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Dr. Essam Saleh Altubaishi

Associate Professor

Associate Professor (Director of Research Center, College of Engineering)

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Electrical Engineering Department
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Name:

Essam Saleh Altubaishi

Address:

Electrical Engineering Department

King Saud University

P. O. Box 800

Riyadh, 11412

Saudi Arabia

Tel (Office):

+966-11-4676740

FAX:

+966-11-4676757

e-mail:

etubashi <at> ksu.edu.sa

Education:

 

 

· Ph.D., Electrical and Computer Engineering Department, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Canada, 2012.

·  M.Sc., Electrical Engineering Department, King Saud University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, 2005.

·  B.Sc., Electrical Engineering Department, King Saud University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, 1996.
Work Experience:

 

· Associate Professor, Electrical Engineering Department, College of Engineering, King Saud University, 2022 – Now.

· Assistant Professor, Electrical Engineering Department, College of Engineering, King Saud University, 2012 – 2021.

·  Research Assistant, University of Waterloo, Broadband Communication Research (BBCR) Lab, Canada, 2008 – 2012.

·  Demonstrator, Electrical Engineering Department, College of Engineering, King Saud University, 1999 – 2007.

·  Test Engineer, Advanced Electronics Company, 1996 – 1999.
 Awards:

 

·  Excellence Award, Ministry of Higher Education (The Saudi Cultural Bureau, Canada), 2008, 2011, and 2012.

·  Outstanding work promotion, Advanced Electronics Company, 1998.

·  First Class Honor Award, King Saud University, 1996.
Teaching Experience:

 

·  Communications Principles

·  Digital Communications

·  Graduation Project I & II

·  Communications Lab
Administrative Duties: 

 
  • Director of Research Center, College of Engineering, 2019 – 2023
  • Member of the Council of Research Center, College of Engineering, 2017 – 2019
  • Director of the College Advising Unit, College of Engineering, 2014 – 2018
  • Member of the Student Affairs Unit, College of Engineering, 2014 – 2020
  • Director of the Academic Advising Unit, Electrical Engineering Department, Oct. 2013 – 2019.
  • Member of the Academic Advising Unit, Electrical Engineering Department, Jan. 2013 – Now.
  • Member of the Registration Committee, College of Engineering, 2000 – 2007.
  • Member of the Organization Committee for the Engineering Exhibition, King Saud University, 1999
  • Member of Registration Committee, College of Engineering, 2000 – 2007.
  • Member of Organization Committee for the King Saud University Engineering Exhibition, 1999.
Research Interests:

 
  • Cooperative communications for radio frequency and free-space optical systems
  • Resource allocation in wireless networks
  • Applications of artificial intelligence in communications and classification
  • Design and analysis of future wireless communications systems
  • Signal processing for communications
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      Society Membership and Duties:

  • Chairman of Board of Directors of the Saudi Telecommunications Society, 2019 – Now
  • Chair of the Scientific Committee of the Saudi Telecommunications Society, 2016 – 2019
  • Member of the executive board of the Saudi Telecommunications Society, 2016 – 2019
  • Member of IEEE Communications Society

 

     Conferences Participation:

  •  Attending and presenting several papers at prestigious communications conferences such as: GLOBECOM, ICC, WCNC

 

      Referee:

  • Optics and Laser Technology
  • Current optics and photonics
  • IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications
  • IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications
  • IEEE GlobeCom Conference
  • The Saudi International Electronics, Communications and Photonics Conference
  • IEEE Canadian Conference on Electrical and Computer Engineering
  • IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference
  • IEEE Vehicular Technology Conference

 
Research Projects:  
 
  • Design and evaluation of cooperative communication network under renewable energy resources (ongoing project)
  • Parallel relaying FSO system with relay selection using deep learning (ongoing project)
  • Performance analysis of a multi-hop free-space optical (FSO) communication system with adaptive modulation and coding (ongoing project)    
  • Performance evaluation of hybrid FSO/RF communication system with decode-and-forward relaying over strong turbulence and pointing errors (completed)
  • Design of mixed RF/parallel relay-assisted FSO systems (completed)     
  • Investigating the performance of amplify-and-forward FSO system with backup RF link (completed)
  • Performance evaluation of a novel adaptive modulation scheme with variable switching thresholds for cellular networks with relaying (completed)
  • Design and evaluation of an efficient hybrid scheduling algorithm for high-speed cellular networks (completed)
  • Design and analysis of a novel distributed fair relay selection strategy for wireless cooperative networks (completed)
  • Finding the shortest path using ant colony algorithm (completed)
  • Design and development of artificial neural network for voice recognition (completed)
Publications:  
 
