Publications

Ph.D. dissertation:

M. M. Naghsh, Radar Waveform Design for Detection Performance Improvement, Isfahan University of Technology, Nov. 21, 2013 (In Persian). (click here for the extended abstract in English)

Book chapter:

[B3] M. Alaee, A. Aubry, M. M. Naghsh, A. De Maio, and M. Modarres-Hashemi, Optimizing Radar Transceiver for Doppler Processing via Non-convex Optimization, to be appeared in Chapter 5 of Radar Waveform Design based on Optimization Theory, 2019.

[B2] A. Aubry, M. M. Naghsh, E. Raei, M. Alaee, and B. Shankar, A Computational Design of Phase-only (Possibly Binary) Sequences for Radar Systems, to be appeared as a Chapter in Radar Waveform Design based on Optimization Theory, 2019.

[B1] M. M. Naghsh and M. J. Omidi, Partial Response Signaling: A Powerful Tool for Spectral Shaping in Cognitive Radio Systems, a chapter in “Foundation of Cognitive Radio Systems”, InTech Open,  2012.

Journal papers:

[J29] Reza Ghaderi Zefreh, Mohammad Reza Taban, M. M. Naghsh, Saeed Gazor “Censoring Outliers in Elliptically Symmetric Multivariate Distribution”, vol. 199, Signal Processing, 2022.

[J28] Foozie Foroozmehr, Mahmoud Modarres-Hashemi, M. M. Naghsh, “Transmit Code and Receive Filter Design for PMCW Radars in the Presence of One-Bit ADC”, IEEE Transactions on Aerospace and Electronic systems, early Access, 2022.

[J27] Reza Ghaderi Zefreh, Mohammad Reza Taban, M. M. Naghsh, Saeed Gazor, “Robust CFAR Detector Based on Censored Harmonic Averaging in Heterogeneous Clutter”, IEEE Transactions on Aerospace and Electronic systems, vol. 57, 1956-1963, 2020.

[J26] Wenjie Huang, M. M. Naghsh, Ronghao Lin, Jian Li, “Doppler sensitive discrete-phase sequence set design for MIMO radar”, IEEE Transactions on Aerospace and Electronic systems, vol. 56, 4209-4223, 2020.

[J25] Hossein Vaezy, Mehdi Salehi Heydar Abad, Ozgur Ercetin, Halim Yanikomeroglu, Mohammad Javad Omidi, M. M. Naghsh, “Beamforming for maximal coverage in mmWave drones: A reinforcement learning approach”, IEEE Communication Letters, vol. 24, 2020.

[J24] M. M. Naghsh*, M. Masjedi, A. Adibi, and P. Stoica, "Max-Min Fairness Design for MIMO Interference Channels: a Minorization-Maximization Approach", IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, vol. 67, pp.4707-4719, 2019.

[J23] S. J. Zahabi, M. M. Naghsh, M. Modarres-Hashemi, and J. Li, "One-Bit Compressive Radar Sensing in the Presence of Clutter", IEEE Transactions on Aerospace and Electronic systems, vol. 56, pp. 167-185, 2019.

[J22] M. Alaee, M. Modarres-Hashemi, and M. M. Naghsh, "Designing Sets of Binary Sequences for MIMO Radar Systems", IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, vol. 67, No. 13, pp. 3347-3360, 2019.

[J21] H. Vaezy, M.J. Omidi, M. M. Naghsh, and H. Yanikomeroglu, "Energy Efficient Transceiver Design in MIMO Interference Channels: The Selfish, Unselfish, Worst-Case and Robust Methods", IEEE Transactions on Communications, In Press, 2019.

[J20] O. Rezaei, M. M. Naghsh, Z. Rezaei, and R. Zhang, "Throughput Optimization for Wireless Powered Interference Channels", IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, vol. 18, No. 7, pp. 2464-2476, 2019.

[J19] M. Masjedi, A. M. DoustHoseini, M. M. Naghsh, and S. Gazor, "Partially Blind Joint Channel Estimation and Symbol Detection in Amplify-and-Forward Two-Way Relay Systems", IEEE Transactions on communications, vol. 66, No. 12, pp. 5966-5975, 2018.

[J18] H. Vaezy, M. M. Naghsh, M. J. Omidi, and E. Alian, "Efficient Transmit Covariance Design in MIMO Interference Channel", IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology, vol. 67, No. 7, pp. 5793-5805 , 2018.

[J17] M. M. Naghsh, E. Alian, S. Khoobahi, and O. Rezaei, "A Majorization-Minimization Approach for Reducing Out-Of-Band Radiations in OFDM Systems", IEEE Communication Letters, In Press, 2017.

[J16] M. Alaee, A. Aubry, A. De Maio, M. M. Naghsh, M. Modarres-Hashemi, "A Coordinate-Descent Framework to Design Low PSL/ISL Sequences", IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, In Press, 2017.

