Xavier Fernando is a Professor at Toronto Metropolitan University (TMU), Canada. He has (co)authored over 200 research articles, three books, many book chapters and holds three patents. He is the Director of the TMU Intelligent Computing and Communication Lab that has received total research funding of over $5 Million since 2008. His area of research is wireless/optical communications, IoT and applications of machine learning.
His work has won 30 awards and prizes so far including, number of IEEE awards, Professional Engineers Ontario Award in 2016, IEEE Microwave Theory and Techniques Society Prize in 2010, Sarnoff Symposium Prize in 2009, Opto-Canada best poster prize in 2003 and CCECE best paper prize in 2001. TMU nominated him for the Top 25 Canadian Immigrants award in which was a finalist.
He was an Associate Editor for the IEEE IOT Journal and IEEE the Consumer Technology Magazine. He was an IEEE Communications Society Distinguished Lecturer and delivered over 100 invited talks. He has chaired the IEEE Toronto Section (2012-13) and IEEE Canada Central Area (2016-17) serving the IEEE Region-7 Board.
He has been in the organizing/steering/technical program committees of numerous conferences and journals. He was the General Chair for the IEEE International Humanitarian Technology Conference (IHTC) 2017 and IEEE Canadian Conference on Electrical and Computer Engineering (CCECE) 2014. He was a Member of Board of Governors of Ryerson University during 2011-12.
He is a program evaluator for ABET (USA). He was a visiting scholar at the Institute of Advanced Telecommunications (IAT), UK in 2008 and MAPNET Fellow visiting Aston University, UK in 2014. He completed his PhD at the University of Calgary, Canada in 2001 and master’s at the Asian Institute of Technology, Bangkok in 1994. He worked as an R&D Engineer for AT&T during 1994-97.
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Publications
- Interconnected Transparent Island Architectures for Low-Latency Hyperscale Datacenters
- Smart, Fast, and Low Memory Beam-Steering Antenna Configurations for 5G and Future Wireless Systems
- Cost dynamics of converged optical-wireless networks: enabling low-latency xRANs through a reconfigurable hybrid split
- Intelligent Reflecting Surface-Aided Device-to-Device Communication: A Deep Reinforcement Learning Approach
- Asynchronous Federated Based Vehicular Edge Computation Offloading
- Characterizing a Decorrelator for Selection Combining Receivers in Nakagami-m Fading Channels
- Introduction to the Special Section on Soft Computing Approaches for Sustainable Systems
- Group velocity and third-order dispersion comparison in externally and directly modulated radio over fiber link
- Information Distance based Photoshop Metric
- De-Noising Scheme for VLC-Based V2V Systems; A Machine Learning Approach
- Differential receiver as a denoising scheme to improve the performance of V2V-VLC Systems
- A Novel Optimal Precoder and Equalizer in 2\times 2 MIMO VLC Systems for Vehicular Application
- LoRa wireless link performance in multipath underground mines
- Impact of interbranch correlation on multichannel spectrum sensing with SC and SSC diversity combining schemes
- OHealth: Opportunistic Healthcare in Public Transit through Fog and Edge Computing
- Probabilistic Estimation of Honeypot Detection in Internet of Things Environment
- Multi-vehicle tracking with microscopic traffic flow model-based particle filtering
- Optimization of Spreading Factor Distribution in High Density LoRa Networks
- A New Look at Optimum Macro Base Station Deployment in Heterogeneous Massive MIMO Networks for Eliminating Interference
- Adaptive switching for efficient energy harvesting in energy constraint IoT devices
- Energy-efficient power allocation in underlay and overlay cognitive device-to-device communications
- A Wireless Body Area Network for Remote Observation of Physiological Signals
- Perceptually Inspired Normalized Conditional Compression Distance
- Soft computing approaches for next-generation sustainable systems (SCNGS)
- Exploring Silica Nanoparticles: A Sustainable Solution for Pest Control in Sri Lankan Rice Farming
- A Survey of Machine Learning for Indoor Positioning
- A Smart Approach to Electric Vehicle Optimization via IoT-Enabled Recommender Systems
