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My research activities include:
- The fifth generation (5G) wireless networks and technologies
- Internet of Things (IoT)
- Tactical Communications
- Application of machine learning on wireless communications
- Signal Processing
- Wireless Communications
- Cooperative Communications
- Secure Transmissions
- Space Communications
Teaching
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Curriculum Vitae
Postes occupés après le doctorat
2020-07 à présent : Professeur, Départment de Génie électrique de l'École de technologie supérieure (ÉTS), Montréal, Québec, Canada
2016-05 à 2020-07 : Professeur agrégé, Départment de Génie électrique de l'École de technologie supérieure (ÉTS), Montréal, Québec, Canada
2013-09 à 2016-05 : Professeur assistant, Départment de Génie électrique de l'École de technologie supérieure (ÉTS), Montréal, Québec, Canada
2013-04 à 2013-12 : Consultant scientifique, Departement de signal et communications, MacDonald Dettwiler & Associates Inc (MDA).
2011-11 à 2013-09 : Chercheur institutionnel au laboratoire LACIME de l’École de technologie supérieure (ETS), Montréal, Québec, Canada
2009-09 à 2011-10 : Chercheur postdoctoral au laboratoire LACIME de l'ÉTS, & Département génie électrique McGill, Montréal, Québec, Canada.
2008-09 à 2009-08 : Attaché Temporaire d’Enseignement et de Recherche (ATER) à temps complet à l’institut national polytechnique de Toulouse (ENSEEIHT) France.
Curriculum
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.
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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..
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2003-09 à
2005-08 |
Diplôme d'ingénieur en électronique de l'École Nationale Supérieure des Ingénieurs des Techniques Avancées (ENSTA). Brest, France.
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1999-09 à
2003-08 |
Baccalauréat en électronique de l’Université Libanaise Faculté des Sciences II, Beyrouth, Liban. (Majeur de promotion). |
Affiliations professionnelles
- Membre de l’Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
- Membre de l’Ordre des ingénieurs du Québec (OIQ)
Enseignement
Enseignement au premier cycle
ELE412 : Ondes électromagnétique
Se familiariser avec le phénomène de radiation ainsi que la propagation et la transmission des ondes électromagnétiques dans différents milieux.
ELE785 : Systèmes de communication sans fil
Synthétiser les notions de télécommunications afin de maîtriser la conception des systèmes de télécommunications pratiques en mettant l'accent sur l'étude de cas de liaisons hertziennes, satellites, de téléphonie cellulaire et de réseaux sans fil de la norme 802.11.
Activités de recherche
Current Research Projects
We are living in an era of virtual products, from virtual shopping stores to virtual reality, the cutting edge technology is changing the world the way we see and feel it. This ever growing and ever changing e-world places new requirements on the way we connect and communicate and sets new constraints on the next generation of wireless access i.e., 5G systems. The main goal of 5G system is to transform our society into hyper connected society in which mobile devices will play even more important role in shaping and improving the lives of a common man.
The date rate demands of 5G systems when met with the scarce resources in spectrum of microwave, the result was rather disappointing and therefore it forced research community of both industry and academia to search for new horizons. And it didn’t took them long to come up with the solution in form of huge unused spectrum of millimeter wave (mmW).

Though the idea of using mmW is new in wireless communications but its history goes back to 1890s when J.C. Bose was experimenting with millimeter wave signals and just to have a good perspective about the time, it was the same era when Marconi were inventing radio communications. Therefore when it comes to the basic physics of mmW, we already know almost everything about it.
As of today, 5G communication systems are comprised of a set of goals that must be achieved for future wireless networks. However, despite the lack of standards a few paths are foreseen to achieve those goals, such as,
- Massive MIMO
- Downlink and uplink decoupling
- Spatial and non-orthogonal multiple access
- Multi-radio access technologies
In this context, it is of uttermost importance to be able to fully characterize the performance of the proposed technologies to determine how future networks will look like and to guide its deployment. The classical method to evaluate the system level performance of the coverage and rate of wireless networks always employ a regular deployment of the base stations and a hexagonal coverage area. This model has worked well enough so far but it presented shortcomings in face of the challenges of modern wireless networks. Firstly, this model is not scalable and does not allow for analytical results. Secondly, it does not represent faithfully the deployment patterns of modern networks.
