Dr Arafat Al-Dweik

Dr Arafat Al-Dweik
Visiting Fellow (Khalifa University)

Education

  • 1998-2001 Doctor of Engineering in Electrical Engineering, Cleveland State University, USA.
  • 1997-1998 Master of Science in Electrical Engineering, Cleveland State University, Ohio, USA.
  • 1990-1994 Bachelor of Electrical Engineering, Yarmouk University, Jordan.

Professional Memberships and Services:

  • The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, IEEE, Senior Member.
  • The Institute of Electronic, Information and Communications Engineers, IEICE, Member.
  • Tau Beta Pi, American national engineering honor society, Member.
  • Eta Kappa Nu, American national electrical engineering honor society, Member.

Awards and Scholarships

  • Mar. 2004 FULBRIGHT Alumni Development Grant
  • Dec. 2003 Hijjawi Award of Applied Sciences
  • Sep. 2003 FULBRIGHT Alumni Development Grant
  • 1998 - 2000 Cleveland State University Graduate Assistantship
  • 1997 - 1998 FULBRIGHT Scholarship
  • 1990 - 1994 UNRWA Scholarship

Research Interests

  • Digital modulation techniques
  • Error control coding techniques
  • Synchronization techniques for digital systems
  • Orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM)
  • Multiple access techniques
  • Signal processing
  • Modeling and simulation of communications systems.

Publications - Journals

  1. A. Al-Dweik, A. Hazmi, Y. Sedki, B. Sharif, and C. Tsimenidis, "Iterative Frequency Offset Estimator for OFDM Systems," submitted to the IET Communications.
  2. W. Han, S. Le Goff, B. Sharif and A. Al-Dweik, "Power Efficient Bit-Interleaved Coded Modulation with Iterative Decoding," The European Transactions on Communications, accepted.
  3. S. Younis, A. Al-Dweik, A. Hazmi, B. Sharif and C. Tisimendis, "Blind CFO Estimator for MIMO-OFDM Systems over Frequency Selective Fading Channels," IET Communications, in press.
  4. A. Al-Dweik, A. Hazmi, Y. Sedki, B. Sharif, and C. Tsimenidis, "Carrier Frequency Offset Estimation for OFDM Systems over Mobile Radio Channels", IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology, vol. 59, pp. 974 - 979, February 2010.
  5. A. Al-Dweik and B. Sharif, "Exact Probability of Error for Frequency-Hopping Multiple-Access Networks with MFSK Modulation," IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology, vol. no. 7, pp. 3771-3776, September 2009.
  6. A. Al-Dweik and B. Sharif, "Non-Sequential Decoding Algorithm for Hard Iterative Turbo Product Codes," IEEE Transactions on Communications, vol. 57, pp. 1545-1549, June 2009.
  7. A. Al-Dweik, B. Sharif, and S. Le Goff, "A Hybrid Decoder for Block Turbo Codes," IEEE Transactions on Communications, vol. 57, Issue 5, pp. 1229-1232, May 2009.
  8. A. Al-Dweik, B. Sharif, and R. Shubair, "Robust Frequency Offset Estimator for OFDM with General Constellation," IET Electronic Letters, vol. 44, Issue 16, p. 980-981, July 2008.
  9. Y. Maghsoodi and A. Al-Dweik, "Exact Formulae for Error-Rate Analysis of Synchronous FHSS Networks Using Envelope Characteristic Functions of Sums of Stochastic Signals," IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology, vol. 57, no. 1, pp. 974 - 985, March. 2008.
  10. A. Al-Dweik, R. Hamila, and M. Renfors, "Blind Estimation of Large Carrier Frequency Offsets in Wireless OFDM Systems," IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology, vol. 56, no. 2, pp. 965-968, March 2007.
  11. A. Al-Dweik and R. El Khazali, "A Modified Early-Late Gate for Blind Symbol Timing Recovery of OFDM Systems," IEICE Transactions on Communications, Vol. E89-B, pp. 11-18, Jan. 2006.
  12. A. Al-Dweik, "A Novel Non Data-Aided Symbol Timing Recovery Technique for OFDM Systems," IEEE Transactions on Communications, vol. 54, no. 1, pp. 37-40, Jan 2006.
  13. A. Al-Dweik and F. Xiong, "Frequency-Hopped Multiple Access Communications with Noncoherent M-ary OFDM-ASK," IEEE Transactions on Communications, vol. 51, no. 1, pp. 33-36, Jan. 2003.

