Gulzaib Rafiq

University of Agder Faculty of Engineering and Science Mobile Communications Visiting address: Grimstad, Jon Lilletuns vei 9, Room A2 098 P.O.Box 509, NO-4898 Grimstad, Norway Phone: +47 37 23 34 22 Fax: +47 37 23 30 01 E-mail: gulzaib.rafiq at uia.no

Curriculum Vitae

Gulzaib Rafiq received his Bachelor's degree (BE) in Electrical Engineering (EE) in 2003 from the National University of Engineering Sciences and Technology (NUST), Pakistan. In 2006, he received the Master of Science degree (MS) in Electronics Engineering from Ghulam Ishaq Khan Institute of Engineering Sciences and Technology (GIK), Pakistan. He was awarded a merit certificate of excellence for securing second position in academics in BE. Moreover, he was also awarded gold medals both in BE and MS for making the best engineering design project and for being the best MS student by securing first position in academics in MS, respectively. In February 2011, he completed his PhD degree program in Information and Communication Technology (ICT) as well as successfully defended the PhD disputation at the University of Agder (UiA) in Grimstad, Norway. The research in his PhD was funded by the Research Council of Norway (Norges Forskningsråd, NFR) through the project 176773/S10 entitled “Optimized Heterogeneous Multiuser MIMO Networks - OptiMO". He has received two best research paper awards so far, one in the poster presentation and the other in the oral presentation category.

Since March 2011, he is employed at the Mobile Communications Group of UiA as a Research Fellow. His current research interests include mainly the PHY layer aspects of wireless communications, especially mobile radio channel modelling, multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) systems, machine-to-machine communications, performance studies of communication systems, and information theoretic analysis of mobile radio channels.

Publications

Book Chapter

1. G. Rafiq, B. O. Hogstad and M. Pätzold:
   Statistical properties of the capacity of double Nakagami-m channels for applications in V2V dualhop communication systems, in Vehicular Technologies: Increasing Connectivity, Edited by: Miguel Almeida, InTech, April 2011,
   ISBN 978-953-307-223-4

Journals

1. G. Rafiq, B. O. Hogstad, and M. Pätzold:
   On the first and second order statistics of the capacity of N*Nakagami-m channels,
   EURASIP - Wireless Communications and Networking, 2012, DOI:10.1186/1687-1499-2012-24.
2. G. Rafiq, V. Kontorovich, and M. Pätzold:
   The impact of spatial correlation on the statistical properties of the capacity of Nakagami-m channels with MRC and EGC,
   EURASIP - Wireless Communications and Networking, vol. 2011, Sep. 2011, DOI:10.1186/1687-1499-2011-116.
3. G. Rafiq and M. Pätzold:
   The impact of shadowing and the severity of fading on the first and second order statistics of the capacity of OSTBC MIMO Nakagami-lognormal channels,
   Wireless Personal Communications (WPC), DOI 10.1007/s11277-011-0275-x (online first), 2011.
4. G. Rafiq and M. Pätzold:
   The influence of LOS components on the statistical properties of the capacity of amplify-and-forward channels,
   Wireless Sensor Networks (WSN), invited paper, vol. 1, no. 1, pp. 7–14, April 2009.
5. G. Rafiq and M. Pätzold:
   A Study of the influence of shadowing on the statistical properties of the capacity of mobile radio channels,
   Wireless Personal Communications (WPC), vol. 50, no. 1, pp. 5–18, Jul. 2009.

