Conference Papers

Following are conference papers, published by ECE faculty members in 2008:

I.A. Metwally and A. Al-Badi, “Well-Casing Conventional and Pulse Cathodic-Protection Systems: A Comparative Investigation”, Proceedings of 6th Mansoura International Engineering Conference (IEC2008), Sharm El-Sheikh, Egypt, 20 – 23 March 2008, Vol. 3, pp. 51-61.
I.A. Metwally and F. Heidler, “Performance of Single- and Double-Layer Grid-Like Spatial Shield during Direct Lightning Strikes”, 29th International Conference on Lightning Protection (ICLP’ 2008), Uppsala, Sweden, pp. 9b-6-1 - 9b-6-12, 23rd – 26th June 2008.
I.A. Metwally and F. Heidler, “Influence of Line Routing and Terminations on Transient Overvoltages in LV Power Installations”, Proceedings of International Conference on EMC Zurich 2007, Munich, Germany, Sept. 24-28, 2007, Paper No. 68.
A. Boudabous, A. Ben Atitallah, P. Kadionik, L. khriji, N. Masmoudi, “Vector Median Rational Hybrid Filter Implemented in HW/SW Design”, First International Conference on Embedded Systems & Critical Applications ICESCA'08– Tunisia, May 15 -16, 2008.
N. Hamza, F. Touati and L. Khriji, “Novel Wireless bio-Implant with Reverse Telemetry: Prototype design and Implementation”, Les huitièmes journées scientifiques des jeunes chercheurs en Génie Elecrique et Informatique, GEI’2008, Sousse, March 17-19, 2008.
S. Douss, F. Touati, L. Khriji and M. Loulou, “A 3.1-4.8 GHz CMOS mixer design using current bleeding technique for UWB MB-OFDM Receivers”, IEEE International Conference on Signal Processing and Communications, ICSPC 2007, Dubai, United Arab Emirates (UAE), November 24–27, 2007.
A.H. Al-Badi, Issa Al-Zidi, Fahad Al-Amri, Humoud Al-Salmi and Ali AlMaamari,” Estimation of Population Exposure to Transmission Line Magnetic Field”, Industrial Applications of Energy Systems ( I A E S 2 0 0 8 ), Sohar University, Sultanate of Oman, April 1-2, 2008, pp. 35-40.
A. Al-Hinai, and A. H. Al-Badi “Parameters Identification of 11-Phase Torus Generator Using Particle Swarm Optimization Technique”, Proc. of IEEE Power Engineering General Meeting, Pittsburgh, PA, July 20-24, 2008
I.A. Metwally, A. Al-Badi,” Well-casing conventional and pulse cathodic-protection systems: a comparative investigation”, 6th International Engineering Conference, IEC 2008, Sharm El-Sheikh, Egypt, March 18-23, 2008
A. H. Al-Badi, S. M. Ghania, A. H. Kasem and E. F. EL-Saadany, ”Calculation Of Metallic Conductor Voltage Due To Electromagnetic Coupling Using Neural Fuzzy Modeling”, 5th International Conference on Electrical and Electronics Engineering, 5 - 9 December 2007, Bursa – TURKEY, pp. 237-241.
A. Al-Hinai, and A. Feliachi “Microturbines Load Following Controller Design in Deregulated Power Distribution Systems”, Proc. of IEEE Power Engineering General Meeting, Pittsburgh, PA, July 20-24, 2008
A. Al-Hinai, and A. Al-Badi “Parameters Identification of 11-Phase Torus Generator Using Particle Swarm Optimization Technique”, Proc. of IEEE Power Engineering General Meeting, Pittsburgh, PA, July 20-24, 2008
K. Al-Kharusi, T. Al-Abri, H. Al-Harthi, A. Al-Hinai, and S. Al-Hinai “Distributed Generation: Modeling and Simulation,”, Industrial Application of Energy Systems Conference (IAES'2008), Sohar, Oman, April 1-2, 2008
H. Al-Shueili, S. Al-Siyabi, N. Al-Qassabi, and A. Al-Hinai, “Power System Stabilizer Design using PSO for Dynamic Stability Enhancement”, Industrial Application of Energy Systems Conference (IAES'2008), Sohar, Oman, April 1-2, 2008
A. Al-Hinai, and K. El-Metwally “Swarm Optimized Fuzzy Load Frequency Controller”, 6th International Engineering Conference (IEC), Sharm El-Sheikh, Egypt, 20 – 23 March 2008
B. Al-Omari, and A. Al-Hinai “Design of Fuzzy-Swarm Load Frequency Controller for Interconnected Power System”, 4th IEEE GCC Conference and Exhibition, Manama, Bahrain, November 11-14, 2007
A.S. Malik, “Discounting the Future – A Need for a Fresh Look”, SysCon 2008 – IEEE International Systems Conference, Montreal, Canada, April 7-10, 2008.
A.S. Malik, “Mitigating the environmental impact of power generation by demand-side management in power sector of Oman” SysCon 2008 – IEEE International Systems Conference, Montreal, Canada, April 7-10, 2008.
A.S. Malik, T. Izhar and F. Al Mata’ni, “Mitigating the Environmental Impact of Power Generation by Direct Load Control in Industrial Sector of Oman” 2nd International Conference on Electrical Engineering 2008 (ICEE'08), Lahore, Pakistan, March 25-26, 2008.
A.S. Malik, “Impact on power planning due to DSM in commercial and government sectors with rebound effect – A case study of northern grid of Oman” Towards Techno-Industrial Innovations, 4th IEEE-GCC Conference, Manama November, 11-14, 2007.
M. Dhawyani, Q. Mahrooqi, F. Rahbi, A. Kalbani, F. Touati, Z. Nadir, “Improvement in the Efficiency of Class-E Power Amplifier for RF”, The Fifth International Multi-Conference on Systems, Signals and Devices (IEEE SSD'08), 20-23 July, Amman, Jordan.
Zia Nadir, Nazar. Elfadhil, and Farid Touati, “Pathloss Determination using Okumura-Hata Model and Spline Interpolation for missing Data for Oman”, The World Congress on Engineering 2008 (WCE 2008), 2-4 JUuly, London, U.K.
Nabil Hamza, Lazhar Khriji, and Farid Touati, “Co-design implementation of wireless Bio-Implant for Real-time control and monitoring”, The First International Conference on Embedded Systems & Critical Applications (ICESCA’08), March 13-15, Tunis, Tunisia.
Nabil Hamza, Farid. Touati, and Lazhar Khriji, “Novel Bio-implant with Reverse Telemetry: Prototype Design and Implementation”, Premier Atelier International sur les Systèmes d'Ingénierie, Conception & Application (SENDA 2008), Monastir, Tunisia, March 16-18 , 2008.
M. Dhawyani, Q. Mahrooqi, F. Rahbi, A. Kalbani, F. Touati, and Z. Nadir, “Design of High-Efficiency Switching Mode Power Amplifier for RF”, The Fifth International Conference in Electrical Engineering/Electronics, Computer, Telecommunications, and Information Technology (ECTI-CON08), Krabi, Thailand, May 14-17, 2008.
Z. Nadir, N. Elfadhil, F. Touati, “Pathloss Determination using Okumura-Hata Propagation Model Suitable For Salalah-Oman”, The International Conference on Computer & Communication Engineering (ICCCE08), Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, May 13-15, 2008.
