Osama Bazan

PhD in Electrical and Computer Engineering

Certified IEEE Wireless Communications Professional

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I am currently a post doctoral fellow in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Ryerson University. I got the PhD degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Ryerson University in 2009 and the BSc. and MSc. degrees in Electronics and Electrical Communications Engineering from Cairo University in 2000 and 2003 respectively. In 2010, I got certified as a Wireless Communications Professional (WCP) after acquiring the IEEE WCET certification.

Research Interests

My research interests lie in the broad area of wireless communications and networking. Current research topics include:

• Energy-efficient resource allocation for Green LTE.
• Device-to-Device (D2D) communications in LTE-Advanced.
• Heterogeneous Wireless Networks.
• MAC and routing in the presence of beamforming antennas.

Publications

Books

1. Osama Bazan and Muhammad Jaseemuddin, "Beamforming Antennas in Multihop Wireless Networks", In preparation , Springer.

Journals

1. Osama Bazan and Muhammad Jaseemuddin, “Conflict Analysis and QoS Routing for Contention-based Wireless Mesh Networks with Beamforming Antennas”, to appear, IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, 2011, Currently available on IEEE Xplore.
2. Osama Bazan and Muhammad Jaseemuddin, “A survey on MAC Protocols for Multihop Wireless Networks with Beamforming Antennas”, to appear, IEEE Communications Surveys and Tutorials, Currently available on IEEE Xplore.
3. Osama Bazan and Muhammad Jaseemuddin, "On the Design of Opportunistic MAC Protocols for Multihop Wireless Networks with Beamforming Antennas", IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing, vol. 10, no. 3, pp. 305-319, March 2011.
4. Osama Bazan and Muhammad Jaseemuddin, “Performance Analysis of Directional CSMA/CA in The Presence of Deafness”, IET Communications, vol. 4, no. 18, pp. 2252-2261, December 2010.
5. Osama I. Bazan, Hala G. Abdelkader and Magdi S. El-Soudani, “A Turbo-Code Interleaver for UMTS”, Frequenz Journal of Telecommunications, vol.58, Sep./Oct. 2004.
   

Conferences

1. Osama Bazan and Muhammad Jaseemuddin, "Energy-efficient resource allocation in Green LTE-Advanced networks", under submission.
2. Osama Bazan and Muhammad Jaseemuddin, "Optimal Antenna Placement in Multihop Wireless Networks with Heterogeneous Antennas", Proceedings of IEEE International Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing Conference (IWCMC 2011), Istanbul, Turkey, July 2011.
3. Osama Bazan and Muhammad Jaseemuddin, “On the Capacity of Multihop Wireless Networks with Heterogeneous Antennas", Proceedings of IEEE Vehicular Technology Conference (VTC-Fall 2010), Ottawa, Canada, September, 2010.
4. Osama Bazan and Muhammad Jaseemuddin, “Routing and Admission Control for Wireless Mesh Networks with Directional Antennas”, Proceedings of IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference (WCNC 2009), Budapest, Hungary, April 2009.
5. Osama Bazan and Muhammad Jaseemuddin, "An Opportunistic Directional MAC Protocol for Multihop Wireless Networks with Switched Beam Directional Antennas", Proceedings of IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC 2008), Beijing, China, May 2008.
6. Osama Bazan and Muhammad Jaseemuddin, "Multi-Commodity Flow Problem for Multi-hop Wireless Networks with Realistic Smart Antenna Model", Proceedings of IFIP Networking 2008, LNCS 4982, Singapore, May 2008.
7. Amir Esmailpour, Muhammad Jaseemuddin, Nidal Nasser and Osama Bazan, "Ad-hoc Path: An Alternative to Backbone for Wireless Mesh Networks", Proceedings of IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC 2007), Glasgow, UK, June 2007.
8. Muhammad Jaseemuddin, Amir Esmailpour, Ali Alwan and Osama Bazan, "Integrated Routing System for Wireless Mesh Networks", Proceedings of IEEE Canadian Conference on Electrical and Computer Engineering (CCECE 2006), Ottawa, Canada, May 2006.
9. O. Bazan and M. Jaseemuddin, "Routing in Autonomic Communications", Proceedings of the IEEE Consumer Communications and Networking Conference (CCNC 2006), Las Vegas, Nevada, USA, Jan. 2006.
10. H. El-Sayed, O. Bazan, U. Qureshi and M. Jaseemuddin, "Performance Evaluation of TCP in Mobile Ad-Hoc Networks", Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Innovations in Information Technology (IIT'05), Dubai, UAE, Sep. 2005.
11. O. I. Bazan, H. G. Abdelkader and M. S. El-Soudani, “A Two-Stage Interleaver Design Algorithm for Turbo Codes”, Proceedings of the 3rd International Symposium on Turbo Codes & Related Topics, Brest, France, Sep. 2003.
    

