Opennings for RA, M.Sc., and PhD students

Amr Mohamed, PhD

Assistant professor

Computer science and engineering dept.

Qatar University

Cisco Regional Academy Director

college of engineering

Tel: +974-485-2899

Fax: +974-485-2777

Office: corridor #6 room F112

email: amrm[[at]]qu dot edu dot qa

(see official page at QU here)

(see Cisco page here)

Opennings for postdocs

Biography

Amr Mohamed received his M.S. and Ph.D. in electrical and computer engineering from the University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada, 2001, and 2006 respectively. He received his B.S. from Cairo University in 1993. He worked as a senior software engineer in IBM Innovation Centre in Vancouver from 1998 to 2007 taking a leadership role in many software development projects. Between 2001 and 2006 Dr. Mohamed was working as a research assistant in the Lab for Advanced Networking at the University of British Columbia. Since 1994 Amr has been working as a Research and Teaching Assistant at the National Telecommunication Institute, Cairo, Egypt. His research interests include networking and Medium access control layer techniques in wired, wireless, and WDM optical networks, resource optimization for wired and wireless ad hoc networks, cross-layer communication systems design and modeling, uni-rate and multi-rate multicast communications, QoS for WDM Networks, videoconferencing, video Broadcast/Multicast, and MPEG4 video streaming. Dr. Mohamed has authored or co-authored 20 refereed journal and conference papers, with one awarded best paper for the month from GESTS trans on computing, Korea and one book. He also received 2 team awards and 1 individual award for his accomplishments at IBM.

Education

2006

Ph.D. in Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, B.C., Canada

2001

M.A.Sc. in Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of British Columbia, Canada

1993

B.A.Sc. in Electronics and Electronic Communications, Faculty of Engineering, Cairo University, Egypt.

Publications

Books

Author: Amr Mohamed

Utility-Based Resource and Qos Optimization in Packet Networks - Link and Network Level Optimization, publisher VDM Verlag (September 2008)

Thesis writing

1. A. Mohamed, “Utility-based Resource and QoS Optimization in Wired and Wireless Networks”, PhD thesis, UBC, Aug., 2006.

2. A. Mohamed, “Novel Push-Model Framework For Realizing Multi-Service MPEG4 Streams In Broadcast Applications”, M.A.Sc Thesis, UBC, Sept., 2001.

International Journals

1. A. Elsherif, and A. Mohamed, "Decentralized Throughput Maximization in Cognitive Radio Wireless Mesh Networks" submitted to IEEE Transactions on Mobile computing (under second review).

2. Irfan Ahmed and A. Mohamed, "Optimal Power Group Proportional Fairness of Frequency Domain Resource Allocation in L-SC-FDMA based LTE uplink" Submitted to Springer Wireless Networks journal (under second review).

3. Irfan Ahmed, A. Mohamed, and Hussein Alnuweiri , " On the fairness of resource allocation in wireless mesh networks: a survey" Accepted in Springer Wireless Networks journal, DOI: 10.1007/s11276-013-0544-6, January 2013.

4. Fatima Amir Hamza, Lamia Romdhani, and Amr Mohamed, "New Inter-Layer Network Coding Approaches for MRC Video Delivery over Mesh Networks", International Journal of Computer Science and Management Research, volume 1, issue 3, October 2012.

5. Lamia Romdhani, Amr Mohamed, "Deploying and Configuring Wireless Mesh Network in Coexistence of Highly Interfering Wireless LANs", Journal of Telecommunications, Volume 14, issue 2, June 2012.

6. Khalid Abu Al-sand, Massudi Mahmuddin, and Amr Mohamed, "Wireless body area sensor networks signal processing and communication framework: survey on sensing, communication technologies, delivery and feedback" journal of computer science ISSN: 1549-3636, Volume: 8 Issue: 1, Jan, 2012.

7. Irfan Ahmed and Amr Mohamed, "Fairness Aware Group Proportional Frequency Domain Resource Allocation in L-SC-FDMA Based Uplink" International Journal of Communications, Network and System Sciences, DOI: 10.4236/ijcns.2011.48060, Vol.4 No.8, August 2011.