- A New Generation of Fast and Low-Memory Smart Digital/Geometrical Beamforming MIMO Antenna
- The Leaky Feeder, a Reliable Medium for Vehicle to Infrastructure Communications
- User Association Performance Trade-Offs in Integrated RF/mmWave/THz Communications
- Multi-Agent Deep Reinforcement Learning-Empowered Channel Allocation in Vehicular Networks
- Simultaneous Localization and Mapping (SLAM) and Data Fusion in Unmanned Aerial Vehicles: Recent Advances and Challenges
- Spectrum Sensing, Clustering Algorithms, and Energy-Harvesting Technology for Cognitive-Radio-Based Internet-of-Things Networks
- Energy in Smart Cities: Technological Trends and Prospects
- Oceania’s 5G Multi-Tier Fixed Wireless Access Link’s Long-Term Resilience and Feasibility Analysis
- Task Offloading and Resource Allocation in Vehicular Networks: A Lyapunov-Based Deep Reinforcement Learning Approach
- An Emergency Message Routing Protocol for Improved Congestion Management in Hybrid RF/VLC VANETs
- UAV Trajectory Control and Power Optimization for Low-Latency C-V2X Communications in a Federated Learning Environment
- An Optimum User Association Algorithm in Heterogeneous 5G Networks Using Standard Deviation of the Load
- Intelligent optimization for charging scheduling of electric vehicle using exponential Harris Hawks technique
- Single Image Super Resolution Using Deep Residual Learning
- Analysis of Unmanned Aerial Vehicle-Assisted Cellular Vehicle-to-Everything Communication Using Markovian Game in a Federated Learning Environment
- Federated Reinforcement Learning for Collaborative Intelligence in UAV-Assisted C-V2X Communications
- A Survey on Artificial-Intelligence-Based Internet of Vehicles Utilizing Unmanned Aerial Vehicles
- Energy-Efficient Industrial Internet of Things in Green 6G Networks
- Latency Analysis of Drone-Assisted C-V2X Communications for Basic Safety and Co-Operative Perception Messages
- An Experimental Study of Radiated Energy from an Optical Fiber and the Potential for an Optical MIMO System
- Synthesis of Sodium Alginate‐Pomegranate Peel Hydrogels for the Remediation of Heavy Metals from Contaminated Drinking Water
- Survey of Blockchain-Based Applications for IoT
- A Robust Automated Cervical Cancer Detection System Using Elephant Herding Optimized MCNN
- Towards a robust rescue network: Wireless communication is the choice
- Energy harvesting wireless sensors for smart cities
- A question of scarcity: Spectrum and Canada's urban core
- Multiantenna Spectrum Sensing over Correlated Nakagami-m Channels with MRC and EGC Diversity Receptions
- Electric vehicles the mobile portion of the smart grid
- Reliable communication network for emergency response and disaster management in underground mines
- Energy aware multipath routing protocol for cognitive radio ad hoc networks
- Radio over Fiber for Wireless Communications: From Fundamentals to Advanced Topics
- Leaky feeder, a new linear array transceiver for micro/pico cells
- Free-space optical beam steering feasibility for wireless communications
- Performance analysis of adaptive OFDM modulation scheme in VLC vehicular communication network in realistic noise environment
- Cognitive spectrum sensing with multiple primary users in rayleigh fading channels
- Correlated multichannel spectrum sensing cognitive radio system with selection combining
- Wavelet based OFDM for Power line Communication
- An overview of medium access control strategies for opportunistic spectrum access in cognitive radio networks
- Energy-aware secondary user selection in cognitive sensor networks
- A hybrid spectrum sensing method for cognitive sensor networks
- VLC Enabled Foglets Assisted Road Asset Reporting
- Technological Advancement for a Novel Through-the-Earth Communication System
- Energy-efficient scheduled directional medium access control protocol for wireless sensor networks
- Detection of heart abnormalities via artificial neural network: An application of self learning algorithms
- Modeling the leaky feeder as a multi antenna array
- Efficient resource allocation in device-to-device communication using cognitive radio technology
- Novel wireless channels characterization model for underground mines
- An outdoor multi path channel model for vehicular visible light communication systems