Skandar Douss, Farid Touati and Mourad Loulou, “A 3.1-4.8 GHz CMOS mixer design using current bleeding technique for UWB MB-OFDM Receivers”, The 2007 IEEE International Conference on Signal Processing and Communications (ICSPC 2007), Dubai, UAE, November 24–27, 2007.
Skander Douss, Farid Touati, and Mourad Loulou, “A 3.1-4.8 GHz New CMOS Mixer Topology for IEEE 802.15.3a UWB Standard Receivers”, The fifth IEEE International NEWCAS conference (IEEE-NEWCAS 2007), Montreal, Canada, August 5-8, 2007.
N. Elfadhil, Z. Nadir, F. Touati, A. Al-Suliemani, A. Al-Sheili, M. Al-Gharibi, “A Novel approach of Optimized Modeling of a Wireless Network for Al-Khwair Area in Oman”, The Fourth International Conference on Wireless and Optical Communications Networks (WOCN07), Singapore, July 2-4, 2007.
Z. Nadir, N. Elfadhil, F. Touati, B. Suhail, M. Jamal, M. Abdulrahman, “Modification of an Urban area Okumura-Hata Propagation Model suitable for Salalah-Oman”, The International Conference of Electrical Engineering/Electronics, Computer, Telecommunications and Information Technology (ECTI07), Chiang Rai, Thailand, May 9-12, 2007.
Farid Touati, “A 3 to 5 GHz UWB SiGe BiCMOS Low Noise Amplifier”, The International Conference of Sciences of Electronic, Technologies of Information and Telecommunications (SETIT07), Hammamet, Tunisia, March 25-29, 2007.
F. Touati, S. Douss and M. Loulou, “A 3.1-5 GHz CMOS Active Mixer for UWB IEEE 802.15.3a Standard Receivers”, The International Conference on Computers & Communications & Power (ICCCP’07), Oman, February 19-21, 2007.
Hossen, B. Al-Ghunaimi “Identification of Patients with Congestive Heart Failure by Recognition of Sub-Bands Spectral Patterns” Fifth International Conference on Medical Informatics and Biomedical Engineering, Venice, Italy, 2008.
Hossen, “Towards Knowledge Based Diagnosis: Biomedical Signal Classification Expert Systems” Knowledge Based Industries and Nanotechnology Conference, Doha, Qatar, February 2008.
Hossen, “Identification of Obstructive Sleep Apnea using Soft Decision Sub-Band decomposition and Artificial Neural Networks’’, JIBEC 2007, Amman-Jordan, November 2007.
Y. Wu, G. Min, M. Ould-Khaoua, H. Yin, Modelling and Performance Analysis of Torus Interconnection Networks in the Presence of Bursty Traffic with Hot-Spot Destinations, Proc. 14th International Conference on Automation & Computing (ICAC'08), Brunel University, UK, West London, UK on September 6, 2008 (won best paper prize)
S. Al-Humoud, L.M. Mackenzie, M. Ould-Khaoua, J. Abdulai, RAD Analysis of Adjusted Counter-Based Broadcast in MANETs, Proc. 24th UK Performance Engineering Workshop, (UKPEW'08), Imperial College London, July 2008, pp 300–310, ISBN: 978-0-9559703-6
M. Aminu, M. Ould-Khaoua, L.M. Mackenzie, J. Abdulai, Performance Evaluation of an Efficient Counter-Based Scheme for Mobile Ad Hoc Networks based on Realistic Mobility Model, Proc. 2008 International Symposium on Performance Evaluation of Computer and Telecommunication Systems(SPECT' 08), IEEE Computer Society Press, 16 - 18 June 2008, Edinburgh, UK, pp. 181 – 188, ISBN: 1-56555-320-9
J. Abdulai, M. Ould-Khaoua, L.M. Mackenzie, M. Aminu, Neighbour Coverage: A Dynamic Probabilistic Route Discovery for Mobile Ad Hoc Networks, Proc. 2008 International Symposium on Performance Evaluation of Computer and Telecommunication Systems(SPECT' 08), IEEE Computer Society Press, 16 - 18 June 2008, Edinburgh, UK, pp. 181 - 188, ISBN: 1-56555-320-9
M. Moadeli, A. Shahrabi, W. Vanderbauwhede, M. Ould-Khaoua, Modeling differentiated services-based QoS in wormhole-routed NoCs, IEEE 22nd International Conference on Advanced Information Networking and Applications (AINA’ 08), IEEE Computer Society, March 25 - 28, 2008, GinoWan, Okinawa, Japan, pp. 942-949.
M. Dhawyani, Q. Mahrooqi, F. Rahbi, A. Kalbani, F. Touati, Z. Nadir, “Improvement in the efficiency of class-E power amplifier for RF”, IEEE-Multi conference on systems, signals and Devices, SSD-2008, Philadelphia University, Amman, Jordan, July 20-23, 2008.
Z. Nadir, Member IAENG, N. Elfadhil, F. Touati , “Pathloss determination using Okumura-Hata model and spline interpolation for missing data for Oman” World Congress on Engineering, IAENG-WCE-2008, Imperial College, London, United Kingdom, 2-4 July,2008.
N. Elfadhil, Z. Nadir, F. Touati, A. Al-Suliemani, A. Al-Sheili, M. Al-Gharibi, “Designing a Wireless Network For Al-Khuwair Area in The Sultanate of Oman:”, Fourth International Conference on Wireless and Optical Communications Networks, Grand Hyatt Singapore, WOCN 2007 July 2-4, 2007,.
Al-Jabri, K.S., Al-Alawi, S. M.," Modeling the moment-rotation-temperature response of flexible end-plate composite joints using artificial neural networks". Proc.6th International Conference on Steel and Aluminum Structures,ICSAS'07, Oxford Brookes University, 2007, UK.
Al-Jabri, K.S., Al-Alawi, S. M., Al-Nuaimi, A. S., and Al-Saidy, A. H. " An artificial neural network model for predicting the moment-rotation response of flush end-plate bare-steel joints in fire". Proc. 4th International Symposium on steel Structures, November 2006, Seoul, Korea
Tariq Jamil, “Design and Implementation of a Wireless Automatic Meter Reading System” Proceedings of the World Congress on Engineering 2008/International Conference of Computer Science and Engineering (WCE2008/ICCSE), London (United Kingdom), July 2-4, 2008, Vol. I, pp. 217-221.
Tariq Jamil and Hamed Al-Hajry, “Information System Development Methodologies Adoption in the Sultanate of Oman – an Exploratory Study” Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Information Technology and Applications (ICITA 2008), Cairns, Queensland (Australia), June 23-26, 2008, pp. 268-273.
H. Bourdoucen and A. Al-Lawati, "Performance Analysis of FBG Sensors System Embedded in an Optical Communications system", 2008 5th International Conference on Systems, Signals and Devices, July 20-23 - 2008, Amman, Jordan.
A. Alhabsi, H. Bourdoucen, "Improvement of WDM Transmission Performance by Enhancement of Signal Detection", AICT '08: Proceedings of the 2008 Fourth Advanced International Conference on Telecommunications, June 8-13, 2008 - Athens, Greece.
