Curriculum Vitae - squ.edu.om · January 14, 2018 CURRICULUM VITAE NASER G. TARHUNI, Doctor of Science in Technology Sultan Qaboos University College of Engineering Department of

January 14, 2018

CURRICULUM VITAE

NASER G. TARHUNI,

Doctor of Science in Technology

Sultan Qaboos University

College of Engineering

Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering

PO Box 33, Al-Khod 123, Muscat, Sultanate of Oman

Tel: +968-24142590

Fax:+968-24413454

Emails: [email protected] , [email protected]

1. PERSONAL INFORMATION Place of Birth:

Date of Birth:

Marital Status:

Benghazi – Libya.

17th January1970.

Married.

Summary: I received the B.Sc and M.Sc. degrees in electrical engineering from the Garyounis University

(currently University of Benghazi), Libya, in 1991 and 1996, respectively, and the D.Sc. degree (with

distinction) in electrical engineering from Helsinki University of Technology (currently Aalto University),

Finland in 2007. From 1994 to 2001, I was working as a communications Engineer with the General Electricity

Company of Libya (GECOL). During the period from 1997 to 2001 I was also working as a part time lecturer

with the electrical and electronics engineering department, Garyounis university, Libya. Since 2008, I have

been with the Sultan Qaboos University, Muscat, Sultanate of Oman, where I am working as an Assistant

Professor at the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering. I have published several refereed journal

and conference papers in the areas of Optical Code Division Multiple Access, Wireless Communications, and

Signal Processing Applications to Power systems.

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2. EDUCATION & EMPLOYMENT

I. EDUCATION

May 2007 Doctor of Science, D.Sc., Helsinki University of Technology, Finland

Major: Communication Engineering

Minor: Signal Processing for Communications

Thesis title: “Fiber-Optic Code Division Multiple Access: Multi-Class Optical

Orthogonal Codes, Optical Power Control, and Polarization Encoding”

Grade: Distinction

June 2004 Licentiate of Science, L.Sc., Communications Engineering

Helsinki University of Technology, Finland

Thesis: Fiber-Optic Code Division Multiple Access

June 1996 Master of Science, M.Sc, Electrical & Electronic Engineering

Garyounis University, Libya

Thesis: “Comparative Study of Deconvolution Algorithms of Transient Signals”

Grade: Excellent

June 1991 Baccalaureate of Science B.Sc.,

Garyounis University, Libya

Major: Communication Engineering

II. EMPLOYMENT

Sep 2008 - Present Sultan Qaboos University, Muscat, Oman

Assistant Professor, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering

Feb 2008 – June 2008 Sultan Qaboos University, Muscat, Oman

Visiting Consultant, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering

Apr 2007 – Dec 2007 University of Vaasa, Vaasa, Finland

Postdoc researcher, Faculty of Technology, Communications and Systems

Engineering Group

June 2002 – April 2007 Helsinki University of Technology (now Aalto University), Helsinki,

Finland

Full time researcher, Department of Communications and Networking


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Feb 2003 – Dec 2006 Helsinki University of Technology, Helsinki, Finland

Teaching Assistant, Department of Communications and Networking

III. PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS

Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), member, 2007-Present.

IV. RESEARCH INTERESTS

1) Optical Communications, Optical Code Division Multiple Access, Optical

Networking

2) Wireless Communications, Resource Management for Wireless

Communications

3) Signal Processing Applications to Power Systems.

3. TEACHING I. TEACHING PHILOSOPHY

My teaching approach is to avoid spoon-feeding students with information. I usually encourage my students to

reach and digest information independently. I keep stimulating my students to get involved in the lectures by

group discussions and motivate them to link theory to real life applications. I always motivate my students to

extend their knowledge to topics not covered in the class to become a life-long learner. In addition, I encourage

them to work in groups through mini-project work, computer simulation tasks, and lab reports. Further, I

persuade my students to get involved in technical student societies and participate in scientific competitions.

Since I became heavily involved with the ABET accreditation process in ECE department at Sultan Qaboos

University, the teaching was focused more on outcome based approach.

II. TEACHING ACHIEVEMENTS Overall my teaching carrier I taught thirteen courses and assisted in the teaching of five courses.

At SQU, I taught 10 courses both graduate and undergraduate. Chronologically, my teaching

experience passed through four main stages:

1994 -2001 Over this period, I was working as an Engineer in the General Electricity Company of

Libya. I was involved with students joining the Electronic maintenance department for


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summer training, where I train students on maintenance and installation of radio

communication equipment such as CODAN long range HF radios, the maintenance and

setup of High Voltage (HV) fault location equipment, and all kinds of electronic cards,

such as MODEMs, used by the SCADA system of the 10.45 kV control room.

1996 -2001 During this period, I worked as a part time lecturer with the University of Benghazi, Libya,

while I was still working as an Engineer in the Electricity company. This gave me the

opportunity to bring more practical flavor to final year projects I supervised and of

practical value to the company, such as designing an EPROM programming kit. As a part

time lecturer I was involved in teaching the following courses:

1) EE211 Circuit Theory I

Basic course which involves KVL, KCL, nodal and mesh analysis, etc. Solving

circuit problems composed of resistors, and RLC transient analysis.

2) EE494 Telecommunications II

Includes topics such as sampling theorem, digital modulations, noise in

communication systems.

3) EE325 Logic Design Lab.

Experiments on different types of logic gates, multiplexing, coding, addition,

counters, etc.

