Joumana Kassam

Academic position:	Researcher
Joining date:	01-01-2019
Roles in IT:	Researcher
Thematic Line:	Wireless Technologies
Group:	Mobile Networks – Av

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Address: IT – Aveiro
Instituto de Telecomunicações
Campus Universitário de Santiago
P-3810-193 AVEIRO - PORTUGAL
Tel: +351 234 377 900

https://www.orcid.org/0000-0002-3320-0370

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21-08-2024

Innovative research in future communication systems won the CSNDSP 2024 Best Paper Award

The Best Paper Award at the 14th International Symposium on Communication Systems, Networks and Digital Signal Processing (CSNDSP 2024), held in Rome, Italy, was bestowed upon the co-authors Joumana Kassam, Daniel Castanheira, Adão Silva, Rui Dinis, and Atílio Gameiro.

Scientific Achievements

Degrees

PhD, Universidade de Aveiro, 03-03-2025
MSc, Universidade de Aveiro, 16-12-2019

Publications

1Books Chapters

J. Kassam, D. Castanheira, A. Silva, R. Dinis, A. Gameiro, Cell-Free Massive MIMO Technology and Applications in 6G, Chapter in, Massive MIMO for Future Wireless Communication Systems: Technology and Applications, Wiley-IEEE Press, *, 2025

5Papers in Journals

J. Kassam, D. Castanheira, A. Silva, R. Dinis, A. Gameiro, Sequential Hybrid Beamforming for Radio Stripes, IEEE Access, Vol. 13, No., pp. 90476 - 90488, May, 2025 | BibTex
J. Kassam, D. Castanheira, A. Silva, R. Dinis, A. Gameiro, Joint Decoding and UE-APs Association for Scalable Cell-Free Systems, IEEE Transactions on Communications, Vol. 71, No. 12, pp. 7303 - 7315, December, 2023 | BibTex
J. Kassam, D. Castanheira, A. Silva, R. Dinis, A. Gameiro, A Review on Cell-Free Massive MIMO Systems, Electronics, Vol. 12, No. 4, pp. 1001 - 10018, February, 2023 | BibTex
J. Kassam, D. Castanheira, A. Silva, R. Dinis, A. Gameiro, Distributed Hybrid Equalization for Cooperative millimeter-Wave Cell-Free massive MIMO, IEEE Transactions on Communications, Vol. 70, No. 8, pp. 5300 - 5316, August, 2022 | BibTex
J. Kassam, M. Miri, R. M. Magueta, D. Castanheira, P. Pedrosa, A. Silva, R. Dinis, A. Gameiro, Two-Step Multiuser Equalization for Hybrid mmWave Massive MIMO GFDM Systems, Electronics, Vol. 9, No. 8, pp. 12 - 20, August, 2020 | BibTex

4Papers in Conferences

J. Kassam, D. Castanheira, A. Silva, R. Dinis, A. Gameiro, Hybrid Equalization for mmWave Cell-Free Radio Stripes-based Systems, 14th IEEE/IET International Symposium on Communication Systems, Networks and Digital Signal Processing CSNDSP CSNDSP2024, Rome, Italy, July, 2024 | BibTex
J. Kassam, D. Castanheira, A. Silva, R. Dinis, A. Gameiro, Centralized Hybrid Equalization for Cell Free mMIMO mmWave based Systems, 13th IEEE/IET International Symposium on Communication Systems, Networks and Digital Signal Processing CSNDSP, Porto, Portugal, July, 2022 | BibTex
J. Kassam, D. Castanheira, A. Silva, R. Dinis, A. Gameiro, Hybrid Multi-User Equalization and Analog Precoder for Uplink mmWave Cell Free Systems, IEEE Vehicular Technology Conference: VTC2022-Spring, Helsinki, Finland, June, 2022 | BibTex
J. Kassam, M. Miri, R. M. Magueta, D. Castanheira, A. Silva, A. Gameiro, Hybrid Multiuser Equalizer for mmWave Massive MIMO GFDM Systems, 12th IEEE/IET International Symposium on Communication Systems, Networks and Digital Signal Processing- CSNDSP, Porto, Portugal, July, 2020 | BibTex

Projects

Currently running projects2

Acronym	Name	Funding Agency	Start date	Ending date
6G-MUSICAL	6G MUltiband Wireless and Optical Signalling for Integrated CommunicAtions, Sensing and Localization (6G-MUSICAL)	EU	01-01-2024	31-12-2026
REVOLUTION	REVOLUTIONIZING RADAR THROUGH COMMUNICATIONS TOWARDS ENVIRONMENT SENSING	FCT/PTDC	01-03-2023	28-02-2026

Closed Projects1

Acronym	Name	Funding Agency	Start date	Ending date
MASSIVE5G	Multi-band Access Strategies for 5G Cooperative Networks	FCT/POCI	01-06-2018	28-02-2022

Other Scientific Achievements

1Awards

J. Kassam, D. Castanheira, A. Silva, R. Dinis, A. Gameiro, Hybrid Equalization for mmWave Cell-Free Radio Stripes-based Systems, Best Paper Award at 14th International Symposium on Communication Systems, Networks and Digital Signal Processing (CSNDSP) 2024 Conference, Rome, Italy, 01-07-2024