Syed Ali Jafar

Education

Stanford University, Stanford CA

99-03

PhD in Electrical Engineering
Thesis: Fundamental Capacity Limits of Multiple Antenna Wireless Systems
Advisor: Prof. Andrea J. Goldsmith
Associate Advisor: Prof. Thomas Cover

California Institute of Technology (CALTECH) , Pasadena, CA

98-99

M.S. in Electrical Engineering

Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi, India

93-97

B.Tech. in Electrical Engineering
Minor Area: Computer Science

Experience

University of California, Irvine , CA

Professor, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science.

Teaching
- Spring 2004, 2005, 2006: ECE 224 - Wireless Communications.
- Spring 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016: ECE 242 - Information Theory.
- Winter 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, Spring 2013: EECS 70A - Network Analysis.
- Winter 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2016: EECS 150A/150 - Continuous Time Signals and Systems.
- Spring 2014, 2015, 2016: EECS50 - Discrete Time Signals and Systems.
- Winter 2011: EECS 140 - Engineering Probability.
Research Advising (Current)
- Hua Sun (PhD student)
- Arash Gholami Davoodi (PhD student)
- Bofeng Yuan (PhD student)
- Zhen Chen (PhD student)
- Zhuqing Jia (PhD student)
- Yao-Chia Chan (PhD student)
Research Advising (Alumni)
- Sudhir Srinivasa (Marvell Tech.)
- Krishna Gomadam (Broadcom)
- Aydin Sezgin (Professor, Ruhr-Universitat Bochum, Germany)
- Chiachi Huang (Assistant Professor, Yuan Ze University, Taiwan)
- Cenk M. Yetis (Assistant Professor, Mevlana University, Turkey)
- Xiaoshi Song (Assistant Professor, Northeastern University, China)
- Viveck Cadambe (Assistant Professor of EE at Pennsylvania State University)
- Tiangao Gou (Samsung US R&D Center).
- Chenwei Wang (Docomo Labs USA).
- Hamed Maleki (Samsung US R&D Center).
- Sundar Rajan Krishnamurthy (Qualcomm).
- Chunhua Geng (Bell Labs).

Qualcomm Incorporated, San Diego, CA

03-04

Senior Engineer, Qualcomm Technology and Ventures Group
Access channel design for 4G cellular standard 802.20.

Lucent Bell Labs, Crawford Hill, NJ

2001

Summer Intern, Wireless Research Group
Cellular downlink admission control (PhantomNet).

Hughes Software Systems, India

97-98

Software Engineer, Satellite Networks Division
System software for cellular air to ground communication system.

Patents

Wireless communication system with interference compensation, United States Patent 6937843, Aug 30, 2005, Joint inventor with G. Foschini, Lucent Bell Labs.
Wireless communication system with imposed order on terminals, United States Patent 7006795, Feb 28, 2006, Joint inventor with G. Foschini, Lucent Bell Labs.

Tutorials

Syed A. Jafar, ``Robust Interference Management: An Information Theoretic Perspective', ITG workshop on Emerging Trends in 5G, Bochum, Germany, 2016.
Syed A. Jafar, ``Interference Management: An Information Theoretic View", 8th Annual North American School of Information Theory, San Diego, 2015.
Syed A. Jafar, ``Fundamental Limits of Robust Interference Management", IEEE GLOBECOM 2015, San Diego, USA.
Syed A. Jafar, ``Interference Alignment: A Unified View of Signal Dimensions across Wireless and Wired Interference Networks'', IEEE GLOBECOM 2013, Anaheim, USA.
Syed A. Jafar, ``Interference Alignment: State of Art'', IEEE GLOBECOM 2012, Anaheim, USA.
Syed A. Jafar, ``Interference Alignment: A New Look at Signal Dimensions in a Communication Network'', 12th International Symposium on Communications and Information Technologies, ISCIT 2012.
Syed A. Jafar, ``Interference Alignment: A New Look at Signal Dimensions in a Communication Network'', IEEE GLOBECOM 2011, Houston, Texas, USA.
Syed A. Jafar, ``Interference Alignment: A New Look at Signal Dimensions in a Communication Network'', IEEE PIMRC, Sep. 2011, Toronto, Canada.
Syed A. Jafar, ``Interference Alignment'', IEEE Vehicular Technology Conference, Sep. 2011, San Francisco, CA.
Syed A. Jafar, ``Interference Alignment'', IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory (ISIT), June 2010, Austin, TX.
Syed A. Jafar, ``How to Deal with Interference in Wireless Networks - Recent Insights from Network Information Theory'', IEEE Symposia on New Frontiers in Dynamic Spectrum Access Networks (DYSPAN), April 2010, Singapore.
A. Goldsmith, S. Jafar, N. Jindal, S. Vishwanath, ``Capacity limits of MIMO systems'', IEEE Global Conference on Communications (GLOBECOM), 2005, St. Louis, MO.
A. Goldsmith, S. Jafar, N. Jindal, S. Vishwanath, ``Capacity limits of MIMO Systems'', IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory, 2005, Adelaide, Australia.
A. Ghrayeb, G. Giannakis, A. Goldsmith, S. Jafar, N. Jindal, R. Valenzuela, S. Vishwanath, S. Zhou, ``Theory and practice of MIMO: Promises and Realities'', IEEE Global Conference on Communications (GLOBECOM), 2004, Dallas, TX.

Honors

IEEE GLOBECOM Best Paper Award 2016.
Jack Keil Wolf ISIT Student Paper Award 2016 (Hua Sun for C123)
Thomson Reuters Highly Cited Researcher 2016.
New York Academy of Sciences Blavatnik National Laureate in Physical Sciences and Engineering 2015.
UCI Academic Senate Distinguished Mid-Career Faculty Award for Research 2015.
School of Engineering Mid-Career Excellence in Research Award for 2015.
IEEE Communications Society Heinrich Hertz Prize Paper Award 2015.
IEEE Signal Processing Society Young Author Paper Award 2015 (C. Wang and T. Gou for J39)
Thomson Reuters Highly Cited Researcher 2015.
IEEE GLOBECOM Best Paper Award 2014.
Sciencewatch World's Most Influential Scientific Minds 2014.
Thomson Reuters Highly Cited Researcher 2014.
IEEE Fellow 2014.
IEEE Communications Society Best Tutorial Paper Award 2013.
IEEE GLOBECOM Best Paper Award 2012.
Engineering School Maseeh Outstanding Research Award 2010.
Information Theory Society Paper Award 2009.
ONR Young Investigator Award 2008.
NSF CAREER award 2006.
IEEE Communications Society Distinguished Lecturer 2013-2014.
University of Canterbury Erskine Fellow 2010.
Engineering School Teaching Excellence Award 2012.
EECS Professor of the Year 2017.
EECS Professor of the Year 2014.
EECS Professor of the Year 2012.
EECS Professor of the Year 2011.
EECS Professor of the Year 2009.
Engineering School Faculty of the Year 2006.
UCI EECS best student paper award 2009 (Viveck Cadambe, J20)
UCI EECS best student paper award 2007 (Krishna Gomadam, J11)
CPCC Best Dissertation Award (Tiangao Gou, 2012)
CPCC Best Dissertation Award (Viveck Cadambe, 2011)

