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The 3rd Saudi International Electronics,Communications and Photonics Conference 2015

27th - 28th April, 2015 / 8th - 9th Rajab 1436HKACST Headquarters - Conference Hall - Building 36King Abdullah Road - Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

Under the patronage of the Custodian of the Two Holy MosquesKing Salman Bin Abdulaziz Al-Saud

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The Kingdom seeks a sustained, diversified economic development, and as such has assigned the highest national priority to advancing science and technology throughout the nation to be implemented via a multi-billion program..

The 3rd Saudi International Electronics, Communications and Photonics Conference (SIECPC) will be held from 27 to 28April 2015 in the Conferences Center of King Abdulaziz City for Science and Technology (KACST) headquarters, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. Researchers and practitioners in applications and design area are welcome to participate.

This conference is one of a series of SIECPC events to be organized periodically by KACST.

The 3rd Saudi InternationalElectronics, Communicationsand Photonics Conference(SIECPC) 2015

This event provides a unique opportunity to discuss novel approaches and latest findings in Electronics, Communications and Photonics...

The event is held under the patronage of the Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques,King Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud...

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The 3rd SIECPC 2015 proceedings are organizedin five main tracks:The event seeks the participation of the stakeholders and decision makers involved in Electronics, Communications and photonics in the Kingdom, as well as those involved in applied research, and collaboration between the public and private sectors toward these aims. The event offers a unique opportunity to network and be updated on the latest developments and sources of financial support for related applied research.

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Target Attendees...Participate in strengthening your fields of interest and help transform them into high growth knowledge industries.

The conference seeks to further the stakeholders’ collaboration and cooperation toward advancing the national agenda, empowerment of knowledge industries and accelerating the economic growth of vital sectors.

A partial list of the intended participants includes:

■ Public officials and policy makers.

■ Business leaders and company owners.

■ Universities with private sector collaboration and support programs.

■ Heads and ICT centres taking part in the National Plan for Advancement of Science, Technology and Innovation.

■ Suppliers of Information and Communication Technologies in addition to other ECP infrastructure.

■ Developers and technology providers of the new knowledge cities, technology parks, and R&D facilities.

■ Research institutions.

■ Lab and equipment suppliers for ECP research and development work.

■ International and regional agencies and corporations interested in collaboration toward advancing the ECP science and technologies.

KACST ECP Related Activities and Scientific Outcomes:Since starting the implementation of the national strategic plan (NSTIP) for science and technology, there has been many activities in the field of Electronics, Communications & Photonics (ECP). Considering the main tracks of the total budget spent for all NSTIP main technologies.

ECP technology covers the following tracks:

■ Communication systems and Information Security

■ Wireless Communications & Sensor Networks

■ Lasers and Their Applications

■ MEMS Sensors & Actuators

According to the aims of NSTIP, The scientific outcomes of ECP has reached a reasonable level by filing patents, publishing number of papers in different scientific refereed journals and conferences, and developing prototypes.


DAY 1 Program


REGISTRATION 08:00 – 09:00

WELCOMING ADDRESS 09:00 – 09:30Holy Quran

Dr. Hatim Behairy, Scientific Committee, KACST - KSA

H.H. Dr. Turki bin Saud bin Mohammad Al-Saud, President, KACST - KSA 09:00 – 09:10

OPENING SESSION 09:30 – 10:30Chair: Hatim Behairy, KACST - KSA

Keynote Lecture 1: EDA’s Key to Success: Riding Waves of Innovation Gregory K. Hinckley, President, Mentor Graphics - USA 09:30 – 10:00

Keynote Lecture 2: The Tactile Internet – IoT, 5G and Cloud on SteroidsMischa Dohler, King’s Collage - UK 10:00 – 10:30

Coffee Break 10:30 – 11:00

SESSION 1.1 (SENSOR’S DEVICES AND SYSTEMS) 11:00 – 12:30Chair: Abdulfattah Obeid, KACST - KSA

1.1.1 Context Aware Sensing: Challenges and Roadmap Hazem Hajj, American University of Beirut, Beirut - Lebanon 11:00 – 11:30

1.1.2 Technology-aware Interconnect-centric Design Alberto Garcia Ortiz, U Bremen - Germany 11:30 – 12:00

1.1.3 Translating Technology Innovations into Diabetes Clinics - Opportunities and Challenges Mohammed Benaissa, Sheffield University - UK 12:00 – 12:30

Prayer and Lunch 12:30 – 13:30

SESSION 1.2 (NEXT GENERATION COMMUNICATIONS SYSTEMS) 13:30 – 15:30Chair: Amr Al-Asaad, KACST - KSA

1.2.1 Addressing Spectrum Scarcity through Cognitive Radio and Free Space Optical Communications Mohamed - Slim Al-Ouni, KAUST - KSA 13:30 – 14:00

1.2.2 Sensing and Computing with the Internet of Things

Ramesh Rao, UCSD - USA 14:00 - 14: 30

1.2.3 Next Generation Internet of Things. Abdulhamid Taha, Al Faisal University - KSA 14:30 – 15:00

1.2.4 Technology Trends and The New Paradigms Abdulkareem Adinoyi, STC - KSA 15:00 – 15:30

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WELCOMING

Dr. Turki bin Saud received his PhD in aeronautics and astronautics from Stanford University, USA. He joined King Abdulaziz City for Science and Technology (KACST) and soon afterwards became Director of the newly established Space Research Institute. In 2004, Dr. Turki became the Vice President for Research Institutes at KACST.

He is Chairman of the Supervisory Committee of the National Science and Technology Plan and Chairman of the Supervisory Committee of the King Abdullah Initiative for Solar Water Desalination. He is a member of the Advisory Council for the School of Engineering at Stanford University, and is also Chairman of the Board of The Technology Development and Investments Company (TAQNIA).

H.H. Dr. Turki bin Saud bin Mohammad Al-Saud

President King Abdulaziz City for Science

and Technology (KACST)

WELCOME ADDRESS


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Dr. Hatim Mohammed Behairy is a research Associate Professor and the director of the National Electronics, Communications and Photonics Research Center at King Abdulaziz City for science and Technology in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. He has more than 12 years of experience in both industry and academia in Saudi Arabia and North America relating to telecommunications, software development, and management.