Currently our group is focusing on the following research objectives
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To use advanced mathematical tools, such as, stochastic geometry, to characterize and derive analytical expressions for the performance of 5G systems
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To use stochastic geometry to characterize the performance of large wireless networks employing spatial and non-orthogonal multiple access
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Optimization of downlink and uplink decoupling in multi-radio access technologies
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Modelling and characterization of massive MIMO channels with beamforming
- Optimization of hybrid precoding for massive MIMO
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.
Physical layer security in wireless networks
Due to the exponential growth of personal data flow over wireless networks, information security is increasingly becoming a big concern when designing new communication systems. As shown in the figure, the private messages from the transmitters are exposed to the legitimate destinations, as well as to the malicious users (eavesdroppers), because of the shared nature of wireless medium. Henceforth, how to protect the private information from eavesdropping is our challenge.
Such security issues are usually addressed by deploying encryption algorithms, key management schemes, fingerprints, attack detection and prevention at the upper layers. Unfortunately, such configuration are becoming more unreliable and hard to implement in the future networks with the rapid progress of computational devices. Inspired by such reality, an alternative or complement approach, termed as Physical layer security, takes advantages of the randomness and fading property of wireless channels to minimize the possibility of information leakage. Observed from the figure, one possible solution is to diminish the quality of the received signal at eavesdropper whilst increasing that of the intended receiver from the information theoretical perspective. Apart from that, plenty of researchers from the academia and industrial community are focusing on investigating how to enhance physical layer security from other perspectives, such as game theory, graph theory, etc.
To this end, the core of this project is on the exploration of how to jam the eavesdroppers at reasonable prices. Specifically, we will deploy the existing promising techniques, such as beamforming, energy harvesting, and channel coding etc., for the purposing of designing the novel reliable and secure communication systems.
On top of that, Shifting from physical layer security to medium access control and other upper layers, corresponding secrecy-enhancement behaviors should be well understood and designed to accommodate the use of secrecy-based physical layer transmission schemes. All in all, the security issues of many networks are awaiting for further analysis from the viewpoint of cross-layer designing.
Internet of things for smart living
Today, all objects are becoming connected to the internet. Internet of Things (IoT) is a generic term to denote objects connected to each other for several uses in a wide range of fields to measure and exchange data from real world. As example, the use of IoT communication has been increasing and developing to cover more applications, such as in the medical field including patient monitoring and remote healthcare. With the introduction of commercial off-the-shelf technologies (COST) in the Body Area Network (BAN) sensing devices, the demands on IoT applications in the medical field are expected to continue increasing incredibly in order to reduce obtrusiveness, costs, and time consumption of health care by making remote operations possible. On the other hand, the industrial field occupies a tremendous part in the revolution of IoT applications leading to transforming countries and companies in a new generation of economic progress and competition. Nowadays, connected factories are designed to communicate internally, i.e., within the plant network, and with the outside world to ensure a reliable processing of industrial operations. The ultimate goal is to provide a global platform through which an optimized interaction of people, smart machines, and data will lead to far-reaching effects on the production, operation rates, and efficiency capabilities of industries worldwide.

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:
- How to conceive resilient MAC protocol in order to build a network communication immune against sophisticated jamming attacks?
- How could we optimize the integration of BAN devices into IoT communication schemes to improve healthcare monitoring and treatment operations in terms of robustness, efficiency and care cost?
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.

To end with, an important problematic that could be faced in this field is how we can design robust networks based on Wireless Sensor Networks for effective, safe and easy deployment of sensing nodes to collect physical data. Infinite are the applications and outcomes of such work, particularly in our research, we will be focusing on two main applications:
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Industrial applications, in what relates to smart cities and convergence of intelligent data and machine learning to create a new of its kind robust platform for public services, which increases the progress of operations and the overall productivity. A new standard 802.15.4e TSCH has been proposed to allow 802.15.4 devices to support the wide range of applications. In the same vein, we are focusing to bring improvements to this protocol by proposing and implementing some modifications at the MAC layer in order to provide an adaptive channel hopping mechanism and node access to channel scheduling.
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Biomedical applications, particularly the design of intelligent medical care systems and that includes the conventional medical operations that require time, resources, and obtrusive protocols namely monitoring, feedback and treatment operations. In this vein, an important direction would be the design of a remote medical monitoring system that will shortcut distances making the whole world a client target of a one geographically limited medical center.