Publications (Researcher ID) (MyCitations)

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Preprints

Arash Gholami Davoodi, Syed A. Jafar, Network Coherence Time Matters - Aligned Image Sets and the Degrees of Freedom of Interference Networks with Finite Precision CSIT and Perfect CSIR, May 2017, e-print ArXiv:1705.02775
Arash Gholami Davoodi, Syed A. Jafar, Aligned Image Sets and the Generalized Degrees of Freedom of Symmetric MIMO Interference Channel with Partial CSIT, May 2017, e-print ArXiv:1705.00769
Arash Gholami Davoodi, Syed A. Jafar, Sum-set Inequalities from Aligned Image Sets: Instruments for Robust GDoF Bounds, March 2017, e-print ArXiv:1703.01168
Hua Sun, Syed A. Jafar, Private Information Retrieval from MDS Coded Data with Colluding Servers: Settling a Conjecture by Freij-Hollanti et al., January, 2017, e-print ArXiv:1701.07807
Hua Sun, Syed A. Jafar, Multiround Private Information Retrieval: Capacity and Storage Overhead, November, 2016, e-print ArXiv:1611.02257.
Hua Sun, Syed A. Jafar, Optimal Download Cost of Private Information Retrieval for Arbitrary Message Length, October, 2016, e-print ArXiv:1610.03048.
Hua Sun, Syed A. Jafar, The Capacity of Symmetric Private Information Retrieval, June, 2016, e-print ArXiv:1606.08828.
Hua Sun, Syed A. Jafar, The Capacity of Robust Private Information Retrieval with Colluding Databases, May 2, 2016, e-print ArXiv:1605.00635.
Arash Gholami Davoodi, Bofeng Yuan, Syed A. Jafar, GDoF of the MISO BC: Bridging the Gap between Finite Precision and Perfect CSIT, Feb 2016, e-print ArXiv:1602.02203.
Arash Gholami Davoodi, Syed A. Jafar, Generalized Degrees of Freedom of the Symmetric K-User Interference Channel under Finite Precision CSIT, Jan 2016, e-print ArXiv:1601.06463.
Bofeng Yuan, Hua Sun, Syed A. Jafar, Replication-based Outer bounds and the Optimality of "Half the Cake" for Rank-Deficient MIMO Interference Networks, Oct. 2015, e-print ArXiv:1510.05725.
Xinping Yi, Hua Sun, Syed A. Jafar, David Gesbert, TDMA is Optimal for All-Unicast DoF Region of TIM if and only if Topology is Chordal Bipartite, Jan 2015, e-print ArXiv:1501.07870.

Miscellaneous Publications

M3.	Syed A. Jafar, On asymptotic interference alignment: Plenary talk, International Conference on Signal Processing and Communications (SPCOM), 2010.
M2.	Viveck R. Cadambe, Syed A. Jafar, Reflections on Interference Alignment and the Degrees of Freedom of the K User Interference Channel , IEEE Information Theory Society Newsletter, Vol. 59, No. 4, December 2009, Pages 5-9.
M1.	E. Sousa, B. Sadler, E. Hossain, Syed A. Jafar, Cognitive Radio: A Path in the Evolution of Public Wireless Networks , Journal of Communications and Networks, Vol. 11, No. 2, April 2009, Pages 99-103 (Editorial)

Books/Chapters

B2.	Syed A. Jafar, ``Interference Alignment: A New Look at Signal Dimensions in a Communication Network'', Foundations and Trends in Communications and Information Theory, Vol. 7, No. 1, pages: 1-136. http://dx.doi.org/10.1561/010000047 The monograph is a tutorial on interference alignment. A printed and bound version of this book is available for only $35 from Now Publishers. This can be obtained by entering the promotional code CITSJ-01060 on the order form at now publishers.
B1.	A. Goldsmith, S. Jafar, N. Jindal, S. Vishwanath, Chapter Title ``Capacity Limits of MIMO Systems'', Book Title: MIMO Wireless Communications , Cambridge University Press, New York, NY, 2006.