He received his B.Sc from King Saud University in Computer Engineering in 1995, and the Msc degree from George Mason University in Electrical Engineering in 1997 and the Ph.D. in Information technology from George Mason University, Virginia, USA in 2002. His research results have been published in leading journals and conferences such as IEE Electronics Letters, Globecom, and ICC. He is a recipient of a number of USPTO patents in the field of mobile communication. He worked extensively, and he is still working, on the design of new error correction coding techniques for next-generation broadband wireless communication systems, using turbo-coding principles.

Dr. Hatim BehairyScientific Committee

KACST - KSA

WELCOME ADDRESS



Hatim BehairyKing Abdulaziz City for

Science and Technology (KACST) – KSA

SESSION CHAIRMAN

OPENING SESSION

Gregory K. Hinckley serves as President of Mentor Graphics Corporation, a publicly traded provider of electronic design automation solutions. Prior to Mentor Graphics, he served as a senior executive for two other publicly traded companies—VLSI Technology, Inc. and Bio-Rad Laboratories, Inc. Mr. Hinckley is a director of SI-Bone, Inc. (a privately held orthopedic device company), an advisory director of Portland State University Engineering School and a member of the Board of Trustees for Claremont McKenna College.Mr. Hinckley holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in physics from Claremont McKenna College, a Master of Science degree in applied physics from University of California, an MBA degree from Harvard Business School, and was a Fulbright Scholar in applied mathematics at Nottingham University in England. He is also a Certified Public Accountant.

EDA’s Key to Success: Riding Waves of Innovation

Abstract:EDA must continually ride the waves of design innovation, solving design issues as they emerge. Being the first to develop a solution for a new problem is a win-win for both designers and EDA. The customer gets the tools needed to gain a competitive edge while the EDA Company is rewarded with a leadership position in an emerging market. The best way for EDA to identify new design challenges is to partner with cutting-edge customers: whether they are large established companies, startups or companies in promising new markets or global regions.Greg Hinckley, President of Mentor Graphics, will discuss Mentor’s successful formula for identifying emerging design trends and creating world-class products for them. He will highlight recent product innovations that address such pressing concerns as IC physical verification and lowering the cost of IC test while expanding its reach into the cell level. Then, Mr. Hinckley will look at the biggest challenge on EDA’s horizon today—verifying the critical interactions between electronic hardware and the larger system design. Multifaceted approaches will need to be developed that encompass software, mechanical, thermal and stress as well as IC and hardware design.

Gregory K. HinckleyPresident

Mentor Graphics - USA

KEYNOTE LECTURE 1


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Mischa Dohler is full Professor in Wireless Communications at King’s College London, Head of the Centre for Telecommunications Research, co-founder and member of the Board of Directors of the smart city pioneer Worldsensing, Fellow and Distinguished Lecturer of the IEEE, and Editor-in-Chief of the Transactions on Emerging Telecommunications Technologies.

He is a frequent keynote, panel and tutorial speaker. He has pioneered several research fields, contributed to numerous wireless broadband, IoT/M2M and cyber security standards, holds a dozen patents, organized and chaired numerous conferences, has more than 200 publications, and authored several books. He has a citation h-index of 39 (top 1%).He acts as policy, technology and entrepreneurship adviser, examples being Richard Branson’s Carbon War Room, House of Lords UK, UK Ministry BIS, EPSRC ICT Strategy Advisory Team, European Commission, ISO Smart City working group, and various start-ups.He is also an entrepreneur, angel investor, passionate pianist and fluent in 6 languages. He has talked at TEDx. He had coverage by national and international TV & radio; and his contributions have featured on BBC News and the Wall Street Journal.

The Tactile Internet – IoT, 5G and Cloud on SteroidsAbstract:

Currently we can see and hear through the Internet, but we cannot touch. We have a vision to create the Tactical Internet, where we would be able to touch through the median of the internet. This would transform some very basic but vital tasks, like online shopping where the user might want to touch and feel the texture of a dress or jacket before buying it, but, most importantly, this has the potential to transform the way that healthcare, engineering and wealth is delivered globally. We will be able to convey physical, tactile experiences remotely and thus invoke a fundamental shift from content-delivery to skillset-delivery networks. This talk will summarize the potentials, building blocks and challenges which lay ahead for designing the Tactile Internet.

KEYNOTE LECTURE 2

Mischa DohlerProfessor

King’s Collage - UK



Abdulfattah ObeidKing Abdulaziz City for


SESSION CHAIRMAN

SESSION 1.1

Hazem Hajj is an Associate Professor with the American University of Beirut (AUB). Sine joining AUB, he had led several initiatives, including the AUB’s Intel Middle East Energy Efficiency Research (MER) initiative. Before joining AUB in 2008, Hazem was a principal engineer at Intel Corporation. At Intel, he led research and development for Intel’s manufacturing automation, where he received several patents, and numerous Intel Achievement Awards. On the academic front, Hazem received his bachelor degree in Electrical Engineering from AUB in 1987 with distinction, and his PhD from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 1996, where he also received several teaching awards, including the University Teaching Excellence Award. Hazem’s research interests include Data Mining, Energy-Aware Computing, with special interests in Mobile Sensing, Opinion Mining, and Emotion Recognition.

Context Aware Sensing: Challenges and Roadmap

Abstract:The evolution of the smartphone/tablet industry has been a major driving force towards ubiquitous intelligent mobile computing solutions. Commercially available high-end devices include an array of sensors that can provide the user with sensing and health monitoring capabilities. Moreover, the computational and graphical processing aptitudes of these devices facilitate the real-time execution of data processing algorithms based on sensor measurements. In tandem with these developments, wearable devices have been witnessing a complete overhaul in terms of increased miniaturization in addition to enhanced processing and communications capabilities. Finally, machine learning algorithms have benefited from advances in computing platforms, enabling more advanced and accurate artificial intelligence such as the recent emergence of deep learning algorithms. These combined advances have led to the emergence of the field of context aware sensing, which aims at developing solutions that can automatically recognize a person’s context from sensors on mobile devices, wearable fabric, or implantable devices. The goal is to use the derived context to infer recommendations beneficial to the person such as personalized recommendations for favorite and healthy habits, or the community such as noise pollution reduction strategies, and mobile health systems. While much research progress has been made in this field, many challenges remain towards achieving ubiquitous availability of context aware sensing solutions. These challenges are mainly related to limitations with: available energy on mobile devices, performance in data communication and processing, availability of unobtrusive and attractive personal wearable sensors, accurate machine learning models in natural settings, available machine to machine (m2m) platforms for smart city sensing, and the identification of killer applications. In this talk, we present progress made in addressing some of the existing challenges, and a roadmap for addressing remaining challenges.