Conferences

1. G. Rafiq and M. Pätzold:
   On the statistical properties of the capacity of OSTBC Nakagami lognormal MIMO channels,”
   in Proc. 4th International Conference on Signal Processing and Communication Systems, ICSPCS 2010, Gold Coast, Australia, Dec. 2010.
2. G. Rafiq and M. Pätzold:
   Statistical properties of the capacity of double Nakagami-M channels,
   Proc. 5th International Symposium on Wireless Pervasive Computing, ISWPC 2010, Modena, Italy, May 2010, pp. 39-44.
3. B. O. Hogstad, G. Rafiq, V. Kontorovitch, and M. Pätzold:
   Capacity studies of spatially correlated MIMO Rice channels,
   Proc. 5th International Symposium on Wireless Pervasive Computing, ISWPC 2010, Modena, Italy, May 2010, pp. 45-50.
4. G. Rafiq and M. Pätzold:
   The influence of severity of fading on the statistical properties of the capacity of Nakagami-M channels with MRC and EGC,
   Proc. European Wireless, EW 2010, Lucca, Italy, Apr. 2010.
5. G. Rafiq and M. Pätzold:
   Statistical properties of the capacity of Rice channels with MRC and EGC,
   Proc. International Conference on Wireless Communications and Signal Processing, WCSP 2009, Nanjing, China, Nov. 2009.
6. G. Rafiq and M. Pätzold:
   Statistical properties of the capacity of multipath fading channels,
   Proc. IEEE International Symposium on Personal, Indoor and Mobile Radio Communications, PIMRC 2009, Tokyo, Japan, Sept. 2009.
7. G. Rafiq and M. Pätzold:
   A study of the statistical properties of the envelope and the capacity of Rice-m channels,
   Proc. 12th International Symposium on Wireless Personal Multimedia Communications, WPMC 2009, Sendai, Japan, Sept. 2009.
8. G. Rafiq and M. Pätzold:
   The Infuence of Spatial Correlation and Severity of Fading on the Statistical Properties of the Capacity of OSTBC Nakagami-m MIMO channels,
   Proc. IEEE 69th Vehicular Technology Conference, IEEE VTC2009-Spring, Barcelona, Spain, Apr. 2009.
9. K. Mahmood, M. M. Ahmad, G. Rafiq, and M. J. Mughal:
   On the use of discrete wavelet transform for resolving channel impulse response,
   Proc. 6th IEEE International Bhurban Conference on Applied Sciences and Technology, IBCAST 2009, Islamabad, Pakistan, Jan. 2009.
10. G. Rafiq and M. Pätzold:
    The Influence of the Severity of Fading and Shadowing on the Statistical Properties of the Capacity of Nakagami-Lognormal Channels,
    Proc. IEEE Global Communications Conference, IEEE GLOBECOM 2008, New Orleans, LA, USA, Nov. /Dec. 2008.
    DOI 10.1109/GLOCOM.2008.ECP.824
11. G. Rafiq and M. Pätzold:
    On the Statistical Properties of the Capacity of Amplify-and-Forward Channels under LOS Conditions,
    Proc. 11th IEEE International Conference on Communications Systems (ICCS 2008), Guangzhou, China, Nov. 2008, pp. 1614–1619.
    DOI 10.1109/ICCS.2008.4737455
12. G. Rafiq, V. Kontorovich and M. Pätzold:
    On the Statistical Properties of the Capacity of Spatially Correlated Nakagami-m MIMO Channels,
    Proc. 67th IEEE Vehicular Technology Conference, VTC2008-Spring, Singapore, May. 2008, pp. 500–506.
13. G. Rafiq and M. Pätzold:
    The Impact of Shadowing on the Capacity of Mobile Fading Channels,
    Proc. 4th IEEE International Symposium on Wireless Communication Systems, ISWCS 2007, Trondheim, Norway, Oct. 2007, pp. 209–214.
    Remark: This paper won the " Best Student Paper Award" of the ISWCS'07 Conference.
14. Kashif Mahmood, M. J. Mughal, Gulzaib Rafiq
    Modelling of RF Transmission through Buildings Using MoM Based Semi-Deterministic Approach,
    2007 International Symposium on Antennas and Propagation, ISAP 2007, ISBN: 978-4-88552-223-9 C3055@IEICE.
    Remark: The IEICE awarded this paper with the " Poster Presentation Award".
15. Kashif Mahmood, Gulzaib Rafiq and M. Junaid Mughal:
    On the Use of Dual Tree Complex Wavelet Transform for Resolving Channel Impulse Response,
    IEEE AISPC'07 Conf., 2007, Denmark, ISBN:87-90834-99-2, ISSN 0908-1224.
16. K. Mahmood, G. Rafiq, M. J. Mughal:
    On the Effect of Mutual Interaction between the Walls for Modeling Radio Propagation in Indoor Environment,
    Proc. 5th International Bhurban Conference on Applied Sciences and Technology (IBCAST), Islamabad, Pakistan, January 2007.
17. K. Mahmood, G. Rafiq, M. J. Mughal:
    A MoM Based Semi-Deterministic Approach for Modelling Scattering from Building Faces,
    Proc. 10th IEEE International Multitopic Conference, INMIC 2006, Islamabad, Pakistan, December 2006.
18. G. Rafiq, M. J. Mughal:
    Scattering from a Building with Random Distribution of Windows on its Face,
    Proc. 9th IEEE International Multitopic Conference, INMIC 2005, Karachi, Pakistan, December 2005.
19. A. M. Kamboh, G. Rafiq, H. A. Fakhar, S. R. Kazmi:
    Development of a Real Time Supervisory Control and Data Acquisitioning System,
    Proc. 3rd International Bhurban Conference on Applied Sciences and Technology, IBCAST 2004, Bhurban, Murree, Pakistan, June 07-12, 2004.

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