Centre for Wireless Communications

Mehdi Bennis

Ph.D., BeFemto Research Manager

Research Interests

Femtocell Networks, Small Cell Networks, Self-Organizing Wireless Networks, Dynamic Radio Resource Allocation, Game Theory, Learning Theory, Stochastic Geometry

Upcoming/recent talks

- Invited BeFEMTO paper at Wireless VITAE conference, Chennai, India (Feb. 2011)
- The Japan-EU Symposium on the "New Generation Network" and the "Future Internet", Tampere, Finland, 20/10/2010.
- IEEE ASILOMAR, Pacific Grove, USA, 06/11/2010.
- IEEE GLOBECOM, FEMNET workshop, Miami, USA, 06/12/2010.

Publications

Journal Papers:

(J9) M. Bennis, S. M. Perlaza, Z. Han, H. V. Poor," How to self-organize in dense small cells?," (manuscript in preparation)

(J8) C. H. Lima, M. Bennis and M. Latva-aho," Coordination Mechanisms for Self-Organizing Femtocells in Two-Tier Coexistence Scenarios," (to appear) IEEE Transaction in Wireless Comunications, June 2012.

(J7) F. Pantisano, M. Bennis, W. Saad, and M. Debbah, "Cooperative Interference Alignment: To Cooperate or Not to Cooperate," (Submitted) to IEEE Transaction on Wireless Communications, 2011.

(J6) F. Pantisano, M. Bennis, W. Saad, and M. Debbah, "Spectrum Leasing as an Incentive towards Uplink Interference Mitigation in Two-tier Femtocell Networks," in IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications, special issue on Femtocells, April 2012.

(J5) M. Bennis, S. Lasaulce and M. Debbah, "Inter-operator spectrum sharing from a game theoretical perspective," EURASIP journal of signal processing, special issue on dynamic spectrum access, 2009.

(J4) M. Bennis, C. Wijting, S. Abedi, S. Thilakawardana, "Performance Evaluation of Advanced Spectrum Functionalities for Future Radio Networks," Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing, Special Issue on Cognitive Radio and Advanced Spectrum Management (September 2008).

(J3) M. Bennis, J.-P Kermoal, P. Ojanen, J. Lara, S. Thilakawardana, S. Abedi and R. Pintenet, "Spectrum Development Scenarios and Advanced Functionalities Development in WINNER," Wireless Personal Communication Journal, Springer (September 2007).

(J2) M. Bennis, G. Middleton and J. Lilleberg, "Efficient Resource Allocation and Paving the Way Towards Highly Efficient IMT-Advanced Systems," Wireless Personal Communication Journal, Springer (March 2008).

(J1) M. Bennis, C. Wijting, J.-P Kermoal, P. Ojanen, J. Lara, S. Thilakawardana, S. Abedi and R. Pintenet, "Performance Assessment of Advanced Spectrum Functionalities for Future Radio Networks," Wiley WCMC Special Issue on Cognitive Radio and Advanced Spectrum Management, 2008.

Book Chapters:

M. Bennis, D. Niyato and T. Alpcan, "Distributed Learning Strategies for Femtocell Networks," Femtocell networks: deployment, PHY techniques, and resource management. Cambridge, 2012.

J. Vihriala and M. Bennis, " Mobile and Wireless Communications for IMT-A & beyond: Spectrum Sharing, book chapter, Wiley, December 2011.

M. Bennis, S. M. Perlaza and M. Debbah, "Game Theory and Femtocell Communications: Making Network Deployment Feasible," Femtocell Communications: Business Opportunities and Deployment Challenges. IGI Global, USA, 2011.

M. Bennis, S. Lasaulce and M. Debbah, "Hierarchical power allocation games," Game Theory for Wireless Communications and Networking, Auerbach Publications, Taylor and Francis Group, CRC Press, September 2010.

M. Bennis, C. Wijting, S. Thilakawardana, S. Abedi, "Sharing and Flexible Spectrum Use Capabilities," book chapter, Wiley, September 2009.

Conference Papers:

(C38) F. Pantisano, M. Bennis, W. Saad, M. Debbah, and M. Latva-aho, "On the Impact of the Heterogeneous Backhaul on Cooperation in Femtocell Networks" ," IEEE International Conference on Communications, Jun. 2012, Ottawa, Canada.

(C37) F. Pantisano, M. Bennis, W. Saad, M. Latva-aho and R.Verdone, "Enabling Macrocell-Femtocell Coexistence through Interference Draining," IEEE WCNC (BeFEMTO Workshop), Apr. 2012, Paris, France.

(C36) S. Samarakoon, M. Bennis, W. Saad and M. Latva-aho, "Enabling Relaying over Heteregeneous bakhauls in the Uplink of Femtocell Networks," IEEE Wiopt, 2012.

(C35) M. Bennis, S.M. Perlaza and M. Debbah, "Learning Coarse-Correlated Equilibria in Two-Tier Networks," IEEE ICC, Ottawa, Canada 2012.