8. Sara Jamal Qaffaf, Rouda Al-kuwari, Ohood Al-amoudi, Nada Al-Oraidi, Heba Dawood, Muneera Al-Marri, Tarek El-Fouly, Amr Mohamed, "Assistive Technology for People with Hearing/Speaking Disabilities", IEEE technology and engineering education journal, Vol 6, No 4, 2011.

9. Irfan Ahmed and Amr Mohamed, "Optimal Power Group Proportional Fairness of Frequency Domain Resource Allocation in L-SC-FDMA based LTE uplink" Submitted to journal of computer networks Elsevier, April, 2011.

10. A. Mohamed and H. Alnuweiri. Cross-layer optimal resource allocation for heterogeneous wireless multicast. EURASIP Journal on Wireless Communications and Networking January, 2009.

11. A. Mohamed and H. Alnuweiri. Wireless multicast cross-layer framework for rate allocation: protocol design. International Journal of Internet Protocol Technology Vol. 4, No.1  pp. 44 – 53, 2009 (Invited paper).

12. A. Kaheel, T. Khattab, A. Mohamed, and H. Alnuweiri. Quality-of-service mechanisms in IP-over-WDM networks. IEEE Communications Magazine, 40(12):38–44, December 2002.

13. A. Mohamed and H. Alnuweiri. Cross-layer distributed approach for optimal rate allocation for homogeneous wireless multicast. IET communications journal, special Issue on Wireless Mobile Networks: Cross-Layer Communication, April 2007.

14. A. Mohamed and H. Alnuweiri. Dynamic programming QoS-based classification for links with limited service levels. International Transactions on Computer Science and Engineering (GESTS), 19(1):97–108, October 2005.

International refereed conferences

15. Lamia Romdhani, Amr Mohamed, "An analytic study of a distributed EDCA-based QoS mapping for layered video delivery in WLAN", published in The First International Workshop on Performance Evaluation and Modeling in Wireless Networks PEMWN 2012.

16. Fatima Amir Hamza, Lamia Romdhani, and Amr Mohamed, "Novel Network Coding-based Techniques for Multi-layer Video Delivery over Multi-hop Wireless testbed", published in The First International Workshop on Performance Evaluation and Modeling in Wireless Networks PEMWN 2012.

17. A. Elsherif, and A. Mohamed, "Delay Minimization through Joint Routing and Resource Allocation in Cognitive Radio-Based Mesh Networks", accepted in IEEE Globcom, Anahiem, 3-7 December, 2012.

18. Lamia Romdhani, Amr Mohamed, Salman Raeisi, and Tarek M. Elfouly, "QUMESH: Wireless mesh network deployment and configuration in harsh environment" in proc of 2012 IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference (WCNC), pages: 3328-3333, Paris, France, ISSN:1525-3511, ISBN:978-1-4673-0436-8, DOI:10.1109/WCNC.2012.6214384, 1-4 April, 2012.

19. H. Saad, A. Mohamed, T. ElBatt, Distributed cooperative q-learning for power allocation in cognitive femtocell networks, in: IEEE Vehicular Technology Conference (VTC Fall), 2012.

20. Irfan Ahmed, Sultan Aljahdali, Nisar Hundewale, Amr Mohamed and Syed Ismail Shah, "Performance Analysis for Truncated ARQ based DSFBC-CO-OFDM Communication Scheme", accepted in 24th International Conference on Computer Applications in Industry and Engineering (CAINE), November 2011.

21. Amr A. El-Sherif, Amr Mohamed, and Y. Charlie Hu, "Joint Routing and Resource Allocation for Delay Sensitive Traffic in Cognitive Mesh Networks", In Proc. of IEEE Globecom International Workshop on Recent Advances in Cognitive Communications and Networking, November, pages:947-952, Houston, TX, E-ISBN:978-1-4673-0038-4, ISBN:978-1-4673-0039-1, DOI:10.1109/GLOCOMW.2011.6162596, 5-9 Dec. 2011.

