Professional Affiliations & Services
Conference/Symposium Organization
- Organizer and Chair: IEEE ICC Workshop Next generation Backhaul/fronthaul Networks , (BackNets 2016), Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, May 2016.
- Workshop Chair: IEEE WCNC 2016 , Doha, Qatar, Apr. 2016.
- Chair: Workshop on Green ICT for Future Networks , IEEE ICUWB 2015, Montreal, Canada, Sep. 2015.
- Co-Technical Chair: Workshop IEEE Workshop on Advances in Body-Centric Wireless Communications and Networks and Their Applications (BCWNets 2015) to be organized with IEEE WIMOB 2015, Oct., 19-21, 2015, Abu Dhabi, UAE, Paper submission Deadline: Jun 30, 2015
- Co-Chair of Special Session: Performance Analysis and Modelling for Large Scale 5G Wireless Networks to be organized with IEEE CAMAD 2015, Guildford, UK Sep 2015, Paper submission Deadline: May 1, 2015
- Organizer and Chair: 2015 Workshop on Recent Advances at Physical Layer for 5G Wireless Networks ReAP'2015 to be organized with IWCMC'2015, Dubrovnik, Croatia, August, 2015, Paper submission deadline: Feb. 15, 2015.
- Organizer and co-Chair: 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 31, 2015.
- Organizer and Chair: 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.
- Organizer and Technical Program Chair: 10th Cognitive Radio Oriented Wireless Networks Conference, Crowncom'2015, Doha, Qatar, Apr. 2015. Paper submission deadline: Jan 31, 2014.
- Chair: Special Session on Ubiquitous Smart Wireless Communication Technologies for Remote Healthcare collocated with IEEE Mobihealth'2014, Athens, Greece, Nov. 2014.
- Technical Co-Chair: First Symposium on Signal and Information Processing for Energy Exchange and Intelligent Trading, SIP-EXIT, collocated with IEEE Conf. Global Signal and Information Processing, GlobalSIP'2014, Atlanta, Georgia, USA, Dec. 2014.
- Co-Chair: Special Session on Emerging Applications, Services, and Engineering Frameworks for CCS, EASE4CCS, collocated with IEEE First Workshop on Cellular Cognitive Systems, IEEE CCS'2014, Rhine River, Germany, Sep. 2014
Editorships
- Guest Editor for IET Signal Processing, Special Issue on Signal Processing for Large Scale 5G Wireless Networks Deadline extended: Jun. 1, 2015.
- Associate Technical Editor, IEEE Communications Magazine for 5G related areas.
- Lead Guest Editor for IEEE Wireless Communication Magazine, Special Issue on Smart Backhauling and Fronthauling for 5G Networks, Oct. 2015 Issue. Deadline extended: Feb. 21, 2015.
- 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. Deadline: Oct. 17, 2014.
Professional Affiliations
- Senior Member IEEE since Mar 2016.
- Member IEEE Standard Association since 2011.
- Member IEEE (2003-2016).
- Member IEEE ComSoc since 2011.
Participation in IEEE Technical Committees and Standardization
- Secretary IEEE Working Group 1900.7 (White Space Radios), DySPAN-SC, Jan. 2012 - Present.
- Member IEEE Technical Committee Signal Processing and Communication Electronics (TC SPCE).
- Standardization representative IEEE TC SPCE.
- Member IEEE Technical Committee on Cognitive Networks (TCCN).
- Member IEEE Technical Committee on Green Communication and Computing (TCGCC).
- Member IEEE Technical Committee on Communication Theory (TCCT).
- Member IEEE DySPAN Standards Committee, (DySPAN-SC).
Judging Panel
- Judge to Information, Communication and Technology Track, Qatar Foundation Annual Research Conference, QFARC'2014, Doha, Qatar, Nov. 2014.
- Judge to Information, Communication and Technology Track, Qatar Foundation Annual Research Conference, QFARC'2013, Doha, Qatar, Nov. 2013.
Member Technical Program Committee
- Cognitive radio networking symposium, IEEE GLOBECOM'2016, Washington, DC, USA, Dec. 2016.