  • Essam S. Altubaishi and Wagdy A. Alathwary, "On the capacity of decode-and-forward FSO system with single- and dual-hop RF link," IEEE Photonics Journal, vol. 16, no. 1, pp. 1-8, Feb. 2024, Art no. 7300308, doi: 10.1109/JPHOT.2023.3341080.
  • Wagdy A. Alathwary and Essam S. Altubaishi, "Performance of coherent FSO systems with adaptive M-PSK modulation" Optics and Laser Technology, vol. 168, no. 1, pp. 1-8, Jan. 2024, Art no. 109990, doi: 10.101/j.optlastec.2023.109990.
  • Wagdy A. Alathwary and Essam S. Altubaishi, "Performance analysis of dual-hop DF multi-relays FSO system with adaptive modulation," Applied Sciences Journal, special issue: Advanced Technologies in Optical Wireless Communications, vol. 13, no. 19, pp. 11035, Oct. 2023, doi: 10.3390/app131911035.
  • Essam S. Altubaishi, "On the performance of all-optical amplify-and-forward relaying with a backup radio-frequency link over strong atmospheric turbulence and misalignment fading," Current Optics and Photonics, vol. 5, no. 2, pp. 114-120, 2021.
  • Essam S. Altubaishi, "Effect of controlling maximum-SNR-based relay selection strategy in cooperative wireless communication systems," IJEECS, vol. 22, no. 1, pp. 335-341, 2021.
  • Amr Ragheb, Waddah Saif, Abderrahmen Trichili, Islam Ashry, Maged A Esmail, Majid Altamimi, Ahmed Almaiman, Essam Altubaishi, Boon S Ooi, Mohamed-Slim Alouini, Saleh Alshebeili, "Identifying structured light modes in a desert environment using machine learning algorithms," OPTICS EXPRESS, Vol. 28, pp. 9753-9764, 2020.
  • Essam S. Altubaishi and Khaled A. Alhamawi, "Capacity analysis of hybrid AF multi-hop FSO/RF system under pointing errors and weather effects,” IEEE Photonics Technology Letters, vol. 31, no. 15, pp. 1304–1307, 2019.
  • Wagdy A. Alathwary and Essam S. Altubaishi, "On the Performance Analysis of Decode-and-Forward Multi-Hop Hybrid FSO/RF Systems With Hard-Switching Configuration," IEEE Photonics Journal, vol. 11, no. 6, pp. 1-12, Dec. 2019, Art no. 7907012.
  • Wagdy A. Alathwary and Essam S. Altubaishi, "Outage performance of multiuser mixed RF/parallel relay-assisted FSO systems", in proceedings IEEE Jordan International Joint Conference on Electrical Engineering and Information Technology (JEEIT), Amman, 9-11 April, 2019.
  • Khaled A. Alhamawi and Essam S. Altubaishi, "Performance analysis of an AF dual-hop FSO communication system with RF backup link", Current Optics and Photonics, vol. 3, no. 4, pp. 311-319, 2019.
  • Khaled A. Alhamawi and Essam S. Altubaishi, "Capacity Analysis of Amplify-and-Forward Based Dual-Hop Free Space Optical Communication System With Backup RF Link," in proceedings IEEE IIT'16, Alain, UAE, Nov. 2016.
  • Essam S. Altubaishi, " Adaptive modulation with variable switching thresholds for amplify-and-forward cooperative Systems," in proceeding 2015 IEEE Pacific Rim Conference on Communications, Computers and Signal Processing (PACRIM), Victoria, BC, Canada, August 2015.
  • Essam S. Altubaishi, "An efficient hybrid scheduling algorithm for high speed cellular networks," in proceedings IEEE Canadian Conference on Electrical and Computer Engineering, May 2014.
  • Owais Baig, Yahya S. Alharthi, Essam S. Altubaishi, "Game-Theoretic Algorithm Stimulating Cooperation in Multi-hop Wireless Networks", in proceedings 5th International Conference on Game Theory for Networks, Beijing, China, 2014.
  • Essam S. Altubaishi and X. Shen, "Performance analysis of spectrally efficient amplify-and-forward opportunistic relaying scheme with adaptive modulation," Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing (Wiley), DOI: 10.1002/wcm.2397, July 2013.
  • Essam S. Altubaishi and X. Shen, "Performance analysis of decode-and-forward relaying schemes with adaptive QAM," IET Communications, vol. 6, no. 6, pp. 649-658, April 2012.
  • Essam S. Altubaishi and X. Shen, "A novel distributed fair relay selection strategy for cooperative wireless system," in Proceedings IEEE International Conference on Communications, ICC'12, Ottawa, Canada, June 2012.
  • Essam S. Altubaishi and X. Shen, "Efficient decode-and-forward relaying scheme for wireless communication systems," in Proceedings IEEE Canadian Conference on Electrical and Computer Engineering, CCECE'12, Montreal, Canada, April 2012.
  • Essam S. Altubaishi and X. Shen, "Spectrally efficient variable-rate best-relay selection scheme for adaptive cooperative system," in Proceedings IEEE Global  Telecommunications Conference, GLOBECOM'11, Houston, USA, Dec. 2011.
  • Essam S. Altubaishi and X. Shen, "Variable-rate based relay selection scheme for decode-and-forward cooperative networks," in Proceedings IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference, WCNC'11, Cancun, Mexico, March 2011.
  • Essam S. Altubaishi and X. Shen, "A generalized switching policy for incremental relaying with adaptive modulation," in Proceedings IEEE International Conference on Communications, ICC'10, Cape Town, South Africa, May 2010.
  • Essam S. Altubaishi, "Average switching threshold and average throughput for adaptive modulation using Markov model", International Journal of Applied Science, Engineering and Technology, vol. 3, no. 4, pp. 190-195, Fall. 2007.
  • Essam S. Altubaishi, "Fair scheduling method for HSDPA," in proceeding Fourth International Multi-Conference on Systems, Signals and Devices, Hammamet, Tunisia, 2007.
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