- Professor, Qatar
- Phone: 974-4423-0257
- FAX: 974-423-0011
- Email: joseph.boutros@qatar.tamu.edu
- Office: 246H
Educational Background
- Ph.D., Télécom Paris – 1996
- Dipl.Ing., Télécom Paris – 1992
Research Interests
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- Codes on graphs and their iterative decoding including Turbo codes and Low-Density Parity-Check codes
- high spectral efficiency modulations for fading channels
- lattice sphere packings
- joint detection for multiple access (CDMA) systems
- space-time coding for multiple antenna (MIMO) channels
- adaptive modulation and coding
- joint equalization and decoding of mobile radio channels
- Ultra-wideband transmissions for indoor channels
- joint source-channel coding for redundant information sources
Selected Publications
- On quasi-cyclic interleavers for parallel turbo codes, by J.J. Boutros and G. Zemor, IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, vol. 52, no. 4, pp. 1732-1739, April 2006.
- Iterative multiuser joint decoding: unified framework and asymptotic analysis, by J.J. Boutros and G. Caire, IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, vol. 48, no. 7, pp. 1772-1793, July 2002.
- Signal space diversity: a power- and bandwidth-efficient diversity technique for the Rayleigh fading channel, by J.J. Boutros and E. Viterbo, IEEE Transactions on Information Theory,vol. 44, no. 4, pp. 1453-1467, July 1998.
- Approaching the Outage Probability of the Amplify-and-Forward Relay Fading Channel, by G. M. Kraidy, J. J. Boutros, and A. Guillen i Fabregas, IEEE Communications Letters, Vol. 11, No. 9, September 2007.
- Coding for the non-orthogonal amplify-and-forward cooperative channel, by G. M. Kraidy, N. Gresset, and J. J. Boutros, IEEE Information Theory Workshop, Lake Tahoe, California, USA, September 2007.