Unleashing the potential of tethered drones 1 min read · Tue, Jul 14 2020 News electrical engineering applied mathematics Wire-connected drones may complement or replace the fixed base stations of cellular communications networks.
New journal Frontiers in Communications & Networks has launched 1 min read · Tue, Jun 30 2020 News We are happy to announce the launch of the new Journal Frontiers in Communications and Networks! The journal is led by Prof. Mohamed-Slim Alouini and aims to cover all the critical branches of contemporary telecommunications. This ranges from the physical layer to the cross-layer and networking design, performance evaluation, and validation. Find out more: https://fro.ntiers.in/Communications-Networks
A clique away from more efficient networks 1 min read · Sun, Jun 14 2020 News networks connectivity applied mathematics electrical engineering An old branch of mathematics finds a fertile new field of application.
Angling for underwater WiFi 1 min read · Wed, Jun 10 2020 News communications Computer science Scuba divers could send sea life shots in real time using an aquatic internet service.
6G: The time is now! 1 min read · Sun, May 17 2020 News wireless telecommunication technology 6G While 5G companies and opponents are competing over the deployment of the first 5G platforms, the next generation of wireless telecommunication technology is being concocted right now in laboratories all around the world.
The power of light for internet of underwater things 1 min read · Thu, Mar 19 2020 News underwater sensor IoT Light can simultaneously transfer energy and data to underwater devices, but there’s a long way to go before these systems can be deployed.
Global access to the internet for all (GAIA): A great opportunity for the 5G/6G era 1 min read · Fri, Feb 14 2020 News 5G UAV MIMO The CTL alumni Dr. Qurrat-Ul-Ain Nadeem has published the article "The Fourth Use Case for 5G: Internet for All" in the Marconi Society blog. Read the full article from the Marconi Society website
Dynamic early research career leads to distinguished Marie Skłodowska Curie Fellowship 1 min read · Thu, Feb 13 2020 News Marie Skłodowska Curie Fellow KAUST postdoctoral fellow Abderrahmen Trichili recently became a Marie Skłodowska Curie Fellow after being accepted to a Marie Skłodowska Curie Postdoctoral Fellowship Programme in Photonics and Applications.
Internet of underground things to reveal buried vistas 1 min read · Sun, Feb 9 2020 News fuel-resources communications electrical engineering Pinpoint mesh of smart underground objects could give real-time 3D readout of fossil fuel reserves.
Plugging into a 6G future with users at the center 1 min read · Sun, Feb 9 2020 News Wireless Communications 6G For a communications revolution, 6G development needs more human-centric research.
A pure twist on optical data transfer 1 min read · Thu, Jan 16 2020 News communications electrical engineering bioscience The finding that light can be twisted very precisely may offer fresh options for communications infrastructure.
Drones deliver on internet connectivity 1 min read · Thu, Dec 12 2019 News communications electrical engineering IoT Hovering airborne vehicles could connect smart sensors to the internet of things.
Post-doctoral research fellow Dr. Abderrahmen Trichili participation in the 69th Lindau Nobel Laureate Meeting (#LINO19) 1 min read · Fri, Nov 29 2019 News Spatial Mode Multiplexing Optical wireless communications Meeting Nobel laureates The 2019 event provided an opportunity for science's next generation to interact with 39 Nobel laureates, including Donna Strickland and Gérard Mourou, 2018 laureates in physics. Among the 580 young scientists from 89 countries in attendance were four young researchers from the University: postdoctoral fellow Abderrahmen Trichili; KAUST Ph.D. graduate Ibrahim Dursun; and students Abdullah Almansouri (Ph.D. student) and Latifah Al Maghrabi (M.S. student). Participants took part in lectures, forum-style talks, science walks, dinner events and open exchanges. The
A breath of fresh information to help diagnosis 1 min read · Sun, Aug 4 2019 News communication networks wireless networks energy harvesting cognitive radio systems A communications concept could pinpoint a person infected with a deadly, contagious virus in the middle of a crowded airport.
How smart surfaces will transform our wireless future 1 min read · Tue, Jul 30 2019 News Spotlight 5G wireless networks MIMO The CTL alumni Dr. Qurrat-Ul-Ain Nadeem has published the article "How Smart Surfaces Will Transform Our Wireless Future" in the Marconi Society blog. Read the full article from the Marconi Society website
Teamwork pays off at startup Insyab 1 min read · Mon, Jul 8 2019 News robot drones wireless connectivity algorithm Energy-efficient wireless multihop networks Cross-layer protocol design Insyab, a technology startup specializing in smart solutions allowing robots and drones to collaborate on the execution of common tasks, resulted from three years of its founders' dedicated research at KAUST.
