WiMAX-WiFi techniques for baseband convergence and routing protocols

Al-Sherbaz, A. (2010)
 WiMAX-WiFi techniques for baseband convergence and routing protocols. 
Doctoral thesis. The University of Buckingham.

Abstract
The focus of this study was to investigate solutions that, when implemented in any heterogeneous wireless network, shall enhance the existing standard and routing protocol connectivity without impacting the standard or changing the wireless transceiver’s functions. Thus achieving efficient interoperability at much reduced overheads. The techniques proposed in this research are centred on the lower layers. This because of the facts that WiMax and WiFi standards have not addressed the backward compatibility of the two technologies at the MAC and PHY layers, for both the baseband functions as well as the routing IP addresses. This thesis describes two innovate techniques submitted for a PhD degree. The first technique is to combine WiMax and WiFi signals so to utilise the same "baseband implementation chain" to handle both of these technologies, thus insuring ubiquitous data communication. WiMax-WiFi Baseband Convergence (W2BC) implementation is proposed to offer an optimum configurable solution targeted at combining the 802.16d WiMax and the 802.11a WiFi technologies. This approach provides a fertile ground for future work into combining more OFDM based wireless technologies. Based on analysis and simulation, the W2BC can achieve saving in device cost, size, power consumption and implementation complexity when compared to current side-by-side implementations for these two technologies. The second technique, called "Prime-IP", can be implemented with, and enhance, any routing protocol. During the route discovery process, Prime-IP enables any node on a wireless mesh network (WMN) to dynamically select the best available route on the network. Prime-IP proposes a novel recursive process, based on prime numbers addressing, to accumulate knowledge for nodes beyond the “neighbouring nodes”, and to determine the sequence of all the “intermediate nodes” used to form the route.

To read the thesis go to: http://nectar.northampton.ac.uk/4241/1/AlSherbaz20104241.pdf
Contact Ali.Al-Sherbaz@northampton.ac.uk


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Meet the Researchers: Michael Opoku Agyeman

Taken from: http://www.computing.northampton.ac.uk/~michael/Publications.html

Book

Michael Opoku Agyeman, 3D Networks-on-Chip Architecture Optimization for Low Power Design, LAP LAMBERT Academic Publishing, 2015.

Journal Papers

1. Michael O. Agyeman, Ali Ahmadinia, Alireza Shahrabi, ”Heterogeneous 3D Network-ON-Chip Archi-tectures: Area and Power Aware Design Techniques,” Journal of Circuits, Systems and Computers, Vol. 22, No. 4 (2013)
2. Michael O. Agyeman, Ali Ahmadinia, Alireza Shahrabi, ”Efficient Routing Techniques in Heteroge-neous 3D Networks-on-Chip,” Parallel Computing, Vol 39, No. 9 (2013)
3. Michael Opoku Agyeman, ”A Study of Optimization Techniques for 3D Networks-on-Chip Archi-tectures for Low Power and High Performance Applications,” International Journal of Computer Applications (IJCA), Vol. 121, No. 6, pp 1-8 (2015)
4. Michael Opoku Agyeman, ”A Low Overhead Fault Reporting Scheme for Resilient 3D Network-on-Chip Applications,” Communications on Applied Electronics (CAE), Vol. 2, No. 4, pp 43-48, 2015
5. Michael Opoku Agyeman, Kenneth Tong, Terrence Mak, ”An Improved Wireless Communication Fabric for Performance Aware Network-on-Chip Architectures,” (invited paper) accepted by: Inter- national Journal of Computing and Digital Systems (IJCDS), 2015
6. Michael O. Agyeman, Ali Ahmadinia, Nader Bagherzadeh, ”Performance and Energy Aware In-homogeneous 3D Networks-on-Chip Architecture Generation,” IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems (IEEE TPDS), Vol.PP, No.99, pp.1,1 (2015)

