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Department of Electrical Engineering - Systems
EEB 524
Hughes Aircraft Electrical Engineering Building
3740 McClintock Ave.
Los Angeles, CA 90089
Tel: (213) 740-1488
Fax: (213) 740-8729
Email: varbab {at} usc {dot} edu
 
 
 Patent "Method for Visually Monitoring Optical Signal Performance", USC Provisional 09-260, Vahidreza Arbab, Louis C. Christen, Xiaoxia Wu, Alan E. Willner
 

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V. R. Arbab et. al, "Intensity Modulated Optical Multicarrier CDMA with Asymmetrical Clipping," to be submitted to IEEE Journal of Lightwave Technology

V. R. Arbab et. al, "Performance Evaluation of Optical Multicarrier CDMA in Passive Optical Networks," to be submitted to OSA Optics Express

V. R. Arbab and P. Saghari, "Effects of Fiber Impairments on the Shape of Constellation Diagrams in Optical Phase Modulated Systems," to be published in SPIE Journal of Optical Engineering, vol. 51, no. 4, April 2012.

V. R. Arbab, W.-R. Peng, and P. Saghari, "Intensity Modulated Optical Multicarrier CDMA," to be submitted to SPIE Journal of Optical Engineering.

V. R. Arbab, M. M. M. Rad , M. Uysal, and P. Saghari, "Performance Evaluation of Multiple-Bit Delay Detection with Majority Vote Decision Rule in Optical DPSK Systems," Proc. IEEE Globecom conf, Houston, TX 2011.

V. R. Arbab, X. Wu, A. E. Willner, and C. L. Weber, "Optical Performance Monitoring of Data Degradation by Evaluating the Deformation of an Asynchronously Generated I/Q Data Constellation," ECOC Conf, Vienna, Austria, 2009.

W. R. Peng, X. Wu, K. M. Feng, V. R. Arbab , B. Shamee, J. Y. Yang, L. C. Christen, A. E. Willner, and S. Chi, "Spectrally efficient direct-detected OFDM transmission employing an iterative estimation and cancellation technique," OSA Optics Express, vol. 17, no. 11, pp. 9099-9111, May 2009.

J.-Y. Yang, L. Zhang, Y. Yue, V. R. Arbab, A. Agrawal, L. Paraschis, and A. E. Willner, "Optical signal-to-noise ratio monitoring of an 80 Gbits/s polarization-multiplexed return-to-zero differential phase-shift keying channel," OSA Optics Letters, vol. 34, no. 7, pp. 1006-1008, April 2009.

X. Wu, W. Peng, V. R. Arbab, and A. E. Willner, "Tunable optical wavelength conversion of OFDM signal using a periodically-poled lithium niobate waveguide," OSA Optics Express, Vol. 17, No. 11, pp. 9177-9182, May 2009.

W. Peng, X. Wu, V. R. Arbab, B. Shamee, J. Yang, L. C. Christen, K. Feng, A. E. Willner, and S. Chi, "Theoretical and Experimental Investigations of a Direct-Detected RF-Tone Assisted Optical OFDM System," IEEE/OSA Journal of Lightwave Technology, vol. 27, no. 10, pp. 1332-1339, May 2009.

V. R. Arbab, X. Wu, L. C. Christen, J.-Y. Yang, T. Dennis, P. Williams, and A. E. Willner, "Analysis of Fiber Dispersion Effects on Phase Modulated Signals Using Constellation Diagram," IEEE/OSA OFC Conf, San Diego, CA 2009.

J.-Y. Yang, L. Zhang, Y. Yue, V. R. Arbab, A. Agrawal, J. L. Jackel, and A. E. Willner, "CD/PMD-Insensitive Optical Performance Monitoring of OSNR Degradation in an 80-Gb/s Pol-Muxed RZ-DPSK System," LEOS Annual Meeting, Paper WP3, Newport Beach, CA 2008.

X. Wu, W. Peng, V. R. Arbab, and A. E. Willner, "Tunable Optical Wavelength Conversion of a 10-Gb/s OFDM Data Signal using a Periodically-Poled Lithium Niobate Waveguide," European Conference on Optical Communications (ECOC), Brussels, Belgium 2008.

V. R. Arbab, W. Peng, X. Wu, and A. E. Willner, "Experimental Demonstration of Multicarrier-CDMA for Passive Optical Networks," European Conference on Optical Communications (ECOC), Brussels, Belgium 2008.

R. Salem, S. Nuccio, V. R. Arbab, X. Wu, M. A. Foster, D. F. Geraghty, A. E. Willner, and A. L. Gaeta, "Experimental Demonstration of a High-Speed Optical Correlator For Phase-Modulated Packets," European Conference on Optical Communications (ECOC), Brussels, Belgium 2008.

W. Peng, X. Wu, V. R. Arbab, B. Shamee, L. C. Christen, J. Yang, K. Feng, A. E. Willner, and S. Chi, "Experimental Demonstration of a Coherently Modulated and Directly Detected Optical OFDM System Using an RF-Tone Insertion," IEEE/OSA OFC Conf, San Diego, CA 2008.

W. Peng, X. Wu, V. R. Arbab, B. Shamee, J. Yang, L. C. Christen, K. Feng, A. E. Willner, and S. Chi, "Experimental Demonstration of 340 km SSMF Transmission Using a Virtual Single Sideband OFDM Signal that Employs Carrier Suppressed and Iterative Detection Techniques," IEEE/OSA OFC Conf, San Diego, CA 2008.

P. Saghari, P. Kamath, V. R. Arbab, M. Haghi, A. E. Willner, J. Bannister, and J. D. Touch,"Experimental demonstration of Interference Avoidance Protocol (Transmission Scheduling) in OCDMA Networks," OSA Optics Express, vol. 15, no. 25, pp.16442-16447, Nov. 2007.