(C34) M. Bennis, S. Guruacharya and D. Niyato, "Distributed Learning Strategies for Interference Mitigation in Femtocell Networks," IEEE GLOBECOM, Houston, USA 2011.

(C33) F. Pantisano, M. Bennis, W. Saad, and M. Debbah, "'Cooperative Interference Alignment in Femtocell Networks," IEEE GLOBECOM, Houston, USA 2011.

(C32) C. H. Lima, M. Bennis, and M. Latva-aho, "'Coordination Mechanisms for Stand-Alone Femtocells in Self-Organizing Deployments," IEEE GLOBECOM, Houston, USA 2011.

(C31) M. Bennis, L. Giupponi, E. Mino, M. Lalam, M. Maqbool, E. Strinati, A. De Domenico and M. Latva-aho, "Interference Management in Self-Organized Femtocell Networks: the BeFEMTO approach," IEEE WIRELESS VITAE 2011, Feb. 27-Mar. 3, Chennai, India. (invited paper)

(C30) M. Bennis and S. M. Perlaza, "Decentralized Cross-Tier Interference Mitigation in Cognitive Femtocell Networks," IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC), Kioto, Japan, June, 2011.

(C29) M. Bennis and Dusit Niyato, " A Q-learning based approach to interference avoidance in self-organized femtocell networks," 1st IEEE International Workshop on Femtocell Networks (FEMnet) in co njunction with IEEE GLOBECOM 2010, Miami, FL, USA.

(C28) M. Bennis and M. Debbah "On spectrum sharing with underlaid femtocell networks," The Second IEEE International Workshop on Indoor and Outdoor FemtoCells in conjunction with IEEE PIMRC, 26 September 2010, Istanbul, Turkey.

(C27) F. Pantisano, M. Bennis, W. Saad, R. Verdone and M. Latva-aho, "Coalition Formation Games for Femtocell Interference Management: A Recursive Core Approach," IEEE WCNC, Cancun, Mexico 28-31 March 2011.

(C26) F. Pantisano, M. Bennis, R. Verdone and M. Latva-aho, "Interference Management in Femtocell Networks Using Distributed Opportunistic Cooperation," accepted at  VTC2011-Spring BeFEMTO Workshop 2011, 15 May. Budapest, Hungary.

(C25) F. Pantisano, M. Bennis, R. Verdone and M. Latva-aho, "Interference Management in 3GPP Femtocell Networks Using Distributed Opportunistic Cooperation," presented at NEWCOM++/COST2100 ,11th Management Committee Meeting 2010, Nov. 22-25th, Bologna, Italy.

(C24) F. Pantisano, K. Ghaboosi, M. Bennis and R. Verdone, "A Self-Organizing Solution for Interference Avoidance in TDD Underlay Femtocells," IEEE ASILOMAR Conference on Signals, Systems, and Computers, 2010.

(C23) F. Pantisano, K. Ghaboosi, M. Bennis and M. Latva-aho, "Interference Avoidance via Resource Scheduling in TDD Underlay Femtocells," IEEE PIMRC (IOFC), Istanbul, Turkey, 26-29 September 2010.

(C22) M. Nazir, M. Bennis, K. Ghaboosi, A. Mackenzie and M. Latva-aho, "Learning based mechanisms for interference mitigation in self-organized femtocell networks," IEEE ASILOMAR Conference on Signals, Systems, and Computers, 2010.

(C21) C. Lima, K. Ghaboosi, M. Bennis, A. Mackenzie and M. Latva-aho, "A Stochastic association mechanism for macro-to-femtocell handover," IEEE ASILOMAR Conference on Signals, Systems, and Computers, 2010.

(C20) C. Lima, K. Ghaboosi, M. Bennis, A. Mackenzie and M. Latva-aho, "Joint admission control and interference avoidance in self-organized femtocells," IEEE ASILOMAR Conference on Signals, Systems, and Computers, 2010.

(C19) C. Lima, M. Bennis, K. Ghaboosi and M. Latva-aho "Interference Management for Self-Organized Femtocells Towards Green Networks," IEEE PIMRC (W-GREEN), 26-29 September, Istanbul, Turkey.

(C18) C. Lima, M. Bennis, K. Ghaboosi and M. Latva-aho "Interference analysis for self-organized femtocells in indoor deployments," 1st IEEE International Workshop on Femtocell Networks (FEMnet) in conjunction with IEEE GLOBECOM 2010, Miami, FL, USA.

(C17) M. Bennis, S. Lasaulce, M. Debbah and A. Anpalagan "A hierarchical approach to inter-operator spectrum sharing," IEEE Globecom 2009, 30 November - 4 December 2009, Hawaii, USA.

(C16) M. Bennis, M. Debbah and J. Lilleberg "Inter-operator spectrum sharing using pricing," WPMC 2009, September 7 - 10, Sendai, Japan.

