THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSISSIPPI:
Doctoral Students who graduated (Major Advisor):
- Amer M. Magableh, "Performance Evaluation and Optimization of Diversity Techniques for Wireless Communication system Over Fading Channels" Ph.D. Dissertation, Electrical Engineering Department, The University of Mississippi, (Major Adviser), completed February 2010 (currently he is an Assistant Professor in the Electrical Engineering Department at Jordan University of Science and Technology, Irbid, Jordan).
- Ibrahim Y. Abualhaol, "Performance Evaluation and Optimization of Cooperative Communication Systems over Fading Channels," Ph.D. Dissertation, Electrical Engineering Department, The University of Mississippi, (Major Adviser), completed July 2008 (currently he is an Assistant Professor in the Electrical Engineering Department at Khalifa University of Science, Technology & Research, Sharjah, UAE).
- Redha M. Radaydeh, "Performance Analysis of Efficient Receivers and Modulation Techniques for Digital Communication Systems," Ph.D. Dissertation, Electrical Engineering Department, The University of Mississippi, (Major Advisor), completed November 2006 (currently he is a Research Associate in the Electrical Engineering Department at King Abdullah University of Science and Technology, Thuwal, Saudi Arabia).
- Mahmoud H. Ismail, "Performance Evaluation of Mobile Radio Networks over Fading Channels: System and Link-Level Perspectives," Ph.D. Dissertation, Electrical Engineering Department, The University of Mississippi, (Major Adviser), completed July 2006 (currently he is an assistant professor at the Department of Electronics and Communications Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, Cairo University, Giza, Egypt; and a Senior Systems Engineer at Newport Media Inc., Cairo, Egypt)
Doctoral Students in progress (Major Advisor):
- Mohammed S. Akhoirshida, "Muti-user Interference Cancellation in Wireless Systems" Ph.D. Dissertation, Electrical Engineering Department, The University of Mississippi, in progress, (Major Adviser), expected to complete in May 2012.
- Walid Y. Al Zibideh, "Security in Wireless Fading Channels" Ph.D. Dissertation, Electrical Engineering Department, The University of Mississippi, in progress, (Major Adviser), expected to complete in May 2012.
Doctoral Students who graduated (Defense Committee Member):
- Shirong Du, "VoIP Capacity Upper Bounds for SSMA-Based Wireless Ad Hoc Networks," Ph.D. Dissertation, Electrical Engineering Department, The University of Mississippi, Committee Member, Completed May 2009.
- Huijun Chen, "Iterative Decoding for Trellis Based Codes in Wireless Communications," Ph.D. Dissertation. Committee Member, Ph.D. Dissertation, completed November 17, 2008.
- Asif Mehmood, "Instantaneous Frequency Analysis of Ultrasonic Doppler Vibrometery Signals," Ph.D. Dissertation, Electrical Engineering Department, The University of Mississippi, (Committee Member), completed May 2008.
- Tao Shi, "Turbo Codes-Based Hybrid Automatic Repeat Request and Space-Time Spreading," Ph.D. Dissertation, Electrical Engineering Department, The University of Mississippi, (Committee Member), completed November 2007.
- Yang Sun, "Intelligent Wireless Sensor Network Based Vehicle Detection and Classification," Ph.D. Dissertation, Electrical Engineering Department, The University of Mississippi, completed April 2007. (Ph.D. Committee Member)
Masters Students who graduated (Major Advisor):
- Situmbeko (Stu) Alifeli Matale, "Ground-Based Black Box System Implementation Using Satellite and VHF Data Link Networks," M.S. Thesis, Electrical Engineering Department, The University of Mississippi, (Major Adviser), completed May 2010 (currently he is in Lusaka, Zambia).
- Walid Y. Zibideh, "Modified-DES Encryption Algorithm with Improved BER Performance in Wireless Communication," M.S. Thesis, Electrical Engineering Department, The University of Mississippi, (Major Adviser), completed April 2010 (currently he is a Ph.D. student at The University of Mississippi).
- Omar M. Hamouri, "A Cross-Layer Approach to Resource-Allocation with QoS Support in WiMAX Networks," M.S. Thesis, Electrical Engineering Department, The University of Mississippi, (Major Adviser), completed May 2009 (currently he is a Software Engineer with ViaSat, Inc. in San Diego, California, USA).
