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Ahmed K. Sultan Salem

Instructional Professor

Computer, Electrical and Mathematical Science and Engineering Division

ahmed.salem@kaust.edu.sa

Education Profile

  • Ph.D., Stanford University, 2007
  • M.Sc., Alexandria University, 2000
  • B.Sc., Alexandria University, 1997

Research Interests

​Energy harvesting, cognitive radio technology, dynamic spectrum access, cooperative communications, distributed and sequential detection, physical layer-based secrecy, OFDM for optical communications, remote sensing and synthetic aperture radar (SAR).

Selected Publications

  • Ahmed El Shafie, Ahmed K. Sultan Salem, Ioannis Krikidis, Naofal Al-Dhahir and Ridha Hamila,"Achievable Rates of Buffer-Aided Full-Duplex Gaussian Relay Channels," IEEE Access, vol. 5, pp. 23776-23791, 2017.
  • Hesham ElSawy, Ahmed K. Sultan Salem, Mohamed-Slim Alouini and Moe Z. Win, "Modeling and Analysis of Cellular Networks using Stochastic Geometry: A Tutorial," IEEE Communications Surveys and Tutorials, vol. 19, no. 1, pp. 167-203, First Quarter 2017.
  • Fatma Benkhelifa, Ahmed K. Sultan Salem, and Mohamed-Slim Alouini, "Sum-Rate Enhancement in Multiuser MIMO Decode-and-Forward Relay Broadcasting Channel with Energy Harvesting Relays," IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications, vol. 34, no. 12, pp. 3675-3684, Dec. 2016.
  • Rawan Naous, Mohammad Zidan, Ahmed K. Sultan Salem, and Khaled Salama,"Pilot assisted readout for passive memristor crossbars," Microelectronics Journal, vol. 54, pp. 48—58, 2016.
  • Ahmed K. Sultan Salem, "Sensing and Transmit Energy Optimization for an Energy Harvesting Cognitive Radio," IEEE Wireless Communications Letters, vol. 5, no. 5, pp. 500—503, October 2012.