All Outputs (43)

The impact of higher order sectorisation on the performance of millimetre wave 5G network (2016)
Presentation / Conference
Al-Falahy, N., & Alani, O. (2016, August). The impact of higher order sectorisation on the performance of millimetre wave 5G network. Presented at 10th International Conference on Next Generation Mobile Applications, Security and Technologies, Cardiff, UK

The fifth Generation (5G) mobile network will provide services with extreme data rate and latency demands compared to current cellular network, and provide massive capacity and connectivity to multitude of devices with diverse requirements and applic... Read More about The impact of higher order sectorisation on the performance of millimetre wave 5G network.

Reliable spectrum sharing management for cognitive radio networks (2016)
Presentation / Conference
Fakhrudeen, A., & Alani, O. (2016, March). Reliable spectrum sharing management for cognitive radio networks. Presented at Wireless Innovation Forum Conference on Wireless Communications Technologies and Software Defined Radio, Reston, Virginia, USA

Cognitive Radio Network (CRN) is a promising network that aims to improve the utilization of the wireless spectrum by enabling unlicensed (secondary) users to reuse the underutilized bands. CRN utilization of residual spectrum bands of Primary (licen... Read More about Reliable spectrum sharing management for cognitive radio networks.

A multi polynomial CRC circuit for LTE-Advanced communication standard (2015)
Presentation / Conference
Al-doori, Q., & Alani, O. (2015, September). A multi polynomial CRC circuit for LTE-Advanced communication standard. Presented at Computer Science and Electronic Engineering Conference (CEEC), Colchester

Long Term Evolution Advanced (LTE-A) uses four different kinds of Cyclic Redundancy Check (CRC) to verify the integrity of the transmitted data, which implies using four circuits for each CRC in the transceiver system. In this paper, a novel algorith... Read More about A multi polynomial CRC circuit for LTE-Advanced communication standard.

Resource allocation in LTE-Advanced network: A collaborative market game approach (2015)
Book Chapter
Egena, O., & Alani, O. (2015). Resource allocation in LTE-Advanced network: A collaborative market game approach. In 2015 7th Computer Science and Electronic Engineering Conference (CEEC) (99-104). IEEE. https://doi.org/10.1109/CEEC.2015.7332707

The essence of high Quality of Service (QoS) provisioning in any network is centred on optimization which can be approached from different perspectives depending on the network operator's target and Key Performance Indicator (KPI) parameter tweaking... Read More about Resource allocation in LTE-Advanced network: A collaborative market game approach.

Transportation evacuation strategies based on VANET disaster management system (2014)
Journal Article
Alazawi, Z., Alani, O., Abdljabar, M., & Mehmood, R. (2014). Transportation evacuation strategies based on VANET disaster management system. Procedia Economics and Finance, 18, 352-360. https://doi.org/10.1016/S2212-5671%2814%2900950-2

The September 2001 attacks and the 2011 Japan earthquake and tsunami disaster are examples of manmade and natural disasters which have revealed the importance of having a disaster management system in place. A great deal of advisory and policy docume... Read More about Transportation evacuation strategies based on VANET disaster management system.

Transportation evacuation strategies based on vehicular disaster management system in urban network environment Zubaida (2014)
Thesis
Alazawi, Z. (in press). Transportation evacuation strategies based on vehicular disaster management system in urban network environment Zubaida. (Thesis). University of Salford

The importance of emergency response systems have grown tremendously in the recent times due to the many manmade and natural disasters in recent years such as September 2001, July 2005 London bombings and the 2011 Japan earthquake and tsunami disaste... Read More about Transportation evacuation strategies based on vehicular disaster management system in urban network environment Zubaida.

Algorithm for seamless vertical handover in heterogeneous mobile networks (2014)
Presentation / Conference
Khattab, O., & Alani, O. (2014, August). Algorithm for seamless vertical handover in heterogeneous mobile networks. Presented at Science and Information Conference, London

One challenge of wireless networks integration is to provide ubiquitous wireless access abilities and seamless handover for mobile communication devices between different types of technologies (3GPP and non-3GPP) such as Wireless Fidelity (Wi-Fi), Wo... Read More about Algorithm for seamless vertical handover in heterogeneous mobile networks.