Hazem HajjAssociate Professor

American University of Beirut, Beirut - Lebanon

SESSION 1.1.1

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Alberto García-Ortiz obtained the diploma degree in Telecommunication Systems from the Polytechnic University of Valencia (Spain) in 1998. After working for two years at Newlogic in Austria, he started the Ph.D. at the Institute of Microelectronic Systems, Darmstadt University of Technology, Germany. In 2003, he received from the Department of Electrical Engineering and Information Technology of the university

the Ph.D. degree with “summa cum laude.” From 2003 to 2005, he worked as a Senior Hardware Design Engineer at IBM Deutschland Development and Research in Böblingen. After that he joint the start-up AnaFocus (Spain), where he was responsible for the design and integration of AnaFocus’ next generation Vision Systems-on-Chip. He is currently full professor for the chair of integrated digital systems at the university of Bremen and co-director of the Institute of Electrodynamics and Microelectronics.

Dr. Garcia-Ortiz received the “Outstanding dissertation award” in 2004 from the European Design and Automation Association. In 2005, he received from IBM an Innovation Award for contributions to leakage estimation. Two patents are issued with that work. In 2012 he was nominated by the U. Bremen for the Alfried-Krupp price for young professors. He serves as editor of JOLPE and is reviewer of several conferences, journals, and European projects.

His interests include low-power design and estimation, communication-centric design, nanophotonics, NoC, SoCs, and variations-aware design.

Technology-aware Interconnect-centric DesignAbstract:

Interconnects are becoming a major bottleneck in the design of modern Systems-on-Chip. Performance, power consumption, and reliability are some of the key challenges that must be addressed to fully optimize the interconnect architecture.

On the one hand, the continuous improvement of CMOS technology and the recent irruption of disruptive technologies as 3D-interconnects and nanophotonic on-chip interconnects are providing an unprecedented amount of communication resources and architectural possibilities. On the other hand, those technology improvements come with a set of underlying engineering issues: harder thermal constraints, lower reliability, increased design complexity... Further on, highly efficient interconnect architectures require that the design is performed at high-levels of abstraction. This issue is especially relevant and challenging when communication subsystems with such different transmission characteristics (as for example the electrical and the nano-photonicl one) work together.

Taking the aforementioned technological scenario as a starting motivation, this talk aims at discussing recent research results on technology aware interconnect-centric design. An outlook into future research directions will conclude the talk.

SESSION 1.1.2

Alberto García-OrtizCo-director, Institute of Electrodynamics

and MicroelectronicsThe University of

Bremen - Germany



Mohammed Benaissa – received the Ph.D. degree in VLSI signal processing from the University of Newcastle, Upon Tyne, UK, in 1990. He has been with the Department of Electronic and Electrical Engineering, University of Sheffield, Sheffield, UK, since 1999. His research interests focus on the design and implementation of innovative electronic circuits and systems and their application

to Communications and Healthcare. He has published over 150 papers on contributions to algorithmic, architectural, and circuit issues in these areas. He is a Senior Member of the IEEE, a College and Panel member of the EPSRC, and has served on the Technical Program Committees of numerous conferences.

Translating Technology Innovations into Diabetes Clinics - Opportunities and Challenges

Abstract:

The incidence of Diabetes has been increasing at an alarming rate worldwide and causing increasing levels of morbidity, mortality and healthcare cost. In this talk, I will present the challenges from a clinical perspective together with the opportunities that advances in electronic and communication technologies offer to address these challenges. I will also review important existing endeavours for technology translation and discuss their impact. I will finish by sharing our experiences and results from our on-going WithCare+ project with the local hospitals for both the Children and Adult patient populations.

SESSION 1.1.3

Mohammed BenaissaProfessor

Sheffield University - UK


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Amr Al-AsaadKing Abdulaziz City for


SESSION CHAIRMAN

Mohamed-Slim Alouini (S’94, M’98, SM’03, F’09) was born in Tunis, Tunisia. He received the Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering from the California Institute of Technology (Caltech), Pasadena, CA, USA, in 1998. He served as a faculty member in the University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, USA, then in the Texas A&M University at Qatar, Education City, Doha, Qatar before joining King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST), Thuwal, Makkah Province, Saudi Arabia as a Professor of Electrical Engineering in 2009. His current research interests include the modeling, design, and performance analysis of wireless communication systems.

Mohamed - Slim Al-OuniAssociate Dean, Computer, Electrical and Mathematical

Science and EngineeringKAUST - KSA

SESSION 1.2.1

SESSION 1.2

Next Generation Communications

Systems

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The concept of cognitive networks has emerged as one of the efficient means for utilizing the scarce spectrum by allowing spectrum sharing between a licensed primary network and a secondary network. In this talk, we briefly present an overview of various recently proposed types of cognitive networks and then discuss some fundamental capacity results of these networks. The talk goes then over the potential offered by free space optical communications to relieve spectrum scarcity and then summarizes some of the challenges that need to be surpassed before such kind of systems can be massively deployed.

Addressing Spectrum Scarcity through Cognitive Radio and Free Space Optical Communications



Dr. Ramesh R. Rao has been a faculty member at UC San Diego since 1984, and Director of the Qualcomm Institute, UCSD division of the California Institute for Telecommunications and Information Technology (Calit2), since 2001. He holds the Qualcomm Endowed Chair in Telecommunications and Information Technologies in the Jacobs School of Engineering at UCSD, and is a member of

the school’s Electrical and Computer Engineering department. Prior to QI (Calit2), Professor Rao served as the Director of UCSD’s Center for Wireless Communications (CWC). Dr. Rao is involved on a day-to-day basis with a wide variety of research initiatives at QI. He leads several major interdisciplinary and collaborative projects and has been a PI on dozens of federal-, state-, foundation- and industry-funded grants. Dr. Rao is an IEEE Fellow and Senior Fellow of the California Council on Science and Technology. He was named a Member of the UC San Diego Health System Advisory Board, a Member of the Board of the Academy of Neurosciences for Architecture, a Member of the Rady Children’s Hospital and Health Center Board IT Task Force; a Member of the Board of Advisors at CommNexus San Diego (a network of communications companies) and serves as the Vice President of the San Diego Indian American Society. Dr. Rao earned his Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from the University of Maryland, College Park in 1984, after receiving his M.S. from the same institution in 1982. He earned his Bachelor’s degree in 1980 from the University of Madras (the National Institute of Technology, Tiruchirapalli). Dr. Rao received the distinguished alumnus award from the National Institute of Technology in 2010, the ECE Distinguished alumni award from the University of Maryland in 2012, the Professional Gordon Engineering Leadership Award from UCSD’s Gordon Engineering Leadership Center in 2010. He also received the 2011 Casa Familiar Abrazo Award for engagement with underprivileged area of San Diego.