- Waveforms and Signal Processing track, IEEE MILCOM'2016, Baltimore, MD, USA, Nov. 2016.
- PHY & fundamentals track, IEEE WCNC'2016, Doha, Qatar, Apr. 2016.
- Signal and Information processing for software defined eco systems and Green computing symposium, IEEE GlobalSIP'2015, Orlando, FL, Dec. 2015.
- Wireless communication symposium, IEEE GLOBEOCM'2015, San Diego, CA, USA, Dec. 2015
- Transportation and Engineering Track - 24th World ITMA (International Traffic Medicine Association) Congress 2015, Doha, Qatar.
- Adhoc and sensor netwkring symposium - IEEE ICC'2015, London, UK, Jun. 2015.
- Green communications and networking track - VTC-Spring'2015, Glasgow, UK, May 2015.
- Mobile and wireless networks track - IEEE WCNC'2015, New Orleans, LA, USA, Mar. 2015.
- 5GArch workshop - IEEE WCNC'2015, New Orleans, LA, USA, Mar. 2015.
- HetSNets'2014 Workhops IEEE GLOBECOM'2014, Austin, TX, USA, Dec. 2014.
- Wireless Communication Symposium, IEEE GLOBECOM'2014, Austin, TX, USA, Dec. 2014.
- IEEE ICCS'2014, Macau, Nov. 2014.
- Cognitive radio and spectrum sensing track - VTC-Spring-2014, Vancouver, Canada, Sep. 2014.
- Communication Theory and Wireless Commun. Symposium - IEEE GLOBECOM'2014, Austin, Texas, USA, Dec. 2013.
- Mobile Communications and Networking Track - IEEE WCNC'2013, Istanbul, Turkey, Apr. 2014.
- IEEE ICASSP'2014, Florence, Italy, May 2014.
- Communication Theory and Wireless Commun. Symposiums - IEEE GLOBECOM'2013, Atlanta, GA, USA, Dec. 2013.
- Communication Theory Symposium - IEEE GLOBECOM'2012, Anaheim, CA, USA, Dec. 2012.
- Mobile and Wireless Communications Track - IEEE WCNC'2012, Paris, France, Apr. 2012.
- Workshop on Smart Communications protocols and Algorithms - IEEE ICC'2012, Ottawa, Canada, Jun. 2012.
- Cognitive Radio and Network Symposium - IEEE ICC'2012, Ottawa, Canada, Jun. 2012.
Reviewer - International Journals
- IEEE Jour. Selected Aareas in Communications, Cognitive radio issue 2013 and HCN issue 2014
- IEEE Trans. Wireless Communications
- IEEE Trans. Vehicular Technology
- IEEE Wireless Communications Letters
- IEEE Systems
- IEEE Trans. Cloud Computing
- IEEE Communications Mag.
- IEEE Wireless Communication Mag.
- IEEE Communications letters
- Elsevier Journal Physical Communications
- EURASIP Jour. Wireless Communications and Networking
- IET Jour. Communications
Reviewer - International Conferences
- IEEE GLOBECOM'2014, Austin, TX, USA, Dec. 2014.
- IEEE ICCS'2014, Macau, Nov. 2014.
- IEEE VTC-Spring'2014, Seoul, Korea, May 2014.
- IEEE ICC'2014, Sydney, Australia, Jun. 2014.
- IEEE ICASSP'2014, Florence, Italy, May 2014.
- IEEE ICC'2013, Budapest, Hungary, Jun. 2013.
- IEEE Globecom'2013, Atlanta, GA, USA, Dec. 2013.
- IEEE ICC'2012, Ottawa, Canada, Jun. 2012.
- IEEE 69th VTC'2009-spring, Barcelona, Spain, Apr. 2009.
- IEEE PIMRC'2009, Tokyo, Japan, Sep. 2009.
- IEEE 67th VTC'2008-spring, Singapore, May 2008.
- IEEE ICC'2011, Kyoto, Japan, Jun. 2011.
- ICST CROWNCOM'2011, Osaka, Japan, Jun. 2011.
- ICST CROWNCOM'2010, Cannes, France, Jun. 2010.