Working papers in progress:

1. A. Nafkha,"Performance/Computational Complexity Trade-offs for Near Maximum Likelihood Detection of MIMO Systems" for Elsevier Signal Processing;
2. A. Nafkha,"An Efficient reconfigurable MIMO Detector Architecture" for IEEE Transactions on Very Large Scale Integration (VLSI) Systems;

Submitted:

1. M. Hentati, A. Nafkha, P. Leray, J-F. Nezan, M. Abid,"Software defined radio equipment: What’s the best design approach to reduce power consumption and increase reconfigurability?" submitted to Transactions on Systems, Signals and Devices 2011;
2. A. Nafkha, P. Leray, J. Palicot,"Monitoring Power Consumption and Temperature in FPGA using Run-Time Partial Reconfiguration" submitted to EURASIP Journal on Wireless Communications and Networking, Special Issue on Green Radio, 2011;
3. A. Nafkha, P. Leray, J. Palicot,"Monitoring Power Consumption and Temperature in FPGA using Run-Time Partial Reconfiguration" submitted to EURASIP Journal on Wireless Communications and Networking, Special Issue on Green Radio, 2011;

Book Chapters:

1. Chapter 11 of "Radio engineering - from software radio to cognitive radio", Jacques Palicot (Ed.), ISTE/WILEY, July 2011, ISBN: 978-1-84821-296;
2. Chaptre 15 of "Recent Advances in Wireless Communications and Networks", Jia-Chin Lin (Ed.), InTech, August 2011, ISBN: 978-953-307-274-6;
3. Chapter 11 of "De la radio logicielle à la radio intelligente", Jacques Palicot (Ed.), Collection Télécom, Lavoisier Librairie, June 2010 ; ISBN : 978-2-7462-2598-5;

Journal papers:

1. M. Mroue, A. Nafkha , J. Palicot, B. Gavalda, N. Dagorne, " Performance and Implementation Evaluation of TR PAPR Reduction Methods for DVB-T2", Int. J. Digital Multimedia Broadcasting. Volume 2010 (2010), Article ID 797393, 10 pages
2. Z. Khalaf, A. Nafkha , J. Palicot, M. Ghozzi, " Low Complexity Enhanced Hybrid Spectrum Sensing Architectures for Cognitive Radio Equipment", Int. Journal on Advances in Telecommunications, issn 1942-2601 vol. 3, no. 3 and 4, pp. 215-227, year 2010
3. A. Nafkha, E. Boutillon, C. Roland, "Quasi-Maximum-Likelihood Detector Based on Geometrical Diversification Greedy Intensification", IEEE Transactions on Communications, vol. 57, pp. 926-929, April 2009.
4. D. Gnaedig, E. Boutillon, E. Martin, A. Nafkha, J. Tousch, M. Jézéquel, N. Brengarth "Synthèse d'architecture pour la réalisation comportementale de l'algorithme MAP pour Turbo Décodeur", Les Annales des Télécommunications, vol. 59, n°3-4, pp 321-344, April 2004.

Spectrum sensing Papers:

1. Z. Khalaf, A. Nafkha, J. Palicot, "Blind Spectrum Detector for Cognitive Radio using Compressed Sensing", IEEE GLOBECOM 5-9 December 2011, Houston, Texas, USA;
2. Z. Khalaf, A. Nafkha, J. Palicot, "Blind Spectrum Detector for Cognitive Radio using Compressed Sensing", 54th IEEE International Midwest Symposium on Circuits and Systems (MWSCAS 2011), August 7-10 2011, Seoul, South Korea;
3. Z. Khalaf, A. Nafkha, J. Palicot, "Enhanced Hybrid Spectrum Sensing Architecture for Cognitive Radio Equipment", URSI GASS 2011, 13-20 August, Istanbul, Turkey;
4. Z. Khalaf, A. Nafkha, J. Palicot, M. Ghozzi, "Hybrid Spectrum Sensing Architecture for Cognitive Radio Equipment",Advanced International Conference on Telecommunications AICT 2010, 9-15 May, Barcelona, Spain; (Best Paper Award)

MIMO detection Papers:

1. Y. Mlayeh, F. Tlili, A. Nafkha, A. Ghazel,"2-Norm Condition Number Based Switching Algorithm in MIMO OFDM Systems", Second International Conference on Communications and Networking, Nov. 2010, Tozeur, Tunisie;
2. S. Aubert, F. Nouvel, A. Nafkha, "Complexity gain of QR Decomposition based Sphere Decoder in LTE receivers", Vehicular Technology Conference VTCfall'09, Sept. 2009, Anchorage, Alaska, USA;
3. S. Aubert, F. Nouvel, A. Nafkha, "Décodeur Sphérique associé à une décomposition QR à complexité réduite dans les systèmes MIMO-OFDM", In 22ème colloque GRETSI sur le traitement du signal et des images, Sept. 2009, Dijon, France;
4. A.Nafkha, E. Boutillon, C. Roland, "Near Maximum Likelihood Detection for MIMO systems using an intensification strategy over a BCH codes", International Conference on Smart Systems and Devices, Mar. 2007, Hammamet, Tunisie;
5. A.Nafkha, E. Boutillon, C. Roland, "A Near-Optimal Multiuser Detector for MC-CDMA systems Using Geometrical Approach", International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing ICASSP’05, Mar. 2005, Philadelphie, PA, USA;
6. A.Nafkha, E. Boutillon, C. Roland, "Un nouveau décodeur MIMO pour des transmissions MAQ utilisant une approche géométrique : HISD", 20ème colloque GRETSI sur le traitement du signal et des images, Sept. 2005, Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgique;

