Andreas Molisch

About

Andreas Molisch received his degrees from the Technical University Vienna, Austria, including a Doctoral Degree in Mobile Communications and Electrical Engineering, as well as a Master's Degree in Electrical Engineering. He spent ten years in industry, most recently serving as Chief Wireless Standards Architect at Mitsubishi Electric Research Labs. In 2009, he joined the University of Southern California (USC) as a Professor in the Ming Hsieh Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, where he founded WiDeS. In 2017, he was appointed to the Solomon Golomb – Andrew and Erna Viterbi Chair. His research interests revolve around wireless propagation channels, wireless systems design, and their interaction. He is particularly focused on wireless channel measurement and modeling for 5G and beyond 5G systems, wireless video distribution, hybrid beamforming, UWB/TOA based localization, caching at the wireless edge, and novel modulation/multiple access methods. Dr. Molisch has published extensively, including books, journal papers, and conference papers, and holds numerous patents. He has contributed to standards and has been involved in editorial and leadership roles in various international conferences and standardization groups. He is a Fellow of the National Academy of Inventors, AAAS, IEEE, and IET, and a member of the Austrian Academy of Sciences. His awards include the IEEE Communications Society Edwin H Armstrong Achievement Award, the IEEE Vehicular Technology…

Research topics

• Computer Science
• Telecommunications
• Computer Security
• Engineering
• Computer network
• Physics
• Optoelectronics
• Electronic engineering

Selected publications

• 5G Key Technologies for Smart Railways

  Proceedings of the IEEE · 2020 · 337 citations

  Railway communications has attracted significant attention from both academia and industries due to the booming development of railways, especially high-speed railways (HSRs). To be in line with the vision of future smart rail communications, the rail transport industry needs to develop innovative communication network architectures and key technologies that ensure high-quality transmissions for both passengers and railway operations and control systems. Under high mobility and with safety, eco-…

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• Terahertz Wireless Channels: A Holistic Survey on Measurement, Modeling, and Analysis

  IEEE Communications Surveys & Tutorials · 2022 · 312 citations

  Senior authorCorresponding

  Terahertz (0.1-10 THz) communications are envisioned as a key technology for sixth generation (6G) wireless systems. The study of underlying THz wireless propagation channels provides the foundations for the development of reliable THz communication systems and their applications. This article provides a comprehensive overview of the study of THz wireless channels. First, the three most popular THz channel measurement methodologies, namely, frequency-domain channel measurement based on a vector…

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• Double-Directional V2V Channel Measurement Using ReRoMA at 60 GHz

  IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology · 2025-07-23 · 3 citations

  articleSenior author

  The coordination of vehicles is a crucial element of autonomous driving, as it enhances the efficiency, convenience, and safety of road traffic. In order to fully exploit the capabilities of such coordination, communication with high data rate and low latency is required. It can be reasonably argued that millimeter-wave (mm-wave) vehicle-to-vehicle (V2V) systems are capable of fulfilling the aforementioned requirements. Nevertheless, in order to develop a system that can be deployed in real-worl…

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• Millimeter Wave MIMO Channel Estimation Using Sub-6 GHz Out-of-Band Information

  IEEE Transactions on Communications · 2025-07-14 · 2 citations

  articleOpen access

  Next-generation wireless communication systems will incorporate millimeter wave (mmWave) as one of the key technologies to increase data rates. These forthcoming mmWave systems will integrate multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) technology to ensure sufficient link margin and are expected to be deployed in conjunction with sub-6 GHz systems. Configuring a MIMO communication link usually relies on estimating channel state information (CSI), which is difficult to acquire at mmWave frequencies due…

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• Personalized Hierarchical Split Federated Learning in Wireless Networks

  2025-06-08 · 1 citations

  articleSenior author

  Extreme resource constraints make large-scale machine learning (ML) with distributed clients challenging in wireless networks. On the one hand, large-scale ML requires massive information exchange between clients and server(s). On the other hand, these clients have limited battery and computation powers that are often dedicated to operational computations. Split federated learning (SFL) is emerging as a potential solution to mitigate these challenges, by splitting the ML model into clientside an…

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Recent grants

• WiFiUS: Device-to-Device Communications at Millimeter-Wave Frequencies

  NSF · $280k · 2015–2019

• RINGS: Resilient Delivery of Real-Time Interactive Services Over NextG Compute-Dense Mobile Networks

  NSF · $900k · 2022–2027

• CIF Small: Massive MIMO in the MM-Wave Range: The Theory of Making it Practical

  NSF · $496k · 2016–2021

Frequent coauthors

• Fredrik Tufvesson

  162 shared

• Seun Sangodoyin

  Georgia Institute of Technology

  75 shared

• Neelesh B. Mehta

  Indian Institute of Science Bangalore

  72 shared

• Rui Wang

  67 shared

• Moe Z. Win

  Decision Systems (United States)

  66 shared

• Johan Kåredal

  Lund University

  63 shared

• Thomas Zemen

  53 shared

• Giuseppe Caire

  Technische Universität Berlin

  53 shared

Education

• Ph.D., Electrical Engineering

  University of California, Los Angeles

  1990

• M.S., Electrical Engineering

  University of California, Los Angeles

  1985

• B.S., Electrical Engineering

  University of Belgrade

  1980

Awards & honors

• 2018 IEEE Communications Society Edwin H Armstrong Achieveme…
• 2017 IEEE Communications Society IEEE Distinguished Lecturer…
• 2017 IET Achievement Medal for contributions to wireless com…
• 2015 Fellow of the National Academy of Inventors
• 2015 USC Viterbi Viterbi Award for Use-Inspired Research

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