44 citations · 57 across the 18 of their papers we have counts for
22 papers
LiDAR for Crowd Management: Applications, Benefits, and Future Directions
Abdullah Khanfor, Chaima Zaghouani, Hakim Ghazzai +2
Light Detection and Ranging (LiDAR) technology offers significant advantages for effective crowd management. This article presents LiDAR technology and highlights its primary advan…
Empowering Urban Traffic Management: Elevated 3D LiDAR for Data Collection and Advanced Object Detection Analysis
Nawfal Guefrachi, Hakim Ghazzai, Ahmad Alsharoa
The 3D object detection capabilities in urban environments have been enormously improved by recent developments in Light Detection and Range (LiDAR) technology. This paper presents…
Leveraging 3D LiDAR Sensors to Enable Enhanced Urban Safety and Public Health: Pedestrian Monitoring and Abnormal Activity Detection
Nawfal Guefrachi, Jian Shi, Hakim Ghazzai +1
The integration of Light Detection and Ranging (LiDAR) and Internet of Things (IoT) technologies offers transformative opportunities for public health informatics in urban safety a…
Remote Breathing Monitoring Using LiDAR Technology
Omar Rinchi, Ahmad Alsharoa, Denise A. Baker
Breathing monitoring is crucial in healthcare for early detection of health issues, but traditional methods face challenges like invasiveness, privacy concerns, and limited applica…
The Role of Intelligent Transportation Systems and Artificial Intelligence in Energy Efficiency and Emission Reduction
Omar Rinchi, Ahmad Alsharoa, Ibrahem Shatnawi +1
Despite the technological advancements in the transportation sector, the industry continues to grapple with increasing energy consumption and vehicular emissions, which intensify e…
Facilitating Satellite-Airborne-Balloon-Terrestrial Integration for Dynamic and Infrastructure-less Networks
Ahmad Alsharoa, Mohamed-Slim Alouini
This magazine investigates the potential enhancement of the data throughput of ground users by integrating ground base stations (GBS) with air stations, such as balloon, airborne,…
Improvement of Bi-directional Communications using Solar Powered Reconfigurable Intelligent Surfaces
Abdullah Almasoud, Mohamed Y. Selim, Ahamd Alsharoa +1
Recently, there has been a flurry of research on the use of Reconfigurable Intelligent Surfaces (RIS) in wireless networks to create dynamic radio environments. In this paper, we i…
MirrorVLC: Optimal Mirror Placement for Multi-Element VLC Networks
Sifat Ibne Mushfique, Ahmad Alsharoa, Murat Yuksel
Visible Light Communication (VLC) is a rapidly growing technology which can supplement the current radio frequency (RF) based wireless communication systems. VLC can play a huge pa…
A Latency-Aware Task Offloading in Mobile Edge Computing Network for Distributed Elevated LiDAR
Michael C. Lucic, Hakim Ghazzai, Ahmad Alsharoa +1
Recently, elevated LiDAR (ELiD) has been proposed as an alternative to local LiDAR sensors in autonomous vehicles (AV) because of the ability to reduce costs and computational requ…
D3S: A Framework for Enabling Unmanned Aerial Vehicles as a Service
Farid Naït-Abdesselam, Ahmad Alsharoa, Mohamed Selim +2
In this paper, we consider the use of UAVs to provide wireless connectivity services, for example after failures of wireless network components or to simply provide additional band…
Improvement of the Global Connectivity using Integrated Satellite-Airborne-Terrestrial Networks with Resource Optimization
Ahmad Alsharoa, Mohamed-Slim Alouini
In this paper, we propose a novel wireless scheme that integrates satellite, airborne, and terrestrial networks aiming to support ground users. More specifically, we study the enha…
Facilitating Satellite-Airborne-Terrestrial Integration for Dynamic and Infrastructure-less Networks
Ahmad Alsharoa, Mohamed-Slim Alouini
This paper studies the potential improvement in the achievable data rate available to ground users by integrating satellite, airborne, and terrestrial networks. The goal is to esta…
Resource and Placement Optimization for Multiple UAVs using Backhaul Tethered Balloons
Ala Alzidaneen, Ahmad Alsharoa, Mohamed-Slim Alouini
This paper studies the improvement of the achievable end-to-end data rate of ground users assisted with unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) and tethered balloons (TBs). The goal is to…
Spatial and Temporal Management of Cellular HetNets with Multiple Solar Powered Drones
Ahmad Alsharoa, Hakim Ghazzai, Abdullah Kadri +1
This paper proposes an energy management framework for cellular heterogeneous networks (HetNets) supported by dynamic solar powered drones. A HetNet composed of a macrocell base st…
Energy Efficient D2D Communications Using Multiple UAV Relays
Ahmad Alsharoa, Murat Yukse
In this paper, we propose a novel optimization model for multiple Unmanned Areal Vehicles (UAVs) working as relays and helping Device-to-Device (D2D) communications at the same tim…
Short-term and Long-term Cell Outage Compensation Using UAVs in 5G Networks
Mohamed Y. Selim, Ahmad Alsharoa, Ahmed E. Kamal
The use of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) has gained interest in wireless networks for its many uses and advantages such as rapid deployment and multi-purpose functionality. This…
Multi-band RF Energy and Spectrum Harvesting in Cognitive Radio Networks
Ahmad Alsharoa, Nathan M Neihart, Sang W Kim +1
This paper investigates a multi-band harvesting (EH) schemes under cognitive radio interweave framework. All secondary users are considered as EH nodes that are allowed to harvest…
Optimization of a Power Splitting Protocol for Two-Way Multiple Energy Harvesting Relay System
Ahmad Alsharoa, Hakim Ghazzai, Ahmed E Kamal +1
Energy harvesting (EH) combined with cooperative communications constitutes a promising solution for future wireless technologies. They enable additional efficiency and increased l…
Hybrid Cell Outage Compensation in 5G Networks: Sky-Ground Approach
Mohamed Y Selim, Ahmad Alsharoa, Ahmed E. Kamal
Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) enabled communications is a novel and attractive area of research in cellular communications. It provides several degrees of freedom in time, space…
Green Networking in Cellular HetNets: A Unified Radio Resource Management Framework with Base Station ON/OFF Switching
Hakim Ghazzai, Muhammad Junaid Farooq, Ahmad Alsharoa +3
In this paper, the problem of energy efficiency in cellular heterogeneous networks (HetNets) is investigated using radio resource and power management combined with the base statio…
Optimal Transmit Power Allocation for MIMO Two-Way Cognitive Relay Networks with Multiple Relays
Ahmad Alsharoa, Hakim Ghazzai, Mohamed-Slim Alouini
In this letter, we consider a multiple-input multiple-output two-way cognitive radio system under a spectrum sharing scenario, where primary and secondary users operate on the same…
Relay Selection and Resource Allocation for Two Way DF-AF Cognitive Radio Networks
Ahmad Alsharoa, Faouzi Bader, Mohamed-Slim Alouini
In this letter, the problem of optimal resource power allocation and relay selection for two way relaying cognitive radio networks using half duplex Decode and Forward (DF) and Amp…