V. R. Arbab, P. Saghari, M. Haghi, P. Ebrahimi, and A. E. Willner, "Increasing the bit rate in OCDMA systems using pulse position modulation techniques," OSA Optics Express, vol. 15, no. 19, pp. 12252-12257, Sep 2007.

V. R. Arbab, P. Saghari, Narender M. J., and A. E. Willner, "Variable Bit Rate Optical CDMA Networks Using Multiple Pulse Position Modulation," in proc. of the IEEE/OSA Optical Fiber Communication Conference (OFC), Anaheim, CA, 2007.

P. Saghari, R. Omrani,
V. R. Arbab, A. E. Willner, and P. V. Kumar, "Increasing the Number of Users in an Optical CDMA System by Pulse Postition Modulation," in proc. of the IEEE/OSA Optical Fiber Communication Conference (OFC), JThA72, Anaheim, CA, 2007.

A. E. Willner, P. Saghari, and
V. R. Arbab, "Advanced Techniques to Increase the Number of Users and Bit Rate in OCDMA Networks," Invited Paper, IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Quantum Electronics, vol. 13, Sep 2007.

V. R. Arbab, P. Saghari, M. Haghi, R. Omrani, A. E. Willner, and P. V. Kumar, "Demonstration of Double Pulse Position Modulation (2-PPM) in Time-Wavelength Optical CDMA Systems," in proc. of the IEEE European Conf. on Optical Communication (ECOC), Cannes, France, 2006.

M. Haghi, P. Saghari,
V. R. Arbab, P. Ebrahimi, and A. E. Willner, "Differential-Pulse-Position-Modulation (DPPM) in OCDMA Networks to Achieve Higher Data-Rate/User," in proc. of the IEEE European Conf. on Optical Communication (ECOC), Cannes, France, 2006.

Y. G. Farrokhfal,
V. R. Arbab, and M. R. Pakravan, "A Near Optimum PREQ Flooding Algorithm in Sensor Networks," in proc. of the IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference (WCNC), Las Vegas, NV, 2006.

Y. G. Farrokhfal,
V. R. Arbab, and M. R. Pakravan, "Estimation error minimization in sensor networks with mobile agents," in proc. of the IEEE Consumer Communication and Networking Conference (CCNC), Las Vegas, NV, 2006.

P. Saghari, M. Haghi,
V. R. Arbab, S. Kumar, R. Gholizadeh, A. E. Willner, P. V. Kumar, and J. D. Touch, "Experimental Demonstration of Code Position Modulation in an OCDMA System to Increase the Number of Users," in proc. of the IEEE/OSA Conf. on Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO), Long Beach, CA, 2006.

P. Saghari, P. Kamath,
V. R. Arbab, M. Haghi, A. E. Willner, J. Bannister, and J. D. Touch,"Experimental demonstration of an Interference Avoidance based protocol for O-CDMA networks," in proc. of the IEEE/OSA Optical Fiber Communication Conference (OFC), Anaheim, CA, 2006.

S. Kumar, P. Saghari, P. Ebrahimi, M. Haghi,
V. R. Arbab, and A. E. Willner,"Experimental Demonstration of Missing Chip Detection in OCDMA Systems," in proc. of the IEEE/OSA Optical Fiber Communications (OFC), Anaheim, CA, 2006.

V. R. Arbab, M. M. Mansourirad, and J. A.Salehi, "Performance Analysis of PMD-Induced Fiber Optic Links," accepted in the International Symposium on Telecommunications (IST), Shiraz, Iran,2005.

V. R. Arbab, M. M. Mansourirad, and B. H. Khalaj, "An Enhanced Receiver Structure for Indoor Infrared CDMA Systems", accepted in the conf. of the International Association of Science and Technology for Development (IASTED), Banff, Canada, 2004.

V. R. Arbab, S. Zahedi, and B. H. Khalaj, "Analysis on the Capacity of Wireless Ad-Hoc Networks," in proc. of the International Conference in Communication from Theory to Application (IEEE ICCTA),Damascus, Syria, 2004.

 

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Integrated Communication Systems
Integrated Circuits Analysis and Design
Mixed-Signal Integrated Circuit Design
RF Analog Filter Design
Random Processes
Digital Communication Systems
Advanced Communications
Information Theory
Mobile Communications
Spread Spectrum Communications
Error Correcting Codes
Digital Signal Processing
Digital Image Processing
Optical Communication Systems
Statistical Optical Communications
Optical Communication Networks
Broadband Access Networks
Computer Networks
Data Networks
BioMEMS and Nano Structures
Biomedical Imaging
Physiological Control Systems
Solar Cell Energy Devices
Microprocessor Systems Design

Teaching

 


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- TA, MOS VLSI Circuit Design, University of Southern California, Fall 2011.
- TA, Parallel Computing, University of Southern California, Spring 2011.
- TA, Wireless Internet and Prevasive Computing, University of Southern California, Fall 2010.
- TA, Computer Networks, University of Southern California, Spring 2010.
- TA, Integrated Communication Systems, University of Southern California, Spring 2010.
- TA, MOS VLSI Circuit Design, University of Southern California, Fall 2009.
- TA, Random Processes, University of Southern California, Spring 2008.
- Lecturer, Digital Communications, California State University Los Angeles (CSULA), Fall 2006.
- TA, Fundamentals of Electrical Engineering, Sharif University, Fall 2004.
- TA, Digital Communications, Sharif University, Fall 2003.
- TA, Signals and Systems, Sharif University, Fall 2002.

 

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