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RESEARCH PUBLICATIONS

 

Year 2009

Journal Papers

1.       M. M. Matalgah and A. M. Magableh, “Simple Encrypted Coded Cooperative Wireless Network,” Under preparation.

2.       I. Y. Abualhaol and M. M. Matalgah, “Performance Analysis of Cooperative Multi-Carrier Relay-Based UAV Network over Generalized Gaussian-Finite-Mixture Fading Channels,” Under preparation.

3.       A. M. Magableh and M. M. Matalgah, “Capacity and Fading Characteristics of the Generalized α-μ Distribution,” Submitted to the IEEE Communications Letters. (May 6, 2009)

4.       A. M. Magableh and M. M. Matalgah, “Moment Generating Function of the Generalized α-μ Distribution with Applications,” IEEE Communications Letters, vol.13, no. 6, June 2009.

5.       M. H. Ismail and M. M. Matalgah, “Bit Error Rate Analysis of Diversity M-PSK Receivers in Weibull Fading with Cochannel Interference,” IET (formerly IEE) Communications, 2009. (in press)

6.       M. H. Lee, M. M. Matalgah, and Song Wei, “Fast Method for Precoding and Decoding of Distributive MIMO Channels in Relay-Based Decode-and-Forward Cooperative Wireless Networks,” IET (formerly IEE) Communications, 2009. (in press)

7.       I. Y. Abualhaol and M. M. Matalgah, “Throughput Optimization of Cooperative Teleoperated UGV Network,” International Journal of Mobile Computing and Multimedia Communications, 2009. (in press)

Book Chapters

8.       I. Y. Abualhaol and M. M. Matalgah, “Resource Allocation for a Cooperative Broadband MIMO-OFDM System,” book chapter in Cooperative Communications for Improved Wireless Network Transmission: Frameworks for Virtual Antenna Array Applications, Chapter 8, IGA Global, Information Science Reference, Hershey, PA USA, to appear in July 2009.

 

Year 2008

Journal Papers

9.       A. M. Magableh and M. M. Matalgah, “Performance of Coherent Modulation Techniques with Switched and Examine Combining (SEC) over Weibull Fading Channels: BER and Capacity,” Submitted to the IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology, December 25, 2008. (First round major revision submitted April 28, 2009)

10.   M. M. Matalgah, Moon Ho Lee, and Wei Song, “Full-Rate Full-Diversity Complex Block-Orthogonal STBCs for 2^k Transmit Antennas: Design and Performance Evaluation,” Submitted to the IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, November 18, 2008.

11.   R. M. Radaydeh and M. M. Matalgah, “Average BER Analysis for M-ary FSK Signals in Nakagami-q (Hoyt) Fading with Noncoherent Diversity Combining,” IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology, vol. 57, no. 4, pp. 2257 - 2267, July 2008.

12.   R. M. Radaydeh and M. M. Matalgah, “Simple Average BER Formula for M-ary Orthogonal Signals with Noncoherent Diversity Combining in Nakagami-m Fading Channels,” IEEE Transactions on Communications, vol. 56, no. 5, pp. 694 - 699, May 2008.

13.   R. M. Radaydeh and M. M. Matalgah, “Results for Infinite Integrals Involving higher-Order Powers of the Gaussian Q-function with Application to Average SEP Analysis of DE-QPSK,” IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, vol. 7, no. 3, pp. 793-798, March 2008.

14.   R. M. Radaydeh and M. M. Matalgah, “Noncoherent Improved-Gain Diversity Reception of Binary Orthogonal Signals in Nakagami-q (Hoyt) Mobile Channels,” IET (formerly IEE) Proceedings on Communications, vol. 2, no. 2, pp. 372-379, February 2008.

15.   R. M. Radaydeh and M. M. Matalgah, “Compact Formulas for the Average Error Performance of Noncoherent M-ary Orthogonal Signals Over Generalized Rician, Nakagami-m, and Nakagami-q Fading Channels with Diversity Reception,” IEEE Transactions on Communications, vol. 56, no. 1, pp. 32 – 38, January 2008.

Book Chapters

16.   M. M. Matalgah and O. M. Hammouri, “International Mobile Telecommunications-2000 and 3G Wireless Systems,” book chapter in The Handbook of Computer Networks, vol. 2, Part 3, Chapter 106, pp. 716-750, John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ, USA, 2008.

Conference Presentations and Proceedings

17.   G. M. Matalkah, J. M. Sabatier, and M. M. Matalgah, “A Generalized Likelihood Ratio Test for Detecting Targets in Multiple-Band Spectral Images with Improper Complex Gaussian Noise,” Proceedings of the 2008 IEEE International Conference on Image Processing, 2008 (ICIP 2008), pp. 1856 – 1859, October 12 – 15, 2008, San Diego, CA, USA.

18.   M. M. Matalgah, M. H. Lee, and W. Song, “Fast Algorithm for Linear Precoding and Decoding of Distributive MIMO Channels in Cooperative Wireless Networks,” Proceedings of the 10th International Workshop on Multimedia Signal Processing & Transmission, pp. 51 – 61, July 21-22, 2008, Chonbuk National University, Jeonju, South Korea.

19.   I. Y. Abualhaol and M. M. Matalgah, “Subchannel-Division Adaptive Resource Allocation Technique for Cooperative Relay-Based MIMO/OFDM Wireless Communication Systems,” Proceedings of the 2008 IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference (WCNC 2008), March 31 – April 3, 2008, Las Vegas, NV, USA.