2003 – 2006 When I worked as a teaching assistant in the Department of Communications and

Networking at Helsinki University of Technology, I was involved in giving tutorials and

problem solving sessions, preparing and grading exams. I was assisting in the following

courses:

1) S-72.244 Modulation and Coding methods

Objective of this course is to give the basics by which modulated information

transmission can be analyzed. An elementary tool for this is the linear system

analysis including signal presentation in time and frequency domain by using

Fourier and Laplace transformations

2) S-72.3320 Advanced Digital Communications

Objective of this course is to provide students with the knowledge and

understanding of advanced digital telecommunications systems with special

emphases on digital, wireless communications. Topics covered such as, CDMA,

diversity, cyclic and convolutional coding and wireless fading channel.

3) S-72.1130 Telecommunication systems

Objective of this course is to inspect some of the basic features of the today's


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telecommunication networks and to get familiar to the related standardization

work established for instance by ITU (International Telecommunications Union),

and ETSI (European Telecommunications Standards Institute).

4) S-72.1140 Transmission Methods in Telecommunication systems

The objective of this course is to inspect the various physical level design

philosophies and practical structures in telecommunication systems in order to

enable reliable and efficient telecommunications.

5) S-72.3340 Optical Networks

The main essence of this course is it timelines in the coverage of current and

emerging optical networking topics. Including 20 hours of Laboratory work on

Nokia SYNFONET digital cross connect.

2008 – Present After joining Sultan Qaboos University, I have been involved in teaching the following

courses:

1) ECCE3142 (Signals and Systems)

Systems defined by differential and difference equations, system modeling. Time

and frequency-domain representation and analysis of continuous & discrete time

signals and systems, Fourier Series and Fourier transform, Laplace transform.

Investigation of the above concepts using MATLAB.

2) ECCE3152 (Electronics I)

Topics covered include DC and AC analysis and design of, diode circuit analysis,

transistor BJT and MOSFET circuits, Op-Amps and their applications, including

16 hours of lab experiments. Extensive PSICE simulations are included.

3) ECCE4122 (Analog and Digital Communications)

Mainly, Analog modulations such as AM, FM, PM. Also includes an introducing

sampling theorem, digital modulations ASK, FSK and PSK methods. Computer

lab tutorials and simulation tasks based on MATLAB are included.

4) ECCE4142 (Digital Signal Processing)

Covering discrete-time signals and systems, convolution, linear-time invariant

systems. Sampling, Discrete-Time Transforms: Discrete-Time Fourier Transform

DFT and Fast Fourier Transform FFT, Z-Transform. Digital filters, structures for

discrete-time systems, digital filter design, FIR filter design, IIR filter design. DSP

applications: Simulation with DSP Board, Matlab Simulink, and Matlab software

programming.

5) ECCE4126 (Principles of Digital Communications)


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Performance analysis and error rates of digital communication systems, baseband

and passband. Signal distortions, equalizers, channel coding, and information

theory topics are covered. The course includes 8 hours of lab experiments.

Computer lab tutorials and simulation tasks based on MATLAB are included.

6) ECCE5124 (Wireless Communications)

Cellular technology, small scale and large-scale channel fading, stochastic channel

models, diversity and CDMA are discussed in details. Extensive simulation tasks

based on MATLAB are included.

7) ECCE5123 (Optical Communications)

This course is a comprehensive and in-depth introduction to the basics of optical

communications with fiber transmission lines. The topics to be covered include the

lightwave fundamentals, optical waveguides and fibers, different optical

transmitters and receivers, passive couplers, modulators, amplifiers and filters.

8) ECCE5125 (Advanced Communications Lab)

Performing different types of experiments such as microwave measurements,

impedance matching, transmission line characteristics, antenna patterns, and

optical fiber optic measurements.

9) ECCE6124 (Digital Transmission), M.Sc. course

Digital transmission over AWGN channels. Digital transmission over band-

Limited channels. Inter symbol Interference. Signal design for band-Limited

channels. Channel equalization. Characterization of fading multipath channels.

Performance of digital transmission over fading channels. Diversity techniques.

Spread spectrum. Multi-user communication. Overview of Advanced

Communications Systems (satellite, mobile, optical, etc.)

10) ECCE6134 (Special Topics in Communication), M.Sc. course

Covered topics such as power control in wireless systems, diversity techniques,

and smart antennas.

11) ECCE6216 (Directed Studies), M.Sc. course

One M.Sc. student on the topic “Watermarking in Digital Images”. The student

made a comprehensive literature review of the topic, then studied and simulated

selected algorithms such as Spatial Domain Techniques and Transformed Domain

Technique. The student gave a final presentation and submitted a report.


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III. DEVELOPMENT IN TEACHING AND CURRICULUM

1) Newly designed elective course

ECCE5165 (Mobile Communication Systems)

This course is designed to keep students up to date with the operation and design of

mobile communication systems. It introduces CDMA, OFDMA, and MIMO

technologies. Then, the course covers mobile communication systems such as

GSM, UMTS, and LTE, i.e., from 2G to 4G mobile systems, their network

structure, signaling formats, radio access technologies, and air interface.

2) New Laboratory experiments

ECCE4122(Analog and Digital Communications)

ECCE4126 (Principles of Digital Communications)

Ordered TIMS experimental set from EMONA to perform experiments on different

communication systems for the two courses. I developed the lab sheets for all

experiments performed. Currently, we perform six labs in ECCE4122 and four labs

in ECCE4126.

3) Developed four computer lab experiments to the ECCE4142 (Digital Signal

Processing) course. The developed labs involves conducting a systematic simulation

procedure, changing parameters, plotting and reporting on the results. The

experiments covers the following topics :

a. quantization & convolution of digital signals

b. spectrum analysis of digital signals

c. frequency response & filtering of digital filters

d. FIR filter design

4) Developed simulation tasks as integral part of all courses taught. The simulation

tasks are mini-projects in which students work in groups to perform a given

simulation scenario, usually relating theory to practical results.

