Curriculum

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2005-09 à  2008-10	Doctorat de l’Institut National des Sciences Appliquées de Toulouse (INSA) France. Mention très honorable avec félicitations du jury. Sujet : Contributions à l'amélioration des systèmes de communication multi-utilisateur par chaos : synchronisation et analyse des performances. Établissements : Institut National des Sciences Appliquées (INSA), ENSEEIHT Toulouse. Laboratoire : IRIT / ENSEEIHT, LATTIS/INSA, Toulouse, France. Encadrants : Danièle Fournier-Prunaret, Professeur à l’INSA Toulouse; Pascal Chargé Professeur à l’Université de Nantes; Daniel Roviras, Professeur à CNAM Paris.
2004-09 à  2005-08	Master de recherche en sciences et technologies des télécommunications, de l’ENST-Bretagne et de l’Université de Bretagne occidentale, Brest France..
2003-09 à  2005-08	Diplôme d'ingénieur en électronique de l'École Nationale Supérieure des Ingénieurs des Techniques Avancées (ENSTA). Brest, France.
1999-09 à  2003-08	Baccalauréat en électronique de l’Université Libanaise Faculté des Sciences II, Beyrouth, Liban. (Majeur de promotion).

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• Membre de l’Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
• Membre de l’Ordre des ingénieurs du Québec (OIQ)

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Over the past few years, green radio communication has drawn much attention from the research community because of its strong impacts on the telecom business, wireless technologies, and the natural environment. Since the overall footprint of information and communication technology (ICT) services, e.g., computer, cell phone, and satellite networks, is predicted to be triple in between 2007 and 2020, re-greening future networks is a global trend. Recently, energy harvesting techniques are gaining much attention, and it has become a potential candidate to deal with the problem of energy inefficiency. The main advantages of energy harvesting techniques are two-fold. First, energy harvesting techniques harness green energy from natural sources, e.g., solar and wind. Thus, they contribute to reducing the overall footprint to protect surrounding environments. Second, they can recharge the devices working in areas where the traditional power supply is infeasible, e.g., hazardous environments. Nevertheless, the natural resources may not always be available. For instance, it is difficult for indoor devices to harvest solar energy. This yields another trend that outdoor base stations harvest-and-store green energy when natural resources are available, and then wirelessly transfer energy to user devices using radio frequency signal. Hence, low-power devices can receive information and energy from RF signals sent by the base stations concurrently. Even through this approach is promising, the performance of energy transfer drastically suffers from path loss. Besides, there exist tight restrictions applied for increasing the transmit power since the intensity of microwave radiation can harm the human health.

Therefore, by taking the aforementioned problems into account, our research objective is to find solutions for the critical question that “how to improve the system performance and the lifetime of future green networks through optimally managing available resources while exploiting green energy sources and avoiding electromagnetic pollution?”

Hence, future wireless communication systems are expected to be a mixture of various novel system concepts, such as full-duplex communications, small-cell densification, millimeter-wave networks, Internet of Things, etc.. However, the existing schemes also need to be renovated and/or redesigned to accommodate the advancement of new transmission technologies as well as network applications.

To reach this objective, in the first step, we aim at developing a clear understanding of the energy consumption of the future wireless networks in a wide range of scenarios. Further, in the second step, new energy harvesting techniques would be investigated to enhance the lifetime of devices. Also, new energy-efficient metrics would be proposed to quantify the greenness of the networks. In the final step, using the mathematical methodology, the performance of proposed scenarios would be analyzed and optimized under the aspects of green communications.

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Because of the multiple aspects involved, such as knowing that confidentiality and security e.g., data/ID anonymization are tremendous in health research and applications ethics, the safety of IoTs will be an essential concern that must be addressed in order to guarantee the reliability of medical data communication between these components.

Taking into account the heterogeneity and enormous scale of their application fields, IoT systems are more vulnerable to threats such as interference and jamming attacks. Moreover, technical requirements are constraining the effective and secure communication in IoT applications in many of its stages including accessing, processing, collecting, controlling and distributing data. Among the challenges, malicious radio jamming, side channel attack (SCA), replay attack, Sybil attack, node capture and wormhole attack which result in a Denial of Service (DoS).

Therefore, our goal is to develop reliable solutions to the aforementioned problems by taking into consideration the involved physical aspects and modeling the real world constraints to ensure the realistic behavior of the system and its robust integration into its environment by answering the questions:

To reach our goal, the research directions we seek to follow can be divided into four main categories: network architectures and platforms, interoperability, new services and applications, and security.

The objective is to connect objects to each other locally and through the internet consistently. We mean by consistently, optimizing the layers parameterization step to provide a reliable communication system, and IoT layers, namely, application layer in which the data processing and service providing to the end user are performed, as well as in the transmission layer where long distance communications are aimed, and the perception layer where the acquisition, processing and local communication through Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) of the physical data are involved.

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Smart grid, the next generation power grid empowered by Information and Communication Technology (ICT) has become one of the most burning topics in scientific researcher community. For a reliable smart grid, monitoring of power system parameters in the transmission and distribution segments as well as monitoring and control of substation devices from outside the station is crucial. In order to allow such advanced functionalities and avoid possible disruptions in electric systems due to any unexpected failure, a highly reliable, scalable, secure, cost-effective, and robust communication network must be operational within the power grid. In this regard, the most promising method of smart grid monitoring explored in the literature is based on Wireless Sensor Network (WSN) due to its inherent characteristics of being low-cost, flexible, wider coverage, self-organization and rapidly deployed.
 

The research objectives of this axis are to lay down the fundamental basis for the development of a robust and secure collaborative WSN for substation monitoring to realize real-world smart grid applications.
 

With this goal in mind, the research goals include the characterization of substation RF environments, design and performance analysis of robust WSN transceiver architecture for harsh smart grid environments, design and development of algorithms for prevention and detection of security flaws in transmission in smart grid, etc.

In addition to cyber security issues that have been widely investigated in the literature since the beginning of smart grid projects, we will also analyze the  physical layer security aspects that has been hardly investigated in the smart grid scenario. How the performance of the later scheme can be improved by designing new advanced algorithms to satisfy smart grid scenarios needs further investigation.

Our research group at ETS in collaboration with Hydro Quebec research center (IREQ) has already demonstrated the characteristics of noise behavior in substation environments. Future work will incorporate the design and performance analysis of distributed collaborative secure WSN by considering realistic scenarios as the observed noise characteristics in the designing process to meet smart grid requirements.

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Vehicular cooperative wireless networks have become an interesting research area recently due to the need to improve the quality of service and the performance of V2V wireless communication systems. The cooperation between vehicles and infrastructures can provide reliable and strong communication links between users. Also, it can extend the coverage and the connectivity of V2V and V2I. Vehicular applications such as ITSs can improve safety and help in traffic management. ITSs could also be used to exchange general information between vehicles to avoid accidents. On the other hand, the utilization of MMW in 5G systems to provide a huge amount of spectrum is another motivation in vehicular communications.