Refereed Conferences

  1. A. Al-Dweik, A. Hazmi, Y. Sedki, B. Sharif, and C. Tsimenidis, "A Novel Technique for Impulsive Noise Cancellation in OFDM Sytems," submitted to The 7th IEEE/ IET International Symposium on Communication Systems, Networks and Digital Signal Processing (CSNDSP 2010), Newcastle upon Tyne, UK, July 2010.
  2. A. Al-Dweik and B. Sharif, "Closed-Chain Error Correction Technique for Turbo Product Codes," submitted to The 7th IEEE/ IET International Symposium on Communication Systems, Networks and Digital Signal Processing (CSNDSP 2010), Newcastle upon Tyne, UK, July 2010.
  3. A. Al-Dweik, A. Hazmi, Y. Sedki, B. Sharif, and C. Tsimenidis, "Timing Offset Estimation for OFDM systems using Power Difference Measurements," Submitted to The 21th Personal, Indoor and Mobile Radio Conference, Istanbul, Turkey, September 2010.
  4. A. Khrwat1, B. Sharif, C. Tsimenidis, S. Boussakta, and A. Al-Dweik, "Channel Prediction for Limited Feedback Precoded MIMO-OFDM Systems", The 9th IEEE International Symposium on Signal Processing and Information Technology (ISSPIT 2009), pp. 1-5, Ajman, UAE, Dec. 2009.
  5. S. Younis, A. Al-Dweik, B. Sharif, C. Tisimendis, and A. Hazmi," Blind Scheme for Carrier Frequency Offset Estimation in MIMO-OFDM Systems," The 9th IEEE International Symposium on Signal Processing and Information Technology (ISSPIT 2009), pp. 195-200, Ajman, UAE, Dec. 2009.
  6. A. Al-Dweik, A. Hazmi and M. Renfors, Joint Symbol Timing and Frequency Offset Estimation for Wireless OFDM Systems, in Proc. IEEE PIMRC 2008, Cannes, France, September 2008.
  7. A. Al-Dweik, R. Hamila and Z. Asghar, "Dynamic Feedback Carrier Frequency Offset Estimator for OFDM Systems," in Proc. of the 2007 IEEE International Conference on Signal Processing and Communications (ICSPC 2007), pp. 1043-1046, Dubai, UAE, Nov. 2007.
  8. K. Al-Abdouli, S. Al-Araji, M. Al-Qutayri and A. Al-Dweik, "Frequency Synthesizer using TDTL with Enhanced Performance," in Proc. of the 2007 IEEE International Conference on Signal Processing and Communications (ICSPC 2007), pp. 656-659, Dubai, UAE, Nov. 2007.
  9. A. Al-Dweik, M. Renfors, S. Al-Araji, and R. Hamila, "A New Carrier Frequency Offset Estimator for OFDM Systems with Real Data Symbols," in Proc. of 8th IEEE International Workshop on Signal Processing Advances for Wireless Communications (IEEE SPAWC 2007), pp. 1-5, Helsinki, Finland, June 2007.
  10. A. Al-Dweik and L. Martinz, "An Identity for Simplifying Certain Optimization Problems," in Proceedings of the 5th UAE Math-Day Conference, pp. 7-9, Sharjah, UAE, April 2007.
  11. R. Hamila and A. Al-Dweik, "Properties of Teager-Kaiser Operator For Complex-Valued Signals," in Proceedings of the 5th UAE Math-Day Conference, pp. 34-40, Sharjah, UAE, April 2007.
  12. R. Hamila, A. Al-Dweik, E. Lohan, and M. Renfors, Challenges of Mobile and Satellite Positioning, In Proc. of International Symposium on Image/Video Communications (ISIVC'06), Hammamet, Tunisia, Sept. 2006.
  13. A. Al-Dweik, "A New Generalized Approach for Performance Evaluation of Communication Systems with Intentional/Non-Intentional Jamming," In Proc. of 3rd IEEE-GCC, Manamah, Kingdom of Bahrain, March 2006.
  14. A. Al-Dweik and R. Hamila, "A Highly Efficient Blind Carrier Frequency Offset Estimator for Wireless OFDM Systems," Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Consumer Electronics (ICCE '06), pp. 375 - 376, CA, USA, Jan. 2006.
  15. R. Hamila, A. Al-Dweik, and F. Cheikh, "Challenges for High Accuracy Mobile Phone Positioning", Proceedings of the 6th World Wireless Congress, pp. 394-398, San Francisco, USA, 25-27 May 2005.
