Mehdi Zafari

Mehdi Zafari

PhD Student | AI/ML for Next-Gen Wireless Communications (5G/6G)

Publications

You can also find my papers on my Google Scholar profile.

Journal Articles

R. Liu, M. Li, M. Zafari, B. Ottersten, A. Lee Swindlehurst, “Multi-Domain Optimization Framework for ISAC: From Electromagnetic Shaping to Network Cooperation,” accepted at the IEEE Wireless Communications Magazine, November 2025.

arXiv

M. Zafari, D. Pandey, and R. Doost-Mohammady, “An Analytical and Experimental Study of Distributed Uplink Beamforming in the Presence of Carrier Frequency Offsets,” accepted at the IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology, September 2025.

arXiv

Conference Papers

M. Zafari and A. Lee Swindlehurst, “ASSENT: Learning-Based Association Optimization for Distributed Cell-Free ISAC,” Submitted to the IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC) 2026, November 2025.

arXiv GitHub

M. Zafari, Rang Liu, and A. Lee Swindlehurst, “Coordinated Decentralized Resource Optimization for Cell-Free ISAC Systems,” Accepted to the IEEE Asilomar Conference on Signals, Systems, and Computers, August 2025.

arXiv GitHub

M. Zafari, D. Pandey, R. Doost-Mohammady, and C. A. Uribe, “ADMM for Downlink Beamforming in Cell‑Free Massive MIMO Systems,” IEEE Asilomar Conference on Signals, Systems, and Computers, May 2024.

arXiv IEEE Xplore

Q. An, M. Zafari, C. Dick, S. Segarra, A. Sabharwal and R. Doost-Mohammady, “ML‑Based Feedback‑Free Adaptive MCS Selection for Massive Multi‑User MIMO,” IEEE Asilomar Conference on Signals, Systems, and Computers, October 2023.

arXiv IEEE Xplore

R. Doost-Mohammady, M. Zafari, and A. Sabharwal, “Robustness of Distributed Multi‑User Beamforming: An Experimental Evaluation,” IEEE 12th Sensor Array and Multichannel Signal Processing Workshop (SAM), June 2022.

IEEE Xplore

Datasets

M. Zafari, “Distributed Multi‑User MIMO Datasets,” IEEE Dataport, September 2024.

IEEE Xplore

GitHub Repositories

M. Zafari, E. Finkelstein, and C. Yang, “Deep-Gen-Project: Spatiotemporal Generative Models for Wildfire Spread Prediction,” GitHub Repository, December 2025.

GitHub

M. Zafari, “ASSENT-CellFree-ISAC: Simulation Framework,” GitHub Repository, November 2025.

GitHub

M. Zafari, “Distributed Cell-Free ISAC Simulation Framework,” GitHub Repository, April 2025.

GitHub