In our Lab, we are currently studying different scenarios of vehicular cooperative wireless communications with/without MMW under several constraints such as   power, mobility, and channel modeling.

Our goals are to design several models and protocols of vehicular cooperative wireless communications that provide high throughput, low latency, high data rate, etc.

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Random Number Generators (RNGs) are required in many applications such as wireless networking, gaming, military communications, online payment, etc…. RNGs are used to generate keys, initialize vectors and other random numbers used in many security standards and applications. As an example, the Internet of Things (IoT) is a fast-growing market where data can easily be intercepted and devices can be hacked, especially if weak RNGs are selected.

Our main objective  is to design robust low-cost low RNGs for secure wireless communication applications.  We are investigating several aspects in this area:

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Postdoctoral Fellows 

• Bassant Slim
• Kuljeet Kaur
• Mohammad Tamim Al Khodary
• Sahil Garg
• Tilahun Melkamu Getu

Ph.D. Students

• Khaled M. Eshteiwi
• Georges Matar
• Ha-Vu Tran
• Zeeshan Sattar
• Victor Evangelista
• Mohamed Dawa
• Christian Miranda

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Former Team Members

Research Engineers

• Joseph Saliba
• Ashraf Tahat

Postdoctoral Fellows

• Yogesh Anil Nijsure
• Mohammed F. A. Ahmed
• Amir Hussein Forghani
• Hung Tran

Former Ph.D. Students

• Md. Sahabul Alam
• Michael Atallah
• Long Kong
• Ebrahim A. Soujeri
  
• Farhad Shokraneh

Former M.Sc. Students

 

Dr. Tahat received the Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering (EE) with a focus in Communications & Signal Processing from the Illinois Institute of Technology (IIT), in Chicago, IL, USA in 2002. He also received the BSc and MSc degrees in EE from IIT with emphasis on electronics and circuits.

Dr. Tahat has versatile professional background combining both academic and industry experiences.

Before coming to the electrical engineering department at the École de technologie supérieure (ÉTS), Montreal, as an R&D Engineer working on wireless cellular network geolocalisation, he worked as an R&D Scientist at the software engineering and IT department at ÉTS to develop a network security tool based on machine-learning and data-mining theory and principles.

From 2012 to 2013, Dr. Tahat was a Visiting Research Professor/Scholar at McGill University, Montreal, QC, in the Telecommunications and Signal Processing Lab. of the ECE department. From 2005 to 2012, Dr. Tahat was an Assistant Professor and then an Associate Professor and Head of the Communications Eng. department at PSUT (Princess Sumaya University for Tech.) in Amman, Jordan, where he also performed consultation for local industrial partners. From 2002 to 2003, Dr. Tahat was a Post Doctoral Lecturer and Researcher at IIT, Chicago, USA.

Before completing his doctoral studies, Dr. Tahat worked at Lucent Technologies Inc. (Alcatel-Lucent) on first generation ADSL modem prototypes. He was also a Software Engineer at 3Com Corporation in Illinois, USA at the voice-band modem R&D group of the Personal Communications Division. Dr. Tahat is a Senior Member of IEEE, Eta Kappa Nu, and Tau Beta Pi honor societies.

 

Octasic Inc. (http://www.octasic.com)

 

Geolocation of a Mobile Terminal in a Cellular System Deploying Moving Base Stations
 

 

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Superviseur: Prof. Georges Kaddoum 
Date de début: Session automne 2014
Date de fin prévue: Session été 2015

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I have received the B. Ing. Degree in electronic engineering from the University of San Buenaventura, Medellin (Colombia), in 2010.

Presently, I am in M. Ing. at the university of Québec in l'École de Technologie Supérieure (ETS) de Montréal, Canada. I started on April 2013 under the guidance of Pr Georges Kaddoum.

My research interests are in wireless communications, access networks, interfaces and interconnection between mobile networks, non-coherent modulation and chaos based communication systems.

 

I completed my Bachelor and Master program in Information Technology from Vietnam National University, Hanoi, Vietnam in 2002 and 2006, respectively. I received my Ph.D. from the Blekinge Institute of Technology, Karlskrona, Sweden in 2013. My Ph.D. advisor was Prof. Hans-Jurgen Jepernick. My Ph.D. thesis was entitled “Performance Analysis of Cognitive Radio Networks with Interference Constraints”. Currently, I am post-doctoral research fellow at L'École de technologie supérieure (ETS) de Montréal (Mtl) where I started on Otc. 2014. 
My research interests are cognitive radio networks, cooperative communications, delay performance, device – to – device communications, vehicle – to – vehicle communications, security communications at the physical layer. 

 

Performance Evaluation of Cognitive Radio Networks under Security and Interference Constraints.

In the spectrum sharing system, secondary users (SUs) are allowed to access the licensed spectrum of the primary users (PUs) provided that the interference inflicted by the SU at the PU is kept below a predefined threshold. This leads to a fact that both SU and PU may be vunerable due to the mutual interference. Accordingly, their secure communication may be revealed for eavesdroppers over wiretap channels. To protect the reliable and secure communication for both SU and PU, in this project, the problems of designing secure communication protocols by utilizing active jammers, relay operating as active jammers will be studied. Moreover, optimal transmission powers of the SU to protect the PU’s communication and enhance the SU performance will be investigated. 

 

 

https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=UMMN408AAAAJ&hl=en

 

 

 

Superviseur: Prof. Francois Gagnon
Co-superviseur: Prof. Georges Kaddoum
Date de début: Septembre 2013 

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Superviseur: Prof. Georges Kaddoum
Date de début: Septembre 2014
Date de fin prévue: Septembre 2018

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J'ai obtenu mon baccalauréat, ma maîtrise et mon doctorat en Génie électrique et électronique de Eastern Mediterranean University, à Chypre, en 1995, 1997 et 2003, respectivement.

J'ai travaillé au département de E.E.Eng. de l'EMU au cours de la période 1996 à 2002 comme assistant de recherche tout en poursuivant ma maîtrise et mon doctorat.

En 2002, j'ai rejoint Cyprus International University comme un instructeur à temps plein de génie informatique.

Après avoir obtenu mon doctorat en 2003, j'ai rejoint la faculté de génie de European University of Lefke, à Chypre.
J'ai reçu le B.Sc., M.Sc. et d'un doctorat degrés en Génie électrique et électronique de l'Université de la Méditerranée orientale, de Chypre, en 1995, 1997 et 2003, respectivement.

J'ai travaillé au département de E.E.Eng. de l'UEM au cours de la période 1996 à 2002 comme assistant de recherche tout en poursuivant mon M.Sc. et d'un doctorat degrés.

En 2002, j'ai rejoint l'Université internationale de Chypre comme un instructeur à temps plein de génie informatique.

Après avoir obtenu mon doctorat en 2003, j'ai rejoint la faculté de génie de l'Université européenne de Lefke à Chypre.

En 2007, j'ai été assistant professeur à Sultan Qaboos University, Sultanat d'Oman.

Je poursuivrais un deuxième doctorat à compter de Septembre 2014, à l'École de technologie supérieure en collaboration avec le Dr Georges Kaddoum.

