Amir K. Khandani

6.9k total citations · 1 hit paper
245 papers, 4.0k citations indexed

About

Amir K. Khandani is a scholar working on Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Computer Networks and Communications and Artificial Intelligence. According to data from OpenAlex, Amir K. Khandani has authored 245 papers receiving a total of 4.0k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 215 papers in Electrical and Electronic Engineering, 185 papers in Computer Networks and Communications and 35 papers in Artificial Intelligence. Recurrent topics in Amir K. Khandani's work include Cooperative Communication and Network Coding (120 papers), Advanced Wireless Communication Techniques (100 papers) and Advanced MIMO Systems Optimization (99 papers). Amir K. Khandani is often cited by papers focused on Cooperative Communication and Network Coding (120 papers), Advanced Wireless Communication Techniques (100 papers) and Advanced MIMO Systems Optimization (99 papers). Amir K. Khandani collaborates with scholars based in Canada, United States and Iran. Amir K. Khandani's co-authors include Seyed Abolfazl Motahari, Mohammad Ali Maddah-Ali, Alireza Bayesteh, Amin Mobasher, Mahmoud Taherzadeh, Akbar Ghasemi, P. Kabal, Abdo Y. Alfakih, Henry Wolkowicz and Irene A. Goldthorpe and has published in prestigious journals such as IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, Physical Review A and IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing.

In The Last Decade

Amir K. Khandani

230 papers receiving 3.8k citations

Hit Papers

Communication Over MIMO X Channels: Interference Alignmen... 2008 2026 2014 2020 2008 200 400 600
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Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

  1. Communication Over MIMO X Channels: Interference Alignment, Decomposition, and Performance Analysis
    2008 638 citations Mohammad Ali Maddah-Ali, Seyed Abolfazl Motahari et al. IEEE Transactions on Information Theory profile →

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Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Amir K. Khandani Canada 31 3.5k 2.6k 430 376 165 245 4.0k
Robert F. H. Fischer Germany 24 4.7k 1.3× 3.2k 1.2× 334 0.8× 263 0.7× 130 0.8× 175 5.1k
Young-Han Kim United States 27 3.3k 0.9× 2.6k 1.0× 576 1.3× 145 0.4× 202 1.2× 155 4.2k
C.N. Georghiades United States 30 3.1k 0.9× 2.5k 0.9× 538 1.3× 125 0.3× 285 1.7× 176 3.6k
Ranjan K. Mallik India 37 4.9k 1.4× 4.0k 1.5× 239 0.6× 561 1.5× 72 0.4× 270 5.9k
Scott Hauck United States 34 2.1k 0.6× 2.4k 0.9× 485 1.1× 57 0.2× 291 1.8× 145 4.9k
A. Kavcic United States 28 1.8k 0.5× 1.7k 0.6× 668 1.6× 175 0.5× 64 0.4× 109 2.9k
M. Kavehrad United States 37 5.7k 1.6× 1.1k 0.4× 403 0.9× 777 2.1× 108 0.7× 275 5.9k
Karthikeyan Sankaralingam United States 35 1.9k 0.5× 3.4k 1.3× 439 1.0× 43 0.1× 259 1.6× 117 5.0k
Jaswinder Pal Singh United States 15 2.4k 0.7× 6.6k 2.5× 603 1.4× 35 0.1× 173 1.0× 34 8.3k
J.P. McGeehan United Kingdom 31 3.4k 1.0× 1.7k 0.7× 103 0.2× 1.0k 2.8× 84 0.5× 269 3.9k

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Khandani, Amir K., et al.. (2021). Rate Splitting and Successive Decoding for Gaussian Interference Channels. IEEE Transactions on Information Theory. 67(3). 1699–1731. 6 indexed citations
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Khandani, Amir K., et al.. (2021). Boundary of the Gaussian Han-Kobayashi Rate Region. IEEE Transactions on Information Theory. 67(4). 2034–2054. 1 indexed citations
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Khandani, Amir K., et al.. (2019). Delay in Cooperative Communications: Achieving Higher Multiplexing Gain in Gaussian Interference Channels With Full-Duplex Transmitters. IEEE Transactions on Information Theory. 65(12). 8250–8272. 1 indexed citations
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Khandani, Amir K., et al.. (2016). Arbitrarily Tight Bounds on Differential Entropy of Gaussian Mixtures. IEEE Transactions on Information Theory. 62(6). 3340–3354. 19 indexed citations
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Khandani, Amir K., et al.. (2014). A combined underlay and interweave strategy for cognitive radios. 1396–1400. 1 indexed citations
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Ghasemi, Akbar, et al.. (2014). An Alternative to Decoding Interference or Treating Interference as Gaussian Noise. IEEE Transactions on Information Theory. 61(1). 305–322. 8 indexed citations
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Khandani, Amir K.. (2013). Media-based modulation: A new approach to wireless transmission. 3050–3054. 107 indexed citations
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Motahari, Seyed Abolfazl, Shahab Oveis Gharan, Mohammad Ali Maddah-Ali, & Amir K. Khandani. (2009). Forming Pseudo-MIMO by Embedding Infinite Rational Dimensions Along a Single Real Line: Removing Barriers in Achieving the DOFs of Single Antenna Systems. arXiv (Cornell University). 18 indexed citations
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Motahari, Seyed Abolfazl, et al.. (2009). The secrecy capacity region of the degraded vector Gaussian broadcast channel. 2772–2776. 4 indexed citations
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Bahceci, Israfil & Amir K. Khandani. (2008). Linear estimation of correlated data in wireless sensor networks with optimum power allocation and analog modulation. IEEE Transactions on Communications. 56(7). 1146–1156. 73 indexed citations
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Pourahmadi, Vahid, Alireza Bayesteh, & Amir K. Khandani. (2008). Multilevel coding strategy for two-hop single-user networks. 115–119. 8 indexed citations
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Motahari, Seyed Abolfazl & Amir K. Khandani. (2008). Capacity bounds for the Gaussian Interference Channel. 250–254. 44 indexed citations
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Khandani, Amir K., et al.. (2007). Path Diversity over the Internet: Performance Analysis and Rate Allocation.
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Taherzadeh, Mahmoud, Amin Mobasher, & Amir K. Khandani. (2007). LLL Reduction Achieves the Receive Diversity in MIMO Decoding. IEEE Transactions on Information Theory. 53(12). 4801–4805. 136 indexed citations
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Abedi, Ali & Amir K. Khandani. (2006). A New Method for Performance Evaluation of Bit Decoding Algorithms Using Statistics of the Log Likelihood Ratio. 1–6.
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Mobasher, Amin, Mahmoud Taherzadeh, Renata Sotirov, & Amir K. Khandani. (2005). A RANDOMIZATION METHOD FOR QUASI MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD DECODING. 187(3). 184–184. 3 indexed citations
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Lahouti, Farshad & Amir K. Khandani. (2001). Sequence MMSE Source Decoding Over Noisy Channels Using the Residual Redundancies. 27(11). 749–50. 7 indexed citations
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Alfakih, Abdo Y., Amir K. Khandani, & Henry Wolkowicz. (1999). Solving Euclidean Distance Matrix Completion Problems Via Semidefinite Programming. Computational Optimization and Applications. 12(1-3). 13–30. 150 indexed citations
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Khandani, Amir K.. (1992). Shaping multi-dimensional signal spaces. eScholarship@McGill (McGill). 2 indexed citations

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