20.   I. Y. Abualhaol and M. M. Matalgah, “Capacity Analysis of MIMO System over Nakagami-m Fading Channels Using Finite Mixture with Expectation Maximization Algorithm,” Proceedings of the 2008 ACS/IEEE International Conference on Computer Systems and Applications (AICCSA 2008), March 31 – April 3, 2008, Doha, Qatar.

21.   A. M. Magableh and M. M. Matalgah, “Error Rate Performance for Coherent Modulation Techniques with Switched and Examine Diversity Combining over Weibull Fading Channels,” Proceedings of the 2008 ACS/IEEE International Conference on Computer Systems and Applications (AICCSA 2008), March 31 – April 3, 2008, Doha, Qatar.

22.   O. M. Hammouri and M. M. Matalgah, “Smoothed Voronoi Path Planning Technique for Recovering Communication in UAVs,” Proceedings of the 2008 ACS/IEEE International Conference on Computer Systems and Applications (AICCSA 2008), March 31 – April 3, 2008, Doha, Qatar.

 

Year 2007

Journal Papers

23.   M. M. Matalgah, R. M. Radaydeh, and M. H. Ismail, “Performance Analysis of the Forward Link cdma2000 1xEV-DO Evolution for Multirate Services in Cellular Wireless Systems,” Wiley Journal on Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing, vol. 7, no. 4 , pp. 431 – 444, May 2007.

24.   M. H. Ismail and M. M. Matalgah, “Exact and Approximate Error-Rate Analysis of BPSK in Weibull Fading with Cochannel Interference,” IET (formerly IEE) Proceedings on Communications, vol. 1, no. 2, pp. 203-208, April 2007.

25.   R. M. Radaydeh and M. M. Matalgah, “Simple Analysis for Average BER of Orthogonal Signals in Nonidentical Rician Channels with Improved-Gain Noncoherent Diversity Reception,” IEEE Communications Letters, vol. 11, no. 4, pp. 337 – 339, April 2007.

26.   M. H. Ismail and M. M. Matalgah, “Performance of Selection Combining Diversity in Weibull Fading with Cochannel Interference,” EURASIP Journal on Wireless Communications and Networking, vol. 2007, Article ID 60408, 6 pages, 2007. doi:10.1155/2007/60408, March 2007.

Conference Presentations and Proceedings

27.   I. Y. Abualhaol and M. M. Matalgah, “End-to-End Performance Analysis of Cooperative Relay-Based Wireless System Over Generalized Gaussian-Finite-Mixture Fading Channels,” Proceedings of the 50th Annual IEEE Global Communications Conference (IEEE GLOBECOM 2007), pp. 3942 – 3947, November 26-30, 2007, Washington, DC, USA.

28.   R. M. Radaydeh and M. M. Matalgah, “Results for Integrals Involving m-th Power of the Gaussian Q-function Over Rayleigh Fading Channels with Applications,” Proceedings of the 2007 IEEE International Conference on Communications (IEEE ICC’07), pp. 5910 – 5914, June 24-28, 2007, Glasgow, Scotland, UK.

29.   I. Y. Abualhaol and M. M. Matalgah, “Capacity Analysis of MIMO System Over Identically Independent Distributed Weibull Fading Channels,” Proceedings of the 2007 IEEE International Conference on Communications (IEEE ICC’07), pp. 5003 – 5008, June 24-28, 2007, Glasgow, Scotland, UK.

30.   I. Y. Abualhaol and M. M. Matalgah, “Performance Analysis of Multi-User Cooperative Diversity in Cellular-Based Communication System,” Proceedings of the 2007 Mid-South Area Engineering and Science Conference (MAESC 2007), 17-18 May, 2007, The University of Mississippi, Oxford, MS, USA.

31.   A. N. Mohammed and M. M. Matalgah, “Performance Analysis of Wideband Multi-Standard Software Defined Radio (SDR) Base Station Receivers with Inter Modulation Distortion,” Proceedings of the 2007 Mid-South Area Engineering and Science Conference (MAESC 2007), 17-18 May, 2007, The University of Mississippi, Oxford, MS, USA.

32.   G. M. Matalkah, M. M. Matalgah, and J. Sabatier “CFAR Algorithm for Detecting Targets in Complex-Valued Multi-Band Spectral Images,” Proceedings of the 2007 Mid-South Area Engineering and Science Conference (MAESC 2007), 17-18 May, 2007, The University of Mississippi, Oxford, MS, USA.

33.   A. M. Magableh and M. M. Matalgah, “Bit Error Rate Performance of Weibull Fading Channels over Selection and Examine Combining,” Proceedings of the 2007 Mid-South Area Engineering and Science Conference (MAESC 2007), 17-18 May, 2007, The University of Mississippi, Oxford, MS, USA.

34.   O. M. Hammouri and M. M. Matalgah, “Optimized mission path in UAVs - Intelligence embedded in mission planning,” Proceedings of the 2007 Mid-South Area Engineering and Science Conference (MAESC 2007), 17-18 May, 2007, The University of Mississippi, Oxford, MS, USA.

35.   A. M. Magableh, and M. M. Matalgah, “Capacity of SIMO Systems over Non i.i.d. Nakagami-m Channels,” Proceedings of the 2007 IEEE Sarnoff Symposium, pp. 1 – 5, Digital Object Identifier 10.1109/SARNOF.2007.4567395, April 30 – May 2, 2007, Princeton. NJ, USA.

