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Improvement of OLSRv2 massage format and message interval to reduce routing overhead in a D2D communication network (2024)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Optimized Link State Routing Protocol (OLSR) is one of the most famous and widely used proactive routing protocols in Device-to-Device (D2D) communication network. The traditional OLSR and OLSRv2 experience significantly higher routing overhead due t... Read More about Improvement of OLSRv2 massage format and message interval to reduce routing overhead in a D2D communication network.

An Improved Routing Protocol for Optimum Quality of Service in Device-to-Device and Energy Efficiency in 5G/B5G (2024)
Journal Article
Bunu, S. M., Alani, O. Y., & Saraee, M. (2024). An Improved Routing Protocol for Optimum Quality of Service in Device-to-Device and Energy Efficiency in 5G/B5G. Future Internet, 16(9), Article 347. https://doi.org/10.3390/fi16090347

Some challenges when implementing the optimized link state routing (OLSR) protocol on real-life devices and simulators are unmanageable: link quality, rapid energy depletion, and high processor loads. The causes of these challenges are link state pro... Read More about An Improved Routing Protocol for Optimum Quality of Service in Device-to-Device and Energy Efficiency in 5G/B5G.

Unveiling the Impact: Human Exposure to Non-Ionizing Radiation in the Millimeter-Wave Band of Sixth-Generation Wireless Networks (2024)
Journal Article
Al-Falahy, N., & Y. Alani, O. (2024). Unveiling the Impact: Human Exposure to Non-Ionizing Radiation in the Millimeter-Wave Band of Sixth-Generation Wireless Networks. Electronics, 13(2), https://doi.org/10.3390/electronics13020246

The investigation into potential hazards linked with millimeter-wave (mmWave) radiation is crucial, given the widespread adoption of body-centric wireless sensor nodes operating within this frequency band. This is particularly pertinent in light of i... Read More about Unveiling the Impact: Human Exposure to Non-Ionizing Radiation in the Millimeter-Wave Band of Sixth-Generation Wireless Networks.

Low Power Low-Density Parity Check Encoder Using Dynamic Voltage and Frequency Scaling Approach (2023)
Journal Article
Nazar, N., Al-Doori, Q., & Alani, O. (2023). Low Power Low-Density Parity Check Encoder Using Dynamic Voltage and Frequency Scaling Approach. Mathematical modelling of engineering problems (Print), 10(1), 14-22. https://doi.org/10.18280/mmep.100102

Low-Density Parity Check (LDPC) codes are viewed as one of the best error correction coding (ECC) methods in terms of correction efficiency. They have been used in several modern data transmission standards, where the codecs are often built inside sp... Read More about Low Power Low-Density Parity Check Encoder Using Dynamic Voltage and Frequency Scaling Approach.

Machine learning-based optimized link state routing protocol for D2D communication in 5G/B5G (2022)
Presentation / Conference
Bunu, S., Saraee, M., & Alani, O. (2022, September). Machine learning-based optimized link state routing protocol for D2D communication in 5G/B5G. Presented at The 4th International Conference on Electrical Engineering and Informatics (ICELTICs) 2022, Banda Aceh, Indonesia

Device to Device (D2D) communication in Fifth
Generation (5G) and unavoidable in Beyond Fifth Generation
(B5G) technology is designed to increase network capacity by
offloading backhaul links and base stations traffic and
improving the performanc... Read More about Machine learning-based optimized link state routing protocol for D2D communication in 5G/B5G.

Wind energy (2022)
Book Chapter
Qasim, A., Al-Douri, Y., & Alani, O. (2022). Wind energy. In Renewable Energy: Analysis, Resources, Applications, Management, and Policy (1-24). AIP Publishing. https://doi.org/10.1063/9780735424272_006

Wind energy is one of the cheapest and cleanest resource of renewable energy. It is very useful to use this wind resource to generate electricity because wind power is clean, and efficient. Wind energy is the conversion of the wind kinetic energy int... Read More about Wind energy.

Information and communications technology and renewable energy monitoring (2022)
Book Chapter
Alani, O., Qasim, A., & Al-Douri, Y. (2022). Information and communications technology and renewable energy monitoring. In Renewable Energy: Analysis, Resources, Applications, Management, and Policy (1-22). AIP Publishing. https://doi.org/10.1063/9780735424272_010

In the past two decades, the telecommunication and Information and Communication Technology (lCT) industry has grown tremendously fast with increasing demand for modern value-added services and pervasive computing. This rapid and radical deployment o... Read More about Information and communications technology and renewable energy monitoring.

Renewable energy and nanotechnology (2022)
Book Chapter
Al-Douri, Y., Jose, R., Qasim, A., & Alani, O. (2022). Renewable energy and nanotechnology. In Renewable Energy: Analysis, Resources, Applications, Management, and Policy (1-24). AIP Publishing. https://doi.org/10.1063/9780735424272_004

The most advances of nanotechnology to renewable energy production, storage and use are reviewed. This aims to introduce several significant applications of nanotechnology in renewable energy field. In this work is reviewed and summarized carefully t... Read More about Renewable energy and nanotechnology.