Smart grid communications

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.
Vehicular cooperative wireless networks
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.
Design and implementation of random number generators for secure wireless communications

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:
- Exploring different ways to generate RNG i.e. chaos, non-linear maps, laser, quantum, ambient noise
- Analyzing different performance metrics of the designed generators
- Exploring the automatic and manual reseeding techniques
- Optimizing the designed random number generation to secure wireless communications
- Integrating designed RNGs on digital platform
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Free space optical communications
A rapid advancement in the area of broadband wireless communication has been experienced over the last few decades. The demand for high capacity links up to last mile is increasing day by day. Currently, the existing radio frequency (RF) or microwave technologies are capable of providing data rates up to several 100 Mbps. Therefore, researchers are now aiming for alternate technologies that can provide larger bandwidth and higher data rates.

One of the alternatives is free space optical (FSO) communication system that provides point-to-point optical link through atmospheric channel using optical signal as the carrier wave. It is a line-of-sight technology that enables highly secured optical link between two transceivers separated by a certain distance. This technology has drawn lot of attention these days over owing to it large gain, higher bandwidth, quick deployment, less power, mass requirement, and license free spectrum. As the frequency of optical carrier lies between of 1012 – 1016 Hz, data rates in the range of Tbps can be achieve with FSO communication system. Also, due to its extremely narrow beam width (in mrad), FSO communication provides less or no interference with enhanced data security. FSO communication involves terrestrial links, underwater optical links, ground-to-satellite/satellite-to-ground links, inter-satellite links, deep space probes, high altitude platform (HAP) links and unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) links. It also provides backhaul solutions where it carries the traffic of cellular phones from antenna towers back to the PSTN with high speed and large data rate. Major applications of FSO system are:
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Bridging WAN Access
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Military access
Although FSO system has several advantages over conventional RF systems, this technology has to face several challenges due to random nature of the atmospheric channel. The signal in FSO link suffers due to various adverse effects (viz., absorption, scattering and turbulence) of the atmospheric channel. Although FSO link is relatively unaffected by rain and snow, but it is seriously affected due to fog and atmospheric turbulence. Both these factors lead to serious degradation in the link performance and make the communication link infeasible. The degrading effect of atmospheric channel can be improved by use of various mitigation techniques like aperture averaging, diversity, adaptive optics and coding.
Ongoing research in this area is focusing on following topics:
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Adaptive optics
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Channel correlation and diversity
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Coded optical wireless links for space and underwater communication
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Adaptive transmission in FSO systems
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Relay assisted transmission in space and underwater optical communication
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Hybrid RF/FSO system
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Pointing and tracking requirements
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Coherent and Non-coherent FSO systems
Advanced modulation techniques

The Internet of Things is intended to offer wireless connections with multiple devices and sensors. Therefore, low latency, low complexity, low energy consumption, low data rate are important metrics that need to be fully or partially satisfied in several IoT applications.
The concept of internet of things (IoT) is developed in parallel to the continuous progress in 5G networks by virtue of wireless sensor networks (WSN) that have emerged as the most promising technology for the future. And it is expected to touch various aspects of our life like fitness, automation, security, localization, consumer electronics, smart grid devices, and many more.
In fact, WSNs have been among one of the most researched areas in the last decade. The emergence of this technology has only been possible via advances in and availability of small and inexpensive smart sensors that are cost effective and easily deployable. Various modulation schemes so far have been used in wireless sensor nodes, among these schemes are M-ary quadrature amplitude modulation (MQAM), offset quadrature phase-shift keying (OQPSK) and multiple frequency-shift keying (MFSK), which is also known as the green modulation scheme providing the advantage of low complexity and low cost of implementation.
Our main goal in this research project is to design an alternative low-complexity, energy efficient, low latency, and/or low data rate secure modulation schemes which fit the requirements of both current and emerging wireless sensor networks.
To achieve the aforementioned research goals, many research directions will be investigated. For example, we will exploit degrees of freedom that already exist in the wireless modem to carry extra bits without increasing the receiver’s complexity.
