My research aims to develop AI-native wireless systems for 6G and beyond that are reliable, secure, energy-efficient, and capable of supporting future digital infrastructure with broad societal and economic impact. I work at the intersection of information theory, estimation theory, statistical signal processing, optimization, and machine learning to understand the fundamental trade-offs between reliability, latency, security, sensing, and environmental awareness in emerging networks. My goal is to bridge rigorous model-based design with data-driven intelligence, enabling wireless systems that can adapt to complex environments, resist adversarial disruption, and support high-impact applications such as autonomous systems, smart cities, critical infrastructure, remote connectivity, and next-generation mobile services. Current directions include integrated sensing and communications, reconfigurable intelligent surfaces, non-terrestrial networks, finite-blocklength secure communications, and learning-driven network control using reinforcement learning, generative models, and foundation-model-based approaches.
A research program developing physical-layer security solutions for Integrated Sensing and Communications (ISAC) systems, using Stackelberg game theory and deep reinforcement learning to protect dual-function base stations against intelligent mobile adversaries.
An ARC-funded project developing new theoretical frameworks and transmission designs to secure wireless IoT and machine-type communications in the finite blocklength regime — the critical operating mode for 6G networks where short packets and strict latency constraints invalidate classical security results.
A PhD research program designing and optimizing physical-layer security frameworks for UAV-assisted wireless networks, combining convex optimization and deep reinforcement learning to achieve secure, energy-efficient aerial communications in beyond-5G systems.
An early-career research program on physical-layer security for two-way relay networks where the forwarding node is inherently untrusted, exploiting cooperative jamming and wireless energy harvesting to achieve information-theoretic security without additional power infrastructure.
Source: Google Scholar · updated 2026-10-05
Published in IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications (JSAC), 2025
M. Tatar Mamaghani, X. Zhou, N. Yang, and A. L. Swindlehurst, "Securing integrated sensing and communication against a mobile adversary: A Stackelberg game with deep reinforcement learning," IEEE J. Sel. Areas Commun., vol. 44, pp. 942–958, Sep. 2025.
Published in IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, 2024
M. Tatar Mamaghani, X. Zhou, N. Yang, A. L. Swindlehurst, and H. V. Poor, "Performance analysis of finite blocklength transmissions over wiretap fading channels: An average information leakage perspective," IEEE Trans. Wireless Commun., vol. 23, no. 10, pp. 13252–13266, Oct. 2024.
Published in IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, 2023
M. Tatar Mamaghani, X. Zhou, N. Yang, and A. L. Swindlehurst, "Secure short-packet communications via UAV-enabled mobile relaying: Joint resource optimization and 3D trajectory design," IEEE Trans. Wireless Commun., vol. 23, no. 7, pp. 7802–7815, July 2024
Published in IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology, 2022
M. Tatar Mamaghani and Y. Hong, "Terahertz meets untrusted UAV-relaying: Minimum secrecy energy efficiency maximization via trajectory and communication co-design," IEEE Trans. Veh. Technol., vol. 71, no. 5, pp. 4991–5006, May 2022.
Published in IEEE Internet of Things Journal, 2022
M. Tatar Mamaghani and Y. Hong, "Aerial intelligent reflecting surface-enabled terahertz covert communications in beyond-5G Internet of Things," IEEE Internet Things J., vol. 9, no. 19, pp. 19012–19033, Mar. 2022.
Published in IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology, 2021
M. Tatar Mamaghani and Y. Hong, "Joint trajectory and power allocation design for secure artificial noise aided UAV communications," IEEE Trans. Veh. Technol., vol. 70, no. 3, pp. 2850–2855, Mar. 2021.
Published in IEEE Access, 2020
M. Tatar Mamaghani and Y. Hong, "Intelligent trajectory design for secure full-duplex MIMO-UAV relaying against active eavesdroppers: A model-free reinforcement learning approach," IEEE Access, vol. 9, pp. 4447–4465, Dec. 2020.
Published in Wireless Networks, 2020
M. Tatar Mamaghani, A. Kuhestani, and H. Behroozi, "Can a multi-hop link relying on untrusted amplify-and-forward relays render security?" Wireless Netw., vol. 27, pp. 795–807, Nov. 2020.
Published in IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology, 2020
M. Tatar Mamaghani and Y. Hong, "Improving PHY-security of UAV-enabled transmission with wireless energy harvesting: Robust trajectory design and communications resource allocation," IEEE Trans. Veh. Technol., vol. 69, no. 8, pp. 8586–8600, May 2020.
Published in IEEE Access, 2019
M. Tatar Mamaghani and Y. Hong, "On the performance of low-altitude UAV-enabled secure AF relaying with cooperative jamming and SWIPT," IEEE Access, vol. 7, pp. 153060–153073, Oct. 2019.
Published in IET Communications, 2019
M. Tatar Mamaghani and R. Abbas, "Security and reliability performance analysis for two-way wireless energy harvesting based untrusted relaying with cooperative jamming," IET Commun., vol. 13, no. 4, pp. 449–459, Mar. 2019.
Published in IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology, 2018
M. Tatar Mamaghani, A. Kuhestani, and K. K. Wong, "Secure two-way transmission via wireless-powered untrusted relay and external jammer," IEEE Trans. Veh. Technol., vol. 67, no. 9, pp. 8451–8465, Jul. 2018.
Submitted to IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, 2026
A. Tabeshnezhad, M. Tatar Mamaghani, A. L. Swindlehurst, T. Svensson, and E. Ström, "Robust Beamforming Design for Secure Uplink NOMA-ISAC," arXiv preprint arXiv:2606.17306, Jun. 2026.
Submitted to IEEE Transactions on Communications, 2026
Y. Li, M. Tatar Mamaghani, X. Zhou, and N. Yang, "Symbol-aware precoder design for physical-layer anonymous communications," arXiv preprint arXiv:2602.20874, Mar. 2026.
Published in 2024 IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC), 2024
M. Tatar Mamaghani, X. Zhou, N. Yang, A. L. Swindlehurst, and H. V. Poor, "On the information leakage performance of secure finite blocklength transmissions over Rayleigh fading channels," in ICC 2024 - IEEE International Conference on Communications, Denver, CO, USA, pp. 1467–1472, Jun. 2024.
Published in IEEE Global Communications Conference (GLOBECOM), Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, 2023
M. Tatar Mamaghani, X. Zhou, N. Yang, and A. L. Swindlehurst, "Secure short-packet transmission with aerial relaying: Blocklength and trajectory co-design," in Proc. IEEE GLOBECOM, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, pp. 5998–6004, Dec. 2023.
Published in IEEE Global Communications Conference (GLOBECOM), Singapore, 2017
M. Tatar Mamaghani, A. Mohammadi, P. Yeoh, and A. Kuhestani, "Secure two-way communication via a wireless-powered untrusted relay and friendly jammer," in Proc. IEEE GLOBECOM, Singapore, pp. 1–6, Dec. 2017.