36.   G. M. Matalkah, M. M.Matalgah, and J. M. Sabatier, “CFAR detection algorithm for acoustic-seismic landmine detection,” Proceedings of the SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering, vol. 6553, no. 1, pp. 655303-1-9. ISSN: 0277-786X (print), April 27, 2007, Orlando, FL, USA.

37.   Amer M. Magableh and Mustafa M. Matalgah, “Bit Error Rate Performance of Weibull Fading Channels over Selection and Examine Combining (SEC),” Abstract and Poster, The University of Mississippi Chapter of Sigma XI - The Annual Sigma Xi Student Research Poster Symposium and Competition, March 26, 2007.

38.   Ibrahim Y. Abualhaol and Mustafa M. Matalgah, “Capacity Analysis of Multi-User Cooperative Diversity In Cellular-Based Communication System,” Abstract and Poster, The University of Mississippi Chapter of Sigma Xi - The Annual Sigma Xi Student Research Poster Symposium and Competition, March 26, 2007.

39.   AbdulKhaleq N. Mohammed and Mustafa M. Matalgah, “Software Defined Radio Base Station Receivers with Inter Modulation Distortion,” Abstract and Poster, The University of Mississippi Chapter of Sigma Xi - The Annual Sigma Xi Student Research Poster Symposium and Competition, March 26, 2007. (Won the Best Engineering Student Research Presentation Award)

40.   Tanya Aranchuk and Mustafa M. Matalgah, “Quantitative Description and Performance Analysis of a rectangular Loop Nanowire Antenna,” Abstract: Journal of the Mississippi Academy of Sciences, vol. 52, no. 1, pp 132, January 2007; Presentation: The Seventy-first Mississippi Academy of Sciences Annual Meeting, Starkville, MS, February 21-23, 2007.

41.   Omar M. Hammouri, Ibrahim Y. Abualhaol, Mustafa M. Matalgah and Atef Z. Elsherbeni, “Simulation and Performance Evaluation of Path Loss Recovery Protocol for Unmanned Airbone Vehicle,” Abstract: Journal of the Mississippi Academy of Sciences, vol. 52, no. 1, pp 137, January 2007; Presentation: The Seventy-first Mississippi Academy of Sciences Annual Meeting, Starkville, MS, February 21-23, 2007.

42.   AbdulKhaleq N. Mohammed and Mustafa M. Matalgah, “Performance Analysis of Wideband Multi-Standard Software Defined Radio Base Station Receivers with Inter Modulation Distortion,” Abstract: Journal of the Mississippi Academy of Sciences, vol. 52, no. 1, pp 135, January 2007; Presentation: The Seventy-first Mississippi Academy of Sciences Annual Meeting, Starkville, MS, February 21-23, 2007.

43.   Ibrahim Y. Abualhaol and Mustafa M. Matalgah, “Probability of Error Based Channel State Detection Protocol for Updating Channel State Information in Wireless Communication Systems,” Abstract: Journal of the Mississippi Academy of Sciences, vol. 52, no. 1, pp 134, January 2007; Presentation: The Seventy-first Mississippi Academy of Sciences Annual Meeting, Starkville, MS, February 21-23, 2007.

44.   Ibrahim Y. Abualhaol, Mustafa M. Matalgah, and Atef Z. Elsherbeni, “Adaptive Power Control Protocol for Multi-Carrier Wireless Communication Systems,” Abstract: Journal of the Mississippi Academy of Sciences, vol. 52, no. 1, pp 133, January 2007; Presentation: The Seventy-first Mississippi Academy of Sciences Annual Meeting, Starkville, MS, February 21-23, 2007.

45.   Amer M. Magableh, Ibrahim Y. Abualhaol, Mustafa M. Matalgah, and Atef Z. Elsherbeni, “Simulation and Performance Evaluation of Best Hopping Sequence Selection Protocol for Increasing Battery Life of Unmanned Airbone Vehicles,” Abstract: Journal of the Mississippi Academy of Sciences, vol. 52, no. 1, pp. 124, January 2007; Presentation: The Seventy-first Mississippi Academy of Sciences Annual Meeting, Starkville, MS, February 21-23, 2007.

 

Year 2006

Journal Papers

46.   M. H. Ismail and M. M. Matalgah, “Downlink Outage Probability Analysis in Cellular Systems with Weibull Faded Lognormal-Shadowed Links,” IEE Proceedings on Communications, vol. 153, no. 6, pp. 949 – 954, December 2006.

47.   R. M. Radaydeh and M. M. Matalgah, “Closed Form Expression for the Error Performance of Noncoherent M-ary Orthogonal Signals Over Multi-Branch Rayleigh Fading Channels with Arbitrary Average Fading Powers,” IEEE Communications Letters, vol. 10, no. 9, pp. 661 - 663, September 2006.

48.   R. M. Radaydeh and M. M. Matalgah, “Improved Performance Noncoherent Weighted-Coefficients Diversity Combiner for DPSK and NC-FSK Signals in Nonidentical Nakagami Fading Channels,” IEEE Communications Letters, vol. 10, no. 4, pp. 281 - 283, April 2006.

49.   M. H. Ismail and M. M. Matalgah, “Performance of Dual Maximal Ratio Combining Diversity in Non-identical Correlated Weibull Fading Channels Using Padé Approximation,” IEEE Transactions on Communications, vol. 54, no. 3, pp. 397 - 402, March, 2006..

50.   M. H. Ismail and M. M. Matalgah, “On the Use of Padé Approximation for Performance Evaluation of Maximal Ratio Combining Diversity over Weibull Fading Channels,” EURASIP Journal on Wireless Communications and Networking, vol. 6, pp. 62 – 68, Article ID 58501, March 2006.