5) Developed new fiber optic experiment to the course ECCE5125 (Advanced

Communications Lab).

6) Regularly used the online eLearning services provided by university for the taught

courses to share material, enhance knowledge through discussion forums and doing

surveys.

7) Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology (ABET)

I was heavily involved with the ABET accreditation process of the ECE program at


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SQU which was successfully achieved in August 2014. I was a member of the

departmental committee responsible for the accreditation process. The accreditation

process has taken around three years to complete. The process involved planning,

assessments, collecting material and writing the final report. I was assigned by the

committee as the champion of outcome (c) in the ABET terminology, which is,

Ability to Design a system, component, or process to meet desired needs within

realistic constraints. My tasks include follow up with course instructors in assessing

the outcome, collect the evidence, and then write the evaluation form. Meanwhile, I

was assessing other outcomes in my courses, such as outcomes (b), (g), (i), and (k).

This involved preparing the course material and exams to cover the outcomes as

well as reporting to outcome champions the needed evidence. Currently, I am still

helping with the process of continues improvement of ECE program as

recommended by ABET. The work for the ABET accreditation has been recognized

by SQU through a ceremony and a letter of appreciation.

IV. STUDENT ADVISING Since I joined Sultan Qaboos University in 2008, I am actively involved in academic

advising of students, which continues until they graduate from university. I worked as

academic advisor of 30 students from cohort 2008. Most of these students have graduated

from the university. Currently, I am advising 25 students of cohort 2013.

V. B.Sc. FINAL YEAR PROJECT SUPERVISION Since I joined Sultan Qaboos University in 2008 I am involved in supervising final year

projects of ECE students. All projects involve aspects of design and implementation. The

following is a list of supervised and co-supervised projects:

1) Musalam Suheil Mohammed Al Maashani, Hani Mohamed Abdulhussein Al

Muscati and Khalid Mohammed Khamis Al Mazrouai “Design & Realization of

Direct Sequence Spread Spectrum Communication”, Supervisor, 2008-2009.

2) Haitham Khamis Said Al-Kamyani, Al Moutasim Abdulla Ahmed Al-Kindi, Usama

Ahmed Saif Al-Battashi and Mohammed Ali Nasser Al-Farsi “Design &

Realization of an Orthogonal frequency division multiplexing

(OFDM) communication system,” Supervisor, 2008-2009.


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3) Ghanaia Saleh Firuz Al Niashi, Ruqaiya Mohamed Khalfan Al Mahrami, Kamla

Khalfan Hamed Al Darmaki and Nasiba Hilal Al Kharusi “Implementation of a

Dual-Tank Digital Control with Wireless Loop,” Main Supervisor, 2010-2011.

4) Tamadher Al-Hashmi, Nawal Al-Amri and Manal Al-Balushi “Design &

Implementation of Code Division Multiple Access Experimentation Set,” main

supervisor, 2010-2011.

5) Munthir M. al-Lawati, Ghaleb M. al-Jazmi and Malik H. al-Subhi “Design and

implementation of an automatic Meter reading over power line carrier

Communication,” main supervisor, 2010-2011.

6) Said Saif Hammod Al-Ismaili , Adnan Ahmed Salim Al-Aamri, Ahmed Said Sultan

Al-Ashkhari and Jamal Mohammed Nasser Al-Mazidi “Spread Spectrum based

Power Line Carrier System,” supervisor, 2011-2012.

7) Mohsin Hamed AL-Salmi, Bader Nasser AL-Hashmi and Waleed Saif AL-Masoudi

“Design and Implementation of Vehicle Counting & Classification System for SQU

Gates,” main supervisor, 2011-2012.

8) Asmaa Zaid Al-Hinai, Azza Hamed Al-Mamari, Basma Sulaiman Al-Riyami

and Nihal Khalfan Al-Busaidi “Design of a Wireless Myoelectric Measurement and

Control System,” supervisor, 2012-2013.

9) Mousa Al-kiyoumi, Khalid Al-beloushi, Rashid Al-badi and Said Al-saadi “Design

and Implementation of Wireless Automation System with Application to

Pendulum-Cart System,” main supervisor, 2012-2013.

10) Ghalib Said Ahmed Al.Nabhani, Humaid Salim Humaid Al.Harrasi, Ali Ibraheem

Ali Abu Qasida and Adnan Saif Salim Al.Sunaidi “SQU campus gates’ surveillance

with automated plate recognition,” co-supervisor, 2012-2013.

11) Mohammed Salim AL Sadi, Ayoub Issa AL Shabibi and Hatem Saif AL Kaabi

“Design of Smartphone interfacing for biomedical signal measurements,” main


12) Hamood Alriyami, Said Alsulti and Abd Alazeez Alsinani “Design of a Wireless

Wheel-Chair Control System,” main supervisor, 2013-2014.

13) Mubarak Said AL Moqbali, Dawood Mohammed AL Abri, Said Abdullah AL

Riyami, Alawi Hassan AL Ajmi “design and implementation of a wireless data

acquisition and monitoring system for power system quality measurements,” main


14) Manar Saif Mohammed Saif Al Kindi, Latifa Khalid Ali Al Abri, Zainab Said


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Mubarak Saleh Al Bahluli and Fatema Ali Daballan Ahamad Almaashani “Design

of a Tracking System for SQU Library Books,” main supervisor, 2015-2016.