Mes intérêts de recherche ont portés jusqu'à présent dans sur communications sans fil, plus précisément sur les communications CDMA ainsi que l'application des réseaux de neurones à la théorie de la communication. Je fais aussi des recherches périodique sur l'énergie propre et renouvelable.

Publications

1. A. Yasli and E. Soujeri, "Optimizing a hybrid application of solar and wind resources to supply the energy needs of dairy farms in Cyprus", submitted to Turkish Journal of Electrical Engineering & Computer Sciences. April 2014.

2. E. Soujeri, "Hysteretic HNN MAI-Cancellation for CDMA Signals in Multipath Fading Channels", Neural Processing Letters, Springer Academic Publishers, Vol. 31, No.2, pp.129-145, April 2010.

3. E. Soujeri and H. Bilgekul, "Multiuser Detection of Synchronous MC-CDMA in Multipath Fading Channels Using Hopfield Neural Networks", Neural Processing Letters, Vol. 18, No.1, Kluwer Academic Publishers, Aug. 2003.

4. E. Soujeri and H. Bilgekul, "Hopfield Multiuser Detection of Asynchronous MC-CDMA Signals in Multipath Fading Channels", IEEE Communications Letters, Vol. 6, No.4, pp.147-149, April 2002.

5. E. Soujeri ve H. Bilgekul, "Neural Network Detection for MC-CDMA Signals in Multipath Fading Channels", WSEAS Transactions on Communications, Vol. 1, No 2, pp. 19-24, 2002.

6. A. Yasli & E. Soujeri, "A Feasibility Study of Residential Solar / Wind Hybrids in the Western Region of Cyprus", Electrical Power and Energy Conference EPEC12, London Ontario, Canada, 10-12 Oct. 2012.

7. A. Yasli & E. Soujeri, "The Pre-Feasibility Study of Wind/Solar Hybrids for Households in Cyprus, Applied to Guzelyurt Region", The 6th Archeng International Symposium (EEECS'10), European University of Lefke, Gemikonagi - North Cyprus, 25-26 Nov. 2010.

8. E. Soujeri & Karen Howells, "History of Telecommunications in Cyprus", The Second Region 8 IEEE Conference on the History of Telecommunications, Madrid-Spain, 3-5 Nov. 2010.

9. I. Yitmen & E. Soujeri, "An Artificial Neural Network Model for Estimating the Influence of Change Orders on Project Performance and Dispute Resolution", Proceedings of the International Conference on Computing in Civil and Building Engineering - icccbe2010, University of Nottingham, Nottingham-UK, June 30- July 2, 2010.

10. E. Soujeri, "A Simulation-based Realization of Cross-Correlation in CDMA Communications", proceedings of 1st International Symposium on Computing in Science & Engineering, Kusadasi, Turkiye, pp. 436-442. June 3-5 2010.

11. M. Sumi, E. Soujeri, R. Rahim and A.I. Harikrishnan "Design of a Zigbee-Based RFID Network for Industry Applications", SIN 2009, 2nd International Conference on Security of Information and Networks, Famagusta, TR North Cyprus, 6-10 Oct. 2009.

12. E. Soujeri, "MAI-Cancellation for DS-CDMA Using Hysteretic Hopfield Neural Networks", ICCCP'07, Sultan Qaboos University, Oman, Feb. 16-19, 2007.

13. Karen Hywel Kabaran and E. Soujeri, "Telecommunications in Cyprus: Past, Present and Future", The 4th FAE International Symposium, European University of Lefke, Gemikonagi - North Cyprus. Nov. 30 - Dec. 1 2006.

14. E. Soujeri, MAI-Cancellation for DS-CDMA Using Hysteretic Hopfield Neural Networks, The 13th IEEE Mediterranean Electrotechnical Conference, Benalmdena (Malaga), SPAIN. May 16-19, 2006.

15. E. Soujeri and H. Bilgekul, CDMA MAI-Cancellation Using Hysteretic Hopfield Neural Networks, The 3rd FAE International Symposium, European University of Lefke, Gemikonagi  North Cyprus. Nov. 25-26, 2004.

16. E. Soujeri and H. Bilgekul, Multi-user Detection of CDMA Signals Using Hysteretic Hopfield Neural Networks, The 8th World Multi Conference on Systemics, Cybernetics and Informatics (SCI 2004), Orlando-Florida, USA. July 19-22, 2004.

17. E. Soujeri and H. Bilgekul, "Neural Network Detection for MC-CDMA Signals in Multipath Fading Channels" 6th WSEAS International Multiconference CSCC, Crete Island-Greece. July 7-14, 2002.

18. E. Soujeri and H. Bilgekul, "Hopfield Detection for Multicarrier CDMA Communications in Multipath Fading Channels", The 6th World Multi Conference on Systemics, Cybernetics and Informatics, Orlando-Florida, USA. July 7-12, 2002.

19. E. Soujeri and H. Bilgekul, "Concatenated Spreading for Orthogonal MC-CDMA Communications in Multipath Rayleigh Fading Channels". International Symposium on Telecommunications, IST-2001, Tehran-Iran, Sept. 1-3, 2001.

20. E. Soujeri and H. Bilgekul, "Hopfield Neural Network and Viterbi Decoding for Asynchronous MC-CDMA Communication Systems", 12th International Conference on Microelectronics, ICM2000, Tehran-Iran, 31 Oct. - 2 Nov. 2000.

21. E. Soujeri and H. Bilgekul, "Hopefield Neural Network Detection of Coded Multicarrier CDMA Signals", 10th Turkish Symposium on Artificial Intelligence and Neural Networks, TAINN-2001, Famagusta-Cyprus. pp.78-85, June 25-26, 2001.

22. E. Soujeri and H. Bilgekul, "Çok-yollu Sonumlu Kanallarda Eszamansiz ÇT-KBÇE Isaretlerinin Hopfield Sinir Agi kullanarak Sezimi" 10. Sinyal Isleme ve Iletisim Uygulamalari Kurultayi, SIU 2002, Pamukkale/Denizli-Turkey, June 13-15, 2002.

23. H. Bilgekul and E. Soujeri, "Genellestirilmis çok-Tasiyicili Kod Bolusumlu çoklu Erisim", 9. Sinyal Isleme ve Uygulamalari Kurultayi, SIU-2001, Famagusta-Cyprus. pp.67-72, April 12-14, 2001.

24. E. Soujeri and H. Bilgekul, "Hopfield Sinir Agi ve Viterbi Kodcozucu Kullanan Eszamansiz çok-Tasiyicili KBÇE", 9. Sinyal Isleme ve Uygulamalari Kurulatyi, SIU-2001, Famagusta-Cyprus, pp.477-482, April 12-14, 2001.

25. E. Soujeri, H. AMCA and K. Hacioglu, "Çok Kullancılı Sezinim İçin Hopfield Sinir Ağının Kullanımı Uzerine Bir çalışma", 5. Sayisal Sinyal Isleme Uygulamalari Konferansi, SIU 97, Kusadasi-Turkey, pp.67-72, May 1-3, 1997.