Journal Publications

J75.	Hua Sun, Syed A. Jafar, The Capacity of Private Information Retrieval, IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, Accepted, 2017.
J74.	Arash Gholami Davoodi, Syed A. Jafar, Transmitter Cooperation under Finite Precision CSIT: A GDoF Perspective, IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, Accepted, 2016.
J73.	Chenwei Wang, Hua Sun, Syed A. Jafar, Genie Chains: Exploring Outer Bounds on the Degrees of Freedom of MIMO Interference Networks IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, Vol. 62, Number 10, Pages: 5573-5602, October 2016.
J72.	Arash Gholami Davoodi, Syed A. Jafar, Aligned Image Sets under Channel Uncertainty: Settling Conjectures on the Collapse of Degrees of Freedom under Finite Precision CSIT, IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, Vol. 62, Number 10, Pages: 5603-5618, October 2016.
J71.	Chunhua Geng, Syed A. Jafar, On the Optimality of Treating Interference as Noise: Compound Interference Networks, IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, Vol. 62, Number 8, Pages:4630-4653, August 2016.
J70.	Hua Sun, Syed A. Jafar, On the Optimality of Treating Interference as Noise for K user Parallel Gaussian Interference Networks , IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, Vol. 62, No. 4, Pages: 1911-1930, April 2016.
J69.	Hua Sun, Sundar R. Krishnamurthy, Syed A. Jafar, Rank Matching for Multihop Multiflow, IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, Vol. 61, No. 9, Pages: 4751-4764, September 2015.
J68.	Jinyuan Chen, Petros Elia, Syed A. Jafar, On the Two-User MISO Broadcast Channel with Alternating CSIT: A Topological Perspective, IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, Vol. 61, No. 8, Pages: 4345-4366, August 2015.
J67.	Chunhua Geng, Syed A. Jafar, On the Optimality of Treating Interference as Noise: General Message Sets, IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, Vol. 61, No. 7, Pages: 3722-3736, July 2015.
J66.	Hua Sun, Syed A. Jafar, Index Coding Capacity: How far can one go with only Shannon Inequalities, IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, Vol. 61, No. 6, Pages: 3041-3055, June 2015.
J65.	Chunhua Geng, Syed A. Jafar, Secure GDoF of K-user Gaussian Interference Channels: When Secrecy Incurs No Penalty, IEEE Communications Letters, Vol. 19, No. 8, Pages: 1287-1290, August 2015.
J64.	Chunhua Geng, Navid Naderializadeh, Salman Avestimehr, Syed A. Jafar, On the Optimality of Treating Interference as Noise, IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, Vol. 61, No. 4, Pages: 1753-1767, April 2015.
J63.	Yingyuan Gao, G. Wang, Syed A. Jafar, Topological Interference Management for Hexagonal Cellular Networks, IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, December 2014.
J62.	Sundar R. Krishnamurthy, Abinesh Ramakrishnan, Syed A. Jafar, Degrees of Freedom of Rank-Deficient MIMO Interference Channels, IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, Vol. 61, No. 1, Pages: 341-365, January, 2015.
J61.	Chun Meng, Abhik Das, Abinesh Ramakrishnan, Syed A. Jafar, Athina Markopoulou, Sriram Vishwanath, Precoding-Based Network Alignment for Three Unicast Sessions, IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, Vol. 61, No. 1, Pages: 426-451, January, 2015.
J60.	Maximo Morales-Cespedes, J. Plata-Chaves, D. Toumpakaris, Syed A. Jafar, A. Garcia Armada, Blind Interference Alignment for Cellular Networks, IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, Vol. 63, No. 1, Pages: 41-56, January, 2015.
J59.	Hamed Maleki, Viveck R. Cadambe, Syed A. Jafar, Index Coding -- An Interference Alignment Perspective, IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, Vol. 60, No. 9, Pages: 5402-5432, September, 2014.
J58.	Tiangao Gou, Chenwei Wang, Syed A. Jafar, Toward Full-Duplex Multihop Multiflow -- A Study of Non-Layered Two Unicast Wireless Networks, IEEE Journal of Selected Areas in Communications, Vol. 32, No. 9, Pages: 1738-1751, September 2014.
J57.	Sundar R. Krishnamurthy, Syed A. Jafar, On the Capacity of the Finite Field Counterparts of Wireless Interference Networks, IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, Vol. 60, No. 7, Pages: 4101-4124, July 2014.
J56.	Chenwei Wang, Tiangao Gou, Syed A. Jafar, Subspace Alignment Chains and the Degrees of Freedom of the Three-User MIMO Interference Channel, IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, Vol. 60, No. 5, Pages: 2432-2479, May 2014.
J55.	Syed A. Jafar, Topological Interference Management through Index Coding, IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, Vol. 60, No. 1, Pages: 529-568, January 2014.
J54.	Hua Sun, Tiangao Gou, Syed A. Jafar, Degrees of Freedom of MIMO X Networks: Spatial Scale Invariance and One-Sided Decomposability, IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, Vol. 59, No. 12, Pages: 8377-8385, December 2013.
J53.	Hamed Maleki, Syed A. Jafar, Optimality of Orthogonal Access for One-Dimensional Convex Cellular Networks, IEEE Communications Letters, Vol. 17, No. 9, Pages: 1770-1773, September 2013.
J52.	R. Tandon, Syed A. Jafar, Shlomo Shamai, H. V. Poor, On the Synergistic Benefits of Alternating CSIT for the MISO BC, IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, Vol. 59, No. 7, Pages: 4106-4128, July 2013.
J51.	V. Cadambe, Syed A. Jafar, H. Maleki, K. Ramchandran, C. Suh, Asymptotic Interference Alignment for Optimal Repair of MDS Codes in Distributed Storage, IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, Vol. 59, No. 5, Pages: 2974-2987, May 2013.
J50.	Bobak Nazer, Michael Gastpar, Syed A. Jafar, Sriram Vishwanath, Ergodic Interference Alignment, IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, Vol. 58, No. 10, Pages: 6355-6371, October 2012.
J49.	Chiachi Huang, Syed A. Jafar, Viveck R. Cadambe, Interference Alignment and the Generalized Degrees of Freedom of the X Channel, IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, Vol. 58, No. 8, Pages: 5130-5150, August 2012.
J48.	Tiangao Gou, Syed A. Jafar, Optimal Use of Current and Outdated Channel State Information -- Degrees of Freedom of the MISO BC with Mixed CSIT, IEEE Communications Letters, Vol. 16, No. 7, Pages: 1084-1087, July 2012. (2015 IEEE Heinrich Hertz Best Paper Award)
J47.	Tiangao Gou, Syed A. Jafar, Chenwei Wang, Sang-Woon Jeon, Sae-Young Chung, Aligned Interference Neutralization and the Degrees of Freedom of the 2x2x2 Interference Channel, IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, Vol. 58, No. 7, Pages: 4381-4395, July 2012.
J46.	Syed A. Jafar, Blind Interference Alignment, IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Signal Processing, Vol. 6, No. 3, Pages: 216-227, June 2012.
J45.	Hamed Maleki, Syed A. Jafar, Shlomo Shamai, Retrospective Interference Alignment over Interference Networks, IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Signal Processing, Vol. 6, No. 3, Pages: 228-240, June 2012.
J44.	Jiaming Xu, Jeffrey Andrews, Syed A. Jafar, MISO Broadcast Channels with Delayed Finite-Rate Feedback: Predict or Observe?, IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, Vol. 11, No. 4, Pages: 1456-1467, April 2012.
J43.	Chiachi Huang, Syed A. Jafar, Shlomo Shamai, Sriram Vishwanath, On Degrees of Freedom Region of MIMO Networks without Channel State Information at Transmitters, IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, Vol. 58, No. 2, Feb. 2012, Pages: 849-857.
J42.	Syed A. Jafar, The Ergodic Capacity of Phase-fading Interference Networks, IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, Vol. 57, No. 12, Pages: 7685-7694, December 2011.
J41.	Krishna S. Gomadam, Viveck R. Cadambe, Syed A. Jafar, A Distributed Numerical Approach to Interference Alignment and Applications to Wireless Interference Networks , IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, Vol. 57, No. 6, June, 2011, Pages: 3309-3322
J40.	Tiangao Gou, Syed A. Jafar, Chenwei Wang, On the Degrees of Freedom of Finite State Compound Wireless Networks, IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, Vol. 57, No. 6, Pages: 3286-3308, June 2011.
J39.	Tiangao Gou, Chenwei Wang, Syed A. Jafar, Aiming Perfectly in the Dark - Blind Interference Alignment through Staggered Antenna Switching, IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, Vol. 59, No. 6, Pages: 2734-2744, June 2011 (2015 IEEE Signal Processing Society Young Author Best Paper Award).