A. Gastli and H. Bourdoucen, "Study And Modeling of PV Arrays Built With Non- Equivalent Units", International Conference on Computer, Communication and Power, ICCCP'07, SQU, Muscat, Feb. 19-21, 2007.
Ahmad, A. and Hayat, L., “Algorithmic Polynomial Selection Procedure for Cyclic Redundancy Check for the use of High Speed Embedded Networking Devices”, ICCCE’08 (International Conference on Computer and Communication Engineering 2008), held at Kulliyyah Engineering, IIUM, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia - on 13-15 May, 2008, Paper ID 283
Ahmad, A., (Invited Paper), “Design of a Low Cost Simulation Environment Platform for Teachings of the Topics of Digital System Testing and Fault-Tolerant Computing”, ICEPEE’08 (International Conference on Engineering Professional Ethics and Education 2008), held at Kulliyyah Engineering, IIUM, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia - on 13-15 May, 2008, Paper ID 64
Ahmad, A., “Investigation of Some Interesting Divisibility Situations in a
Signature Analyzer”, Proceedings ACC'08 Paper American Computing Conference 2008), held at Massachusetts Institute of Technology - MIT, Cambridge, USA, April 21 - April 23, 2008 ID: WSEAS - 576-545
Ahmad, A., (2008), “Are We Equipped To Update Our Knowledge Due To Change of the New ISBN System”, Proceedings ICOET2008 (International Conference of Education Technology 2008), held at Sultan Qaboos University, Oman, March 02 -05, 2008, pp. 1 – 9.
Ahmad, A., and Al-Maashri, A., “Design and Analysis of Newly Innovated Set of Binary code-words of Unitary Hamming Distance”, Proceedings IEEE / IEE international conference on communication, computer and power (.ICCCP'07), Muscat, Oman, Feb. 19 – 21, 2007, pp. 162 – 168.
Ahmad, A., and Mohammed M. Bait Suwailam, Design of an Efficient and Less Memory Requiring Algorithmic Procedure for Computing Gray Codes”, Proceedings IEEE / IEE international conference on communication, computer and power (.ICCCP'07), Muscat, Oman, Feb. 19 – 21, 2007, pp. 172 - 176
Ahmed Alnadabi, Hisham Alriyami, Asaad Elmoudi “Simulation model for estimation of hot spot temperature in power transformers” Conference on industrial applications of energy systems IEAS 2008 1-2 April 2008 Oman
Elmoudi Asaad “Thermal Modeling and Simulation of Distribution Transformers”, IEEE SSD’08 20-23 Jul 2008, Amman, Jordan
Ayman Elnaggar, Mokhtar Aboelaze, “A Unified Framework for Mapping Multidimensional Separable Transforms onto Parallel Structures,” Proc. The 7th IEEE International Conference of SP and IT (ISSP’07), Cairo, Dec 15-18, 2007.
K.A.El-Metwally, “Power System Stabilization Using Swarm Tuned Fuzzy Controller", Proceeding of the 17th IFAC world Congress 2008, Soul, Korea, July 2008.
K.A.El-Metwally, “A Variable Structure Adaptive Fuzzy Logic Stabilizer for a Two Area Load Frequency Control Problem ", Proceeding of the ICMIC 2008 , Shanghai, China, June 2008.
Faïçal Mnif and K.A.El-Metwally, “Particle Swarm Optimization of a Discontinuous Control for a Wheeled Mobile Robot with Two Trailers”, Proceeding of the ICMIC 2008 , Shanghai, China, June2008.
K.A.El-Metwally, “An Adaptive Fuzzy Logic Controller for a Two Area Load Frequency ControlProblem", Proceeding of MEPCON 2008, Aswan, March 2008.
K.A.El-Metwally, " Particle Swarm Optimized Fuzzy Controller for Power System Stabilization", The international Symposium on Intelligent Systems & Applications, INISTA 2007, YILDIZ Technical University, IEEE CIS, Istanbul, Turkey, 20-23 June 2007.
K.A.El-Metwally, and Facial Mnif, “An Optimized Discontinuous Control of Nonholonomic Car-Like Vehicle”, ICCCP'07, SQU, Muscat, 19-21 Feb, 2007.
A. Abdelhafeez, K.A.El-Metwally, and O.A. Mahgoub, “A Photovoltaic Intelligent Power Conditioning Unit For MPPT Using Neural Networks”, 5th International Engineering Conference Sharm El-Shikh, Egypt, 27-31 March 2006.
Mahjoub, S., Mnif, F., Derbel, N. “Variable structure control for set-point stabilization OF 2-DOF underactuated manipulators” 5th International Multi-Conference on Systems, Signals and Devices, 2008. IEEE SSD 2008.
Ghommam, J., Mnif, F., and Saad, M. “Formation Path Following Control of unicycle-type mobile Robots” IEEE, International Conference on Robotics and Automation, ICRA, Los Angeles, 2008.
Ghommam, J., and Mnif, F., ‘’Backstepping Technique for tracking control of an underactuated surface vessel with unmeasured thruster dynamic”, 17th IFAC World Congress, Seoul Korea 2008.
Turki, K Smaoui, M. Thomasset, D. and Mnif, F., “Nonlinear Passivity Based Control Law with Application to Electropneumatic System”, 17th IFAC World Congress, Seoul Korea 2008.
Ghommam, J., Mnif, F., A. BenAli and Poisson, G. ‘Observer design for Euler Lagrange system: Application to path following control of an underactuated surface vessel” IEEE, International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, IROS’2007, Oct. 29- Nov 2, San Diego.
Ghommam, J., Mnif, F., A. BenAli and Derbel, N ‘Formation Control of a group of underactuated ships” OCEANS'07 IEEE/MTS, Aberdeen, Scotland, 18-21 June 2007.
Mnif, F., “Nonlinear Control of Underactuated Underwater Vehicle”, Fourth IEEE International Conference on Systems, Signals & DevicesSSD'07, Hammamet, Tunisia, 21-24 March 2007.
Ghommam, J., Mnif, F., and Derbel, N ‘’Guidance Based Path following Control for an Underactuated Ship” Fourth IEEE International Conference on Systems, Signals & DevicesSSD'07, Hammamet, Tunisia, 21-24 March 2007.
Ghommam, J., Mnif, F., and Derbel, N ‘’Robust Path Following Control of Underactuated Ships” Fourth IEEE International Conference on Systems, Signals & DevicesSSD'07, Hammamet, Tunisia, 21-24 March 2007.
Ghommam, J., Mnif, F., and Derbel, N ‘’Formation Control Based Path Following: Application to a Double Integrator Fourth IEEE International Conference on Systems, Signals & DevicesSSD'07, Hammamet, Tunisia, 21-24 March 2007.

Following are conference papers, published by ECE faculty members in 2007:

Safaei F., Khonsari A., Fathi M., Ould-Khaoua M., Performance modelling of fault-tolerant circuit-switched communication networks, Proc. International Symposium on Parallel Computing in Electrical Engineering (PARELEC’06), IEEE Computer Society Press, Białystok, Poland, September 13-17, 2006, pp. 239-244, ISBN: 0-7695-2554-7.
