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Announcements
  • Mar 19, 2016: Dr. Shakir has been elevated to IEEE Senior Member grade.

  • Jan 22, 2016: Dr. Shakir has an accepted tutorial "Back-haul/Front-haul Technologies for Heterogeneous Small Cell Networks," in IEEE Intl. Conference on Communications, IEEE ICC'2016, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, May 2016. More details follow here .

  • Dec 18, 2015: 2nd IEEE ICC BackNets, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, May 2016, Deadline extended to Dec 18, 2015. More details follow here .

  • Dec 15, 2015: Dr. Shakir has an accepted tutorial "Green Heterogeneous Wireless Networks," in IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference, IEEE WCNC'2016, Doha, Qatar, Apr. 2016.

  • Dec 6, 2015: IEEE ComSoc TCBNC kick-off meeting held in San Diego, CA, USA.

  • Dec 6, 2015: Dr. Shakir has a tutorial "Green Heterogeneous Wireless Networks," in IEEE Global Communications Conference, exhibition & Industry Forum, IEEE GLOBECOM'2015 San Diego, CA, USA, Dec. 6-10, 2015.

  • Oct 4, 2015: Dr. Shakir has a tutorial "Emerging Green Technologies for 5G broadband Networks," in IEEE International Conference on Ubiquitous Wireless Broadband, IEEE ICUWB'2015, Montreal, Canada, Oct. 4-7, 2015.

  • Oct 1, 2015: Appointed as a Consultant to Communication Theory Lab, KAUST.

  • Sep 1, 2015: Dr. Shakir has joined Carleton University as a senior researcher.

  • Feb 17, 2015: Dr. Shakir has been invtied to deliver tutorial on Green communications in IEEE BlackSeaCom, Constanta, Romania, May 10-21, 2015.

  • Dec 17, 2014: Dr. Shakir has signed a contract with Springer for an upcoming edited book Energy Management in Wireless Cellular and Ad hoc Networks . Book to be published by Apr. 2016. Details of contents in book will be announced shortly.

  • Nov 27, 2014: Dr. Shakir has signed a contract with John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.,for an upcoming authored book Green Heterogeneous Wireless Networks . Book to be published by Apr. 2016. Details of contents in book will be announced shortly.

  • Oct 21, 2014: Dr. Shakir has been invited to serve as a judge to Information, Communication and Technology Track, QFARC'2014, Doha, Qatar, Nov. 2014.

  • Oct 15, 2014: Dr. Shakir has been announced as chair of Workshop on Emerging Device-Centric Communications in 5G to be organized with IEEE VTC'2015, Glasgow, UK, May. 2015, Paper submission deadline: Dec. 17, 2014.

  • Oct. 13, 2014: Dr. Shakir has been appointed as Associate Techncial Editor, IEEE Communication Magazine for 5G related areas.

  • Sep. 24, 2014: Dr. Shakir has an invited paper "Cognitive IoT: A unified perspective," in COIOTE'2014.

  • Sep. 15, 2014: Dr. Shakir has a paper "A survey on Energy trading in smart -grid," accepted for IEEE GlobalSIP'2014.

  • Sep. 07, 2014: Dr. Shakir has a paper "Spectral efficiency improvements in HetNet by exploiting smart Device-to-Deice communications," accepted for IEEE GLOBECOM'2014 WS.

  • Sep. 06, 2014: Dr. Shakir has been appointed as Lead Guest Editor for IEEE Wireless Communication Magazine, Special Issue on Smart Backhauling and Fronthauling for 5G Networks, Oct. 2015 Issue. Deadline: Feb. 1, 2015.

  • Sep. 01, 2014: Dr. Shakir has a paper "Energy model for light-weight block ciphers for WBAN applications," accepted for MobiHealth'2014.

  • Aug. 31, 2014: Dr. Shakir has been announced as chair of 2015 Workshop on Next Generation of Backhaul/Fronthaul Networks, BackNets'2015 to be organized with ICC'2015, London, UK, Jun. 2015, Paper submission deadline: Jan. 10, 2015. .

