Thanh V. Pham
Assistant Professor,
Department of Mathematical and Systems Engineering,
Shizuoka University, Shizuoka, Japan.
pham.van.thanh [at] shizuoka.ac.jp
 

1/2024: Our new article, entitled: Design of Probabilistic Constellation Shaping for Physical Layer Security in Visible Light Communications has been accepted for presentation at the 2024 IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference (WCNC), Workshop on Optical Wireless Communications, Dubai, UAE.

1/2024: Our new article, entitled: Design of energy-efficient artificial noise for physical layer security in visible light communications has been accepted for for publication in IEEE Transactions on Green Communications and Networking.

1/2024: Our new article, entitled: Evaluation of an intermittent packet transmission method in UAVs-based sewer pipe inspection has been accepted for presentation at the 2024 IEEE PerCom, Workshop on Pervasive Computing for Vehicular Systems (PerVehicle) in Biarritz, France.

12/2023: Our paper entitled A placement method of ground stations for optical satellite communications considering cloud attenuation won the October 2023 ComEX Top Downloaded Letter Award.

12/2023: Our new article, entitled: On the Energy Efficiency of RSMA-based VLC Systems with Confidential Private Messages has been accepted for presentation at the 2024 IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference (WCNC), Dubai, UAE.

12/2023: I have been awarded the 2023 IEEE Nagoya Section Young Researcher Award.

12/2023: Our new article, entitled: SRT-Based Cooperative Video Transmission Protocol for Inspection of Small Diameter Sewer Pipes Using Multiple Drifting Wireless Cameras has been accepted for presentation at the 2024 38th International Conference on Information Networking (ICOIN), Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam.

11/2023: Our poster paper PeriCam: A Smartphone Application for Utility Hole Inspection won the Best Poster/Demo Award at the 2023 14th International Conference on Mobile Computing and Ubiquitous Networking (ICMU).

10/2023: Our new article, entitled: PeriCam: A Smartphone Application for Utility Hole Inspection has been accepted as poster at the 2023 14th International Conference on Mobile Computing and Ubiquitous Networking (ICMU), Kyoto, Japan.

09/2023: Our new article, entitled: Energy-Efficient Federated Learning-enabled Digital Twin in UAV-aided Vehicular Networks has been accepted for presentation at the 28th IEEE Asia-Pacific Conference on Communications (APCC) in Sydney, Australia.  

08/2023: Our new article, entitled: Secrecy Performance Analysis of Space-To-Ground Optical Satellite Communications has been accepted for presentation at the 2023 International Conference on Advanced Technologies for Communications (ATC) in Danang, Vietnam.  

08/2023: Một chuyến công tác đáng nhớ - Phần II

07/2023: 2 new articles have been accepted for publication​

• A Placement Method of Ground Stations for Optical Satellite Communications Considering Cloud Attenuation​ in IEICE Communications Express.

• Design of Satellite-Based FSO/QKD Systems using GEO/LEOs for Multiple Wireless Users in IEEE Photonics Journal. 

07/2023: Một chuyến công tác đáng nhớ - Phần I

05/2023: Our new article, entitled: Q-learning-based Joint Design of Adaptive Modulation and Precoding for Physical Layer Security in Visible Light Communications has been accepted for presentation at the 2023 IEEE 97th Vehicular Technology Conference: VTC2023-Spring in Florence, Italy.  

04/2023: Surina (B4) joins our lab. 

03/2023: Our new article, entitled: Multi UVs-Based Narrow Sewer Inspection System-UVs Formation Control and Video Streaming has been accepted as poster at the 2023 IEEE Vehicular Networking Conference (IEEE VNC) in Istanbul, Türkiye. 

02/2023: Yamano (B4) successfully defended his bachelor's thesis. Congratulations! 

01/2023: Our new article, entitled: Intermittent Multi-hop Video and UAV Control Command Transmission for Sewer Inspection has been accepted for presentation at the 2023 IEEE PerCom, Workshop on Pervasive Computing for Vehicular Systems (PerVehicle) in Atlanta, Georgia, USA. 

10/2022: Our new article, entitled: Toward Practical Entanglement-based Satellite FSO/QKD Systems using Dual-Threshold/Direct Detection has been accepted for publication in IEEE Access. 

10/2022: Our new article, entitled: Design of artificial noise for physical layer security in visible light systems with clipping, has been accepted for presentation at the 2023 IEEE CCNC in Las Vegas, Nevada, USA. 