Sensing and Computing with the Internet of ThingsAbstract:

The transformative role of Information Technologies has been enabled by large scale data sharing. In just the last decade, new global scale systems have emerged in retail, travel and entertainment. These systems, together with emergent new systems to mitigate environmental effects, promote health care and reconceive education are creating a new demand for data. To meet this new demand, we need to develop novel forms of data gathering, build highly scalable networks and develop new approaches to data analysis. In this talk, we will summarize emergent architectures for licensed and unlicensed band regimes. We will then outline plans for the creation of city scale test beds to prototype new approaches to dynamic network usage. Finally, we will describe a project we have recently launched to leverage such an architecture to quantitatively understand the effect of environmental air quality on human health and wellness. The project leverages current understanding of the human autonomic nervous system, our ability to observe it using body worn sensors and the use of adaptive learning to quantify the effect on individuals and communities. We will present this in the context of computable Internet of Things.

SESSION 1.2.2

Ramesh RaoProfessor

UCSD - USA


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Dr. Abd-Elhamid M. Taha is currently an assistant Professor in Electrical Engineering at Alfaisal University. His B.Sc. (Honours) and M.Sc. in Electrical Engineering were earned at Kuwait University in 1999 and 2002, and his Ph.D. in Electrical and Computer Engineering was earned at Queen’s University, Canada in 2007. Dr. Taha’s general research interest is in the area of

computer networks and communications, with a focus on radio resource management in wireless networks. Recent themes in this direction include the design of resource schedulers with reduced complexity, and enabling machine-to-machine communications. Other currently active areas of interest include simplified localization in massive wireless sensing networks, mobile security in the Internet of Things (IoT), and modeling in networked cyber-physical systems. He has written and lectured extensively on broadband wireless networks, focusing on radio resource management techniques. He is also the co-author of the book ‘LTE, LTE-Advanced and WiMAX: Toward IMT-Advanced Networks’ by Wiley & Sons and a presenter of several tutorials at flagship IEEE communication Society events. His service record includes organizing and serving on the editorial and technical program committees of many esteemed publication events and venues, as well as advising on and reviewing activities for funding agencies, technical book publishers and research journals and conferences. Dr. Taha’s currently a Senior Member of the IEEE and the IEEE Communications Society.

Next Generation Internet of ThingsAbstract:

The Internet of Things (IoT) is a concept that emphasizes the reliable connectivity of a multitude of devices across the globe in order to enable better decision making in many applications. Already numerous deployments have been made in domains such as freight and shipping, warehousing, weather and pollution monitoring, grid management, and health observation. As the number and heterogeneity of deployments increase, however, certain challenges become inevitable. Similarly, the influx of data and signalling on Internet as well as the need for interoperability between IoTs motivate the need for new technologies and standards. This talk highlights the major challenges faced in realizing the next generation IoT, and provides an overview of current efforts addressing these challenges. A specific focus is made on access management, backhauling and massive localization.

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Abdulhamid TahaAssistant ProfessorAl Faisal University -

KSA



Dr. Abdulkareem Adinoyi works at the R&D dept of Saudi Telecoms in Saudi Arabia. He obtained his Ph.D in Electrical Engineering from Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada. He has published extensively in IEEE journals and conferences. In the area of radio resource management for OFDMA-based wireless networks, Dr Adinoyi’s work has attracted over 500 citations. He also holds three patents in this area. His

work in multi-antenna cooperative communication schemes has also accumulated over 500 citations. His current research work and interest are in industry practice, broadband technology evolution and adoption as they relate to mobile network operation.

Technology Trends and The New ParadigmsAbstract:

An incumbent mobile network operator’s dilemma is quickly turning to be capacity (rather than coverage). This implies that too many mobile devices demanding too much data, and more often than not, in a condensed time period. The quality of customer experience can degrade severely. The problem will exacerbate due to proliferation of bandwidth-hungry devices smart (such as tab, smartphone) and always-connected application and services (such as IoT, M2M, smart-home, connected cars and all the e-everything). Given that ARPU (average revenue per user) does not grow with capacity demand, how does this operator cope or react? The talk will be centered around this question.

SESSION 1.2.4

Abdulkareem AdinoyiAssistant Professor

KSU - KSA


DAY 2 Program


REGISTRATION 08:00 – 09:00

SESSION 2.1 (ELECTRONIC CIRCUITS AND SYSTEM DESIGN) 09:00 – 11:00Chair: Mohammed BenSaleh, KACST - KSA

2.1.1 ASIP: Application Specific Instruction-set Processor Ahmed Shalash, CEO, Wasiela - Egypt 09:00 – 09:30

2.1.2 Internet of Things for water and energy conservation Lei He, UCLA- USA 09:30 – 10:00

2.1.3 Moore’s Law, the Many-Core Shift, and the Dark Silicon Era Sohaib Majzoub, KSU - KSA 10:00 – 10:30

2.1.4 Computing for Data-Intensive Applications: Beyond CMOS and beyond Von- Neumann Said Hamdioui, TU Delft, The Netherlands - Netherlands 10:30 – 11:00

Coffee Break 11:00 – 11:05

SESSION 2.2 (RF/ANTENNAS) 11:05 – 12:30Chair: Saleh Al-Shebeili, KSU - KSA

2.2.1 Precision localization of multiple passive targets by ultrawideband signals in the presence of severe multipath Andreas Molisch, USC - USA 11:05 – 11:30

2.2.2 Electrically Small Particles for Energy Harvesting in the Infrared and Microwave Regimes Mohammed Al-Shareef, KACST - KSA 11:30 – 12:00

2.2.3 Inkjet Printed RF Electronics Atif Shamim, KAUST - KSA 12:00 – 12:30

2.2.4 Millimeter-wave Gigabit Transceivers with Digitally-enabled Built-in Self-calibration and Auto-switching Functions Tian-Wei Huang , National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan 12:30 – 13:00Prayer and Lunch 13:00 – 13:30