A smart disaster management system for future cities (2014)
Book Chapter
Alazawi, Z., Alani, O., Abdljabar, M., Altowaijri, S., & Mehmood, R. (2014). A smart disaster management system for future cities. In Proceedings of the 2014 ACM international workshop on Wireless and mobile technologies for smart cities - WiMobCity '14 (1-10). New York: ACM Digital Library. https://doi.org/10.1145/2633661.2633670

Smart cities have recently become the mainstream approaches for urbanisation. Environmental, social and economic sustainability, digital inclusion and high quality of life are considered important elements in smart cities design. Emergency response s... Read More about A smart disaster management system for future cities.

The design and calculation of algorithm for optimizing vertical handover performance (2014)
Presentation / Conference
Khattab, O., & Alani, O. (2014, July). The design and calculation of algorithm for optimizing vertical handover performance. Presented at Communication Systems, Networks & Digital Signal Processing (CSNDSP), Manchester

In this paper, we address the problem of Vertical Handover (VHO) connection failure which occurs when a handover is initiated but a target network does not have sufficient resources to complete it. Thus it is important to identify Radio Access Techno... Read More about The design and calculation of algorithm for optimizing vertical handover performance.

An intelligent disaster management system based evacuation strategies (2014)
Presentation / Conference
Alazawi, Z., Alani, O., Abdljabar, M., & Mehmood, R. (2014, July). An intelligent disaster management system based evacuation strategies. Presented at Communication Systems, Networks & Digital Signal Processing (CSNDSP), Manchester

The increasing urgent need of emergency response systems cannot be underestimated due to the many manmade and natural disasters in recent years, such as the recent Philippines storm, Typhoon Haiyan 2013, and September 2001 attacks. The transportation... Read More about An intelligent disaster management system based evacuation strategies.

Collaborative algorithm for resource allocation in LTE-advanced relay networks (2014)
Presentation / Conference
Onu, E., & Alani, O. (2014, July). Collaborative algorithm for resource allocation in LTE-advanced relay networks. Presented at Communication Systems, Networks & Digital Signal Processing (CSNDSP), Manchester

The Capability of Relay Station deployment towards improving transmission data rates in the LTE-Advanced network has become widely accepted. However, Relay deployments are usually burdened with the problem of resource allocation on the relay link whe... Read More about Collaborative algorithm for resource allocation in LTE-advanced relay networks.

Spectrum efficiency improvements in cognitive radio networks : a survey (2014)
Presentation / Conference
Fakhrudeen, A., & Alani, O. (2014, June). Spectrum efficiency improvements in cognitive radio networks : a survey. Presented at The 15th Annual Postgraduate Symposium on the Convergence of Telecommunications, Networking and Broadcasting (PGNet 2014), Liverpool John Moores University

Cognitive Radio Network (CRN) is a promising wireless communication network to utilize the unused and otherwise wasted portions of the licensed spectrum under two conditions; protecting the primary users of the licensed spectrum from harmful interfer... Read More about Spectrum efficiency improvements in cognitive radio networks : a survey.

A survey on media independent handover (MIH) and IP multimedia subsystem (IMS) in heterogeneous wireless networks (2013)
Journal Article
Khattab, O., & Alani, O. (2013). A survey on media independent handover (MIH) and IP multimedia subsystem (IMS) in heterogeneous wireless networks. International Journal of Wireless Information Networks, 20(3), 215-228. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10776-013-0213-9

One challenge of wireless networks integration is to provide ubiquitous wireless access abilities and seamless handover for mobile communication devices between different types of technologies (3GPP and non-3GPP), such as Global System for Mobile Com... Read More about A survey on media independent handover (MIH) and IP multimedia subsystem (IMS) in heterogeneous wireless networks.

I AM 4 VHO : new approach to improve seamless vertical handover in heterogeneous wireless networks (2013)
Journal Article
Khattab, O., & Alani, O. (2013). I AM 4 VHO : new approach to improve seamless vertical handover in heterogeneous wireless networks. International journal of computer networks and communications (Print), 5(3), 53-63. https://doi.org/10.5121/ijcnc.2013.5304

Two mechanisms have been proposed independently by IEEE and 3GPP; namely, Media Independent Handover (MIH) and Access Network Discovery and Selection Function (ANDSF), respectively. These mechanisms enable a seamless Vertical Handover (VHO) between... Read More about I AM 4 VHO : new approach to improve seamless vertical handover in heterogeneous wireless networks.

