Browsing by Author "Zorba, Nizar"
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A QoE-Aware Joint Resource Allocation and Dynamic Pricing Algorithm for Heterogeneous Networks
( Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc. , 2017 , Conference Paper)The rise of third-party content providers and the introduction of numerous applications has been driving the growth of mobile data traffic in the past few years. The applications' various Quality of Service (QoS) requirements ... -
A quality of experience-aware association algorithm for 5G heterogeneous networks
( Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc. , 2017 , Conference Paper)The rise of Over The Top (OTT) content providers and the introduction of numerous applications has been driving the growth of mobile data traffic in the past few years. The applications' various Quality of Service (QoS) ... -
A Reputation-aware Mobile Crowd Sensing Scheme for Emergency Detection
( Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc. , 2019 , Conference Paper)The unforeseen proliferation of smart devices has set in motion research efforts aimed at building Smart Cities (SCs) that improve the well-being of their citizens. One of the key technologies to achieve a SC is Mobile ... -
Analysis and quality of service evaluation of a fast charging station for electric vehicles
( Elsevier Ltd , 2016 , Article)Electrification of transportation is considered as one of the most promising ways to mitigate climate change and reduce national security risks from oil and gasoline imports. Fast charging stations that provide high quality ... -
Case Study of Multi-Course Project-Based Learning and Online Assessment in Electrical Engineering Courses during COVID-19 Pandemic
( MDPI , 2022 , Article)Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, there was an urgent need to move to online teaching and develop innovative teaching techniques to ensure that student learning outcomes (SOs) were fulfilled. This paper tries to answer the ... -
Connectivity Analysis of THz-based UAV-BS Considering Mobile Users
( Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc. , 2021 , Conference Paper)With the growth of the high data rate demands and the continuous increase in the connected devices and user's equipment, the spectrum resources will not be sufficient. Terahertz (THz) spectrum band provides wide bandwidth ... -
Cross-Network Performance Analysis of Network Coding Aided Cooperative Outband D2D Communications
( Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc. , 2017 , Article)In long term evolution advanced (LTE-A) networks, the mobile devices can concurrently participate in cooperative outband device-to-device (D2D) data exchange by virtue of user- or network-related parameters (e.g., interest ... -
Drone-based Cooling Leakage Measurement from Glass Front Towers
( Qatar University Press , 2020 , Poster)Drones are increasingly gaining more attention these days and they are employed in several applications. At the same time, the steps towards saving energy and improving the efficiency of the buildings are significantly ... -
Energy optimization for bidirectional multimedia communication in unsynchronized TDD systems
( Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc. , 2016 , Article)Energy efficiency is one of the main system resources that has to be optimally allocated, due to its impact on the amount of generated interference and the battery life for multimedia communication. In this paper, we ... -
Exploiting wideband spectrum occupancy heterogeneity for weighted compressive spectrum sensing
( Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc. , 2017 , Conference Paper)Compressive sampling has shown great potential for making wideband spectrum sensing possible at sub-Nyquist sampling rates. As a result, there have recently been research efforts that aimed to develop techniques that ... -
Green Cooperative Device-to-Device Communication: A Social-Aware Perspective
( Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc. , 2016 , Article Review)As the mobile operators strive to accommodate the increasing load and capacity requirements, direct communication among users' devices, namely, device-to-device (D2D) communication, emerges as an advantageous solution for ... -
IEEE 802.11 based Medium Access Design for Wireless IoT-Blockchain Networks
( Qatar University Press , 2020 , Poster)Communication is a very basic essence of the blockchain network and must be carefully planned while integrating with IoT, where an extremely large number of devices are interconnected. In this work, blockchain nodes are ... -
IEEE 802.11AX based medium access design for wireless IOT-blockchain network
(2021 , Master Thesis)Blockchain has emerged as a potential solution to security concerns over decentralized networks, and communication is the basic essence of the blockchain network and must be carefully planned while integrating with Internet ... -
Joint resource scheduling and peak power shaving for cloud data centers with distributed Uninterruptible power Supply
( Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc. , 2016 , Conference Paper)The grid company enforces high penalties for the peak power demands of cloud data centers. These high penalties result in high electricity bill that can be avoided by relying on the servers' Uninterruptible Power Supply ... -
Long mmWave Backhaul Connectivity Using Fixed-Wing UAVs
( Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc. , 2022 , Conference Paper)This paper discusses the analysis of a fixed wing unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV)-based millimeter wave (mmWave) backhaul link, that is offered as a cost effective and easy to deploy solution to connect a disaster or remote ... -
Matching game based virtualization in shared LTE-A networks
( Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc. , 2016 , Conference Paper)Wireless network virtualization enables efficient network sharing in Long Term Evolution Advanced (LTE-A) networks. For the accommodation of ever-increasing user demands, Mobile Virtual Network Operators (MVNOs) can lease ... -
Optimizing joint data and power transfer in energy harvesting multiuser wireless networks
( Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc. , 2017 , Article)Energy harvesting emerges as a potential solution for prolonging the lifetime of the energy-constrained mobile wireless devices. In this paper, we focus on radio frequency (RF) energy harvesting for multiuser multicarrier ... -
Power demand control scenarios for smart grid applications with finite number of appliances
( Elsevier Ltd , 2016 , Article)In this paper we propose novel and more realistic analytical models for the determination of the peak demand under four power demand control scenarios. Each scenario considers a finite number of appliances installed in a ... -
Reducing data center energy consumption through peak shaving and locked-in energy avoidance
( Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc. , 2017 , Article)The grid company enforces high penalties for the peak power demands of cloud data centers. These penalties result in high electricity bills that can be avoided by relying on the servers' uninterruptible power supply (UPS) ... -
Scheduling policies for two-state smart-home appliances in dynamic electricity pricing environments
( Elsevier Ltd , 2014 , Article)In this paper we present and analyze online and offline scheduling models for the determination of the maximum power consumption in a smart grid environment. The proposed load models consider that each consumer's residence ...
