Dr.-Ing. George Yammine
Research
Research Interests
- OFDM Transmission Systems
- MIMO and Multiuser Communications
- Noncoherent Detection Techniques
- Channel Coding and Coded Modulation
- Iterative Methods
Conferences
- G. Yammine and R. Fischer
Decision-Feedback Differential Detection with Optimum Detection Order Metric For Noncoherent Massive MIMO Systems
Proceedings of 28th European Signal Processing Conference, Amsterdam, Netherlands, August 2020
- G. Yammine and R. Fischer
Feedback-Aware Noncoherent Receivers for Massive MIMO Systems
Proceedings of 24th International ITG Workshop on Smart Antennas (WSA), Hamburg, Germany, February 2020
- S. Bucher, G. Yammine, R. Fischer and C. Waldschmidt
On the Impact of Hardware Impairments in Noncoherent Massive MIMO Systems
Proceedings of 24th International ITG Workshop on Smart Antennas (WSA), Hamburg, Germany, February 2020
- G. Yammine and R. Fischer
Optimization of Subspace Projection in Noncoherent Massive MIMO Systems
Proceedings of 12th International ITG Conference on Systems, Communications and Coding (SCC2019), Rostock, Germany, February 2019
- G. Yammine, S. Bucher and R. Fischer
Noncoherent Detection for an EM-Lens-Enabled Massive MIMO System
Proceedings of 12th International ITG Conference on Systems, Communications and Coding (SCC2019), Rostock, Germany, February 2019
- S. Bucher, A. Ragab, G. Yammine, R. Fischer and C. Waldschmidt
Antenna Design for Noncoherent Massive MIMO Systems
Proceedings of 15th International Symposium on Wireless Communication Systems (ISWCS 2018), Lisbon, Portugal, August 2018
- G. Yammine, S. Stern and R. Fischer
Precoding for MIMO Uplink Transmission Over EM-Lens-Based Correlated Channels
Proceedings of International ITG/IEEE Workshop on Smart Antennas (WSA) , Bochum, Germany, March 2018
- S. Bucher, G. Yammine, R. Fischer and C. Waldschmidt
Influence of Channel Parameters on Noncoherent Massive MIMO Systems
Proceedings of International ITG/IEEE Workshop on Smart Antennas (WSA) , Bochum, Germany, March 2018
- G. Yammine and R. Fischer
Performance/Complexity Comparison of SVD vs. SURV for Subspace Estimation in Noncoherent Massive MIMO
Proceedings of 14th International Symposium on Wireless Communication Systems (ISWCS 2017), Bologna, Italy, August 2017
- G. Yammine and R. Fischer
Soft-Decision Decoding in Noncoherent Massive MIMO Systems
Proceedings of International ITG/IEEE Workshop on Smart Antennas (WSA), Munich, Germany, March 2016
- G. Yammine, R. Fischer and C. Waldschmidt
On the Influence of the Antenna Pattern in Noncoherent Massive MIMO Systems
Proceedings of 12th International Symposium on Wireless Communication Systems (ISWCS 2015), Brussels, Belgium, August 2015
- C. Stierstorfer, R. Fischer and G. Yammine
Iterative Decision-Feedback in Non-coherent Multi-User Massive MIMO Systems
Proceedings of International ITG/IEEE Workshop on Smart Antennas (WSA), Ilmenau, Germany, March 2015 PDF Bibtex
- E. Peiker, G. Yammine, W.G. Teich and J. Lindner
Increasing the Bandwidth Efficiency of OFDM-N/MFSK
Proceedings of 18th International OFDM Workshop (InOWo’14), Essen, Germany, August 2014 PDF Bibtex
- G. Yammine, E. Peiker, W.G. Teich and J. Lindner
Improved Performance of Coded OFDM-MFSK Using Combined Alphabets and Extended Mapping
Proceedings of 8th International Symposium on Turbo Codes & Iterative Information Processing (ISTC), Bremen, Germany, August 2014 PDF Bibtex
Journals
- S. Bucher, G. Yammine, R. Fischer and C. Waldschmidt
A Noncoherent Massive MIMO System Employing Beamspace Techniques
IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology, vol. 68, no. 11, November 2019
ITG-Fachgruppe "Angewandte Informationstheorie"
- G. Yammine and R. Fischer
Noncoherent Detection in Massive MIMO Systems
26. Sitzung der ITG-Fachgruppe "Angewandte Informationstheorie", Massive MIMO: Theory and Applications, October 2015
Master Thesis
- A Comparision of Noncoherent Receivers Based on Different Modulation Schemes, Institute of Communications Engineering, Ulm University, May 2014
Awards
- ARGUS Science Award 2014, Airbus Defence and Space, October 2014
Teaching Assistance
Digital Communications
Signal Theory
- Winter Semester 2018/19
- Winter Semester 2017/18
Channel Coding
- Winter Semester 2019/20
Communications Engineering Seminar
- Winter Semester 2019/20
- Ahmed Badr, Channel Estimation in Massive MIMO Systems
- Summer Semester 2019
- Amr Aboushehata, Quantization in Digital Communications
- Winter Semester 2018/19
- Karim Elsayed, Channel Estimation: Theory and Practice
- Summer Semester 2018
- Christian Ziegler, Wireless Channel Modeling: An Overview
- Rahul Goswami, Massive MIMO: Opportunities and Challenges
- Winter Semester 2017/18
- Yasir Ahmed Pirkani, Massive MIMO: Opportunities and Challenges
- Summer Semester 2017
- Karim Sherif, Symmetric Key Cryptosystems using the DES Standard
- Winter Semester 2016/17
- Amarilda Demirlika, Key Exchange Using the Diffie-Hellmann Algorithm
- Winter Semester 2015/16
- Organization duties
Visuelle Kryptographie (Demo for Visiting Students)
- Summer Summester 2019
- Schüler-Ingenieur-Akademie Ulm
- Winter Semester 2018/19
- Studieninfotag Uni Ulm
- Winter Semester 2017/18
- Schüler-Ingenieur-Akademie Schwäbisch Gmünd
- Studieninfotag Uni Ulm
- Schüler-Ingenieur-Akademie Ulm
- Leopoldina: Nationale Akademie der Wissenschaften
- Winter Semester 2016/17
- Schüler-Ingenieur-Akademie Schwäbisch Gmünd
- Studieninfotag Uni Ulm
- Schüler-Ingenieur-Akademie Ulm
- Winter Semester 2015/16
- Schüler-Ingenieur-Akademie Schwäbisch Gmünd
- Studieninfotag Uni Ulm
- Schüler-Ingenieur-Akademie Ulm
- Aicher-Scholl-Kolleg Ulm
Open Topics
Bachelor/Master Theses
Open these topics can be found here.
Completed
Bachelor Thesis
- Implementierung eines Sphere-Decoders für differentielle Detektion
- Channel Estimation and Equalization in Coherent Massive MIMO
- A Design Toolkit for Prototyping Analog-to-Digital Converters for Use in Simulink
- Efficient Implementation of the Truncated SVD
Master Thesis
- Channel Estimation in 1-Bit Massive MIMO Systems
- Variants of Message-Passing Decoding for Low-Density Parity-Check Codes
- Message Passing Variants for Decoding of LDPC Codes in Noncoherent Massive MIMO
- Power-Space Profile Estimation in Noncoherent Massive MIMO
- High-Order Voltage-Controlled Oscillator-Based Analog-to-Digital Converters
Armadillo
Armadillo C++ linear algebra library is an open source library that combines speed and ease of use, by employing a syntax that is very similar to Matlab.
More information can be found on the project website.