Al-Dubai Y., Ould-Khaoua M., Romdhani I., On high performance multicast algorithms for interconnection networks, Proc. 2006 International Conference on High Performance Computing and Communications (HPCC’06), Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol. 4208, Springer-Verlag, Munich, Germany, September 13-15, 2006, pp. 330-339, ISBN: 3-540-39368-4.
Bani Yassein M., Ould-Khaoua M., Mackenzie L.M., Papanastasiou S., Performance evaluation of adjusted probabilistic broadcasting in MANETs, Proc. 2nd International Symposium on Dependable Autonomic and Secure Computing (DASC’06), IEEE Computer Society Press, Indianapolis, Indiana, USA, 29 Sept. - 1 Oct. 2006, pp. 245-249, ISBN:0-7695-2539-3.
Bani Yassein M., Ould-Khaoua M., Mackenzie L. M., Papanastasiou S., Jamal A., Improving route discovery in on-demand routing protocols using local topology information in MANETs, Proc. ACM International ACM International Workshop on Performance Monitoring, Measurement, and Evaluation of Heterogeneous Wireless and Wired Networks (PM2HW2N’06), ACM Press, Torremolinos (Malaga), Spain, October 2-6, 2006, 95 – 99, ISBN: 1-59593-502-9.
Ahmad A., and Al Maashri A., "On Behavior of Sequence Patterns Generated with(1 + xn) Characteristic Polynomial in an External Exclusive-OR Type LFSRs",Paper ID number: 519-207 - The 5th WSEAS International Conference on CIRCUITS, SYSTEMS, ELECTRONICS, CONTROL & SIGNAL PROCESSING, Dallas,USA, 1-3 November 2006.
Al-Maashri A., and Ould-Khaoua M., “Performance Analysis of MANET Routing Protocols in the Presence of Self-Similar Traffic”, in the Proceedings of the 2nd IEEE International Workshop on Performance and Management of Wireless and Mobile Networks, in conjunction with the 31st IEEE Conference on Local Computer Networks, Tampa, Florida, USA, 14-17 November 2006.
Touati F., Loulou M., and Bouzid M., “A 3 to 5 GHz UWB SiGe HBT Low Noise Amplifier”, The 18th International Conference on Microelectronics (ICM06), IEEE sponsored, KFUPM, Daharan, Saudi Arabia, December 16-19, 2006.
Gastli A. and Metwally I.A., “Computation of Eddy-Current Density on ESP Motor and Well Casings under Different Operating Conditions”, Middle East Power Systems Conference (MEPCON' 06), El-Minia University, Egypt, 19-21 Dec. 2006.
Ahmed A., and Al Maashri A., “DESIGN AND ANALYSIS OF AN IMPROVED SETOF BINARY CODE-WORDS OF UNITARY HAMMING DISTANCE” in Proceedings ofthe International Conference on Communication, Computer and Power, Muscat,Oman, 19-21 February 2007.
Al-Mandhary H., Metwally I.A., Nadir Z., Gastli A., and Maqrashi A. A., “Modeling of Stray–Current Corrosion in ESP Well Casings and Adjacent Catholically Protected Pipelines”, ICCCP07, Muscat, OMAN 19-21 February, 2007.
Alzeidi N., Khonsari A.,. Ould-Khaoua M, Mackenzie L. M., Performance analysis of adaptively-routed wormhole-switched networks with finite buffers, IEEE International Conference on Communications (IEEE ICC’ 07), IEEE Communication Society, Glasgow, UK, June 24-28, 2007.
Elfadhil N., Nadir Z., Touati F., Al-Suliemani A., Al-Sheili A., Al-Gharibi M., “Designing a Wireless Network For Al-Khuwair Area in The Sultanate of Oman:”, Fourth International Conference on Wireless and Optical Communications Networks, WOCN 2007 July 2-4, 2007, Grand Hyatt Singapore.
Habli M. A., Dynamic Measurement for Water Percentage in Oil Using Piezo-Resistive Sensor, ICMSAO’07, Abu Dhabi, UAE, March 2007.
Habli, MA, "Quarter wave retarders for Dense Wave Division Multiplexing ", SPIE, San Jose, CA, USA, January 2007.
Jamil T. and Ali U, “Effects of multiple-bit shift-right operations on complex binary numbers,” Proceedings of the IEEE SoutheastCon 2007, Richmond, Virginia (USA), March 22-25, 2007, pp. 759-764.
Moadeli M., Shahrabi A., Vanderbauwhede W., Ould-Khaoua M., An analytical performance Model for the spidergon NoC, Proc. IEEE 21st International Conference on Advanced Information Networking and Applications (AINA’ 07), IEEE Computer Society, Niagara Falls, Canada, May 21-23, 2007.
Nadir Z., Elfadhil N., Touati F., Suhail B., Jamal M., Abdulrahman M., Modification Of An Urban Area Okumura-Hata Propagation Model Suitable For Salalah-Oman, 4th annual International conference on Electrical Engineering/ Electronics, Computer, Telecommunications and Information Technology (ECTI-CON2007), Chiang Rai, -Thailand, 09-12May, 2007.
Papanastasiou S., Ould-Khaoua M., Charissis V., The effect of the RTS/CTS handshake on TCP, Proc. IEEE 21st International Conference on Advanced Information Networking and Applications (AINA’ 07), IEEE Computer Society, Niagara Falls, Canada, May 21-23, 2007.
Safaei F., Khonsari A., Fathy M., Shafiei H., Khosravipour S., Ould-Khaoua M., On Quantifying Fault Patterns of the Mesh Interconnect Networks, Proc. IEEE 21st International Conference on Advanced Information Networking and Applications (AINA’ 07), IEEE Computer Society, Niagara Falls, Canada, May 21-23, 2007.
Safaei F., Khonsari A., Fathi M., Shantia A. H., Ould-Khaoua M., Evaluating the performance of adaptive fault-tolerant routing, Proc. 21st IEEE International Parallel & Distributed Processing Symposium (IPDPS’07), IEEE Computer Society Press, Rhodes Island, March 24-30, 2007.
B. Al-Omari, and A. Al-Hinai “Design of Fuzzy-Swarm Load Frequency Controller for Interconnected Power System”, 4th IEEE GCC Conference and Exhibition, Manama, Bahrain, November 11-14, 2007.
B. Al-Hadabi, A. Al-Oissi, A. Al-Hinai, M. Al-Lawati, and A. Al-Lawati, “Design and Implementation of a Power System Stabilizer for Power System Dynamic Stability Enhancement”, Industrial Application of Energy Systems Conference (IAES'2007), Sohar, Oman, April 3-4, 2007.
A. Al-Nadabi, H. AL-Riyami, A. Elmoudi, and A. Al-Hinai, “Design of Simulation Tool to Predict the Thermal Behavior of Power Transformers”, Industrial Application of Energy Systems Conference (IAES'2007), Sohar, Oman, April 3-4, 2007.
A. H. Moosa, K. Ellithy, and A. S. Al-Hinai “Optimal Shunt Capacitors Allocation in Distribution Networks Using Genetic Algorithm- Practical Case Study”, International Conference on Communication, Computer and Power (ICCCP'07), Muscat, Oman, February 19-21, 2007.