15) Naji Said Khalifa ALGhafri and Imad Mahmood Salim AL-Lamki “Design and

Implementation of a Microwave Instant Water Heating System,” main supervisor,

2016-2017.

16) Al Moatasim Al Shandudi, Faisal Al Sarmi, Nasser Al Hinai and Shehab Al Shabibi

“Wireless control of networked machines,” co-supervisor, 2016 – 2017.

VI. M.Sc. THESIS SUPERVISION

I have supervised and co-supervised the following M.Sc. projects:

1) Dawood Khalfan Abdullah Al Brashdi: “Radio Resource Management for Wireless

Networks,” supervisor, SQU, graduated 2012.

2) Abbas Teirab: “Modeling of Impulse Ultra Wideband Antennas for Radar &

Communication Applications,” co-supervisor, SQU, graduated 2012.

3) Mohammed Ahmed Suleiman Aal Abdulsallam: “Study and Simulation of Power

Control and SC-FDMA in LTE Uplink,” co-supervisor, SQU, graduated 2012.

4) Ahmed Hassan Saleh Al Haddabi: “Broadband Services for Remote Areas in the

Sultanate of Oman,” co-supervisor, SQU, graduated 2102.

5) Wahab Salim Mohammed Al-Rawahi: “GSM Spectrum Re-Farming for Batinah

Region in Oman,” co-supervisor, SQU, graduated 2013.

6) Suja Kalarikkal Pullayikodi, “Watermarking in Digital Images Application to

Communications,” graduated Fall 2016.

VII. B.Sc. EXAMINATION COMMITTEE

At sultan Qaboos University, ECE department I am involved at end of Fall semesters in

examinations of part I of the final year projects conducted by students of the department. By

end of Spring semester, part II of the students’ capstone-design projects will be fully

examined through project report assessments and/or student presentations and lab practical

demonstrations of the implemented prototypes. We examine ~ 7 - 10 projects every

semester with 4 students/project on average.

VIII. M.Sc. and L.Sc. THESIS EXAMINATION COMMITTEE

I worked as a member of M.Sc. examination committees and as a session chair at the

department and college levels. Chairing the final M.Sc. presentations involves organizing

the session, collecting examiners’ signed forms, and reporting to the postgraduate studies


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office about the decisions made by the examining committee. Furthermore, I worked as an

external reviewer for one Licentiate thesis. The following is a list of such activities:

1) Mohammed Al-Rawi: “Scheduling and Admission Control in Opportunistic

Wirelesss Systems,” external reviewer, Licentiate thesis, University of Vaasa,

Finland, 2008.

2) Asaad Al-Ruqaishi: “Characterization of propagation path loss: a case study of

Muscat cbd area,” examination committee member, M.Sc. thesis, SQU, 2012.

3) Ahmed Musallam Al-Mahri: “Modeling and Measurement of EM Radiation Fields

from Mobile Base Stations as SQU,” examination committee member, M.Sc.

thesis, SQU, 2012.

4) Amer Al-Riami: “Obstacles Restraining Productivity Improvement and Causes of

Unsuccessful Implementation in the Manufacturing Sector of Oman,” chair, M.Sc.

thesis, SQU, 2012.

5) Amna Al-Sinani: “Simulation of Vehicular Ad-Hoc Networks For Road Safety

Applications,” examination committee member, M.Sc. thesis, SQU, 2013.

6) Lavanya Pathuri: “Securing Wireless Sensor Networks Using Customized

Hardware Crypto Engine,” examination committee member, M.Sc. thesis, SQU,

Dec. 2015.

4. SCHOLARY ACHIEVEMENTS

I. PUBLICATIONS My contributions to the research publications listed below span three main areas:

1) Optical Communications and Optical Signal Processing, mainly, Optical Code

Division Multiple Access (OCDMA):

I have been the main and first author of all published journal and conference papers

listed below on this topic. The contributions range from developing new codes for

OCDMA systems [J9] below, to applying optical power control algorithms to

OCDMA [J10, J11]. In addition, I introduced and developed the use of optical

Polarization as a new dimension for OCDMA [J8, J12].

2) Wireless and Mobile Communication Technology, mainly on applications to

Automation and Control:


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In this field of research, my contribution is in investigating the effect of randomized

transmit power levels on the performance of wireless sensor networks. In [J2] and

[J7], I have mainly contributed by producing the simulation results; also,

additionally, I also worked with research colleagues and developed new approaches

published in conferences [C3, C10, and C11].

3) Digital Signal Processing and its applications to electrical power systems and fault

management:

These include the effect of high voltage spikes on the discharge probability of spark

gaps, the use of wavelets to identify faulty feeders for protection of power grids,

and fault location problems in power distribution systems. I have contributed

significantly to the listed publications in this area of research. For instance, I

developed the new mathematical results for the spark gap discharge probability and

created the simulation scripts for the work in [J5]. Similarly, I contributed

significantly in creating the algorithms, the thresholding, and noise analysis

developed in [J4] and [J6]. Furthermore, I proposed the technique of using the

frequency chirp for locating power line faults in [C4]. Lately, we published [J1] and

my contribution was in evaluating the performance, formulating the algorithm

proposed and paper writing parts of the manuscript.

Google Scholar Author Profile Summary as of 5 January 2016: http://scholar.google.com/citations?user=nrv8CBAAAAAJ&hl=en

Citation indices All Since 2012

Citations 254 127

h-index 9 6

i10-index 8 4

II. REFEREED JOURNAL PAPERS

[J1] S Kalarikkal Pullayikodi, N Tarhuni, A Ahmed, FB Shiginah, “Computationally Efficient

Robust Color Image Watermarking Using Fast Walsh Hadamard Transform,” Journal of

Imaging, Vol. 3, Num. 4, Article No. 46, 2017.