Moreover, we will propose new non-coherent modulator schemes that exploit new waveforms to increase the robustness of the transmission, to enhance the spectral efficiency while keeping the implementation complexity of the system within its pragmatic limits. Therefore, a careful design of the transmitted signals in non-coherent communication techniques will be exploited in order to approach the channel capacity of coherent systems.
Development of localization algorithms dedicated for aircraft using ADS-B technology
This research project aims to develop new techniques and algorithms to improve the precision of location by using multilateration technique. This technology is gaining popularity in radio navigation industry due to its high localization accuracy, flexibility, and low cost of deployment.

Memberships in groups and research laboratories
Laboratoire de communications et d'intégration de la microélectronique - LaCIME
COMunité
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Équipe de recherche
Research Team

Current Team Members
Postdoctoral Fellows
Ph.D. Students
Former Team Members
Research Engineers
Postdoctoral Fellows
Former Ph.D. Students
Former M.Sc. Students
Adel Hariz
Adel Hariz, Maitrise
Superviseur: Prof. Georges Kaddoum
Date de début: Mai 2014
Date de fin prévue: Septembre2014
Parcours académique
Ingénieur d’état en électronique option communication obtenu en 2004 à l’université des sciences et de la technologie Houari Boumediene en Algérie, inscrit en maitrise en génie, concentration réseau de télécommunication à l’Ecole de Technologie Supérieure depuis Janvier 2013.
Résumé du projet de recherche
Implémentation et teste des générateurs aléatoires base sur le chaos, évaluation de leur robustesse comparativement aux TRNG (True Random Number Generator).
Amar Ouadi
Amar Ouadi, Maitrise
Superviseur: Prof. Georges Kaddoum
Date de début: Septembre 2014
Date de fin prévue: Juin 2015
Parcours académique
I obtained a B. Ing. Degree in telecommunication from Algiers Sciences and Technologies University - Algeria, in 2008.
My project was "development of an application for planning and dimensioning of GSM Radio Network (BSS part)"
I worked from 2008 for Alcatel-Lucent and then for Q-tel Group in Algeria as a radio engineer. My duties included: deployment of radio equipment (2G & 3G), commissioning, monitoring at the OMC (Operation and Maintenance Center) and following Technical issues.
I am currently a master’s student at ÉTS Montreal: my research work, under the supervision of Prof. Kaddoum at the Electrical Engineering Department, focuses on the performance analysis of a Spatial Modulation for Generalized MIMO systems over fading channels.
Ashraf Tahat
Ashraf Tahat, Research & Development Engineer
Superviseur : Prof. Georges Kaddoum
Date de début : Juin 2015
Parcours
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.
Partenaire industriel
Projet de recherche
Geolocation of a Mobile Terminal in a Cellular System Deploying Moving Base Stations
Articles
Google Scholar:
https://scholar.google.ca/citations?user=C6rWhHwAAAAJ&hl=en
Carlos Arcila
Carlos Andres Arcila B,Status: Master student
Superviseur: Prof. Georges Kaddoum
Date de début: Session automne 2014
Date de fin prévue: Session été 2015
Parcours académique
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.
Hung Tran
Dr. Hung Tran, Stagiaire post-doctoral
Superviseurs : Prof. Francois Gagnon et Prof. Georges Kaddoum
Date de début: Janvier 2015
Parcours académique
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.
Titre du projet de recherche actuel
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.
Publications
Farhad Shokraneh

Farhad Shokraneh, Doctorat
Superviseur: Prof. Francois Gagnon
Co-superviseur: Prof. Georges Kaddoum
Date de début: Septembre 2013
Parcours académique
J'ai obtenu une maîtrise en communications sans fil de Lund University, Suède, en 2012
De décembre 2012 à Juillet 2013, j'ai été chercheur au département EIT de Lund University, Suède
Depuis 2013, je suis étudiant au doctorat sous la supervision des professeurs Georges Kaddoum et François Gagnon au département de génie électrique de l'École de technologie supérieure, à Montréal.
Mes intérêts de recherche portent sur les es systèmes de communication cahotiques, Chaos à base générateurs de nombres aléatoires, réseaux sans fil sécurisés.