Reconfigurable computing Papers:

1. M. Hentati, A. Nafkha, X. Zhang, P. Leray, J-F. Nezan, M. Abid, "The Study of the impact of architecture design on cognitive radio", 8th Int. Multi-Conference on Systems, Signals and Devices (SSD 2011), 22-25 March, Sousse, Tunisie;
2. H. Wang, W. Jouini, A. Nafkha, J. Palicot, L. Cardoso, M. Debbah, "Blind Standard Identification with Bandwidth Shape and GI Recognition using USRP Platforms and SDR4all Tools", In Proc. of the International Conference on Cognitive Radio Oriented Wireless Networks and Communications, CrownCom'10, June 2010, Cannes, France;
3. I. Gomez, H. Wang, A. Nafkha, V. Marojevic, C. Moy, P. Leray, A. Gelonch, "Middleware Extension for Partial Reconfiguration Management in Cognitive Radios", In Proc. of the Workshop on Software Radio (WSR2010), Mar. 2010, Karlsruhe, Germany;
4. J. Delorme, A. Nafkha, P. Leray, C. Moy, "New OPBHWICAP interface for real-time Partial reconfiguration of FPGA", In Proc. of the International Conference on ReConFigurable Computing and FPGAs, ReConFig'09, Dec 2009, Cancun, Mexico;
5. D. Nussbaum, K. Kalfallah, R. Knopp, C. MOY, A. Nafkha, P. Leray, J. Delorme, J. Palicot, J. Martin, F. Clermidy, B. Mercier, R. Pacalet, "Open Platform for Prototyping of Advanced Software Defined Radio and Cognitive Radio Techniques", In Proc. of the 12th Euromicro Conference on Digital System Design, DSD’09, 27-29 Aug. 2009, Patras, Greece;
6. C. MOY, A. Nafkha, P. Leray, J. Delorme, J. Palicot, J. Martin, F. Clermidy, "FPGA Dynamic Partial Reconfiguration for very high Speed - RealTime 4G baseband Modem Based on a Network on Chip Architecture", In Proc. of SDRForum, Oct. 2008, Washington DC, USA;
7. J. Delorme, J. Martin, A. Nafkha, C. MOY, F. Clermidy, J. Palicot, "A FPGA partial reconfiguration design approach for cognitive radio based on NoC architecture", In The 3rd International IEEE-NEWCAS 2008 Conference, June 2008, Quebec, Canada;
8. A. Nafkha, J. Delorme, R. Seguier, C. MOY, J. Palicot, "A heterogeneous reconfigurable platform for cognitive radio systems", In Proc. of the Workshop on Software Radio (WSR2008), Mar. 2008, Karlsruhe, Germany;
9. A. Al Ghouwayel, Y. Louet, A. Nafkha, J. Palicot, "On the FPGA Implementation of the Fourier Transform over Finite Fields GF(2m)", in Proc. of IEEE International Symposium on Communications and Information Technologies ISCIT '07, Oct. 2007, Sydney, Australia;
10. A. Nafkha, R. Seguier, J. Palicot, C. MOY, J-P. Delahaye, "A Reconfigurable BaseBand Transmitter for Adaptive Image Coding", in Proc. of the 16th IST Mobile and Wireless Communication Summit, July 2007, Budapest, Hungary;

Other papers:

1. W. Jouini, R. Bollenbach, M. Guillet, C. Moy, A. Nafkha, "Reinforcement learning application scenario for Opportunistic Spectrum Access", 54th IEEE International Midwest Symposium on Circuits and Systems (MWSCAS 2011), August 7-10 2011, Seoul, South Korea;
2. P. Leray, A. Nafkha, C. Moy, "Implementation Scenario for Teaching Partial Reconfiguration of FPGA", 6th International Workshop on Reconfigurable Communication Centric Systems-on-Chip (ReCoSoC 2011), June 2011, Montpellier, France;
3. W. Jouini, A. Nafkha, M. Lopez-Benity, J. Pérez-Romero "Joint Learning-Detection Framework: an Empirical Analysis", In Pro. of the Joint COST2100 and IC0902 Workshop on Cognitive Radio and Networking, Nov. 2010, Bologna, Italy;
4. M. Mroue, A. Nafkha, J. Palicot, B. Gavalda, N. Dagonne, "An Innovative Low Complexity PAPR Reduction TR-based Technique for DVB-T2 System", In Pro. of the International Congress on Ultra Modern Telecommunications and Control Systems, Oct. 2010, Moscow, Russia;
5. X. Zhang, A. Nafkha, P. Leray, "Energy efficiency in dynamically reconfigurable SoC for data-parallel applications", In Pro. of the Int. Conference on Design and Technology of Integrated Systems in Nanoscale Era, DTIS'2010, Mar. 2010, Hammamet, Tunisia;
6. P. Coussy, D. Gnaedig, A. Nafkha, A. Baganne, E. Boutillon, E. Martin, "A Methodoly for IP integration in DSP Soc: a case study of a MAP algorithm for turbo decoder", In Pro. of the Int. Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing ICASSP'04, May 2004, Montréal, Canada;

Patents:

1. A.Nafkha, E. Boutillon, "Procédé de décodage de codes matriciels, module de décodage associé, et applications mettant en ouvre un tel procédé" Brevet Français n° 05 02664 du 17.03.2005.

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