Faculty

College / Department

Teaching areas

Digital Communications, Multimedia Communications & Networking, Communications, Probability & Stochastic Processes, Random Variables & Stochastic Processes, Signals and Systems, Electric Circuits and Devices.

Research areas

Wireless communications, wired & wireless networking with emphasis on adaptive multimedia communications over these networks, cognitive radios, optimal resource allocation in next generation systems & performance evaluation and QoS provisioning over wired and wireless networks. Recently, I have been involved in projects related to free space optical communications, electromagnetic shielding, demand response & smart grids, anti-static flooring and fiber optic sensors for infrastructure health mon

Education

PhD in Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Arizona, AZ, USA, 2005

MSc in Electrical Engineering, University of Pennsylvania, PA, USA

MSc in Electronics and Communications, Cairo University, Egypt

Diploma in Software Engineering, Information Technology Institute, Cairo, Egypt.

BSc (Hons.) in Electronics and Communications, Cairo University, Egypt

Professional experience

RITSEC/IDSC, Cairo, Egypt

National Research Institute, Cairo, Egypt

IBM, Egypt

Memberships

IEEE

Contact

[email protected]

+971 6 515 2977

Dr. Mohamed Hassan

Professor

PhD in Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Arizona, USA

Mohamed Hassan's research is in wireless communications and networking, with emphasis on multimedia communications, adaptive video streaming over wireless networks, optimal resource allocation and performance evaluation, and QoS routing in WSNs. Recently, Dr. Hassan has been involved in projects related to electromagnetic shielding, antistatic flooring and fiber optic sensors for infrastructure applications. His teaching includes circuits, signals and systems, analog and digital communications, multimedia communications, and probability and stochastic processes.

Publications

Ala Eldin Omer, Mohamed Hassan, and Mohamed El-Tarhuni “A Window-Based Adaptive Technique for Real-time Streaming of Scalable Video over Cognitive Radio Networks” accepted to appear in IET Communications.

Tasneem Assaf, Ahmed Osman, Mohamed Hassan and Hasan Mir “A Fair and Efficient Energy Consumption Scheduling Algorithm Using Tabu Search for Future Smart Grids”,in IET Generation, Transmission & Distribution, 2017.

1. Yousuf Abo Rahama, Mahmoud Ismail, and Mohamed Hassan, “On the Distribution of the Product and Ratio of Products of EGK variates with Applications”, in Telecommunication Systems, Springer, 2017.

Ayah Abusara Mohamed Hassan and Mahmoud Ismail “Reduced-complexity Fingerprinting in WLAN-based Indoor Positioning” Telecommunication Systems, Springer, July 2017, Volume 65, Issue 3, pp 407–417

Mohamed Hassan, Ayah Abusara, Mennatullah Shehabeldin and Mahmoud Ismail “On Efficient Channel Modeling for Video Transmission over Cognitive Radio Networks” in wireless Personal communications (Springer), vol. 91, no. 2, pp. 919-932, November 2016.

Ahmed Osman, Mohamed Hassan, Fatemeh Marzabani and Taha Landolsi “One-Hour-Ahead Wind Power Forecast Using Hybrid Grey Models”, International Journal of Operational Research, vol. 27, no. 1-2, pp. 212-231, 2016.

Taha Landolsi, Aly Elrefaei, Sanaa Hamid and Mohamed Hassan “Error Performance of Optically-preamplified Hybrid BPSK-PPM Systems with Transmitter and Receiver Imperfections” Photonic Network Communications (PNET), Springer.

Yousuf Abo Rahama, Mahmoud Ismail, and Mohamed Hassan, “Capacity of Fox's H-function Fading Channel with Adaptive Transmission”, Electronics Letters, vol. 52, no. 11, pp. 976-978, 2016.

Taha Landolsi, Mohamed Hassan, Aly Elrefaei and Sanaa Hamid “Performance evaluation of optically-preamplified hybrid QPSK M-ary PPM systems with finite extinction ratios ”, Optical Fiber Technology, vol. 25, 33–38, 2015

Mohamed Hassan, Mohamed El-Tarhuni and Rimas Zrae, “A Joint Adaptive Modulation and Channel Coding Scheme for Multimedia Communications over Wireless Channels”, International Journal of Wireless and Mobile Computing, 2015, 9, (1), pp. 99–114.

Ahmed Osman, Mohamed Hassan and Mohammad Sulaiman “Communication-Based Adaptive Protection for Distribution Systems Penetrated with Distributed Generators”, Electric Power Components and Systems, vol. 43, no. 5, pp. 556-565, 2015.

Sherif Yehia, Nasser Qaddoumi, Mohamed Hassan and Bassam Swaked “Conductive Concrete for Electromagnetic Shielding Applications” in Advances in Civil Engineering Materials Journal, Volume 3, Issue 1, 2014.