Conference Presentations and Proceedings

51.   R. M. Radaydeh and M. M. Matalgah, “Simple Average BER Formula for M-ary Orthogonal Signals with Noncoherent Diversity Combining Over Arbitrarily Correlated Nonidentically Distributed Nakagami-m Fading Channels,” Proceedings of the 49th Annual IEEE GLOBECOM Conference (GLOBECOM 2006), 27 November – 1 December 2006, San Francisco, CA, USA.

52.   M. H. Ismail and M. M. Matalgah, “Performance of Dual Selection and Switch-and-Stay Combining Diversity Receivers over Weibull Fading with Cochannel Interference,” Proceedings of the 49th Annual IEEE GLOBECOM Conference (GLOBECOM 2006), 27 November – 1 December 2006, San Francisco, CA, USA.

53.   I. Y. Abualhaol, and M. M. Matalgah, “Outage Probability Analysis in a Cooperative UAVs Network Over Nakagami-m Fading Channels,” Proceedings of the 2006 IEEE 64th Semiannual Vehicular Technology Conference (VTC-2006 Fall), Digital Object Identifier 10.1109/VTCF.2006.564, pp. 1-4, 25 – 28 September 2006, Montreal, Canada.

54.   M. H. Ismail and M. M. Matalgah, “BER Analysis of Bandwidth Efficient BPSK Modulation over the Weibull Fading Channel with CCI,” Proceedings of the 2006 IEEE 64th Semiannual Vehicular Technology Conference (VTC-2006 Fall), Digital Object Identifier 10.1109/VTCF.2006.334, pp. 1-4, 25 – 28 September 2006, Montreal, Canada.

55.   R. M. Radaydeh and M. M. Matalgah, “Improved Performance of DPSK and NCFSK Signals Under Nonidentical Nakagami-m Fading Channels,” Proceedings of the 2006 International Conference on Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing (IWCMC 2006), pp. 911 – 915, July 3–6, 2006, Vancouver, British Colombia, Canada.

56.   R. M. Radaydeh and M. M. Matalgah, “Closed-Form Formula for the Average BER of Noncoherent Multi-Level Orthogonal Signals over Nonidentical Nakagami-m Fading Channels,” Proceedings of the 2006 International Conference on Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing (IWCMC 2006), pp. 905 – 910, July 3–6, 2006, Vancouver, British Colombia, Canada.

57.   M. H. Ismail and M. M. Matalgah, “BER Analysis of Diversity M-PSK Receivers Over the Weibull Fading Channel with Cochannel Interference,” Proceedings of the 2006 IEEE International Conference on Communications (IEEE ICC’06), vol. 11, pp. 5134-5139, Istanbul, Turkey, 11 – 15 June 2006. (Acceptance rate 39%)

58.   R. M. Radaydeh and M. M. Matalgah, “Performance Analysis of Steiner System Design-Based Noncoherent M-ary FSK with Diversity Combining Over Nonidentically Distributed and Arbitrarily Correlated Fading Channels,” Proceedings of the 2006 IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference (IEEE WCNC’06), vol. 4, pp. 2064 - 2069, Las Vegas, NV, 3-6 April 2006.

59.   Ibrahim Y. Abualhaol and M. M. Matalgah, “Throughput Optimization of Cooperative UAVs Using Adaptive Channel Assignment,” Proceedings of the 2006 IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference (IEEE WCNC’06), vol. 4, pp. 2279 - 2284, Las Vegas, NV, 3-6 April 2006.

60.   M. H. Ismail and M. M. Matalgah, “Performance Evaluation of Maximal Ratio Combining Diversity over the Weibull Fading Channel in Presence of Co-channel Interference,” Proceedings of the 2006 IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference (IEEE WCNC’06), vol. 3, pp. 1503 – 1508, Las Vegas, NV, 3-6 April 2006.

61.   R. M. Radaydeh and M. M. Matalgah, “Compact Expressions for the Bit Error Rate of M-ary Orthogonal Signals with Square-Law Combining Under Non-Identical Fading,” Proceedings of the 6th Jordanian International Electrical & Electronics Engineering Conference 2005 (JIEEEC 2005). Amman, Jordan, November 15 – 17, 2005. (Date changed to 14 – 16 March, 2006)

62.   M. M. Matalgah and M. H. Ismail, “Optimal Code Rates and Channelization Codes Assignment for Throughput Maximization in Downlink WCDMA/TDD,” Proceedings of the 6th Jordanian International Electrical & Electronics Engineering Conference 2005 (JIEEEC 2005). Amman, Jordan, November 15 – 17, 2005. (Date changed to 14 – 16 March, 2006)

63.   M. H. Ismail and M. M. Matalgah, “Lower Bound and Approximate Expressions for the Outage Probability in Noisy Rayleigh-Faded Lognormal-Shadowed Channels,” Proceedings of the 6th Jordanian International Electrical & Electronics Engineering Conference 2005 (JIEEEC 2005). Amman, Jordan, November 15 – 17, 2005. (Date changed to 14 – 16 March, 2006)

64.   Ibrahim Abualhaol and Mustafa M. Matalgah, “Outage Probability Analysis in a Cooperative UAVs Network Over Rayleigh And Nakagami-M Fading Channels,” Abstract: Journal of the Mississippi Academy of Sciences, vol. 51, no. 1, pp. 97, January 2006; Presentation: The Seventieth Mississippi Academy of Sciences Annual Meeting, Vicksburg, MS, February 22-24, 2006.

