Publications in Scientific Journals


B. Tahir, S. Schwarz, M. Rupp:
"Analysis of Uplink IRS-Assisted NOMA under Nakagami-m Fading via Moments Matching";
IEEE Wireless Communications Letters, 10 (2021), 3; 624 - 628.

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B. Tahir, S. Schwarz, M. Rupp:
"Constructing Grassmannian Frames by an Iterative Collision-Based Packing";
IEEE Signal Processing Letters, 26 (2019), 7; 1056 - 1060.

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S. Pratschner, B. Tahir, L. Marijanovic, M. Mussbah, K. Kirev, R. Nissel, S. Schwarz, M. Rupp:
"Versatile mobile communications simulation: the Vienna 5G Link Level Simulator";
EURASIP Journal on Wireless Communications and Networking, 2018 (2018), 1; 226 pages.

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Talks and Poster Presentations (with Proceedings-Entry)


B. Tahir, S. Schwarz, M. Rupp:
"Impact of Channel Correlation on Subspace-Based Activity Detection in Grant-Free NOMA";
Talk: 2022 IEEE 95th Vehicular Technology Conference (VTC2022-Spring), Helsinki (hybrid); 06-19-2022 - 06-22-2022; in: "Proceedings of the 95th IEEE Vehicular Technology Conference", (2022), ISBN: 978-1-6654-8243-1.

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S. Schwarz, B. Tahir:
"Non-Coherent Multi-Resolution Broadcasting using Grassmannian Product Codebooks";
Talk: ITG Workshop on Smart Antennas, Eurecom, French Riviera (invited); 11-10-2021 - 11-12-2021; in: "Proc. 25th International ITG Workshop on Smart Antennas 2021 (WSA 2021)", ITG-Fachbericht, 300 (2021), ISBN: 978-3-8007-5688-9; 1 - 6.

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B. Tahir, S. Schwarz, M. Rupp:
"RIS-Assisted Code-Domain MIMO-NOMA";
Talk: 29th European Signal Processing Conference (EUSIPCO), Dublin, Ireland (virtual); 08-23-2021 - 08-27-2021; in: "Proceedings of the 29th European Signal Processing Conference (EUSIPCO)", (2021), ISBN: 978-9-0827-9706-0; 821 - 825.

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B. Tahir, S. Schwarz, M. Rupp:
"Outage Analysis of Uplink IRS-Assisted NOMA under Elements Splitting";
Talk: 2021 IEEE 93rd Vehicular Technology Conference (VTC2021-Spring), Helsinki (virtual); 04-25-2021 - 04-28-2021; in: "Proceedings of the 93rd IEEE Vehicular Technology Conference", (2021), ISBN: 978-1-7281-8964-2.

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B. Tahir, S. Schwarz, M. Rupp:
"Collision Resilient V2X Communication via Grant-Free NOMA";
Talk: 28th European Signal Processing Conference (EUSIPCO 2020), Amsterdam, NL (virtual); 08-24-2020 - 08-28-2020; in: "Proceedings of the 28th European Signal Processing Conference (EUSIPCO)", (2020), ISBN: 978-9-0827-9705-3; 1732 - 1736.

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B. Tahir, S. Schwarz, M. Rupp:
"Low-Complexity Detection of Uplink NOMA by Exploiting Properties of the Propagation Channel";
Talk: IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC 2020), Dublin, Ireland (virtual); 06-07-2020 - 06-11-2020; in: "Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC 2020)", IEEE, (2020), ISBN: 978-1-7281-5089-5.

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B. Tahir, S. Schwarz, M. Rupp:
"Joint Codebook Design for Multi-Cell NOMA";
Poster: IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP 2019), Brighton, UK; 05-12-2019 - 05-17-2019; in: "Proceedings of the 44th IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP 2019)", IEEE Xplore, (2019), ISBN: 978-1-4799-8131-1; 4814 - 4818.

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S. Pratschner, M. K. Müller, F. Ademaj, A. Nabavi, B. Tahir, S. Schwarz, M. Rupp:
"Verification of the Vienna 5G Link and System Level Simulators and Their Interaction";
Talk: 16th IEEE Annual Consumer Communications & Networking Conference (CCNC), Las Vegas, NV, USA; 01-11-2019 - 01-14-2019; in: "Proceedings of the 16th IEEE Annual Consumer Communications & Networking Conference (CCNC)", IEEE (ed.); IEEE, Piscataway, NJ, USA (2019), ISBN: 978-1-5386-4070-8.

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B. Tahir, M. Rupp:
"New Construction and Performance Analysis of Polar Codes over AWGN Channels";
Talk: 24th International Conference on Telecommunications (ICT 2017), Limassol, Cyprus; 05-03-2017 - 05-05-2017; in: "Proceedings of the 24th International Conference on Telecommunications (ICT 2017)", IEEE Xplore, (2017), ISBN: 978-1-5386-0643-8.

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B. Tahir, S. Schwarz, M. Rupp:
"BER Comparison Between Convolutional, Turbo, LDPC, and Polar Codes";
Talk: 24th International Conference on Telecommunications (ICT 2017), Limassol, Cyprus; 05-03-2017 - 05-05-2017; in: "Proceedings of the 24th International Conference on Telecommunications (ICT 2017)", IEEE Xplore, (2017), ISBN: 978-1-5386-0643-8.

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Talks and Poster Presentations (without Proceedings-Entry)


M. Rupp, B. Tahir:
"Wireless Communications of the Future";
Keynote Lecture: International Conference on Smart Systems and Transport, Osijek, Croatia (invited); 10-14-2020 - 10-16-2020.

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M. Rupp, B. Tahir:
"Wireless Communications of the Future";
Keynote Lecture: ITSRC Conference, Bratislava (invited); 04-22-2020.

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M. Rupp, B. Tahir:
"Wireless Communications of the Future";
Talk: Seminar TU Dresden, Dresden, Germany (invited); 01-13-2020.

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Doctor's Theses (authored and supervised)


B. Tahir:
"Towards Massive Connectivity via Uplink Code-Domain NOMA";
Supervisor, Reviewer: S. Schwarz, M. Rupp, Db. da Costa, Y. Liu; Institute of Telecommunications, 2022; oral examination: 04-12-2022.

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Diploma and Master Theses (authored and supervised)


A. Fastenbauer:
"System level abstraction and evaluation of non-orthogonal multiple access transmissions";
Supervisor: S. Schwarz, B. Tahir; Telecommunications, 2021; final examination: 10-07-2021.

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K. Niederwanger:
"Evaluation of Intelligent Surfaces in Railroad Communication";
Supervisor: B. Tahir, S. Schwarz; Institute of Telecommunications, 2021; final examination: 10-07-2021.

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B. Tahir:
"Construction and Performance of Polar Codes for Transmission over the AWGN Channel";
Supervisor: M. Rupp, S. Schwarz; Institute of Telecommunications (E389), 2017; final examination: 11-17-2017.

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