Publications

Journal Papers

  • [J10] A. Maatouk, M. Assaad, and A. Ephremides, “Age-Aware Stochastic Hybrid Systems: Stability, Solutions, and Applications,” submitted to IEEE Transactions on Information Theory
  • [J9] A. Maatouk, M. Assaad, and A. Ephremides, “The Age of Incorrect Information: an Enabler of Semantics-Empowered Communication,” IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, Oct. 2022
  • [J8] A. Maatouk, Y. Sun, A. Ephremides, and M. Assaad, “Timely Updates with Priorities: Lexicographic Age Optimality,” IEEE Transactions on Communications, vol. 70, no. 5, pp. 3020-3033, May 2022
  • [J7] S. Kriouile, M. Assaad, and A. Maatouk, “On the Global Optimality of Whittle’s Index Policy for Minimizing The Age of Information,” IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, vol. 68, no. 1, pp. 572-600, Jan. 2022
  • [J6] A. Maatouk, S. Kriouile, M. Assaad, and A. Ephremides, “On The Optimality of The Whittle’s Index Policy For Minimizing The Age of Information,” IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, vol. 20, no. 2, pp. 1263-1277, Feb. 2021
  • [J5] A. Maatouk, S. Kriouile, M. Assaad, and A. Ephremides, “The Age of Incorrect Information: A New Performance Metric for Status Updates,” IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking, pp. 1–14, Oct. 2020
  • [J4] A. Maatouk, M. Assaad, and A. Ephremides, “On The Age of Information in a CSMA Environment,” IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking, vol. 28, no. 2, pp. 818–831, Apr. 2020
  • [J3] A. Maatouk, M. Assaad, and A. Ephremides, “Energy Efficient and Throughput Optimal CSMA Scheme,” IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking, vol. 27, no. 1, pp. 316–329, Jan. 2019
  • [J2] A. Maatouk, S. E. Hajri, M. Assaad, and H. Sari, “On Optimal Scheduling for Joint Spatial Division and Multiplexing Approach in FDD Massive MIMO,” IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, vol. 67, no. 4, pp. 1006–1021, Dec. 2018
  • [J1] A. Maatouk, E. Caliskan, M. Assaad, M. Koca, G. Gui, and H. Sari, “Frequency-Domain NOMA With Two Sets of Orthogonal Signal Waveforms,” IEEE Communications Letters, vol. 22, no. 5, pp. 906–909, Feb. 2018

Conference Proceedings

  • [C12] A. Maatouk, M. Assaad, and A. Ephremides “Analysis of an Age-Dependent Stochastic Hybrid System,” in IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory (ISIT), 2022, pp. 150-155
  • [C11] A. Maatouk, M. Assaad, and A. Ephremides “Semantics-Empowered Communications Through the Age of Incorrect Information,” in IEEE International Conference on Communications, 2022, pp. 3995-4000
  • [C10] A. Maatouk, Y. Sun, A. Ephremides, and M. Assaad “Status Updates with Priorities: Lexicographic Optimality,” in 2020 18th International Symposium on Modeling and Optimization in Mobile, Ad Hoc, and Wireless Networks (WiOPT), pp. 1–8, 2020
  • [C9] A. Maatouk, S. Kriouile, M. Assaad, and A. Ephremides “Asymptotically Optimal Scheduling Policy For Minimizing The Age of Information,” in 2020 IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory (ISIT), pp. 1747–1752, 2020
  • [C8] A. Maatouk, M. Assaad and A. Ephremides, “Minimizing The Age of Information in a CSMA Environment,” in 2019 International Symposium on Modeling and Optimization in Mobile, Ad Hoc, and Wireless Networks (WiOPT), pp. 1– 8, 2019
  • [C7] A. Maatouk, M. Assaad and A. Ephremides, “Minimizing The Age of Information: NOMA or OMA?,” in IEEE INFOCOM 2019 IEEE Conference on Computer Communications Workshops (INFOCOM WKSHPS), pp. 102–108, 2019
  • [C6] A. Maatouk, M. Assaad and A. Ephremides, “Age of Information With Prioritized Streams: When to Buffer Preempted Packets?,” in 2019 IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory (ISIT), pp. 325–329, 2019
  • [C5] A. Maatouk, M. Assaad and A. Ephremides, “The Age of Updates in a Simple Relay Network,” in 2018 IEEE Information Theory Workshop (ITW), pp. 1–5, 2018
  • [C4] E. Caliskan, A. Maatouk, M. Koca, M. Assaad, G. Gui and H. Sari, “A Simple NOMA Scheme with Optimum Detection,” in 2018 IEEE Global Communications Conference (GLOBECOM), pp. 1–6, 2018
  • [C3] J. Denis, A. Maatouk, S. E. Hajri and M. Assaad, “Stay Longer at the Network’s Edge: A Novel Proactive Caching Policy through Sojourn Time,” in 2018 IEEE Global Communications Conference (GLOBECOM), pp. 1–6, 2018
  • [C2] A. Maatouk, S. E. Hajri, M. Assaad, H. Sari and S. Sezginer, “Graph Theory Based Approach to Users Grouping and Downlink Scheduling in FDD Massive MIMO,” in 2018 IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC), pp. 1–7, 2018
  • [C1] H. Sari, A. Maatouk, E. Caliskan, M. Assaad, M. Koca and G. Gui, “On the foundation of NOMA and its application to 5G cellular networks,” in 2018 IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference, pp. 1-6, 2018

PhD Thesis and Slides