Profile
College / Department
Teaching areas
Wireless Communications, Digital Communications, Signals and Systems, Electric Circuits, Statistical Analysis, Introduction to Engineering.
Research areas
Performance evaluation of wireless communication systems, cognitive radios, channel modeling, resource allocation in next generation systems.
Education
BSc, Cairo University, Giza, Egypt, 2000.
MSc, Cairo University, Giza, Egypt, 2002.
PhD, University of Mississippi, MS, USA, 2006.
Professional experience
Associate Professor, Cairo University, Giza, Egypt, 2013-to date.
Systems Engineering Consultant, Newport Media Inc. (Now Atmel Corp.), Cairo, Egypt and Lake Forest, CA, US, 2006-2014.
Assistant Professor, Cairo University, Giza, Egypt, 2007-2013.
Memberships
Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), Egyptian Engineering Syndicate (EES), Honor Society of Phi Kappa Phi, Research Society of Sigma Xi.
Contact
mhibrahim@aus.edu
+971 6 515 4937
Dr. Mahmoud H. Ismail
Associate Professor
PhD in Electrical Engineering, University of Mississippi, USA
Mahmoud H. Ismail has taught at Cairo University, Egypt, and has industrial experience working for California-based Newport Media Inc. (now Atmel Corp.) designing mobile TV chips, connectivity solutions and optimized audio/image coders. He has 21 publications in international journals, 39 papers presented at international conferences as well as one US patent. He also co-authored a book on wireless communications. He served as a reviewer for several refereed journals and conferences and he is a Member of Sigma Xi, Phi Kappa Phi and IEEE. His research and teaching interests are in the areas of communication theory and wireless communications.
Publications
Fahim, Muhammed, Mahmoud H. Ismail, and Hazim Tawfik. "An Innovative Cooperative Spectrum Sensing Algorithm with Non-ideal Feedback Channels and Delay Considerations." Wireless Personal Communications: an international journal 78, no. 1 (2014): 313-332. doi: 10.1007/s11277-014-1755-6. [Comment: ISSN# 0929-6212. IMPACT FACTOR: 0.979]
Alhennawi, Husam, Mahmoud H. Ismail, and Hebat-Allah M. Mourad. "Performance evaluation of energy detection over extended generalized-K (EGK) composite fading channels." Electronics Letters [Comment: ISSN# 0013-5194. IMPACT FACTOR: 1.068]
El Ayadi, Moataz, and Mahmoud H. Ismail. "Novel Tight Closed-form Bounds for the Symbol Error Rate of EGC and MRC Diversity Receivers Employing Linear Modulations over alpha − mu Fading." Wireless Personal Communications: an international journal 77, no. 1 (2014): 571-587. doi: 10.1007/s11277-013-1523-z. [Comment: ISSN# 0929-6212. IMPACT FACTOR: 0.979]
Abdelaal, Rana, Khaled El Sayed, and Mahmoud H. Ismail. "Joint Scheduling and Resource Allocation with Fairness Based on the Signal-to-Leakage-plus-Noise Ratio in the Downlink of CoMP Systems." Wireless Personal Communications: an international journal 75, no. 4 (2014): 1891-1913. doi: 10.1007/s11277-013-1444-x. [Comment: ISSN# 0929-6212. IMPACT FACTOR: 0.979]
El Ayadi, Moataz, and Mahmoud H. Ismail. "Novel Closed-Form Exact Expressions and Asymptotic Analysis for the Symbol Error Rate of Single and Multiple-Branch MRC and EGC Receivers over alpha-mu Fading." IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology (2014): doi: 10.1109/TVT.2014.2316418. [Comment: ISSN# 0018-9545. IMPACT FACTOR: 2.642]
Mohamed, Refaat, Mahmoud H. Ismail, and Hebat-Allah M. Mourad. ""Average Symbol Error Rate and Ergodic Capacity of Switch-and-Examine Combining Diversity Receivers over the α−μ Fading Channel." Annals of Telecommunications (2014): doi: 10.1007/s12243-014-0432-9. [Comment: ISSN# 0003-4347. IMPACT FACTOR: 0.408]
