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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

04/2025
I am looking for new PhD students, including visiting researchers and PhD stduents, to join my research group. If you are interested, please contact me.
03/2025
The publications and projects pages have been updated.
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)

Projects

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Distance Distributions and Modelling of Finite Wireless Networks

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

Ground Based IoT Sensor Networks for Wildfire Detection

The project aims to develop an IoT ground-based sensor system to provide rapid detection of fires in their early stages.

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 …

UAV Communications

UAVs as aerial base stations or as aerial users or aggregators and relays are expected to play a key part in 5G and beyond 5G …

Contact

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