65.   Mahmoud Ismail and Mustafa M. Matalgah, “Performance Of Dual-Branch Maximal Ratio Combining Diversity Over Nonidentical Correlated Weibull Fading Channels Using Padé Approximation,” Abstract: Journal of the Mississippi Academy of Sciences, vol. 51, no. 1, pp. 97, January 2006; Presentation: The Seventieth Mississippi Academy of Sciences Annual Meeting, Vicksburg, MS, February 22-24, 2006.

 

Year 2005

Patent

66.   “Method and System for Facilitating End-to-End Quality of Service in a Wireless Packet Data System,” (coauthored with Mark A. Lipford, Manish Mangal, Kevin R. O’Connor, Iris Zing, and Saad Z. Asif). Patent No. US 6,980,523 B1, Date of Patent Dec. 27, 2005.

Journal Papers

67.   M. H. Ismail and M. M. Matalgah, “An Analytical Framework for Performance Evaluation of Downlink WCDMA/TDD Mode,” IEEE Communications Letters, vol. 9, no. 8, pp. 747- 749, August 2005.

68.   M. M. Matalgah and R. M. Radaydeh, “Hybrid Frequency-Polarization Shift-Keying Modulation for Optical Transmission,” IEEE Journal of Lightwave Technology, vol. 23, no. 3, pp. 1152 - 1163, March 2005.

Conference Presentations and Proceedings

69.   M. M. Matalgah, R. M. Radaydeh, and M. H. Ismail, “Performance Analysis of the Forward Link cdma2000 1xEV-DO in Multirate Wireless Cellular Systems,” Proceedings of the Fall 2005 IEEE Vehicular Technology Conference (VTC Fall 2005), Dallas, TX, September 25-28, 2005. (Acceptance rate 57%)

70.   R. M. Radaydeh, M. M. Matalgah, and Ghaith Matalkah, “Probability of Error Performance of Noncoherent M-ary FSK Over Multi-Link Generalized Fading Channels,” Proceedings of the Fall 2005 IEEE Vehicular Technology Conference (VTC Fall 2005), Dallas, TX, September 25-28, 2005. (Acceptance rate 57%)

71.   M. H. Ismail and M. M. Matalgah, “Outage Probability in Multiple Access Systems with Weibull-Faded Lognormal-Shadowed Communication Links,” Proceedings of the Fall 2005 IEEE Vehicular Technology Conference (VTC Fall 2005), Dallas, TX, September 25-28, 2005. (Acceptance rate 57%)

72.   M. M. Matalgah and R. M. Radaydeh, “Power-Efficient Multi-level modulation Scheme for High-Speed Optical Communications,” Proceedings of the 10th IEEE Symposium on Computers and Communications (ISCC 2005), pp. 538 – 543, La Manga del Mar Menor, Spain, June 27 – 30, 2005. (Acceptance rate 37%)

73.   M. H. Ismail and M. M. Matalgah, “Outage Probability Analysis in Cellular Systems with Noisy Weibull-Faded Lognormal-Shadowed Links,” Proceedings of the 10th IEEE Symposium on Computers and Communications (ISCC 2005), La Manga del Mar Menor, pp. 269 – 274, Spain, June 27 – 30, 2005. (Acceptance rate 37%) - Selected for the Best Paper Award

74.   M. M. Matalgah, R. M. Radaydeh and M. H. Ismail, “Performance Framework for the Forward Link in the cdma2000 Evolution for Voice and High Speed Data Services (1xEV-DV),” Proceedings of the World’s Premier International Conference on Wireless Networks, Communications, and Mobile Computing (IEEE WirelessCom 2005), Maui, Hawaii, June 13-16, 2005. (Acceptance rate 40%)

75.   M. H. Ismail and M. M. Matalgah, “Outage Probability Lower Bound in CDMA Systems with Lognormal-Shadowed Multipath Rayleigh-Faded and Noise-Corrupted Links,” Proceedings of the World’s Premier International Conference on Wireless Networks, Communications, and Mobile Computing (IEEE WirelessCom 2005), Maui, Hawaii, June 13-16, 2005. (Acceptance rate 40%)

76.   R. M. Radaydeh and M. M. Matalgah, “Performance Analysis of Multiple Carrier FSK System with Diversity Combining Over Generalized Fading Channels,” Proceedings of the 2005 IEEE International Conference on Communications (IEEE ICC 2005), vol. 4, pp 2357 – 2361, Seoul, Korea, May 16-20, 2005. (Acceptance rate 35%)

77.   M. H. Ismail and M. M. Matalgah, “Complete Analytical Framework for Throughput Calculation in WCDMA Downlink TDD Mode,” Proceedings of the 2005 IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference (IEEE WCNC 2005), vol. 1, pp. 212 – 217, New Orleans, LA, March 13 - 17, 2005. (Acceptance rate 40%)

78.   M. H. Ismail and M. M. Matalgah, “Performance Evaluation of WCDMA High Speed Downlink Packet Access/Frequency Division Duplex Mode,” Proceedings of the 2005 IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference (IEEE WCNC 2005), vol1. 1, pp. 183 – 188, New Orleans, LA, March 13 - 17, 2005. (Acceptance rate 40%)

79.   M. H. Ismail and M. M. Matalgah, “Performance Evaluation of the Uplink of WCDMA in the TDD Mode for Wireless Internet Services,” Proceedings of the 2005 ACS/IEEE International Conference on Computer Systems and Applications (AICCSA 2005), Cairo, Egypt, January 3 - 6, 2005. (7 pages – available on CD) – Acceptance rate 33%

80.   Amos Judson and Mustafa M. Matalgah, “Optimizing Bit State Assignments in Sequential State Machines (SSM) with Applications in Digital Vending Machines,” Research Report presented to Ronald E. McNair Program, Undergraduate Research Program, University of Mississippi, Summer 2005.

