Dr Quoc-Tuan Vien

Research Interests

• Physical layer security
• Non-orthogonal multiple access
• Physical layer network coding
• Diversity techniques, space-time-frequency coding
• Spectrum sensing and sharing
• Energy harvesting
• Equalisation and channel estimation
• Cross-layer optimisation
• Wireless relay networks
• Cognitive radio networks
• Heterogeneous and small cell networks
• Cloud radio access networks
• Computer networks
• Wired/wireless network-on-chip
• Standards: HSPA-Plus (3.5G), LTE (3.9G), LTE-Advanced (4G), 5G and beyond

Prospective Graduate Students

• Excellent students having strong motivations and willing to carry out MPhil/PhD research in the above area are all welcomed. Please send your resume (CV), personal statement and research proposal to Q.Vien@mdx.ac.uk
• Detailed application information and procedure are available at https://www.mdx.ac.uk/courses/postgraduate-research-degrees/academic-research-degrees-mphil-and-phd.

PhD Supervision

• Adeola Abraham Omorinoye (PhD thesis at Middlesex University, 2017 - ) (Director of Studies) - Research topic: "Energy and spectrum efficiency for dense small cell networks"
• Ibrahim Abdulkadir (PhD thesis at Middlesex University, 2017 - ) (Co-supervisor with Dr R. Trestian) - Research topic: "QoS-based effective resource management framework for hybrid software defined networking"
• Jalal Aldossari (PhD thesis at Middlesex University, 2015 - ) (Co-supervisor with Dr A. Lasebae) - Research topic: "Physical layer security: secrecy performance analysis and design of cooperative communication systems"
• Kamran Ali (PhD thesis at Middlesex University, 2013 - ) (Co-supervisor with Dr H. X. Nguyen) - Research topic: "Architecture design for disaster resilient management network using D2D LTE technology"
• Namadev Bhuvanasundaram (PhD thesis at Middlesex University, 2014 - ) (Co-supervisor with Dr H. X. Nguyen) - Research topic: "Enabling technologies for interference-limited 5G wireless systems"
• Xuan-Toan Doan (PhD thesis at Queen's University Belfast, 2015 - 2018) (Co-supervisor with Dr T. Q. Duong) - Research topic: Large-scale heterogeneous networks (HetNets)
• Sunyoung Lee (PhD thesis at Queen's University Belfast, 2015 - 2018) (Co-supervisor with Dr T. Q. Duong) - Research topic: Non-orthogonal multiple access (NOMA)
• Quy-Huu Tran (PhD thesis at Ho Chi Minh City University of Technology and Education, 2016 - ) (Co-supervisor with Dr C. V. Phan) - Research topic: Cloud radio access networks (CRANs)

MSc Supervision

Selected Theses awarded Distinction

• Sharaifa Alnasser (2016) thesis: "Optimisation of Queuing Management in Computer Networks Subject to QoS Requirements"
• Muhammad Ali Hassan (2016) thesis: "Software Defined Networking in Wireless Sensor Networks"
• Imdadul Karim (2015) thesis: "On the Comparative Analysis of Snort-based Intrusion Detection System for Practical Computer Networks"
• Abdullahi Musa Bello (2015) thesis: "Physical Layer Network Coding and Cooperative Jamming for Securing Cooperative Relay Networks"
• David Wesley Fekna (2015) thesis: "Implementation of Amarisoft LTE 100 Testbed and Energy Consumption Analysis of Android Mobile Devices During LTE Video Streaming"
• Tayo Isaac Akinbote (2014) thesis: "Small Cell Deployment In Heterogeneous Wireless Communication Network"
• Ngozi Ogbonna (2014) thesis: "A Non-Orthogonal Multiple Access Scheme for Cloud Radio Access Networks"