Résumé de mon projet de recherche
The research topic is Wireless Communications, focussed on chaos-based communication systems. The main aim of this research is to present secure communication systems based on chaos with high throughput, good performance, and low energy consumption. To this end, different types of random number generators (RNGs), particularly chaos-based RNGs are studied, tested and applied to some communication systems with specific modulation/coding schemes and MAC protocols.
Ebrahim A. Soujeri
Ebrahim A. Soujeri, Doctorat
Superviseur: Prof. Georges Kaddoum
Date de début: Septembre 2014
Date de fin prévue: Septembre 2018
Parcours académique
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
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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E. Soujeri, "MAI-Cancellation for DS-CDMA Using Hysteretic Hopfield Neural Networks", ICCCP'07, Sultan Qaboos University, Oman, Feb. 16-19, 2007.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
Supervision de thèses
- Raed Abdallah, Studies on Services and Features of Next Generation Mobile Systems 3G and Above (XG), M.Sc. Thesis. European University of Lefke, 2008.
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Tarek Reh, Pattern Recognition Using Neural Networks, M.Sc. Thesis. European University of Lefke, 2005.
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Irfan Chaudry, Performance evaluation of WCDMA with smart antennae, M.Sc. Thesis. European University of Lefke, 2004.
Mes sujets de Doctorat et de maîtrise
- Hopfield Neural Network Multi-user Detection for Multi-carrier CDMA Systems in Multi-path Fading Channels, Ph.D. Thesis, Eastern Mediterranean University, 2003.
- Hopfield Neural Network Multi-User Detection For Code Division Multiple Access [CDMA] Communication Systems, M.Sc. Thesis, Eastern Mediterranean University, 1997.
Co-edition of proceedings
- Proceedings of the 6th Archeng International Architecture & Eng. Symposia, 2010. European University of Lefke, North Cyprus. (EEECS'10)
- Proceedings of the 5th Archeng International Architecture & Eng. Symposia, 2008. European University of Lefke, North Cyprus. (EEECS'08)
- Proceedings of the 4th FAE International Symposium, 2006. European University of Lefke, North Cyprus. (E.E.Eng.)
- Proceedings of the 3rd FAE International Symposium, 2004. European University of Lefke, North Cyprus. (E.E.Eng.
Membre du jury - projets de fin d'études du 1er cycle
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.
Examinateur externe (membre du jury)
* 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.
Prix et honeurs
Plusieurs mentions d'honeurs et de certificats d'honeurs au cours des études de 1er cycle
Bourses
Bourse EMU au doctorat et à la maîtrise 1995-2003]
Autres activités
Réviseur de nombreuses revues techniques publiés par Kluwer, IEE et IEEE.
Réviseur de nombreux colloques et conférences internationales.
Georges Matar
Georges Matar, Doctorat
Superviseur : Prof. Jean-Marc Lina
Co-Superviseur : Prof. Georges Kaddoum
Date de début: Septembre 2015
Date de fin prévue: Décembre 2018
Parcours académique
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.
Titre du projet de recherche actuel
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
Ha-Vu Tran, Doctorat
Superviseur : Prof. Georges Kaddoum
Date de début: Septembre 2015
Date de fin prévue: Août 2019
Parcours académique
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.
Titre du projet de recherche actuel
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
Yacouba Coulibaly
Yacouba Coulibaly, Maîtrise
Superviseur: Prof. Georges Kaddoum
Date de début: Session été 2014
Date prévue de fin: Session automne 2014
Parcours académique
I have received the B. Ing. Degree in computer network and telecommunication from CEFIVE, Abidjan (Côte d’Ivoire), in 2009.
Currently, I am in M. Ing. at l'École de Technologie Supérieure (ETS) de Montréal, Canada, where I started on April 2013 under the supervision of Pr Georges Kaddoum.
My research interests are in protocols, interfaces and interconnection between mobile network operators and mobile virtual network operators.
Yogesh Anil Nijsure
Dr. Yogesh Anil Nijsure, Post-doctoral fellow
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
Parcours académique
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.
Project de recherche actuel
Research on ADS-B and Multilateration Techniques for co-operative surveillance and future air-traffic management solutions.
Brevet
“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.
Publications
Articles de journal
- 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.
- 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.
- 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
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- Ahmadi, H.; Yong Huat Chew; Pak Kay Tang; Nijsure, Y.A., "Predictive opportunistic spectrum access using learning based hidden Markov models," IEEE 22nd International Symposium on Personal Indoor and Mobile Radio Communications (PIMRC), 2011, vol., no., pp.401,405, 11-14 Sept. 2011.
