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Microgrids As A Service for Rural Electrification in Sub-Saharan Africa. (2019)
Journal Article
Liu, Q., Kamoto, K. M., & Liu, X. (2020). Microgrids As A Service for Rural Electrification in Sub-Saharan Africa. Computers, Materials & Continua, 63(3), 1249-1261. https://doi.org/10.32604/cmc.2020.05598

The majority of the population on the African continent is unable to access basic electricity services, this despite the abundance of renewable energy sources (RESs). The inability to adequately tap into these RESs has led to the continued dependence... Read More about Microgrids As A Service for Rural Electrification in Sub-Saharan Africa..

Cross-modality interactive attention network for multispectral pedestrian detection (2018)
Journal Article
Zhang, L., Liu, Z., Zhang, S., Yang, X., Qiao, H., Huang, K., & Hussain, A. (2019). Cross-modality interactive attention network for multispectral pedestrian detection. Information Fusion, 50, 20-29. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.inffus.2018.09.015

Multispectral pedestrian detection is an emerging solution with great promise in many around-the-clock applications, such as automotive driving and security surveillance. To exploit the complementary nature and remedy contradictory appearance between... Read More about Cross-modality interactive attention network for multispectral pedestrian detection.

Sound Design (2018)
Book
McGregor, I. (2018). Sound Design

This book explores the underlying principles of sound design for linear and interactive media, and specifically how they apply to theatre. The focus of the text is about how to design effective sound so that audiences' experiences are as close as pos... Read More about Sound Design.

A New Weight based Rotating Clustering Scheme for WSNs (2017)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Essa, A., Al-Dubai, A. Y., Romdhani, I., & Esriaftri, M. A. (2017, May). A New Weight based Rotating Clustering Scheme for WSNs. Presented at 2017 International Symposium on Networks, Computers and Communications (ISNCC)

Although energy efficiency in Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) has been investigated widely, it is still a challenging dilemma. Clustering mechanisms are among the most widely recommended approaches to sustaining a network throughout its lifetime. Des... Read More about A New Weight based Rotating Clustering Scheme for WSNs.

Reliability and energy efficiency enhancement in wireless body area networks for e-health (2017)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Salayma, M., Al-Dubai, A., & Romdhani, I. (2016, November). Reliability and energy efficiency enhancement in wireless body area networks for e-health. Presented at 2016 19th Conference of Open Innovations Association (FRUCT), Jyväskylä, Finland

Wireless Body Area Network (WBAN) is a technology that revolutionises our understanding of the future digitised healthcare systems. WBAN has unique challenges and features compared to other wireless sensor networks. In addition to battery power consu... Read More about Reliability and energy efficiency enhancement in wireless body area networks for e-health.

10Gbit/s mode-multiplexed QPSK transmission using MDM-to-MFDM based single coherent receiver for intra- and inter data center networking (2017)
Journal Article
Asif, R., & Haithem, M. (2017). 10Gbit/s mode-multiplexed QPSK transmission using MDM-to-MFDM based single coherent receiver for intra- and inter data center networking. Optics Communications, 391, 106-110. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.optcom.2017.01.022

Generalized few-mode-fiber (FMF) transmission uses N coherent receivers for mode detection, where N scales with the number of fiber modes. Multiple coherent receivers increase the cost of optical network units (ONUs) in access networks, specifically... Read More about 10Gbit/s mode-multiplexed QPSK transmission using MDM-to-MFDM based single coherent receiver for intra- and inter data center networking.

Recent Advances in Indoor Localization: A Survey on Theoretical Approaches and Applications (2016)
Journal Article
Yassin, A., Nasser, Y., Awad, M., Al-Dubai, A., Liu, R., Yuen, C., Raulefs, R., & Aboutanios, E. (2017). Recent Advances in Indoor Localization: A Survey on Theoretical Approaches and Applications. Communications Surveys and Tutorials, IEEE Communications Society, 19(2), 1327-1346. https://doi.org/10.1109/comst.2016.2632427

Nowadays, the availability of the location information becomes a key factor in today’s communications systems for allowing location based services. In outdoor scenarios, the Mobile Terminal (MT) position is obtained with high accuracy thanks to the G... Read More about Recent Advances in Indoor Localization: A Survey on Theoretical Approaches and Applications.