Selected publications

• [C45] R. Trestian, Q.-T. Vien, P. Shah, and G. Mapp, "UEFA-M: Utility-based energy efficient adaptive multimedia mechanism over LTE HetNet small cells," to be presented in Proceedings IEEE International Symposium on Wireless Communication Systems (ISWCS 2017), Bologna, Italy, Aug. 2017.
• [C44] Q.-T. Vien, T. A. Le, and T. Q. Duong, "Opportunistic secure transmission for wireless relay networks with modify-and-forward protocol," in Proceedings IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC 2017), Paris, France, May 2017, pp. 4035-4040.
• [C43] Q.-T. Vien, T. A. Le, C. V. Phan, and M. O. Agyeman, "An energy-efficient NOMA for small cells in heterogeneous CRAN under QoS constraints," in Proceedings European Wireless Conference (EW 2017), Dresden, Germany, May 2017, pp. 80-85.
• [C42] K. Ali, H. X. Nguyen, P. Shah, Q.-T. Vien, and E. Ever, "D2D multi-hop relaying services towards disaster communication system," in Proceedings International Conference on Telecommunication (ICT 2017) - Workshop on 5G Networks for Public Safety and Disaster Management (IWNDP 2017), Limassol, Cyprus, May 2017.
• [C41] Q.-T. Vien, T. A. Le, X.-S. Yang, and T. Q. Duong, "On the handover security key update and residence management in LTE networks,'' in Proceedings IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference (WCNC 2017), San Francisco, CA, USA, Mar. 2017, pp. 1-6.
• [C40] H. Q. Tran, P. Q. Truong, C. V. Phan, and Q.-T. Vien, "On the energy efficiency of NOMA for wireless backhaul in multi-tier heterogeneous CRAN," in Proceedings International Conference on Recent Advances on Signal Processing, Telecommunications & Computing (SigTelCom 2017), Da Nang, Vietnam, Jan. 2017, pp. 229-234 (Invited Paper).
• [C39] T. A. Le, Q.-T. Vien, H. X. Nguyen, D. W. K. Ng, and R. Schober, “Robust optimization with probabilistic constraints for green and secure SWIPT,” in Proceedings IEEE Global Communications Conference (GLOBECOM 2016), Washington, DC USA, Dec. 2016.
• [C38] M. O. Agyeman, Q.-T. Vien, G. Hill, S. J. Turner, and T. Mak, "An efficient channel model for evaluating wireless NoC architectures," in Proceedings International Symposium on Computer Architecture and High Performance Computing (SBAC-PAD 2016) - Workshop on Applications for Multi-Core Architectures (WAMCA 2016), Los Angeles, California, USA, Oct. 2016.
• [C37] K. Ali, H. X. Nguyen, P. Shah, and Q.-T. Vien, "Energy efficient and scalable D2D architecture design for public safety network," in Proceedings International Conference on Advanced Communication Systems and Information Security (ACOSIS 2016), Marrakesh, Morocco, Oct. 2016.
• [C36] T. A. Le, K. Navaie, Q.-T. Vien, and H. X. Nguyen, "Beamforming in coexisting wireless systems with uncertain channel state information," in Proceedings IEEE Vehicular Technology Conference (VTC 2016-Fall), Montreal, Canada, Sep. 2016 (Invited Paper).
• [C35] M. O. Agyeman, Q.-T. Vien, and T. Mak, “An analytical channel model for emerging wireless networks-on-chip,” in Proceedings IEEE/IFIP International Conference on Embedded and Ubiquitous Computing (EUC 2016), Paris, France, Aug. 2016 (Best Paper).
• [C34] Q.-T. Vien, T. A. Le, H. X. Nguyen, and H. Phan, “A secure network coding based modify-and-forward scheme for cooperative wireless relay networks,” in Proceedings IEEE Vehicular Technology Conference (VTC 2016-Spring), Nanjing, China, May 2016, pp. 1-5.
• [C33] K. Ali, H. X. Nguyen, P. Shah, Q.-T. Vien, and N. Bhuvanasundaram, “Architecture for public safety network using D2D communication,” in Proceedings IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference (WCNC 2016) - Workshop on Communications in Extreme Conditions (ComExCon 2016), Doha, Qatar, Apr. 2016, pp. 206-211.
• [C32] T. A. Le, H. X. Nguyen, Q.-T. Vien, and M. Karamanoglu, “Secure information transmission in the presence of energy-harvesting eavesdroppers in multi-cell networks,” in Proceedings IEEE Global Communications Conference (GLOBECOM 2015), San Diego, CA, USA, Dec. 2015, pp. 1-6.
• [C31] R. Trestian, Q.-T. Vien, P. Shah, and G. Mapp, “Exploring energy consumption issues for multimedia streaming in LTE HetNet small cells,” in Proceedings IEEE Local Computer Networks Conference (LCN 2015), Florida, USA, Oct. 2015, pp. 498–501.