- Anang, K.A.; Rapajic, P.B.; Eneh, T.I.; Nijsure, Y., "Minimum Cell Size for Information Capacity Increase in Cellular Wireless Network," IEEE 73rd Vehicular Technology Conference (VTC Spring), 2011, pp.1-6, 15-18 May 2011.
Sites personnels:
Joseph Saliba
Joseph Saliba, Professionnel de recherche
Superviseur: Prof. Georges Kaddoum
Date de début: 1er mars 2014
Parcour académique
Je détient un baccalauréat en ingénierie informatique de Ecole polytechnique de Montréal depuis Juin 2014.
Partenaire industriel
Coddict (www.coddict.com )
Résumé de mon projet de recherche:
"Smart and reliable stock management using RFID tags"
This research project aims to develop an intelligent and reliable tool for stock using active RFID radios. Once the coverage area of RFIDs is well defined, we will develop an algorithm to recover and process data from RFID tags spread in the warehouse. A study will be conducted at the beginning of this project to identify the suitable type of RFID radio in order to minimize the interference with other existing electromagnetic signals present in the same area of operation. Once the RFID algorithm is designed and tested, a graphical user interface will be developed and the whole system (algorithm and user interface) will be integrated on smart phone making the stock management more flexible and easy to follow.
Khaled M. Eshteiwi
Khaled M. Eshteiwi
Superviseur: Prof. Georges Kaddoum
Co-superviseur: Prof. François Gagnon
Date de début: Septembre 2014
Date prévue de fin: Decembre 2017
Parcours académique
I received a B.S. degree in electrical engineering (communications) from Higher Institute for Electronics, Baniwaleed, Libya, in June 2002, and the M.S. degree in Communications Engineering, Academy of Postgraduate Studies, Tripoli, Libya, in July 2006. In 2013, I joined Concordia University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada, a Master student. Actually, I have been doing my Ph.D. research studies under the supervision of Prof. Georges Kaddoum and the co-supervision of Prof. François Gagnon at Electrical Engineering Department of ÉTS, University of Quebec, Canada. My current research interests include wireless communications, telecommunications, cooperative wireless communications and relaying networks.
Publications
Articles de conférences
Khaled M. Eshteiwi and M. Reza Soleymani , ”Performance Analysis of Decode-and Forward Cooperative Networks with Best Relay Selection,” The 5th International Conference on Communications, Signals and Coding (MIC-CSC 2012), Istanbul, Turkey, October 2012.
Khaled M. Eshteiwi and M. Reza Soleymani , ”Performance Analysis of Amplify-and Forward Cooperative Networks with Best Relay Selection,” The 6th International Conference on Communications, Networking and Information technology (MIC-CNIT 2012),Dubai, UAE, December 2012.
Khaled M. Eshteiwi” Outage Performance of Relay Selection in Cooperative Wireless Networks over Rayleigh Fading Channels,” The 2013 Canadian Conference on Electrical and Computer Engineering (CCECE’2013), Regina, Canada, May 2013.
Golnaz Ghodoosipour
Golnaz Ghodoosipour
Superviseur : Prof. Georges Kaddoum
Date de début : 9 mars 2015
Parcours académique
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.
Partenaire industriel
Radio IP Software
Projet de recherche
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.
Articles
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
Articles de conférence
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
Long Kong
Long Kong, Doctorat
Superviseur : Prof. Georges Kaddoum
Date de début: Février 2015
Parcours académique
I received my B.Eng. and M.Sc. in Communication Engineering from Hainan University and Xiamen University, China, in the year of 2010 and 2013, respectively. After my graduation, I worked as a research assistant in the Electrical and Information Engineering department of Hong Kong Polytechnic University from August, 2013 to November, 2014. During my research periods, my research interests vary from UWB, chaos communication and physical layer network coding to channel coding. Currently, one more research direction, physical layer security is also in my reach.
