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Seminar: Developments in Communication Systems Research
EVENT SCHEDULE
Wednesday, the 4th of June 2014, from 11-12pm
EVENT LOCATION
King Faisal Conference Center, Ground Floor, Seminar Hall 1
EVENT SPEAKER
Professor Izzat Darwazeh and Dr. Miguel Rio
BIOGRAPHY SUMMARY
Professor Izzat Darwazeh holds the University of London Chair of Communications Engineering and heads the 70-strong Communications and Information System (CIS) group in UCL’s Department of Electronic and Electrical Engineering.
Born in 1963, he obtained his first degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Jordan in 1984 and the MSc and PhD degrees, from the University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology (UMIST), in 1986 and 1991, respectively. Prior to UCL he was a researcher and an academic at the UK Universities of Wales in Bangor and UMIST in Manchester. He is Chartered Engineer, a Fellow of the IET and a Senior Member of the IEEE.
His teaching covers aspects of wireless and optical fiber communications, telecommunication networks and high-speed integrated circuits and MMICs. He lectures widely in the UK and overseas. His research interests are mainly in the areas of wireless communication system design, modelling and implementation, high speed optical communication systems and networks, microwave circuits and MMICs for optical fiber applications and in mobile and wireless communication circuits and systems. He has authored/co-authored more than 240 research papers and has supervised more than 100 postgraduate students, including being first supervisor for 30 Doctoral (PhD and Engineering Doctorates –EngD) students. He has co-authored (with Luis Moura) a book on Linear Circuit Analysis and Modelling (Elsevier 2005) and is the co-editor of the IEE book on Analogue Optical Communications (IEE 1995). His forthcoming book, co-authored with Clive Poole, is on microwave and RF circuits and will appear in 2015. Professor Darwazeh's research work has been funded (~£5 million over the past 10 years) by the UK government, the EU, industry and international research organisations.
Professor Darwazeh serves on various UK and international research organisations and funding bodies and has chaired several international conferences in the area of communications. He regularly acts as a panellist and has chaired several panels at international industrial and academic conferences on networks and communications. He has served on the editorial boards of several leading international journals in the areas of communications engineering and microwave circuits. He collaborates with various telecommunications and electronic industries in the UK and overseas and has acted as a consultant to various academic, industrial, financial, legal and government organisations in the UK and overseas. He has acted as an expert witness in several litigations (and jurisdictions) concerning mobile systems and wireless technologies. Recently he was an expert witness on the Apple-Samsung patent litigation where he gave evidence to London's High Court of Justice in 2012.
Over the past 15 years, Professor Darwazeh has acted as an External Examiner for undergraduate and postgraduate programmes at 12 universities in the UK and overseas (Europe, the Middle East, Africa and South East Asia). He has also acted as an academic assessor of new undergraduate and postgraduate programmes on numerous occasions nationally and internationally and as an assessor of different universities and university courses in the UK and overseas, including being engaged by the United Nations-ITU and the UK Telecommunications Academy to assess programmes at KIST in Kigali-Rwanda. He acted as an external expert on research assessment of different electronic engineering and computer science departments in the UK, Europe and overseas. He was a PhD external Examiner on more than 70 occasions again at UK and overseas universities.
In addition to his UCL role, Professor Darwazeh is an affiliated expert of the Italian based think tank "THINK" (dealing with digital technologies and sustainable development) and has been a visiting scientist at CERN (the European Centre of Particle Physics) since 2009.
ORGANIZER
Dr. Ghadah Aldabbagh
INTENDED AUDIENCE
Academics from CS and Electronic/Electrical engineering departments and to M.Sc. students and senior undergraduates.
Sunday
Title: Wireless Network evolution towards Heterogeneous Networks
Wireless Standards Overview
Wireless Access Capacity - Related Limits
Mechanisms for increasing capacity
The HetNet solution
HetNet types / topologies
Research problems related to HetNets
Monday
Title: Radio Resource Management (RRM) for Wireless Networks
Radio Resource Definitions
Call Admission Control
Packet Scheduling
Co-channel interference management
Joint Radio Resource Management
Centralized vs. Distributed Schemes
Tuesday
Title: Context Aware RRM for wireless Networks - Cognitive Radio
Cognitive Radio Definitions
Context Information classification
Radio Environment Maps
Sensing vs context retrieval from databases
Context-Aware / Cognitive HetNets
Wednesday
Title: Radio Resource Management for HetNets
User-cell association
Node clustering mechanisms
Intercell Interference Coordination Schemes
High bit rate offloading mechanisms
Thursday
Title: HetNet Modeling & Simulation
Topology Models
Propagation channel Models
User Association /clustering
Mobility Models
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