• [C30] N. Bhuvanasundaram, H. X. Nguyen, R. Trestian, and Q.-T. Vien, “Sum-rate analysis of cell edge users under cooperative NOMA,” in Proceedings IFIP Wireless and Mobile Networking Conference (WMNC 2015), Munich, Germany, Oct. 2015, pp. 239–244.
• [C29] M. O. Agyeman, J.-X. Wan, Q.-T. Vien, W. Zong, A. Yakovlev, K. Tong, and T. Mak, “On the design of reliable hybrid wired-wireless network-on-chip architectures,” in Proceedings IEEE International Symposium on Embedded Multicore/Many-core Systems-on-Chip (MCSoC-15), Turin, Italy, Sep. 2015, pp. 251–258.
• [C28] Q.-T. Vien, T. A. Le, H. X. Nguyen, and M. Karamanoglu, “An energy-efficient resource allocation for optimal downlink coverage in heterogeneous wireless cellular networks,” in Proceedings IEEE International Symposium on Wireless Communication Systems (ISWCS 2015), Brussels, Belgium, Aug. 2015, pp. 156–160.
• [C27] Q.-T. Vien, T. Akinbote, H. X. Nguyen, R. Trestian, and O. Gemikonakli, “On the coverage and power allocation for downlink in heterogeneous wireless cellular networks,” in Proceedings IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC 2015), London, UK, Jun. 2015, pp. 4641–4646.
• [C26] R. Trestian, Q.-T. Vien, H. X. Nguyen, and O. Gemikonakli, “ECO-M: Energy-efficient cluster-oriented multimedia streaming in a LTE D2D environment,” in Proceedings IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC 2015), London, UK, Jun. 2015, pp. 55–61.
• [C25] R. Trestian, Q.-T. Vien, H. X. Nguyen, and O. Gemikonakli, “On the impact of video content type on the mobile video quality assessment and energy consumption,” in Proceedings IEEE International Symposium on Broadband Multimedia Systems and Broadcasting (BMSB 2015), Ghent, Belgium, Jun. 2015, pp. 1–6.
• [C24] Q.-T. Vien, N. Ogbonna, H. X. Nguyen, R. Trestian, and P. Shah, “Non-orthogonal multiple access for wireless downlink in cloud radio access networks,” in Proceedings European Wireless Conference (EW 2015), Budapest, Hungary, May. 2015, pp. 434–439.
• [C23] R. Trestian, P. Shah, H. X. Nguyen, Q.-T. Vien, O. Gemikonakli, and B. Barn, “Towards connecting people, locations and real-world events in a cellular network,” in The main conference on the scientific analysis of mobile phone datasets (NetMob 2015), Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA, Apr. 2015.
• [C22] K. Ali, H. X. Nguyen, Q.-T. Vien, and P. Shah, “Disaster management communication networks: Challenges and architecture design,” in Proceedings IEEE International Conference on Pervasive Computing and Communications (PerCom 2015) - Workshop on Pervasive Networks for Emergency Management (PerNEM 2015), St. Louis, Missouri, USA, Mar. 2015, pp. 537–542.
• [C21] Q.-T. Vien, H. X. Nguyen, L.-N. Tran, and E.-K. Hong, “Double-threshold based cooperative spectrum sensing over imperfect channels,” in Proceedings IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference (WCNC 2015), New Orleans, Louisiana, USA, Mar. 2015, pp. 293–298.
• [C20] D. To, H. X. Nguyen, Q.-T. Vien, and L.-K. Huang, “Resource allocation for HARQ-IR systems with QoS constraints and limited feedback,” in Proceedings IEEE Global Communications Conference (GLOBECOM 2014), Austin, Texas, USA, Dec. 2014, pp. 4226-4231.
• [C19] Q.-T. Vien, H. X. Nguyen, O. Gemikonakli, and B. Barn, “An efficient cooperative spectrum sensing under bandwidth constraint with user selection,” in Proceedings IEEE Vehicular Technology Conference (VTC 2014-Fall), Vancouver, Canada, Sep. 2014, pp. 1–5.
• [C18] Q.-T. Vien, W. Tu, H. X. Nguyen, and R. Trestian, “Cross-layer optimisation for topology design of wireless multicast networks via network coding,” in Proceedings IEEE Local Computer Networks Conference (LCN 2014), Edmonton, Canada, Sep. 2014, pp. 466–469.
• [C17] Q.-T. Vien, H. X. Nguyen, R. Trestian, P. Shah, and O. Gemikonakli, “Performance analysis of cooperative spectrum sensing for cognitive wireless radio networks over Nakagami-m fading channels,” in Proceedings IEEE Symposium on Personal, Indoor and Mobile Radio Communications (PIMRC 2014), Washington, DC USA, Sep. 2014, pp. 738–742.
• [C16] Q.-T. Vien, H. X. Nguyen, and T. Le-Ngoc, “An efficient hybrid double-threshold based energy detection for cooperative spectrum sensing,” in Proceedings Queen’s Biennial Symposium on Communications (QBSC 2014), Kingston, Ontario, Canada, Jun. 2014, pp. 42–46.
