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Electronics and Electrical Engineering
Saudi Arabia
2026

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Electronics and Electrical Engineering

D-Index
131
Citations
112805
World Ranking
39
National Ranking
1

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Electronics and Electrical Engineering in Saudi Arabia Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Electronics and Electrical Engineering in Saudi Arabia Leader Award
  • 2022 - Research.com Electronics and Electrical Engineering in Saudi Arabia Leader Award
  • 2021 - OSA Fellows Mohamed-Slim Alouini King Abdullah University of Science & Technology (KAUST), Saudi Arabia For outstanding contributions to optical wireless communications
  • 2019 - Member of Academia Europaea
  • 2009 - IEEE Fellow For contributions to design and performance analysis of wireless communication systems
  • Member of the European Academy of Sciences and Arts
  • Member of the European Academy of Sciences and Arts
  • Member of the European Academy of Sciences and Arts
  • Member of the European Academy of Sciences and Arts
  • Member of the European Academy of Sciences and Arts
  • Member of the European Academy of Sciences and Arts

Overview

Mohamed-Slim Alouini is affiliated with King Abdullah University of Science and Technology in Saudi Arabia. Their research focus is primarily within the field of engineering, with a strong emphasis on electrical and electronic engineering and aerospace engineering. The subfields also include computer networks and communications, ocean engineering, and biomedical engineering.

The scientist's research topics cover various advanced communication and networking technologies. These include:

  • Advanced wireless communication technologies
  • Optical wireless communication technologies
  • Satellite communication systems
  • UAV applications and optimization
  • Advanced MIMO systems optimization
  • Energy harvesting in wireless networks
  • Millimeter-wave propagation and modeling

Mohamed-Slim Alouini has published extensively in several venues, with a high concentration in IEEE-related journals. Frequent publication venues include:

  • IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications
  • IEEE Open Journal of the Communications Society
  • IEEE Transactions on Communications
  • IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology
  • IEEE Wireless Communications Letters

Highly cited recent papers associated with their research are:

  • "Smart Radio Environments Empowered by Reconfigurable Intelligent Surfaces: How it Works, State of Research, and Road Ahead," 2020, arXiv (Cornell University)
  • "Intelligent Reflecting Surface-Assisted Multi-User MISO Communication: Channel Estimation and Beamforming Design," 2020, IEEE Open Journal of the Communications Society
  • "A Key 6G Challenge and Opportunity-Connecting the Base of the Pyramid: A Survey on Rural Connectivity," 2020, Proceedings of the IEEE
  • "An Overview of Signal Processing Techniques for Terahertz Communications," 2021, Proceedings of the IEEE
  • "Deep Denoising Neural Network Assisted Compressive Channel Estimation for mmWave Intelligent Reflecting Surfaces," 2020, IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology

Frequent co-authors in their collaborative work include Mustafa A. Kishk, Tareq Y. Al-Naffouri, Basem Shihada, Gaofeng Pan, and Abla Kammoun.

In addition to journal publications, Mohamed-Slim Alouini has contributed to academic books. Notably, they have a publication with Cambridge University Press titled Advanced Wireless Transmission Technologies (2020).

The scientist has received multiple awards and honors recognizing their contributions. These include:

  • OSA Fellow in 2021 for contributions to optical wireless communications
  • Member of Academia Europaea in 2019
  • IEEE Fellow in 2009 for work on design and performance analysis of wireless communication systems
  • Member of the European Academy of Sciences and Arts

Best Publications

  • Digital Communication over Fading Channels

    Marvin Kenneth Simon;Mohamed-Slim Alouini

  • On the Energy Detection of Unknown Signals Over Fading Channels

    F.F. Digham;M.-S. Alouini;M.K. Simon

  • Digital Communication over Fading Channels: A Unified Approach to Performance Analysis

    Marvin Kenneth Simon;Mohamed-Slim Alouini

  • 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

  • Digital Communication over Fading Channels: Simon/Digital Communications 2e

    Marvin K. Simon;Mohamed-Slim Alouini

  • A performance study of dual-hop transmissions with fixed gain relays

    M.O. Hasna;M.-S. Alouini

  • 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

  • What should 6G be

    Shuping Dang;Osama Amin;Basem Shihada;Mohamed-Slim Alouini

  • End-to-end performance of transmission systems with relays over Rayleigh-fading channels

    M.O. Hasna;M.-S. Alouini

  • Capacity of Rayleigh fading channels under different adaptive transmission and diversity-combining techniques

    M.-S. Alouini;A.J. Goldsmith

  • A new simple model for land mobile satellite channels: first- and second-order statistics

    A. Abdi;W.C. Lau;M.-S. Alouini;M. Kaveh

  • Adaptive Modulation over Nakagami Fading Channels

    Mohamed-Slim Alouini;Andrea J. Goldsmith

  • A unified approach to the performance analysis of digital communication over generalized fading channels

    M.K. Simon;M. Alouini

  • A Survey of Channel Modeling for UAV Communications

    Aziz Altaf Khuwaja;Yunfei Chen;Nan Zhao;Mohamed-Slim Alouini

  • Optimal power allocation for relayed transmissions over Rayleigh-fading channels

    M.O. Hasna;M.-S. Alouini

  • A unified approach for calculating error rates of linearly modulated signals over generalized fading channels

    M.-S. Alouini;A.J. Goldsmith

  • Area spectral efficiency of cellular mobile radio systems

    M.-S. Alouini;A.J. Goldsmith

  • Outage probability of multihop transmission over Nakagami fading channels

    M.O. Hasna;M.-S. Alouini

  • How much feedback is multi-user diversity really worth?

    D. Gesbert;M.-S. Alouini

  • 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

Tareq Y. Al-Naffouri
Tareq Y. Al-Naffouri King Abdullah University of Science and Technology
Hong-Chuan Yang
Hong-Chuan Yang University of Victoria
Khalid A. Qaraqe
Khalid A. Qaraqe Hamad bin Khalifa University
Marvin K. Simon
Marvin K. Simon California Institute of Technology
Anas Chaaban
Anas Chaaban University of British Columbia
Hakim Ghazzai
Hakim Ghazzai King Abdullah University of Science and Technology
Boon S. Ooi
Boon S. Ooi King Abdullah University of Science and Technology
Mazen O. Hasna
Mazen O. Hasna Qatar University
Nasir Saeed
Nasir Saeed United Arab Emirates University
Mohamed Abdallah
Mohamed Abdallah Hamad bin Khalifa University

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