Sherif Yehia, Taha Landolsi, Mohamed Hassan and Mohammad Hallal “Monitoring of Strain induced by Heat of Hydration, Cyclic and Dynamic Loads in Concrete Structures using Fiber Optics Sensors,” Measurement, vol. 52, pp. 33 - 46, 2014.

Mohamed El-Tarhuni, Mohamed Hassan and Akram Bin Sediq, “A Jointly Optimized Variable M-QAM and Power Allocation Scheme for Image Transmission,” Computer Networks and Communications, Vol. 2012

Husam Mukhtar, Mohamed Hassan and Taha Landolsi, “An Occupancy‐Dependent and Channel‐Aware Multi‐level Adaptive Scheme for Video Transmission over Wireless Channels” EURASIP Journal on Wireless Communications and Networking, vol. 2011, no. 1, pp. 1-17, 2011

Hiba Al-Zurba, Taha Landolsi, Mohamed Hassan and Fouad Abdelaziz, “On the Suitability of Using Ant Colony Optimization for Routing Multimedia Content over Wireless Sensor Networks”, International Journal on applications of graph theory in wireless ad hoc networks and sensor networks (GRAPH-HOC), Vol3, No.2, June 2011

Mohamed Hassan, Taha Landolsi and Husam Mukhtar “A Channel-Aware and Occupancy-Dependent Scheduler for Video Transmission over Wireless Channels”, International Journal of Computer Networks & Communications (IJCNC), Volume 2, Number 5, pages 232-246, September 2010

Mohamed Hassan, Taha Landolsi, Khaled Assaleh and Husam Mukhtar “Adaptive Scheduling Algorithm for Video Transmission over Wireless Packet Networks”, Electronic Notes in Discrete Mathematics Journal (Elsevier), Volume 36, Pages 1319-1326,August 2010.

Mohamed Hassan and Taha Landolsi, “A Retransmission-based Scheme for Video Streaming Over Wireless Channels” in Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing (WCMC, Wiley Journal), Volume 10, Number 4, pages 511-521, April 2010.

Mohamed Hassan and Marwan Krunz, “Video streaming over wireless packet networks: An occupancy-based rate adaptation perspective,” IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology, Vol. 17, No. 8, pages 1017-1027, August 2007.

Luigi Atzori, Marwan Krunz and Mohamed Hassan, "Cycle-based rate control for one-way and interactive video communications over wireless channels," IEEE Transactions on Multimedia, Vol. 9, Issue: 1, pages: 176-184, Jan. 2007.

Mohamed Hassan, Marwan Krunz and Ibrahim Matta, “Markov-Based Channel Characterization for Tractable Performance Analysis in Wireless Packet Networks,” IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, Vol. 3, No. 3, pages. 821-831, May 2004.

Conference Presentations

Ayah Abusara, Mohamed Hassan, and Mahmoud H. Ismail, ?RSS Fingerprints Dimensionality Reduction in WLAN-based Indoor Positioning? in the 15th IEEE annual Wireless Telecommunications Symposium, 18-20 April. 2016, London, UK.

Wessam Afifi, Mohamed Hassan, and Marwan Krunz ?Enabling Media Streaming over LTE-U Small Cells? in IEEE WCNC 2016.

Mohamed Hassan, Taha Landolsi, Husam Mokhtar, and Tamer Shanableh ?A Skip Length and Inter-Starvation Distance as a Combined Metric to Assess the Quality of Transmitted Video" in the proceedings of 5th International Workshop on Video Processing and Quality Metrics for Consumer Electronics (VPQM2010), January 2010, Phoenix, AZ, USA.

Mohamed Hassan and Marwan Krunz?A Playback-Adaptive Approach for Video Streaming Over Wireless Networks?, to appear in Proceedings of the IEEE GLOBECOM Conference, St. Louis, Missouri, USA, 28 November- 2 December 2005.

Mohamed Hassan, Marwan Krunz, and Luigi Atzori ?Occupancy-Based Rate Control Scheme for Video Streaming Over Wireless Channels?, in Proceedings of the 14th International Packet Video Workshop (PV2004), UC Irvine, CA, USA, December, 2004.

Mohamed Hassan and Marwan Krunz?A Rate Control Scheme for Video Streaming Over Wireless Channels?, in Proceedings of the IEEE GLOBECOM Conference, Volume: 6, pages 4071?4075, Dallas, Texas, USA, 29 November- 3 December 2004.

Mohamed Hassan, Luigi Atzori, and Marwan Krunz?Video Transport Over Wireless Channels: A Cycle-Based Approach for Rate Control?, in Proceedings of the ACM International Conference on Multimedia, pages 916?923, New York, USA, October 2004.

Marwan Krunz and Mohamed Hassan ?Adaptive Rate Control Scheme for Video Streaming Over Wireless Channels?, in Proceedings of the IEEE Data Compression Conference, Salt Lake, Utah, UAS, March, 2004

Awards and Honors

Faculty Research Grant, American University of Sharjah, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2013, 2014, 2016