[J2] Naser Tarhuni, M. Elmusrati, and Muhammad Al-Nadabi, “Stochastic Allocation of

Transmit Power for Realistic Wireless Channel Models,” The Journal of Engineering

Research, TJER, Volume 13, No.1, pp 72-79, January 2016.

http://scholar.google.com/citations?user=nrv8CBAAAAAJ&hl=en


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[J3] Naser G. Tarhuni, Nagy I. Elkalashy, Tamer A. Kawady, and Matti Lehtonen

“Autonomous Control Strategy for Fault Management in Distribution Networks” Electric

Power Systems Research, Elsevier, Volume 121, April 2015, Pages 252–259.

[J4] M. Elmusrati, N. Tarhuni, and R. Jäntti, “Framework for Random Power Allocation of

Wireless Sensor Networks in Fading Channels,” Published Online March 2012

(http://www.SciRP.org/journal/wsn) Wireless Sensor Network Journal, PP.76-83, Pub.

Date: 30-3-2012.

[J5] Abdulla Abouda and Naser Tarhuni, “MIMO Channel Gain Mechanisms Relative to

SISO Channel,” The Journal of Engineering Research, TJER, Volume 7, No.2, pp 40-47,

June 2010.

[J6] Nagy I. Elkalashy, Abdelsalam M. Elhaffar, Tamer A. Kawady, Naser G. Tarhuni and

Matti Lehtonen, “Bayesian Selectivity Technique for Earth Fault Protection in Medium

Voltage Networks,” IEEE Transactions on Power Delivery, Volume 25, No. 4, pp. 2234-

2245, Oct. 2010.

[J7] Nehmdoh A. Sabiha, Matti Lehtonen, Naser G. Tarhuni, Petri Hyvönen, “Probabilistic

Model for MV Spark-Gap Characteristics with Lightning Induced Overvoltage

Superimposed on AC Voltage,” IEEE Transactions on Dielectrics and Electrical

Insulation, Volume 16, Issue 5, pp. 1404-1412, Oct. 2009.

[J8] N.I. Elkalashy, N.G. Tarhuni, and M. Lehtonen, “Simplified probabilistic selectivity

technique for earth fault detection in unearthed MV networks” IET Generation,

Transmission and Distribution, Volume 3, Issue 2, pp. 145-153, Feb. 2009.

[J9] M. Elmusrati, N. Tarhuni, and R. Jäntti, “Performance analysis of random uniform power

allocation for wireless networks in Rayleigh fading channels,” European Transactions on

Telecommunications, Wiley, Volume 20, Issue 4, pp. 457-462, June 2009.

[J10] Naser Tarhuni, Timo O. Korhonen, and Mohammed Elmusrati, “State of Polarization

Encoding for Optical Code Division Multiple Access Networks,” Journal of

ElectroMagnetic Waves and Applications JEMWA, Volume 21, Number 10, pp. 1313-

1321, 2007.

[J11] Naser Tarhuni, Timo Korhonen, Edward Mutafungwa, and Mohammed Elmusrati,

“Multi-Class Optical Orthogonal Codes for Multi-Service Optical CDMA Networks”,

IEEE Journal of Lightwave Technology, Volume 24, Issue 2, pp. 694-704, Feb. 2006.

[J12] Naser G. Tarhuni, Timo O. Korhonen, Mohammed Elmusrati, and Edward Mutafungwa,

“Power Control of Optical-CDMA Star Networks,” Optics Communications, Elsevier,

Volume 259, Issue 2, pp. 655-664, March 2006.


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[J13] Naser Tarhuni, M. Elmusrati, and T. Korhonen, “Multi-Class Optical-CDMA Network

Using Optical Power Control,” Progress in Electromagnetics Research, PIER, Volume

64, pp. 279-292, 2006.

[J14] Naser Tarhuni, M. Elmusrati, and T. Korhonen, “Polarized Optical Orthogonal Codes for

Optical Code Divison Multiple Access Systems,” Progress in Electromagnetics Research,

PIER, Volume 65, pp. 125-136, 2006.

[J15] Mohammed Elmusrati, Naser Tarhuni, and H. Koivo, “General MVDR smart antenna

algorithm for frequency selective channels,” WSEAS Trans. on Comm, Volume 5, Issue 1,

pp. 1109-2742, January 2006.

III. REFEREED CONFERENCE PAPERS

[C1] Suja, K. P., Tarhuni, N., Ahmad A. and Bait Shiginah, F, “OFDM Based Robust Digital

Image Watermarking Resistant to Multipath Spatial Shifts,” Conference: The 9th IEEE-

GCC conference, May 2017, Bahrain.

[C2] Amir M. Abdulghani, Naser Tarhuni, Dawood Al-Abri and Afaq Ahmad “Development

of Oman’s National School Curricula based on International Accreditation Standards” the

4th International Conference of College of Education - Academic Accreditation: The Road

To Sustainable Quality Education, At Sultan Qaboos University, Oman, 14-17 Nov 2016.

[C3] Suja, K. P., Tarhuni, N., Ahmad A. and Bait Shiginah, F, “Computationally Efficient,

Robust Watermarking Using Fast Walsh Hadamard Transform,” Proceedings of the 7th

International Conference on Computing Communication and Networking Technologies

(ICCCNT '16), Dallas, TX, USA, July 06 - 08, 2016.

[C4] Naser G. Tarhuni, Ashraf Saleem and Mostefa Mesbah, “On-line Denoising of Motor

Speed Control Loop Using Order Statistics Filtering,” The Tenth International

Symposium on Mechatronics and its Applications, ISMA’15, December 8-10 , 2015

Sharjah, United Arab Emirates.

