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Akram Salem Bin Sediq

(Ph.D. in progress)

M.A.Sc. in Electrical Engineering (2008), Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada.
“Senate Medal for outstanding academic achievement”

B.Sc. in Electrical Engineering (2006),
American University of Sharjah (AUS), United Arab Emirates .

 

     Thesis Supervisor: Dr. Halim Yanikomeroglu

Last update: March 4, 2012

 

Email: akram at sce.carleton.ca
Tel: +1 613 520-2600 ext. 1579
Fax: +1 613 520-5727
Office: Minto Case Building, Room 7035

 

 

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Biography

Akram Bin Sediq was born in Makkah, Saudi Arabia, in 1983. He received a B. Sc. degree in Electrical Engineering in 2006 from the American University of Sharjah (AUS), United Arab Emirates, and a M.A.Sc. degree in Electrical Engineering in 2008 from Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada. He is currently a PhD. candidate at Carleton University under the direct supervision of Professor Halim Yanikomeroglu. He is also the TA Mentor for the Department of Systems and Computer Engineering.

He graduated at the top of the engineering class of 2006 at AUS and he received a Senate Medal for outstanding academic achievement from Carleton University at the Master’s level in 2008. Mr. Bin Sediq is the recipient of the third prize in Myron Zucker Industry Applications Student Design Award 2005, the IEEE Microwave Theory and Techniques Society Undergraduate/Pre-Graduate Scholarship for 2005 and the IEEE Antennas and Propagation Society Undergraduate Scholarship for 2004.

 

Research Interests

*      Dynamic Inter-cell Interference Coordination (ICIC).

*      Advanced radio resource management techniques.

*      Optimization of 4G wireless networks.

*      Fixed Multi-hop Relay Networks, cooperative diversity, novel diversity combining schemes.

*      Practical implementation of cooperative relay networks.

starbullet2  Interference modeling for cellular systems with digital relays.

starbullet2   Image and video transmission over wireless channels.

starbullet2   Near-field microwave nondestructive testing and wave material interaction.

 

Masters Thesis

“Diversity Combining of Signals with Different Modulation Levels and Constellation Rearrangement in Cooperative Relay Networks”, Supervisor: Prof. Halim Yanikomeroglu, September 2008. [PDF].

 

Awards

*      Ontario Graduate Scholarship (OGS) 2011-2012 for domestic students.

*      Dr. Roger Kaye Memorial Scholarship 2011.

*      Ontario Graduate Scholarship in Science and Technology (OGSST) 2010-2011.

*      Ontario Graduate Scholarship (OGS) 2007-2008, 2008-2009, and 2009-2010 for International Students (Given only to 60 international students from all the universities, in the Province of Ontario, in all majors).

*      Carleton University Senate Medal for outstanding academic achievement (2008).

starbullet2   President Cup 2006, which is awarded by His Highness Sheikh Dr. Sultan Bin Mohammad Al Qassimi, Supreme Council Member, Ruler of Sharjah and President of the American University of Sharjah (AUS). It is given to the student graduating with the highest GPA at AUS. (GPA: 4.00/4.00)

starbullet2   The third prize in Myron Zucker Industry Applications Student Design Award 2005 (IEEE international award honors three separate individual students or student teams and the students' associated electrical engineering department). [PDF]

starbullet2   IEEE Microwave Theory and Techniques (MTT) Society Undergraduate/Pre-Graduate Scholarship for 2005 (the competition was opened to undergraduate students worldwide and only 10 students were chosen). [PDF]

starbullet2     IEEE Antennas and Propagation Society (AP-S) Undergraduate Scholarship for 2004 (the competition was opened to undergraduate students worldwide and only 10 students were chosen).

starbullet2     First Place Winner in the 2004-05 National Advisory Council (NAC) Student Project Competition. The competition was opened to all senior engineering students in the American University of Sharjah.

starbullet2      The second prize in Sharjah Islamic Bank Student Research Awards 2005/2006.

starbullet2      Honors Certificate for being the top student in Saudi Arabia in the high school.