- Shadowing effects on visible light communication channels
- Battery Current's Fluctuations Removal in Hybrid Energy Storage System Based on Optimized Control of Supercapacitor Voltage
- Optimization of control parameters using averaging of handover indicator and received power for minimizing ping-pong handover in LTE
- Modeling and optimization of PHEV charging queues
- Transmission time minimization of an energy harvesting cognitive radio system
- Wireless energy harvesting from ambient sources for cognitive networks in rural communities
- Wireless Positioning Sensor Network Integrated with Cloud for Industrial Automation
- Power allocation using geometric water filling for OFDM-based cognitive radio networks
- Reduced side lobe MM-wave leaky feeder transceiver by slot space optimization
- Closed-form analysis of relay-based cognitive radio networks over Nakagami-m fading channels
- Solar-powered drip-irrigation for rural Bangladesh
- Wireless body area network development for remote patient health observing
- A new alarming system for an underground mining environment using visible light communications
- Monolithic silicon-on-insulator optical beam steering with phase locking heterodyne feedback
- LED beam steering for Li-Fi communications
- Futuristic model of Electric Vehicle charging queues
- Localization for mobile sensor networks in mines
- Unified approach for performance analysis of Cognitive Radio Spectrum Sensing over correlated multipath fading channels
- Multi-Vehicle Tracking with Road Maps and Car-Following Models
- Pilot Sequence Length and BS Location Optimization in Massive MIMO Heterogeneous Cellular Networks
- Fog assisted driver behavior monitoring for intelligent transportation system
- Performance analysis of relay-based cooperative spectrum sensing in cognitive radio networks over non-identical nakagami-m channels
- Least square optimization of pilot sequence length for massive MIMO systems
- Guest Editorial: Special Issue on CCECE and BSC,Éditorial - Collaboration spéciale: Édition spéciale du CCECE et BSC
- Massive MIMO Wireless Networks: An Overview
- Approach for cluster-based spectrum sensing over band-limited reporting channels
- Simultaneous delivery of wireless LAN and cellular radio signals over optical fiber
- OFDM impairment mitigation techniques
- Radio over fiber in multimedia access networks
- A novel strategy for cognitive radio networks with diversity and non-identical fading channels
- A novel strategy for cognitive radio networks with diversity and non-identical fading channels
- A Guide to the Wireless Engineering Body of Knowledge
- Spectrum sensing in cognitive radio networks: Up-to-date techniques and future challenges
- LASA: Low-energy adaptive slot allocation scheduling algorithm for wireless sensor networks
- EPON: an extensive review for up-to-date Dynamic Bandwidth Allocation schemes
- A continuous-time Markov chain model and analysis for cognitive radio networks
- Advanced diagnostic system with ventilation on demand for underground mines
- Estimation and equalization of fiber-wireless uplink for multiuser CDMA 4G networks
- Single step generation of micro and radio wave signals in a short cavity fiber laser
- Design of wireless sensor network for mine safety monitoring
- SH 2010: Welcome message from workshop organizers: FutureTech 2010
- Steady-state Markov chain analysis for heterogeneous cognitive radio networks
- Application-specific spectrum sensing method for cognitive sensor networks
- A novel diagnostic system for adding reliability to communication networks in underground mines
- Wavelet-based spectral shaping of UWB radio signal for multisystem coexistence
- Adaptive performance improvement of OFDM radio over fiber systems
- A performance comparison between cartesian optical network and a conventional network
- Modulator bias optimization of radio over fiber links considering noise figure and RF gain
- Analysis of OFDM signal through optical fiber for radio-over-fiber transmission
- All-optical demultiplexing of WLAN and cellular CDMA radio signals
- Support Vector Machines for indoor sensor localization
- Cognitive wireless sensor networks: Emerging topics and recent challenges
- Cross-layer coding improves quality and security in wireless video sensor networks
