Dr. Hussain Mahdi

AFFILIATION:
Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia

INVITED TALK :
“Channel Estimation for OFDM Wireless Systems Using Intelligent Swarm Optimization”

TALK ABSTRACT:
Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing (OFDM) and Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiple Access (OFDMA) have gained incredible interest in last decade since it is spectrally efficient, inherent to Inter-System Interference (ISI), and robustness against multipath fading. This can be achieved by having efficient channel estimation (CE) methods such as Minimum Mean Square Error (MMSE) estimation that produces accurate channel information based on previously known channel statistical information but introduce higher computational complexity, using Blind, Semi-Blind and Pilot Assisted CE techniques. Moreover, low complexity channel state information (CSI) estimation techniques, such as Least Square (LS), are not efficient and may degrade BER performance. Thus, in order to increase the spectrum efficiency and reducing computational complexity in OFDM/OFDMA based wireless system such as LTE/LTE-A, the minimum number of pilots should be determined. The main objective of the research is to develop and evaluate a low complexity and spectrally efficient channel estimation methods using intelligent swarm optimization for OFDM/OFDMA based wireless system. Two intelligent swarm’s optimization methods have been adopted; Particle Swarm Optimization (PSO), and Flower Pollination Optimization (FPO) due to their simplicity as compared to MMSE with respect to the number of mathematical operations.

BRIEF BIOGRAPHY:
Dr. Hussain Mahdi is from IEEE Malaysia Section, Postdoc Scholar in electrical engineering at the Electronic Department, faculty of engineering, Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia (UKM). He joined IEEE almost 6 years ago and since then had a number of opportunities and experiences. The enthusiasm and volunteerism surrounding IEEE encouraged me to actively take part in different relevant activities.

HUSSAIN FALIH MAHDI
Ph.D. Dept. of Electrical, Electronic & Systems Eng. National University Of Malaysia
Adviser of IEEE UKM Student Branch
IEEE Malaysia Section Young Professional HTA  Chair
IEEE Region 10 Young Professionals  South-east Asia Coordinator
IEEE Region 10 Humanitarian Technology Activities Committee
IEEE PES Young Professionals Committee Academic Liaison