B. S. Al-Omari, and A. S. Al-Hinai “Design of PID-Swarm Load Frequency Controller of Interconnected Power System”, International Conference on Communication, Computer and Power (ICCCP'07), Muscat, Oman, February 19-21, 2007.
S. A. Soliman, and A. S. Al-Hinai “Fuzzy Systems Applications for Identification of Harmonic Loads and their Contribution”, International Conference on Communication, Computer and Power (ICCCP'07), Muscat, Oman, February 19-21, 2007.
Al-Hinai and A. Feliachi, “Impact of Microturbines on Load Following Control in Deregulated Power Distribution Systems,” Ninth IASTED International Conference on Power and Energy Systems (PES 2007), Clearwater, Florida, USA, January 3 – 5, 2007.
F.S. Al Mata’ni and A.S. Malik, “Load Management in Industrial Sector and its Impact on Power Planning – A Case Study of Oman” International Conference on Communication, Computer and Power, ICCCP’07, Muscat, 19-21 February 2007.
M. Ould-Khaoua, B. Caminero (Editors), Proceedings of the ACM International Workshop on Monitoring, Measurement, and Evaluation of Heterogeneous Wireless and Wired Networks (PM2HW2N’06), in conjunction with ACM MSWiM’06, Torremolinos, Malaga, Spain, Oct. 2-6, 2006, ISBN:1-59593-502-9.
Skander Douss, Farid Touati, and Mourad Loulou, “A 3.1-4.8 GHz New CMOS Mixer Topology for IEEE 802.15.3a UWB Standard Receivers”, The fifth IEEE International NEWCAS conference (IEEE-NEWCAS 2007), Montreal, Canada, August 5-8, 2007.
Farid Touati, “A 3 to 5 GHz UWB SiGe BiCMOS Low Noise Amplifier”, The International Conference of Sciences of Electronic, Technologies of Information and Telecommunications (SETIT07), Hammamet, Tunisia, March 25-29, 2007.
Farid Touati, Skander Douss and Mourad Loulou, “A 3.1-5 GHz CMOS Active Mixer for UWB IEEE 802.15.3a Standard Receivers”, The International Conference on Computers & Communications & Power (ICCCP’07), Oman, February 19-21, 2007.
F. A. Shiginah and B. P. Zeigler, "AN efficient Cellular DEVS Modeling Environment," International Conference on Communication, Computer and Power (ICCCP'07), Muscat, Oman, February 19-21, 2007.
I.A. Metwally, A. Gastli, A. Al-Bimani, H.M. Al-Mandheri, and A. Al-Hinai, “Stray-Current Corrosion Study of PDO’s ESP Systems”, 24th ESP Workshop, The Woodlands, Texas April 23 – 27, 2007.
Amir M. Arshad Abdulghani, “H.263 Video Transmission in Wireless Local Area Networks using OPNET”, International Conference on Wireless Networks (ICWN ‘06), Las Vegas, USA, June 26-29, 2006.
A.H. Al-Badi, K. A.Ellithy, W. Machczynski “Computation of the Induced Potential on Pipeline Caused by Power Transmission Lines During both Normal and Fault Conditions”, Computer Applications in Electrical Engineering, Part II, 2006, pp. 256-267.
A.H. Al-Badi, E.F. EL-Saadany “Safe Separation Distance Between 132kv Power Lines and Nearby Metallic Conductors”, Int. Conf. on Communication, Computer and Power (ICCCP'07, Muscat, Oman, Feb. 2007, pp. 447-450.
E.F. El-Saadany, H. H. Zeineldin and A.H. Al-Badi” Distributed Generation: Benefits and Challenges”, Int. Conf. on Communication, Computer and Power (ICCCP'07, Muscat, Oman, Feb. 2007, pp. 115-119.
Ahmad, A., and Mohammed M. Bait Suwailam, Design of an Efficient and Less Memory Requiring Algorithmic Procedure for Computing Gray Codes”, Proceedings IEEE / IEE international conference on communication, computer and power (.ICCCP'07), Muscat, Oman, Feb. 19 – 21, 2007, pp. 172 – 176, ISSN: 1813 – 419X.
Ahmad, A., Dawood Al-Abri and Majed Mahmoud Al-Ramhi, Presented and Published in the Proceedings of Int’l Conf. ICODE2006, 2006, pp 1-8.
Joshi M.D., Ahmad, A., and Jervase, J.A., “Status and Accuracy in InSAR in Subsedence Monitoring of Oil and Gas Fields", Proceedings of Indian Conference on Mine Surveying (ICMS-2006) at Indian School of Mines Dhanbad, India, pp. 65-75

Following are conference papers, published by ECE faculty members in 2006:

Amir. M. Arshad Abdulghani, “H.263 Video Transmission in Wireless Local Area Networks using OPNET”, International Conference on Wireless Networks (ICWN'06), Las Vegas, USA, June 26-29, 2006.
M. Aboelaze, and A. Elnaggar "Reducing Memory References for FFT Calculation," Proc. of the IEEE International Conference on Computer Design (ICCD' 06), Las Vegas, June 26-28, 2006.
A. Ahmad, and A. Al-Maashri, (November 1 – 3, 2006) "On Behavior of Sequence Patterns Generated with (1 + xn) Characteristic Polynomial in an External Exclusive-OR Type LFSRs", Paper ID number: 519-207 - The 5th WSEAS International Conference on CIRCUITS, SYSTEMS, ELECTRONICS, CONTROL & SIGNAL PROCESSING, Dallas, USA.
A. H. Al-Badi, M. A. Salam "Computation of the Capacitive Coupling in Conductors Installed nearby AC Power Lines" IEEE PES Transmission and Distribution Conference and Exposition Latin America, Venezuela, August 2006.
A A. M. Al-Naamany, H. Bourdoucen, J. A. Jervase, and M. Elzain, "Partial Distance Learning Training for Information Technology Education Trainers", 19th IFIP World Computer Congress 2006, Santiago, Chile 20-25 August 2006.
A. M. Al-Naamany, H. Bourdoucen, J. A. Jervase, and M. Elzain, "Raising Training Quality and Industrial Efficiency via Retraining of the Teachers", The 2006 ASAHIL Conference on Education for Sustainable Development, Penang, Malaysia, 19-22 June 2006.
A. M. Al-Naamany, H. Bourdoucen, J. A. Jervase, and M. Elzain, "Training the Trainer through Partial Distance Learning Approach", ICODE 2006, Muscat 27-29 March 2006.
A. Elnaggar, M. Aboelaze, and M. Musleh, "A New Call Admission/Degradation protocol for Wireless Networks," Proceedings of The World Scientific and Engineering Academy Informatics and Communications (AIC'06), Greece, Agugust 18-20, 2006.
A. Boudabbous, L. Khriji, N. Masmoudi, “Real Time Implementation of the Vector Directional Distance Rational Hybrid Filter”, 3rd IEEE International Symposium on Image/Video Communications over fixed and mobile networks, Hammamet, Tunisia, September 13-15, 2006.
M. A. Fatmi, A. Al-Yahmadi, L. Khriji and N. Masmoudi, “A Fuzzy Logic Based Navigation of a Mobile Robot”, International Conference on Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE2006), Barcelona, Spain, October 22-24, 2006.
