Nirwan Ansari
Distinguished Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering
343 Electrical and Computer Engineering Center (ECEC)
Education
Ph.D. ; Purdue University-Main Campus ; Electrical Engineering ; 1988

M.S. ; University of Michigan-Ann Arbor ; Electrical Engineering ; 1983

B.S. ; New Jersey Institute of Technology ; ; 1982

2025 Fall Courses
ECE 700B - MASTER'S PROJECT

ECE 726 - INDEPENDENT STUDY II

ECE 790A - DOCTRL DISSRTN & RESEARCH

ECE 231 - CIRCUITS & SYSTEMS I

ECE 701B - MASTER'S THESIS

ECE 417 - ELECT AND COMP ENGR PROJ II

ECE 725 - INDEPENDENT STUDY I

Past Courses
ECE 231: CIRCUITS & SYSTEMS I - HONORS

ECE 231: CIRCUITS AND SYSTEMS I

ECE 291: ELECTRICAL ENGR LAB I

ECE 636: COMPUTER NETWORKING LABORATORY

ECE 639: PRINCIPLES OF BROADBAND NETWORK

ECE 639: PRINCPL OF BRADBND NEWTWRKS

ECE 788: SELECTED TOPICS IN ECE

ECE 788: SELECTED TOPICS IN ELECTRICAL AND COMPUTER ENGINEERING

ECE 788: ST: ADV TOPICS IN BROADBAND NE

ECE 788: ST: ADVANCED TOPICS IN BROADBAND NETWORKS

ECE 788: ST: ADVANCED TOPICS IN NETWORKING

ECE 788: ST:ADV TOPICS BROADBAND NETWORK

ECE 788: ST:ADV TOPICS BROADBAND NETWORKS

ECE 788: ST:ADV TOPICS BROADBAND NETWRK

ECE 788: ST:ADV TOPICS IN BROADBAND NETWORKS

ECE 791: GRADUATE SEMINAR

Patents
Rail Transit Communication Method and System (US Patent Number 11252630)

Journal Article
Mohammad Arif Hossain, Abdullah Ridwan Hossain, Weiqi Liu, Nirwan Ansari, Abbas Kiani, Tony Saboorian. 2023. "A Distributed Collaborative Learning Approach in 5G+ Core Networks." IEEE Network , pp. 1-8.

Abdullah Ridwan Hossain, Weiqi Liu, Nirwan Ansari, Abbas Kiani, Tony Saboorian. 2023. "AI-Native for 6G Core Network Configuration." IEEE Networking Letters , pp. 1-1.

, Weiqi Liu, Nirwan Ansari. 2023. "Completion Time Minimization for Data Collection in a UAV-enabled IoT Network: A Deep Reinforcement Learning Approach." IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology , pp. 1-10.

Jianhui Ma, Hongyang Chen, Qiang Li, Nirwan Ansari. 2023. "Energy-Efficient Design for Active Anti-Jamming (AAJ) Communications System." IEEE Wireless Communications Letters , pp. 1-1.

Mohammad Arif Hossain, Nirwan Ansari. 2023. "Energy-efficient Federated Edge Learning in Multi-tier NOMA-enabled HetNet." IEEE Transactions on Cloud Computing , pp. 1-11.

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Conference Proceeding
"Federated Learning Aided Deep Convolutional Neural Network Solution for Smart Traffic Management"
2023.

"Federated Learning Aided Deep Convolutional Neural Network Solution for Smart Traffic Management"
IEEE, May, 2023.

"Message from SmartCity 2022 General Chairs"
IEEE, December, 2022.

"Electromagnetic Radiation Safety on Far-field Wireless Power Transfer in IoT"
IEEE, December, 2022.

"UAV-assisted Efficient Far-field Wireless Charging for WSN"
IEEE, December, 2022.

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Other
"Guest Editorial: Special Section on Cyber-Physical Social Systems - Integrating Human into Computing"
IEEE Transactions on Emerging Topics in Computing, January (1st Quarter/Winter), 2020.

