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Mohammad-Ali Khalighi

Mohammad-Ali Khalighi

D-Index & Metrics

Electronics and Electrical Engineering

D-Index
35
Citations
7423
World Ranking
5460
National Ranking
109

Mohammad-Ali Khalighi publication distribution in Electronics and Electrical Engineering in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Electronics and Electrical Engineering in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Mohammad-Ali Khalighi sits on this spectrum.

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34 publications 1,065+

This scientist: 152 publications — 15th percentile

15% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 1,065 publications or more.

Mohammad-Ali Khalighi D-index placement in Electronics and Electrical Engineering in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Electronics and Electrical Engineering scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Mohammad-Ali Khalighi sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 111+

This scientist: 35 D-Index — 21st percentile

21% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 111 D-Index or more.

Overview

Mohammad-Ali Khalighi is affiliated with Institut Fresnel in France and specializes in engineering, with a primary focus on electrical and electronic engineering among other subfields.

Their research encompasses several key areas including:

  • Optical Wireless Communication Technologies
  • Advanced Photonic Communication Systems
  • Underwater Vehicles and Communication Systems
  • Wireless Body Area Networks
  • Advanced Wireless Communication Technologies
  • Optical Network Technologies
  • Molecular Communication and Nanonetworks

Khalighi has contributed extensively to the academic literature, often collaborating with coauthors such as Zabih Ghassemlooy, Steve Hranilovic, Stanislav Zvánovec, Mahmoud Wafik Eltokhey, and Ikenna Chinazaekpere Ijeh. The number of joint publications with these colleagues ranges from four to eleven.

The scientist has published in several venues multiple times, including:

  • 2022 13th International Symposium on Communication Systems, Networks and Digital Signal Processing (CSNDSP)
  • arXiv (Cornell University)
  • IEEE Open Journal of the Communications Society
  • IEEE Journal of Oceanic Engineering
  • IEEE Access

Selected recent papers by Mohammad-Ali Khalighi include the following:

  • "Outage probability analysis of a vertical underwater wireless optical link subject to oceanic turbulence and pointing errors," 2022, Journal of Optical Communications and Networking
  • "Channel Characterization and Modeling for Optical Wireless Body-Area Networks," 2020, IEEE Open Journal of the Communications Society
  • "Energy Efficient Cooperative Communications in Aggregated VLC/RF Networks With NOMA," 2023, IEEE Transactions on Communications
  • "Parameter Optimization for an Underwater Optical Wireless Vertical Link Subject to Link Misalignments," 2021, IEEE Journal of Oceanic Engineering
  • "Angular MIMO for Underwater Wireless Optical Communications: Link Modeling and Tracking," 2021, IEEE Journal of Oceanic Engineering

Their published works primarily investigate underwater optical wireless communication, energy-efficient cooperative communication protocols, channel modeling, and optimization of photonic communication systems under various environmental and technical constraints.

Best Publications

  • Survey on Free Space Optical Communication: A Communication Theory Perspective

    Mohammad Ali Khalighi;Murat Uysal

  • Monte-Carlo-based channel characterization for underwater optical communication systems

    C. Gabriel;M. Khalighi;S. Bourennane;P. Leon

  • Fading Reduction by Aperture Averaging and Spatial Diversity in Optical Wireless Systems

    M.-A. Khalighi;N. Schwartz;N. Aitamer;S. Bourennane

  • Channel Modeling and Parameter Optimization for Hovering UAV-Based Free-Space Optical Links

    Mohammad Taghi Dabiri;Seyed Mohammad Sajad Sadough;Mohammad Ali Khalighi

  • Channel modeling for underwater optical communication

    Chadi Gabriel;Mohammad-Ali Khalighi;Salah Bourennane;Pierre Leon

  • Underwater wireless optical communication; recent advances and remaining challenges

