Announcment: the weekly research group meeting will be every Friday between 10:00 to 11:00 AM and 2:30-4:00 PM in the Reserch LAB

 

Theses/Dissertations Committee at the University of Missouri

·         Ezzat S. Atieh, “Buffer Requirements for ABR Traffic in ATM Networks using Congestion Control Mechanism,” M.Sc. Thesis, Electrical & Computer Engineering Department, The University of Missouri-Columbia-KC, completed March 1999. (Thesis Committee Member)

Theses/Dissertations Committee at the University of Mississippi

·         Mahmoud H. Ismail, “Performance Evaluation of Mobile Radio Networks over Fading Channels: System and Link-Level Perspectives,” Ph.D. Dissertation, Electrical Engineering Department, The University of Mississippi, (Major Adviser), completed July 2006 (currently he is currently an assistant professor at the Department of Electronics and Communications Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, Cairo University, Giza, Egypt; and a Senior Systems Engineer at Newport Media Inc., Cairo, Egypt)

·         Redha M. Radaydeh, “Performance Analysis of Efficient Receivers and Modulation Techniques for Digital Communication Systems,” Ph.D. Dissertation, Electrical Engineering Department, The University of Mississippi, (Major Advisor), completed November 2006 (currently he is an Assistant Professor of Electrical Engineering at Jordan University of Science and Technology, Irbid, Jordan).

·         Ibrahim Y. Abualhaol, “Performance Evaluation and Optimization of Cooperative Communication Systems over Fading Channels,” Ph.D. Dissertation, Electrical Engineering Department, The University of Mississippi, (Major Adviser), completed July 2008 (currently an Engineer at Broadcom Inc., San Diego, California, USA)

·         Amer M. Almaqableh, “Performance Evaluation and Optimization of Diversity Techniques for Wireless Communication system Over Fading Channels” Ph.D. Dissertation, Electrical Engineering Department, The University of Mississippi, in progress, (Major Adviser), expected December 2009.

·         Orwa Tahaineh, “Performance Characterization of Multibanded Ultra Wideband Communication Systems,” M.S. Thesis, Electrical Engineering Department, The University of Mississippi, (Major Adviser), completed December 2006 (currently an Engineer at the National Center for Physical Acoustics, University of Mississippi).

·         Ghaith M. Matalkah, “Apparatus and Algorithms for Acoustic Landmine Detection,” M.S. Thesis, Electrical Engineering Department, The University of Mississippi, (Major Adviser), completed March 2007 (currently a Ph.D. student at Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Georgia, USA).

·         AbdulKhaleq N. Mohammed, “Field-Trial Measurements and Testing of 3G UMTS/WCDMA-FDD Release 5.0 (HSDPA) Standard in Wireless Cellular Network,” M.S. Thesis, Electrical Engineering Department, The University of Mississippi, (Major Adviser), completed May 2008 (Currently with Ericsson, Inc., Dallas, Texas, USA).

·         Omar M. Hamouri, “A Cross-Layer Approach to Resource-Allocation with QoS Support in WiMAX Networks,” M.S. Thesis, Electrical Engineering Department, The University of Mississippi, (Major Adviser), completed May 2009 (currently he is a software engineer with ViaSat, Inc. in San Diego, California, USA).

·         Hamzeh H. Omari, “Efficient Spectrum Utilization in Cognitive Radio,” M.S. Thesis, Electrical Engineering Department, The University of Mississippi, in progress, (Major Adviser), expected December 2009.

·         Walid Y. Zibideh, “Assessment of the WiMax and LTE Mobile Wireless Standards for E-Health Applications,” M.S. Thesis, Electrical Engineering Department, The University of Mississippi, in progress, (Major Adviser), expected December 2009.

·         Asif Mehmood, “Instantaneous Frequency Analysis of Ultrasonic Doppler Vibrometery Signals,” Ph.D. Dissertation, Electrical Engineering Department, The University of Mississippi, (Committee Member), completed May 2008.

·         Ahmad Radaideh, “Analytical Modeling of Address Allocation Protocols in Wireless Ad Hoc Networks,” M.S. Thesis Committee Member, completed November 25, 2008.

·         Jiqun Qi, “Adaptive MIMO Multiband OFDM UWB Systems and Cooperative Communications,” M.S. Thesis Committee Member, completed November 10, 2008.

·         Huijun Chen, “Iterative Decoding for Trellis Based Codes in Wireless Communications,” Ph.D. Dissertation. Committee Member, Ph.D. Dissertation, completed November 17, 2008.

·         Shirong Du, “Joint Transmission-scheduling-power-control Problem Formulation for SSMA-based Wireless Ad Hoc,” Ph.D. Dissertation, Electrical Engineering Department, The University of Mississippi, In Progress (prospectus defense completed May 2, 2007), Committee Member, Ph.D. Dissertation.

