Faculty Contributions: Recent submissions
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Effects of treated municipal wastewater and sea water irrigation on soil and plant characteristics
( Springer Nature , 2009 , Article)The increasing need for water in the arid areas of the world has resulted in the emergence of wastewater application for agriculture and landscape. Using treated wastewater in agricultural irrigation can provide more ... -
Genetic diversity of date palm genotypes in qatar as determined by SSR and ISSR markers
( International Society for Horticultural Science , 2010 , Conference Paper)Date palm is the most important fruit tree in Qatar. Recently developed techniques, based on DNA markers, offer new tools for genetic analysis. The objectives of the present study are to analyze the genetic diversity among ... -
Waste-to-value: Guidelines for the potential applications of Prosopis juliflora
( Elsevier Ltd , 2023 , Other)This review describes the guidelines and potential applications of Prosopis juliflora (P. juliflora) as a waste-to-value resource. It aimed to explore various methods of P. juliflora control through utilization, including ... -
Isolation and evaluation of Qatari soil rhizobacteria for antagonistic potential against phytopathogens and growth promotion in tomato plants
( Nature Research , 2023 , Article)Plant growth promoting rhizobacteria are a diverse group of microorganisms that enhance the growth of plants under various conditions. In this study, 55 isolates of endogenous rhizobacteria were collected from the rhizosphere ... -
Diversity, Characterization, and Potential Applications of Bacterial Endophytes Isolated from the Halophyte Limonium axillare
( Springer , 2024 , Article)Recently, there has been a worldwide call to explore nature-friendly compounds, which could enhance plant growth and substitute for chemically synthesized products. Endophytes are a group of microorganisms that lives in ... -
Diversity, Distribution, and applications of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi in the Arabian Peninsula
( Elsevier B.V. , 2024 , Other)Investigations of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi (AMF) received extreme interests among scientist including agronomists and environmental scientists. This interest is linked to advantages provided by AMF in enhancing the ... -
The characteristics, occurrence, and toxicological effects of alternariol: a mycotoxin
( Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH , 2024 , Other)Alternaria species are mycotoxin-producing fungi known to infect fresh produce and to cause their spoilage. Humans get exposed to fungal secondary metabolites known as mycotoxin via the ingestion of contaminated food. ... -
Prevalence of fibularis tertius muscle in South-eastren Indian populat1ion: A surface anatomical study
( TIP ARASTIRMALARI DERNEGI , 2016 , Article)Background: Fibularis tertius (FT) is a variant muscle of the anterior compartment of leg which involves in dorsiflexion and evertion of the foot. Literature shows that the reported prevalence of FT ranges from 49-100%. ... -
Small data in iot: An mcs perspective
( Springer , 2019 , Book chapter)The unprecedented advances in wireless technology have led to the development of the IoT and numerous associated sub-paradigms, such as wireless sensor networks (WSNs), software-defined networks, mobile crowdsensing (MCS), ... -
Optimized handover strategy with hybrid satisfaction mechanisms
( Springer , 2015 , Article)One of the key features of cellular systems is the possibility to switch the connection over several cells while the user is moving. This handover between cells has been upgraded to tackle different operator/users' objectives, ... -
A blockchain-based IoT networks-on-demand protocol for responsive smart city applications
( Institution of Engineering and Technology , 2019 , Conference Paper)This paper proposes a distributed resource sharing protocol for enabling dynamic deployment of IoT networks on-demand in smart cities. The proposed protocol leverages Blockchain technology to: (i) enable distributed and ... -
Impact of Users' Mobility on the Quality of Edge Sensing Systems
( Institution of Engineering and Technology , 2022 , Conference Paper)Edge sensing (ES) is rising as a potential solution for remote sensing challenges, as it exploits the proliferation of smartphones, leverages their embedded sensors to collect data from users' surrounding environments and ... -
Experimental Delay Tests in Causal THz Channel Model
( Springer , 2024 , Article)In traditional radio propagation, the arrival time of the signal at the receiver from the transmitter is the propagation delay, which is given by the distance divided by the light speed, in the line of sight (LoS) scenario. ... -
Uplink Cluster-Based Radio Resource Scheduling for HetNet mMTC Scenarios
( Institution of Engineering and Technology , 2022 , Conference Paper)Current telecommunication networks face a surge in the number of connected Machine-type Communication (MTC) devices, creating an unprecedented disproportionate demand for existing resources, especially when working with a ... -
An Energy Saving Strategy for LTE-A Multiantenna Systems
( Springer , 2015 , Article)Long Term Evolution - Advanced (LTE-A) supports closed-loop Multiple Input Multiple Output (MIMO) techniques to improve its performance, but in order to exploit multiuser (MU) MIMO channel capabilities, the design of an ... -
Crowdsensing based prompt emergency discovery: A sequential detection approach
( Institution of Engineering and Technology , 2019 , Conference Paper)The growth in the number of smart devices has mobilized the rise of CrowdSensing (CS) as an enabler of smart cities, where state-of-the-art technologies are utilized to improve citizens' quality of life. CS is a novel ... -
CrowdDelegate: An MCS-based approach for improving retail labor cost-efficiency
( Institution of Engineering and Technology , 2019 , Conference Paper)Following the revolutionary changes the Internet of Things (IoT) has introduced to sensor networks, the Mobile Crowd Sensing (MCS) paradigm aims to utilize people and their smartphones as an extended instrument to sense. ... -
IEEE 802.11ax based Medium Access Design for Wireless IoT-Blockchain Networks
( Institution of Engineering and Technology , 2020 , Conference Paper)Blockchain technology has attracted the attention of many researchers in several different application fields. The use of blockchain in Internet of Things (IoT) and Wireless Sensors Networks (WSN) has been analyzed and ... -
Resource Allocation in THz-based Subcarrier Index Modulation Systems for Mobile Users
( Institution of Engineering and Technology , 2021 , Conference Paper)Subcarrier Index Modulation (SIM) has recently received a significant research efforts analyzing its different performance aspects. In this paper, performance analysis of SIM over TeraHertz (THz) frequency band is conducted ... -
Adaptive Cooperative Network Coding based MAC protocol for device-to-device communication
( Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc. , 2015 , Conference Paper)Device-to-Device (D2D) communication allows the direct connection of mobile devices in a cellular network. In D2D networking, cooperative communication is inherent due to the proximity of the devices that are able to ...
