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This Newsletter was created to provide news, information and ideas on the ever-growing topic of  wireless & mobile communication. This Newsletter, updated weekly, provides a quick and easy way for you to stay up to date and get the latest information wherever and whenever you need it.

The WMC Research Group has three accepted papers in the 2008 World Congress in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, and Applied Computing (WORLDCOMP'08) conference which will take place in Las Vegas, NV during July 14 - 17, 2008. The WORLDCOMP'08 is the largest annual gathering of researchers in computer science, computer engineering and applied computing. These three papers will be presented by Syed Rizvi in the conference during July 14-17, 2008. The accepted work is a unique research contribution in the area of wireless mesh/hypercube networks and large parallel and distributed networks. The following researchers have contributed in the accepted papers:

• Syed S. Rizvi and Aasia Riasat, "Combining the Synchronous Protocol with the Optimistic Time Management Algorithm (TMA) to Improve the Latency and the Processor Idle Time," The 2008 World Congress in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, and Applied Computing. WORLDCOMP'08, Las Vegas, Navada. July 14 - 17, 2008
• Syed S. Rizvi and Aasia Riasat, "A New Architecture for Minimizing the Transmission Overhead for Large Parallel and Distributed Networks," The 2008 World Congress in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, and Applied Computing. WORLDCOMP'08 - Las Vegas, Navada. July 14 - 17, 2008
• Syed S. Rizvi, Khaled M. Elleithy, and Aasia Riasat, "An Efficient Single Bit Store and Forward (SBSF) Routing Algorithm for Mesh-Hypercube (M-H) Networks," The 2008 World Congress in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, and Applied Computing WORLDCOMP'08. Las Vegas, Navada. July 14 - 17, 2008

The work presented in the conference is the result of research carried out in the WMC lab on large parallel and distributed systems. Specifically, the accepted paper provides a novel research contribution in the area of synchronization algorithms for large scalable parallel networks. The following researchers have contributed in this particular research work.

Dr. Elleithy will be presenting a paper in the 13th IEEE Symposium on Computers and Communications (ISCC'08) which take place in Marrakech, Morocco during July 6 - 9, 2008. The work presented in the conference is the result of research carried out in the WMC lab on large parallel and distributed systems. Specifically, the accepted paper provides a novel research contribution in the area of synchronization algorithms for large scalable parallel networks. The following researchers have contributed in this particular research work.

• Syed S. Rizvi, Khaled M. Elleithy, and Aasia Riasat, "Reducing Null Message Traffic in Large Parallel and Distributed Systems," 13th IEEE Symposium on Computers and Communications (ISCC'08), July 6 - 9, 2008, Marrakech, Morocco.

Syed Rizvi presented two papers in the 9th IEEE Wireless Telecommunication Symposium (IEEE WTS 2008) which was held in Pomona, California, April 24-26 2008. The accepted papers are based on the research work in wireless multiuser communications and the network security for wireless networks. The following researchers have also contributed in the accepted papers:

1. Syed S. Rizvi, Aasia Riasat, and Khaled M. Elleithy, "A Closed Form Expression for BER of Synchronous DS-CDMA Multi-user Detector," 9th IEEE Wireless Telecommunication Symposium (IEEE WTS 2008), Pomona, California, April 24-26 2008.
2. Jalpa Bani and Syed S. Rizvi, "A New Dynamic Cache Flushing (DCF) Algorithm for Preventing Cache Timing Attack," 9th IEEE Wireless Telecommunication Symposium (IEEE WTS 2008), Pomona, California, April 24-26 2008.

Syed Rizvi presented one paper in the 5th International Conference on Information Technology: New Generations (ITNG 2008) which was held in Las Vegas, Nevada, during April 7-9, 2008. The accepted paper is the result of the research work carried out in the research area of wireless multiuser communications. The following researchers have contributed in the accepted paper:

• Syed S. Rizvi, Khaled M. Elleithy, and Aasia Riasat, "Transformation Matrix System for Reducing the Computational Complexity of Wireless Multi-user Receivers for DS-CDMA Systems," 5th International Conference on Information Technology: New Generations ITNG 2008, pp. 1251-1252, April 7-9, 2008, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA.

Syed Rizvi presented two papers in the 9th LCI International Conference on High Performance Clustered Computing, which was held in National Center for Supercomputing Applications, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, during April 29-May 1, 2008. The contribution of these accepted papers is the performance optimization of time management algorithms for large parallel and distributed networks. The following researchers have contributed in the accepted papers: 

1. Syed S. Rizvi and Aasia Riasat, "Optimizing the Performance of Null Message Algorithm (NMA) for Large Parallel and Distributed Networks," The 9th LCI International Conference on High Performance Clustered Computing, National Center for Supercomputing Applications University of Illinois, Urbana, Illinois, USA, April 29-May 1, 2008. 
2. Syed S. Rizvi and Aasia Riasat, "Performance Optimization of Large Parallel and Scalable Distributed Systems Using Trees and Butterflies Barriers with Optimistic Synchronization Algorithms," The 9th LCI International Conference on High Performance Clustered Computing, National Center for Supercomputing Applications University of Illinois, Urbana, Illinois, USA, April 29-May 1, 2008.