22. Irfan Ahmed, Amr Mohamed, Tarek Fouly, and Y. Charlie Hu, "On the Fairness of Frequency Domain Resource Allocation in Wireless Mesh Networks- A Survey," in Proc. of IEEE GCC Conference, Dubai, 19-22, February 2011.

23. Irfan Ahmed, Sara Orfali, Tamer Khattab, Amr Mohamed, "Characterization of the Indoor-Outdoor Radio Propagation Channel at 2.4 GHz," in Proc. of IEEE GCC Conference, Dubai, 19-22, February 2011.

24. Irfan Ahmed and Amr Mohamed, "Outage Optimal Resource Allocation for Two-hop Multiuser Multirelay Cooperative Communication in OFDMA Upstream," accepted for publication in IEEE VTC Spring, 2011, Budapest, Hungry.

25. Javad Hajipour, Amr Mohamed, and Victor C.M. Leung, "Channel Aware and Queue Aware Scheduling in LTE Uplink", in Proceedings of 7th International ICST Conference on Heterogeneous Networking for Quality, Reliability, Security and Robustness (ICST Qshine), November, 2010.

26. R. Ruby and V. Leung, "Utility-Based Uplink Scheduling Algorithm for Enhancing Throughput and Fairness in Relayed LTE Networks," In proceedings of 35th Annual IEEE Conference on Local Computer Networks and Workshops, LCN, pages:520 - 527, 2010.

27. I. Ahmed, A. Mohamed, and I. Shakeel, "On the Group Proportional Fairness of Frequency Domain Resource Allocation in L-SC-FDMA based LTE uplink," In proceedings of IEEE Globecom Workshop on Broadband Single Carrier and Frequency Domain Communications, pages: 1312 - 1317, Miami, USA, 2010.

28. A. Mohamed and H. Alnuweiri. "Wireless Multicast Cross-Layer Framework for Rate Allocation: Protocol Design", International Conference and Exhibition on Next Generation Mobile Applications, Services, and Technologies - NGMAST, workshop on future multimedia networking (FMN), Cardif, Wales, GB.

29. A. Mohamed and H. Alnuweiri. “Utility-based Optimal Rate Allocation for Heterogeneous Wireless Multicast”, In proceedings of IEEE International conference on communications ICC, June 2007.

30. A.Mohamed and H. Alnuweiri. Optimal resource allocation for homogeneous wireless multicast. In Proceedings of IEEE Globecom, San Francisco, November 2006.

31. Amr Mohamed and Hussein Alnuweiri. "optimal resource allocation for homogeneous wireless multicast", Technical report, University of British Columbia, BC, Canada 2006.

32. T. Khattab, A. Mohamed, A. Kaheel and H. Alnuweiri. "Optical Packet Switching with Packet Aggregation", Published in IEEE SOFTCOM 2002.

33. A. Mohamed and H. Alnuweiri. Dynamic programming QoS-based classification for links with limited service levels. In proceedings of IEEE Conference on local area networks LCN, Sydney, Australia, pages 51–58, November 2005.

34. A. Mohamed and H. Alnuweiri. Optimal QoS-based classification for link models with predetermined service levels. In proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Telecommunications, Contel, Zagreb, Croatia, 2:375– 382, June 2005.

35. A. Mohamed and H. Alnuweiri. Stochastic QoS-based classification for link models with calculated service levels. In proceedings of Conference on Communications, Computers and signal Processing, PACRIM, pages 364–367, August 2005.

36. A. Mohamed and H. Alnuweiri. QoS-based partitioning and resource allocation for link models with variable service levels. In proceedings of IEEE ISCC, Sardinia, Italy, June 2006.

37. A. Mohamed and H. Alnuweiri. A distributed iterative algorithm for optimal rate allocation for homogeneous wireless multicast. In proceedings of IST mobile & wireless communications summit, Greece, June 2006.

38. A. Mohamed and H. Alnuweiri. Design of a cross-layer optimization framework for rate allocation in wireless multicast. In proceedings of IEEE International conference on Mobile Ad-hoc and Sensor Systems (MASS), Vancouver, Canada, October 2006.