09/2022: Our new article, entitled: Acoustic beacons-based long-range localization of wireless cameras drifting in a narrow sewer pipe, has been accepted for presentation at the 2022 ACM BuildSys in Boston, Massachusetts, USA. 

08/2022: I serve as a Guest Editor of MDPI Photonics, Special Issue on Optical Wireless Communications and Applications. Please consider submitting your paper.

06/09/2022: I have been appointed to be a committee member of the IEICE Technical Committee on Sensor Networks and Mobile Intelligence (SeMI), term 06/09/2022~06/05/2024.

03/01/2022: I joined the Department of Mathematical and Systems Engineering, Shizuoka University as an Assistant Professor. 

02/25/2022: I finished my postdoc term at the  Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, McMaster University. Many thanks to Prof. Hranilovic and members of the Free-Space Optical Communication Algorithms Laboratory (FOCAL) for helping me in my research work. 

11/2021: Our new article, entitled: Throughput Analysis for TCP over the FSO-based Satellite-Assisted Internet of Vehicles has been accepted for publication in IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology.

09/2021: I attended the 8th Heidelberg Laureate Forum. Online discussions can be found here.

06/2021: Our new article, entitled: Energy-Efficient Precoding Designs for Multi-User Visible Light Communication Systems with Confidential Messages, has been accepted for publication in IEEE Transactions on Green Communications and Networking.

06/2021: Our new article, entitled: A General Conditional BER Expression of Rectangular QAM in the Presence of Phase Noise, has been accepted for presentation at PIMRC 2021.

04/2021: I started a new job as a postdoctoral researcher at the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, McMaster University. 

03/2021: Our new article, entitled: Energy-Efficient Friendly Jamming for Physical Layer Security in Visible Light Communication, has been accepted for presentation at ICC 2021- Workshop on Green Solutions for Smart Environment

02/2021: Our new article, entitled: Energy-Efficient Precoding for Multi-User Visible Light Communication with Confidential Messages, has been accepted for presentation at VTC Spring 2021, in Helsinki, Finland. This work has been done in collaboration with the Communications Theory and Applications Research Group of Hanoi University of Science and Technology.  

01/2021: Our new article, entitled: Link availability of satellite-based FSO communications in the presence of clouds and turbulence, has been accepted for publication in IEICE Communications Express.

01/2021: Our new article, entitled: Comments on "Energy-Efficient Beamforming Design for MU-MISO Mixed RF/VLC Heterogeneous Wireless Networks", has been accepted for publication in IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing. 

11/2020: Our new article, entitled: Performance of Generalized QAM/FSO Systems with Pointing Misalignment and Phase Error over Atmospheric Turbulence Channels, has been accepted for publication in IEEE Access.

10/2020: I presented the result of a research on experimental statistics of FSO channels using retroreflectors at the IEICE technical meeting organized by the Optical Communication Systems (OCS) society. The study was conducted in collaboration with researchers at NICT (Japan) during my visit there from Aug. to Oct. 2019. 

09/2020: Our new article, entitled:  Energy Efficient Artificial Noise-Aided Precoding Designs for Secured Visible Light Communication Systems, has been accepted for publication in IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications. 

07/2020: Our new conference paper, entitled: UAV-based FSO Systems using SC-QAM Signaling over Fading Channels with Misalignment, has been accepted for presentation at VTC Fall 2020, in Victoria, Canada. 

07/2020: Our new article, entitled: Design and Performance of Relay-Assisted Satellite Free-Space Optical Quantum Key Distribution Systems, has been accepted for publication in IEEE Access. 

05/2020: Our new conference paper, entitled: Outage Performance of HAP-UAV FSO Links with Gaussian Beam and UAV Hovering, has been accepted for presentation at VTC Fall 2020, in Victoria, Canada. 

04/2020: I am selected as one of 225 young researchers to participate in the 8th Heidelberg Laureate Forum organized in 09/2021 in Germany.  

04/2020: I started a new job as a special postdoctoral researcher at the Graduate Department of Computer and Information of The University of  Aizu. 

03/2020: A new journal article, entitled: Design and Performance Evaluation of Large-Scale VLC-based Indoor Positioning Systems under Impact of Receiver Orientation, has been accepted for publication in IEEE Access.

02/2020: I am awarded the Telecommunications Advancement Foundation (TAF)'s research grant for 2 years 2020-2022.

02/2020: I attended the International Conference on Computing, Networking and Communications (ICNC 2020) in Big Island, Hawaii, USA. 

01/2020: Hello World! Welcome to my homepage.