[J15] M.M. Naghsh, M. Modarres-Hashemi, M. Alaee, and E. Alian, "An InformationTheoretic Approach to RobustConstrained Code Design for MIMO Radars",IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, In Press, 2017.

[J14] M. Soltanalian, M.M. Naghsh, N. Shariati, P. Stoica, and B. Hasibi, "Training Signal Design for Correlated Massive MIMO Channel Estimation",IEEE Transactions on Wireless communications, vol. 16, pp. 1135-1143, 2016.

[J13] M.M. Naghsh, M. Soltanalian, P. Stoica, M. Masjedi, and B. Ottersten, "Efficient Sum-Rate Maximization for Medium-Scale MIMO AF-Relay Networks", IEEE Transactions on Wireless communications, vol. 15, pp. 6400 – 6411, 2016.

[J12] A. Aubry, A. De Maio, and M.M. Naghsh, "Optimizing Radar Waveform and Doppler Filter Bank via Generalized Fractional Programming",IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Signal Processing, vol. 9, pp. 1387 - 1399, 2015 (Invited paper, an alphabetic order for the authors).

[J11] B. Tang, M.M. Naghsh, and J. Tang, "Relative Entropy-Based Waveform Design for MIMO Radar Detection in the Presence of Clutter and Interference",IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, vol. 63, pp. 3783 - 3796, 2015.

[J10] S. M. Karbasi, A. Aubry, V. Carotenuto and M. M. Naghsh, “Knowledge-based design of space–time transmit code and receive filter for a multiple-input–multiple-output radar in signal-dependent interference”, IET radar, sonar, and navigation, vol. 9, pp. 1124 - 1135, 2015.

[J9] M. M. Naghsh, M. Soltanalian, P. Stoica, and M. Modarres-Hashemi, “Radar code design for detection of moving targets”, IEEE Transactions on aerospace and electronic systems, vol. 50, pp. 2762 - 2778, 2014.

[J8] M. M. Naghsh, M. Soltanalian, P. Stoica, M. Modarres-Hashemi, A. De Maio, and A. Aubry, “A Doppler Robust Design of Transmit Sequence and Receive Filter in the Presence of Signal-Dependent Interference”, IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, vol. 62, pp. 772-785, 2014.

[J7] M. M. Naghsh, M. Modarres-Hashemi, S. ShahbazPanahi, M. Soltanalian, and P. Stoica, “Unified Optimization Framework for Multi-Static Radar Code Design using Information-theoretic Criteria”, IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, vol. 61, pp. 5401-5416, 2013.

[J6] M. Soltanalian, M. M. Naghsh, and P. Stoica, “On meeting peak correlation bounds”, IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, vol. 62, pp. 1210 – 1220, 2014.

[J5] M. Soltanalian, M. M. Naghsh, and P. Stoica, “A fast algorithm for designing complementary sets of sequences”, Signal Processing, vol. 93, pp.2096-2102, 2013.

[J4] M. M. Naghsh and M. Modarres-Hashemi, “Exact theoretical performance analysis of optimum detector in statistical MIMO Radars”, IET radar, sonar, and navigation, vol. 6, Iss. 2, pp. 99-111, 2011.

[J3] M. M. Naghsh and M. J. Omidi, “Reduction of Out of Band Radiation using Carrier-by-Carrier Partial Response Signaling in OFDM”, IET communications, Vol. 4, Iss. 12, pp. 1433-1442, 2010.

[J2] M. M. Naghsh and M. Modarres-Hashemi, “ISAR image formation based on minimum entropy criterion and Fractional Fourier transform”, IEICE Trans. on communication, vol. E92-B, No.8, pp. 2714-2722, 2009.

[J1] M. Modarres-Hashemi, M. Dorostgan, and M. M. Naghsh, “ISAR Image Improvement Using STFT Kernel Width Optimization Based On Minimum Entropy Criterion”, Amir-Kabir University journal, vol. 41, No. 2, pp. 9-17, 2009.

Conference papers:

[C23] Foozie Foroozmehr, M. M. Naghsh, Mahmoud Modarres-Hashemi, “Transmit Signal and Receive Filter Design of PMCW Radar with Low-Resolution ADC”, 2020 IEEE Radar Conference (RadarConf2020), 2020.

[C22] Omid Rezaei, Mahdi Ahmadi, M. M. Naghsh, “A Learning Approach to Design Binary Sequences with Good Correlation Properties”, 2020 IEEE Radar Conference (RadarConf2020), 2020.

[C21] M Alaee-Kerahroodi, B Shankar MR, MM Naghsh, B Ottersten, “CDM-MIMO in Next-Generation mmWave Automotive Radar Sensors”, Proceedings of URSI AP-RASC, 2019.