Tiny, fast, accurate technology on the radar 1 min read · Wed, Apr 17 2019 News communications electrical engineering sensors A tiny, portable radar device could allow visually impaired people, or unmanned moving devices, to detect objects in real time.
Lighting the way to the underwater Internet of things 1 min read · Wed, Jan 2 2019 News underwater sensor platform electrical engineering communications An optical system for monitoring underwater sensor positions could enable large networks of devices to be deployed for ocean measurements.
Alumni Focus: Hessa Al-Quwaiee - M.S. '13, Ph.D. '16 in electrical engineering 1 min read · Mon, Oct 8 2018 Spotlight News Hessa Al-Quwaiee's interest in engineering started young, but in the early 2000s when Al-Quwaiee was attending high school, the path to becoming a female engineer in Saudi Arabia was not a commonly taken one.
Paving the way towards 5G wireless communication networks 1 min read · Tue, Sep 11 2018 News Spotlight FD-MIMO transmissin technology Marconi Prize Young Scholar Awards 5th generation cellular mobile phones KAUST Ph.D. student Qurrat-Ul-Ain Nadeem received a 2018 Marconi Society Paul Baran Young Scholar Award for her work in full-dimension (FD) massive multiple input multiple output (MIMO) transmission technology.
Marie Sklodowska-Curie Fellowships in Photonics @ CEMSE – call 4 - 2018 1 min read · Tue, Jul 17 2018 News FD-MIMO communications cognitive radio systems MOVPE laser solar hydrogen biophotonics bioimaging 3D printing A group of professors working in the area of photonics at KAUST, most of them with CEMSE Division, offer hosting of outgoing Marie Sklodowska-Curie Fellowships in their research groups within the EU H2020 COFUND Postdoctoral Fellowship Programme MULTIPLY.
Marine exploration sensing with light and sound 1 min read · Sun, Mar 11 2018 News marine exploration electrical engineering Sensor networks Unveiling new strategies to improve future wireless underwater sensing networks for marine research and communication.
Abla Kammoun receives IEEE Wireless Communication Letters Award 1 min read · Thu, Feb 15 2018 News Wireless Communications Abla Kammoun, a research scientist based in the University's SRI - Center for Uncertainty Quantification Laboratory, recently received the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) Wireless Communication Letters (WCL) top editor award. Kammoun's achievement is a significant honor, as every year no more than five editors are selected for this award for their significant contributions and exemplary services to the IEEE WCL. The goal of the IEEE WCL is the rapid dissemination of original, cutting-edge ideas and timely, significant contributions in the theory and applications of wireless communications.
KAUST Discovery - Unleashing ultraviolet brings visible improvement 1 min read · Sun, Dec 10 2017 News Secure optical communication UV Communications High-speed communication systems based on ultraviolet radiation are now in sight.
Lokman Sboui successfully defended his PhD thesis - Congratulations! 1 min read · Sun, Nov 26 2017 News UAV MIMO On November 26, 2017, Lokman Sboui successfully defended his Ph.D. thesis on "Towards Reliable, Scalable, and Energy Efficient Cognitive Radio Systems" under the supervision of Prof. Mohamed-Slim Alouini. We congratulate Dr. Sboui for his achievement! Everyone at CTL wishes him all the best for the future. Committee Chairperson: Prof. Mohamed-Slim Alouini. Committee Members: Prof. Georgios Giannakis (University of Minnesota) Prof. Ahmed Kamal Sultan (KAUST) Prof. Basem Shihada (KAUST) Prof. Tareq Al-Naffouri (KAUST) Prof. Zouheir Rezki (University of Idaho). Thesis Abstract: The current
Fatma Benkhelifa successfully defended her PhD thesis - Congratulations! 1 min read · Thu, Nov 2 2017 News Spotlight MIMO SWIPT On November 2nd, 2017, Fatma Benkhelifa successfully defended her Ph.D. thesis on "Towards Perpetual Energy Operation in Wireless Communication Systems" under the supervision of Prof. Mohamed-Slim Alouini. We congratulate Dr. Benkhelifa for her achievement! Everyone at CTL wishes her all the best for the future. Committee Chairperson: Prof. Mohamed-Slim Alouini. Committee Members: Prof. Deniz Gunduz (Imperial College London) Prof. Basem Shihada (KAUST) Prof. Tareq Al-Naffouri (KAUST) Thesis Abstract: Wireless is everywhere. Smartphones, tablets, laptops, implantable medical devices, and many
Professor Alouini honored at OIC Summit on Science and Technology 2017 1 min read · Sun, Sep 17 2017 Spotlight News Prof. Alouini was honored in Engineering for his long-term research in Telecommunication. The other selected scientists were: for Chemistry, Prof. Yusuf Yagci from Istanbul Technical University, Istanbul, Turkey; for Medicine, Dr. Assan Jaye from the Medical Research Council in Banjul, Gambia, for Physics, Prof. Rajaâ Cherkaoui El Moursli from the Mohammed V University in Rabat, Morocco; and for Biology, Dr. Yerlan Ramankulov from the National Center for Biotechnology in Astana, Kazhakstan.