[C5] Afaq Ahmad, Sayyid Samir Al-Busaidi, Ali Al Lawati, Ahmed Al Maashri and Naser

Tarhuni, “ On Energy Efficient Cryptographic Keys,” National Symposium on

Innovations in Information Technology (NSIIT15), April 28th – 29th , Sohar-Oman 2015.

[C6] Naser Tarhuni, M. Elmusrati, and H. Bourdoucen, and Ali Al-Lawati, “Optical

Polarization Code Divison Multiple Access,” 1st International Conference on Electrical and

Computer Engineering. ICECE 2013 Benghazi-Libya, 26-28 March 2013.

[C7] Naser Tarhuni, Mohammed Salem Elmusrati, Abdulla Ali Abouda, “Two -State

Discretized Transmit Power Control For Ad-Hoc Sensor Networks,” 3rd International


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Congress on Ultra-Modern Telecommunications and Control Systems and Workshops

(ICUMT), Budapest-Hungary , pages 1 - 6, 2011.

[C8] M. Isa, G. M. Hashmi, M. Lehtonen, N. I. Elkalashy, and N. Tarhuni, “Experimental

Evaluation of Rogowski Coil Performance for Locating PD in Energized Overhead

Covered-Conductor Feeder,” Fourteenth International Middle East Power Systems

Conference (MEPCON’10), Cairo, Egypt, December 19-21, 2010.

[C9] Elhaffar, A.M.; Elkalashy, N.I.; Tarhuni, N.G.; Abdel-Fattah, M.F.; Lehtonen, M.,

“Evaluation of probabilistic-based selectivity technique for earth fault protection in MV

networks,” PowerTech, 2009 IEEE Bucharest, June 28-July 2, pp. 1 – 5, 2009.

[C10] Elkalashy, N, Elhaffar A, Abdel-Fattah MF, Tarhuni N, Lehtonen M. “Windowed

Standard Deviation-Based Transient Feature Extraction for Earth Fault Protection in MV

Networks,” Proceedings of the 44th International Universities Power Engineering

Conference, University of Strathclyde, Sep. 2009.

[C11] Abdulla Abouda and Naser Tarhuni, “MIMO Channel Gain Mechanisms Relative to

SISO Channel,” International Conference on Computers, Communications and Power,

ICCCP09, Muscat, 15-18 February 2009.

[C12] Elmoudi A., N Tarhuni, F. Mnif, “Modified Top oil model of Distribution Transformer,”

International Multi-Conference on Systems, Signals and Devices IEEE SSD’09 Djerba,

23-26 March 2009.

[C13] N. Elkalashy, M. Lehtonen, and N. Tarhuni, “DWT and Bayesian Technique for

Enhancing Earth Fault Protection in MV Networks,” IEEE/PES, Power Systems

Conference and Exposition, PSCE2009, 15-18 March 2009, Seattle, Washington, USA.

[C14] Naser Tarhuni, M. Elmusrati, and Riku Jäntti, “Discrete Random Power Allocation for

Wireless Sensor networks,” 5th International Workshop on Signal Processing and its

Applications WoSPA 2008, 18 – 20 March 2008, Sharjah, U.A.E.

[C15] Riku Jäntti, Naser Tarhuni, and, M. Elmusrati, “Random Power Allocation Analysis for a

Sensor Network in Nakagami-m Wireless Channels,” in Proc. Mosharaka Multi‐

Conference on Comm., Networking and Information technology (MM‐CNIT 2007),

Amman‐Jordan, 8‐9 December 2007, 2007, pp. 104-108.

[C16] Mohammed Elmusrati, Naser Tarhuni, and Riku Jäntti, “Random Power Control for

Uncorrelated Rayleigh Fading Channels,” IEEE International Conference on Signal

Processing and Communications, 2007, ICSPC 2007, pp. 360 – 363, 24-27 Nov. 2007.

[C17] Mohammed Elmusrati, Naser Tarhuni, and Riku Jäntti, “Performance Analysis of

Wireless Deaf CDMA Sensor Networks in Fading Channels,” IEEE 65th Vehicular


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Technology Conference, 2007. VTC2007-Spring, pp.189 – 192, 22-25 April 2007.

[C18] Naser Tarhuni, M. Elmusrati, and T. Korhonen, “Nonlinear Power Control for

Asynchronous Fiber-optic CDMA Networks,” IEEE International Conference on Comm.,

ICC 2006, Volume 6, pp. 2782 – 2786, June 2006.

[C19] Naser G. Tarhuni, Mohamed S. Elmusrati, Timo O. Korhonen and Edward Mutafungwa,

“Multi-Access-Interference Mitigation using Power Control in Optical-CDMA Star

Networks,” IEEE International Conference on Communications, ICC 2005, Seoul Korea,

Vol. 3, pp.1593 – 1597, 16-20 May 2005.

[C20] Naser G. Tarhuni and Timo O. Korhonen, “Multi-Weight Multi-Length Strict Optical

Orthogonal Codes,” 6th Nordic Signal Processing Symposium NORSIG 2004, Espoo,

Finland, pp.161-164, June 9-11, 2004.

[C21] M. Elmusrati, N. Tarhuni, R. Jäntti, and H. Koivo, “Distributed Minimum Outage

Removal Algorithm for Multi-Rate CDMA Wireless Communication Systems,” 6th Nordic

Signal Processing Symposium, NORSIG 2004, Espoo, Finland, pp. 256-259, June 9-11,

2004.