SESSION 2.3 (PHOTONICS) 13:30 – 15:30Chair: Mohammed Al-Shareef, KACST - KSA

2.3.1 Optoelectronics Based on Quasi-Metallic Carbon Nanotubes Mohamed Amer, KACST - KSA 13:30 – 14:00

2.3.2 High Performance Eye-Safe 1500-1650nm InAs/InP-based Quantum Dot/Dash Semiconductor Lasers Boon S. Ooi, KAUST - KSA 14:00 – 14:30

2.3.3 Selected Themes in Next Generation Optical Communications Systems Habib Fathallah, KSU - KSA 14:30 – 15:00

Closing Ceremony 15:00 – 15:10

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Mohammed BenSalehKing Abdulaziz City for


SESSION CHAIRMAN

SESSION 2.1

Dr. Shalash has more than 21 years of industrial experience in the semiconductors and communications industry. He is the founder and CEO of WASIELA, where he led multiple communication chips projects, such as DVB, LTE and WiMAX. Prior to founding WASIELA, Dr Shalash served as the Director of Systems Engineering, Firstpass Technologies where he led a team working on system design for wireless RF technologies. Prior to that Dr. Shalash worked as Principal Engineer and Technical Lead with Analog Devices Inc, where he led work on numerous products. During his tenure with ADI, Dr. Shalash also worked as a standards committee liaison with the ANSI T1 and the ITU, where he helped shape the VDSL and ADSL standards. Prior to that Dr. Shalash worked as a visiting scholar with AT&T Bell Labs and as a senior engineer with Intel. Dr. Shalash has more than 70 international papers. Dr. Shalash has 7 patents. He is a senior member of the IEEE.

ASIP: Application Specific Instruction-set Processor

Abstract:The ever rising development costs and the ever shrinking market windows are pushing the need for having re-configurable designs that can be upgraded and configured with ease. While traditional programmable DSP cores can achieve just that, they prove to be expensive in power consumption. This pushed the need for more agile, low power configurable designs.In this talk we will focus on a family of configurable architectures, namely the Application Specific Instruction-set Processors (ASIP). ASIPs offer a very interesting twist over traditional DSP architectures.

Ahmed ShalashCEO, WASIELA

WASIELA - Egypt

SESSION 2.1.1

Electronic Circuits and

System Design



Lei He is a professor and the founding director of Clean Energy Research Center at UCLA. He consulted Cadence Design Systems, Cisco, Hewlett-Package, Intel, and Synopsys, and was a technical advisory board member to found Apache Design Solutions (acquired by AnSys) and Rio Design Automation (acquired by Magma Design Automation). He is the chief scientist for Empyrean Soft and Pride

Power Systems, co-founder of Silicon Cloud International (a cloud computing company), and founding president of Rainest, Inc. (a smart home company).

Dr. He obtained Ph.D. degree in computer science from UCLA in 1999. His research interests include modeling and simulation, hardware and software systems, and cyber physical systems for water and energy efficiency, clean energy, clean transportation, and wireless health. He has published one book and over 200 technical papers with many best paper nominations and awards, including the 2010 ACM Transactions on Electronic System Design Automation Best Paper Award for his work on 3D IC and 2011 IEEE Darlington Award for his work on low power multimedia communication.

Internet of Things for water and energy conservationAbstract:

Internet of things (IoT) is the third wave of the internet after the computer based internet and the mobile networking. The talk will first discuss trends of IoT and then present two examples of IoT. The first example is a WiFi based watering controller, which is able to reduce up to 50% water consumption by leveraging cloud-based weather prediction and watering expert system. The second example is a smart air conditioner, which may perform localized cooling around occupants rather than cooling the entire room or building and leads to tremendous energy reduction for large office and residential space.

SESSION 2.1.2

Lei HeDirector

Clean Energy Research Center at University of

California - USA



Sohaib Majzoub completed his BE in Electrical Engineering, Computer Section at Beirut Arab University 2000, Beirut Lebanon, and his ME degree from American University of Beirut, 2003 Beirut Lebanon. Then he worked for one year at the Processor Architecture Lab at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Lausanne Switzerland. In 2010, he finished his PhD working at the System-

on-Chip research Lab, University of British Columbia, Canada. He worked for two years as assistant professor at American University in Dubai, Dubai, UAE. In 2012, he joined King Saud University, Riyadh, KSA, as a faculty in the electrical engineering department. His research field is delay/power modeling at the system level. He is an IEEE member.

Moore’s Law, the Many-Core Shift, and the Dark Silicon EraAbstract:

The current trend in computing devices is heading into more convergence towards a single mobile device. This evolution necessitates two major design requirements: wide functionality and low power consumption. Moore’s law and technology scaling continued to increase the transistor density in a chip, hence providing increased functionality and applications. In recent years, this was realized through a major shift in processor design from large monolithic processors into many-core with hundreds of simple processing elements on a single chip. With such a large number of cores, it promises a significant throughput advantage that might continue Moore’s law legacy. However, power consumption is becoming a more dominant problem. It is a major struggle to supply hundreds of cores sitting on a single chip, consequently, it is foreseen that part of the chip will always be switched off. This anticipated consequence is referred to as the dark silicon era. This limitation is expected to hinder the promised many-core high performance advantage, hence the final and sure end of Moore’s law legacy.

SESSION 2.1.3

Sohaib MajzoubAssistant Professor

KSU - KSA



Professor Hamdioui (http://ce.et.tudelft.nl/~said/) received the MSEE and PhD degrees (both with honors) from the Delft University of Technology (TUDelft), Delft, The Netherlands. He is currently co-leading dependable-nano computing research activities within the Computer Engineering Laboratory of TUDelft. Prior to joining TUDelft, Hamdioui worked for Microprocessor Products Group at Intel Corporation (CA, USA), for IP and Yield

Group at Philips Semiconductors R&D (France) and for DSP design group at Philips/ NXP Semiconductors (Nijmegen, The Netherlands). His research interests include Testability and Design-for-Test, Reliability, Hardware Security and emerging computation paradigms based on memristor technology.