Weight Driven Cluster Head Rotation for Wireless Sensor Networks (2016)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Eshaftri, M. A., Al-Dubai, A. Y., Romdhani, I., & Essa, A. (2016, November). Weight Driven Cluster Head Rotation for Wireless Sensor Networks. Presented at Proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Advances in Mobile Computing and Multi Media - MoMM '16, Singapore

Energy efficiency is one of the major issues in Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs), due to the limited power and processing capabilities of the Sensor Nodes (SNs). The clustering techniques proved to be the effective solution to improve the energy effic... Read More about Weight Driven Cluster Head Rotation for Wireless Sensor Networks.

Workshop videos for requirements communication. (2015)
Journal Article
Fricker, S. A., Schneider, K., Fotrousi, F., & Thuemmler, C. (2015). Workshop videos for requirements communication. Requirements Engineering, 21(4), 521-552. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00766-015-0231-5

Shared understanding of requirements between stakeholders and the development team is a critical success factor for requirements engineering. Workshops are an effective means for achieving such shared understanding. Stakeholders and team representati... Read More about Workshop videos for requirements communication..

Performance Evaluation of the RPL Protocol in Fixed and Mobile Sink Low-Power and Lossy-Networks (2015)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Wadhaj, I., Kristof, I., Romdhani, I., & Al-Dubai, A. (2015, October). Performance Evaluation of the RPL Protocol in Fixed and Mobile Sink Low-Power and Lossy-Networks. Presented at 2015 IEEE International Conference on Computer and Information Technology; Ubiquitous Computing and Communications; Dependable, Autonomic and Secure Computing; Pervasive Intelligence and Computing

Low-Power and Lossy-Network (LLN) are usually composed of static nodes, but the increase demand for mobility in mobile robotic and dynamic environment raises the question how a routing protocol for low-power and lossy-networks such as (RPL) would per... Read More about Performance Evaluation of the RPL Protocol in Fixed and Mobile Sink Low-Power and Lossy-Networks.

Performance evaluation of RPL objective functions (2015)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Qasem, M., Altwassi, H., Yassein, M. B., & Al-Dubai, A. (2015, October). Performance evaluation of RPL objective functions. Presented at International Workshop on Internet of Things and Smart Spaces (IoT-Smart-2015): Applications, Challenges and Future Trends in conjunction with the 14th IEEE International Conference on Ubiquitous Computing and Communications (IUCC 2015), Liverpool, UK

IPv6 Routing Protocol for Low-Power and Lossy
Networks (RPL) is a standard for Wireless Sensors Networks. RPL uses two different ‘objective functions’ (OFs), namely Minimum Rank with Hysteresis Objective Function (MRHOF); and Objective Function Zero... Read More about Performance evaluation of RPL objective functions.

An Efficient Dynamic Load-balancing Aware Protocol for Wireless Sensor Networks (2015)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Eshaftri, M. A., Al-Dubai, A. Y., Romdhani, I., & Yassein, M. B. (2015, December). An Efficient Dynamic Load-balancing Aware Protocol for Wireless Sensor Networks. Presented at Proceedings of the 13th International Conference on Advances in Mobile Computing and Multimedia - MoMM 2015

In Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs), clustering techniques are among the effective solutions to reduce energy consumption and prolong the network lifetime. During the iterative re-clustering process, extra energy and time are consumed especially at th... Read More about An Efficient Dynamic Load-balancing Aware Protocol for Wireless Sensor Networks.