[C20] M. M. Kazemi, M. M. Naghsh, S. J. Zahabi, and J. Li “A Combinatorial Approach to One-Bit Compressive Radar Sensing’, in 52ndAsilomar Conference on Signals, Systems and Computers, Pacific Grove, CA, USA, 2018.

[C19] M. Alaee, M. Modarres-Hashemi, M.M. Naghsh, B. Shankar, and B. Ottersten, "Binary sequences set with small ISL for MIMO radar systems", 26th European Signal Processing Conference (EUSIPCO), 2018.

[C18] P. Kanani, M. M. Naghsh, and M. Masjedi, "Max-Min Fairness Energy Efficiency for Multi-User MIMO Wireless Powered Communication Networks", Electrical Engineering (ICEE), Iranian Conference on, 2018.

[C17] M Alaee, A Aubry, A De Maio, M. M. Naghsh, M Modarres-Hashemi, "Design of binary sequences with low PSL/ISL", 25th European Signal Processing Conference (EUSIPCO), 2017.

[C16] S. J. Zahabi, M. M. Naghsh, M. Modarres-Hashemi, and J. Li, "COMPRESSIVE PULSE-DOPPLER RADAR SENSING VIA 1-BIT SAMPLING WITH TIME-VARYING THRESHOLD", Accepted for presentation in ICASSP 2017.

[C15] J. Li, M. M. Naghsh, S. J. Zahabi, and M. Modarres-Hashemi, " Compressive Radar Sensing via One-Bit Sampling with Time-Varying Thresholds", Asilomar 2016.

 [C14] M.M. Naghsh, E. Alian, M. Modarres-Hashemi, and M. M. Nayebi "Cognitive MIMO radars: An information theoretic constrained code design method", EUSIPCO 2016, 2016. (Invited paper).

 [C13] M.M. Naghsh, M. Soltanalian, P. Stoica, M. Masjedi, and B. Ottersten, "Rate optimization for massive MIMO relay networks: A minorization-maximization approach", ICASSP 2016.

[C12] P. Kazemi, M. Modarres-Hashemi, and M. M. Naghsh, "Block compressive sensing in Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR)", 24th Iranian Conference on Electrical Engineering (ICEE), 2016.

[C11] M. Karbasi, M.M. Naghsh, and M. H. Bastani, "Transmit code design for extended target detection in the presence of clutter", ICASSP 2015, 2015.

[C10] M. M. Naghsh, M. Soltanalian, P. Stoica, M. Masjedi, B. Ottersten, "Rate optimization for massive MIMO relay networks: a minorization-maximization approach", IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP), China, 2016.

[C9] M. Soltanalian, P. Stoica, M. M. Naghsh, and A. De Maio, "Design of Piecewise Linear Polyphase Sequences with Good Correlation Properties", 22st European Signal Processing Conference (EUSIPCO),  Portugal, 2014.

[C8] M. M. Naghsh, M. Modarres-Hashemi, A. Sheikhi, M. Soltanalian, and P. Stoica, “Unimodular code design for MIMO radars using Bhattacharyya distance”, IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP), Italy, 2014.

[C7] M. M. Naghsh, M. Soltanalian, P. Stoica, M. Modarres-Hashemi, A. De Maio, and A. Aubry, “A max-min design of transmit sequence and receive filter”, IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP), Italy, 2014.

[C6] M. Soltanalian, M. M. Naghsh, and P. Stoica “Approaching peak correlation bounds via alternating projections”, IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP), Italy, 2014.

[C5] A. Aubry, A. De Maio, M. Piezzo, M. M. Naghsh, M. Soltanalian, and P. Stoica “Cognitive Radar Waveform Design for Spectral Coexistence in Signal-Dependent Interference”,  IEEE Radar Conference, 2014.

[C4] M. M. Naghsh, M. Modarres-Hashemi, S. ShahbazPanahi, M. Soltanalian, and P. Stoica, “Majorization-minimization technique for Multi-static radar code design”, 21st European Signal Processing Conference (EUSIPCO), Morocco, 2013.(*Shortlisted for the best student paper award--see [J7] above for the journal version).

[C3] M. M. Naghsh, M. Soltanalian, P. Stoica, and M. Modarres-Hashemi, “Radar code optimization for moving target detection”, 21st European Signal Processing Conference (EUSIPCO), Morocco, 2013.

[C2] M. Nader-Tehrani, M. Modarres-Hashemi, and M. M. Naghsh, “CFAR detection of spread spectrum LFM signals”, 17^th Iranian Conference on Electrical engineering, 2009, (In Persian).

[C1] M. M. Naghsh and M. Modarees-Hashemi, “ISAR image formation using Fractional Fourier Transform”, 16^th Iranian Conference on Electrical engineering, 2008, (In Persian).

Note: The provided drafts of the papers may only be used for research purposes.