39. A. Mohamed and H. Alnuweiri. “Cross-layer Framework for Rate Allocation in Heterogeneous Wireless Multicast”, In Proceedings of IIT, Dubai, UAE, Oct. 2006.

40. Mohamed and H. Alnuweiri. “A Distributed Iterative Algorithm for Optimal Rate Allocation for Homogeneous Wireless Multicast”, In Proceedings of ICENCO, Cairo, Egypt, Nov. 2006.

41. A. Mohamed, A. Kaheel, T. Khattab, and H. Alnuweiri. “Evaluation of Optical Packet Switch as Edge Device Using OPNET Modeler”. Published in Opnetwork IEEE conference in Washington, US, September 2002.

42. Y. Pourmohammadi, K. Asrar Haghighi, A. Mohamed, H. M. Alnuweiri, Streaming MPEG-4 over IP and Broadcast Networks: DMIF Based Architectures, Packet Video 2001 workshop.

43. A. Mohamed, H. M. Alnuweiri, “Mpeg4 Broadcast: A Client/Server Framework For Multi-Service Streaming Using Push Channels”, MMSP 2001 workshop.

44. Reham Alhalees, Abrar Dalgamouni, Sara Orfali, Samah Salam, Tarek Elfouly, and Amr Mohamed, "Scalable indoor framework for patient and medical staff tracking using RFID-based system", Accepted in the third annual undergraduate research conference on applied computing, Dubai, May 2011.

45. Sara Qaffaf, Rouda Al-Kuwari, Ohood Al-Amoudi, Nada Aloraidi, Heba Dawoud and Muneera Al-Marri, Tarek Elfouly, and Amr Mohamed, " Assistive Technology for People with Hearing/Speaking Disabilities", Accepted in the third annual undergraduate research conference on applied computing, Dubai, May 2011.

46. Amr Mohamed, Athmane Boularas , Ramzi Bendeddouche , Mohamed Al-Damarawy, "WIPMON: Wireless Sensor System for Industrial Process Monitoring", second annual undergraduate research conference on applied computing, Dubai, May 2010. (Best paper award) http://www.zu.ac.ae/urc/program.html.

     [1]        Application for European patent, "System for non-invasive, automated monitoring, detection, analysis, characterization, prediction or prevention of seizures and movement disorder symptoms", T. Khattab, Amr Mohamed, Adnan Abu-Dayya, B. Uthman, L. Streletz.

Irfan Ahmed, Postdoc, Qatar University

Amr Elsherif, Postdoc, Qatar University

Lamia romdhani, Postdoc, Qatar University

abduljalil Momhamed, Postdoc, Qatar University

Javad Hajipour, PhD, University of British Columbia, Canada.

Hussein Saad, M.Sc. Nile University, Egypt.

Ramy Hussein, RA, Qatar University

Heba Dawoud, RA, Qatar University

Nada Ashqar, RA, Qatar University

Amith Khandakar, M.Sc. student, Qatar University

Fatima Hamza, M.Sc. student, Qatar University

Strategic grants (3-year projects):

1. “Wireless Sensor Networks for Video Surveillance”, Joint QU with University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada, National Priorities Research Program (NPRP) 4^th cycle, $1,050,000, 2011, Lead PI.
2. “Optimal Sensing, Resource Allocation, and Protocol Design for Real-time Communications in Dynamic Spectrum Access Networks” Joint QU with University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona, USA, National Priorities Research Program (NPRP) 4^th cycle, $1,045,000, 2011, CO-Lead PI.
3. “Innovative framework for scalable signal processing and power-efficient communication in healthcare wireless body area sensor networks”, Joint QU with University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada, National Priorities Research Program (NPRP) 3^rd cycle, $1041000, 2010, Lead PI.
4. “Experimental Testbed-based Studies of Radio Access, Routing, and Network Resource Allocation”, Joint QU with Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana, USA, National Priorities Research Program (NPRP) 2nd cycle, $1050000, 2009 Co-Lead PI.
5. “Cross Layer Design, seamless networking for Heterogeneous wireless access, and streaming over LTE networks”, Joint QU with University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada, Industrial grant QTel, $300,000, CO-PI.