A hybrid-structure offset-QAM filter-bank multi-carrier MIMO system (2022)
Thesis
Abou-elkheir, A. A hybrid-structure offset-QAM filter-bank multi-carrier MIMO system. (Thesis). University of Salford

Offset quadrature amplitude modulation (OQAM) filter-bank multi-carrier (FBMC), has great potential for boosting the spectral efficiency (SE) and energy efficiency (EE) of future communication systems. This is due to its superior spectral localizatio... Read More about A hybrid-structure offset-QAM filter-bank multi-carrier MIMO system.

Low-power dual-band on-body antenna for wireless body sensor networks (2020)
Thesis
Farghaly Sayed, S. Low-power dual-band on-body antenna for wireless body sensor networks. (Thesis). University of Salford

In Wireless Body Area Network (WBAN), the implanted biosensor collects various physiological data and wirelessly transmits the information to external medical devices in real time. The antenna design for this application faces great challenges as the... Read More about Low-power dual-band on-body antenna for wireless body sensor networks.

Millimetre wave frequency band as a candidate spectrum for 5G network architecture : a survey (2018)
Journal Article
Al-Falahy, N., & Alani, O. (2019). Millimetre wave frequency band as a candidate spectrum for 5G network architecture : a survey. Physical Communication, 32(Feb 19), 120-144. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.phycom.2018.11.003

In order to meet the huge growth in global mobile data traffic in 2020 and beyond, the development of the 5th Generation (5G) system is required as the current 4G system is expected to fall short of the provision needed for such growth. 5G is anticip... Read More about Millimetre wave frequency band as a candidate spectrum for 5G network architecture : a survey.

Latency reduction by dynamic channel estimator selection in C-RAN networks using fuzzy logic (2018)
Journal Article
Mahmood, A., Al-Yasiri, A., & Alani, O. (2018). Latency reduction by dynamic channel estimator selection in C-RAN networks using fuzzy logic. Computer Networks, 138, 44-56. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.comnet.2018.03.027

Due to a dramatic increase in the number of
mobile users, operators are forced to expand their networks
accordingly. Cloud Radio Access Network (C-RAN) was
introduced to tackle the problems of the current generation of
mobile networks and to supp... Read More about Latency reduction by dynamic channel estimator selection in C-RAN networks using fuzzy logic.

Improved capacity and fairness of massive machine type communications in millimetre wave 5G network (2018)
Journal Article
Al-Falahy, N., & Alani, O. (2018). Improved capacity and fairness of massive machine type communications in millimetre wave 5G network. Computers, 7(1), https://doi.org/10.3390/computers7010016

In the Fifth Generation (5G) wireless standard, the Internet of Things (IoT) will interconnect billions of Machine Type Communications (MTC) devices. Fixed and mobile wearable devices and sensors are expected to contribute to the majority of IoT traf... Read More about Improved capacity and fairness of massive machine type communications in millimetre wave 5G network.

A new processing approach for reducing computational complexity in cloud-RAN mobile networks (2018)
Journal Article
Mahmood, A., Al-Yasiri, A., & Alani, O. (2018). A new processing approach for reducing computational complexity in cloud-RAN mobile networks. IEEE Access, 6, 6927-6946. https://doi.org/10.1109/ACCESS.2017.2782763

Cloud computing is considered as one of the key drivers for the next generation of mobile
networks (e.g. 5G). This is combined with the dramatic expansion in mobile networks, involving millions
(or even billions) of subscribers with a greater numbe... Read More about A new processing approach for reducing computational complexity in cloud-RAN mobile networks.

Supporting massive M2M traffic in the Internet of Things using millimetre wave 5G network (2017)
Presentation / Conference
Al-Falahy, N., & Alani, O. (2017, September). Supporting massive M2M traffic in the Internet of Things using millimetre wave 5G network. Presented at 9th Computer Science & Electronic Engineering Conference (CEEC), University of Essex, UK

One of the challenges of Fifth Generation (5G) networks is how to support massive number of wireless devices in
the Internet of Things (IoT). IoT will interconnect billions of
devices under machine-to-machine communication links (M2M). However, thi... Read More about Supporting massive M2M traffic in the Internet of Things using millimetre wave 5G network.

Identification as a deterrent for security enhancement in cognitive radio networks (2017)
Journal Article
Fakhrudeen, A., & Alani, O. (2017). Identification as a deterrent for security enhancement in cognitive radio networks. IET Networks, 6(6), 193-202. https://doi.org/10.1049/iet-net.2017.0036

Cognitive Radio Networks (CRNs) are prone to emerging coexistence security threats such as Primary User Emulation Attack (PUEA). Specifically, a malicious CRN may mimic licensees’ (Primary Users (PUs)) signal characteristics to force another CRN to v... Read More about Identification as a deterrent for security enhancement in cognitive radio networks.

The impact of base station antennas configuration on the performance of millimetre wave 5G networks (2017)
Presentation / Conference
on the performance of millimetre wave 5G networks. Presented at The Ninth International Conference on Ubiquitous and Future Networks (ICUFN 2017), Milan

In this paper, two scenarios have been considered
for millimetre wave base station configuration. In the first
scenario, the approach of Distributed Base Station (DBS) with remote radio units (RRU) is chosen as the envisioned architecture for futur... Read More about The impact of base station antennas configuration on the performance of millimetre wave 5G networks.