(C15) J. Vihriala, M. Bennis, I. Cosovic, A. Osseiran, and A. Saul, "Flexible Spectrum Use for IMT-Advanced: WINNER+ Spectrum Concept," ICT-MobileSummit Conference, June 2009, Santander, Spain.

(C14) M. Bennis, J. Lilleberg and M. Debbah, "Spectrum Sharing Games on the Interference Channel," Fourth IEEE Workshop on Advanced Signal Processing for Wireless Communication Systems (invited talk), Nokia Research Center, Copenhagen, Denmark, February 12 - 13, 2009.

(C13) M. Bennis, J. Lilleberg and M. Debbah, "Spectrum Sharing Games on the Interference Channel," IEEE Gamenets, Istanbul, Turkey, May 13 - 15, 2009.

M. Bennis, J. Lara and A. Tolli, "WINNER Spectrum Sharing with FSS," IEEE VTC, Barcelona, Spain, April 26 - 29, 2009.

(C12) M. Bennis, J. Lilleberg and M. Debbah, "Opportunistic Power Allocation for Point-to-Point Communication," IEEE ASILOMAR, Pacific Grove, USA, October 26 - 29, 2008.

(C11) M. Bennis, J. Lara and A. Tolli, "Non-Cooperative Operators from a Game Theoretic Approach," IEEE PIMRC, Cannes, France, September 15 - 18, 2008.

(C10) I. Suliman, J. Lehtomaki, J. Vartiainen, M. Bennis, K. Umebayashi, "Direct communication between terminals in infrastructure based networks," ICT-MobileSummit 2008, June 10-12, 2008, Stockholm, Sweden.

(C09) M. Bennis, C. Wijting, J.-P Kermoal, P. Ojanen, J. Lara, S. Thilakawardana, S. Abedi and R. Pintenet, "Performance Assessment of Advanced Spectrum Functionalities for Future Radio Networks," WPMC, Lapland, Finland, September 8 - 11, 2008.

(C08) M. Bennis, J. Lilleberg, "Resource Sharing and Paving the Way towards More Efficient Network Topologies," Conference for Information Sciences and Systems (CISS), Baltimore, USA, March 14 - 16, 2007.

(C07) M. Bennis and J. Lilleberg, "Resource Sharing and improving the efficiency of beyond 3G systems," IEEE 66th Vehicular Technology Conference (VTC), Baltimore, USA, September 30 - October 3,2007.

(C06) M. Bennis, E. Karami and J. Lilleberg, "Performance of MIMO Receivers under channel estimation errors," IEEE 18th Symposium on Personal, Indoor and Mobile Radio Communications (PIMRC), Athens, Greece, September 3 - 7, 2007.

(C05) M. Bennis and J. Lilleberg, "On the integration of resource sharing and relaying paradigms to improve the efficiency of beyond 3G systems," IEEE Sixth International Conference on Information, Communications and Signal Processing (ICICS), Singapore, December 10 - 13, 2007.

(C04) M. Bennis, G. Middleton and J. Lilleberg, "Efficient Resource Allocation and Relaying Paradigms for IMT-Advanced Systems," 10th International Symposium on Wireless Personal Multimedia Communications (WPMC), Jaipur, India, December 3 - 6, 2007.

(C03) M. Bennis, C. Wijting, J.-P Kermoal, P. Ojanen, J. Lara, S. Thilakawardana, S. Abedi and R. Pintenet, "Dynamic Spectrum Management for Future Radio Networks," 19th Wireless World Research Forum (WWRF), Chennai, India, November 5 - 7, 2007.

(C02) J.-P. Kermoal, P. Ojanen (Nokia), J. Lara, S. Thilakawardana, S. Abedi (Fujitsu), R. Pintenet (Motorola), M. Bennis and K. Hooli (university of Oulu), "Novel Flexible Spectrum Use Capabilities of WINNER," Wireless Web Initiative (WWI), Helsinki, 2006.

(C01) J.-P. Kermoal, P. Ojanen, J. Lara, S. Thilakawardana, S. Abedi, R. Pintenet, M. Bennis and K. Hooli, "Research Update on Spectrum Management in EU WINNER," Wireless World Research Forum 17 (WWRF), Heidelberg, Germany, 2006.

(C31) M. Bennis, T. Matsumoto, "Convergence Tracking of MMSE Turbo-Equalization with Serial-Concatenated Multi-Dimensional Single Parity-Check Codes," IEEE Workshop on Smart Antennas, University of Ulm, Germany, March 13 - 14, 2006.

(C32) M. Bennis, J. Lilleberg, "Inter-Operator Resource Sharing for 3G Networks and Beyond," 9th IEEE Symposium on Spread Spectrum Techniques and Applications (ISSSTA), Manaus, Brazil, August 28 - 31, 2006.

(C33) M. Bennis, T. Matsumoto, "Performance of MMSE Turbo Equalization using Multi-Dimensional Single Parity-Check Codes in SIMO Frequency-Selective Fading Channels," IEEE International Workshop on Convergent Technologies (IWCT), Oulu, Finland, June, 2005.