Research

All publications accessible from Google Scholar here  & ResearchGate here

Current/Active research work

• Confluence of 5G and IoT at the Network Edge

• Private 5G networks

• Cloud security architectures

PhD

Ph.D. research was supported by the Green Radio Core 5 Research Program of the prestigious Virtual Centre of Excellence in Mobile & Personal Communications (MobileVCE) www.mobilevce.com. It  investigates the energy consumption and the energy efficiency of the wireless access networks with the aim for a 100 fold reduction of the energy consumption in order to address the challenges of the exponential traffic growth, raising fuel cost and the increasing carbon footprint (CO2 emissions). 

• Focused on heterogenous network architecture, system level simulations, Energy metrics for wireless networks 

• Proposed cross-layer protocols offering new energy, delay and throughput tradeoffs. 

• Investigate relevant standardization activities in the wireless radio access networks (RAN), MAC layer transmission protocols implementation in LTE and LTE-A for energy savings and physical layer resource savings.

• Propsed network-coding based protocols for link and application layers in LTE and LTE-A networks with delay and energy improvements.

• Presented 10 mins PhD summary at various events. Here is one to University of Aberdeen IEEE student society.

Research Interest & Outcomes

I have always been fascinated by radio air interface and ability to carry bits into Hz and how these can be multiplexed, compresses, made resilient and transmitted across multiple hops towards the destination. Being an inside of how these things work, I consider myself lucky and would like to learn & research more. Hence, I looked at evolution of such amazing RAN and how they can be made hetrogenous and studied at the system level such that optimization and design for evolution can be instrumented into the technical design, through standarization and productisation.

Mobile networks ecosystems are true example of successful management of complexity, supply chain and partnerships and innovation. Hence it is an exciting professional research journey I cherish and excited for more to come :).

Current Interests:

• Cloud-native mobile neworks - core, Open and Virtual O/V-RAN

• Confluence of Quality of Experience, AI and security

•  Service-based coverged connectivity architectures

• Network coding/Ratelss coding for error resilience and potential for overhaul of multimedia communication.

Presentations, Talks & Courses Delivered

• Industry seminar titled “Networking in the 5G era”, Computing department, Glasgow caledonian University, March 2018, ppt

• Robert Gordon University, Faculty research Seminar ,  May 2016- ppt

• Energy Optimization Model(EOM) for Mobile Service Providers, Intelec conference, Osaka, Japan, Oct 2015. ppt

• Rural Public Area Wireless Services( PAWS) presentation to Scottish Enterprise, 2015, pdf

• Hassan Hamdoung and Greg Whelan, Energy Taxonomy and Optimization Models, Informa telecom and Media conference, London, UK, 2015 - ppt

• IEEE student meetup, University of Aberdeen, 2015 - ppt

• As part of Learning and teaching course, for Higher Education Academy Fellowship,  2015- ppt

• Scientific writing in science and engineering, how to get the impact factor ,Sudanese Researcher Foundation 2013- ppt

• How to write a fellowship application,  Sudanese Researcher Foundation 2015- ppt

• Network coding, Fujitsu, UK, 2013-  link

• Matlab for Engineers, Saudi Students club, Swansea University, 2013- ppt

• Internet Diffusion and Web Literacy Tutorial, 1st International conference of EEE in Sudan (ICCEEE), pdf

• LTE introduction course, swansea University, Jan 2013 - course slides

• Insights into Sustainable Energy-Capacity Trends towards Bridging the Digital Divide , ICCNEEE 2012, Khartoum, Sudan- ppt

• “Renewable Energy for Mobile Networks”, presentation at Imperial College, London as part of a research collaboration project., slides 

• Benchmarking Assessment ICT Ecosystem in Sudan, Paper at Diaspora International conference on “ Critical roles of Diaspora in International Scientific and Cooperation with The country of Origin”, Paper here

• Research Seminar on topic “Data mining for exploring neural data: An introduction”, to the Complex Systems and Mathematical Biology research group at University of Aberdeen, 2015. Slides here .

• Project presentation on Rural Public Area WiFi Service, “RuralPAWS - Current Status, Whitelisting & Techno-Economic Models”, University of Aberdeen Electronic Research Group, 2014, slides .

• Neural Networks coference, Robert Gordon University, Published in Engineering Applications of Neural Networks Book, Springer  ", EEG condition classification using Neural Networks", 2016- slides.

• to be completed

Research Proposals

• Implementing a Wireslss Educational Research Netwotrk, Open Technology Institute, 2014- pdf

• Brighter Future Research porposal for Energy Awareness and Training, Swansea niveristy, March-to-May 2013-   summary, detailed proposal, Poster, Training

• Phd Research proposal , "Framework for analysis of ICT socio-economic developement" , 2015- document.

• to be completed