·         Yang Sun, “Intelligent Wireless Sensor Network Based Vehicle Detection and Classification,” Ph.D. Dissertation, Electrical Engineering Department, The University of Mississippi, completed April 2007. (Ph.D. Committee Member)

·         Tao Shi, “Turbo Codes-Based Hybrid Automatic Repeat Request and Space-Time Spreading,” Ph.D. Dissertation, (Committee Member), completed November 2007.

·         Rajagopal Sombhotla, “VoIP Traffic Carrying Capacity of an Ad-Hoc Network,” M.S. Thesis, Electrical Engineering Department, The University of Mississippi, completed August 26, 2005. (Defense Committee Member)

·         Gaurav Reddy Nukala, “Indoor RF Propagation Measurements and Analysis for Design of Container Tracking Systems,” M.S. Thesis, Electrical Engineering Department, The University of Mississippi, completed April 29, 2005. (Defense Committee Member)

·         Shirong Du, “A Wireless Sensor-based Location Strategy for Manufacturing,” M.S. Thesis, Electrical Engineering Department, The University of Mississippi, completed November 15, 2004. (Defense Committee Member)

·         Gokul Purushothaman, “Queue Lengths at the Base Station of HDR Forward Link,” M.S. Thesis, Electrical Engineering Department, The University of Mississippi, completed September 24, 2004. (Defense Committee Member)

·         Yang Sun, “Characterization and modeling of VBR video traffic in a high-speed packet switch network,” M.S. Thesis, Electrical Engineering Department, The University of Mississippi, completed August 20, 2004. (Defense Committee Member)

·         Ching-Sia Lim, “Analysis of the Dynamic Nature of Achievable Transmission Rate of a Single User in the High Date Rate System,” M.S. Thesis, Electrical Engineering Department, The University of Mississippi, completed May 3, 2004. (Defense Committee Member)

·         Taninder S. Sijher, “Antenna Modeling By Infinitesimal Dipoles Using Genetic Algorithms,” M.S. Thesis, Electrical Engineering Department, The University of Mississippi, completed April 2004. (Defense Committee Member)

·         Venkatesh Ramaswamy, “Characterization of Statistically Multiplexed Huffman-Encoded Audio Traffic,” M.S. Thesis, Electrical Engineering Department, The University of Mississippi, completed December 2002. (Defense Committee Member)

Courses taught at the University of Mississippi

·         ELE 335 Principles of Digital Systems

·         ELE 391 Random Signals (new course)

·         ELE 447 Modulation, Noise & Communications

·         ELE 462 Senior Design in Electrical Engineering II

·         TC 535 Digital Communications

·         ENGR 410 Engineering Analysis II (Advanced Engineering Mathematics)

·         ENGR 597 Special Topics in Wireless Communications

·         ENGS 635 Spread Spectrum Communication (new graduate course)

·         ENGR 691 Advanced Wireless Communications (new graduate course)

·         ENGR 693 Research Topics in Wireless Communications

Short Courses taught at Misr International University, Cairo, Egypt

·         Information Theory & Coding (Convolutional Coding)

·         Satellite Communications (Link Budget)

Courses taught at Chonbuk National University, Republic of Korea

·         Software Radio (graduate course)

Courses taught at the University of Missouri

·         ECE 230 Electronic Circuits I - Instructor

·         ECE 210 Circuit Analysis I - Teaching Assistant

·         ECE 310 Circuit Analysis II - Teaching Assistant

·         ECE 256 Experimental Electrical Engineering (senior lab) - Instructor

·         ECE 290 Experimental Electrical Engineering I (junior lab) - Instructor

·         ECE 231 Electronic Circuits Lab I  (junior lab) - Instructor

·         ECE 331 Electronic Circuits Lab II (senior lab) - Instructor

·         ECE 381 Digital Signal Processing Lab (senior lab) - Instructor

·         ECE 382 Analog Signal Processing Lab  (senior lab) - Instructor

·         ECE 280 Continuous & Discrete Signals (junior course) – Teaching Assistant

·         ECE 378K Modulation & Transmission of Signals (senior course) – Teaching Assistant

·         ECE 401 Microwave Engineering (senior/graduate course) – Teaching Assistant

Courses taught at Jordan University of Science & Technology

·         EE 424 Instrumentation & Measurements Lab (senior Lab) - Instructor

·         EE 322 Electronic Circuits Lab II (senior Lab) - Instructor

·         EE 222 Electronic Circuits Lab I (junior Lab) - Instructor

·         EE 551 Digital Communication (senior & graduate course). Teaching Assistant.

·         EE 550 Digital Signal Processing (senior & graduate course). Teaching Assistant.

·         EE 527 Microwave Circuits & Devices (senior & graduate course). Teaching Assistant.

·         EE 426 Instrumentation & Measurements (senior course). Teaching Assistant.