J38.	Sang-Woon Jeon, Sae-Young Chung, Syed A. Jafar, Degrees of Freedom Region of a Class of Multi-source Gaussian Relay Networks, IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, Vol. 57, No. 5, Pages: 3032-3044, May 2011.
J37.	Tiangao Gou, Syed A. Jafar, Capacity of a Class of Symmetric SIMO Gaussian Interference Channels within O(1) , IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, April, 2011, Vol. 57, Issue: 4, Pages: 1932-1958.
J36.	Tiangao Gou, Syed A. Jafar, Degrees of Freedom of the K User MxN MIMO Interference Channel, IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, Dec. 2010, Vol. 56, Issue: 12, Page(s): 6040-6057.
J35.	S. Srinivasa, Syed A. Jafar, Soft Sensing and Optimal Power Control for Cognitive Radio , IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, Dec. 2010, Vol. 9, No. 12, Pages: 3638-3649.
J34.	V. Cadambe, Syed A. Jafar, C. Wang, Interference Alignment with Asymmetric Complex Signaling -- Settling the Host-Madsen-Nosratinia Conjecture, IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, Sep. 2010, Vol. 56, Issue: 9, Pages: 4552-4565.
J33.	Cenk M. Yetis, Tiangao Gou, Syed A. Jafar, Ahmet H. Kayran, On Feasibility of Interference Alignment in MIMO Interference Networks, IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, Sep. 2010, Vol. 58, Issue: 9, Pages: 4771-4782.
J32.	Syed A. Jafar, Sriram Vishwanath, Generalized Degrees of Freedom of the Symmetric Gaussian K User Interference Channel , IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, July 2010, Vol. 56, Issue: 7, Pages: 3297-3303
J31.	Krishna Gomadam, Syed A. Jafar, Duality of MIMO multiple access channel and broadcast channel with amplify-and-forward relays, IEEE Transactions on Communications, Vol. 58, No. 1, Jan. 2010, Pages: 211-217
J30.	S. W. Choi, Syed A. Jafar, Sae-Young Chung, On the beamforming design for efficient interference alignment , IEEE Communications Letters, Vol. 13, No. 11, Nov. 2009, Pages: 847-849
J29.	Viveck R. Cadambe, Syed A. Jafar, Parallel Gaussian Interference Channels Are Not Always Separable, IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, Vol. 55, No. 9, Sep. 2009,Pages: 3983-3990.
J28.	Chiachi Huang, Syed A. Jafar, Degrees of Freedom of the MIMO Interference Channel with Cooperation and Cognition, IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, Vol. 55, No. 9, Sep. 2009, Pages: 4211-4220.
J27.	Viveck R. Cadambe, Syed A. Jafar, Interference Alignment and the Degrees of Freedom of Wireless X Networks, IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, Vol. 55, No. 9, Sep. 2009,Pages: 3893-3908.
J26.	Andrea Goldsmith, Syed A. Jafar, Ivana Maric, Sudhir Srinivasa, Breaking Spectrum Gridlock with Cognitive Radios: An Information Theoretic Perspective , Proceedings of the IEEE, Vol. 97, No. 5, May 2009, Pages: 894-914 (IEEE Communication Society Best Tutorial Paper Award).
J25.	Viveck R. Cadambe, Syed A. Jafar, Degrees of Freedom of Wireless Networks with Relays, Feedback, Cooperation and Full Duplex Operation, IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, Vol. 55, No. 5, May 2009, Pages: 2334-2344.
J24.	K. Gomadam, Syed A. Jafar, The Effect of Noise Correlation in Amplify-and-Forward Relay Networks, IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, Vol. 55, No. 2, Feb 2009, Pages: 731-745.
J23.	Viveck R. Cadambe, Syed A. Jafar, Shlomo Shamai (Shitz), Interference Alignment on the Deterministic Channel and Application to Fully Connected Gaussian Interference Networks, IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, Vol. 55, No. 1, Jan 2009, Pages: 269-274.
J22.	Jeff Andrews, Nihar Jindal, Martin Haenggi, Randy Berry, Syed A. Jafar, Dongning Guo, Sanjay Shakkottai, Robert Heath, Michael Neely, Steven Weber, Aylin Yener, Rethinking Information Theory for Mobile Ad Hoc Networks, IEEE Communications Magazine, Vol. 46, No, 12, December 2008, Pages: 94-101.
J21.	Sudhir Srinivasa, Syed A. Jafar, How much Spectrum Sharing is Optimal in Cognitive Radio Networks? , IEEE Trans. on Wireless Communications, Vol. 7, No. 10, October 2008, Pages:4010 - 4018.
J20.	Viveck R. Cadambe, Syed A. Jafar, Interference Alignment and the Degrees of Freedom of the K User Interference Channel, IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, Aug 2008, Vol. 54, Issue 8, Pages: 3425-3441 (IEEE Information Theory Society Best Paper Award).
J19.	Syed A. Jafar, Shlomo Shamai, Degrees of Freedom Region of the MIMO X Channel, IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, Vol. 54, No. 1, Jan. 2008, Pages: 151-170.
J18.	Syed A. Jafar, S. Srinivasa, On the optimality of beamforming with quantized feedback, IEEE Transactions on Communications, Vol. 55, No. 12, Pages: 2288-2302, December 2007.
J17.	Syed A. Jafar, Krishna S. Gomadam, Chiachi Huang, Duality and Rate Optimization for Multiple Access and Broadcast Channels with Amplify-and-Forward Relays, IEEE Transactions on Information Theory special issue on Models, Theory, and Codes for Relaying and Cooperation in Communication Networks, October 2007, Vol. 53, No. 10, Pages: 3350-3371.
J16.	Syed A. Jafar, M. Fakhereddin, Degrees of Freedom for the MIMO Interference Channel, IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, July 2007, Vol. 53, No. 7, Pages: 2637-2642.
J15.	S. Srinivasa, Syed A. Jafar, The throughput potential of cognitive radio - a theoretical perspective, IEEE Communications Magazine, Vol. 45, no. 5, 2007.
J14.	S. Srinivasa, Syed A. Jafar, The optimality of transmit beamforming: a unified view, IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, Volume 53, No. 4, April 2007, Pages: 1558-1564.
J13.	Syed A. Jafar, S. Srinivasa, Capacity limits of cognitive radio with distributed and dynamic spectral activity, IEEE JSAC special issue on Adaptive, Spectrum Agile and Cognitive Wireless Networks, Volume 25, No. 3, April 2007, Pages: 529-537.
J12.	Syed A. Jafar, Capacity with Causal and Non-Causal Side Information - A Unified View, IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, December 2006, Vol. 52, No. 12, Pages: 5468-5475
J11.	Krishna S. Gomadam, Syed A. Jafar, Optimal Relay Functionality for SNR Maximization in Memoryless Relay Networks, IEEE JSAC special issue on Cooperative Communications and Networking, Feb. 2007, Vol. 25, No. 2, Pages: 390-402. (UCI EECS Best Student Paper Award).
J10.	Krishna S. Gomadam, Syed A. Jafar, Modulation and Detection for Simple Receivers in Rapidly Time Varying Channels, IEEE Transactions on Communications, Volume 55, No. 3, March 2007, Pages: 529-539.
J9.	Syed A. Jafar, A. J. Goldsmith, On the Capacity of Vector MAC With Feedback , IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, July 2006, Vol. 52, No. 7, Pages: 3259-3264.
J8.	Syed A. Jafar, Too Much Mobility Limits the Capacity of Wireless Ad-hoc Networks, IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, Nov. 2005, Vol. 51, No. 11, Pages: 3954-3965.
J7.	Syed A. Jafar and A. Goldsmith, Isotropic Fading Vector Broadcast Channels: The Scalar Upperbound and Loss in Degrees of Freedom, IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, Vol. 51, No. 3, March 2005, Pages: 848-857.
J6.	N. Jindal, W. Rhee, S. Vishwanath, Syed A. Jafar and A. J. Goldsmith, Sum Power Iterative Water-filling for Multi-Antenna Gaussian Broadcast Channels, IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, Vol. 51, No. 4, April 2005, Pages: 1570-1580.
J5.	Syed A. Jafar and A. J. Goldsmith, Multiple-Antenna capacity in correlated Rayleigh fading with channel covariance information, IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, Vol. 4, No. 3, May 2005, Pages: 990-997.
J4.	Syed A. Jafar and A. J. Goldsmith, Transmitter optimization and optimality of beamforming for multiple antenna systems with imperfect feedback, IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, July 2004, Vol. 3, No. 4, Pages:1165-1175.
J3.	A. J. Goldsmith, Syed A. Jafar, N. Jindal, S. Vishwanath, Capacity limits of MIMO channels, IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications , Vol. 21, No. 5, June 2003, Pages: 684-702. (Invited Paper)
J2.	Syed A. Jafar, G. Foschini, A. Goldsmith, PhantomNet:Exploring optimal multicellular multiple antenna systems, EURASIP Journal on Applied Signal Processing. (Invited Paper), May 2004, No.5, Special Issue on MIMO Communications and Signal Processing, Pages:591-605.
J1.	Syed A. Jafar, A. Goldsmith, Adaptive multirate CDMA for uplink throughput maximization, IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications. March 2003, Vol.2, No. 2, Pages: 218-228.