• [C15] Q.-T. Vien, H. X. Nguyen, P. Shah, E. Ever, and D. To, “Relay selection for efficient HARQ-IR protocols in relay-assisted multisource multicast networks,” in Proceedings IEEE Vehicular Technology Conference (VTC 2014-Spring), Seoul, Korea, May 2014, pp. 1–5.
• [C14] Q.-T. Vien, H. X. Nguyen, O. Gemikonakli, and B. Barn, “Performance analysis of cooperative transmission for cognitive wireless relay networks,” in Proceedings IEEE Global Communications Conference (GLOBECOM 2013), Atlanta, Georgia, USA, Dec. 2013, pp. 4186–4191.
• [C13] Q.-T. Vien, H. X. Nguyen, and W. Tu, “Optimal relay positioning for green wireless network-coded butterfly networks,” in Proceedings IEEE Personal, Indoor and Mobile Radio Communications Symposium (PIMRC 2013), London, UK, Sep. 2013, pp. 286–290.
• [C12] Q.-T. Vien, B. G. Stewart, J. Choi, and H. X. Nguyen, “On the energy efficiency of HARQ-IR protocols for wireless network-coded butterfly networks,” in Proceedings IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference (WCNC 2013), Shanghai, China, Apr. 2013, pp. 2559– 2564.
• [C11] Q.-T. Vien, B. G. Stewart, H. Tianfield, and H. X. Nguyen, “An efficient cooperative retransmission for wireless regenerative relay networks,” in Proceedings IEEE Global Communications Conference (GLOBECOM 2012), Anaheim, California, USA, Dec. 2012, pp. 4417–4422.
• [C10] Q.-T. Vien, H. Tianfield, and B. G. Stewart, “Efficient cooperative spectrum sensing for cognitive wireless relay networks over Rayleigh flat fading channels,” in Proceedings IEEE Vehicular Technology Conference (VTC 2012-Spring), Yokohama, Japan, May 2012, pp. 1–5.
• [C9] Q.-T. Vien and H. X. Nguyen, “CQI reporting strategies for nonregenerative two-way relay networks,” in Proceedings IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference (WCNC 2012), Paris, France, Apr. 2012, pp. 974–979.
• [C8] Q.-T. Vien, H. Tianfield, B. G. Stewart, H. X. Nguyen, and J. Choi, “An efficient retransmission strategy for multisource multidestination relay networks over Rayleigh flat fading channels,” in Proceedings IEEE International Symposium on Wireless Personal Multimedia Communications (WPMC 2011), Brest, France, Oct. 2011, pp. 171–175.
• [C7] Q.-T. Vien, H. X. Nguyen, J. Choi, B. G. Stewart, and H. Tianfield, “Network coding-based block ACK for wireless relay networks,” in Proceedings IEEE Vehicular Technology Conference (VTC 2011-Spring), Budapest, Hungary, May 2011, pp. 1–5.
• [C6] Q.-T. Vien, L.-N. Tran, and H. X. Nguyen, “Network coding-based ARQ retransmission strategies for two-way wireless relay networks,” in Proceedings IEEE International Conference on Software, Telecommunications and Computer Networks (SoftCOM 2010), Split, Croatia, Sep. 2010, pp. 180–184.
• [C5] Q.-T. Vien, L.-N. Tran, and E.-K. Hong, “Design of distributed space-time block code for two-relay system over frequency selective fading channels,” in Proceedings IEEE Global Communications Conference (GLOBECOM’09), Honolulu, Hawaii, USA, Nov. 2009, pp. 1–5.
• [C4] Q.-T. Vien and E.-K. Hong, “Design of quasi-orthogonal space-time block codes for cooperative wireless relay networks over frequency selective fading channels,” in Proceedings IEEE International Conference on Advanced Technologies for Communications (ATC’09), Hai Phong, Vietnam, Oct. 2009, pp. 275–278.
• [C3] L.-N. Tran, Q.-T. Vien, and Een-Kee Hong, “Training sequence-based distributed space-time block codes with frequency domain equalization,” in Proceedings IEEE Personal, Indoor and Mobile Radio Communications Symposium (PIMRC’09), Tokyo, Japan, Sep. 2009, pp. 501–505.
• [C2] Q.-T. Vien, D.-T.-H. Nguyen, L.-N. Tran, and E.-K. Hong, “Design of DSTBC and HARQ schemes for turbo-coded cooperative wireless relay networks over frequency selective fading channels,” in Proceedings International Technical Conference on Circuits/Systems, Computers and Communications (ITC-CSCC’09), Jeju Island, Korea, Jul. 2009, pp. 584–587.
• [C1] Q.-T. Vien, L.-N. Tran, J.-H. Kim, E.-K. Hong, and Yong-Seo Park, “Design of distributed space-time block code for two-hop cooperative wireless relay networks over frequency selective fading channels,” in Proceedings Korea Information and Communications Society Conference (KICS’08), Seoul, Korea, Nov. 2008, pp. 282–285.

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