Dr. Samy A. Mahmoud: List of Publications

Recent Publications:

Area: Wireless Communications:

Ahmed, H., and Mahmoud, S.A., "An Efficient Admission Control Algorithm for Integrated Services in Wide-band DS-CDMA using a Switched-Beam Antennas," Proceedings of Wireless 99, Calgary, Canada, July 1999, pp. 241-251.

Mahmoud, S.A., "Forth Generation Mobile Radio Systems," European Forth ACTS Summit, Sorrento, Italy, June 8-11, 1999.

Ahmed, H., and Mahmoud, S.A., "Area Coverage Probability for Urban Micro-cells," Proceedings of ICECS’97, Cairo, Egypt, December 1997, pp. 578-581.

Ahmed, H., and Mahmoud, S.A., "Performance of Urban Microcellular Communication Systems with Overlapping Coverage," VTC98 Conference Proceedings, Ottawa, May 17-21, 1998, pp. 1380-1384.

Lee, I.D., Stern, H., and Mahmoud, S.A., "A Voice Activity Detection Algorithm for Communication Systems with Dynamically Varying Background Acoustic Noise," VTC98 Conference Proceedings, Ottawa, May 17-21, 1998, pp. 1214-1218.

Alasti, A., Chini, A., El-Tanany, M., and Mahmoud, S.A., "A Discrete Multi-Carrier, Multi-Path Access Technique for Wireless Communications," VTC98 Conference Proceedings, Ottawa, May 17-21, 1998, pp. 1533-1537.

Mahmoud, A.S., Falconer, D.D., and Mahmoud, S.A., "Analysis of a Multiple Access Scheme for Broadband Indoor Wireless ATM LAN," Globecom ’97, November 3-8, 1997, Phoenix, Arizona, USA.

Chini, A., Wu, Y., El-Tanany, M. , and Mahmoud, S.A., "filtered Decision Feedback Channel for OFDM-based DTV Terrestrial Broadcasting System," IEEE Transactions on Broadcasting, pp. 2-11, Volume 44, Number 1, March 1998.

Chini, A., Wu, Y., El-Tanany, M. , and Mahmoud, S.A., "Hardware Nonlinearities in Digital TV Broadcasting Using OFDM Modulation " IEEE Transactions on Broadcasting, pp. 12-21, Volume 44, Number 1, March 1998.

Esmaeli, M., Gulliver, T., Secord, N., and Mahmoud, S.A., " A Link Between Quasi-Cyclic Codes and Convolutional Codes, IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, pp. 431-435,Volume 44, Number 1, January 1998.

Papers Submitted for Publication in Forthcoming Conferences:

Ahmed, H., and Mahmoud, S.A., "A Novel Call Admission Control Algorithm for FH-TDMA Cellular Networks," VTC98 Conference to be held in Tokyo, Japan, May 15-18, 2000.

Ahmed, H., and Mahmoud, S.A., "Capacity Analysis of GSM System Using Frequency Hopping and Smart Antennas ," VTC98 Conference to be held in Tokyo, Japan, May 15-18, 2000.

Area: High Speed Networks

Ramy M. Guirguis, Sameh Rabie, Osama Aboul-Magd, Samy Mahmoud, "The use of Bit True Simulation in ATM Switch Design", Proceedings of IEEE Symposium on Planning & Design of Broadband Networks, Mont Treblant, October 1998.

Ramy M. Guirguis and Samy Mahmoud, "Traffic Characterization and Transmission of Uncontrolled Multi-layered MPEG-4 Video over ATM/ABR Service", Accepted for publication at The 3^rd Canadian Conference on Broadband Research, Ottawa, November 1999

Ramy M. Guirguis, Sameh Rabie, Osama Aboul-Magd, Samy Mahmoud, "Engineering and Performance Evaluation of the ABR Service in Second Generation ATM Networks", Accepted for publication at Globcom’99, Rio de Janeiro, December 1999.

Ramy M. Guirguis and Samy Mahmoud, "A Rate Request Mechanism for the Transmission of Real-Time MEPG-4 Video over ATM/ABR Networks", Submitted to 8^th International Conference on Telecommunication Systems Modeling and Analysis, Nashville, March 2000

Ramy M. Guirguis and Samy Mahmoud, "Transmission of Real-Time Multi- layered MPEG-4 Video over ATM/ABR Service", Submitted to ICC2000, New Orleans, June 2000.

Area: Speech Processing

E.Nemer, R. Goubran and S. Mahmoud "The Third-order Statistics of Speech Signals with Application to Reliable Pitch Estimation", IEEE Statistical Signal and Array Processing workshop, Sept. 1998, pp. 427-430.

E.Nemer, R. Goubran and S. Mahmoud "Noise Estimation Using Higher Order Statistics for Improved Speech Enhancement", Proc. IASTED Signal and Image Processing, 1998, pp. 539-543.

E.Nemer, R. Goubran and S. Mahmoud "Pitch Estimation and Voicing Detection Using Third-Order Statistics", Proc. ICSPAT 1997, pp. 1668 - 1673.

E.Nemer, R. Goubran and S. Mahmoud "An Efficient Algorithm for Computing the Triple correlation", Proc. CCECE, May 1997, pp. 215 – 218.

E.Nemer, R. Goubran and S. Mahmoud "A Non-deterministic Scheduling and Allocation Model for Mapping Algorithms on Configurable Architectures", Proc. CCECE, 1997, pp. 19 – 22.

E.Nemer, R. Goubran and S. Mahmoud "Speech Enhancement Using Higher Order Statistics", Proc. ICSPAT, 1996, pp. 1645 - 1650.

E.Nemer, R. Goubran and S. Mahmoud "SNR Estimation of Speech Signals Using Subbands and Fourth Order Statistics*’. IEEE Signal Processing letters, July 1999, vol. 6, no. 7, pp. 171 - 174.

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