Dr. Elleithy presented a paper in the 11th Communications and Networking Simulation Symposium (CNS'08) which was part of the 2008 Spring Simulation Multi-conference (SpringSim'08). The conference was held in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada during April 14-16, 2008. The following researchers from the WMC research group have participated in the accepted research work.

• Syed S. Rizvi, Khaled M. Elleithy, and Aasia Riasat, "A New Mathematical Model for Optimizing the Performance of Parallel and Discrete Event Simulation Systems," 11th Communications and Networking Simulation Symposium (CNS'08), Part of the 2008 Spring Simulation Multiconference (SpringSim'08). April 14-16, 2008. Crowne Plaza Ottawa, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

Dr. Elleithy presented a paper in the 5th Annual IEEE Consumer Communications and Networking Conference (IEEE CCNC'2008) which was held in Las Vegas, Nevada during January 10 - 12, 2008. The accepted paper is the outcome of an extensive research work carried out in the WMC lab on the wireless DS-CDMA multiuser receivers. The copy of the published paper can be found here [PDF]. The following researchers have actively participated in this research work.

• Syed S. Rizvi, Khaled M. Elleithy, and Aasia Riasat, "Deterministic Formalization of the Processing Gain for Reducing MAI in Wireless Multiuser DS-CDMA Systems," 5th Annual IEEE Consumer Communications and Networking Conference (IEEE CCNC'2008), pp. 859-860, January 10 - 12, 2008 in Las Vegas, Nevada.

4 students blazing trails in inaugural class of UB’s unique Engineering Ph.D. program

The University of Bridgeport’s unique Ph.D. program in Computer Science and Engineering is attracting worldwide interest as after being launched in the fall with four pioneering students. They are from academic fields, some with teaching experience. All have their master’s in engineering, and some have taught courses at colleges. Two are attending full time, the other two, part time. full story

Dr. Elleithy's paper was selected  in the list of "Top Cited Publications" in one of the most Prestigious Journals in the field of Electrical and Computer Engineering

Dr. Elleithy's paper "Fast And Flexible Architectures For RNS Arithmetic Decoding" was selected as one of the top cited papers in the publication history of the Journal of IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems II- Analog and digital Signal Processing between year 1990 and 2000. more...

Dr. Elleithy's paper discusses implementations of a fast and flexible residue decoder for residue-number-system (RNS)-based architectures which is based on the Chinese remainder theorem. The implementations are modular and are based on simple cells, which lead to efficient VLSI realizations.

The paper has been cited extensively in literature and the reported implementations were used by many researchers in highly parallel arithmetic units based on RNS.

Dr. Elleithy and the Mobile / Wireless Communications Group Participate in the 2007 Wireless Telecommunications Symposium

Dr. Elleithy and students from the mobile / wireless communications group are presenting two papers in the 2007 Wireless Telecommunications Symposium which takes place in Pomona California, April 26 - 28, 2007. This work presented in this symposium is a result of several course projects, masters' projects and independent studies. The following students have actively participated in the research results to be presented in the conference:

• Syed Rizvi, PhD. Student and Adjunct instructor
• Maqbool, MS student

The following papers discussing new techniques and algorithms in the area of wireless communications are scheduled to be presented in the conference:

• Syed S. Rizvi, K. M. Elleithy, and Aasia Riasat, "Transformation Matrix Algorithm for Reducing the Computational Complexity of Multiuser Receivers for DS-CDMA Wireless Systems." Read
• K. M. Elleithy and A. Maqbool, "Implementations of Location Awareness Technologies and their Applications."

Springer publishes five books for Prof. Tarek Sobh , Khaled Elleithy and Ausif Mahmood

• Springer has published two books in July 2006 which include a set of rigorously reviewed world-class manuscripts addressing and detailing state-of-the-art research projects in the areas of Computer Science, Software Engineering, Computer Engineering, and Systems Engineering and Sciences. The two books are:
• Advances in Systems, Computing Sciences and Software Engineering, Proceedings of SCSS 2005.  Tarek Sobh and Khaled Elleithy (Eds.) more...
• Advances in Computer, Information, and Systems Sciences, and Engineering Proceedings of IETA 2005, TeNe 2005 and EIAE 2005, Khaled Elleithy, TArek Sobh, Ausif Mahmood, Magued Iskander, Mohamed KArim (Eds.) more...

 Springer is planning to publish the following three books around June 2007:

• Advances and Innovations in Systems, Computing Sciences and Software Engineering by  Khaled Elleithy, May 2007

• Innovations and Advanced Techniques in Computer and Information Sciences and Engineering by  Tarek Sobh, May 2007

• Innovative Algorithms and Techniques in Automation, Industrial
  Electronics and Telecommunications by Tarek Sobh, Khaled Elleithy, Ausif Mahmood and Mohamed Karim.

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