1. Raed Abdallah, Studies on Services and Features of Next Generation Mobile Systems 3G and Above (XG), M.Sc. Thesis. European University of Lefke, 2008.

2. Tarek Reh, Pattern Recognition Using Neural Networks, M.Sc. Thesis. European University of Lefke, 2005.

3. Irfan Chaudry, Performance evaluation of WCDMA with smart antennae, M.Sc. Thesis. European University of Lefke, 2004.

1. Hopfield Neural Network Multi-user Detection for Multi-carrier CDMA Systems in Multi-path Fading Channels, Ph.D. Thesis, Eastern Mediterranean University, 2003.
2. Hopfield Neural Network Multi-User Detection For Code Division Multiple Access [CDMA] Communication Systems, M.Sc. Thesis, Eastern Mediterranean University, 1997.

1. Proceedings of the 6th Archeng International Architecture & Eng. Symposia, 2010. European University of Lefke, North Cyprus. (EEECS'10)
2. Proceedings of the 5th Archeng International Architecture & Eng. Symposia, 2008. European University of Lefke, North Cyprus. (EEECS'08)
3. Proceedings of the 4th FAE International Symposium, 2006. European University of Lefke, North Cyprus. (E.E.Eng.)
4. Proceedings of the 3rd FAE International Symposium, 2004. European University of Lefke, North Cyprus. (E.E.Eng.

Membre du comité d'évaluation des études supérieures pour les départements de génie informatique et génie électrique et électronique de l'Université européenne de Lefke pour la période 2004-2012.

* Ph.D Thesis Title: Studies on the Techniques for Performance Enhancement in Wireless Networks, by C. Mala, National Institute of Technology, India, March 2008.

* Ph.D. Thesis Title: Supervised / Unsupervised Classification of LULC Change Detection Using Remotely Sensed Data for Coimbatore District, by Baby Y. Kalpana, Anna University, Chennai India, August 2013.

Plusieurs mentions d'honeurs et de certificats d'honeurs au cours des études de 1er cycle

Bourse EMU au doctorat et à la maîtrise 1995-2003]

Réviseur de nombreuses revues techniques publiés par Kluwer, IEE et IEEE.

Réviseur de nombreux colloques et conférences internationales.

 

 

I completed my Bachelor and Master program in Biomedical Engineering from Holy Spirit University of Kaslik, Jounieh, Lebanon in 2013 and 2015, respectively. My Master thesis was entitled “Medical Jet Nebulizers: Innovative design towards effective nebulization”. Currently, I am a PhD. Student in Biomedical Engineering at L'École de technologie supérieure (ETS), University of Quebec, Montreal, Canada.
 

Smart Mattresses using Wireless Sensor Networks

Adequate and comfortable sleep is the key for maintaining a healthy life. The main aim of my research project is the conception of a mattress that would be able to provide a wireless unobtrusive and accurate real time monitoring of sleep quality, and a self-adaptation to provide patient’s physiological comfort. Without any direct contact, physiological parameters are acquired from the patient then analysed; accordingly the mattress is self-adapted independently to compensate any patient’s discomfort. Such prototype would be addressed mainly for elderly people in order to provide them with self-reliance; with that system, human dependency or nightly assistance are not needed anymore.

https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Georges_Matar

 

 

Ha-Vu Tran received a bachelor degree in Electronic and Telecommunication Engineering from Hue University of Sciences, Vietnam in 2012. In 2015, he completed master degree in Electronics and Radio Engineering from Kyung Hee University, South Korea. He is currently working toward Ph.D.’s degree at École de Technologie Supérieure (ETS), University of Québec, Canada. His research interests are wireless power transfer, heterogeneous networks, and physical layer security in wireless communication network.
 

SWIPT Beamforming Optimization for Wireless Networks

In recent years, the simultaneous wireless information and power transfer (SWIPT) technique has been received great attention. In this context, the SWIPT’s principle lies in the fact that RF signals can carry both information and energy. Since the receiver can collect both energy and information at the same time from the transmitter, this leads to an attractive solution for energy replenishment to prolong the device’s life-time in wireless networks. In practice, the wireless information/power transfer mainly suffers from the propagation path loss. Therefore, the improvement of energy transfer efficiency is one of critical challenges for RF information and energy transfer. My research project aims at investigating optimal beamforming designs which can be used to steer RF signals toward the intended receivers with different requirements regarding the information and harvested energy constraints.


https://scholar.google.co.kr/citations?user=WuFiFJAAAAAJ&hl=en

https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Ha_Vu_Tran

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Superviseur: Prof. Georges Kaddoum 
Date de début: Session été 2014
Date prévue de fin: Session automne 2014

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Superviseur: Prof. Georges Kaddoum 
Co-superviseurs: Prof. Ghyslain Gagnon, Prof. Francois Gagnon
Date de début: 1 mai 2014
Date de fin prévue: 1 mai 2016

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I completed my B.Eng. in Electronics Engineering from University of Mumbai, India in 2006 and M.Sc. in Wireless Communications System Engineering, University of Greenwich, U.K. in 2008. I received my Ph.D. from the University of Newcastle upon Tyne, U.K. in 2012. My Ph.D. advisor was Prof. Yifan Chen. My Ph.D. thesis was entitled “Cognitive Radar Network Design and Applications”. During my Ph.D. research, I undertook a six month research internship at Institute for Infocomm Research (I2R), Singapore in 2010, as a research engineer working on cognitive radio and radar research.

I worked in Nanyang Technological University, Singapore as a research associate between Oct. 2011 and Oct. 2012. My primary research area was concerning Bayesian Non-parametric techniques for UWB radars for biomedical applications. I also applied statistical signal processing techniques for MIMO radars and wireless communications research.

From Nov. 2012 to Apr. 2014, I worked at Rockwell Collins India Pvt. Ltd. as a Technical Specialist Systems within the aerospace and defense research. My primary research area was hardware implementation and algorithmic design for high resolution direction finding, hybrid geolocation, electronic warfare based systems and software defined radio research for tactical communications.
I was also involved in Automatic Dependent Surveillance- Broadcast (ADS-B) and multilateration research for future air traffic management solutions. Currently, I am post-doctoral research fellow at L'École de technologie supérieure (ETS) de Montréal (Mtl) where I started on May 2014.

My research interests are cognitive radar, ADS-B and multilateration for aircraft tracking, Bayesian Nonparametric techniques, radar signal processing, cognitive radio, chaos based UWB radars, Information theory and statistical signal processing.

Research on ADS-B and Multilateration Techniques for co-operative surveillance and future air-traffic management solutions.

“System and Methods for Non-parametric Technique based Geolocation and Cognitive Sensor Activation”
• Status: Pending, Patent Ref. No. 2039/DEL/2013 (India) and 14/014,988 (U.S.A).
• Filing Date in India: 8 July 2013, Filing Date in U.S.A: 30 August 2013.