81.   Amos Judson and Mustafa M. Matalgah, “Optimizing Bit State Assignments in Sequential State Machines (SSM) with Applications in Digital Vending Machines,” A research report presented to Ronald E. McNair Program, Undergraduate Research Program, University of Mississippi, July 2005.

 

Year 2004

Book Chapters

82.   M. M. Matalgah, J. Qaddour, O. S. Elkeelany, and K. Sheikh, “Portability Architecture for Nomadic Wireless Internet Users and Security Performance Evaluation,” book chapter in Wireless Communications Systems and Networks, Chapter 11, pp. 319 - 358, Kluwer-Plenum Press, New York, NY, USA, 2004.

Journal Papers

83.   O. Elkeelany, M. M. Matalgah, and J. Qaddour, “Remote access virtual private network architecture for high-speed wireless Internet users,” Wiley journal on Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing, vol. 4, issue 5, pp. 567 - 578, August 2004.

84.   M. M. Matalgah, “Closed-form throughput formula in terms of users' joint SINR in wireless multirate TDD/WCDMA,” IEE Electronics Letters, vol. 40, no. 10, pp. 608 - 609, 13 May 2004.

Conference Presentations and Proceedings

85.   M. H. Ismail and M. M. Matalgah, “Simulation Results for the Impact of Users’ Locations and Distribution Characteristics on the Performance of Downlink WCDMA/TDD in Fading Channels,” Proceedings of the 2004 IEEE Radio and Wireless Conference (IEEE RAWCON 2004), pp. 495 - 498, Atlanta, GA, September 19-22, 2004.

86.   M. M. Matalgah, “Forward link effective throughput in terms of SINR stochastic behaviors in 3G TDD/WCDMA cellular systems,” Proceedings of the 2004 IEEE International Conference on Communications (IEEE ICC 2004), vol. 6, pp. 3128 –3132, Paris, France, June 20–24, 2004. (Acceptance rate 35%)

87.   L. A. Bojuwon and M. M. Matalgah, “Developing a Matlab GUI Tool For Performance Evaluation of Wireless Communication Systems,” Presentation, The 2004 Summer Research Institute for Undergraduates (SRIU) at The University of Mississippi, July 29, 2004.

88.   M. H. Ismail and M. M. Matalgah, “Performance Analysis of Downlink Wideband CDMA Technology in the Time Division Duplex Mode,” Abstract and Poster, The University of Mississippi Chapter of Sigma Xi - The Annual Sigma Xi Student Research Poster Symposium and Competition, April 22, 2004.

89.   L. A. Bojuwon and M. M. Matalgah, “Developing a Matlab GUI Tool for Performance Evaluation of Wireless Communication Systems,” A research report presented to The 2004 Summer Research Institute for Undergraduates (SRIU) at The University of Mississippi, July 29, 2004.

90.   M. M. Matalgah and R. M. Radaydeh, “cdma2000, 1xEV-DO, and 1xEV-DV: Performance Evaluation Framework,” white paper presented to Sprint, June 2004.

91.   M. M. Matalgah and M. H. Ismail, “UMTS WCDMA: Performance Evaluation Framework,” white paper presented to Sprint, June 2004.

 

Year 2003

Conference Presentations and Proceedings

92.   M. M. Matalgah, J. Qaddour, A. Sharma and K. Sheikh, ”Throughput and spectral efficiency analysis in 3G FDD WCDMA cellular systems,” Proceedings of the 2003 IEEE Global Telecommunications Conference (IEEE GLOBECOM 2003), vol. 6, pp. 3423-3426, San Francisco, CA, Dec. 1–5, 2003.

93.   J. Qaddour, D. Leonard, M.M. Matalgah, and M. Guizani, “Uplink capacity estimation for wireless spread-spectrum orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (SS-OFDM),” Proceedings of the 2003 IEEE Global Telecommunications Conference (IEEE GLOBECOM 2003), vol. 7, pp. 4139-4141, San Francisco, CA, Dec. 1–5, 2003.

94.   M. M. Matalgah, J. Qaddour, A. Sharma, and K. P. Sheikh, “Capacity Planning in UMTS WCDMA TDD: Throughput and Spectral Efficiency Analysis,” Proceedings of the 2003 Third Generation Wireless (3Gwireless 2003) Conference (World Wireless Congress), San Francisco, CA, May 27–30, 2003. (5 Pages Available on CD) – Acceptance rate 28%.

95.   J. Qaddour, M. M. Matalgah, A. Sharma, and K. P. Sheikh, “Downlink WCDMA Capacity Estimation for FDD mode,” Proceedings of the 2003 Third Generation Wireless (3Gwireless 2003) Conference (World Wireless Congress), San Francisco, CA, May 27 – 30, 2003. (5 Pages Available on CD) – Acceptance rate 28%.

96.   O. Elkeelany, M.M. Matalgah, J. Qaddour, and K.P. Sheikh, “Layer 3 Security Architecture for Next Generation Portable Broadband Wireless Network,” Proceedings of the 2003 Third Generation Wireless (3Gwireless 2003) Conference (World Wireless Congress), San Francisco, CA, May 27–30, 2003. (5 Pages Available on CD) – Acceptance rate 28%.