Theses

1. “Enhancing the Spatial Reusability Offered by Smart Beamforming Antennas in Multi-Hop Wireless Networks”, PhD dissertation, Ryerson University, 2009.
2. “A New Interleaver Design for Turbo Codes”, MSc. Thesis, Cairo University, 2003.

Tutorials and Talks

• “Exploiting Smart Beamforming Antennas in Wireless Ad hoc Networks”, Tutorial, Canadian Conference on Electrical and Computer Engineering (CCECE 2010).
• “Exploiting Beamforming Antennas in Wireless Ad hoc Networks”, Tutorial, Communication Networks and Services Research Conference (CNSR 2010).
• “MAC Issues in Multihop Wireless Networks with Directional Antennas”, Guest Lecture, Ryerson University, 2008.

Professional Activities

Conference Technical Program Committee (TPC) Member

• IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC), 2011-2012.
• IEEE Global Telecommunications Conference (Globecom), 2010-2011.
• ACM CoNEXT 2011 (Shadow TPC).
• IEEE International Conference on High Performance Computing and Communications (HPCC), 2011.
• IEEE Symposium on Computers and Communications (ISCC), 2010.
• IEEE WiMob Workshop on Cooperative Mobile Protocols and Application (CMPA), 2010.
• International Conference on Multimedia Computing and Information Technology (MCIT), 2010.

Journal Reviewer

• IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems.
• IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology.
• IEEE Communications Letters.
• EURASIP Journal on Wireless Communications and Networking.
• ElSevier Journal on Computer Communications.

Conference Reviewer

IEEE ICC ,IEEE Globecom, IEEE LCN, IEEE VTC, IEEE PIMRC, IFIP Networking, IEEE GCC.

Member of Professional Societies

IEEE, IEEE Communication Society, Egyptian Syndicate of Engineers.

Teaching Experience

Ryerson University, Toronto, ON, Canada, 2004-2008

• Occasional Substitute Lecturer for a graduate course on Wireless Networks.
• Occasional Substitute Lecturer for an undergraduate course on Advanced Computer Networks.
• Teaching Assistant and Lab Supervisor for the following courses: Signals and Systems, Electronic Circuits, Field Theory.

October 6 University, Cairo, Egypt, 2000-2004

Full-time Instructor and Lab Supervisor for several undergraduate courses including:

• Digital Communications.
• Analog Communications.
• Logic design.
• Electromagnetic Fields.
• Basic Electronics Lab.
• Measurements Lab.
• Probability Theory.
• Physics.

Awards and Honors

• Ryerson Post Doctoral Fellowship, 2009-2011.
• IEEE Communications Society Travel Grant, 2008.
• ECE Graduate Research Excellence Award, Ryerson University, 2007-2008.
• Ryerson Graduate Award, 2006-2007.
• Ontario Graduate Scholarship in Science and Technology (OGSST), 2006.
• Ryerson Graduate Scholarship, 2005-2007.
• Ryerson PhD Fellowship, 2004.
• Graduation with Distinction medal, Cairo University, 2000.
• Egyptian Syndicate of Engineers Graduate Excellence Award, 2000.
• Undergraduate Distinguished Students Award, Cairo University, 1995-2000.
  

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