Dr. Donald Parruca

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Last updated on 2017-12-14

Short Biography

In year 2007 I finished my Bachelor degree in Telecommunications at the Polytechnical University of Tirana, Albania. As a DAAD scholar I continued my Master studies in Communications Engineering in year 2009 at the RWTH-Aachen University, Germany. The focus during the MSc degree was in wireless communications, especially mobile radio networks. Directly afterwards I am pursuing a PhD degree in wireless communications, specialized on intercell interference coordination. My supervisor is Prof. Dr. James Gross who was also the head of the MNP group until November 2012 and now affiliated to KTH Stockholm.

The research interests rely in modelling the performance of OFDMA-based networks, inter-cell interference coordination, coordinated multipoint and modelling of LTE under the parallel discrete event simulation framework of Horizon. Among others, I also supervise master thesis which are in the same area of interest as my research.

Publications

Shehzad Ali Ashraf, Y.-P. Eric Wang, Sameh Eldessoki, Bernd Holfeld, Donald Parruca, Martin Serror, James Gross. From Radio Design to System Evaluations for Ultra-Reliable and Low-Latency Communication. Proc. of 23rd European Wireless Conference (EW17), Dresden, Germany. May 2017.

Donald Parruca. Stochastic Optimization in OFDMA/LTE Networks. Ph.D. Thesis. January 2017.

Donald Parruca, Fahad Aizaz, Soamsiri Chantaraskul, James Gross. Semi-Static Interference Coordination in OFDMA/LTE Networks: Evaluation of Practical Aspects. Proceedings of the 17th ACM International Conference on Modeling, Analysis and Simulation of Wireless and Mobile Systems (MSWIM-14), Montreal, QC, Canada. September 2014.

Donald Parruca, James Gross. On the Interference As Noise Approximation in OFDMA/LTE Networks. Proceedings of IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC 2014). June 2014.

Donald Parruca, Marius Grysla, Simon Görtzen, James Gross. Analytical Model of Proportional Fair Scheduling in Interference-limited OFDMA/LTE Networks. Proceedings of IEE Vehicular Telecommunications Conference (VTC-Fall 2013), Las Vegas, NV, United States. September 2013.

Donald Parruca, Marius Grysla, Petri Mähönen, Marina Petrova, Han Zhou, Farshad Naghibi, James Gross. On Semi-Static Interference Coordination under Proportional Fair Scheduling in LTE Systems. Proceedings: European Wireless 2013, Guildford, UK. January 2013.

Donald Parruca, James Gross. Rate selection analysis under semi-persistent scheduling in LTE networks. 2013 International Conference on Computing, Networking and Communications (ICNC 2013), Jan 28 - Jan 31, 2013, San Diego, CA, United States. January 2013.