عبدالناصر حسين، عبدالواحد هجو، عثمان عبدالله ساتي“تعريب التعليم الهندسي- المعوقات والحلول”
الندوة الوطنية السادسة للمسؤولين عن تعريب التعليم العالي في الوطن العربي 4-6 نوفمبر 2006 جامعة السلطان قابوس
A. Hossen, B. Al Ghunaimi, “ Identification of Congestive Heart Failure using Soft Decision Sub Band Decomposition and Artificial Neural Networks", presented in the Second International Symposium on Communications, Signal Processing, Marrakech, Morroco, March 2006.
T. Jamil and U. Ali, “An Investigation into the effects of multiple-bit shift-left operations on (-1+j)-base representation of complex numbers,” Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Computer and Communication Engineering (ICCCE’06), Kuala Lumpur (Malaysia), May 9-11, 2006, Vol. I, pp. 549-554.
A.S. Malik, A. Al-Khrousi, M. Al-Hindi and Y. Al-Mahrouqi, "Demand-Side Management Energy Saving Potential in Commercial and Governmental/Institutional Sectors and its Impact on Power Planning – A Case Study of Central Grid of Oman" 2nd International Green Energy Conference, Oshawa, June 25-29, 2006.
I.A. Metwally, H. M. Al-Mandheri, Z. Nadir and A. Gastli, “Influence of cathodic-protection on DC stray-current corrosion of electrical submersible pumps”, 5th Mansoura International Engineering Conference, Sharm El-Sheikh, Egypt, 27-31 March 2006.
A. Gastli and I.A. Metwally, “Computation of Eddy-Current Density on ESP Motor and Well Casings under Different Operating Conditions”, Middle East Power Systems Conference (MEPCON' 06), El-Minia University, Egypt, 19-21 Dec. 2006.
A. Abdelhafeez, K.A.El-Metwally, and O.A. Mahgoub, “A Photovoltaic Intelligent Power Conditioning Unit For MPPT Using Neural Networks”, 5th International Engineering Conference, Sharm El-Shikh, Egypt, 27-31 March 2006.
A. Al-Maashri, and M. Ould-Khaoua, “Performance Analysis of MANET Routing Protocols in the Presence of Self-Similar Traffic”, in the Proceedings of the 2nd IEEE International Workshop on Performance and Management of Wireless and Mobile Networks, in conjunction with the 31st IEEE Conference on Local Computer Networks, Tampa, Florida, USA, 14-17 November 2006
J. Ghommem, Mnif, F., and Derbel, N., ‘’Backstepping Technique for the Tracking Control of an Underactuated Surface Vessel,’’ 7th IFAC Conference on Maneuvering and Control of Marine Craft (MCMC’2006), Portugal.
Al-Wahaibi S. Al-Ouafi, N., and Mnif, F., ‘’New Tuning Rules for PI Controller with transient performances,’’ 3rd International Symposium on Mechatronics, AUS, Sharjah (UAE), 2006.
N. El-Fadhel, Nick. “A Secure Foundation for Mobile Payments" IEEE-WOCN2006, The third IEEE and IFIP International Conference on wireless and Optical Communications Networks. The Next Generation of Mobile, Wireless and Optical Communications Networks. Information and Communications Technologies and Application to E- and M- Commerce. April 11, 12 and 13, 2006, Bangalore, India.
N. El-Fadhel, Nick, Omidyar. “Smart Cards and Internet for a secure foundation for mobile payments”. The Second International Conference In Central Asia on Internet, The Next Generation of Mobile, Wireless and Optical Communications Networks Information and Communications Technologies with Application to E- and M- Commerce September 19 - 21, 2006,
MA. Habli, “Online Measuring Device for Water Constitute in Oil”, 5th International Engineering Conference, Egypt, 2006.
F. Touati, M. Loulou and M. Bouzid, “A 3 to 5 GHz UWB SiGe HBT Low Noise Amplifier”, The 18th International Conference on Microelectronics (ICM06), IEEE sponsored, KFUPM, Daharan, Saudi Arabia, December 16-19, 2006.

Following are conference papers, published by ECE faculty members in 2005:

A.H. Al-Badi "Factors affecting the level of Electromagnetic Coupling on Pipelines close to OHTLs", Accepted in International Conference on Intelligent Systems (ICIS-2005), Malaysia, Dec. 2005.
A.H. Al-Badi" Comparative Investigation of Pipeline Voltage Located Close to Overhead Transmission Lines and Cables- Practical Case Study", Int. Conf. on Modeling, Simulation and Visualization methods, MSV'05, June 27-30, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA.
A. H. Al-Badi, I.A. Metwally "Induced Voltages on Pipelines Installed in Corridors of AC Overhead Transmission Lines", Int. Conf. On Communication, Computer and Power (ICCCP'05), Muscat, Oman, Feb. 2005, pp. 21-24, Sponsors by IEEE and IEE.
A. H. Al-Badi, K. Ellithy, S. Al-Alawi "Prediction Of Induced Voltages On Mitigated Gas Pipelines Installed In Hvac Power-Line Corridors Using An Artificial Neural Network", Int. Conf. on Communication, Computer and Power (ICCCP'05), Muscat, Oman, Feb. 2005, pp. 462-468, Sponsors by IEEE and IEE.
A. H. Al-Badi, A. Gastli, G. Jervase "GA-Based Motor Parameters Identification", Int. Conf. on Communication, Computer and Power (ICCCP'05), Muscat, Oman, Feb. 2005, pp. 469-474, Sponsors by IEEE and IEE.
A. Gastli and M.M. Ahmed “Intelligent Dual-Converter Controlled DC Motor Drive” Proceeding of the International Conference on Communication, Computer and Power (ICCCP’05), Muscat, Oman, February 14-16, 2005, pp. 426-431.(ISSN: 1813-419X)
A. Al Ismaili, K. Al Amri and A.S. Malik, “Electric Power Planning Under Uncertainty – A Case Study of Generation Expansion Planning in Oman” International Conference on Communication, Computer and Power, ICCCP’05, Muscat, 14-16 February 2005.
F. Mnif and A. Gastli, “ANN-Based Force/Motion Control of Constrained Robot Manipulators” Proceeding of the International Conference on Communication, Computer and Power (ICCCP’05), Muscat, Oman, February 14-16, 2005, pp. 121-125. (ISSN: 1813-419X)
Mahmoud Meribout, “A new embedded hardware architecture for global motion estimation in MPEG-4”, Proceeding IEEE Conference CAMP 2005, Italy.
Ghommem, J., Mnif, F., BenAli, A, and Derbel, N., “Asymptotic backstepping Stabilization of an Underactuated Surface Vessel, Accepted in IEEE Conference on Decision and Control and European Control Conference, Spain 2005.
Ghommem, J., Mnif, F., and Derbel, N., Path Following for Underactuated marine craft Using Line of Sight Algorithm, accepted in International Conference in Machine Intelligence, ACIDCA-ACM ’2005.
Ghommem, J., Mnif, F., BenAli, A, and Derbel, N., “Dynamic Properties and Stabilization of Underactuated Surface Vessels’’, Third IEEE International Conference on Systems, Signals & Devices SSD'05.
A. Al-Badi and I.A. Metwally, “Induced Voltages on Pipelines Installed in Corridors of AC Overhead Transmission Lines”, International Conference on Communications, Computer and Power (ICCCP’ 2005), SQU, Muscat, Oman, Feb. 14-16, 2005.