  • Aug. 01, 2014: Dr. Shakir has an invited paper "Public-key authentication for cloud-based WBANs," in BodyNets'2014.

  • Jul. 28, 2014: Dr. Shakir has a paper "On the bits per Joule optimization in cognitive radio networks," accepted for IEEE Workshop CCS'2014.

  • Jun. 30, 2014: Dr. Shakir has been appointed as Technical Program Chair 10th Cognitive Radio Oriented Wireless Networks Conference, Crowncom'2015, Doha, Qatar, Apr. 2015, Paper submission deadline: Dec. 15, 2014.

  • Jun. 15, 2014: Dr. Shakir has been announced as Co-Chair: Special Session on Ubiquitous Smart Wireless Communication Technologies for Remote Healthcare collocated with IEEE Mobihealth'2014, Athens, Greece, Nov. 2014.

  • May. 28, 2014: Dr. Shakir has a paper "Energy efficiency improvements in HetNet by exploiting smart Device-to-Device communications" accepted for EUSIPCO'2014.

  • May 08, 2014: Dr. Shakir has a tutorial "Green HetNets: Capacity Improvements, Coverage Expansion and Backhaul Requirements" accepted to be delivered in IEEE Global Communications Conference, exhibition & Industry Forum, IEEE GLOBECOM'2014, to be held in Austin, TX, USA, Dec. 8-12, 2014.

  • Apr. 23, 2014: Dr. Shakir has a paper "spectral and energy efficiency analysis of uplink heterogeneous network with cells on edge" accepted for publication in Elsevier Journal PHYCOM, Special Issue Heterogeneous Small cell networks.

  • Apr. 21, 2014: Dr. Shakir has been appointed as Lead Guest Editor for IEEE Communication Magazine, Feature Topic on Emerging Applications, Services and Engineering for Cognitive Cellular Systems, (EASE for CCS), May 2015 Issue. Paper submission deadline: Oct. 1, 2014.

  • Mar. 15, 2014: Dr. Shakir has been announced as Co-Chair Special Session: Emerging Applications, Services and Engineering (EASE) for CCS collocated with First IEEE International Workshop on Cognitve Cellular Systems, Rhine River, Germany Sep. 2-4, 2014.Paper submission deadline: Jun 13, 2014.

  • Feb. 26, 2014: Dr. Shakir has a paper "Expanding cellular coverage via small-cell deployment in heterogeneous networks: spectral efficiency and backhaul power consumption" accepted for publication in IEEE Communication Magazine in Special Issue on Smart-Device-to-Smart-Device Communication, Impact Factor 3.6.

  • Jan. 26, 2014: Dr. Shakir has a paper "A probabilistic model of user activity and spectrum occupancy for OFDMA based cognitive radio systems: spectrum occupancy and system throughput perspectives" accepted for publication in IEEE Transaction on Wireless Communications.

  • Jan. 12, 2014: Dr. Shakir has been appointed as Technical Co-Chair 2014 Symposium Signal and Information Processing for Energy Exchange and Intelligent Trading, SIP for EXIT collocated with Second IEEE Global Conference on Signal and Information Processing, IEEE GlobalSIP'2014, Atlanta, Georgia, USA, Dec. 3-5, 2014.
    Paper submission deadline: Jun 16, 2014 (Extended).

  • Dec. 18, 2013: Dr. Shakir has a tutorial "SmallCells: Capacity, Mobility and Energy Efficiency Perspectives" accepted to be delivered in IEEE International Conference on Communications, IEEE ICC'2014, to be held in Sydney, Australia, Jun 10-14, 2014.

  • Dec. 16, 2013: Dr. Shakir has a paper "Analytical bound on the area spectral efficiency of the two tier Heterogeneous networks over generalized fading channels" accepted for publication in IEEE Transaction on Vehicular Technology.


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