Dr. Sima Noghanian
Ruckus Networks, CommScope (United States), Hickory, North Carolina, USA
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View All Publications28 March 2013 in IEEE Communications Surveys & Tutorials
Journal Article
AFArghavan Emami Forooshani
Arghavan Emami Forooshani
SBShahzad Bashir
Shahzad Bashir
DMDavid G. Michelson
David G. Michelson
Sima NoghanianMining and mineral exploration play important roles in the global economy. In mining operations, communication systems play vital roles in ensuring personnel safety, enhancing operational efficiency and process optimization. Over the period 1920-2012, this article surveys the evolution of wireless communications in underground mines, the developments of the underlying technology, and progress in understanding and modeling the underground wireless propagation channel. Current and future trends in technology, applications and propagation modeling are also identified. About ninety relevant references have been reviewed that consider: 1) the emergence of technology and applications, 2) analytical, numerical and measurement-based propagation modeling techniques, and 3) implications of the physical environment, antenna placement and radiation characteristics on wireless communication system design. Affected systems include narrowband, wideband/ultra-wideband (UWB) and multiple-antenna systems. The paper concludes by identifying open areas of research.
20 November 2009 in IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering
Journal Article
CGColin Gilmore
Colin GilmorePMPuyan Mojabi
Puyan Mojabi
Amer ZakariaMOMajid Ostadrahimi
Majid Ostadrahimi
CKCameron Kaye
Cameron Kaye
JLJoe LoVetri
Joe LoVetri
+3
In this paper, we describe a 2-D wideband microwave imaging system intended for biomedical imaging. The system is capable of collecting data from 3 to 6 GHz, with 24 coresident antenna elements connected to a vector network analyzer via a 2 × 24 port matrix switch. As one of the major sources of error in the data collection process is a result of the strongly coupling 24 coresident antennas, we provide a novel method to avoid the frequencies where the coupling is large enough to prevent successful imaging. Through the use of two different nonlinear reconstruction schemes, which are an enhanced version of the distorted born iterative method and the multiplicative regularized contrast source inversion method, we show imaging results from dielectric phantoms in free space. The early inversion results show that with the frequency selection procedure applied, the system is capable of quantitatively reconstructing dielectric objects, and show that the use of the wideband data improves the inversion results over single-frequency data.
4 March 2019 in IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation
Journal Article
AAAla Alemaryeen
Ala AlemaryeenSima NoghanianJournal Article
SAShahid Muhammad Ali
Shahid Muhammad AliSima NoghanianZKZia Ullah Khan
Zia Ullah KhanSASaeed Alzahrani
Saeed AlzahraniSASaad Alharbi
Saad AlharbiRARuwaybih Alsulami
Ruwaybih Alsulami +1
The development of wearable sensor devices brings significant benefits to patients by offering real-time healthcare via wireless body area networks (WBANs). These wearable devices have gained significant traction due to advantageous features, including their lightweight nature, comfortable feel, stretchability, flexibility, low power consumption, and cost-effectiveness. Wearable devices play a pivotal role in healthcare, defence, sports, health monitoring, disease detection, and subject tracking. However, the irregular nature of the human body poses a significant challenge in the design of such wearable systems. This manuscript provides a comprehensive review of recent advancements in wearable and flexible smart sensor devices that can support the next generation of such sensor devices. Further, the development of direct ink writing (DIW) and direct writing (DW) methods has revolutionised new high-resolution integrated smart structures, enabling the design of next-generation soft, flexible, and stretchable wearable sensor devices. Recognising the importance of keeping academia and industry informed about cutting-edge technology and time-efficient fabrication tools, this manuscript also provides a thorough overview of the latest progress in various fabrication methods for wearable sensor devices utilised in WBAN and their evaluation using body phantoms. An overview of emerging challenges and future research directions is also discussed in the conclusion.
1 September 2011 in IEEE Antennas and Wireless Propagation Letters
Journal Article
MOMajid Ostadrahimi
Majid Ostadrahimi
PMPuyan Mojabi
Puyan Mojabi
CGColin Gilmore
Colin Gilmore
Amer ZakariaSima NoghanianJLJoe LoVetri
Joe LoVetri
+1
Imaging with microwave tomography systems requires both the incident field within the imaging domain as well as calibration factors that convert the collected data to corresponding data in the numerical model used for inversion. The numerical model makes various simplifying assumptions, e.g., 2-D versus 3-D wave propagation, which the calibration coefficients are meant to take into account. For an air-based microwave tomography system, we study two types of calibration techniques-incident and scattered field calibration-combined with two different incident field models: a 2-D line-source and an incident field from full-wave 3-D simulation of the tomography system. Although the 2-D line-source approximation does not accurately model incident field in our system, the use of scattered field calibration with the 2-D line-source provides similar or better images to incident and scattered field calibration with an accurate incident field. Thus, if scattered field calibration is used, a simple (but inaccurate) incident field is acceptable for our microwave tomography system. While not strictly generalizable, we expect our methodology to be applicable to most other microwave tomography systems.
1 July 2015
Conference Paper
MMMilad Mirzaee
Milad Mirzaee
Sima NoghanianLWLindsey Wiest
Lindsey Wiest
ICIsaac Chang
Isaac Chang
This paper presents the feasibility of conductive acrylonitrile butadiene styrene (ABS) materials in the fabrication of flexible three-dimensional (3D) antennas using additive manufacturing method. To demonstrate this application a bowtie antenna with coplanar waveguide (CPW) feed structure has been designed and measured. The prototype of the antenna has been fabricated using Makerbot® dual 3D printer and flexible polylactic acid (PLA) and ABS filaments for dielectric and conductive parts of the antenna, respectively. To our knowledge, this is the first reported antenna fabricated with conductive ABS material. The dielectric properties of the PLA and ABS filaments have been measured using Agilent performance probe. The fabricated antenna possesses compact size, light-weight and mechanically flexible structure. In addition it achieves wide bandwidth of 24.18 % at the center frequency of 7.81 GHz.
About Me
Sima Noghanian received her B.Sc. degree in Electrical Engineering from the Sharif University of Technology, Tehran, Iran, in 1992, and M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees, both in Electrical Engineering, from the University of Manitoba, in 1996 and 2001, respectively. In 2001, she was a Strategic Development Researcher at YottaYotta Corp., Edmonton, Canada. She was an NSERC Post-Doctoral Fellow in 2002 at the University of Waterloo. She was an Assistant Professor at the Sharif University of Technology from 2002 to 2003, and an Assistant Professor at the University of Manitoba from 2003 to 2008. She was an Assistant/Associate Professor at the University of North Dakota from 2008 to 2018. She also served as the Electrical Engineering Department Chair, Director of the UND Grand Challenges Scholar Program, and Graduate Director. In 2018, she was a Visiting Professor at San Diego State University, USA. In 2019, she joined PADT Inc., and from 2020 to 2021, she was a Principal Antenna Design Engineer at Wafer LLC. In 2021, she joined CommScope as a Principal Antenna Design Engineer. Additionally, she is an Antenna/RF consultant with Neuspera Medical Inc. Dr. Noghanian is an Associate Editor of IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation, IEEE Antennas and Propagation Magazine, IEEE Antennas and Wireless Propagation Letters, IEEE Open Journal of Antennas and Propagation, ACES Journal, IET Microwave, Antennas and Propagation, and AEU International Journal of Electronics and Communications.