Publications

CORDIS: A Scalable Coordinated Resource Allocation Framework for Distributed Cell-Free ISAC

@misc{zafari2026cordis,
  author        = {Zafari, Mehdi and Ottersten, Bj{\"o}rn and Swindlehurst, A. Lee},
  title         = {{CORDIS}: A Scalable Coordinated Resource Allocation Framework for Distributed Cell-Free {ISAC}},
  year          = {2026},
  eprint        = {2609.12195},
  archivePrefix = {arXiv},
  primaryClass  = {eess.SP},
  url           = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2609.12195}
}

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Robust Wildfire Forecasting under Partial Observability: From Reconstruction to Prediction

@misc{yang2026robust,
  author        = {Yang, Chen and Zafari, Mehdi and Duan, Ziheng and Swindlehurst, A. Lee},
  title         = {Robust Wildfire Forecasting under Partial Observability: From Reconstruction to Prediction},
  year          = {2026},
  eprint        = {2603.09042},
  archivePrefix = {arXiv},
  primaryClass  = {eess.IV},
  url           = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.09042}
}

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Multi-Domain Optimization Framework for ISAC: From Electromagnetic Shaping to Network Cooperation

@article{liu2026multidomain,
  author  = {Liu, Rang and Li, Ming and Zafari, Mehdi and Ottersten, Bj{\"o}rn and Swindlehurst, A. Lee},
  title   = {Multi-Domain Optimization Framework for {ISAC}: From Electromagnetic Shaping to Network Cooperation},
  journal = {IEEE Wireless Communications},
  year    = {2026},
  month   = oct,
  volume  = {33},
  number  = {5},
  pages   = {220--229},
  doi     = {10.1109/MWC.2025.3646980},
  url     = {https://doi.org/10.1109/MWC.2025.3646980}
}

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An Analytical and Experimental Study of Distributed Uplink Beamforming in the Presence of Carrier Frequency Offsets

@article{zafari2026analytical,
  author  = {Zafari, Mehdi and Pandey, Divyanshu and Doost-Mohammady, Rahman},
  title   = {An Analytical and Experimental Study of Distributed Uplink Beamforming in the Presence of Carrier Frequency Offsets},
  journal = {IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology},
  year    = {2026},
  month   = jul,
  volume  = {75},
  number  = {7},
  pages   = {13194--13209},
  doi     = {10.1109/TVT.2026.3656108},
  url     = {https://doi.org/10.1109/TVT.2026.3656108}
}

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Feasible but Not Safe: Constraint Violations and Report-Channel Attacks in Learned Cell-Free ISAC Association

@misc{zafari2026feasible,
  author        = {Zafari, Mehdi and Mohammadi, Iman and Swindlehurst, A. Lee},
  title         = {Feasible but Not Safe: Constraint Violations and Report-Channel Attacks in Learned Cell-Free {ISAC} Association},
  year          = {2026},
  eprint        = {2609.03147},
  archivePrefix = {arXiv},
  primaryClass  = {cs.NI},
  url           = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2609.03147}
}

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TiamiTwin: A Digital Twin for Bistatic ISAC Drone Sensing, Validated Against Measurements

@misc{zafari2026tiamitwin,
  author        = {Zafari, Mehdi and Enayati, Saeede and Swindlehurst, A. Lee and Mukherjee, Amitav},
  title         = {{TiamiTwin}: A Digital Twin for Bistatic {ISAC} Drone Sensing, Validated Against Measurements},
  year          = {2026},
  eprint        = {2609.22709},
  archivePrefix = {arXiv},
  primaryClass  = {eess.SP},
  url           = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2609.22709}
}

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ASSENT: Learning-Based Association Optimization for Distributed Cell-Free ISAC

@inproceedings{zafari2026assent,
  author    = {Zafari, Mehdi and Swindlehurst, A. Lee},
  title     = {{ASSENT}: Learning-Based Association Optimization for Distributed Cell-Free {ISAC}},
  booktitle = {ICC 2026 - IEEE International Conference on Communications},
  year      = {2026},
  month     = may,
  pages     = {1--6},
  publisher = {IEEE},
  doi       = {10.1109/icc59461.2026.11588026},
  url       = {https://doi.org/10.1109/icc59461.2026.11588026}
}

