Omar Saeed Salih, Student Member, IEEE 

PhD student, Advanced Wireless Technologies (AWiTec) Lab

 

Vision, Image,  and Signal Processing Group
Electrical, Electronic and Computer Engineering
School of Engineering & Physical Sciences

Joint Research Institute for Signal and Image Processing  

Heriot-Watt University
Edinburgh EH14 4AS, UK

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Biography | Research | Professional Activities | Publications

Biography

Omar Saeed Salih received his BSc degree in Electrical Engineering with emphasis on Communications from Birzeit University, Ramallah, Palestine in 2004 and MSc degree in Information and Communications Engineering from Leicester University, Leicester, UK, in 2006. Since June 2007 he has been a PhD student at Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh, UK. His academic supervisors are Dr. Cheng-Xiang Wang, from Heriot-Watt University  and Dr. Dave Laurenson, from the University of Edinburgh. His industrial supervisor is Mr. Rob Davies, from Philips Research Cambridge, UK.

Research Project

Error Models for Digital Channels and Applications to Wireless Communication Systems, supported by the EPSRC and Philips Research Cambridge.

Research Interests

Error models for digital channels

Mobile propagation channel modelling and simulation
Smart antennas and MIMO systems, OFDM
Cooperative communications
Mobile networks and Protocols
Wireless sensor networks

Professional Activities

A reviewer for international journal and conference papers:

 

  • International Journal of Communication Systems

 

  • IEEE Vehicular Technology Conference (VTC 2009-Spring)
  • IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference (WCNC 2009)
  • IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC 2009)
  • IEEE International Conference on Communications and Mobile Computing (CMC 2009)
  • IEEE International Conference on Communications, Circuits and Systems (ICCCAS 2008)
  • IEEE International Workshop on Self-Organizing Systems (IWSOS 2008)
  • IEEE International Conference on Wireless and Mobile Computing, Networking and Communications (WiMob 2008)
  • IEEE Global Communication Conference (GLOBECOM 2008)
  • High Performance Computation Conference (HPCC 2008)

Publications

o   O. S. Salih, C.-X. Wang, D. I. Laurenson, and Y. He, “Hidden Markov models for packet-level errors in bursty digital wireless channels,” Proc.  LAPC 2009, Loughborough, UK, 16-17 Nov. 2009, pp. 385-388.

o   O. S. Salih, C.-X. Wang, and D. I. Laurenson, “Soft bit error modeling for discrete wireless channels,” Proc. IWCMC 2009, Leipzig, Germany, 21-24 June 2009.           

o   O. S. Salih, C.-X. Wang, and D. I. Laurenson, “Three-layered hidden Markov models for binary digital wireless channels,” Proc. ICC 2009, Dresden, Germany, 14-18 June 2009.

o   O. S Salih, C.-X. Wang, and D. I. Laurenson, “Double embedded processes based hidden Markov models for binary digital wireless channels,” Proc. ISWCS 2008, Iceland, 21-24 Oct. 2008, pp. 219-223.

　

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