Conference Publications

C126.	Hua Sun, Syed A. Jafar, The Capacity of Private Information Retrieval, Proceedings of IEEE GLOBECOM, 2016. (2016 GLOBECOM Best Paper Award).
C125.	Hua Sun, Syed A. Jafar, The Capacity of Private Information Retrieval with Colluding Databases, Proceedings of IEEE GlobalSIP, 2016.
C124.	Hua Sun, Syed A. Jafar, The Capacity of Symmetric Private Information Retrieval, Proceedings of IEEE NETCOD, 2016.
C123.	Hua Sun, Syed A. Jafar, Blind Interference Alignment for Private Information Retrieval, Proceedings of IEEE ISIT, 2016. (2016 Jack Keil Wolf ISIT Student Paper Award).
C122.	Arash Gholami Davoodi, Syed A. Jafar, GDoF of the MISO BC: Bridging the Gap between Finite Precision CSIT and Perfect CSIT , Proceedings of IEEE ISIT, 2016.
C121.	David Stotz, Syed A. Jafar, Helmut Boelcskei, Shlomo Shamai Canonical Conditions for K/2 Degrees of Freedom , Proceedings of IEEE ISIT, 2016.
C120.	Arash Gholami Davoodi, Syed A. Jafar, Generalized DoF of the Symmetric K-user Interference Channel under Finite Precision CSIT , Proceedings of IEEE ISIT, 2016.
C119.	Chunhua Geng, Syed A. Jafar, On the Optimality of Zero Forcing and Treating Interference as Noise for K-user MIMO Interference Channels, Proceedings of IEEE ISIT, 2016.
C118.	Bofeng Yuan, Syed A. Jafar, Elevated Multiplexing and Signal Space Partitioning in the 2 user MIMO IC with Partial CSIT, Proceedings of IEEE SPAWC, 2016 ( Invited Paper).
C117.	Arash Gholamidavoodi, Syed A. Jafar, Transmitter Cooperation under Finite Precision CSIT: A GDoF Perspective, Proceedings of IEEE GLOBECOM, 2015.
C116.	Bofeng Yuan, Hua Sun, Syed A. Jafar, On the Optimality of ``Half-the-Cake" for K-user Rank-deficient (Mk x Mk) Interference Channel , Proceedings of IEEE GLOBECOM, 2015. (Finalist for 2015 GLOBECOM Best Paper Award).
C115.	Chunhua Geng, Ravi Tandon, Syed A. Jafar, On the Symmetric 2-User Deterministic Interference Channel with Confidential Messages, Proceedings of IEEE GLOBECOM, 2015.
C114.	Chunhua Geng, Syed A. Jafar, On the Optimality of Treating Interference as Noise for K-user Compound Interference Channels, Proceedings of IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory (ISIT), June 2015.
C113.	Hua Sun, Syed A. Jafar, On the Separability of GDoF Region for Parallel Gaussian TIN Optimal interference Networks, Proceedings of IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory (ISIT), June 2015.
C112.	Arash Gholamidavoodi, Syed A. Jafar, Settling Conjectures on the Collapse of Degrees of Freedom under Finite Precision CSIT , Proceedings of IEEE GLOBECOM, 2014 (2014 GLOBECOM Best Paper Award).
C111.	Sundar R. Krishnamurthy, Syed A. Jafar, Rank Matching for Multihop Multiflow , Proceedings of IEEE GLOBECOM, 2014.
C110.	Tang Liu, Daniela Tuninetti, Syed A. Jafar, The DoF of the Asymmetric MIMO Interference Channel with Square Direct Link Channel Matrices , Proceedings of 52nd Allerton Conference, 2014.
C109.	Chunhua Geng, Hua Sun, Syed A. Jafar, On the Optimality of Treating Interference as Noise: General Message Sets, Proceedings of IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory (ISIT), Pages: 1777-1781, July 2014.
C108.	Hua Sun, Syed A. Jafar, On the Optimality of Treating Interference as Noise for Parallel Deterministic Interference Networks, Proceedings of IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory (ISIT), Pages: 841-845, July 2014.
C107.	Jinyuan Chen, Petros Elia, Syed A. Jafar, On the Vector Broadcasting Channel with Alternating CSIT: A Topological Perspective, Proceedings of IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory (ISIT), Pages: 2579-2583, July 2014.
C106.	Hua Sun, Syed A. Jafar, Topological Interference Management with Multiple Antennas, Proceedings of IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory (ISIT), Pages: 1767-1771, July 2014.
C105.	Abinesh Ramakrishnan, Sundar R. Krishnamurthy, Syed A. Jafar, Yaming Yu, Degrees of freedom of interference channel with rank-deficient transfer matrix, Proceedings of IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory (ISIT), Pages: 1221-1225, July 2014.
C104.	Liangbin Li, Hamid Jafarkhani, Syed A. Jafar, Selection Diversity for Interference Alignment Systems, Proceedings of IEEE GLOBECOM, December 2013.
C103.	Lu Yang, Wei Zhang, Syed A. Jafar, Degrees of Freedom Region of Three-user MIMO Interference Channels, Proceedings of IEEE GLOBECOM, December 2013.
C102.	Chunhua Geng, N. Naderializadeh, Salman Avestimehr, Syed A. Jafar, On the optimality of treating interference as noise, Proceedings of 51st Annual Allerton Conference on Communication, Control and Computing, Pages: 1166-1173, October 2013.
C101.	Chunhua Geng, Hua Sun, Syed A. Jafar, Multilevel Topological Interference Management, Proceedings of IEEE Information Theory Workshop (ITW), Seville, Spain, September 2013 (Invited Paper).
C100.	Ravi Tandon, Syed A. Jafar, Shlomo Shamai, Vince Poor, Two-user MISO Broadcast Channel: Synergistic Benefits of Alternating CSIT, Proceedings of IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory (ISIT), Istanbul, Turkey, July 2013
C99.	Sundar R. Krishnamurthy, Syed A. Jafar, Precoding Based Network Alignment and the Capacity of a Finite Field X Channel, Proceedings of IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory (ISIT), Istanbul, Turkey, July 2013
C98.	Hua Sun, Chunhua Geng, Syed A. Jafar, Topological Interference Management with Alternating Connectivity, Proceedings of IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory (ISIT), Istanbul, Turkey, July 2013
C97.	Chunhua Geng, Syed A. Jafar, On Optimal Ergodic Interference Alignment, Proceedings of 2012 IEEE Global Telecommunications Conference (GLOBECOM), Dec. 3-7, Anaheim USA.
C96.	Sundar R. Krishnamurthy, Syed A. Jafar, Degrees of Freedom of 2-user and 3-user Rank-Deficient MIMO Interference Channels, Proceedings of 2012 IEEE Global Telecommunications Conference (GLOBECOM), Dec. 3-7, Anaheim USA.
C95.	Syed A. Jafar, Wireless Index Coding, Proceedings of 2012 IEEE Global Telecommunications Conference (GLOBECOM), Dec. 3-7, Anaheim USA.
