Majid Altamimi

Supervisor:

- Prof. Sagar Naik

Areas of Interest:

  • Energy Saving in Wireless Communication
  • Cloud Computing for Wireless Handheld Devices
  • Next Generation Communication
  • Cognitive Radio, Software Defined Radio, and Dynamic Spectrum

Education

January 2010 Enrolled as a PhD student in the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department, at the University of Waterloo, Waterloo, ON, Canada
January 2010 Received a MASc degree from the Electrical and Computer Engineering, at the University of Waterloo, ON, Canada. The thesis topic was "MAC Protocol Design for Parallel Link Rendezvous in Ad Hoc Cognitive Radio Networks"
June 2004 Received a Bachelor of Science (BSc) degree from the Electrical Engineering Department, at the College of Engineering, at King Saud University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

Honors and Awards

Winter 2009 and Winter 2011 Received a University of Waterloo Graduate Scholarship
December 2006 Received a Scholarship from King Saud University to complete a MASc and PhD degree in Canada
June 2004 Graduated from the Electrical Engineering Department, at the College of Engineering, at King Saud University with the Second-Degree Honor

Publications

2010

  1. Altamimi, M.; Naik, K.; Shen, X. "Parallel Link Rendezvous in Ad Hoc Cognitive Radio Networks," GLOBECOM 2010, 2010 IEEE Global Telecommunications Conference, pp.1-6, 6-10 Dec. 2010.

2011

  1. Altamimi, M. & Naik, K. "The Concept of a Mobile Cloud Computing to Reduce Energy Cost of Smartphones and ICT Systems," Proceedings of the First international conference on Information and communication on technology for the fight against global warming, Springer-Verlag, 2011, pp. 79-86.
  2. Palit, R.; Altamimi, M.; Naik, K. & Singh, A. "Challenges and Opportunities in Designing Next Generation Energy-efficient Smartphones," invited paper in the proceedings of the 1st International Conference on Advanced Computing (ICoAC 2011), 2011.

2012

  1. Altamimi, M.; Palit, R.; Naik, K. & Nayak, A. "Energy-as-a-Service (EaaS): On the Efficacy of Multimedia Cloud Computing to Save Energy of Smartphones," to appear in IEEE Cloud 2012.

Academic Projects and Presentations

Spring 2010 Majid Altamimi, "A Dependable Fuzzy Multipath Routing Protocol (DFMRP) for Wireless Sensor Networks" as course work for ECE 750-T21, in the ECE Dept., at the University of Waterloo
Spring 2010 Majid Altamimi, and Nan Sun, "Type-2 Fuzzy Logic & Fuzzy Logic and Probability Theory: Comparison, Example, and Application" as course work for ECE 750-T16, in the ECE Dept., at the University of Waterloo
Winter 2010 Majid Altamimi, "Security Implementation in Wireless Environment" as course work for ECE 628, in the ECE Dept., at the University of Waterloo
Spring 2008 Majid Altamimi, "Cognitive-Based Ad-hoc Network over GSM" as course work for ECE 750 T4, in the ECE Dept., at the University of Waterloo
Spring 2008 Majid Altamimi, "Cognitive Radio and Spectrum Sharing: Case Study" as course work for ECE 710 T2, in the ECE Dept., at the University of Waterloo
Winter 2008 Majid Altamimi, "Diversity Reception Combined with Equalization: A survey of system performance working over mobile radio channel" as course work for ECE 614, in the ECE Dept., at the University of Waterloo
Winter 2008 Majid Altamimi. "Time Table Design using Edge-Coloring Algorithm" as course work for ECE 700 T2, in the ECE Dept., at the University of Waterloo
Fall 2005 Majid Altamimi, "Design and study Methods for Voice Recognition" using MATLAB software, as part of student supervision teaching assistance of EE 360, in the EE Dept., at King Saud University
Fall 2003 - Spring 2004 Majid Altamimi, "Information Hiding in Fingerprint Digital Image" Submitted as partial fulfillment of the requirements for the Degree of Bachelor of Science (BSc) in the Electrical Engineering, at King Saud University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
Winter 2004 Majid Altamimi, and Fahad Albadah, "Design and Implementation of band bass filter using Micro strip technology" as course project for EE 429, in the EE Dept., at King Saud University
Winter 2003 Majid Altamimi, Saud Alsherihi, and Majid Albahkali, "Design and study for Axial Helical Antenna" as course project forEE 423, in the EE Dept., at King Saud University
Winter 2003 Majid Altamimi, "Design and study for Digital Notch Filters" as course project for EE 360, in the EE Dept., at King Saud University

Completed Graduate Courses

Spring 2010 ECE 750-T21 "Intelligent Sensors and Sensor Networks"
Spring 2010 ECE 750-T16/SYDE 625 "Computational Intelligence/ Intelligent Systems Design"
Winter 2010 ECE 628 "Computer Network Security"
Winter 2009 ECE 750 "Nonlinear Optimization for Electrical Engineering" Offered and Sponsored by Research In Motion (RIM)
Spring 2008 ECE 750 T4 "Protocols, Software, and Issues in Mobile System"
Spring 2008 ECE 710 T2 "Wireless Communication Network"
Winter 2008 ECE 614 "Communications Over Fading Dispersive Channels"
Winter 2008 ECE 700 T2 "Introdution to Optimization"
Winter 2008 ECE 603 "Statistical Signal Processing"
Fall 2007 ECE 604 "Stochastic Processes"
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