Hamdioui owns one patent and has published one book and over 130 conference and journal papers. He has consulted for many companies (such as Intel, ST, Altera, Atmel, Renesas, …) in the area of test technology and reliability. He has collaborated with many industry/research partners in the field of VLSI Test, Reliability, hardware Security and memristor technology (examples are Intel, IMEC, NXP, Intrinsic ID, DS2, ST Microelectronics, Politic di Torino, etc). He is strongly involved in the international community as a member of organizing committees or a member of the technical program committees of the leading conferences. He delivered dozens of keynote speeches, distinguished lectures, and invited presentations and tutorial at major international forums/conferences/schools and at leading semiconductor companies. Hamdioui is a Senior member of the IEEE. He is Associate Editor of IEEE Transactions on VLSI Systems (TVLSI) and he serves on the editorial board of IEEE Design & Test, and of the Journal of Electronic Testing: Theory and Applications (JETTA). He is also a member of AENEAS/ENIAC Scientific Committee Council (AENEAS =Association for European NanoElectronics Activities).

Computing for Data-Intensive Applications: Beyond CMOS and beyond Von- NeumannAbstract:

One of the most critical challenges for today’s and future data-intensive and big-data problems (ranging from economics and business activities to public administration, from national security to many scientific research areas) is data storage and analysis. The primary goal is to increase the understanding of processes by extracting highly useful values hidden in the huge volumes of data. The increase of the data size has already surpassed the capabilities of today’s computation architectures which suffer from the limited, energy inefficiency and limited scalability (due to CMOS technology).

This talk will first address the CMOS scaling and its impact on different aspects of IC and electronics; the major limitations the scaling is facing (such as leakage, yield, reliability, etc) will be shown and the need of a new technology will be motivated. Thereafter, an overview of computing systems, developed since the introduction of Stored program computers by John von Neumann in the forties, will be given. Shortcomings of today’s architectures to deal with data-intensive applications will be discussed. It will be shown that the speed at which data is growing has already surpassed the capabilities of today’s computation architectures suffering from communication bottleneck and energy inefficiency; hence the need for a new architecture. Finally, the talk will introduce a new architecture paradigm for big data problems; it is based on the integration of the storage and computation in the same physical location (using a crossbar topology) and the use of non-volatile resistive-switching technology, based on memristors, instead of CMOS technology. The huge potential of such architecture in realizing order of magnitude improvement will be illustrated by comparing it with the state-of-the art architectures (multi-core, GPUs, FPGAs) for different data-intensive applications.

SESSION 1.2.4

Said HamdiouiProfessor at

Computer Engineering Laboratory

Delft University of Technology -

Netherlands



Saleh Al-ShebeiliKing Saud University

(KSU) – KSA

SESSION CHAIRMAN

SESSION 2.2

Andreas F. Molisch received the Dipl. Ing., Ph.D., and habilitation degrees from the Technical University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria, in 1990, 1994, and 1999, respectively. He subsequently was with AT&T (Bell) Laboratories Research (USA); Lund University, Lund, Sweden, and Mitsubishi Electric Research Labs (USA). He is now a Professor of Electrical Engineering and Director of the Communication Sciences Institute at the University of Southern California, Los Angeles.

His current research interests are the measurement and modeling of mobile radio channels, ultra-wideband communications and localization, cooperative communications,multiple-input–multiple-output systems, wireless systems for healthcare, and novel cellular architectures. He has authored, coauthored, or edited four books (among them the textbook Wireless Communications, Wiley-IEEE Press), 16 book chapters, some 170 journal papers, and numerous conference contributions, as well as more than 70 patents and 60 standards contributions.

Dr. Molisch has been an Editor of a number of journals and special issues, General Chair, Technical Program Committee Chair, or Symposium Chair of multiple international conferences, as well as Chairman of various international standardization groups. He is a Fellow of the IEEE, Fellow of the AAAS, Fellow of the IET, an IEEE Distinguished Lecturer, and a member of the Austrian Academy of Sciences. He has received numerous awards, among them the Donald Fink Prize of the IEEE, and the Eric Sumner Award of the IEEE.

Precision localization of multiple passive targets by ultrawideband signals in the presence of severe multipath

Abstract:Ultrawideband signalling has the promise of extremely precise localization in GPS-denied environments such as indoor. The large signal bandwidth allows a precise determination of the runtime between wireless nodes, which can form the basis of good localization. However, multipath and other UWB propagation effects create distortions in the arriving signal, and have thus long been considered as “enemies” of good localization. In this talk, we will first discuss the fundamentals of UWB propagation, including multipath, pulse distortion, and antenna effects, paying particular attention to warehouse environments. We will then discuss how those effects can negatively impact localization accuracy if no countermeasures are taken. We will discuss methods for multi-target localization that work well even if a considerable part of targets have blocked line-of-sight connections.

Andreas MolischDirector of the

Communication Sciences Institute

University of Southern California - USA

SESSION 2.2.1

RF/Antennas



Mohammed R. AlShareef received a Bachelor of Science degree in Electrical Engineering in 2004 and a Master’s in Communication Engineering in 2008, both from King Saud University in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. In 2014, he received the PhD degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the University of Waterloo in Canada, specializing in antenna, microwave and wave optics.

In July 2004, he started working as a Telecommunications Engineer at the biggest operator for Mobile/Fixed services (Saudi Telecom Company) in Saudi Arabia. He steadily progressed with his career in this company and was recognized as a project manager within the design engineering team. After accumulating academic and industrial experience over the years, especially in communication engineering, he joined a research-based institution, King Abdulaziz City for Science and Technology (KACST), based in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, in the summer of 2012. Now, Dr. AlShareef is an assistant research professor at KACST leading and investigating a number of research projects in antenna and microwave fields. Dr. AlShareef has published several conference and journal papers and filed two patents. In 2014, he received the best student paper award at the 16th International Symposium on Antenna Technology & Applied Electromagnetics held in Canada.

Electrically Small Particles for Energy Harvesting in the Infrared and Microwave Regimes

Abstract:

Harnessing energy from clean and sustainable resources is of crucial importance to our planet. Several attempts through different technologies have been pursued to achieve efficient and sustainable energy production systems. However, having systems with a high energy harvesting efficiency and at the same time low energy production cost are challenging with the existing technologies. In this research, several novel structures based on electrically small particles are proposed for harvesting the microwave and infrared energy efficiently. A proof of concept demonstrates a metamaterial unit cell’s ability to harness the ambient electromagnetic energy. The work is then extended to operate at the far-infrared regime utilizing a novel structure based on electrically small resonators and it yields more than 80% harvesting efficiency.

