Research

Communication & Information Systems (CIS) Group

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The Communication and Information Systems Research Group has international recognition for its expertise in several research areas, and members of the group have worked on major collaborative research projects with European and US industry. This includes work on advanced receiver architectures for digital communications systems, synchronization techniques for communication systems, cable TV systems and networks, mobile and network security, microwave circuits, channel and source coding. The group has an established track record, which is well reflected in disseminated research in over 300 refereed journal and conference publications and patents.

Research Motivation

Wireless and broadband networks and systems have been and will continue to represent a rapidly growing technology that requires the development of a universal system which adapts to any standard and modulation scheme in order to improve the spectral efficiency and system capacity. The seamless integration of multimedia services in the proposed system requires the use of robust and efficient new methods of software radio, adaptive equalization, synchronization, modulation, as well as multi-antenna spatial techniques. Hence, the objective of the CIS Research Group is to develop new methods and techniques that lead to improved seamless multimedia signal reception.

Mission

  • Undertake original research in communication theory
  • Implement current and future generation communication and information systems
  • Pursue internationally recognized research, to attract top research scholars, and achieve technology transfer with industry
  • Disseminate research output to industry and academia through conferences and seminars at national and international levels

Research areas

  •  Practical System Design of MIMO, OFDM, and OFDMA systems
  •  Cross-Layer Design for Cooperative OFDM-based Networks
  •  Turbo and Space-Time Coding
  •  Resource Allocation and Scheduling in Wireless Networks
  •  Sensor Array and Multi-Channel Processing
  •  Receiver Structures for Digital Communication Systems
  •  Analog and Digital Synchronization Techniques
  •  Broadband Telecommunications
  •  Wireless Communications
  •  Cognitive Networks

Members

Ph.D. Students 

                   Highly Efficient Decoders for Turbo Product Codes 

  • Ahmed Rashed Kulaib            

                  Cooperative Localization in Wireless Sensor Networks 

 

MSc by Research Students

                   Integrated OFDM-Smart Antenna System for Future Wireless Communications 

  • Nuha Saad Al Khanbashi           

                   Performance Evaluation of Location Fingerprinting Techniques in WLAN Systems 

 

Bsc Students (Final Year Project)

  • Ahmed Al-Tunaiji           

                   Home Positioning Systems using Wireless Sensor Networks 

  •  Humaid Al-Shamsi           

                   Performance Evaluation of Adaptive OFDM Receiver Structures in Impulsive Noise

  •  Omar Al-Kaf           

                   Analysis and Design of Electrically Small MIMO Antennas for 4G LTE Terminals 

  • Emran Al-Bafta           

                   Developing algorithms for FIR System identification (channel estimation) 

  • Husain Saeed Saleh          

                   Wireless communication device for safe driving  

  • Ahmed Obaid Al-Ali           

                   Theory and Simulation of Interference Mitigation for OFDM Multihop LTE Networks 

  • Saif Al-Khatri           

                   Performance of MIMO-OFDM Systems in Correlated Fading Channels 

  • Husain Saeed Saleh           

                   Wireless communication device for safe driving 

  • Hamad Al-Shehhi           

                   Impulsive Noise Reduction using Smart Antennas for Robust Wireless Communications 

  • Mohamed Ahmed           

                   Performance evaluation of MIMO-OFDM system over multipath fading channel 

 

Research Collaboration

  • EBTIC
  • University of Western Ontario, London, ON, Canada
  • Simon Fraser University, British Columbia, Canada
  • Newcastle University, UK
  • University of Waterloo, Canada
  • University of Hertfordshire, UK