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Hisham Abdelaziz Mahmoud

Office: ENB-369,
Tel: (813) 974-5005,
E-mail: hmahmoud@mail.usf.edu
Homepage: http://www.eng.usf.edu/~hmahmoud

Educational Background:

Ph.D.: Electrical Engineering, University of South Florida, Tampa, FL, March 2009.
MS: Electrical Engineering, Cairo University, Cairo, Egypt, June 2005
BS: Electrical Engineering, Cairo University at Fayoum, Fayoum, Egypt, May 2002

Research Interests:

Publications:

Journal Papers

  1. H. A. Mahmoud and H. Arslan, Error Vector Magnitude to SNR Conversion for Nondata-Aided Receivers, accepted for publication in IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications.
  2. H. A. Mahmoud, T. Yucek and H. Arslan, OFDM for Cognitive Radio: Merits and Challenges, accepted for publication in in IEEE Wireless Communications Magazine.
  3. H. A. Mahmoud, H. Arslan, and M. K. Ozdemir, “An Efficient Ranging Algorithm for WiMAX (802.16e) OFDMA,” Elsevier Computer Communications Journal, vol. 32, no. 1, pp. 159–168, Jan. 2009.
  4. H. A. Mahmoud and H. Arslan, "Sidelobe Suppression in OFDM-based Spectrum Sharing Systems Using Adaptive Symbol Transition", IEEE Communications Letters, vol.12, no.2, pp.133-135, February 2008.
  5. H. A. Mahmoud, M. Khairy, and M. Fikri, "Concatenated Coding and Online SNR Estimation for FH-SS Systems in the Presence of Partial Band Jamming", Journal of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Vol. 54, No. 5, Oct. 2007, pp. 533–552, Faculty of Engineering, Cairo University, Egypt.

Book Chapters

  1. H. Arslan, H. A. Mahmoud, and T. Yucek, OFDM for Cognitive Radio: Merits and Challenges, to appear in Cognitive Radio, Software Defined Radio, and Adaptive Wireless Systems, Springer, 2007.

Patents

  1. H. Arslan, and H. A. Mahmoud, System and Method of Improved Channel Estimation for Wireless OFDM Systems, U.S. Patent Application, Patent US 20070153926 (USF Ref. No. 05B131PR), July, 2007.
  2. H. A. Mahmoud and H. Arslan, “Sidelobe Suppression in OFDM-based Spectrum Sharing Systems Using Adaptive Symbol Transition”, USF Ref. No. 07B092.

Conference Papers

  1. H. A. Mahmoud, H. Arslan, M. K. Ozdemir, and F. E. Retnasothie, "IQ Imbalance Correction for OFDMA Uplink Systems," accepted for publication in IEEE Internation Conference on Communications (ICC), Dresden, Germany, 14-18 Jun. 2009.
  2. H. A. Mahmoud, and H. Arslan, "Spectrum shaping of OFDM-based cognitive radio signals," IEEE Radio and Wireless Symposium (RWS),Orlando, Florida, 22-24 Jan. 2008, pp.113-116.
  3. H. A. Mahmoud, and H. Arslan, "Improved Channel Estimation in OFDM Systems with Synchronization Errors and Back-off," IEEE Vehicular Technology Conference (VTC), Montréal, Canada, 25-28 Sep.r 2006.
  4. H. A. Mahmoud, H. Arslan, and M.K. Ozdemir "Initial Ranging for WiMAX (802.16e) OFDMA," IEEE Military Communications Conference (MILCOM), Washington, DC, Oct. 2006.

Thesis/Dissertation

  1. H. A. Mahmoud,"Advanced Transceiver Algorithms for OFDM(A) systems", Ph.D. Dissertation, University of South Florida, March, 2009.
  2. H. A. Mahmoud,"Concatenated codes for FH/MFSK anti-jamming systems", M.S. thesis, Cairo University, June, 2005.