"Recent advances on security and privacy in intelligent transportation systems (ITSs)"
Ad Hoc Networks, July (3rd Quarter/Summer), 2019.

"Proactive test-based differentiation method and system to mitigate low rate DoS attacks"
August, 2014.

"Planning and optimization of wireless communication networks"
Elsevier Physical Communications, December, 2013.

"Special Issue on: Cooperative and Distributed Wireless Communications"
International Journal on Wireless Information Networks, 2013.

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Book
Nirwan Ansari, Tao Han. "Green Mobile Networks." John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, 2017. ISBN 9781119125099.

Nirwan Ansari, Jingjing Zhang. "Media Access Control and Resource Allocation for Next Generation Passive Optical Networks." 2013. ISBN ISBN-13: 978-1461439387.

Nirwan Ansari, Sui-Hoi Edwin Hou. "Computational intelligence for optimization." 225 pp. Kluwer Academic, 1991. ISBN 978-0792398387.

Chapter
A.E.A.A. Abdulla, H Nisiyama, Nirwan Ansari, Nei Kao. "Chapter 7: Energy-Aware Routing for Wireless Sensor Networks." In The Art of Wireless Sensor Networks Volume 1: Fundamentals (Habib M. Ammari, ed.), eds., pp. 201-234. Springer, 2014.

Yan Zhang, Nirwan Ansari. "Chapter 12: Green Data Centers." In in Handbook of Green Information and Communication Systems, (M Obaidat, A. Anpalagan, and I. Woungan, ed.), eds., pp. 331-352. Academic Press, 2013.

Mina Taheri, Nirwan Ansari. "Chapter 2: FiWi Networks." In in Intelligent Systems for Optical Networks Design: Advancing Techniques (Y. S. Kavian and Z. Ghassemlooy, eds.), eds., pp. 24-46. IGI Global, 2013.

Chun-Hao Lo, Nirwan Ansari. "Chapter 4: IEEE 802.15.4 Based Wireless Sensor Network Design for Smart Grid Communications." In in Handbook of Green Information and Communication Systems, (M Obaidat, A. Anpalagan, and I. Woungan, ed.), eds., pp. 91-114. Academic Press, 2013.

Tao Han, Jingjing Zhang, Nirwan Ansari. "“Chapter 17: Green Broadband Access." In in Handbook of Green Information and Communication Systems, (M Obaidat, A. Anpalagan, and I. Woungan, ed.), eds., pp. 441-465. Academic Press, 2013.

Nirwan Ansari, Amey Shevtekar. "Chapter 12: On the New Breed of Denial of Service Attacks in the Internet." In Cyber Infrastructure Protection, Tarek Saadawi and Louis Jordan, eds., pp. 279-305. Strategic Studies Institute, U.S. Army War College, 2011.

Chao Zhang, Edwin Edwin Hou, Nirwan Ansari. "Chapter 6: Node Clustering in Wireless Sensor Networks." In J. Zheng and A. Jamalipour , eds., pp. 173-209. Wireless Sensor Networks: A Networking Perspective, Wiley/IEEE Press, 2009.

Newsletter
"Reducing the Channel Switching Delay in IP-based Multi-channel Streadming"
IEEE COMSOC Multimedia Communications Technical Committee E-Letter, Special Feature on Technology Advances, Vol. 5, No. 5, September 2010, September, 2010.

"On Application Layer Multicast"
Distinguished Position Paper Series, IEEE COMSOC Multimedia Communications Technical Committee E-Letter, September, 2009.

Edited Collection
"Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Information Technology: Research and Education"
IEEE Communications Society, 2003.

Professional
IEEE Access
Editorial Review Board Member , 2019

IEEE Wireless Communications Magazine
Editor-in-Chief , 2022

The 8th International Conference on Cloud Computing and Big Data Analytics (ICCCBDA 2023)
International Advisory Committee Member , 2022

IEEE Communications Society Educational Services Board
Director , 2020

IEEE Communications Society, Technical and Educational Activities Council
Council Member , 2020

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