Research Interests

• Green and energy efficient wireless communications.
• Energy-aware cognitive radio systems.
• Performance analysis of cooperative communications.
• Impact of channel uncertainties, interferences and finite-rate feedback on wireless communications.

Selected Publications

• R. Mesleh, S. S. Ikki, and O. Amin, “Multi-hop relaying systems in the presence of co-channel interference over Nakagami-m fading channels," IET Commun., vol. 8, issue 4, pp. 483-491, Mar. 2014.
• O. Amin, and L. Lampe, “Opportunistic energy-efficient cooperative communication,” IEEE Wireless Commun. Lett., no. 1 , vol. 5 , Oct. 2012.
• O. Amin, S. S. Ikki and M. Uysal, “Adaptive bit loading for multi-relay cooperative orthogonal frequency division multiple with imperfect channel estimation,” IET Commun.,  vol. 6, issue 12, pp. 1821-1828, Aug. 2012.
• O. Amin, and M. Uysal, “Adaptive power loading for multi-relay OFDM Regenerative networks with relay selection,” IEEE Trans. Commun., vol. 60, no. 3, pp. 614-619, Mar. 2012.
• O. Amin, S. S. Ikki and M. Uysal, “On the performance analysis of multi-relay cooperative diversity systems with channel estimation errors,” IEEE Trans. Veh. Technol., vol. 60, no. 5, pp. 2050-2059, Jun. 2011.

Education Profile

• Ph.D., electrical and computer engineering, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, ON, Canada, Jan. 2007 – Dec. 2010.
• Certificate of university teaching (CUT) from the University of Waterloo, Canada, Jan. 2009 – Dec. 2010.
• M.Sc., electrical engineering, Assiut University, Assiut, Egypt, Sep. 2001 – Jun. 2004.
• B.Sc., electrical engineering, Aswan University, Aswan, Egypt, Sep. 1995 – Jun. 2000.

Professional Profile

Scientific and Professional Memberships

Awards

• University of Waterloo graduate scholarship.
• Research incentive award at University of Waterloo.
• Approved for industrial natural sciences and engineering research council of Canada (NSERC).
• Meritorious candidate for visiting fellowship award in Canadian government laboratories. 

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