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Salman Durrani

Professor, School of Engineering

Australian National University

About Me

I am a Professor in the School of Engineering (SOEN), College of Engineering, Computing and Cybernetics (CECC), The Australian National University, Canberra, Australia.

Since 2021, I have served as the Associate Director Education for the School of Engineering. Since 2022, I have been a participant in the ANU Optus Bushfire Research Centre of Excellence.

My research interests have spanned topics in communications, wireless communications and signal processing for communications.

Current Research Interests

  • Advanced Physical Layer Technologies for 6G and Beyond
    • NOMA
    • Backscatter and IRS
    • ISAC
  • Integrated Space/Aerial/Terrestrial Networks
    • UAV communications
    • Satellite communications
  • Internet of Things Networks
    • Authentication
    • Early wildfire detection
  • Machine Learning for Wireless Networks
  • Stochastic Geometry for Wireless Networks

Recent News

11/2024
The website is (still!) under construction. The publications page is up to date. The projects will be updated soon.
11/2024
My former PhD student Zubair Khalid was a part of the team which won the prestigious Gordon Bell Prize for Climate Modelling. (https://awards.acm.org/bell-climate)
01/2024
New website is live!
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Advice for International Students

If you are considering to apply for PhD scholarship and admission at ANU, information on this page should be of interest to you.

Device to Device (D2D) and Machine to Machine (M2M) Communication

D2D communication allowing direct communication between nearby users has been envisaged in 3GPP standards.

Distance Distributions and Modelling of Finite Wireless Networks

Distance distributions can be applied to study important wireless network characteristics such as interference, outage probability, …

Machine Learning in Wireless Networks

Machine learning is expected to play a key role in 6G wireless networks. I have one PhD student working in this area. A number of …

Spherical Signal Processing

Signals that are inherently defined on the unit sphere appear in various fields of science and engineering such as medical image …

Synchronization

Timing and carrier synchronization is a fundamental requirement for any wireless communications system to work properly.

UAV Communications

UAVs as aerial base stations or as aerial users are expected to play a key part in 5G and beyond 5G communications.

Wireless Power Transfer, Energy Harvesting and Backscatter Communications

Radio frequency (RF) enabled simultaneous information and power transfer (SWIPT) has emerged as an attractive solution to power future …

Contact

  • +61 2 6125 6573
  • 31 North Rd, Acton, ACT 2601
  • Room R220b, Ian Ross Building (Bldg 31)