Karama HAMDI

PhD Candidate
        Department of Electronic and Computer Engineering
        Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
        Clear Water Bay, Kowloon
        Hong Kong
 
        Email: eekarama@ust.hk
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Research Interests

Brief Biography

Karama received her Engineer Diploma in Electrical Engineering from Ecole Nationale d'Ingénieurs de Sfax (ENIS) in 2005. In August 2007, she got her Master of Philosophy (MPhil) degree from Department of Electronic and Computer Engineering of Hong Kong University of Science and Technology under the supervision of Prof. Khaled Ben Letaief. Now, she is a PhD student.

Curriculum Vitae

Publications

Theses:

K. Hamdi, "Interference Avoidance in Cognitive Radio Networks," Master of Philosophy thesis, Aug. 2007, Dept. of Electronic and Computer Engineering, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology.

Journals:

K. Hamdi, W. Zhang, and K. B. Letaief, ˇ§Opportunistic spectrum sharing in cognitive MIMO wireless networks,ˇ¨ submitted to IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, Apr. 2008.

Conference papers:

K. Hamdi, W. Zhang, and K. B. Letaief, ˇ§Uplink scheduling with QoS provisioning for cognitive radio systems,ˇ¨ in Proc. IEEE International Wireless Communications and Networking Conference (WCNC 2007), Hong Kong, Mar. 11-15, 2007.

K. Hamdi, W. Zhang, and K. B. Letaief, ˇ§Power control in cognitive radio systems based on spectrum sensing side information,ˇ¨  in Proc. IEEE International Conference on Communication (ICC 2007), Glasgow, Scotland, UK, June 24-28, 2007. 

K. Hamdi, W. Zhang, and K. B. Letaief, ˇ§Joint Beamforming and scheduling in cognitive radio networks,ˇ¨ in Proc. IEEE Global Communications Conference (GLOBECOM 2007), Washington, DC, USA, Nov. 26-30, 2007.  

K. Hamdi and K. B. Letaief, ˇ§Cooperative Communications for Cognitive Radio Networks,ˇ¨ PGNet 2007, the 8th Annual Postgraduate Symposium, Liverpool John Moores University, Liverpool, UK, June 28-29, 2007 (Invited).

K. Hamdi, W. Zhang, and K. B. Letaief, "Low-Complexity Antenna Selection and User Scheduling in Cognitive MIMO Broadcast Systems," to appear in Proc. IEEE International Conference on Communication (ICC 2008), Beijing, China, May 19-23, 2008.

Patents:

K. Hamdi, W. Zhang, and K. B. Letaief, ˇ§Power control in cognitive radio systems based on spectrum sensing side information,ˇ¨ US Patent Application, filed in March 2007.