For paper titled: ``Gaussian Assumption: The Least Favorable but the Most Useful”, published in the March, 2013 issue of the prestigious IEEE Signal Processing Magazine (IF=7.451).
For paper titled,” Line-of-Sight VLC in Inhomogeneous Underwater Medium: Performance Evaluation,” N. Anous, M. Abdallah and K. Qaraqe, CECNet 2018, Nov. 16-19, 2018, Bangkok, Thailand
Green 2016, The First International Conference on Green Communications, Computing and Technologies, 2016, M. Ismail, E. Serpedin, and K. Qaraqe, “Enabling green heterogeneous wireless networks”.
Electrical and Computer Engineering Department, Texas A&M University at Qatar, Academic Year: 2015-2016.
First Workshop on Smart Grid and Renewable Energy, 2015, M. Ismail, I. S. Bayram, M. Abdallah, E. Serpedin, and K. Qaraqe, “Optimal planning of PEV fast charging stations”.
A team of researchers from Texas A&M University at Qatar, Texas A&M University and the University of Waterloo received a best paper award at IEEE GLOBECOM 2014 in Austin 8-12 Dec. Texas A&M at Qatar's Muhammad Ismail, assistant research scientist, and Itochu Professor Khalid A. Qaraqe — both from the Electrical and Computer Engineering Program — were two authors on the award-winning paper, "A Semi-distributed V2V Fast Charging Strategy Based on Price Control." Erchin Serpedin from Texas A&M in College Station, Texas, USA, was a co-author.
Dr. Khalid Qaraqe, professor of electrical engineering, and Dr. Kamel Tourki, assistant research scientist, recently received Best Poster award at the IEEE Symposium on New Frontiers in Dynamic Spectrum Access Networks (DySPAN 2012). This symposium is dedicated to the advancement of cutting-edge wireless technologies and associated regulatory policies.
Dr. Khalid Qaraqe and Zied Bouida have received the Best Paper Award at ComNet 2010 conference in Tunisia, for the paper titled
Outage Capacity of Bidirectional Relaying in Cognitive Relay Networks. The paper was written with Ala Abu Alkheir and Mohamed Ibnkahla who are with the electrical engineering department at Queen's University in Kingston Ontario.
Dr. Khalid Qaraqe, senior associate professor of electrical engineering, Hasari Celebi, postdoctoral research associate, and Dr. Huseyin Arslan, associate professor of electrical engineering at University of South Florida, received the best paper award in the Crowncom 2009 Conference on June 24 in Hannover, Germany. The award was given for their collaborative work titled, "Performance Comparison of Time Delay Estimation for Whole and Dispersed Spectrum Utilization in Cognitive Radio Systems."
Dr. Hussein Alnuweiri, senior professor of electrical engineering, and Dr. Hossam Fattah, postdoctoral research associate, received a best paper award at the International Communication Conference in Dresden, Germany, on 14 June for their paper titled, "Peformance Evaluation of Contention-Based Access in IEEE 802.16 Networks with Subchannelization."