[C22] Abouda, N.G. Tarhuni, and H.M. El-Sallabi, “Model-based investigation on MIMO

channel capacity in main street of urban microcells,” Proc. of IEEE International

Symposium on Antennas and Propagation, AP-S 2005, Washington, DC, USA, July 3-8

2005.

[C23] Naser G. Tarhuni, Timo O. Korhonen and Edward Mutwafunga, “Phase encoded Optical

Orthogonal Codes (PE-OOC) for Optical CDMA,” Finnish Signal Processing Symposium

(FINSIG'03), Tampre, Finland, May 2003.

[C24] Naser G. Tarhuni and Timo O. Korhonen “Influence of Environment on Capacity of LOS

City Street MIMO Channel”, URSI/IEEE XXVII Convention on Radio Science, pp. 126-

128, Oct. 2002.

IV. RESEARCH PROJECTS 1) Co-investigator, Smart Grid Pilot Project. 2017. Main investigator is Dr. Nasser

Hosseinzadeh.

2) Principal investigator, SQU Internal grant: “Study and Evaluation of Wireless

Automation”, code no. IG/ENG/ECED/10/03, ended December 2012.

3) Co-investigator, SQU Internal grant: “Dynamics and Control of an Inverted Pendulum

with Delayed Feedback Control: Study and Evaluation of Wireless Communication

Effect”, code no. IG/ENG/ECED/13/03, started January 2013. The main investigator of


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the research work is Dr. Faisal Mnif, with ECE at Sultan Qaboos University.

4) Ella and Georg Ehrnrooth personal grant, Finland, 2007.

5) During my D.Sc. studies, June 2002 – April 2007, I was a member of a research grant

as full time researcher on “Optical Code Division Multiple Access” at the Department

of Communications and Networking, Helsinki University of Technology (currently

known as Aalto University).

V. PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES

Membership IEEE member, IEEE ComSoc

Conference

Program

Committee

Member

1) Program reviewer for Ministry of higher education in Sultanate of Oman, 2016, 2017.

Editorial member of Almadar Journal for Communications, Information Technology,

and Applications AJCITA, since August 2015.

Conference

Program

Committee

Member

Referee for

Several

International

Journals and

Conferences

2) Publication Committee: “International Conference on Computers, Communications

and Power”, ICCCP’09, SQU, Muscat, Oman, 15-18 Feb, 2009.

3) TPC: transmission technologies track, “IEEE 72nd Vehicular Technology Conference

VTC2010-FALL” 6–9 September 2010, Ottawa, Canada.

4) TPC: Electrical Engineering track, “The International Conference on Modeling,

Simulation and Applied Optimization” (ICMSAO’13) April 28-30, 2013, Hammamet,

TUNISIA.

5) Communications track: “International Conference on Electrical and Computer

Engineering”, ICECE 2013, Benghazi, Libya, 26-28, March, 2013.

6) Publication and publicity Committees, “8th IEEE GCC Conference & Exhibition”

IEEE- GCC 2015, February 1-4, 2015, Muscat, Oman.

1) Journal of Lightwave Technology, IEEE/OSA.

2) Transactions on Vehicular Technology, IEEE.

3) Optics Communications Journal, Elsevier.

4) European Transaction on Communication.

5) Journal of Electromagnetic Waves and Applications, JEMWA.

6) Progress in Electromagnetic Research, PIER.

7) The Journal of Engineering Research, TJER.

8) Almadar Journal for Communications, Information Technology, and Applications

AJCITA.

9) IEEE International Conference on Communication ICC.


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10) IEEE Vehicular Technology Conference, VTC.

11) IEEE Int. Symp. On Personal, Indoor and Mobile Radio Communications,

PIMRC.

12) Mosharaka International Conferences.

13) IEEE GCC Conference & Exhibition.

14) International Conference on Electrical and Computer Engineering, ICECE 2013.

15) International Conference on Communications, Signal Processing and their

Applications, ICCSPA'15.

7) 3-rd International Conference on Mechatronics, Electronics and Automation

Engineering ICMEAE2016, Singapore.

16)

5. UNIVERSITY & COMMUNITY SERVICES

I. COMMITTEES AT SULTAN QABOOS UNIVERSITY

2017-Now Chair, ECE department Social activity and students society committee

2015 – FALL 2017 Chair, ECE department Accreditation Committee

2015 – Now Member, ECE department Students society committee

2014 – 2015 Member, ECE department Final Year Project Committee

2013 – 2014 Chair, ECE department Social activity and students society committee

2012 – 2013 Member, ECE department Social activity and students society committee

2012 – 2014 Member, ECE department Accreditation, Curriculum and Time Tabling Committee

(ACTC):

I am extensively involved in the ABET accreditation process handled by this

committee. I am taking care of follow-up, collecting evidences from instructors and

writing evaluation reports for the outcome c in the ABET terminology. I have created

some forms to be used for the assessment of other ABET outcomes. I was also taking

part in Ad-Hoc subcommittees as the work needs.

2010 – 2012

Chair, ECE department Social activity and students society committee:

This committee is taking care of two main tasks:

1) Organizing social events, such as trips, farewell parties, and promotion parties

as well as events at the college level such as the sports day and the Engineering


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day.

2) Supervising students’ societies within the department, such as the IEEE-SQU

and the Mechatronics society. We help students with their IEEE student

memberships. In addition, the committee members are heavily involved in

arranging and facilitating student participation in scientific competitions locally

and internationally. Furthermore, the committee is taking care of organizing

yearly workshops, seminars and training sessions on hardware and software for

its students (members and non-members).