SESSION 2.2.2

Mohammed Al-ShareefAssistant Research

ProfessorKACST - KSA



Atif Shamim – received his M.A.Sc. and Ph.D degrees in electrical engineering at Carleton University, Canada in 2004 and 2009 respectively. He was an NSERC Alexander Graham Bell Graduate scholar at Carleton University from 2007 till 2009 and an NSERC postdoctoral Fellow in 2009-2010 at Royal Military College Canada. In August 2010, he joined the Electrical Engineering Program at KAUST, where he is currently an Assistant

Professor and principal investigator of IMPACT Lab. He was an invited researcher at the VTT Micro-modules Research Center (Oulu, Finland) in 2006. Dr. Shamim was the recipient of the best paper prize at the European Microwave Association Conference in 2008. He was given the Ottawa Centre of Research Innovation (OCRI) Researcher of the Year 2008 Award in Canada. His work on Wireless Dosimeter won the ITAC SMC Award at Canadian Microelectronics Corporation TEXPO in 2007. He received the best student paper finalist prize at IEEE APS conference in 2005. He also won numerous business related awards, including 1st prize in Canada’s national business plan competition and was selected for OCRI Entrepreneur of the year award in 2010. He is an author/co-author of over 90 international publications and an inventor on 10 patents. His research interests are in integrated on-chip antennas, low power CMOS RFICs for system-on-chip (SoC) applications and advanced system-on-package (SoP) designs in multilayer LTCC, LCP, and paper substrates through screen and inkjet printing techniques. Dr. Shamim is a Senior Member of IEEE and serves on the editorial board of IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation.

Inkjet Printed RF ElectronicsAbstract:

This talk introduces inkjet printing as an emerging new technique to realize low cost, flexible and large area systems in the field of Radio Frequency (RF) electronics. Inkjet printing is being used for printing texts and graphics since decades, but has recently found application in electronics. Though the major focus of printed electronics has been in photovoltaic cells and flexible displays, recently applications such as RFIDs, wireless sensors and wearable electronics have also received a lot of attention. The recent interest in inkjet printed RF electronics is due to the latest developments in nano-particles based conductive inks which can achieve conductivities close to that of bulk metals. This has opened doors to print passive components such as antennas, inductors, transmission lines, etc on low cost and flexible substrates such as plastics and papers. The talk will present many inkjet printed designs on paper substrate for a variety of applications, such as wireless sensing and tracking. In addition to conductive inks, this talk will also discuss dielectric and semiconducting inks to realize all inkjet printed multilayer RF components. The promising results of these designs indicate that the day when electronics can be printed like newspapers and magazines through roll-to-roll and reel-to-reel printing is not far away.

SESSION 2.2.3

Atif ShamimAssistant Professor

KAUST - KSA


DAY1 APRIL 27MONDAY

Tian-Wei Huang (S’91–M’98–SM’02) was born in Taipei, Taiwan, in 1965. He received the B.S. degree in electrical engineering from National Cheng Kung University, Tainan, Taiwan, in 1987, and the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering from the University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA), in 1990 and 1993, respectively.

In December 1993, he joined TRW (now is Northrop Grumman), where he designed millimeter-wave and microwave GaAs/InP RFICs for satellite applications. From 1998, he was engaged in research on 28-GHz transmitter design and power amplifier packaging for LMDS systems at Lucent Technologies, San Jose, USA. From 1999 to 2002, he was with Cisco Systems, where he developed the high-speed cable modem head-end and Wi-Fi system test. In August 2002, he joined the faculty of National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan. Prof. Huang was the recipient of IEEE 2009 Transaction on Advanced Packaging Best Paper Award. Currently, he is the TPC member of IEEE RFIC symposium. He is also a voting member of IEEE 802.11 Wi-Fi gigabit wireless standards. His research interests include millimeter-wave RF-CMOS design, and 5G millimeter-wave and Wi-Fi gigabit links.

Millimeter-wave Gigabit Transceivers with Digitally-enabled Built-in Self-calibration and Auto-switching Functions

Abstract:

In our daily life, we have smart phones, smart TVs, or even auto-pilot smart cars in the future. In our engineer career, we have smart antenna, smart baseband chips, but we still need auto-calibration smart RFICs. Especially for millimeter-wave RFICs with giga-hertz bandwidth, the narrow-band baseband calibration cannot compensate the broadband AM/AM or AM/PM non-ideal properties.For future multi-band multi-standard radio, auto-band-switching is an essential function to optimize RF performance and to simplify the system control interface. A Miller-divider-type frequency sensor can be used to detect the frequency of input signal and perform auto-band-switching inside RFIC without any system control bits. For parametric sensitive 3rd-order nonlinearity, we need parametric-insensitive calibration methods to compensate the non-ideal behavior within RFIC. For millimeter-wave phase array system, the phase error comes from not only phase shifters but also other functional blocks, like variable gain amplifier (VGA), during phase shifting and gain compensation. We need a phase-error calibration method to compensate the phase error from all RFIC blocks.To optimize system EVM performance, IQ modulator/demodulator are the key components to compensate IQ mismatch at RF frequency, which is also the enabling technology for gigabit high-QAM wireless links. For IQ self-calibration at RF frequency, the phase compensation has more design challenges than the amplitude calibration, so composite right/left-handed transmission line, switching capacitor array, and phase shifters have been proposed in the IQ phase calibration. All above built-in self-calibration and auto-switching functions are innovated to pave the road to the next-generation millimeter-wave 5G mobile smart RFIC.