Hesham ElSawy gains ISWCS Best Scientific Contribution Award 2017 1 min read · Thu, Sep 7 2017 News Spotlight Cognitive radio network Stochastic Geometry Green communications Queueing theory The imminent era of the smart world is foreseen to involve massively many power and computationally constraint wireless devices with sporadic traffic patterns. The surging Internet of things (IoT) and cyber physical systems (CPS) are clear examples that rely on massive wireless networks. Hence, realizing such extensive wireless connectivity is mandatory to unlock the potentials and reap the benefits of the foreseen smart era.
Hesham ElSawy wins IEEE Communication Society 1 min read · Mon, May 22 2017 News Cognitive radio network Stochastic Geometry Green communications The Internet of Everything in quickly growing and vastly enlarging its spectrum of applications. At the same time, traffic demand per-user is increasing dramatically. It is estimated that by 2020 there will be more than 50 billion devices connected. The cellular support infrastructure should be developed accordingly, making of network performance analysis a critical task. The existing elementary probability methods are currently inefficient when it comes to detecting mobility faults and interference.
The crest of waveforms for next-gen radar 1 min read · Sat, May 6 2017 News electrical engineering Computer science radar A new method for shaping the waveform generated by multi-antenna radar systems is inexpensive and practical.
Post-Doctoral Fellow Ahmed Bader bestowed YPs Best Innovation Award at IEEE WCNC 2017 1 min read · Wed, Mar 22 2017 News Spotlight Energy-efficient wireless multihop networks Cross-layer protocol design Dr. Ahmed Bader, a CEMSE Post-Doctoral Fellow in electrical engineering, won the IEEE Communications Society (ComSoc) Young Professionals (YPs) Best Innovation Award at Wireless Communications and Networking Conference 2017, in San Francisco, USA, on March 22.
Dr. Hesham ElSawy Elevated to Senior Member of IEEE and Recognized as an Exemplary Reviewer by the IEEE Transactions on Communications 1 min read · Sun, Mar 5 2017 News Cognitive radio network Stochastic Geometry Green communications Dr. Hesham ElSawy has been elevated to the rank of Senior Member of IEEE, the world's largest technical professional organization for the advancement of technology. The achievement is considered a significant honor since it is granted only to researchers who have shown a significance and continuous performance over a period of five years in professional practice. At present, only an 8% of 400,000 IEEE members have received this honor because of their superior professional achievements.
Signaling success for 5th gen communications 1 min read · Sat, Mar 4 2017 News applied mathematics mobile An efficient wireless signal optimization scheme achieves peak performance for next-generation mobile communications.
Faster prediction of wireless downtime 1 min read · Sat, Jul 2 2016 News applied mathematics computational science signal processing Computer science An efficient simulation scheme that hones in on the rarest elements in a dataset can help predict capacity exceedances in wireless networks.
Wireless devices tune-in to cloud power 1 min read · Sat, Feb 6 2016 News electrical engineering Next-generation mobile networks can use cloud computing algorithms to manage the increasingly high data demands of users.