2009 – 2014 Member, ECE department Advising Committee:

Discussing all students’ registration and advising issues. This committee also studies

equivalencies of courses for late students and students transferring to ECE from other

Departments, Colleges, and Universities.

2008 – 2009 Member, ECE publication & web committee:

Taking care of gathering department information and activities. Looking after the

department server. Creating department booklets and annual reports.

II. SPEAKER IN SEMINARS, WORKSHOPS AND CONFERENCES

2017 "Capacity Enhancing Technologies for 5G Mobile Systems" Presented to Al-Madar

Mobile Company Engineers, Libya, 7th August 2017.

2017 "Overview of Optical Communication" Presented to Al-Madar Mobile Company

Engineers, Libya, 9th August 2017.

2017 "5G Mobile Systems: Seeking more capacity vision and challenges" Presented in

Emerging Trends in Telecommunication Technologies and Services- Benefits &

Scope in Oman, 26th April 2017.

2015 "Overview of Optical Communication" Presented to Electronics and Computer

Engineering staff and students at Caledonian College of Engineering, Oman, 2nd April

2015.

2014 “Probabilistic Modeling and Simulation of Virus Outbreaks” Presented to the

Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Sultan Qaboos University, attended by

microbiologist consultants and infectious diseases clinicians, 15th December 2014.

2013 “Optical Code Division Multiple Access” Speaker, 1st International Conference on

Electrical and Computer Engineering. ICECE 2013 Benghazi-Libya 26-28 March


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2013.

2010 “Optical Networking and Optical Code Division Multiple Access” Omer Al-Mukhtar

University, Al-Baida, Libya, Workshop on trends in telecommunication, 15th August

2010.

III. TRAINING COURSES GIVEN 2017 31st Science and Technology Training Course, Sultan Qaboos University, Center for

Community Services & Continuing Education, 17-21 Dec. 2017. The training is a one-

week activity involving topics from diverse areas. I presented a one-day lecture on the

Signals, radar and Satellite and it is usage for military applications. The course

language is Arabic.

2016 30th Science and Technology Training Course, Sultan Qaboos University, Center for

Community Services & Continuing Education, 24-29 Dec. 2016. The training is a one-


Signals, radar and Satellite and it is usage for military applications. The course

language is Arabic.


Community Services & Continuing Education, 30Nov - 4 Dec 2014: The course is a

one-week activity involving topics from diverse areas. I presented a one-day lecture

on the Electromagnetic spectrum and it is usage for military applications. The course

language is Arabic.


Community Services & Continuing Education, 27-31 Oct 2013:

The course is a one-week activity involving topics from diverse areas. I presented a

one-day lecture on the Electromagnetic spectrum and it is usage for military

applications. The course language is Arabic.

2012 1) Training Course, 5 days training course to General Electricity Company of Libya

GECOL:

The course is a 5 day extensive course, which is composed of two parts, the

first titled “Telecommunication Engineering, Back to Basics” and covered

basics of digital communications and wireless communications. The second

part is titled “Optical Networking” which covered full range of optical

networking technologies and devices.

2) 26th Science and Technology Training Course, Sultan Qaboos University, Center


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for Community Services & Continuing Education:

The course is a one-week activity involving topics from diverse areas. I

presented a one-day lecture on the Electromagnetic spectrum and it is usage

for military applications. The course language is Arabic.


Community Services & Continuing Education, 3-7 Nov 2012: The course is a one-


Electromagnetic spectrum and it is usage for military applications. The course

language is Arabic.

IV. ATTENDED WORKSHOPS

2017 ITU Regional Radiocommunication Seminar 2017 (RRS-17-Arab) – Muscat,

Sultanate of Oman, 10-14 December 2017

2017 Keysight Technologies “RF fundamentals & EW and Radar” Muscat, Oman On 22nd

& 23rd March, 2017

2016 Telecommunication Regulatory Authority “ITU/ITSO Face-to-Face Training on

VSAT and Satellite Systems: Broadband over Satellite” Muscat, Oman, 13-17 March

2016.

2016 Dr. Sc. Juha Kontio, “Active Learning Workshop” 17-19 May 2016, Sultan Qaboos

University, Oman.

2014 Nikos Mourtos, “Preparing Engineers for the Globalized Economy: How to teach

Engineering Students Process Skills” 26-28 May 2015, Sultan Qaboos University,

Oman.

2013 “Free & Open Source Software Conference” Participant, Feb 18 -19, 2013, Sultan

Qaboos University, Oman.

2012 Ashly Ater Kranov, “Program Assessment Workshop” held at Sultan Qaboos

University on 14-15 February 2012.

2010 “Optical Communication and Sensing Workshop”

Organized by Sultan Qaboos University and City University, London on 17th January

2010 at Sultan Qaboos University.


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V. NON REFEREED PUBLICATIONS

[1] Naser G. Tarhuni, “What Will be the 5G Mobile Communication Technologies?”

Almadar Journal for Communications, Information Technology, and Applications

AJCITA, vol. 02, no. 01, April 2015, (In Arabic).

[2] Publicizing of 8th IEEE GCC Conference & Exhibition, IEEE- GCC 2015 in local

Omani newspapers by writing short articles in Arabic.

VI. PRE-DOCTORAL DEGREE TECHNICAL TRAINING Five-month training courses with Siemens (Germany) on PLC and SDH Transport

equipment, fiber optics and microwave terminals, and PBX equipment, 1998. The

training is composed of lectures, practical testing and examinations.

VII. OTHER ACTIVITIES I am a member of the SQU staff club. Participating in social events organized by the

club such as the International Night and other activities. I enjoy football, swimming

and table tennis.

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