Titre du projet de recherche actuel
Physical layer security in wireless networks
Sommaire du projet de recherche
Physical layer security is an emerging research area that focuses on exploring the security solution for different wireless communication networks while using the property of physical layer, such as, thermal noise, interference, and the time-varying nature of fading channels. The goal of this research topic is mainly to propose reasonable transmission scheme from the perspective of information theory and signal processing. For this purpose, different communication techniques, for instance, channel coding, MIMO, cooperation communication and cognitive radio are considered.
Publications
Long Kong, Pingping Chen, and Lin Wang, “Outage Probability Analysis of a Space-time Block Coding Physical-layer Network Coding,” IEEE 4th International conference on Wireless Communication and Signal Processing, Yellow Mountain, 25-17 Oct. 2012.
Mickael Atallah
Michael Atallah, Doctorat
Superviseur : Prof. Georges Kaddoum
Date de début: 01 Jan 2015
Date de fin prévue: 01 Jan 2019
Parcours académique
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.
Titre du projet de recherche actuel
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.
Mohammed F. A. Ahmed
Mohammed F. A. Ahmed, Stagiaire post-doctoral
Superviseur: Prof. Georges Kaddoum
Date de début:
Parcours académique
I have received the B.Sc. and the M.Sc. degrees in communication engineering from Assiut University, Assiut, Egypt, in 2001 and 2004, respectively, and the Ph.D. degree in communications engineering from University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, in 2011. My Ph.D. supervisor was Prof. Sergiy Vorobyov.
In 2012, I joined King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST), KSA, as a postdoctoral research fellow where I worked with Prof. Mohamed-Slim Alouini and Prof. Tareq Al-Naffouri.
Currently, I am post-doctoral fellow at L'École de technologie supérieure (ETS) de Montréal, Canada, where I started on February 2014. I work with Prof. Georges Kaddoum.
My research interests are in statistical and array signal processing, robust adaptive beamforming, estimation and detection theory, cooperative and cognitive systems, and data analysis.
Publications
Articles de journal
- M. F. A. Ahmed, Tareq Y. Al-Naffouri, Mohamed-Slim Alouini, and George Turkiyyah, "The Effect of Correlated Observations on the Performance of Distributed Estimation," IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, vol. 61, no. 24, pp. 6264-6275, Dec. 2013.
- M. F. A. Ahmed and S.A. Vorobyov, "Sidelobe control in collaborative beamforming via node selection," IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, vol. 58, no. 12, pp. 6168-6180, Dec. 2010.
- M. F. A. Ahmed and S. A. Vorobyov, "Collaborative beamforming for wireless sensor networks with Gaussian distributed sensor nodes," IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, vol. 8, no. 2, pp. 638-643, Feb. 2009.
- M. F. Abdel-Latif (Ahmed), T. K. Abdelhamid, H. Selim, and M. M. Doss, "A new VQ index remapping process based on index usage activity for image compression", Journal of Engineering Sciences, Assiut University, pp. 239-247, Jan. 2005.
Articles de conférence
- M.F. A. Ahmed, Tareq Y. Al-Naffouri, and Mohamed-Slim Alouini, "On the Effect of Correlated Measurements on the Performance of Distributed Estimation," in Proc. IEEE International Conference on Communications 2013 (ICC'13), Budapest, Hungary, June 2013, pp. 3333-3337.
- M.F. A. Ahmed and S.A. Vorobyov,"Power control for collaborative beamforming in wireless sensor networks," invited paper, Conference Record of the Forty Fifth Asilomar Conference on Signals, Systems and Computers (ASILOMAR), November 2011, pp. 99-103.
- M. F. A. Ahmed and S.A. Vorobyov, "Node selection for sidelobe control in collaborative beamforming for wireless sensor networks," in Proc. IEEE 10th Workshop on Signal Processing Advances in Wireless Communications 2009 (SPAWC '09), Perugia , Italy, June 2009, pp. 519-523.
- Y. M. Y. Hasan, M. F. A. Ahmed,T. K. Abdelhamid, "Image adaptive selective encryption of vector quantization index compression," in Proc. IEEE International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP '09), Cairo , Egypt, Nov. 2009, pp. 1277-1280.
- M. F. A. Ahmed and S. A. Vorobyov, "Performance characteristics of collaborative beamforming for wireless sensor networks with Gaussian distributed sensor nodes," in Proc. 33st IEEE Inter. Conf. on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP '08) , Las Vegas, Nevada, USA, Mar. 30-Apr. 4, 2008, pp. 3249-3252.