I.A. Metwally, A. Gastli and A.S. Al-Bimani, “Factors Affecting Stray-Current Corrosion of Electrical Submersible Pump Assembly”, 8th Inter. Conf. on Chemistry and its Role in Development (ICCRD'8), Mansoura-Sharm El-Sheikh, April 11-14, 2005 (Abstract + Poster).
K. Gohary, A.S. Al-Bemani, A. Al-Mahrouqi, A. Al-Busaidy , K. Ellithy and I.A. Metwally, “ESP Power Quality Check: Field Case Study”, Electric Submersible Pump Workshop, Waterway Marriott and Conference Center, Woodlands, Texas, USA, April 27-29, 2005.
I.A. Metwally and F. Heidler, “Computation of collection area and probability of lightning strikes to structures using the electrogeometric model”, VIII International Symposium on Lightning Protection, Paper 49, São Paulo, Brazil, 21st-25th November 2005.
I.A. Metwally, A. Al-Maqrashi, S. Al- Sumry and S. Al-Harthy, “Performance improvement of 33kV line-post insulators in harsh environment”, Middle East Power Systems Conference (MEPCON' 05), Suez Canal University, Port Said, Egypt, 13-15 Dec. 2005.
Farid Touati, "High-performance 0.35-um SiGe LNAs for High Data Transfer Between Physical Agents in Multiagent Systems for Search and Rescue", The International Conference on Intelligent Systems (ICIS-05), IEEE sponsored, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, December 1-3, 2005 (accepted).
Lazhar Khriji and Farid Touati, “Noise Adaptive Vector Rational Hybrid Filters”, submitted to the second Internat. Conf. on Machine Intelligence (ACIDCA-ICMI'2005), Tozeur, Tunisia, November 5 – 7, 2005 (accepted).
Farid Touati, “New Designs of Gain-Controlled Low-Power SiGe UWB LNAs For Wireless Communications”, The International Conference on Computers & Communications & Power 2005, SQU, Oman, February 14-16, 2005.
Zia Nadir, Nazar El Fadhil M. A. Salam,"Performance evaluation and statistical analysis of TEM/GTEM cells at high frequencies" 2nd annual International conference on Electrical Engineering/ Electronics, Computer, Telecommunications and Information Technology (ECTI-CON2005), pp. 807-810, Pattaya, -Thailand, 12-13 May, 2005.
P.K. Shadhu Khan, M. A. Salam, J.K. Chatterjee, “Transient Behavior of a Current Controlled Solid-state Lead-lag var Compensator, “International Conference on Communication, Computer & Power (ICCCP’05), pp. 420-425, ISSN 1813-419X, Muscat, Oman, 2005.
Hussein Ahmed, Abu Bakar Sidik, M. A. Salam, “On Silicon Rubber Insulator Testing using In-house Developed Contamination Chamber”, International Conference on Communication, Computer & Power (ICCCP’05), pp. 36-39, ISSN 1813-419X, Muscat, Oman, 2005.
Saleh Sanussi, “Rational Function Data Fitting for Filter Design,” International Conference on Communication, Computer & Power (ICCCP’05), Muscat, February, 2005.
Tariq Jamil and Usman Ali, “Effects of shift-left operations on complex binary numbers,” Proceedings of the 18th Annual Canadian Conference on Electrical and Computer Engineering, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan (Canada), May 1-4, 2005, pp. 1951-1954.
Usman Ali, Tariq Jamil, and Sadaf Saeed, “Effects of shift-right operations on binary representation of complex numbers,” Proceedings of the International Conference on Communication, Computers and Power (ICCCP’05), Muscat (Oman), Feb 14-16, 2005, pp. 238-243.
N. Elfadhil, M.A. salam, A. Al-Lawati, O. Al-Qasmi, M. Al-Gheithi, Z. Nadir “MODIFICATION OF an Open area Okumura-Hata Propagation Model SUITABLE FOR Oman”, accepted for IEEE-TENCON, 2005, Australia.
Lazhar Khriji and Farid Touati, “Noise Adaptive Vector Rational Hybrid Filters”, "Accepted" 2nd Int. Conf. on Machine Intelligence (ACIDCA-ICMI'2005), Tozeur, Tunisia, Nov.5–7, 2005.
L. Khriji, “Detection and Removal of Impulsive Noise in Color Images”, IEEE-IEE International Conference on Communication Computer and Power ‘‘ICCCP’05’’, Muscat, OMAN, Feb.14-16, 2005.
A. Hossen, F. Al-Wadahi, “A Two-Stage Network for Classification of Modulation Signals Based on Entropy of Wavelet Transform”, SETIT 2005, Tunisia, March 2005. SETIT 2005, March 2005, Tunisia.
F. Al-Wadahi, A. Hossen, “A Simple Efficient Method for Digital Modulation Level Classifier”, ICCCP’05, SQU, Oman, Feb. 2005.

Following are conference papers, published by ECE faculty members in 2004:

A. Al-Lawati and H. Bourdoucen, “Fiber Bragg Grating Sensing Systems Performance Improvement and Assessment”. The 2004 International Conference on MEMS, NANO and Smart Systems, IEEE Computer Society ISBN 0-7695-2189-4, August 2004, pp.155-159.
H. Bourdoucen, A. Gastli, “Analytical Modelling and Computer Simulation of Interconnected Panels and Arrays used in PV Applications”, Accepted for presentation at the 8th Arab International Solar Energy Conference and The Regional World Renewable Energy Congress, Bahrain, 8-10 March, 2004.
H. Bourdoucen, " Modulation Formats: Effects on Performance of High Speed WDM Transmission Systems ", YSRF conference, Sana'a, Yemen, 11-13 October, 2004.
A. Al Lawati and H. Bourdoucen, 2004 “Improved performance of WDM multiplexed fiber Bragg grating sensing systems”, International Conference on MEMS, NANO, and Smart System, ICMENS2004, Banff, Alberta, Canada, Aug 25-27, 2004.
M. M. Bait Suwailem and Z. Chen, “Simulation of Lorentzian DNG Materials Using FDTD Method and Z-transform,” Special session on Bianisotropic and metamaterials, ACES Annual Review of Progress in Computational Electromagnetics, Syracuse, NY, April 19-23, 2004.
M. M. Bait Suwailem and Z. Chen, “FDTD Modeling of Lorentzian DNG Meta-materials With the Z-transform,” Sent for 3rd International conference on Computational Electromagnetics and Its Applications, ICCEA2004, November 1-4, 2004, Beijing, China.
I.A. Metwally, A. Gastli, M.M. Ahmed, A. Al-Badi, M.M. Hassni, “Comparative Investigations of Surge Arrester Performance under Pollution Conditions”, Accepted for presentation at the First International Conference on Materials, IMS, American University of Sharjah, UAE, January 20-22, 2004.
A.H. Al-Badi, Issa Al-Amri “Interference Analysis and Mitigation of AC Voltages on Gas Pipelines Installed in AC corridors” International conference on Electrical Engineering (ICEE’04), Sapporo, Japan, July 4-8,2004, pp.419-424.