- AbdulKhaleq N. Mohammed, "Field-Trial Measurements and Testing of 3G UMTS/WCDMA-FDD Release 5.0 (HSDPA) Standard in Wireless Cellular Network," M.S. Thesis, Electrical Engineering Department, The University of Mississippi, (Major Adviser), completed May 2008 (currently with Ericsson, Inc., Dallas, Texas, USA).
- Ghaith M. Matalkah, "Apparatus and Algorithms for Acoustic Landmine Detection," M.S. Thesis, Electrical Engineering Department, The University of Mississippi, (Major Adviser), completed March 2007 (currently he is a Ph.D. student at Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Georgia, USA).
- Orwa Tahaineh, "Performance Characterization of Multibanded Ultra Wideband Communication Systems," M.S. Thesis, Electrical Engineering Department, The University of Mississippi, (Major Adviser), completed December 2006 (currently he is a Research Engineer at the National Center for Physical Acoustics, University of Mississippi).
Masters Students in progress (Major Advisor):
- Mohammad A. Kishk, "Enhancing Wireless Security Through Relay-Based Cooperative Networks," M.S. Thesis, Electrical Engineering Department, The University of Mississippi, (Major Adviser), expected to complete in August 2011.
- Rachit Gupta, "Tentative thesis title to be determined," M.S. Thesis, Electrical Engineering Department, The University of Mississippi, (Major Adviser).
Masters Students who graduated (Defense Committee Member):
- Munther Mohammad Hammouri, "A novel distributed scheduling Mechanism to improve VoIP Traffic Carrying Capacity in IEEE 802.11 Ad Hoc Networks," M.S. Thesis, Electrical Engineering Department, The University of Mississippi, (Committee Member), completed July 2010.
- Ahmad Radaideh, "Analytical Modeling of Address Allocation Protocols in Wireless Ad Hoc Networks," M.S. Thesis Committee Member, completed November 25, 2008.
- Jiqun Qi, "Adaptive MIMO Multiband OFDM UWB Systems and Cooperative Communications," M.S. Thesis Committee Member, completed November 10, 2008.
- Rajagopal Sombhotla, "VoIP Traffic Carrying Capacity of an Ad-Hoc Network," M.S. Thesis, Electrical Engineering Department, The University of Mississippi, completed August 26, 2005. (Defense Committee Member)
- Gaurav Reddy Nukala, "Indoor RF Propagation Measurements and Analysis for Design of Container Tracking Systems," M.S. Thesis, Electrical Engineering Department, The University of Mississippi, completed April 29, 2005. (Defense Committee Member)
- Shirong Du, "A Wireless Sensor-based Location Strategy for Manufacturing," M.S. Thesis, Electrical Engineering Department, The University of Mississippi, completed November 15, 2004. (Defense Committee Member)
- Gokul Purushothaman, "Queue Lengths at the Base Station of HDR Forward Link," M.S. Thesis, Electrical Engineering Department, The University of Mississippi, completed September 24, 2004. (Defense Committee Member)
- Yang Sun, "Characterization and modeling of VBR video traffic in a high-speed packet switch network," M.S. Thesis, Electrical Engineering Department, The University of Mississippi, completed August 20, 2004. (Defense Committee Member)
- Ching-Sia Lim, "Analysis of the Dynamic Nature of Achievable Transmission Rate of a Single User in the High Date Rate System," M.S. Thesis, Electrical Engineering Department, The University of Mississippi, completed May 3, 2004. (Defense Committee Member)
- Taninder S. Sijher, "Antenna Modeling By Infinitesimal Dipoles Using Genetic Algorithms," M.S. Thesis, Electrical Engineering Department, The University of Mississippi, completed April 2004. (Defense Committee Member)
- Venkatesh Ramaswamy, "Characterization of Statistically Multiplexed Huffman-Encoded Audio Traffic," M.S. Thesis, Electrical Engineering Department, The University of Mississippi, completed December 2002. (Defense Committee Member)
THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI:
Theses/Dissertations Committee at the University of Missouri:
- Ezzat S. Atieh, "Buffer Requirements for ABR Traffic in ATM Networks using Congestion Control Mechanism," M.Sc. Thesis, Electrical & Computer Engineering Department, The University of Missouri-Columbia-KC, completed March 1999. (Thesis Committee Member)