- M. F. A. Ahmed and S.A. Vorobyov, "Beampattern random behavior in wireless sensor networks with Gaussian distributed sensor nodes," in Proc. Canadian Conference on Electrical and Computer Engineering (CCECE '08) , Niagara Falls, ON, Canada, May. 4-7, 2008, pp. 257-260.
- M. F. Abdel-Latif (Ahmed), T. K. Abdelhamid, M. M. Doss, and H. Selim, "Utilizing repeated adjacencies of vector quantization indices in image compression," in Proc. of the Fourth IEEE International Symposium on Signal Processing and Information Technology (ISSPIT '04) , Rome, Italy, Dec. 2004, pp. 287-290.
Site personnel: http://www.ualberta.ca/~mabdella
Nabila Aribi
Nabila Aribi, Maîtrise
Superviseur: Prof. Georges Kaddoum
Date de début:
Date prévue de fin: Hiver 2015
Parcours académique
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.
Publications
Futurs étudiants en recherche / postes disponibles
Opportunités de projets de recherche à la maîtrise et au doctorat
Plusieurs possibilités de projets de maîtrise et de doctorat sont disponibles. Certains de ces projets sont faits en collaboration avec l'industrie et sont subventionnés par le CRSNG et le FQRNT. Certaines bourses d'études sont disponibles pour les excellents candidats. Les candidats intéressés doivent fournir par courriel les informations suivantes:
- Une courte lettre expliquant le profil du candidat, sa motivation à entreprendre des études supérieures et les activités de recherche d'intérêt (et le projet si connu). Le candidat doit aussi préciser la date cible de début de ses études et le support financier requis.
- Un curriculum vitae à jour.
- Un relevé de notes des études au baccalauréat (et maîtrise pour les candidats au doctorat).
Seuls les dossiers complets seront considérés. Seuls les candidats retenus seront contactés.
News
- We are pleased to announce that our colleague Dr. Jung Bayek successfully defended her thesis and was nominated for the best thesis award by the jury.
- Congratulations! Dat le Thanh's paper was accepted for publication in the IEEE Wireless Communications Letters with the title "Spectrum Access Allocation in Vehicular Networks With Intermittently Interrupted Channels.
- [Jan 2022]
- We are please to announcce that our colleague Dr. Ngoc Nguyen and Dr. Ali Ranjha successfully defended their thesis
- We are please to announcce that our colleague Dat le Thanh successfully defended his thesis and was nominated for the best thesis award by the jury. Also he joined Dell Technologies as 5g NR Layer 1 Developer.
- Congratulations! Poulmanogo Illy's paper was accepted for publication in the IEEE Transactions on Network and Service Management with the title "ML-based IDPS Enhancement With Complementary Features For Home IoT Networks.
- [Dec. 2021]
- Congratulations! Sadia Khaf's paper was accepted for publication in the IEEE Internet of Things Journal (Q1 Journal) with the title "Partially Cooperative Scalable Spectrum Sensing in Cognitive Radio Networks under SDF Attacks.
- Congratulations! Ali Ranjha's paper was accepted for publication in the IEEE transactions On Vehicular Technology (Q1 Journal) with the title "URLLC-enabled by Laser Powered UAV Relay: A Quasi-Optimal Design of Resource Allocation, Trajectory Planning and Energy Harvesting."
- We are pleased to announce that our colleague Dr. Victor Evangelista successfully defended his thesis and was nominated for the best thesis award by the jury. Also he joined the prestigious Ericsson's Early career program for leadership development.
- Congratulations! Jung-Yeon Baek's paper was accepted for publication in the IEEE Internet of Things Journal (Q1 Journal) with the title "Online Partial Offloading and Task Scheduling in SDN-Fog Networks with Deep Recurrent Reinforcement Learning."
- [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".
- [May. 2020]
- 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
- [Apr. 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! Our PhD candidate Mohamed Dawa was awarded the ÉTS doctroal scholarship.
- Congrats! Our PhD candidate Zeeshan Sattar was awarded the ÉTS doctroal scholarship.
- [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".
- [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.
- [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".
- [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"

- [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.
- [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).

- [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".
- [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.
- [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.
- [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.
- [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.
- 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.
- [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]
- [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]
- [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.