Projects

• Startup funding, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology, $2,000,000 from 2009 - present.
  
• Collaborative project with KFUPM, "Collaborate Inspection and Repair by a Fleet of Autonomous Underwater Vehicles". First round approved, KACST Funding, 2011.
• Collaborative project with University of Waterloo, "NI PXIe-8108 WiMax Emulator". Funded with $120,000, 2010 - present.
• Collaborative project with Stanford University, "M3: Multimedia for Mobile nodes in a wireless Mesh network". Funded by AEA $744,808, 2009 - 2010.
  
• Collaborative project with TAMU in Qatar, "Layered Coding - New Optimization Methods for Emerging Applications". Submitted to Qatar National Research Fund, 2011.
  
• Cognitive Wireless Radio. Submitted as FIC with University of Michigan
  
• Monitoring and Failure Localization in All-Optical Mesh Networks. Submitted as FIC with University of Waterloo.
• Knowledge Discovery for Facilitating User Mobility in Wireless Multi-hop networks. Submitted as AEA with Stanford University.
• TCP over Optical Burst Switched Networks. Funded by Bell Canada. 2004 - 2006.
  
• User Control LightPath Project. Funded by Canarie and CRC Canada. 2002 - 2004.

Networking Lab

• Setup two WiMax for video coded multicasting over WiMax channels.
  
• Sensor nodes for interference measurements.
  
• Mesh nodes for buffer sizing.
  
• USRP2 cognitive radio for device awareness project.
  
• Develop a wireless extension to the well known ethtool for buffer sizing measurements.
  
• NS-2 software package. Implementing different channel widths in 802.11 nodes.
  
• NS-3 software package. Enabling Timestamp-based MAC functionality in 802.11 nodes.
  
• NS-2 software package. Measuring queue utilization in 802.11 nodes.

Research Team

Post-Docs

• Kamran Jamshaid, PhD, University of Waterloo, Canada, 2009 - present.
• Li Xia, PhD, Tsinghua University, China, 2009 - 2011. Currently, faculty in the Dept. of Automation, at Tsinghua University.

Graduate Students

• Felix Chun Pong Lau, PhD
• Amr El-Rasad, PhD
  
• Ahmad Showail, PhD
  
• Ismail ElQerm, PhD
  
• Ammar Meer, MSc

Graduated

• Matthew Debont, Fall 2011, Thesis title: Event Localization in Underwater Wireless Sensor Networks using Monitoring Courses.
• Muhamad Felemban, Fall 2011, Thesis title: Optimal Node Placement in Underwater Acoustic Sensor Network. PhD Student at Purdue University.
• Faisal Nawab, Spring 2010, Thesis title: TMAC: Timestamp-ordered MAC protocol for Wireless Mesh Networks. PhD Student at UoC Santa barbara.

Major Academic Services

Conference Chair

• International Symposium on Broadband Access Technologies in Metropolitan Area Networks, Canada , 2006

Reviewer (R) or Technical Program Committee (TPC)

• IEEE WCNC 2008 (TPC), 2010 (TPC), 2011 (TPC), 2012 (TPC)
  
• INSS 2011 (TPC)
  
• IEEE PIMRC 2010 (TPC)
  
• IEEE Systems Journal 2010 (R)
  
• IEEE Communication Letters 2010 (R)
  
• IEEE Communications Surveys and Tutorials 2009 (R)
  
• IEEE GLOBECOM 2009 (R)
  
• IEEE ICC 2008 (R)
  

Society Member

• IEEE

Seminars

• "Towards Next Genration Optical Burst Switching Networks", KAUST, KSA, September 09
• "Transport Control Protocol over Optical Burst Switched Networks", Stanford University, USA, July 3rd 08