C94.	Liangbin Li, Hamid Jafarkhani, Syed A. Jafar, Towards the Feasibility Conditions for Linear Interference Alignment with Symbol Extensions: A Diversity Constraint, Proceedings of 2012 IEEE Global Telecommunications Conference (GLOBECOM), Dec. 3-7, Anaheim USA. (2012 GLOBECOM Best Paper Award)
C93.	Hamed Maleki, Viveck R. Cadambe, Syed A. Jafar, Index coding: An interference alignment perspective, Proceedings of 2012 IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory (ISIT), 1-6 July 2012, MIT, USA.
C92.	Chenwei Wang, Tiangao Gou, Syed A. Jafar, Subspace alignment chains and the degrees of freedom of the three-user MIMO interference channel, Proceedings of 2012 IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory (ISIT), 1-6 July 2012, MIT, USA.
C91.	Chun Meng, Abinesh Ramakrishnan, Athina Markopoulou, Syed A. Jafar, On the feasibility of precoding-based network alignment for three unicast sessions, Proceedings of 2012 IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory (ISIT), 1-6 July 2012, MIT, USA.
C90.	Hua Sun, Chunhua Geng, Tiangao Gou, Syed A. Jafar, Degrees of Freedom of MIMO X Networks: Spatial Scale Invariance, One-Sided Decomposability and Linear Feasibility, Proceedings of 2012 IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory (ISIT), 1-6 July 2012, MIT, USA.
C89.	Chenwei Wang, Hua Sun, Syed A. Jafar, Genie chains and the Degrees of Freedom of the K-user MIMO Interference Channel, Proceedings of 2012 IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory (ISIT), 1-6 July 2012, MIT, USA.
C88.	Tiangao Gou, Chenwei Wang, Syed A. Jafar, Degrees of Freedom of a Class of Non-Layered Two Unicast Wireless Network, Proceedings of Asilomar Conference on Signals, Systems and Computers, Pacific Grove, CA, Nov. 2011, Copyright held by SS&C 2011 (Invited Paper).
C87.	Viveck R. Cadambe, Syed A. Jafar, Tensor product based subspace interference alignment for network coding applications, Proceedings of Asilomar Conference on Signals, Systems and Computers, Pacific Grove, CA, Nov. 2011, Copyright held by SS&C 2011 (Invited Paper).
C86.	Tiangao Gou, Chenwei Wang, Syed A. Jafar, Interference neutralization and the degrees of freedom of the 2x2x2 interference channel with interfering relays, Proceedings of 49th Annual Allerton Conference, Sep. 2011, Illinois, (Invited Paper ).
C85.	Jiaming Xu, Jeffrey G. Andrews, Syed A. Jafar, The net benefit of delayed finite-rate feedback in the MISO broadcast channel, Proceedings of 49th Annual Allerton Conference, Sep. 2011, Illinois, (Invited Paper).
C84.	Liangbin Li, Hamid Jafarkhani, Syed A. Jafar, When Alamouti codes meet interference alignment: transmission schemes for two-user X channel, Proceedings of IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory (ISIT) 2011, August 2011, St. Petersburg, Russia, Pages: 2577-2581.
C83.	Chenwei Wang, Syed A. Jafar, Shlomo Shamai, Michele Wigger, Interference, cooperation and connectivity --- A degrees of freedom perspective, Proceedings of IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory (ISIT) 2011, August 2011, St. Petersburg, Russia, Pages: 430-434.
C82.	Tiangao Gou, Syed A. Jafar, Sang-Woon Jeon, Sae-Young Chung, Aligned Interference Neutralization and the degrees of freedom of the 2x2x2 interference channel, Proceedings of IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory (ISIT) 2011, August 2011, St. Petersburg, Russia, Pages: 2751-2755.
C81.	H. Maleki, S. A. Jafar, S. Shamai, Retrospective Interference Alignment, Proceedings of IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory (ISIT) 2011, August 2011, St. Petersburg, Russia, Pages: 2756-2760.
C80.	S. A. Jafar, Exploiting Channel Correlations -- Simple Interference Alignment Schemes with no CSIT, Proceedings of IEEE GLOBECOM 2010, Dec. 2010
C79.	Viveck R. Cadambe, Syed A. Jafar, Hamed Maleki, Asymptotic Interference Alignment for Exact Repair in Distributed Storage Systems, Proceedings of Asilomar Conference on Signals, Systems and Computers, Nov., 2010 (Invited Paper).
C78.	Chenwei Wang, Tiangao Gou, Syed A. Jafar, Interference Alignment Through Staggered Antenna Switching for MIMO BC With No CSIT, Proceedings of Asilomar Conference on Signals, Systems and Computers, Nov., 2010.
C77.	A. Ramakrishnan, A. Das, H. Maleki, A. Markopoulou, S. A. Jafar, S. Vishwanath, Network Coding for Three Unicast Sessions: Interference Alignment Approaches, Proceedings of Allerton Conference 2010, Sep. 2010, Monticello, IL, (Invited Paper).
C76.	Sang-Woon Jeon, Sae-Young Chung, Syed A. Jafar, Approximate Capacity of a Class of Multi-source Gaussian Relay Networks , Proceedings of IEEE Information Theory Workshop, Aug. 30-Sep. 3, 2010.
C75.	Viveck Cadambe, Syed A. Jafar, Hamed Maleki, Minimum Repair Bandwidth for Exact Regeneration in Distributed Storage , Proceedings of IEEE Wireless Network Coding Workshop -WiNC, 2010.
C74.	Abhik Das, Sriram Vishwanath, Syed A. Jafar, Athina Markopoulou, Network Coding for Multiple Unicasts: An Interference Alignment Approach, Proceedings of ISIT, 2010. (Finalist for 2010 ISIT Best Student Paper Award).
C73.	Viveck R. Cadambe, Syed A. Jafar, Sum Capacity and the Unique Separability of the Parallel Gaussian MAC-Z-BC Network, Proceedings of ISIT, 2010.
C72.	Cenk M. Yetis, Tiangao Gou, Syed A. Jafar, Ahmet H. Kayran, Feasibility Conditions for Interference Alignment, Proceedings of IEEE GLOBECOM 2009.
C71.	Aydin Sezgin, Syed A. Jafar, Hamid Jafarkhani, Optimal Use of Antennas in Interference Networks: A Tradeoff between Rate, Diversity and Interference Alignment, Proceedings of IEEE GLOBECOM 2009.
C70.	Viveck R. Cadambe, Syed A. Jafar, Interference Alignment Via Random Coding and the Capacity of a Class of Deterministic Interference Channels, Proceedings of the 47th Annual Allerton Conference, 2009.
C69.	Bobak Nazer, Michael Gastpar, Syed A. Jafar, Sriram Vishwanath, Interference Alignment at Finite SNR: General Message Sets, Proceedings of the 47th Annual Allerton Conference, 2009 (Invited Paper).
C68.	Viveck R. Cadambe, Syed A. Jafar, Chenwei Wang Interference Alignment with Asymmetric Complex Signaling, Proceedings of the 47th Annual Allerton Conference, 2009 (Invited Paper).