Mobile IPv4 based procedure for loose coupling architecture to optimize performance in heterogeneous wireless networks (2013)
Journal Article
Khattab, O., & Alani, O. (2013). Mobile IPv4 based procedure for loose coupling architecture to optimize performance in heterogeneous wireless networks. International journal of computer networks and wireless communications (Online), 3(1), 56-61

One challenge of wireless networks integration is the ubiquitous wireless access abilities which provide the seamless handover for any moving communication device between the different types of technologies (3GPP and non-3GPP), such as GSM (Global Sy... Read More about Mobile IPv4 based procedure for loose coupling architecture to optimize performance in heterogeneous wireless networks.

Minimizing of scheduling time under fair centralized scheduling and efficient routing algorithms for WiMAX based mesh networks (2013)
Book Chapter
Farej, Z., & Alani, O. (2013). Minimizing of scheduling time under fair centralized scheduling and efficient routing algorithms for WiMAX based mesh networks. In 2013 International Conference on Electrical Communication, Computer, Power, and Control Engineering (ICECCPCE) (141-146). IEEE. https://doi.org/10.1109/ICECCPCE.2013.6998750

n WiMAX mesh networks (WMN) the interferences among links have high effect on their performance. Therefore, an efficient routing algorithm is needed to choose the less interfered and more balanced links during the construction of the routing tree. Tw... Read More about Minimizing of scheduling time under fair centralized scheduling and efficient routing algorithms for WiMAX based mesh networks.

Reducing BGP convergence time by fine tuning the MRAI timer on different topologies (2012)
Presentation / Conference
Pradeep, K., & Alani, O. (2012, June). Reducing BGP convergence time by fine tuning the MRAI timer on different topologies. Presented at 13th Annual Post Graduate Symposium on the Convergence of Telecommunications, Networking and Broadcasting PGNET 2012, Liverpool, UK

In this paper, we use a discrete event simulator for testing convergence behavior of the only existing inter domain routing protocol BGP. The purpose of this paper is to analyze and understand the convergence behavior of BGP under different network t... Read More about Reducing BGP convergence time by fine tuning the MRAI timer on different topologies.

Reducing the PAPR by utilisation of the LDPC code (2009)
Journal Article
Daoud, O., & Alani, O. (2009). Reducing the PAPR by utilisation of the LDPC code. IET Communications, 3(4), 520. https://doi.org/10.1049/iet-com.2008.0344

Peak-to-average power ratio (PAPR) is a major drawback in most multi-carrier communication techniques such as orthogonal frequency division multiplex system (OFDM). OFDM consists of lots of independent modulated subcarriers, as a result the amplitu... Read More about Reducing the PAPR by utilisation of the LDPC code.

Indoor airport radio-over-fiber network traffic model and performance analysis using load-balancing techniques [Invited] (2009)
Journal Article
de Grado Vivero, A., Alani, O., & Elmirghani, J. (2009). Indoor airport radio-over-fiber network traffic model and performance analysis using load-balancing techniques [Invited]. Journal of Optical Networking, 8(3), 272. https://doi.org/10.1364/JON.8.000272

The development of airports such as the recently inaugurated Heathrow Terminal 5, as well as the increasing number of people using these facilities every day for business reasons or just for pleasure, reveals the importance of adequate and reliable c... Read More about Indoor airport radio-over-fiber network traffic model and performance analysis using load-balancing techniques [Invited].

Multi-component teleservice model for multimedia applications (2008)
Presentation / Conference
Alani, O., & Mehmood, R. (2008, September). Multi-component teleservice model for multimedia applications. Presented at Next Generation Mobile Applications, Services and Technologies, Cardiff

In third generation (3G) wireless systems we have a number of resources being used exclusively and simultaneously to satisfy the requirements of an arriving multimedia call. This would require the occupation and release of these resources to be in a... Read More about Multi-component teleservice model for multimedia applications.