Cairo University
Electronics & Communications Engineering Department

Dr. Khaled M. Fouad Elsayed

Professional Activities

Patents

United States Patent US5896568 Wireless Architecture Having Redistributed Access Functions
Co-inventor with S. Tseng, K. Basu, and Y. Zhu of Nortel INC. A proposal is directed to wireless access architecture in which a portion of the access function components traditionally located at the cell sites are redistributed using advanced DSP design and state of the art ATM techniques.

European Commission Proposals Evaluator

April 2005/May-June 2003: Participated in evaluating, reviewing, and subsequent hearings of technical research proposals submitted in response to the European Commission Sixth Framework Programme 1^st IST and 3^rd Calls (Systems Beyond 3G).
March 2002: Participated in evaluating and reviewing of technical research proposals submitted in response to the European Commission Fifth Framework Programme 8^th IST Call, Action Lines IV.5.1 Towards Technologies, Systems and Networks Beyond 3G and IV.5.2 Validation of Wireless and Mobile Systems and Technologies.
Feb 2003/Feb. 2004/Feb 2005/Feb 2006: Participated in evaluating and reviewing of technical proposals submitted to the EU TEMPUS 3 for the MEDA countries.

Editorial

IEEE Communications Magazine, Internet Technology Series Editor, 11/1998-12/2002
IEEE Communications Magazine, Global Communications Newsletter-Egypt Correspondent, 1/1999-5/2002

Conference Technical Program Committees

IFIP Conference on Mobile and Wireless Communications Networks (MWCN) 2003 – Technical co-chair.
IEEE ICC 2008 – Wireless Networking Symposium, Beijing, China.
IEEE WCNC 2008.
IEEE International Symposium on Computers and Communications (ISCC) 2007, Portugal.
IEEE Globecom 2006 Control and Management of High Performance Networks Symposium, USA.
IEEE International Symposium on Computers and Communications (ISCC) 2006, Italy.
IFIP Networking 2005, Waterloo, Canada.
The 19^th International TELETRAFFIC CONGRESS, Beijing, China, 2005.
IEEE ICC 2004– Wireless Networking Symposium.
IFIP Networking 2004.
18th International TELETRAFFIC CONGRESS, 2003.
IEEE Globecom 2003 Optical Networking and Systems Symposium.
IFIP Networking 2002.
IEEE International Conference on Computer Communications and Networks (IC3N) 2002.
IEEE International Symposium on Computers and Communications (ISCC) 2002.
IEEE Conference on Mobile and Wireless Communications Networks (MWCN) 2001.
IEEE International Symposium on Computers and Communications (ISCC) 2001.
IEEE International Conference on Computer Communications and Networks (IC3N) 2001.
IEEE Conference on Mobile and Wireless Communications Networks (MWCN) 2000.
IEEE International Symposium on Computers and Communications (ISCC) 2000.
IEEE Globecom’99 High Speed Networking Symposium.
IC-QAWN: The Workshop on "Internet Compatible QoS in Ad hoc Wireless Networks", 2005.

Journals and Conference Reviewer

Participating in peer review process for technical journals and conferences:

Journals

IEEE Transactions on Networking
IEEE Journal in Selected Areas in Communications
IEEE Transaction on Multimedia
Elsevier Computer Networks Journal
IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems
IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology
European Transactions on Telecommunications
Telecommunications Systems Journal (Kluwer Academic Publishers)
Performance Evaluation (Elsevier)
Wireless Personal Communication (Kluwer Academic Publishers)
Stochastic Models (Dekker Publishers)
Journal of Engineering and Applied Science, Cairo University
IEEE Communications Magazine
IEEE Computer

Conferences

IEEE Globecom from 1994 till 2006
IEEE ICC 1997 till 2008
IEEE Infocom 1996, 1997, 2003
IEEE ISCC from 1997 till 2007
IFIP Networking 2005, 2004, 2002, 2000
IFIP PCN 1995

Society Membership

Member of the IFIP TC6.3 workgroup (Performance of Communication Systems).
Senior Member of IEEE, IEEE Communications Society, and IEEE Technical Committees of Computer Communications, Internet, Switching, and Multimedia.

Funded Research and Grants

Analog Devices INC
Grant of US$ 15,000 for constructing an Embedded Computing and Signal Processing Lab.
Date: 6/2005

Analog Devices INC
Grant worth US$ 3,500 of DSP equipment and software.
Date: 9/2004

Schlumberger INC
Grant worth US$ 1,999 of smartcards equipment and software
Date: 9/2004

Analog Devices INC

Grant worth US$ 5,300 of DSP equipment and software.
Date: 6/2002

UNESCO Cairo Office
Title: Interactive Education of Computer Networks Co-investigator with Professor M. El-Hadidi
Date: 11/1998 through 4/2000

North Carolina Supercomputer Center
Title: Versatile Modeling of ATM Networks. Co-investigator with Professor H. G. Perros, NCSU, USA
Date: 11/1993 through 10/94

Last update: December 20, 2007

Cairo University Electronics & Communications Engineering Department Dr. Khaled M. Fouad Elsayed Professional Activities