    Mohammad-Ali Khalighi;Chadi Gabriel;Tasnim Hamza;Salah Bourennane

  • Water filling capacity of Rayleigh MIMO channels

    M.A. Khalighi;J.-M. Brossier;G.V. Jourdain;K. Raoof

  • Impact of different noise sources on the performance of PIN- and APD-based FSO receivers

    Fang Xu;Mohammad-Ali Khalighi;Salah Bourennane

  • Experimental Investigation of All-Optical Relay-Assisted 10 Gb/s FSO Link Over the Atmospheric Turbulence Channel

    Norhanis Aida Mohd Nor;Zabih Ghassemlooy;Jan Bohata;Prakriti Saxena

  • Investigation of solar noise impact on the performance of underwater wireless optical communication links.

    Tasnim Hamza;Mohammad Ali Khalighi;Salah Bourennane;Pierre Léon

  • Outage probability analysis of a vertical underwater wireless optical link subject to oceanic turbulence and pointing errors

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  • Coded PPM and Multipulse PPM and Iterative Detection for Free-Space Optical Links

    Fang Xu;M.-A. Khalighi;S. Bourennane

  • FSO Channel Estimation for OOK Modulation with APD Receiver over Atmospheric Turbulence and Pointing Errors

    Mohammad Taghi Dabiri;Seyed Mohammad Sajad Sadough;Mohammad Ali Khalighi

  • Double-Laser Differential Signaling for Reducing the Effect of Background Radiation in Free-Space Optical Systems

    M Khalighi;F Xu;Y Jaafar;S Bourennane

  • Capacity of Wireless Communication Systems Employing Antenna Arrays, a Tutorial Study

    Mohammad Ali Khalighi;Kosai Raoof;Geneviève Jourdain

  • Adaptive CFAR processor for nonhomogeneous environments

    M.A. Khalighi;M.H. Bastani

  • Performance evaluation of receive-diversity free-space optical communications over correlated Gamma–Gamma fading channels

    Guowei Yang;Mohammad-Ali Khalighi;Zabih Ghassemlooy;Salah Bourennane

  • Fading correlation and analytical performance evaluation of the space-diversity free-space optical communications system

    Guowei Yang;Mohammad-Ali Khalighi;Salah Bourennane;Zabih Ghassemlooy

  • On capacity of Rician MIMO channels

    M.A. Khalighi;J.-M. Brossier;G. Jourdain;K. Raoof

  • PAM- and CAP-Based Transmission Schemes for Visible-Light Communications

    Mohammad-Ali Khalighi;Shihe Long;Salah Bourennane;Zabih Ghassemlooy

  • Semi-Blind Channel Estimation Using the EM Algorithm in Iterative MIMO APP Detectors

    M.A. Khalighi;J.J. Boutros

  • Underwater Wireless Optical Communications Using Silicon Photo-Multipliers

    Mohammad-Ali Khalighi;Tasnim Hamza;Salah Bourennane;Pierre Leon

  • Turbulence mitigation by aperture averaging in wireless optical systems

    M.A. Khalighi;N. Aitamer;N. Schwartz;S. Bourennane

Frequent Co-Authors

Salah Bourennane
Salah Bourennane Aix-Marseille University
Zabih Ghassemlooy
Zabih Ghassemlooy Northumbria University
Stanislav Zvanovec
Stanislav Zvanovec Czech Technical University in Prague
Manav R. Bhatnagar
Manav R. Bhatnagar Indian Institute of Technology Delhi
Steve Hranilovic
Steve Hranilovic McMaster University
Murat Uysal
Murat Uysal New York University Abu Dhabi
Michael M. Wolf
Michael M. Wolf Technical University of Munich
Anthony C. Boucouvalas
Anthony C. Boucouvalas University of Peloponnese
Pierre Duhamel
Pierre Duhamel CentraleSupélec
Mohamed-Slim Alouini
Mohamed-Slim Alouini King Abdullah University of Science and Technology

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