Ismail, Mahmoud H., and Refaat Mohamed. ""Outage Probability Analysis of Selection and Switch-and-Stay Combining Diversity Receivers Over the α−μ Fading Channel with Co-Channel Interference." Wireless Personal Communications: an international journal 71, no. 3 (2013): 2181-2915. doi: 10.1007/s11277-012-0930-x. [Comment: ISSN# 0929-6212. IMPACT FACTOR: 0.979]
Gaber, Abdelrahman, Mahmoud H. Ismail, and Hebat-Allah M. Mourad. "Outage Probability Analysis of Cooperative Diversity Networks Over Weibull and Weibull-Lognormal Channels." Wireless Personal Communications: an international journal 70, no. 2 (2013): 695-708. doi: 10.1007/s11277-012-0715-2. [Comment: ISSN# 0929-6212. IMPACT FACTOR: 0.979]
El Ayadi, Moataz, and Mahmoud H. Ismail. "On the cumulative distribution function of the sum and harmonic mean of two α−μ random variables with applications." IET Communications 6, no. 18 (2012): 3122 - 3130. doi: 10.1049/iet-com.2012.0271. [Comment: ISSN# 1751-8628. IMPACT FACTOR: 0.72]
Othman, Mohamed, Mahmoud H. Ismail, and Magdi El Soudani. "Performance analysis of multiple-antenna cooperative networks under Weibull fading." AEUe: International Journal of Electronics and Communication 66, no. 10 (2012): 817-827. doi: 10.1016/j.aeue.2012.01.014. [Comment: ISSN# 1434-8411. IMPACT FACTOR: 0.696]
Abdelmonem, Mahmoud, Mohamed Nafie, Mahmoud H. Ismail, and Magdi El Soudani. "Optimized Spectrum Sensing Algorithms for Cognitive LTE Femtocells." EURASIP Journal on Wireless Communications and Networking 2012, no. 6 (2012): 1-19. doi: doi:10.1186/1687-1499-2012-6. [Comment: ISSN# 1687-1472. IMPACT FACTOR: 0.8]
Ismail, Mahmoud H., and Mustafa M. Matalgah. "Bit error rate analysis of diversity M-phase-shift keying receivers in weibull fading with cochannel interference." IET Communications 4, no. 1 (2010): 13-25. [Comment: ISSN# 1751-8628. IMPACT FACTOR: 0.72]
Matalgah, Mustafa, R. M. Radaydeh, and Mahmoud H. Ismail. "Performance analysis of the forward link cdma2000 1xEV-DO evolution for multirate services in cellular wireless system." Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing 7, no. 4 (2007): 431-444. [Comment: ISSN# 1530-8669. IMPACT FACTOR: 1.291]
Ismail, Mahmoud H., and Mustafa M. Matalgah. "Exact and approximate error-rate analysis of BPSK in Weibull fading with cochannel interference." IET Communications 1, no. 2 (2007): 203-208. [Comment: ISSN# 1751-8628. IMPACT FACTOR: 0.7]
Ismail, Mahmoud H., and Mustafa M. Matalgah. "Performance of Selection Combining Diversity in Weibull Fading with Cochannel Interference." EURASIP Journal on Wireless Communications and Networking 2007, no. 1 (2007): 1-6. [Comment: ISSN# 1687-1472. IMPACT FACTOR: 0.8]
Conference Presentations
Alaa, Ahmed M., Mahmoud H. Ismail, and Hazim Tawfik. "Opportunistic Spectrum Sharing using Dumb Basis Patterns: The Line-of-Sight Interference Scenario." In Proc. of 2015 International Conference on Computing, Networking and Communications (ICNC 2015), Anaheim, CA, Feb 16-19, 2015.
Rizk, Ghada, Ahmed H. Zahran, and Mahmoud H. Ismail. "AVIS: an Adaptive VIdeo Simulation Framework for Scalable Video." In Proc. of 8th International Conference on Next Generation Mobile Applications, Services, and Technologies (NGMAST 2014), Oxford, UK, September 10-12, 2014.
Ibrahim, Samar, Ahmed H. Zahran, and Mahmoud H. Ismail. "SVC-DASH-M: Scalable Video Coding Dynamic Adaptive Streaming Over HTTP Using Multiple Connections." In Proc. International Conference on Telecommunications (ICT), Lisbon, Portugal, May 4-7, 2014.
Elgendy, Omar A., Khaled El Sayed, and Mahmoud H. Ismail. "Max-Min Fair Resource Allocation for LTE-Advanced Relay-Enhanced Cells." In Proc. IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference (WCNC), Istanbul, Turkey, April 6-9, 2014.
