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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Computer Science in United Arab Emirates Leader Award
  • 2026 - Research.com Electronics and Electrical Engineering in United Arab Emirates Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Computer Science in United Arab Emirates Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Electronics and Electrical Engineering in United Arab Emirates Leader Award
  • 2023 - Research.com Computer Science in France Leader Award
  • 2023 - Research.com Electronics and Electrical Engineering in France Leader Award
  • 2022 - Research.com Computer Science in France Leader Award
  • 2022 - Research.com Electronics and Electrical Engineering in France Leader Award
  • 2015 - IEEE Fellow For contributions to the theory and application of signal processing in wireless networks

Overview

Merouane Debbah is affiliated with Khalifa University in the United Arab Emirates. Their research spans multiple areas within engineering and computer science, with a particular focus on electrical and electronic engineering as well as aerospace engineering. Their work also covers computer networks and communications, artificial intelligence, and computer vision and pattern recognition.

The main topics of Merouane Debbah's research include:

  • Advanced Wireless Communication Technologies
  • Advanced MIMO Systems Optimization
  • Antenna Design and Analysis
  • Energy Harvesting in Wireless Networks
  • Advanced Antenna and Metasurface Technologies
  • Indoor and Outdoor Localization Technologies
  • Satellite Communication Systems

Debbah has published extensively, with frequent contributions to several major publication venues. These include:

  • arXiv (Cornell University)
  • IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications
  • IEEE Wireless Communications
  • IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications
  • IEEE Wireless Communications Letters

Recent papers authored or co-authored by Debbah span from 2020 to 2023 and cover topics related to intelligent surfaces, semantic communication, and terahertz wireless systems. Representative papers include:

  • "Smart Radio Environments Empowered by Reconfigurable Intelligent Surfaces: How it Works, State of Research, and Road Ahead," 2020, published in arXiv (Cornell University)
  • "Reconfigurable Intelligent Surfaces vs. Relaying: Differences, Similarities, and Performance Comparison," 2020, IEEE Open Journal of the Communications Society
  • "Edge Learning for B5G Networks With Distributed Signal Processing: Semantic Communication, Edge Computing, and Wireless Sensing," 2023, IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Signal Processing
  • "Intelligent Reflecting Surface-Assisted Multi-User MISO Communication: Channel Estimation and Beamforming Design," 2020, IEEE Open Journal of the Communications Society
  • "Seven Defining Features of Terahertz (THz) Wireless Systems: A Fellowship of Communication and Sensing," 2022, IEEE Communications Surveys & Tutorials

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Debbah include:

  • Chau Yuen
  • Chongwen Huang
  • Zhaoyang Zhang
  • Marco Di Renzo
  • Zhaohui Yang

Merouane Debbah was recognized as an IEEE Fellow in 2015 for contributions to the theory and application of signal processing in wireless networks.

Best Publications

  • Reconfigurable Intelligent Surfaces for Energy Efficiency in Wireless Communication

    Chongwen Huang;Alessio Zappone;George C. Alexandropoulos;Merouane Debbah

  • Wireless Communications Through Reconfigurable Intelligent Surfaces

    Ertugrul Basar;Marco Di Renzo;Julien De Rosny;Merouane Debbah

  • Smart Radio Environments Empowered by Reconfigurable Intelligent Surfaces: How It Works, State of Research, and The Road Ahead

    Marco Di Renzo;Alessio Zappone;Merouane Debbah;Mohamed-Slim Alouini

  • A Tutorial on UAVs for Wireless Networks: Applications, Challenges, and Open Problems

    Mohammad Mozaffari;Walid Saad;Mehdi Bennis;Young-Han Nam

  • Massive MIMO in the UL/DL of Cellular Networks: How Many Antennas Do We Need?

    J. Hoydis;Stephan ten Brink;M. Debbah

  • Smart radio environments empowered by reconfigurable AI meta-surfaces: an idea whose time has come

    Marco Di Renzo;Merouane Debbah;Dinh-Thuy Phan-Huy;Alessio Zappone

  • Living on the Edge: The Role of Proactive Caching in 5G Wireless Networks

    Ejder Bastug;Mehdi Bennis;Mérouane Debbah

  • Unmanned Aerial Vehicle With Underlaid Device-to-Device Communications: Performance and Tradeoffs

    Mohammad Mozaffari;Walid Saad;Mehdi Bennis;Merouane Debbah

  • Coalitional game theory for communication networks

    W. Saad;Zhu Han;M. Debbah;A. Hjorungnes

  • Efficient Deployment of Multiple Unmanned Aerial Vehicles for Optimal Wireless Coverage

    Mohammad Mozaffari;Walid Saad;Mehdi Bennis;Merouane Debbah

  • Massive MIMO Systems With Non-Ideal Hardware: Energy Efficiency, Estimation, and Capacity Limits

    Emil Bjornson;Jakob Hoydis;Marios Kountouris;Merouane Debbah

  • Holographic MIMO Surfaces for 6G Wireless Networks: Opportunities, Challenges, and Trends

    Chongwen Huang;Sha Hu;George C. Alexandropoulos;Alessio Zappone

  • Mobile Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) for Energy-Efficient Internet of Things Communications

    Mohammad Mozaffari;Walid Saad;Mehdi Bennis;Merouane Debbah

  • Artificial Neural Networks-Based Machine Learning for Wireless Networks: A Tutorial

    Mingzhe Chen;Ursula Challita;Walid Saad;Changchuan Yin

  • Ultrareliable and Low-Latency Wireless Communication: Tail, Risk, and Scale

    Mehdi Bennis;Merouane Debbah;H. Vincent Poor

  • Optimal Design of Energy-Efficient Multi-User MIMO Systems: Is Massive MIMO the Answer?

    Emil Bjornson;Luca Sanguinetti;Jakob Hoydis;Merouane Debbah

  • Reconfigurable Intelligent Surfaces vs. Relaying: Differences, Similarities, and Performance Comparison

    Marco Di Renzo;Konstantinos Ntontin;Jian Song;Fadil Habibi Danufane

  • Coalitional Game Theory for Communication Networks: A Tutorial

    Walid Saad;Zhu Han;Merouane Debbah;Are Hjørungnes

  • A Speculative Study on 6G

    Faisal Tariq;Muhammad R. A. Khandaker;Kai-Kit Wong;Muhammad A. Imran

  • Caching in the Sky: Proactive Deployment of Cache-Enabled Unmanned Aerial Vehicles for Optimized Quality-of-Experience

    Mingzhe Chen;Mohammad Mozaffari;Walid Saad;Changchuan Yin

  • Random Matrix Methods for Wireless Communications: Applications to wireless communications

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  • Smart Radio Environments Empowered by Reconfigurable Intelligent Surfaces: How it Works, State of Research, and Road Ahead.

    Marco Di Renzo;Alessio Zappone;Merouane Debbah;Mohamed-Slim Alouini

Frequent Co-Authors

Mehdi Bennis
Mehdi Bennis University of Oulu
Walid Saad
Walid Saad Virginia Tech
Abla Kammoun
Abla Kammoun King Abdullah University of Science and Technology
Luca Sanguinetti
Luca Sanguinetti University of Pisa
Emil Bjornson
Emil Bjornson Royal Institute of Technology
Alessio Zappone
Alessio Zappone University of Cassino and Southern Lazio
Jakob Hoydis
Jakob Hoydis Nvidia (United States)
Zhu Han
Zhu Han University of Houston
Are Hjorungnes
Are Hjorungnes University of Oslo
Eitan Altman
Eitan Altman French Institute for Research in Computer Science and Automation - INRIA

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