Mohamed Ibnkahla, Queen's University, Canada
Adaptation in wireless networks is very important as it allows wireless communication systems to adapt to the channel and network changing conditions. Adaptation can be made at the receiver (e.g., adaptive equalization), at the transmitter (e.g., adaptive modulation and coding), and more generally, at the different layers of the network protocol stack (e.g., adaptive radio resource management and cross-layer adaptation).
This tutorial covers adaptive techniques as well as cross-layer approaches and their impact on current and future wireless communications. The tutorial will illustrate the concept of adaptation through demonstrations of adaptation in MIMO and OFDM systems, WiMAX, Mesh networks, sensor and ad hoc networks, as well as heterogeneous networks.
Dr. Ibnkahla obtained the Ph.D. degree and the 'Habilitation a Diriger des Recherches degree' (HDR) from the National Polytechnic Institute of Toulouse (INP), Toulouse, France, in 1996 and 1998, respectively.
Dr. Ibnkahla is currently an Associate Professor at the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Queen’s University, Kingston, Canada. He has been previously an Assistant Professor at INP (1996-1999) and Queen's University (2000-2004).
He has edited the handbook: 'Signal Processing for Mobile Communications Handbook', CRC Press, 2004 (800 pages). He is also the Editor of: 'Adaptation in Wireless Networks: Vol. 1- Adaptive Signal Processing in Wireless Communications', CRC Press (500 pages, 15 chapters, expected publication in January 2008) and 'Adaptation in Wireless Networks: Vol. 2- Networking and Cross-layer Adaptation', CRC Press (500 pages, 15 chapters, expected publication in January 2008). The tutorial will fully benefit from his 2-year experience and interaction with the 50 contributors of this two-volume book.
He has published more than 30 peer-reviewed journal papers and book chapters, 20 technical reports, and 60 conference papers. These publications include a significant number of invited papers. He has supervised 5 post doctoral fellows and more than 30 graduate students.
Dr. Ibnkahla received the INP Leopold Escande Medal for the year 1997, France, for his research contributions to signal processing; the prestigious Prime Minister's Research Excellence Award (PREA), Ontario, Canada in 2000, for his contributions in wireless mobile communications; and the Favorite Professor Award, Queen's University, in 2004 for his excellence in teaching.
Dr. Ibnkahla has given tutorials in similar topics at several conferences and summer schools, such as ISSPA'03 (Paris, France), GLOBECOM'07 (Washington, DC), and ICSPC'07 (Dubai, UAE).