MOSTAFA FOUDA
Education
2008 April till now:
PhD. Doctoral course in Communications Networks,
Information Technology Laboratory, Graduate School of Information Sciences, Tohoku University, JAPAN
2007 Oct. - 2008 Mar.:
Research student in Wireless Networks,
Information Technology Laboratory, Graduate School of Information Sciences, Tohoku University, JAPAN
2007 February:
Master of Science [M. Sc.] in Electrical Engineering (Telecommunication)
Benha University, Faculty of Engineering at Shoubra, Cairo, Egypt
Thesis title:
"Traffic Management of Multimedia Implementation over
Wireless Asynchronous Transfer Mode (WATM) Networks"
2002 August:
Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering
Major: Electronics & Communication
Benha University, Faculty of Engineering at Shoubra, Cairo, Egypt
Accumulative Grade: (86.25%) Distinction with honor (The 1st on the faculty).
Graduation Project Grade: Excellent
1997 August:
High School Diploma in Science & Mathematics
Grade: (91.75%) Excellent
Orman Secondary School for Boys, Dokky, Giza, Egypt
1994 August:
Preparatory School Diploma
Grade: (88.57%) Excellent
El Kawmia Preparatory School at Agouza, Giza, Egypt
1991 August:
Primary School Diploma
Grade: (85.67%) Excellent
El Kawmia Primary School at Agouza, Giza, Egypt
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Work Experience
2007 February till 2007 October:
Lecturer Assistant at the Electrical Engineering Department (Major: Electronics and Communication), Faculty of Eng. at Shoubra, Benha University, EGYPT
January 2003 to 2007 February:
Instructor at the Electrical Engineering Department (Major: Electronics and Communication), Faculty of Eng. at Shoubra, Benha University, EGYPT
Responsible for tutoring and evaluating undergraduate students in the following courses:
" Assembly Language.
" Analog & Digital Communications.
" Antennas.
" C++ Programming.
" Computer Circuits Design.
" Digital Logic Design.
" Electric Circuits.
" Electrical Testing.
" Electromagnetic Fields Engineering.
" Electronics.
" Fiber Optics.
" Industrial Electronics.
" JAVA.
" Microcontrollers.
" Microprocessors.
" Networks.
" Optical Electronics.
" Printed Circuit Boards Design.
" Signal Analysis.
" Telephone Circuits.
" Visual Basic 6 Programming.
" VLSI.
Graduation Projects which I served as an associate advisor:
" Bank Security System
" Phone Remote Control
" Phone Security System
" Private Branch Exchange
" Smart House
" Speech Control of Wheelchair for Handicapped
Egypt Robocon Teams which I served as an advisor:
" Badr Team (2005). (Best Design Award)
" Badr Team (2006). (The Special Award)
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Computer Skills
" Operating systems: DOS, Windows XP/Vista, Linux
" Application Programs: Microsoft Office, Graphic Programs
" Internet: Very good use of internet applications, designing and searching
" Prog. Languages: C, C++, Basic, Pascal, Assembly, Visual Basic.NET
" Computer Simulators: OrCAD, Matlab, OPNET, VHDL, NS-2, QualNet
" Maintenance: Very good experience in Computer Hardware repairing, assembling and maintenance
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Training & Courses
" Dec. 2002 Introduction to Communication Systems, Jelecom Co.
" Jan. 2003 Advanced course in GSM, Jelecom Co.
" Feb. 2003 Advanced course in mobile maintenance, Jelecom Co.
