additive white symmetric α-stable noise,” in Proceedings of IEEE GLOBECOM 2012, (Anaheim, CA, USA), pp. 3703-3708, December 2012.

PhD Thesis

A. Mahmood, Digital Communications in Additive White Symmetric Alpha-Stable Noise. PhD thesis, National University of Singapore, 2014. online