C67.	Sang-Woon Jeon, Sae-Young Chung, Syed A. Jafar, Degrees of Freedom of Multi-Source Relay Networks, Proceedings of the 47th Annual Allerton Conference, 2009 (Invited Paper).
C66.	Tiangao Gou, Syed A. Jafar, Capacity of a Class of Symmetric SIMO Gaussian Interference Channels within O(1), Proceedings of ISIT 2009.
C65.	Viveck R. Cadambe, Syed A. Jafar, Sriram Vishwanath, The Capacity Region of a Class of Deterministic Z Channels, Proceedings of ISIT 2009.
C64.	Chiachi Huang, Viveck R. Cadambe, Syed A. Jafar, Interference Alignment and the Generalized Degrees of Freedom of the X Channel, Proceedings of ISIT 2009.
C63.	Bobak Nazer, Michael Gastpar, Syed A. Jafar, Sriram Vishwanath, Ergodic Interference Alignment, Proceedings of ISIT 2009. (Finalist for 2009 ISIT Best Student Paper Award).
C62.	Chiachi Huang, Syed A. Jafar, Shlomo Shamai, Multiuser MIMO Degrees of Freedom with no CSIT, ITA workshop, UCSD, Feb 2009 (Invited Paper).
C61.	Chiachi Huang, Viveck Cadambe, Syed A. Jafar, Generalized Degrees of Freedom of the (Noisy) X Channel, Proceedings of 42nd Asilomar Conference on Signals, Systems and Computers, Oct 2008 (Invited Paper).
C60.	Tiangao Gou, Syed A. Jafar, Degrees of Freedom of the K User MIMO Interference Channel, Proceedings of 42nd Asilomar Conference on Signals, Systems and Computers, Oct 2008 (Invited Paper).
C59.	Sriram Sridharan, Amin Jafarian, Sriram Vishwanath, Syed A. Jafar, Shlomo Shamai, A Layered Lattice Coding Scheme for a Class of Three User Gaussian Interference Channels, Proceedings of 46th Annual Allerton Conference on Communication, Control and Computing, Sep 2008.
C58.	Tiangao Gou, Syed A. Jafar, On the Secure Degrees of Freedom of Wireless X Networks, Proceedings of 46th Annual Allerton Conference on Communication, Control and Computing, Sep 2008.
C57.	Sriram Sridharan, Amin Jafarian, Sriram Vishwanath, Syed A. Jafar, Capacity of Symmetric K-User Gaussian Very Strong Interference Channels , Proceedings of IEEE GLOBECOM 2008.
C56.	Tiangao Gou, Syed A. Jafar, Degrees of Freedom of 4 User SIMO Interference Channel, Proceedings of IEEE GLOBECOM 2008.
C55.	Krishna S. Gomadam, Viveck R. Cadambe, Syed A. Jafar, Approaching the Capacity of Wireless Networks through Distributed Interference Alignment, Proceedings of IEEE GLOBECOM 2008.
C54.	Viveck R. Cadambe, Syed A. Jafar, Multiple Access Outerbounds and the Inseparability of Parallel Gaussian Interference Channels , Proceedings of IEEE GLOBECOM 2008.
C53.	Chiachi Huang, Syed A. Jafar, Degrees of Freedom of the MIMO Interference Channel with Cooperation and Cognition, Proceedings of IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory (ISIT) 2008.
C52.	Viveck R. Cadambe, Syed A. Jafar, Can Feedback, Cooperation, Relays and Full Duplex Operation Increase the Degrees of Freedom of Wireless Networks?, Proceedings of IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory (ISIT) 2008.
C51.	Viveck R. Cadambe, Syed A. Jafar, Degrees of Freedom of Wireless X Networks , Proceedings of IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory (ISIT) 2008.
C50.	Viveck R. Cadambe, Syed A. Jafar, Duality and Stability Regions of Multi-rate Broadcast and Multiple Access Networks , Proceedings of IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory (ISIT) 2008.
C49.	Sriram Sridharan, Sriram Vishwanath, Syed A. Jafar, Shlomo Shamai (Shitz), On the Capacity of Cognitive Relay assisted Gaussian Interference Channel , Proceedings of IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory (ISIT) 2008.
C48.	Viveck R. Cadambe, Syed A. Jafar, Interference Alignment and Spatial Degrees of Freedom of the K user Interference Channel , Proceedings of IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC) 2008, Beijing. (Finalist for Best Paper Award).
C47.	Viveck R. Cadambe, Syed A. Jafar, Degrees of Freedom of Wireless Networks - What a Difference Delay Makes , Proceedings of Asilomar Conference on Signals, Systems and Computers 2007.
C46.	Krishna S. Gomadam, Syed A. Jafar, On the Duality of MIMO MAC and BC with AF Relays , Proceedings of Asilomar Conference on Signals, Systems and Computers, 2007.
C45.	Viveck R. Cadambe, Syed A. Jafar, Can 100 speakers talk for 30 minutes each in one room within one hour and with zero interference to each other's audience ? , Proceedings of 45th Annual Allerton Conference.
C44.	Sudhir Srinivasa, Syed A. Jafar, Cognitive Radio Networks: How much Spectrum Sharing is Optimal?, Proceedings of IEEE GLOBECOM 2007.
C43.	Sudhir Srinivasa, Syed A. Jafar, Soft Sensing and Optimal Power Control for Cognitive Radio , Proceedings of IEEE GLOBECOM 2007.
C42.	Syed A. Jafar, Shlomo Shamai (Shitz), Degrees of Freedom of the MIMO X Channel , Proceedings of IEEE GLOBECOM 2007.
C41.	K. Gomadam, Syed A. Jafar, Optimal Distributed Beamforming in Relay Networks with Common Interference , Proceedings of IEEE GLOBECOM 2007.
C40.	Syed A. Jafar, K. Gomadam, C. Huang, Capacity and Duality of AF Relay MAC and BC , Proceedings of 18th Annual IEEE International Symposium on Personal, Indoor and Mobile Radio Communications (PIMRC) 2007.
C39.	Syed A. Jafar, C. Huang, K. Gomadam, Beyond Links - Soft Information Optimization for Memoryless Relay Networks, Proceedings of UCSD Workshop on Information Theory and its Applications (Invited Paper) .
C38.	S. Srinivasa, Syed A. Jafar, The throughput potential of cognitive radio: a theoretical perspective, Proceedings of Asilomar Conference on Signals, Systems and Computers, 2006 (Invited Paper) .
C37.	K. S. Gomadam, Syed A. Jafar, Optimizing soft information in relay networks, Proceedings of Asilomar Conference on Signals, Systems and Computers, 2006 (Invited Paper) .
C36.	S. Srinivasa, Syed A. Jafar, N. Jindal, On the capacity of the cognitive tracking channel, Proceedings of IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory (ISIT), July 2006.
C35.	Syed A. Jafar, M. Fakhereddin, Degrees of freedom for the MIMO interference channel, Proceedings of IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory (ISIT), July 2006.