97.   M.M. Matalgah, “Capacity Planning for Future High Speed Wireless Internet Access - Throughput and Spectral Efficiency Analysis,” Poster, The University of Mississippi Office of Research & Sponsored Programs Workshop, October 17, 2003.

 

Year 2002 and before

Journal Papers

98.   M.M. Matalgah, J. Knopp, and L. Eifler, “Geometric Approach for Designing Optical Binary Amplitude and Binary Phase-Only Filters,” The Optical Society of America Journal on Applied Optics (Washington, DC), Vol. 37, No. 35, pp. 8233-8246, 10 December 1998.

99.   M.M. Matalgah, J. Knopp, and L. Eifler, “Theory and applications of convex polygons in optical binary filter design,” IEE Electronics Letters, vol. 33, no. 18, pp. 1574-1576, August 28, 1997.

100.M.M. Matalgah and J. Knopp, “Time Varying Spectral Analysis of Non-stationary Signals Based on Combined Wavelet and Fourier Transforms,” International Journal of Electronics, vol. 78, no. 3, pp. 463-476, March 1995.

101.L. Khadra, M. M. Matalgah, B. El-Asir, and S. Mawagdeh, “The Wavelet Transform and its Applications to Phonocardiogram Signal Analysis,” Journal of Medical Informatics (London), vol.16, no.3, pp. 271-277, July-Sept 1991. (Also selected to appear in the annual year book of Medical Informatics 1992 entitled “Advances in an Interdisciplinary Science”)

Book Chapters

102.M. M. Matalgah, J. Knopp, and S. Mawagdeh, “Iterative Processing Method using Gabor Wavelets and the Wavelet Transform for the Analysis of Phonocardiogram Signals,” book chapter in Time-Frequency and Wavelets in Biomedical Signal Processing, Chapter 10, pp. 271-304, editor Metin Akay. IEEE Press, Piscataway, NJ, 1998.

103.L. M. Khadra, M. M. Matalgah, B. El-Asir and S. Mawagdeh, "The wavelet transform in phonocardiogram signal analysis," book chapter in the Yearbook of Medical Informatics “Advances in an Interdisciplinary Science,” Eds. J. Van Bemmel and A. T. McCray , Schattauer, 1992.

Conference Presentations and Proceedings

104.O. Elkeelany, M. M. Matalgah, K. P. Sheikh, M. Thaker, G. Chaudhry, D. Medhi, J. Qaddour, “Performance analysis of IPSec protocol: encryption and authentication,” Proceedings of the 2002 IEEE Conference on Communications (ICC 2002), vol. 2, pp. 1164 – 1168, NY, NY, 2 April – 2 May, 2002.

105.M. M. Matalgah, “ATM Evolution in CDMA Wireless Communication Network Infrastructure,” Proceedings of the 2000 IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference (WCNC 2000), vol. 3, pp. 1042 - 1045, Chicago, IL, 23 - 28 September 2000.

106.M. M. Matalgah, “Operational Support Systems Network Architecture Evolution,” Technical Strategies and Recommendations, Presented to Sprint PCS TR&D, NSPD & OSSN Teams, April 28, 2000.

107.Mustafa M. Matalgah and Kevin O’Connor, “ATM Switching Technical Strategies Document Review” Technical Strategies and Recommendations, Presented to Sprint PCS TR&D, NSPD & OSSN Teams, January 13, 2000.

108.M. M. Matalgah, “Operational Support Systems Network Architecture Evolution,” Technical Strategies and Recommendations, Presented to Sprint PCS TR&D, NSPD & OSSN Teams, April 28, 2000.

109.E. S. Atieh, M. M. Matalgah, and M. M. Guizani, "Calculating Buffer Requirements & Access Time for ABR & VBR ATM Traffic: Dedicated Approach," Proceedings of the IEEE 1999 International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Processing Techniques and Applications (PDPTA'99), Las Vegas, NV, June 28 - July 1, 1999.

110.E. S. Atieh, M. M. Matalgah, and M. M. Guizani, "Calculating Buffer Requirements & Access Time for ABR & VBR ATM Traffic: Shared Approach," Proceedings of the IEEE 1999 International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Processing Techniques and Applications (PDPTA'99), Las Vegas, NV, June 28 - July 1, 1999.

111.E. S. Atieh, M. M. Matalgah, and M.M. Guizani, “Buffer Requirements for ABR Traffic using Congestion Control Mechanism,” Proceedings of the 18th IEEE International Performance, Computing, and Communications Conference (IPCCC’99), pp. 250-256, Feb 10-12, 1999, Phoenix/Scottsdale, Arizona, USA.

112.M. M. Matalgah, “Heterogeneous Network Management using CORBA,” Presented to the Systems & Technology Integration Center - Sprint PCS, July 1998, Lenexa, Kansas, USA.

113.M. M. Matalgah, “UNIX-based Automation Test Tool Design Technical Document for Intelligent Wireless Network," Sprint PCS Systems & Technology Integration Center, August 2002.

114.M. M. Matalgah, “Portability Architecture for MMDS Broadband Wireless Internet Access,” Sprint MMDS BWG Technology Strategic Document and Requirements – BWG Technology Development, August 2001.

115.M. M. Matalgah, “MMDS RF Interface Technology Assessment – Tantivy Advanced Internet-CDMA,” Sprint MMDS BWG Vendor/Technology Assessment Document – BWG Technology Development, August 2001.

116.M. M. Matalgah, “MMDS RF Interface Technology Assessment – Broadstorm TDD-OFDM,” Sprint MMDS BWG Vendor/Technology Assessment Document – BWG Technology Development, August 2001.

