Jahangir Hossain

Professor

Electrical
Office: EME4265
Phone: 250.807.9862
Email: jahangir.hossain@ubc.ca

Graduate student supervisor


Research Summary

Applications of machine learning and digital twins in 6G, Federated learning over wireless networks, Holographic MIMO, and Non-terrestrial networks (NTN)

Courses & Teaching

Applied machine learning, Communications systems; Signal processing; Wireless communications; Analysis and design of communication networks; Random variables; Stochastic processes

Biography

Dr. Hossain has held research fellow appointments at Institut national de la recherche scientifique (INRS), Canada, Institute for Telecommunications research (ITR), Australia and McGill University, Canada.  He has also gained  practical experiences towards developing contemporary wireless communication systems through his industrial appointments. In particular, he has worked at Intel Inc., USA as a research intern and at Redline Communications, Canada as a senior systems engineer. His research has focused on developing innovative communication technologies using machine learning and digital twins.  

Degrees

PhD, Electrical and Computer Engineering (University of British Columbia, Canada)
MASc., Electrical and Computer Engineering (University of Victoria, Canada)
BSc, Electrical and Electronic Engineering (ranked first, Bangladesh University of Engg. and Technol., Bangladesh)

Research Interests & Projects

  • Applications of machine learning and digital twins in 6G 
  • Energy efficient federated learning over wireless networks 
  • Holographic MIMO 
  • Integration of terrestrial and non-terrestrial networks (NTN) of global coverage 

Selected Publications & Presentations

  1. Al-Nahhas, M. Obeed, A. Chaaban, and Md. J. Hossain, “Performance of Multi-RIS-Aided cell-free massive MIMO: Do more RISs always help?” accepted in IEEE Transactions on Communications.
  2. Qiao, J. Zhang, Z. Gao, D. Zheng, Md. J. Hossain, Y. Gao, D. W. K. Ng, and M. D. Renzo, “Joint activity and blind information detection for UAV-assisted massive IoT access,” accepted IEEE Journal on Selected Areas on Communications.
  3. Hesham, A. Chaaban, H. ElSawy, and Md. J. Hossain, “Rate outage and meta-distribution for uplink networks in finite block-length regime,” IEEE Transactions on Veh. Technology, accepted.
  4. Hesham, A. Chaaban, H. ElSawy, and Md. J. Hossain, “Finite blocklength regime performance of downlink large scale networks,” accepted in IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications.
  5. S. Al-Abiad, Mohanad Obeed, M. J. Hossain, and Anas Chaaban, “Decentralized aggregation for energy-efficient federated learning via D2D communications,” accepted for publication in IEEE Transactions on Communications, Mar. 2023.
  6. S. Al-Abiad, M. Z. Hassan, and M. J. Hossain, “Energy efficient resource allocation for federated learning in NOMA enabled and relay-assisted internet of things networks”, in IEEE Internet of Things Journal, vol. 9, no. 24, pp. 24736-24753, Dec. 2022.
  7. S. Al-Abiad and M. J. Hossain, “Coordinated scheduling and decentralized federated learning using conflict clustering graphs in fog-assisted IoD networks,” in IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology, vol. 72, no. 3, pp. 3455-3472, Mar. 2023.
  8. S. Al-Abiad, M. Z. Hassan and M. J. Hossain, “Task offloading optimization in NOMA-enabled dual-hop mobile edge computing system using conflict graph,” in IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, vol. 22, no. 2, pp. 761-777, Feb. 2023
  9. S. Al-Abiad, M. Z. Hassan and M. J. Hossain, “Cross-Layer Network Codes for Completion Time Minimization in Device-to-Device Networks,” in IEEE Access, vol. 10, pp. 61567-61584, 2022.
  10. S. Al-Abiad, M. Z. Hassan and M. J. Hossain, “A joint reinforcement-learning enabled caching and cross-layer network code in F-RAN with D2D communications,” in IEEE Transactions on Communications, vol. 70, no. 7, pp. 4400-4416, July 2022.
  11. S. Al-Abiad and M. J. Hossain, “A low-complexity multicast scheduling for D2D-aided F-RANs using network coding,” IEEE Wireless Communications Letters, vol. 10, no. 11, pp. 2484-2488, Nov. 2021.
  12. S. Al-Abiad, M. Z. Hassan, and M. J. Hossain, “Throughput maximization of network-coded and multi-level cache-enabled heterogeneous network,” IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology vol. 70, no. 10, pp. 11039-11043, Oct. 2021.

Full list of publications (from Google Scholar) 

Professional Services/Affiliations/Committees

Editor for IEEE Transactions on Communications 

Editor for IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications 

Associate Editor for IEEE Communications Surveys and Tutorials 

 

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