1. Nijsure, Y.; Yifan Chen; Boussakta, S.; Chau Yuen; Yong Huat Chew; Zhiguo Ding, "Novel System Architecture and Waveform Design for Cognitive Radar Radio Networks," , IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology , vol.61, no.8, pp.3630-3642, Oct. 2012.
2. Nijsure, Y.; Wee Peng Tay; Gunawan, E.; Fuxi Wen; Zhang Yang; Yong Liang Guan; Ai Ping Chua, "An Impulse Radio Ultrawideband System for Contactless Noninvasive Respiratory Monitoring," , IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering, vol.60, no.6, pp.1509-1517, June 2013.
3. Yifan Chen; Nijsure, Y.; Chau Yuen; Yong Huat Chew; Zhiguo Ding; Boussakta, S., "Adaptive Distributed MIMO Radar Waveform Optimization Based on Mutual Information," IEEE Transactions on Aerospace and Electronic Systems, vol.49, no.2, pp.1374,1385, April 2013.

Articles de conférences

1. Nijsure, Y.; Yifan Chen; Litchfield, C.; Rapajic, P.B., "Hidden Markov Model for target tracking with UWB radar systems," IEEE 20th International Symposium on Personal, Indoor and Mobile Radio Communications, 2009, vol., no., pp.2065-2069, 13-16 Sept. 2009.
2. Nijsure, Y.; Litchfield, C.; Yifan Chen; Rapajic, P.B., "Vector Precoding Scheme for Multi-User MIMO Systems," IEEE 70th Vehicular Technology Conference Fall (VTC 2009-Fall), 2009, pp. 1-5, 20-23 Sept. 2009.
3. Nijsure, Y.; Chen, Y.; Rapajic, P.; Yuen, C.; Chew, Y. H.; Qin, T. F., "Information-theoretic algorithm for waveform optimization within ultra wideband cognitive radar network," Ultra-Wideband (ICUWB), 2010 IEEE International Conference on , vol.2, no., pp.1,4, 20-23 Sept. 2010.
4. Nijsure, Y.; Wee Peng Tay; Gunawan, E.; Yue, J.L.C., "A Bayesian nonparametric approach to tumor detection using UWB imaging," IEEE International Conference on Ultra-Wideband (ICUWB), 2012, vol., no., pp.187-191, 17-20 Sept. 2012.
5. Nijsure, Y.; Yifan Chen; Chau Yuen; Yong Huat Chew, "Location-aware spectrum and power allocation in joint cognitive communication-radar networks," Sixth International ICST Conference on Cognitive Radio Oriented Wireless Networks and Communications (CROWNCOM), 2011, vol., no., pp.171-175, 1-3 June 2011.
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Superviseur: Prof. Georges Kaddoum
Date de début: 1er mars 2014 

 

I have received the B.Sc. degree in communication engineering from Isfahan University of Technology in Esfahan, Iran and the M.Sc. degree in telecommunication and signal processing from McGill University, Montreal, Canada in 2012.

Currently, I am involved in an Industrial project and supervised by Prof. Georges Kaddoum.

 

Radio IP Software

 

Radio-aided prototype for improving the roaming decisions of an endpoint radio system

This project aims to propose new solutions for smooth rooming. For this aim, cognitive algorithms will the implemented to increase the early detection probability of the spectrum congestion.
 

Golnaz Ghodoosipour, Benoit Champagne, Eric Plourde, ”On the Use of a Codebook-based Modeling Approach for Bayesian STSA Speech Enhancement”, IEEE CCECE, May 2015, Halifax, Canada

 

Golnaz Ghodoosipour, Mina Abbasi,” DOA Estimation for Uniform Sensor Array using MUSIC and Root-MUSIC Algorithms: Improving Estimation Results” ICSAP, February 2011, Singapore, PP. 269-272

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Date de début: Février 2015

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I completed my B.Eng. in electronics and telecommunications engineering from University of Damas, Syria in 2007 and M.Sc. in Wireless Communications Networks Engineering, Higher Institute for Applied Science and Technology, Syria. In 2013.
I worked in Arab International University, Syria as a lab instructor between Sept. 2013 and May. 2014.
Currently, I am a PhD Student at L'École de technologie supérieure (ETS) de Montréal (Mtl) where I started on Jan 2015.
 

Cooperative jamming for wireless physical layer security

The aims of my research project are:
1- Exploring issues and solutions in providing physical layer security in practical wireless systems such as cooperative jamming and artificial noise.
2- Analyzing the capacity-achieving methods and coding schemes for secure communication, as well as secret key generation and agreement over wireless channels.
3- Designing key concepts and analytical models of physical layer security in both single-user and multi-user communication systems.
4- Applying new signal processing techniques to design physical layer security enhancements.

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Superviseur: Prof. Georges Kaddoum
Date de début:  

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Superviseur:  Prof. Georges Kaddoum
Date de début:
Date prévue de fin: Hiver 2015

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In June2008, I have received the Bachelor Degree (B.Sc.) in Computer Science from the Institute of Applied Sciences and Technology, University of Sousse - Tunisia.

Project title : Study of embedded processors : Implementation of a soft microprocessor on a FPGA based platform.

Supervisor: Prof. Fatma Ezzahra SAYADI. 

In February 2010, I have received the Master degree (DESS) in Radio-communication from the Institute of Applied Sciences and Technology, University of Sousse - Tunisia.

Thesis title : The development of a serial communication with GPS Thales.

Supervisor : Prof. Fatma Ezzahra SAYADI.

Co-supervisor: Prof. Rym ZRAFI.

Research laboratory : Electronics and Microelectronics Laboratory, Faculty of Science Monastir, Tunisia.

In January 2013,I started my Master Degree (M.Sc) in Telecommunications Network at ÉTS of Montreal, Quebec. Currently, I am working on my project with Prof. Georges Kaddoum in the Electrical Engineering Department at ÉTS. My research work focuses on the security chaos in wireless sensor networks (WSNs). The objective of this research is to implement and evaluate a secure and dynamic architecture suitable for WSNs communications.

• ·         [July 2022]
  Congratulations! Ali Pourranjbar’s paper was published in the IEEE Transactions on Communications with the title "Deceiving-Based Anti-Jamming Against Single-Tone and Multitone Reactive Jammers

• [June 2022]

• Congratulations! Hamda Bouzabia’s paper was published  in the IEEE Systems Journal with the title "Deep learning-enabled deceptive jammer detection for low probability of intercept communications.

 

• [Jun. 2020]
  
  
  • Congratulations! our Ph.D. candidate Ms. Sadia Khaf has been awarded the prestigious P.E.O. International Peace Scholarship.
  • Congratulations to Georges Matar for excellently defending his doctoral dissertation and graduating with honors. His dissertation was nominated for the best Ph.D. dissertation award.
  • Congratulations to Marouane Hachimi for excellently defending his Master Thesis.
  • Congrats! Ali Pourranjbar's article was accepted at the IEEE Communications Letters with title: "A Novel Distributed Algorithm for Phase Synchronization in Unmanned Aerial Vehicles".
  • Congrats! Ngoc Nguyen's article was accepted at the IEEE Access with title: "A Low Power Circuit Design For Chaos-Key Based Data Encryption".