117.J. Qaddour, M. Thaker, and M. M. Matalgah, “MMDS RF Interface Technology Assessment – Flarion FDD-OFDM,” Sprint MMDS BWG Vendor/Technology Assessment Document – BWG Technology Development, August 2001.

118.J. Qaddour, M. M. Matalgah, “MMDS RF Interface Technology Assessment – IPWireless UMTS TDD-WCDMA,” Sprint MMDS BWG Vendor/ Technology Assessment Document – BWG Technology Development, July 2001.

119.M. M. Matalgah, “Group Services Technology Proof of Concept Test Trial Evaluation Document (TED) – Qualcomm Qchat half-duplex Voice & Data over IP Group Chatting,” Sprint PCS Technology TED Document – Technology Research & Development, April 2001.

120.M. M. Matalgah, “Transport Evolution in Next Generation CDMA Wireless Radio Access Network,” Sprint PCS Technology Strategic Document – Technology Research & Development, July 2000.

121.M. M. Matalgah, “Operational Support Systems Network Architecture Evolution in Next Generation CDMA Wireless Network,” Sprint PCS Technology Strategic Document – Technology Research & Development, May 2000.

122.M. M. Matalgah and K. O’Connor, “ATM Switching - Technical Strategies Document,” Sprint PCS Technology Strategic Document – Technology Research & Development, January 2000.

123.M. M. Matalgah, “Multi Protocol Label Switching (MPLS),” Vendor/Technology Assessment Internal document, Sprint PCS – Technology Research & Development, November 1999.

124.M. M. Matalgah, “Wireless ATM in the Sprint PCS Network and the Third Generation Wireless Access Networks,” White Paper, Sprint PCS, September 1999.

125.M. M. Matalgah, “Transport Software Testing Process,” Sprint PCS Doc # SSEO 3.015.12.004, December 1998.

126.M. M. Matalgah, “Heterogeneous Network Management using CORBA - Proposal,” Sprint PCS Doc # SSEO 3.000.13.001, June 1998.

127.M. M. Matalgah, “Installation Specification for NTI DMT-300 MUX Removal,” Sprint Engineering – Internal Document, June 1997.

128.M. M. Matalgah, “Installation Specification for ALC DML-3X50 Digital Multiplexer Addition,” Sprint Engineering – Internal Document, November 1996.

129.M. M. Matalgah, “Installation Specification for NEC RC-28D Digital Multiplexer Addition,” Sprint Engineering – Internal Document, October 1996.

130.M. M. Matalgah, "Engineering plan and specifications document for upgrading optical SONET rings ADMs from low capacities (OC-3/OC-12) to high capacities OC-48 (2.488 Gbit/sec) utilizing ALCATEL 1648 SM fiber optic transmission equipment," Sprint Engineering – Internal Document, 1996.

131.M. M. Matalgah, "Engineering plan and specifications document for deploying new optical SONET rings (4FBLSR, 1558 nm, with Add/Drop access) utilizing ALCATEL 1648 SM ADMs," Sprint Engineering – Internal Document, 1996.

132.M. M. Matalgah, "Engineering plan and specifications document for deploying new optical SONET rings (4FBLSR, 1558 nm, with Add/Drop access) utilizing NEC OC-48 (48 DS3's) Intelligent Transmission System ITS-2400V and ALCATEL 1648 SM ADMs," Sprint Engineering – Internal Document, 1996.

133.M. M. Matalgah, "Engineering plan and specifications document for deploying NEC RC-28D and ALCATEL DML-3X50 digital MULDEMS equipment for DS1/DS3 line transmission speeds," Sprint Engineering – Internal Document, 1996.

134.J. Davison, R. Khalifa, T. Kadado, and M. M. Matalgah, “DSP Techniques in Labor and Delivery: Digital Filters and Wavelets,” Proceedings of the IEEE 17th Annual Conference on Engineering in Medicine and Biology, vol. 2, pp. 1049-1050, Sept 20-23, 1995, Montreal, Canada..

135.J. Knopp and M. M. Matalgah, “Fast Algorithm for Calculating Optical Binary Amplitude Filters,” Proceedings of the SPIE 1995 International Symposium on Optical Science, Engineering and Instrumentation (Optical Implementation of Information Processing), vol. 2565, pp. 124-135, July 9-14, 1995, San Diego, California, USA.

136.M. M. Matalgah and J. Knopp, “Hybrid Wavelet-Fourier Transform: a New Algorithm for Spectral Analysis of Non-Stationary Signals,” In: Intelligent Engineering Systems Through Artificial Neural Networks, vol. 4, pp. 529-534, editors: Cihan H. Dagli, Benito R. Fernandez, Joydeep Ghosh, and R. T. Soundar Kumara, ASME Press. Proceedings of the Artificial Neural Networks in Engineering (ANNIE’94) Conference, November 13-16, 1994, St. Louis, Missouri, USA.

137.M. M. Matalgah and J. Knopp, “Improved Noise Stability Multiresolution Filters Based on a Class of Wavelets,” Proceedings of the IEEE 37th Midwest Symposium on Circuits and Systems, vol. 2, pp. 817-820, August 3-5, 1994, Lafayette, Louisiana, USA.

138.L. Khadra, M. M. Matalgah, B. El-Asir, and S. Mawagdeh, “Wavelet Transforms in Phonocardiogram Signal Analysis,” in the Proceedings of the IEEE Fourth Digital Signal processing Workshop, September 16-19, 1990. IEEE Signal Processing Society, Mohonk, New York.

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