Alaa, Ahmed M., Mahmoud H. Ismail, and Hazim Tawfik. "Spectrum Sensing Via Reconfigurable Antennas: Is Cooperation of Secondary Users Indispensable?" In Proc. IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference (WCNC) 2014, Istanbul, Turkey, April 6-9, 2014.
Fahim, Muhammed, Mahmoud H. Ismail, and Hazim Tawfik. "Multi-stage Energy Detection Spectrum Sensing Using Group Intelligence." In Proc. of the 18th IEEE Symposium on Computers and Communications (ISCC 2013), Split, Croatia, July 7 - 10, 2013.
Mohamed, Refaat, Mahmoud H. Ismail, Fatma Newagy, and Hebat-Allah M. Mourad. "Probability of Error and Ergodic Capacity of Switch-and-Examine Combining Diversity over the α−μ Fading Channel." In Proc. of the 18th IEEE Symposium on Computers and Communications (ISCC 2013), Split, Croatia, July 7-10, 2013.
El Ayadi, Moataz, and Mahmoud H. Ismail. "Novel Simple Bounds on the Probability of Error for EGC and MRC Diversity Receivers over α−μ Fading." In Proc. of the 20th International Conference on Telecommunications (ICT 2013), Casablanca, Morocco, May 6 - 8, 2013.
Abdelaal, Rana, Khaled El Sayed, and Mahmoud H. Ismail. "Cooperative Scheduling, Precoding, and Optimized Power Allocation for LTE-Advanced CoMP Systems." In Wireless Days, Dublin, Ireland, May 21-23, 2012.
Elkotby, Hussain, Khaled El Sayed, and Mahmoud H. Ismail. "Shrinking the Reuse Distance: Spectrally-Efficient Radio Resource Management in D2D-Enabled Cellular Networks with Interference Alignment." In Wireless Days, Dublin, Ireland, May 21-23, 2012.
Elgendy, Omar A., Mahmoud H. Ismail, and Khaled Elsayed. "On the Relay Placement Problem in a Multi-cell LTE-Advanced System with Co-channel Interference." In Proc. of the 8th IEEE Int. Conf on Wireless and Mobile Computing, Networking and Communications (WiMob 2012), Barcelona, Spain, Oct 8-10, 2010.
Mohamed, Refaat, Mahmoud H. Ismail, and Hebat-Allah M. Mourad. "Performance of Dual Selection and Switch-and-Stay Combining Diversity Receivers over the alpha-mu Fading Channel with Co-channel interference." In Proc. of the Int. Symposium on Signals, Systems and Electronics (ISSSE 2012), Potsdam, Germany, Oct 3-5, 2012.
Mohamed, Refaat, Mahmoud H. Ismail, Fatma Newagy, and Hebat-Allah M. Mourad. "Capacity of the alpha-mu Fading Channel with SC Diversity under Adaptive Transmission Techniques." In Proc. of the 19th International Conference on Telecommunications (ICT 2012), Jounieh, Lebanon, Apr 23-25, 2012.
Elkotby, Hussain, Khaled El Sayed, and Mahmoud H. Ismail. "Exploiting Interference Alignment for Sum Rate Enhancement in D2D-Enabled Cellular Networks"." In Proc. of the IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference (WCNC 2012), Paris, France, Apr 1-4, 2012.
Gaber, Abdelrahman, Mahmoud H. Ismail, Hebat-Allah M. Mourad, and Hala A. Mansour. "Probability of Error of TDMA Relay Protocols over Weibull and Weibull-Lognormal Channels." In Proc. of the 29th National Radio Science Conference (NRSC 2012), Cairo, Egypt, Apr 10-12, 2012.
Awards and Honors
IEEE GOLD Award for Best Graduation Project in Communications, IEEE Egypt, Cairo, Egypt, 2014.
Best Student Paper Award, Awarded to Dr. Mahmoud H. Ismail, M.Sc. Student Abdel-Rahman Swelam, Dr. Hebat-Allah M. Mourad and Dr. Hala Mansour by National Radio Science Conference (NRSC), Cairo, 2012.
External Research Grant, Awarded to Dr. Mahmoud H. Ismail, Dr. Khaled El Sayed and Dr. Haitham S. Hamza by National Telecom Regulatory Authority (NTRA) of Egypt, AED 900,000.00, 2011.
Best Oral Presentation Award, 70th Annual Mississippi Academy of Sciences Meeting, Vicksburg, MS, 2006.
Best Paper Award, 10th IEEE Symposium on Computers and Communications ISCC 2005, La Manga del Mar Menor, Spain, 2005.