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Coordinated Decentralized Resource Optimization for Cell-Free ISAC Systems

@inproceedings{zafari2025coordinated,
  author    = {Zafari, Mehdi and Liu, Rang and Swindlehurst, A. Lee},
  title     = {Coordinated Decentralized Resource Optimization for Cell-Free {ISAC} Systems},
  booktitle = {2025 59th Asilomar Conference on Signals, Systems, and Computers},
  year      = {2025},
  month     = oct,
  pages     = {912--917},
  publisher = {IEEE},
  doi       = {10.1109/ieeeconf67917.2025.11443385},
  url       = {https://doi.org/10.1109/ieeeconf67917.2025.11443385}
}

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ADMM for Downlink Beamforming in Cell-Free Massive MIMO Systems

@inproceedings{zafari2024admm,
  author    = {Zafari, Mehdi and Pandey, Divyanshu and Doost-Mohammady, Rahman and Uribe, C{\'e}sar A.},
  title     = {{ADMM} for Downlink Beamforming in Cell-Free Massive {MIMO} Systems},
  booktitle = {2024 58th Asilomar Conference on Signals, Systems, and Computers},
  year      = {2024},
  month     = oct,
  pages     = {623--628},
  publisher = {IEEE},
  doi       = {10.1109/IEEECONF60004.2024.10943106},
  url       = {https://doi.org/10.1109/IEEECONF60004.2024.10943106}
}

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ML-Based Feedback-Free Adaptive MCS Selection for Massive Multi-User MIMO

@inproceedings{an2023mlbased,
  author    = {An, Qing and Zafari, Mehdi and Dick, Chris and Segarra, Santiago and Sabharwal, Ashutosh and Doost-Mohammady, Rahman},
  title     = {{ML}-Based Feedback-Free Adaptive {MCS} Selection for Massive Multi-User {MIMO}},
  booktitle = {2023 57th Asilomar Conference on Signals, Systems, and Computers},
  year      = {2023},
  month     = oct,
  pages     = {157--161},
  publisher = {IEEE},
  doi       = {10.1109/IEEECONF59524.2023.10476866},
  url       = {https://doi.org/10.1109/IEEECONF59524.2023.10476866}
}

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Robustness of Distributed Multi-User Beamforming: An Experimental Evaluation

@inproceedings{doostmohammady2022robustness,
  author    = {Doost-Mohammady, Rahman and Zafari, Mehdi and Sabharwal, Ashutosh},
  title     = {Robustness of Distributed Multi-User Beamforming: An Experimental Evaluation},
  booktitle = {2022 IEEE 12th Sensor Array and Multichannel Signal Processing Workshop (SAM)},
  year      = {2022},
  month     = jun,
  pages     = {146--150},
  publisher = {IEEE},
  doi       = {10.1109/SAM53842.2022.9827783},
  url       = {https://doi.org/10.1109/SAM53842.2022.9827783}
}

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Distributed Multi-User MIMO Datasets

@misc{zafari2024distributed,
  author    = {Zafari, Mehdi},
  title     = {Distributed Multi-User {MIMO} Datasets},
  publisher = {IEEE DataPort},
  year      = {2024},
  doi       = {10.21227/74ez-b275},
  url       = {https://doi.org/10.21227/74ez-b275}
}

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3gpp-tr-library: Hand-verified, section-level 3GPP Technical Reports as queryable Markdown, CSV and YAML

@misc{zafari20263gpp,
  author    = {Zafari, Mehdi},
  title     = {3gpp-tr-library: Hand-verified, section-level 3GPP Technical Reports as queryable Markdown, CSV and YAML},
  year      = {2026},
  publisher = {Zenodo},
  doi       = {10.5281/zenodo.21501655},
  url       = {https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21501655}
}

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