Abdullah Masrub
E-mail: abdullah.masrub@brunel.ac.uk
Office: ML258F
Education:
- PhD candidate of Electronic and Computer Engineering, Brunel University, UK, 2009.
- MSc in Computer Science and Engineering, University of Versailles, France, 2007.
- BEng in Electronic Engineering, Faculty of Electronic Engineering, Libya, 1994.
Research Interest: Mobile and Wireless Networks, Cognitive Radio Networks, MAC Layer Techniques.
PhD Research: Cognitive MAC and Spectrum Access Strategies for Cognitive Radio Networks.
Supervisor: Prof. H. S. Al-Raweshidy
The idea behind a Cognitive Radio (CR) in Wireless Networks are to enable a cognitive protocol for a Secondary (unlicensed) User to access and use temporarily the spectrum unused by the Primary (licensed) User, which is referred to as spectrum hole or white space, in an intelligent way without causing any harmful interference with primary users. If this band is further used by the licensed user, the cognitive protocol can move to another spectrum hole or stay in the same band altering the transmission power level or using another modulation scheme to avoid the interference. Spectrum sensing can be considered as the main issue that has to be done to enable the cognitive radio users to explore white space opportunities and to avoid interference with the primary users. Moreover, Dynamic spectrum access (DSA), Dynamic spectrum sharing (DSS) are the major goals of cognitive radio techniques and have responsibility of enabling cognitive radio users to share the spectrum resources by determining who will and when can access the channel to win the availability of sending or receiving data through the white spaces.
Publications
- A. Masrub, H. Al-Raweshidy, “Time Slotted Based Cognitive MAC Protocols for Multi-Channel Wireless ad hoc Networks,” The 8th International Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing Conference (IEEE IWCMC'12), Limassol, Cyprus, Aug. 27-31, 2012.
- A. Masrub, H. Al-Raweshidy, M. Abbod, “Cognitive Radio Based MAC Protocols for Wireless Ad Hoc Networks,” The 4th International Conference on Developments in eSystems Engineering (DeSE'11), pp. 465-469, Dubai, UAE, Dec. 6-8, 2011.