Nazar E. Mohamed, Z. Nadir, M. A. Salam. “Signal Strength Prediction for reliable cellular network design by using path loss”. Proceeding of First international conference on wireless and optical communication networks (WCON). Oman June 2004. Vol. 1, pp. 284-287.
M. Salam, Nazar. Mohammad, Z. Nadir, A. Maqrashi, A. Al Kaf. “Measurement of Conductivity and Equivalent Salt Deposit Density of Contaminated Glass Plate” Proceeding of IEEE Region 10 International Conference on Electrical & Electronic Technology (TENCON 2004). Volume C, p.p. 268-270. Thailand, Dec. 2004.
Ahmad A., Al-Lawati A., and Al-Balushi J. M., (2004) “Design of an Efficient Signature Analyzer for BIST Model with Minimal Hardware requirements”, 8th IEEE/ IEE International Symposium On Consumer Electronics, University of Reeding, U.K., Sept 1 – 3, 2004.
I.A. Metwally, A. Gastli, M.M. Ahmed, A. Al-Badi and M.M. Hassni, "Comparative investigations of surge arrester performance under pollution conditions", First International Conference on Materials, IMS, American University of Sharjah, UAE, January 20-22, 2004.
Nazar E. Mohamed, Z. Nadir, M. A. Salam. “Signal Strength Prediction for reliable cellular network design by using path loss”. Proceeding of First international conference on wireless and optical communication networks (WCON). Oman June 2004. Vol. 1, pp. 284-287.
M. Salam, Nazar. Mohammad, Z. Nadir, A. Maqrashi, A. Al Kaf. “Measurement of Conductivity and Equivalent Salt Deposit Density of Contaminated Glass Plate” Proceeding of IEEE Region 10 International Conference on Electrical & Electronic Technology (TENCON 2004). Volume C, p.p. 268-270. Thailand, Dec. 2004.
Ahmad A., Al-Lawati A., and Al-Balushi J. M., (2004) “Design of an Efficient Signature Analyzer for BIST Model with Minimal Hardware requirements”, 8th IEEE/ IEE International Symposium On Consumer Electronics, University of Reeding, U.K., Sept 1 – 3, 2004.
Mnif, F., An Adaptive Control Scheme for Nonholonomic Mobile Robot with Parametric Uncertainty, 10th International Symposium on Robotics and Applications - World Automation Congress, WAC-ISORA 2004, Espagne, 28 June-1st July 2004.
Mnif, F., Recursive Backstepping Stabilization of a Wheeled mobile Robot, 1st IEEE-EURASIP Symposium on Control, Communications, and Signal Processing, ISCCPS 2004, Hammamet, Tunisia. March 22-24 2004.
Mnif, F., Stabilization of Nonholonomic Wheeled Mobile Robot, 1er IEEE Congrès International de Signaux Circuits et Systèmes, Monastir, Tunisia. 18-21 March 2004.
Md. Abdus Salam, , Nazar El Fadhil, Zia Nadir, Ali Al Maqrashi and Ahmad Al-Kaf “Measurement of Conductivity and equivalent salt deposit densityof contaminated class plate”, IEEE- TENCON2004-Thailand, 21-24 November, 2004 Thailand.
Farid Touati “Low-Noise Low-Power Gain-Controlled 0.35 μm SiGe UWB Amplifiers for Wireless Sensor Network”, The First IFIP International Conference on Wireless and Optical communications Networks by Sultan Qaboos University, Al-Bustan Palace, Muscat, Oman, June 7-9, 2004
A. Ahmad, Z. Nadir & A. Khan,“FPGA Based Design of Faster PN Generators for the Use of CDMA applications”, First IFIP International Conference on Wireless and Optical Communications Networks WOCN 2004 June 7-9, 2004, pp Sultan Qaboos University Muscat, Oman.
Nazar El Fadhil, Zia Nadir Md. Abdus Salam, Oman, “Signal Strength Prediction for Reliable Cellular Network Design by Using Path loss”, First IFIP International Conference on Wireless and Optical Communications Networks WOCN 2004 June 7-9, 2004, pp. 284-287, Sultan Qaboos University Muscat, Oman.
Mokhtar Aboelaze, Ayman Elnaggar, “Performance Evaluation of a Call Admission Control Protocol for Cellular Networks,” To appear in Proc. of The 2004 International Conference on Wireless Networks (ICWN'04), June 21-24, 2004, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA
A.S. Malik, S. Al Zubeidi “Electricity Tariffs Based on Long-Run Marginal Costs for Central Grid System of Oman” Power-Gen Middle East Conference, Bahrain, 13-15 September 2004.
A.S. Malik and A. Awsanjli, “Energy Fuel Saving Benefit of a Wind Turbine” paper accepted for publication in 12th IEEE Mediterranean Electrotechnical Conference, MELECON 2004, Dubrovnik, 12-15 May 2004.

I.A. Metwally, A. Gastli, M.M. Ahmed, A. Al-Badi and M.M. Hassni, "Comparative investigations of surge arrester performance under pollution conditions", First International Conference on Materials, IMS, American University of Sharjah, UAE, January 20-22, 2004.
I.A. Metwally, A. Gastli, M.M. Ahmed, A. Al-Badi and M.M. Hassni, "Factors affecting transient overvoltages in direct on-line long-cable fed motors", 4th Mansoura International Engineering Conference, Sharm El-Sheikh, Egypt, April 13-15, 2004.
I.A. Metwally and F. Heidler, "Induced voltages in AC overhead power lines and shared-corridor pipelines during normal operation and lightning strikes", 27th International Conference on Lightning Protection (ICLP’ 2004), Avignon, France, Sept. 13-16, 2004.
M. A. Salam, Nazar Mohammad, Zia Nadir, Ali Al Maqrashi, Ahmed Al Kaf, “Measurement of Conductivity and Equivalent Salt Deposit Density of Contaminated Glass Plate” accepted in IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Systems and Technologies for the next Millennium, TENCON 04, Chiang Mai, Thailand, 21-24 November 2004.
Nazar El Fadhil, Zia Nadir, Md. Abdus Salam, “Signal Strength Prediction for Reliable Cellular Network Design by Using Path loss”, First IFIP International Conference on Wireless and Optical Communications Networks WOCN 2004 June 7-9, pp. 284-287, 2004, Sultan Qaboos University Muscat, Oman.
M. Al-Sawafi and J. A. Jervase, “Multi-user Detection Using Genetic Algorithm in Code Division Multiple Access (CDMA) Communication Systems”, presented at Communication Network Systems Research (CNSR 2004), New Brunswick, Canada, May 2004.
Lazhar Khriji “Impulsive Noise Detection and Removal in Color Images”, Eighth Maghrebian Conference on Software Engineering and Artificial Intelligence MCSEAI’04, 9 - 12 May 2004 Sousse, TUNISIA..
Hossen, S. Al Hamimi and H. Goswami, “Wavelet-Based Image Compression with Bits Allocation Algorithm and Perceptual Weighting”, 2nd IEEE-GCC Conference, Manama, Bahrain, 23-25 November 2004.
S. Sanussi, and C. Omidyar "ISI-free Matched Filter Design for Enhanced Data Rates in GSM," The First IFIP International Conference on wireless and Optical Communications Networks (WOCN’04), Muscat, Oman June 2004.