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  • Congrats! Khaled Eshteiwi's article was accepted at the IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology with title: "Impact of Co-Channel Interference and Vehicles as Obstacles on Full-Duplex V2V Cooperative Wireless Network".
  • Congrats! our PhD candidate Miss. Jungyeon Baek was awarded the prestigious FRQNT doctoral scholarship   

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  • Congrats! Dr. Kuljeet Kaur's papers were accepted to apprear in IEEE infocom workshop with titles: "MapReduce Job Scheduling Framework: An Energy and SLA-driven Approach", and "Blockchain-based Secure Smart Grid Ecosystem: A SDN Perspective".
  • Congrats! Our PhD candidate Mohamed Dawa was awarded the ÉTS doctroal scholarship.
  • Congrats! Our PhD candidate Zeeshan Sattar was awarded the ÉTS doctroal scholarship.

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• [Mar. 2020]
  
  
  • Congrats! Dr. Kuljeet Kaur's papers were accepted to appear in IEEE infocom workshop with titles: "MapReduce Job Scheduling Framework: An Energy and SLA-driven Approach", and "Blockchain-based Secure Smart Grid Ecosystem: A SDN Perspective".

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• [Feb. 2020]
  
  
  • Congrats! Dr. Kuljeet Kaur's papers were accepted to apprear in IEEE infocom workshop with titles: "MapReduce Job Scheduling Framework: An Energy and SLA-driven Approach", and "Blockchain-based Secure Smart Grid Ecosystem: A SDN Perspective".
  • Congrats! Mr. Christian Moreira’s paper was accepted for publication IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security with the title: “A Collaborative Security Framework for Software-Defined Wireless Sensor Networks”. It is worth mentioning that IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security is ranked among the firsts peer-reviewed journals in computer security and cryptography.

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• [Jan. 2020]
  
  
  • Congratulations! to our team on the impressive achievement of the acceptance of all five submitted articles to IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC 2020); this shows the high-quality work of our team (100% acceptance rate in such prestigious conference). Especial congrats to the authors:
    • Dr. Kuljeet Kaur, article title: “Secure Authentication and Key Agreement Protocol for Tactile Internet-based Tele-Surgery Ecosystem”.
    • Dr. Kuljeet Kaur, article title: “ESP-VDCE: Energy, SLA, and Price-driven Virtual Data Center Embedding”.
    • Dr. Bassant Selim, article title: “A Deep learning approach for the Estimation of Middleton Class-A Impulsive Noise Parameters”,
    • Dr. Sahil Garg, article title: “ECC-based Secure and Provable Authentication Mechanism for Smart Healthcare Ecosystem”.
    • Mr. Bryan Gingras, article title: “Collaborative Spectrum Sensing in Tactical Wireless Networks”.
    With a note that, this year IEEE ICC received more than 2100 papers and only 600 papers were accepted.


• Congrats! Dr. Bassant's paper was accepted for publication in IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology with title "Effect of Impulsive Noise on Uplink NOMA Systems".


• Congrats! Mr. Khaled Eshteiwi's paper was accepted for publication in Sensors, with title "Ergodic Capacity Analysis of Full-Duplex Relaying in the Presence of Co-Channel Interference in V2V Communications".


• Congrats! Dr. Sahabul Alam's paper was accepted for publication in IEEE Systems Journal with title "Mitigation Techniques for Impulsive Noise with Memory".


• Congrats! Mr. Dat  Le Thanh's paper was accepted for publication in  IEEE Transactions on Cognitive Communications and Networking with title "A Distributed Channel Access Scheme for Vehicles in Multi-agent V2I Systems".

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• [Dec. 2019]
  • Congratulations to Vu Tran Ha for excellently defending his doctoral dissertation entitled "Resource Allocation in Future Green Wireless Networks: Applications and Challenges"; and for  the nomination to the best Ph.D. dissertation award.
  

   

  • By invitation from Pro. Kaddoum, Prof. Gunes Karabulut Kurt, Istanbul Technical University, has deliver a public seminar on "Store-process-and-forward Paradigm for Wireless Networks"  
        
  
  

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  • [Nov. 2019]
    
    • Prof. Kaddoum and his edge-computing group has finished hand-on training at kontron Inc. facility on their recently obtained state-of-the-art kontron SYMKLOUD 2920 edge-server platform. 
    

     

  
  
  

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  • [Oct. 2019]
    • Congratulations to Dr. Md. Sahabul Alam!, a Ph.D. graduate supervised by Prof. Kaddoum, for receiving the Academic Gold Medal from the Governor General of Canada "La médaille d'or académique de la Gouverneure générale du Canada", (News Link).
               
     
  
  
  

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  • [Sep, 2019]
    • Prof. Georges Kaddoum awarded the pristegious Canada Research Chair (CRC-Tier II) entitled: “Towards a Novel and Intelligent Framework for the Next Generations of IoT Networks”.
    • Congrats! Dr. S. Garg and Dr. K. Kaur's paper was accepted for publication in IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics with title "Secure and Lightweight Authentication Scheme for Smart Metering Infrastructure in Smart Grid".
    • Congrats! Dr. Sahabul and Mr. Vicotr Evangelista's papers were accepted in the IEEE Latin Comm conference with titles "Analysis and Comparison of Several Mitigation Techniques for Middleton Class-A Noise," and "Analysis of Contention-Based SCMA in mMTC Networks."
    • Congrats! Dr. S. Garg and Dr. K. Kaur's paper was accepted for publication in IEEE Internet of Things Journal with title "Towards Secure and Provable Authentication for Internet of Things: Realizing Industry 4.0".
  
  

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  • [Aug, 2019]
    • Congrats! Vicotr Evangelista's article was accepted for publication in IEEE Transaction on Wireless Communications with title "Fairness and Sum-Rate Maximization via Joint Subcarrier and Power Allocation in Uplink SCMA Transmission". The code for this paper can be found in this link.
    • Congrats! Dr. K. Kaur, S. Garg's article was accepted for publication in IEEE Internet of Things Journal with title "KEIDS: Kubernetes based Energy and Interference Driven Scheduler for Industrial IoT in Edge-Cloud Ecosystem".
    • Congrats! Dr. Tilahun Getu's paper entitled "Matrix- and Tensor-Based RFI Detectors for Multi-Antenna Wireless Communications" has been accepted for publication in IEEE Global Signal and Information Processing Conference (IEEE GlobalSIP 2019) .
    • Congrats! Dr. Tilahun Getu's paper entitled "A Tensor-Based Spectrum Sensing Technique for MIMO Cognitive Radio Networks" has been accepted for publication in IEEE Global Signal and Information Processing Conference (IEEE GlobalSIP 2019) .
    • Congrats! Dr. K. Kaur, S. Garg's paper was accepted for publication in IEEE Global Communications Conference Workshops (Globecom’19 Workshops) with title "EnLoB: Energy and Load Balancing-driven Container Placement Strategy for Data Centers".
    • Congrats! Dr. K. Kaur, S. Garg's paper was accepted for publication in IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics with title "A Big Data-Enabled Consolidated Framework for Energy Efficient Software Defined Data Centers in IoT Setups".
  