C34.	Syed A. Jafar, S. Srinivasa, Capacity limits of cognitive radio with distributed and dynamic spectral activity, Proceedings of IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC), June 2006.
C33.	S. Srinivasa, Syed A. Jafar, Spreading-Hopping tradeoff in wideband ad-hoc communications, Proceedings of IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC), June 2006.
C32.	K. S. Gomadam, Syed A. Jafar, On the capacity of memoryless relay networks, Proceedings of IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC), June 2006.
C31.	K. S. Gomadam, Syed A. Jafar, Partially coherent detection in rapidly time varying channels, Proceedings of IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference (WCNC), April 2006.
C30.	K. S. Gomadam, Syed A. Jafar, Impact of mobility on cooperative communication, Proceedings of IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference (WCNC), April 2006.
C29.	Syed A. Jafar, Channel capacity with side information - a unified view, (Invited Paper) Workshop on Information Theory and Applications, UCSD, 2006.
C28.	Syed A. Jafar, Capacity bounds for multiuser communication with side information, Proceedings of 43rd Annual Allerton Conference on Communication, Control and Computing, Sep. 2005.
C27.	Syed A. Jafar, Degrees of Freedom in Distributed MIMO Communications, (Invited Paper) Proceedings of IEEE Communication Theory Workshop, Utah 2005.
C26.	S. Srinivasa, Syed A. Jafar, S. Vishwanath Does Beamforming achieve Outage Capacity with Quantized Feedback, (Invited Paper) IEEE Communication Theory Workshop 2005.
C25.	S. Vishwanath, Syed A. Jafar, Half-Duplex Relays: Cooperative Communication Strategies and Outer Bounds, Proceedings of WirelessCom 2005, Hawaii.
C24.	S. Srinivasa and Syed A. Jafar, Optimality of Beamforming - a Unified View, Proceedings of IEEE Global Communications Conference (GLOBECOM) St. Louis, 2005.
C23.	S. Srinivasa and Syed A. Jafar, Vector Channel Capacity with Quantized Feedback, Proceedings of IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC) 2005.
C22.	L. Zan and Syed A. Jafar, Combined opportunistic beamforming and receive antenna selection, Proceedings of IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference, March 2005, Pages:1007-1011.
C21.	Syed A. Jafar, Too Much Mobility Limits the Capacity of Wireless Ad-hoc Networks, Proceedings of IEEE Globecom 2004, Dallas, Texas, Vol. 6, Pages:3436-3440.
C20.	S. Vishwanath and Syed A. Jafar, On the Capacity of Vector Gaussian Interference Channels, 2004 IEEE Information Theory Workshop, San Antonio, Texas, October 2004.
C19.	S. Srinivasa and Syed A. Jafar, Capacity region of the isotropic fading multiple antenna downlink with magnitude feedback, Proceedings of IEEE VTC, Pages: 2001-2005, Sep 2004, Los Angeles, USA.
C18.	Syed A. Jafar and A. J. Goldsmith, On the capacity region of the vector fading broadcast channel with no CSIT, Proceedings of IEEE ICC, June 2004, Pages: 468-472 Paris, France.
C17.	Syed A. Jafar and A. J. Goldsmith, On the capacity of vector Gaussian MAC and BC with feedback, Proceedings of 41st Annual Allerton Conference on Communication, Control and Computing, October, 2003.
C16.	Syed A. Jafar and A. J. Goldsmith, Multiple-Antenna capacity in correlated Rayleigh fading with channel covariance information, Proceedings of ISIT 2003, Yokohoma, Japan.
C15.	N. Jindal, Syed A. Jafar, S. Vishwanath and A. J. Goldsmith, Iterative water-filling for vector broadcast channels, Proceedings of ISIT 2003, Yokohoma, Japan.
C14.	S. Vishwanath, G. Kramer, S. Shamai, Syed A. Jafar, A. Goldsmith, Outer bounds for Gaussian multi-antenna broadcast channels, Proceedings of DIMACS workshop on Signal Processing for Wireless Transmissions, Oct. 20 2002, Rutgers, NJ, USA. (Invited Paper)
C13.	N. Jindal, S. Vishwanath, Syed A. Jafar, A. Goldsmith, Duality, dirty paper coding, and capacity for multiuser wireless channels, Proceedings of DIMACS workshop on Signal Processing for Wireless Transmission, Oct. 20 2002, Rutgers, NJ, USA.. (Invited Paper)
C12.	Syed A. Jafar, G. J. Foschini, A. J. Goldsmith, PhantomNet: Exploring optimal multicellular multiple antenna systems, Proceedings of Fall VTC 2002, Vancouver BC, Canada.
C11.	Syed A. Jafar and A. J. Goldsmith, Optimal power allocation for multiuser multicellular multiple antenna systems, Proceedings of ISIT 2002, Lausanne, Switzerland.
C10.	N. Jindal, S. Vishwanath, A. Goldsmith, Sum power iterative water-filling for vector broadcast channels, Proceedings of Asilomar Conference on Signals, Systems and Computers, 2002.(Invited Paper)
C9.	Syed A. Jafar, Sriram Vishwanath, A. Goldsmith, Throughput maximization with multiple codes and partial outages, Proceedings of IEEE Globecom, 2001, San Antonio, USA.
C8.	S. Vishwanath, Syed A. Jafar, A. J. Goldsmith, Adaptive resource allocation in composite fading channels, Proceedings of Globecom 2001, San Antonio USA.
C7.	Syed A. Jafar, S. Vishwanath and A. J. Goldsmith, Channel Capacity and Beamforming for Multiple Transmit and Receive Antennas with Covariance Feedback, Proceedings of ICC2001, Helsinki, Finland.
C6.	Syed A. Jafar and A. J. Goldsmith, On Optimality of Beamforming for Multiple Antenna systems with Imperfect Feedback, Proceedings of ISIT 2001, Washington D.C. USA.
C5.	Syed A. Jafar and A. J. Goldsmith, Vector MAC Capacity Region with Covariance Feedback, (Talk slides) Proceedings of International Symposium on Information Theory (ISIT) 2001, Washington D.C. USA.
C4.	Syed A. Jafar and A. J. Goldsmith, Beamforming Capacity and SNR Maximization for Multiple Antenna Systems with Covariance Feedback, Proceedings of VTC 2001, Rhodes, Greece.
C3.	Syed A. Jafar and A. J. Goldsmith, Adaptive multicode CDMA for uplink throughput maximization, Proceedings of VTC 2001, Rhodes Island, Greece.
C2.	S. Vishwanath, Syed A. Jafar, A. J. Goldsmith, Optimal Power and Rate Allocation Strategies for Multiple Access Fading Channels, Proceedings of VTC 2001, Rhodes, Greece.
C1.	Syed A. Jafar and A. J. Goldsmith, Optimal Rate and Power Adaptation for Multirate CDMA, Proceedings of VTC, September 2000, Boston, USA.

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