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, 2004.

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

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

·  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.

·  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.

·  Signals and Systems

·  Communications Principles

·  Digital Communications

·  Communications Lab

·  Member of Registration Committee, College of Engineering, 2000 – 2007.

· Member of Organization Committee for the King Saud University Engineering Exhibition, 1999.

·  Cooperative communications

·  Cognitive radio

·  Resource allocation

·  Design and analysis of future wireless communications systems

Publications:

Society Membership:

 IEEE Communications

Referee:

IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications

IEEE Globecom Conference, 2013

The Saudi International Electronics, Communications and Photonics Conference, 2013

IEEE Canadian Conference on Electrical and Computer Engineering, 2012

IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference, 2011

IEEE Vehicular Technology Conference, 2010

[10] E. Altubaishi and X. Shen, "Distributed fair relay selection strategy for amplify-and-forward cooperative wireless systems," under review.

[9] E. 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.

[8] E. 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.

[7] E. 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.

[6] E. 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.

[5] E. 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.

[4] E. 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.

[3] E. 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.

[2] E. 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.

[1] E. Altubaishi, "Fair scheduling method for HSDPA," Fourth International Multi-Conference on Systems, Signals, and Devices, Hammamet, Tunisia, March 2007.