  

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  • [Jul, 2019]
    • Congratulations to Md. Sahabul Alam for excellently defending his doctoral dissertation entitled "Robust Wireless Sensor Network for Smart Grid Communication: Modeling and Performance Evaluation ".
    • By invitation from Pro. Kaddoum,  Prof. Tareq AlNaffouri, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology, Saudi Arabia, has delivered a seminar on "Distribution Agnostic Structured Sparsity Recovery: Algorithms and Applications."  
          
    • Congrats! Dr. Minh Au's paper was accepted for publication in IEEE Transactions on Selected Area on Signal Processing with title "Joint Code-Frequency Index Modulation for IoT and Multi-User Communications"
    • Congrats! Two papers of Dr. Sahil and Dr. Kuljeet were accepted in IEEE GLOBECOM 2019 with titles: "A Lightweight and Privacy-Preserving Authentication Protocol for Mobile Edge Computing" and " LiSA: A Lightweight and Secure Authentication Mechanism for Smart Metering Infrastructure,"
    • Congratulations to Michael Atallah for excellently defending his doctoral dissertation entitled "Physical Layer Security: Design and Performance Analysis".
    • Congrats! Dr. Tilahun Getu's article entitled "Toward Overcoming a Hidden Terminal Problem Arising in MIMO Cognitive Radio Networks: A Tensor-Based Spectrum Sensing Algorithm" has been accepted for publication in IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technologies.
    • Congrats! Dr. Garg's paper entitled "A Hybrid Deep Learning based Model for Anomaly Detection in Cloud Datacentre Networks" has been accepted for publication in IEEE Transactions on Network and Service Management.
  
  

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  • [Jun, 2019]
    • Congrats! Micheal Atallah's article entitled "Design and Performance Analysis of Secure Multicasting Cooperative Protocol for Wireless Sensor Network Applications" was accepted for publication in IEEE Wireless Communications Letters.
    • Congrats! Dr. Long's paper entitled "Intercept Probability Analysis over the Cascaded Fisher-Snedecor F Fading Wiretap Channels" has been accepted for publication in IEEE ISWCS 2019 proceedings.
  
  

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  • [May, 2019]
    • Congratulations to Long Kong for excellently defending his doctoral dissertation entitled: "Wireless Networks Physical Layer Security: Modeling and Performance Characterization".
    • Congrats! Dr. Kuljeet and Dr. Garg's article has been accepted for publication in IEEE Network Magazine, entitled "Demand-Response Management using Fleet of Electric Vehicles: An Opportunistic-SDN based Edge-Cloud Framework for Smart Grids".
    • Congrats! Vu Tran's article has been accepted for publication in IEEE Trans. on Communications, entitled " Ultra-small Cell Networks with Collaborative RF and Lightwave Power Transfer ".
    • Congrats! Dr. Garg and Dr. Kuljeet's article has been accepted for publication in IEEE Trans. on Vehicular Technology, entitled "SDN based Secure and Privacy-preserving Scheme for Vehicular Networks: A 5G Perspective".
    • Congrats! Dr. Garg and Dr. Kuljeet's article has been accepted for publication in IEEE MobiHoc 2019, PERSIST-IoT workshop, entitled " En-OsCo: Energy-aware Osmotic Computing Framework using Hyper-heuristics".
    • Congrats! Dr. Kuljeet's article has been accepted for publication in IEEE MobiHoc 2019, PERSIST-IoT workshop, entitled "Sec-IoV: A Multi-Stage Anomaly Detection Scheme for Internet of Vehicles".
    • Our Ph.D. candidate, Victor Evalgelista, has been awarded the prestigious FRQNT doctoral fellowship.
      
    • Our Ph.D. candidate, Sahabul Alam, has been awarded the  the prestigious FRQNT postdoctoral fellowship.
      
    • Our paper "On Physical Layer Security Over Fox's H-Function Wiretap Fading Channels" by the Ph.D. candidate Long Kong, has been accepted for publication in the IEEE  Trans. on Vehicular Technologys.  
    • Our paper "A Novel Relay Selection Strategy of Cooperative Network Impaired by Bursty Impulsive Noise" by the Ph.D. candidate Sahabul Alam, has been accepted for publication in the IEEE  Trans. on Vehicular Technologys.  
                 

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  • [April, 2019]
    • Our paper "Secrecy Analysis in Wireless Network with Passive Eavesdroppers by Using Partial Cooperation " by the Ph.D. candidate Micheal Atallah, has been accepted for publication in the IEEE  Trans. on Vehicular Technologys.
    • Prof. Kaddoum received the Research Excellence Award, from ÉTS.               
  
  

  
  

    
  
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  • Our paper "Secrecy Analysis of Wireless Sensor Network in Smart Grid with Destination Assisted Jamming" by the Ph.D. candidate Micheal Atallah, has been accepted in IET Communications.
  • Our paper “MobQoS: Mobility-aware and QoS-driven SDN framework for Autonomous Vehicles”,  by the postdoc. Sahil Garg had been accepted for publication in IEEE Wireless Communications Magazine.
  
  