 

   Publications

      Patents:

1-      Method and System for Data Transmission for Cooperative Relaying Networks, and Intermediate Node and Source Node Therein. Akram Bin Sediq, Petar Djukic, Halim Yanikomeroglu, and Jietao Zhang.

·         China patent application no: CN201010159054, application date: 26 April 2010

·         PCT/CN2011/071286

 

2-      Inter-cell Interference Coordination for Wireless Communication Systems. Akram Bin Sediq, Rainer Schoenen, Halim Yanikomeroglu, Gamini Senarath, Zhijun Chao, Ho Ting Cheng, Peiying Zhu.

·        United States patent application no: 13/438,624, application date: 03 April 2012

 


     Journals:

1-      Akram Bin Sediq, Rainer Schoenen, Halim Yanikomeroglu, and Gamini Senarath, “A Near-Optimum, Dynamic and Distributed Inter-cell Interference Coordination Scheme with Polynomial Complexity using Projected Subgradient and Network Flow Optimization”, submitted to IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology, April 2012.

2-     Akram Bin Sediq and Halim Yanikomeroglu, “Selection combining of signals with different modulation levels in Nakagami-m fading”, IEEE Communications Letters, vol. 16, no. 5, pp. 752-755, May 2012. [PDF]

3-      Akram Bin Sediq, Petar Djukic, Halim Yanikomeroglu, and Jietao Zhang, “Optimized non-uniform constellation rearrangement for cooperative relaying”, IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology , vol. 60, no. 5, pp. 2340-2347, June 2011. [PDF]

4-     Akram Bin Sediq and Halim Yanikomeroglu, “Performance analysis of selection combining of signals with different modulation levels in cooperative communications”, IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology, vol. 60, no. 4, pp. 1880-1887, May 2011. [PDF]

5-     Akram Bin Sediq and Halim Yanikomeroglu, “Performance analysis of soft-bit maximal ratio combining in cooperative relay networks”, IEEE Transaction on Wireless Communications, vol. 8, no. 10, pp. 4934-4939, October 2009. [PDF]

6-      Akram Bin Sediq and Nasser Qaddoumi, “Near-Field Microwave Image Formation of Defective Composites Utilizing Open-Ended Waveguides with Arbitrary Cross Section,” Journal of Composite Structure (Elsevier), 71, pp. 343-348, 2005. [PDF]

7-     Mohamed El-Tarhuni, Mohamed Hassan, and Akram Bin Sediq, “A Jointly Optimized Variable M-QAM and Power Allocation Scheme for Image Transmission,” accepted to Journal of Computer Networks and Communications, November 2011. [PDF]

    

    Conference Papers:

  1. Rainer Schoenen, Akram Bin Sediq, Halim Yanikomeroglu, Gamini Senerath, Zhijun Cao, and Ho Ting Cheng, “Spectral efficiency and fairness tradeoffs in cellular networks with realtime+nonrealtime traffic mix using stochastic Petri nets”, IEEE Vehicular Technology Conference (VTC2012-Fall), 3–6 September 2012, Quebec City, Quebec, Canada.
  2. Akram Bin Sediq, Rainer Schoenen, Halim Yanikomeroglu, Gamini Senarath, and Zhijun Chao, “A novel distributed inter-cell interference coordination scheme based on projected subgradient and network flow optimization”, IEEE International Symposium on Personal, Indoor and Mobile Radio Communications (PIMRC 2011), 11–14 September 2011, Toronto, Canada. [PDF]
  3. Rainer Schoenen, Akram Bin Sediq, Halim Yanikomeroglu, Gamini Senarath, and Zhijun Chao, “Fairness analysis in cellular networks using stochastic Petri nets”, IEEE International Symposium on Personal, Indoor and Mobile Radio Communications (PIMRC 2011), 11–14 September 2011, Toronto, Canada. [PDF]
  4. Rainer Schoenen, Mohamed Rashad Salem, Akram Bin Sediq, and Halim Yanikomeroglu, “Multihop wireless channel model suitable for stochastic Petri nets and Markov state analysis”, accepted to the IEEE Vehicular Technology Conference (VTC2011-Spring), 15–18 May 2011, Budapest, Hungary.
  5. Akram Bin Sediq, Petar Djukic, Halim Yanikomeroglu, and Jietao Zhang, “Generalized constellation rearrangement in cooperative relaying”, accepted to IEEE Vehicular Technology Conference (VTC2010-Spring), 16 – 19 May 2010, Taipei, Taiwan.
  6. Akram Bin Sediq, and Halim Yanikomeroglu, “Performance analysis of SNR-based selection combining and BER-based selection combining of signals with different modulation levels in cooperative communications’, accepted to IEEE Vehicular Technology Conference (VTC2009-Fall), 20 – 23 September 2009, Anchorage, Alaska, USA.  
  7. Hermann Lichte, Stefan Valentin, Holger  Malm, Holger Karl, Akram Bin Sediq, and I. Aad “Rate-per-link adaptation in cooperative wireless networks with multi-rate combining”, Proc. IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC), Jun. 2009.
  8. Akram Bin Sediq and Halim Yanikomeroglu, “Diversity combining of signals with different modulation levels in cooperative relay networks”, accepted to IEEE VTC2008–Fall, 21–24 September 2008, Calgary,Alberta, Canada.
  9. Mohamed El-Tarhuni, Mohamed Hassan and Akram Bin Sediq “ Variable Modulation and Bit Energy Optimization for Transmission of Compressed Images” 18th Annual IEEE International Symposium on Personal Indoor and Mobile Radio Communications (PIMRC07), September 3 - 7, 2007, Athens Hilton, Athens, Greece.
  10. Akram Bin Sediq, Hasan Al-Nashash and Nasser Qaddoumi, “Monitoring of Bone Fracture Healing Using Pulsed Mode Ultrasound" 3rd Cairo International Biomedical Engineering Conference (CIBEC'06), Cairo, Egypt, December 21-24, 2006.
  11. Akram Bin Sediq and Mohamed El-Tarhuni “Combined Power Allocation and Coding for Compressed Image Transmission" 17th Annual IEEE International Symposium on Personal Indoor and Mobile Radio Communications (PIMRC06), September 11 - 14, 2006, Finlandia Hall, Helsinki, Finland.

12.  Akram Bin Sediq, Mohamed El-Tarhuni, and Mohamed Hassan “Image Transmission using Variable M-QAM with Optimized Bit Power Allocation”  Third International Symposium on Wireless Communication Systems (ISWCS06), September 5-8, 2006, Valencia, Spain.

13.  Akram Bin Sediq, Nasser Qaddoumi and Hasan Al-Nashash, “Novel Near-Field Microwave Bone Healing Monitoring Using Open-Ended Rectangular Waveguides," 3rd IEEE-GCC 2006 Conference, 20-22 March 2006, Gulf International Convention and Exhibition Center, Manama, Bahrain.

  1. Akram Bin Sediq and Mohamed El-Tarhuni, "MMSE Power Allocation for Image and Video Transmission over Wireless Channels ," 16th Annual IEEE International Symposium on Personal Indoor and Mobile Radio Communications (PIMRC05), Berlin, Germany, pp. 1060-1064, September 11 - 14, 2005.
  2. Akram Bin Sediq, Mohamed Abou-Khousa and Nasser Qaddoumi, "Comparison between Rectangular and Circular Waveguides as Near-Field Microwave Imaging Probes ," Second International Conference On Electromagnetic Near-Field Characterization and Imaging, 8-10 June 2005 – Barcelona, SPAIN.

 

    Contribution to the World Wireless Research Forum (WWRF):

  1. Akram Bin Sediq and Halim Yanikomeroglu, “Diversity combining of signals with different modulation levels in cooperative relay networks”, WWRF20 Meeting, 22–24 April 2008, Ottawa, Canada.

 

 

Department of Systems and Computer Engineering