" Mar. to Jun. 2005 VLSI-Based Communication Application Design, National Telecommunication Institute. (Cadence Tools)
(Held at Arab Academy for Science and Technology)
" May to Jun. 2007 English course at the Egyptian British Council. (Intermediate Level 1)
" Oct. 2007 to Feb. 2008 Intensive Japanese Courses including:
o Minna no Nihongo I,II (With grades: A and B)
o Basic Kanji Book I (With grade: A)
o Practice Japanese (With grade: B)
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Honors & Awards
" Distinction with honor degree, [Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering] (2002)
" Graduated in first place on my Faculty (2002)
" Best Design Award in the Robocon Egypt 2005 contest. (as an advisor)
" Special Award in the Robocon Egypt 2006 contest. (as an advisor)
" Governmental scholarship for 4 years funded by the Egyptian Ministry of Higher Education (EMHE) to conduct a program of graduate study leading to the Ph. D. degree in "Communications Networks" in JAPAN. (2006)
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Languages
" Arabic: Mother tongue.
" English: Very good in written, fluent in spoken.
(TOEFL = 81 IBT International) [Equivalent to 553 PBT]
" French: Fair in written, fair in spoken
" Japanese: Fair in written, fair in spoken
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Summery of Master Thesis
"Traffic Management of Multimedia Implementation over
Wireless Asynchronous Transfer Mode (WATM) Networks"
To meet the anticipated demand for wireless access to the broadband Asynchronous Transfer Mode (ATM) network, the concept of wireless ATM has been proposed in 1994. One of the main challenges in the design of a wireless ATM network resides in the conception of a Medium Access Control (MAC) protocol that will handle the different ATM services while providing an efficient utilization of the wireless channel.
In this thesis, we propose a new Dynamic Reservation/Allocation Time Division Multiple Access (DRA-TDMA) MAC protocol that extends the capabilities of asynchronous transfer mode (ATM) networks over the wireless channel. DRA-TDMA combines the advantages of distributed access and centralized control for transporting voice, Variable Bit Rate (VBR), Available Bit Rate (ABR), and Unspecified Bit Rate (UBR) traffic efficiently over a wireless channel. The contention slots access for reservation requests are governed by the slotted Aloha protocol which based on two groups of mini-slots, one for real-time services (with highest priority) and the other for non-real time services (with lowest priority). This priority algorithm improves real-time traffic Quality-of-Service (QoS).
DRA-TDMA also features an integrated bandwidth allocation algorithm that efficiently assigns the users access to the wireless ATM channel by considering their requested bandwidth and QoS required. We also introduce a method to dynamically adjust the number of uplink reservation mini-slots per frame as a function of the estimated contention traffic.
Integration of voice, VBR, data, and control traffic over the wireless ATM channel using the proposed DRA-TDMA MAC protocol is considered in this thesis. Simulation results are presented to show that the protocol respects the required QoS of each traffic category while providing a highly efficient utilization of approximately 98.33% for the wireless ATM channel.
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Pubilcations
International Conference Papers
1- N. El_Fishawy, H. Mansour and M. Fouda, "Dynamic Reservation/Allocation TDMA MAC Protocol for Wireless ATM Networks", in Proceedings of Second International Computer Engineering Conference ICENCO'2006, Cairo, pp. NW.71-76, December 26-28, 2006.
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Graduation Project
Adaptive Digital Signal Processing
Digital adaptive filter aims to remove the signal noise using a variable parameters filter, where these parameters are adaptively changed according to the incoming noise. From this point of view, the value of Adaptive Digital Filter (ADF) shines in compare with the ordinary filter that has fixed parameters. The Adaptive Digital Filter has a lot of practical applications that can be used in noise canceling systems, Modeling & system identification, Equalization and in many other applications.
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Robocon
Robocon is an international robotics competition organized by ABU (Asia-Pacific Broadcasting Union). Representatives from Asia-Pacific countries compete in the contest. The Robocon competition encourages the development of robotics and Mechatronics as engineering disciplines. It is a competition for university, college and polytechnic students in the Asia-Pacific region. Under a common set of rules, participants will compete with their opponents in other countries to create a robot using their creative and technological abilities in an open competition.
Robocon Egypt:
Robocon Egypt is a national robotics competition held by The Egyptian Radio and Television Union annually under the patronage of the Minister of information. The winner represents Egypt in the international contest.
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