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  • [Mar'2019]
    • We are pleased to announe that two papers from our lab have been accepted for presentation in ICC 2019.
      • "Blockchain-based Lightweight Authentication Mechanism for Vehicular Fog Infrastructure" by Post Doc. Kuljeet Kaur.
      • "An Efficient Blockchain-based Hierarchical Authentication Mechanism for Energy Trading in V2G Environment" by Post Doc. Sahil Garg.
    • We are pleased to announce that three papers from our lab have been accepted for presentation in INFOCOM2019.
      • "ECC-based Secure and Lightweight Authentication Protocol for Mobile Environment" by Post Doc. Sahil Garg.
      • "A Secure, Lightweight, and Privacy-Preserving Authentication Scheme for V2G Connections in Smart Grid" by Post Doc. Kuljeet Kaur.
      • "An Energy-driven Network Function Virtualization for Multi-domain Software Defined Networks" by Post Doc. Kuljeet Kaur.
    • A paper titled "Spectral Efficiency Analysis of the Decoupled Access for Downlink and Uplink in Two-Tier Network" by our PhD student Zeeshan Sattar has been accepted for publication in  IEEE  Trans. On Vehicular Technology.
    • A paper titled "Performance Analysis of Full-Duplex Vehicle Relay-Based Selection in Dense Multi-lane Highways" by our PhD student Khaled Eshteiwi has been accepted for publication in IEEE Access Journal.
  • [Feb'2019]
    • A paper entitled: "Artificial neural network for in-bed posture classification using bed-sheet pressure sensors" by our PhD student Georges Matar has been accepted for publication in the prestigious Q1 IEEE Journal of Biomedical and Health Informatics.
    • We are pleased to announce that our PhD student Zeeshan Sattar received a best poster award (second place / Jury decision) for his research work titled as "Spectral Efficiency Analysis of the Decoupled Access for Downlink and Uplink in Two Tier Network" in the annual Congrès du LaCIME.
    • Our graduate student Marouane Hachimi received a best poster award (based on the votes of attendees) in the annual Congrès du LaCIME.
  • [Jan'2019]
    • We are very pleased to announce that Dr. Kuljeet Kaur (Post Doc.) has been awarded the NSERC PDF fellowship,  it is one of the most prestigious and competitive postdoctoral fellowships in Canada.
    • Three papers from our lab has been accepted for presentations  the Wireless Communications and Networking Conference (WCNC 2019).
      •  'Securing Fog-to-Things Environment Using Intrusion Detection System Based On Ensemble Learning' by Poulmanogo Illy (PhD student).
      • 'Managing Fog Networks using Reinforcement Learning Based Load Balancing Algorithm' by Jung Bayk (PhD student)
      • 'Enhanced Minimal Scheduling Function for IEEE 802.15.4e TSCH Networks' by Hamza Tayeb (MSc Student)
    • A paper titled "Robust Design of AC Computing-Enabled Receiver Architecture for SWIPT Networks," by our PhD student Vu Tran has been accepted for publication in the IEEE Wireless Communications Letters.
  • [Nov'2018]
    • Prof. Geogres Kaddoum just received Prix d’excellence de la relève volet Sciences naturelles, génie et sciences de la santé du réseau de l’Université du Québec.
      Johanne Jean, President of the University of Quebec, Professor Georges Kaddoum and Pierre Dumouchel, Executive Director of ÉTS
      https://www.etsmtl.ca/nouvelles/2018/georges-kaddoum-prix-excellence-universite-quebec/
  • [Sep'2018]
    • We are very excited to annouunce that our PhD student Long Kong has been awarded the Mitacs Globalink award for a research visit to the Centre for Wireless Communication at University of Oulu, Finland
    • We are pleased to announce that our PhD student Georges Matar received the Substance Research Dissemination fellowship award
  • [Aug'2018]
    • A paper titled "Unobtrusive sleep monitoring using cardiac, breathing and movements activities: an exhaustive review" by our PhD student Georges Matar has been accepted for publication in IEEE access journal
    • A paper titled "Highly Accurate and Asymptotic Analysis on the SOP over SIMO α-μ Fading Channels" by our PhD student Long Kong has been accepted for publication in IEEE Communications Letters
      
  • [Jul'2018]
    • Our PhD student Sahabul Alam has been awarded the prestigious NSERC Postgraduate Doctoral Scholarship
  • [Jun'2018]
    • We are pleased to announce that our colleague Ebrahim Soujeri successfully defended his Ph.D. thesis and nominated for the best thesis award by the jury
    • A paper titled "Resource Allocation in SWIPT Networks under a Non-Linear Energy Harvesting Model: Power Efficiency, User Fairness, and Channel Non-Reciprocity" by our PhD student Vu Tran has been accepted for publication in IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology
  • [May'2018]
    • A paper titled "Joint Channel Resources Allocation and Beamforming in Energy Harvesting Systems" by our Phd student Dat Le Thanh has been accepted for publication in IEEE Wireless Communications Letters
  • [Apr'2018]
    • A paper titled "Cascaded α-μ Fading Channels: Reliability and Security Analysis" by our PhD student Long Kong has been accepted for publication in the IEEE Access
    • A paper titled "Implementation of a Chaotic True Random Number Generator Based on Fuzzy Modeling" of our PhD student Ngoc Nguyen has been accepted for publication in The 16th IEEE International NEWCAS Conference
    • A paper titled "RF Wireless Power Transfer: Regreening Future Networks" of our PhD student Ha-Vu Tran is listed in the popular articles of IEEE Potentials (ranked 4-th / 50)
    • A paper titled "Performance Analysis of Distributed Wireless Sensor Networks for Gaussian Source Estimation in the Presence of Impulsive Noise" of our PhD student Sahabul Alam has been accepted in the prestigious Q1 IEEE Signal Processing Letters
    • Our PhD student Ngoc Nguyen has been awarded the prestigious ‘Faculty for the future by Schlumberger foundations’ grant
    • A paper titled "On Secrecy Bounds of MIMO Wiretap Channels with ZF detectors" of our PhD student Long Kong has been accepted in a IEEE IWCMC 2018 conference
  • [Mar'2018]
    • A paper titled "On Secrecy Analysis for D2D Networks over \alpha-\mu Fading Channels with Randomly Distributed Eavesdroppers" of our PhD student Long Kong has been accepted in a IEEE ICC 2018 flagship Workshop - 5G Wireless Security
  • [Feb'2018]
    • We are pleased to announce the press appearance of our PhD student Georges Matar. In the news article he explained his research work and its efficacy to improve our daily lives. Full article can only be read on iPAD.
  • [Jan'2018]
    • A paper from our lab titled as "Cross-Layer Authentication Protocol Design for Ultra-Dense 5G HetNets" has been accepted for presentation in IEEE ICC 2018 Communication and Information Systems Security Symposium (CISS)
    • PhD student Georges Matar received a prestigious JA De Sève fellowship award
    • Three students (Georges Matar, Ha-Vu Tran, and  Jungyeon Baek ) from our research team received a prestigious research grant from Pervasive and Smart Wireless Applications for the Digital Economy (PERSWADE) research program
  • [Dec'2017]
    • Prof. Kaddoum has been appointed Associate Editor of the IEEE Transactions of Forensic and Information security
    • Two papers from our research group has been accepted for presentation in WCNC'2018
    • PhD student Michael Atallah received a prestigious JA De Sève fellowship award
    • PhD student Georges Matar received a prestigious Réseau de Bio-imagerie du Québec fellowship award
  • [Oct'2017]
    • PhD student Georges Matar received the BRAIN fellowship award
    • Five papers from our research group has been accepted and presented in PIMRC 2017
    • A paper titled "A First Empirical Look on Internet-scale Exploitations of IoT Devices", co-authored by Prof. Kaddoum received a best paper award in PIMRC 2017
  • [Sep'2017]
    
    • PhD student Zeeshan Sattar received a prestigious research grant from Pervasive and Smart Wireless Applications for the Digital Economy (PERSWADE) research program
  • [Apr'2017]
    • Prof. Kaddoum has been awarded the exemplary reviewer for the IEEE Transactions on Communications
  • [Mar'2017]
    • PhD student Georges Matar received the ÉTS Internal fellowship award
  • [Jul'2016]
    • H. Kaushal, G. Kaddoum: "Underwater Optical Wireless Communication". IEEE Access 4: February, 2016 (Q1) (Ranked #9 among the 100 highly accessed papers of all time of all IEEE journals
  • [Apr'2016]
    • Prof. Kaddoum has been appointed Associate Editor of the IEEE Communications letter journal.
  • [Apr'2015]
    • Prof. Kaddoum has been awarded the exemplary reviewer for the IEEE Transactions on Communications.