  16. A. Al-Dweik and R. El Khazali, "A New Early-Late Gate with Variable Structure for Rapid Blind Symbol Timing Recovery of OFDM Systems." Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Sciences of Electronic, Technologies of Information and Telecommunications (Setit 2005). Tunisia, 27-31 march 2005.
  17. A. Al-Dweik and S. Al-Araji, "A New Modulation Scheme for Multiple Access Interference Reduction in Frequency Hopping Networks," Proceedings of the 2nd IFIP International Conf. On Wireless and Optical Communication Networks (WOCN 2005), Dubai UAE, pp. 506-509, March 2005.
  18. A. Al-Dweik and R. Hamilah, "Novel Frequency Offset Estimation Technique for OFDM Systems Using Band Edge Filters," Proceedings of the 2nd IEEE/IFIP International Conf. On Wireless and Optical Communication Networks (WOCN 2005), Dubai UAE, pp. 406-409, March 2005.
  19. A. Al-Dweik, "Robust Non Data-Aided Frequency Offset Estimation Technique For OFDM Systems in Rayleigh Fading Channels," in proceedings of the 15th IEEE International Symposium on Personal, Indoor and Mobile Radio Communications (PIMRC 2004), Vol.2, Pages:1365-1369, Barcelona, Spain, 5-8, September 2004.
  20. A. Al-Dweik, "A New Non Data-Aided Frequency Offset Recovery Technique for OFDM Systems," Proceedings of the 4th International Symposium on Communication Systems, Networks and Digital Signal Processing (CSNDSP 2004), pp. 27-30, Newcastle, UK, July 2004
  21. A. Al-Dweik and S. Al-Araji, "The Effect of Timing and Frequency Offsets on OFDM Systems Using One and Two-Dimensional Modulation Schemes," Proceedings of the 4th International Symposium on Communication Systems, Networks and Digital Signal Processing (CSNDSP 2004), pp. 237-240, Newcastle, UK, July 2004.
  22. A. Al-Dweik and M. Aburajab, "On the Analysis of Frequency-Hopped Multiple-Access Communication with Noncoherent OFDM-ASK in AWGN Channels," Proceedings of the 15th IASTED International conference on Modeling and Simulation , pp. 302-306, CA, USA, March 2004.
  23. A. Al-Dweik, "Robust Non Data-Aided Symbol Synchronization Technique for OFDM Systems". Proceedings of the IEEE Military Communications Conference, vol. 2, pp. 1219-1224, Boston, MA, USA, October 2003.
  24. A. Al-Dweik, "A Novel Non Data-Aided Symbol Timing Recovery for OFDM Systems", Proceedings of The 3rd IASTED International Conference on Wireless and Optical Communications, Banff, Canada, pp. 371-376, July 2003.
  25. A. Al-Dweik and F. Xiong, "Reducing the Peak Power and the Sensitivity to Frequency Offsets in Noncoherent OFDM-ASK Systems", Proceedings of the IASTED International Conference on Communication Systems and Networks (CSN), Malaga, Spain, September 2002.
  26. A. Al-Dweik and F. Xiong, "Frequency-Hopped Multiple-Access Communication with Noncoherent OFDM-MASK in AWGN Channels", Proceedings of the IEEE Military Communications Conference, Vol. 2, 2001, pp. 1355 -1359, McLean, Virginia, USA, October 2001.
  27. A. Al-Dweik and F. Xiong, "Maximum Likelihood Decoding of Convolutionally Coded ASK Signals in AWGN Channels", Proceedings of the IASTED International Conference on Wireless and Optical Communications (WOC), Banff, Canada, June 2001.
  28. A. Al-Dweik, S. Al-Araji, and F. Xiong, "Open-Loop Carrier Estimation for M-ary Phase Modulated Signals", Proceedings of the IASTED International Conference on Modeling and Simulations, Pennsylvania, U.S.A, May 2001.
  29. S. Al-Araji, A. Al-Dweik and M. Abu-Rajab, "Fast Switching Frequency Synthesizer Using Adaptive PLL Operating in the Pseudo Linear Region", Proceedings of the IASTED International Conference on Modeling and Simulations, Pennsylvania, U.S.A, April 1995.

Other Publications

  1. M. Hizlan and A. Al-Dweik, Digital Communications laboratory manual, Cleveland State University, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, May 1998.