- Improved expression for intensity noise in multimedia over fiber networks
- Dynamic algorithm for correlation noise estimation in distributed video coding
- Soft thresholding by noise invalidation
- A greener MAC layer protocol for smart home wireless sensor networks
- Distributed video coding and transmission over wireless fading channel
- On the throughput performance of cluster-based cognitive radio networks
- Channel noise and correlation noise of video sequences in distributed video coding
- A new perspective on spectrum sensing for cognitive sensor networks
- Broadband access networks
- Coexistence of transmitted-reference UWB system and IEEE 802.11a WLAN
- Distributed video coding over MIMO wireless fading channels
- Track initialization for TOMHT using auxiliary CPHD filter
- Cooperative cognitive radio networks: New approach for detection accuracy analysis under impaired channels
- Low complexity timing synchronisation for high speed wireless local area networks
- Concatenated fibre-wireless channel identification in a multiuser CDMA environment
- Orthogonal frequency division multiple access in WiMAX and LTE: A comparison
- Enhanced wireless hotspot downlink supporting IEEE802.11 and WCDMA
- Transmission delay in wireless sensing, command and control applications for aircraft
- Emerging wireless applications in aerospace: Benefits, challenges, and existing methods
- An Energy-Efficient Routing Protocol for wireless sensor networks through nonlinear optimization
- Equalization of multiuser wireless CDMA downlink considering transmitter nonlinearity using walsh codes
- Transmit rate reduction of Wyner-Ziv video coding (WZVC) using multiple uncorrelated wireless receivers
- A Hammerstein-type equalizer for concatenated fiber-wirelessp uplink
- Performance of an Infrared Wireless CDMA System
- Radio over multimode fiber for wireless access
- Adaptive cancellation of periodic noise and multipath dispersion in an infrared wireless CDMA system
- Non-Stationary Noise Cancellation in Infrared Wireless Receivers
- A Dynamic Simulation Model for Semiconductor Laser Diodes
- Adaptive digital predistortion of laser diode nonlinearity for wireless applications
- Adaptive Modeling of Laser Diode Nonlinearity with Memory
- Fibre-wireless channel estimation using correlation properties of PN sequences
- A hammerstein type equalizer for the wiener type fiber-wireless channel
- Higher order adaptive filter based predistortion for nonlinear distortion compensation of radio over fiber links
- Look-up table based adaptive predistortion for dynamic range enhancement in a radio over fiber link
- Characteristics of directly modulated ROF link for wireless access
- Nonlinear distortion compensation of microwave fiber optic links with asymmetric adaptive filters
- On the design of optical fiber based wireless access systems...
- A dynamic multi-wavelength simulink model for EDFA
- Adaptive asymmetric linearization of radio over fiber links for wireless access
- Estimation of radio-over-fiber uplink in a multiuser CDMA environment using PN spreading codes
- Adaptive denoising and equalization of infrared wireless CDMA system
- A Viterbi-like algorithm with adaptive clustering for channel assignment in cellular radio networks
- Signal processing for optical fiber based wireless access
- Cellular radio channel assignment using a sequential trellis search algorithm
- Transmission efficiency improvement in microwave fiber-optic link using sub-picometer optic bandpass filter
- Analysis of sub-carrier multiplexed radio over fiber link for the simultaneous support of WLAN and WCDMA systems
- Optical domain demultiplexing of subcarrier multiplexed cellular and wireless LAN radio signals
- Nonlinear channel estimation using correlation properties of PN sequences
- Adaptive denoising at infrared wireless receivers
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Lian Zhao
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Abhishek Gupta
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Md Nooruzzaman
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Sattar J. Hussain
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Noha Hassan
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Kandasamy Illanko