Inspired counter based broadcasting in dynamic source routing protocol. (2015)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Yassein, M. B., & Al-Dubai, A. (2015, October). Inspired counter based broadcasting in dynamic source routing protocol. Paper presented at 14th IEEE International Conference on Ubiquitous Computing and Communications (IUCC-2015)

The broadcast storm problem is one of the most
challenging issues in Mobile ad Hoc Networks (MANETs).
However, it is still a challenging problem despite the great deal
of related works and existing solutions. Dynamic Source
Routing Protocol (DSR)... Read More about Inspired counter based broadcasting in dynamic source routing protocol..

Battery Aware Beacon Enabled IEEE802.15.4: An Adaptive and Cross-Layer Approach (2015)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Salayma, M., Al-Dubai, A., Romdhani, I., & Yassein, M. B. (2015, September). Battery Aware Beacon Enabled IEEE802.15.4: An Adaptive and Cross-Layer Approach. Presented at Proceedings of the 2015 Federated Conference on Computer Science and Information Systems

In Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs), energy conservation is one of the main concerns challenging the cutting-edge standards and protocols. Most existing studies focus on the design of WSN energy efficient algorithms and standards. The standard IEEE 80... Read More about Battery Aware Beacon Enabled IEEE802.15.4: An Adaptive and Cross-Layer Approach.

A load-balancing cluster based protocol for Wireless Sensor Networks. (2015)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Eshaftri, M., Al-Dubai, A., Romdhani, I., & Yassien, M. B. (2015, September). A load-balancing cluster based protocol for Wireless Sensor Networks. Paper presented at 4th International Conference on Wireless Sensor Networks (WSN'15)

Modelling and Characterization of NAND Flash Memory Channels. (2015)
Journal Article
Xu, Q., Gong, P., Chen, T. M., Michael, J., & Li, S. (2015). Modelling and Characterization of NAND Flash Memory Channels. Measurement : journal of the International Measurement Confederation, 70, 225-231. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.measurement.2015.04.003

The threshold voltage distribution after ideal programming in NAND flash memory cells is usually distorted by a combination of the random telegraph noise (RTN), cell-to-cell Interference (CCI), and the retention process. To decide the original bits m... Read More about Modelling and Characterization of NAND Flash Memory Channels..

Reliable Hierarchical Cluster Routing Protocol for Wireless Sensor Networks. (2014)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Eshaftri, M., Essa, A., Qasem, M., Romdhani, I., & Al-Dubai, A. (2014, June). Reliable Hierarchical Cluster Routing Protocol for Wireless Sensor Networks. Paper presented at International Conference on Networking, Distributed Systems and Applications : INDS 2014, Bejaia, Algeria

Wireless sensor networks (WSNs) have recently become an integral part of a wide range of systems such as surveillance, target tracking, security and health management systems. WSNs deploy a large number of sensor nodes that cooperate to... Read More about Reliable Hierarchical Cluster Routing Protocol for Wireless Sensor Networks..

Efficient road topology based broadcast protocol for VANETs (2014)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Al-Kubati, G., Al-Dubai, A., Mackenzie, L., & Pezaros, D. (2014, April). Efficient road topology based broadcast protocol for VANETs. Presented at IEEE International Wireless Communications and Networking Conference (WCNC 2014), Istanbul, Turkey

Intelligent Transportation Systems have been instrumental in reshaping transportation towards safer roads, seamless logistics, and digital business-oriented services under the umbrella of smart city platforms. Broadcasting transmission is an essentia... Read More about Efficient road topology based broadcast protocol for VANETs.

Design and development of Auralization room at Edinburgh Napier University (2014)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Prokofieva, E., Luciani, C., & McGregor, I. (2014, April). Design and development of Auralization room at Edinburgh Napier University. Presented at 136th International AES Convention, Berlin, Germany

The auralization room was designed as a joint project between School of Engineering and Built Environment and the School of Computing of Edinburgh Napier University. The interior acoustic design specialists conducted the acoustic design of the aurali... Read More about Design and development of Auralization room at Edinburgh Napier University.