Conference Papers 

1. Michael Opoku Agyeman, Ali Ahmadinia: Power and Area Optimisation in Heterogeneous 3D Networks-on-Chip Architectures. SIGARCH Computer Architecture News 39(4): 2011, 106-107
2. Michael Opoku Agyeman, Ali Ahmadinia, Alireza Shahrabi: Low Power Heterogeneous 3D Networks-on-Chip Architectures. Proceedings of International Conference on High Performance Computing and Simulation (HPCS) 2011: 533-538.
3. Michael Opoku Agyeman, Ali Ahmadinia: Optimising Heterogeneous 3D Networks-on-Chip. Parallel Computing in Electrical Engineering (PARELEC) 2011: 25-30
4. Michael Opoku Agyeman, Ali Ahmadinia: An Adaptive Router Architecture for Heterogeneous 3D Networks-on-Chip, NORCHIP, 2011: 4, 14-15
5. Michael Opoku Agyeman, Ali Ahmadinia: A Systematic Generation of Optimized Heterogeneous 3D Networks-on-Chip Architecture, NASA/ESA Conference on Adaptive Hardware and Systems (AHS), 2013: 79-83
6. Michael Opoku Agyeman, Ali Ahmadinia: Optimised Application Specific Architecture Generation and Mapping Approach for Heterogeneous 3D Networks-on-Chip, IEEE International Conference on Computational Science and Engineering (CSE), 2013: 794-801
7. Michael Opoku Agyeman: Optimized Heterogeneous 3D Networks-on-Chip for High Performance System-on-Chip Design, Proceedings of Korean Conference on Semiconductors (KCS), 2014
8. Michael Opoku Agyeman: An Eficient Fault-tolerant Routing Algorithm for 3D Networks-on-Chip, Proceedings of Korean Conference on Semiconductors (KCS), 2014
9. Michael Opoku Agyeman: HetNoC3D: A User Friendly Simulation Framework for Homogeneous and Heterogeneous 3D NoC Architectures, Proceedings of Korean Conference on Semiconductors (KCS), 2014
10. Michael Opoku Agyeman, Ali Ahmadinia: Impact Analysis of Through-Silicon-Via Variation on Per- formance and Energy Consumption of 3D Networks-on-Chip Architectures, 3D Integration Workshop, Proceedings of Design, Automation & Test in Europe (DATE), 2014
11. Michael Opoku Agyeman, Wen Zong, Ji-Xiang Wan, Alex Yakovlev ,Kenneth Tong, Terrence Mak: Novel Hybrid Wired-Wireless Network-on-Chip Architectures: Transducer and Communication Fab- ric Design, International Symposium on Networks-on-Chip (NoCs), 2015: 32:1-32:2
12. Michael Opoku Agyeman, Kenneth Tong, Terrence Mak: An Improved Wireless Communication Fabric for Emerging Network-on-Chip Design, International Conference on Future Networks and Communications (FNC) / International Conference on Mobile Systems and Pervasive Computing (MobiSPC) Affiliated Workshops, 2015: 415 - 420
13. Wen Zong, Michael Opoku Agyeman, Xiaohang Wang, Terrence Mak: Unbiased Regional Congestion Aware Selection Function for NoCs. International Symposium on Networks-on-Chip (NoCs), 2015: 19:1-19:8
14. Michael Opoku Agyeman, Kenneth Tong, Terrence Mak: Reliable and Performance-Aware Communication Fabric for Global Communication in on-Chip Networks, IEEE 28th Symposium on Defect and Fault Tolerance in VLSI and Nanotechnology Systems Symposium (DFTS), DFT 2015: 205-210
15. Michael Opoku Agyeman, Ji-Xiang Wan, Quoc-Tuan Vien, Wen Zong, Alex Yakovlev, Kenneth Tong, Terrence Mak: On the Design of Reliable Hybrid Wired-Wireless Network-on-Chip Architectures, IEEE 9th International Symposium on Embedded Multicore/Many-core Systems-on-Chip (MCSoC), 2015: 251 - 258

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Patent for wireless mesh network

Dr Ali Al-sherbaz is awarded patent tilted (Method and Process for Routing and Node addressing in Wireless Mesh Networks). The patent concerns a mathematical idea to solve a technical problem  in wireless mesh network. On 27th August 2014, the patent application was granted.

More details of the patent can be found in these links:

http://ipo.gov.uk/p-ipsum/Case/PublicationNumber/GB2479136

http://worldwide.espacenet.com/publicationDetails/biblio?DB=EPODOC&II=0&ND=3&adjacent=true&locale=en_ES&FT=D&date=20111005&CC=GB&NR=2479136A&KC=A

For more details contact

Dr. Ali Al-Sherbaz

PhD,MSc, BSc, FHEA, MIEEE, MBCS

School of Science & Technology,
The University of Northampton, St Georges Avenue,

Northampton, NN2 6JD, United Kingdom
t: +44 (0)1604 893182
w:  www.alisherbaz.co.uk