University internal grants (2-year projects):

1. “A Distributed Agent-Based Mobile Ad-hoc Networking Architecture for QoS Support”, Qatar University Internal grants, QR150,000, PI.
2. “Underwater wireless sensor networks for oil and gas Pipeline Surveillance (UPS)”, Qatar University Internal grants, QR150,000, CO-PI.

Undergraduate research projects (1-year projects):

1. “Scalable indoor patient and staff monitoring and tracking using wireless sensor networks”, Undergraduate Research Experience Program (UREP) 7^th cycle, $30000, 2008, PI
2. “WIPMON: Wireless sensor network for Industrial process MONitoring”, Undergraduate Research Experience Program (UREP) 5^th cycle, $30000, 2008, PI.
3. “An Intelligent Traffic Light Control System for Ambulance Use”, Undergraduate Research Experience Program (UREP) 3^rd cycle, $40000, 2008, CO-PI.
4. “WPSS: Wireless Patient Surveillance System “, Undergraduate Research Experience Program (UREP) 3^rd cycle, $38000, 2007, PI.
5. “Wireless Patient Surveillance System using Zigbee standards“, Qatar University Internal grants program, $16000, 2007, PI.

Other proposals:

• As a research assistant, Dr. Mohamed has participated in preparing the following grant applications as part of his work at UBC, Canada:
  • “Resource Allocation and Management in Wireless Multicast Networks”, for Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC) and Telus Inc 2005.
  • “Optimal Price-based Classification and Admission Control Policies for Multi-Class Link Models”, for Telus Inc., Canada 2004.
  • " UBC Optical Lambda Router Architecture”, for NSERC, 2002.

Research community

Lab for advanced networking (LAN), member

Center for Wireless Systems and Applications, to be established at QSTP, Qatar

Member of Standards Council of Canada work group ( ISO/IEC/JTC1/SC29 ) for MPEG advancements

Technical program committee:

IEEE Globecom 2010, Miami, US, 2010.

International conference on communications, ICC 2010, Japan

Innovation in information technology (IIT) in Dubai, 2007

The 5th IEEE-GCC Conference, Kuwait, 2009

IEEE Globcom 2009, Hawaii, USA 2009

IEEE PacRim 2009

International conference on communications, ICC 2008, China

The 6th IEEE/ACS International Conference on Computer Systems and Applications, AICCSA 08, Qatar

Conference track chair

International conference on communication to be held in Doha 2010 - “Wireless Ad Hoc and sensor communications” track.

Technical reviewer

IEEE Transactions on computers

IEEE Transactions on mobile computing

EURASIP, Journal on Wireless Communications and Networking

Elsevier, the International Journal of Computer and Telecommunications Networking

 Teaching

Courses

1.    Advanced computer networks (Masters)

2. Selected topics in wireless networking (Masters)

3. Wireless communication (Masters)

4.    Wireless sensor networks

5.    Wireless ad hoc networks

6.    Wireless mobile communications

7.    Computer Networks (Cisco CCNA)

8.    Advanced programming

9.    Introduction to programming

Student Projects

1.  Assistive Technology for People with Hearing Disabilities, 2011 (Best Senior project 2011).

2.  Scalable indoor patient and staff monitoring and tracking using wireless sensor networks, 2010.

3. WIPMON: Wireless sensor network for Industrial process MONitoring, 2009.

4.  An Intelligent Traffic Light Control System for Ambulance Use, 2009.

5.  Wireless Patient Surveillance System using Zigbee standards, 2008

Professional Experience

Apr. 98  – Aug 07

Senior software engineer in IBM/VIC, Vancouver, Canada, performing leadership roles in custom application development applications in the fields of healthcare, Network management, and e-business development.

Aug. 96 – Jan. 98

Software engineer in IBM WTC, Egypt branch, Cairo, Egypt, participating in a team developing worldwide IBM corporate tools and applications.

Jan. 96 - Aug. 96

Network engineer in ICCC Cairo, Cairo, Egypt, developing embedded software and device drivers for network and digital telephony hardware.