Prof. Alouini selected as an IEEE Communications Society Distinguished Lecturer for 2016 and 2017 1 min read · Sun, Jan 24 2016 News FD-MIMO cognitive radio systems communications Congratulations to Prof. Alouini for being selected to give a Distinguished Lecture for 2016 and 2017 in IEEE Communications Society
Underwater link - Nature Photonics | Research Highlights 1 min read · Thu, Oct 29 2015 News underwater optical communications A high-speed underwater optical communications link that operates at a data rate of 4.8 Gbits s−1 over a distance of 5.4 m has been demonstrated by scientists in Saudi Arabia and Taiwan. http://www.nature.com/nphoton/journal/v9/n11/full/nphoton.2015.218.html
Dr. Zouheir Rezki chair of WCNC'16 workshop on Physical-Layer Security 1 min read · Sun, Oct 18 2015 News The Physical-Layer Security Workshop will take place during WCNC 2016 in Doha, Qatar, April 3, 2016. Previously unpublished contributions in physical-layer security are solicited, including (but not limited to): Code design for wiretap channels Alignment and structured codes for wiretap channels Secure capacity of multipath, fading, MIMO channels Effects of channel state information on secure communications Secure capacity of multi-user wireless networks Cooperative secure communications Secret key agreement and distillation Secret key capacity of wireless channels Integration of physical
Better routing for wireless networks 1 min read · Mon, Jul 27 2015 News sensors electrical engineering An improved wireless communication protocol enables more robust links between remote electronic devices.
Prof. Osama Amin Elevated To Senior Member Of IEEE 1 min read · Mon, Jul 13 2015 News communications wireless networks energy harvesting Dr. Osama Amin has been elevated to the rank of Senior Member of IEEE. This is considered an important honor since only 8% of nearly 400,000 IEEE members are Senior Members because of their superior professional achievements.
Dr. Hesham ElSawy recognized as Exemplary Reviewer by IEEE Transactions on Communications 1 min read · Fri, Apr 17 2015 News cognitive radio systems Stochastic Geometry Green communications Dr. Hesham ElSawy was recognized by the IEEE Transactions on Communications (TCOM) as an Exemplary Reviewer. Less than 2% of all IEEE TCOM Reviewers in 2015 got this recognition.
A different kind of light 1 min read · Sat, Mar 28 2015 News light lightfest-2015 laser LED electrical engineering The discovery of the incandescent light bulb has transformed human existence. New LED technologies promise to be the next step forward.
Imran Shafique has been recognized for Exemplary Reviewer by IEEE Wireless Communications Letters 1 min read · Wed, Jan 14 2015 News Channel modeling Composite fading channels Multihop relay networks Imran Shafique Ansari was recognized by IEEE Wireless Communications Letters (WCL) as an Exemplary Reviewer, less than 3% of all IEEE WCL Reviewers in 2014 got this recognition.01142015
Wireless Multihop Networks: Finding the Best Way Home 1 min read · Sun, Dec 21 2014 News Stochastic Geometry Cross-layer protocol design Energy-efficient wireless multihop networks In contrast to conventional cellular networks, devices in wireless multihop networks have dual roles: while each device is a source of information it also acts as a router for its peers.
Class 2013 Electrical Engineering PhD graduates 1 min read · Sun, Dec 8 2013 News Cognitive radio network interference modeling semiconductor electronics The Electrical Engineering Faculty, Staff and students would like to extend the warmest congratulations to the class of 2013 Ph.D. graduates. We wish them success in the new phase of their lives and are sure they will be our best ambassadors to the whole world.
Dr. Zouheir Rezki promoted to Senior Member of IEEE 1 min read · Thu, Feb 28 2013 News Physical layer security Performance limits at low power regime Cognitive and sensor radio networks Dr. Zouheir Rezki (Research Scientist in Communication Theory Lab) has been elevated to the rank of Senior Member of IEEE.
Dr. Basem Shihada and Dr. Sajid Ahmed promoted to Senior Member of IEEE 1 min read · Sat, Dec 22 2012 News Spotlight communications communication networks MIMO-radar waveform design MIMO and Passive radar Low complexity sphere decoding Dr. Basem Shihada and Dr. Sajid Ahmed have been elevated to the rank of Senior Member of IEEE. This is considered a significant honor since only 8% of nearly 400,000 IEEE members are Senior Members because of their superior professional achievements.
EE PhD Candidate Fahd Ahmed Khan from Prof. Alouini's group wins the best poster award at the IEEE DySPAN'2012 1 min read · Mon, Oct 22 2012 News Spotlight Cooperative relay network Cognitive radio network Performance analysis Fahd Khan, a Ph.D. candidate in the Electrical Engineering (EE) Program at the Computer, Electrical, and Mathematical Science and Engineering (CEMSE) division received the best poster award at the IEEE DySPAN'2012.