SESSION 2.2.4

Tian-Wei HuangProfessor

National Taiwan University, Taipei,

Taiwan



Mohammed Al-ShareefKing Abdulaziz City for


SESSION CHAIRMAN

Dr. Amer serves as the Co-Director of UCLA-KACST Center of Excellence for Green Nanotechnologies. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Southern California. Dr. Amer previous research focused on investigating the electronic transport of carbonaceous devices such as carbon nanotubes, High frequency devices using nanomaterials, phonon and thermal heat transport in nanoscale devices, and nanoelectromechanical resonator (NEMS) structures. His current research focuses on high frequency (RF) nao-devices, optoelectronics, and photonic devices using nano-scale materials for wearable electronics, telecommunications, and energy generation and detection applications. Dr. Amer has authored and co-authored many scientific papers. He is a member of the American Chemical Society (ACS) and the American Physical Society (APS). Dr. Amer has won many awards including USC Ming Hiesh Scholar award, Sigma Xi the scientific research honor society for outstanding research achievements, IEEE-HKN eta kappa Nu Electrical Engineering Honor Society, and Golden Key International Honour Society for outstanding academic achievement. Abstract:

In recent years, nanoscale research has focused on studying new emerging materials and devices for various communication applications. Carbonaceous materials has attracted the scientific community due to their extraordinary device performance. In particular, carbon nanotube devices have become promising candidates for electronic and optoelectronic applications due to their ballistic electron transport, superior mobility, high current density, ideal diode behavior, infrared nano-emitters, and efficient multiple electron-hole pair generation. In this talk, new novel optoelectronics, based on quasi-metallic carbon nanotubes are studied and investigated for photo detection. Ultra clean, suspended, quasi-metallic nanotube split gate devices, which exhibit band gaps ranges between 0-200meV, show photocurrent at room temperature when biased in a pn configuration. We study the electron transport of these devices, which exhibit quantum mechanical tunneling

(zener) when the nanotube is biased in a pn configuration. The underlying mechanism of this photocurrent is further studied. We show that devices with band gaps less 50meV exhibit photothermoelectric behavior, similar to graphene photodetectors, while devices with band gaps larger than 50meV show electron-hole pair separation, analogous to their semiconducting nanotubes. We also investigate the photothermal mechanical oscillations when these quasi-metallic nanotubes are thermally excited in an optical cavity. We show a slow oscillatory behavior in the current-voltage characteristics with a very low frequency of oscillation. This oscillatory behavior is found to be caused by opto-mechanical action where the nanotube is thermally coupled to an optical cavity.

Mohamed AmerCo-Director of UCLA-KACST

Center of Excellence for Green Nanotechnologies

KACST - KSA

Optoelectronics Based on Quasi-Metallic Carbon Nanotubes


Boon S. Ooi received the B.Eng. and Ph.D. degrees in electronics and electrical engineering from the University of Glasgow (U.K.) in 1992 and 1994, respectively. He served as a faculty member in Nanyang Technological University (Singapore) and Lehigh University (U.S.A.) before joining KAUST as a Professor of Electrical Engineering in 2009. His research interests include semiconductor lasers and the development of technology for semiconductor photonics integrated circuits. He is a Fellow of the SPIE and the Institute of Physics (U.K.).

High Performance Eye-Safe 1500-1650nm InAs/InP-based Quantum Dot/Dash Semiconductor Lasers

Abstract:

Self-assembled semiconductor quantum dots (QDs) constitute a class of nanoscale materials that provide fundamental advantages compared to the dominating 2-D quantum well (QW) structures in photonic device applications. QD devices based on InAs/GaAs material system operating at emission wavelengths between 1.0 and 1.3 μm have achieved a relative maturity and many outstanding performances such as low threshold current, high temperature stability, high gain and differential gain, have already been demonstrated. For long wavelength operations in the S-C-L communication bands, particularly for the 1.55 µm window, the InAs/InP QD and quantum-dash (Qdash) material systems have been seen as the most suitable material system. Recent attempts in extending the technology of self- assembled QD on InP substrate has led to the development of InAs-based Qdashes that give the emission wavelength spans over several bands of optical telecommunication windows between 1.4 and 2.0 μm. Apart from its superior characteristics as compared to conventional quantum well structures and bulk materials, self-assembled QD/Qdash lasers have demonstrated a number of unique features like broad emission spectra which have been attributed to the carrier localization in non-interacting or spatially isolated dot/dash employing a highly inhomogeneous QD/Qdash structures. These novel semiconductor light emitters are particularly attractive for many practical eye-safe biomedical imaging and sensor applications due to their compactness and relatively low energy requirement in comparison to other state-of-art broad-spectrum light sources.

In this paper, we will discuss the recent development of InP-based QD and Qdash lasers. Improvement of the Qdash laser characteristics using various active region designs, particularly the effect of the quantum dash inhomogeneity on laser characteristics will be reviewed. At device level, we will focus our discussion on the novel broadband lasers, superluminescent diodes (SLDs), mode-locked lasers and comb lasers fabricated on these material systems.

SESSION 2.3.2

Boon S. OoiProfessor

KAUST - KSA




Habib Fathallah, received his M.Sc. and PhD from Universite Laval, Canada, in 1997 and 2001 respectively. He is Associate professor in Electrical Engineering, King Saud University, Co-founder of KACST-KSU Technology Innovation Center and Thrust Leader of Photonics. He founder and CEO of Access Photonic Networks (2001-2006). He authored 100 publications, 10 patents, and 2 books. His actual research interest includes Photonic Communication

Systems and Technologies, Metro and Access Networks, Optical CDMA, Optical SDM, PONs, FTTH, FiWi, FSO, LiFi, Optical Antennas, and EM Energy Harvesting.

Selected Themes in Next Generation Optical Communications SystemsAbstract:

The seminar will provide an introductory overview for a selection of ongoing research and development themes/projects on photonics, in KACST-KSU technology Innovation center RFTONICS. This overview will cover: (1) High spectral efficiency fiber optic terabit per carrier systems; (2) Next generation space division multiplexing (SDM) optical communication systems; (3) Free space optical communications; (4) Indoor Visible light communications; and (5) EM energy harvesting using rectenna/nantenna based technology.

SESSION 2.3.2

Habib FathallahAssociate professor

KSU - KSA


The 3rd Saudi International Electronics, Communications and Photonics Conference(SIECPC) 2015

NOTE


The 3rd Saudi International Electronics, Communications and Photonics Conference is organized under the patronage of Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques King Salman Bin Abdulaziz Al-Saud by King Abdulaziz City for Science and Technology (KACST)...

THEORGANIZERS

King Abdulaziz City for Science & Technology (KACST)... King Abdulaziz City for Science and Technology (KACST) is both the Saudi Arabian national science agency and its national R&D laboratories. KACST plays

a key role in science and technology policy making, related data collection, funding of external research, and other related services such as scientific publishing and managing the patent office.

Main Responsibilities include:

Proposing a national policy for the development of science and technology and relevant strategies; Supporting scientific research and technology development; Conducting applied research advising government; Fostering national innovation and technology transfer between research institutes and the industry; Fostering international cooperation in science and technology.

For more information and online registration, please visit the conference website:

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