Dear CCSE Community,

 

You are all cordially invited to attend this week’s two seminars by our CCSE graduate students. This week we also have a seminar by Dr. Muhammad Wasim Raad from the COE department. The seminars will take place November 19 at 2:30 pm in Building 22: Room 119. This week’s seminars are:

 

 

 

Seminar 1

 

Title: Advances in Mobile Telemedicine & IOT (Internet of things) and the Future of MBAN (Medical Body Area Networks)

 

Abstract: Chronic diseases such as cardiovascular diseases, hypertension, and diabetes are becoming the world’s leading causes of death and disability. Cardiovascular diseases(CVD) are the number one cause of death globally. The number of people who die from CVDs, mainly from heart disease and stroke, are expected to reach 23.3. million by 2030 according to World Health Organization.  With the advent of modern technology like  IOT ( the internet of things), RFID & sensor networks , it has become possible to deliver  healthcare services  remotely to areas where patients cannot access hospitals or physicians using telecommunication technology in what is known as  telemedicine.  In addition to that, there has been increasing interest recently in wearable/implantable health monitoring devices like the heart pacemaker. BANs (Body Area Networks) or WBAN are attracting growing attention lately as a solution to support applications & services in healthcare. The IOT is rapidly emerging, and the number of connected devices are expected to grow exponentially (10s billions in 2020), with the continuous miniaturization of these wearable devices. The talk will shed light on the ongoing research in telemedicine utilizing RFID  & biosensors in COE in addition to presenting the state of the art advances in BANs & MBAN.

 

Speaker: Dr. Muhammad Wasim Raad

 

Bio: Dr. Muhammad Wasim Raad joined King Fahd University Petroleum Minerals, computer Engg Dept 1986, where he worked as a lecturer and researcher in the field of Digital Signal Processing & RFID. He gave a number of workshops and tutorials on smart cards and RFID.

He established recently the first Smart Card & RFID university lab in the region to support student projects as well as conducting short courses for the industry in RFID/NFC.

Obtained his PhD from University Bradford UK 2005 in embedded systems area, and was involved recently in a funded project in Telemedicine for Elderly people with chronic diseases. Dr. Raad also gave a number of talks on telemedicine in international conferences.

 

 

 

Seminar 2

 

Title:  Restoring Connectivity in multiple Partitions Network using Force Based Deployment Algorithm under imperfect communication channels

 

Abstract: Wireless sensor networks (WSN) may suffer large scale of damage because of the harsh operation conditions, where many nodes fail forcing the network to get partitioned into several disjoint segments. These partitions also refer to some factors such as hardware failures, battery depletion or initial deployment. One possible solution to restore connectivity is adding relay nodes to connect the partitions back. However, this solution requires the information about the damaged area, the number of network partitions and the location of the remaining nodes that may not to be obtained for some sort of applications . There are many approaches used to restore the connectivity of a partitioned wireless sensor network. In this project we have proposed an enhancement of the force based approach (FBA). Our enhancement based on varying the drop location of the relays instead of just dropping in the center in different partitioned network schemes. Also we have analyzed both approaches under the effect of the Rayleigh Fading channel. The results have shown that our enhancement outperforms the classical FBA. 

 

Speaker:  Mr. Jebril Al-battsh

 

Bio: Mr. Jebril Al-battsh is a M.s student in Computer Networks, Computer Engineering department at King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals, earned his B.s degree in Communication and Electronics Engineering from Palestine Polytechnic University Hebron-Palestine 2011, areas of interest is: Cognitive Radio and Wireless Sensor Networks.

 

 

Seminar 3

 

Title:  Oil wells health monitoring and Oil Pumping Unit intelligent control using Wireless Sensor Network.

 

Abstract: Most oil pumping units (OPUs) have been using manual control in the oilfield. This existing oil-pumping system, a high power-consuming process, has the incapability of OPU’s structural health monitoring. In this seminar, a sensor network based intelligent control is proposed for power economy and efficient oilwell health monitoring. The proposed sensor network consists of three-level sensors:  basic sensors, intelligent sensors, and developed software-defined (SD) control centers with an embedded database. Experiment results demonstrate the proposed sensor network based system.

 

Speaker:  Mr. Adel Binajjaj

 

Bio: Mr. Adel Binajjaj is currently a M.S student in computer engineering at King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals, Dhahran, Saudi Arabia. He received the B.Sc. degree in computer engineering from Hadhramout University of Science and Technology, Hadhramout, Yemen, in 2010. His research of interest includes Wireless sensor network, Computer networks.