ECE Research Seminar with Dr. Abdalla- Friday, January 26 1-2pm
January 19, 2024
Please join us for our January 2024 ECE Research Seminar
January 26, 2024, Friday, 12:00 – 1:00 pm, Simrall 104
https://msstate.webex.com/msstate/j.php?MTID=m534c91f4c216422e30568d6a7456f74b
Physical Layer Security with Unmanned Aerial Vehicles for Advanced Wireless Communication Networks
Aly Sabri Abdalla | asa298@ece.msstate.edu
Abstract: The wireless era is new in the history of the modern world, with unprecedented bandwidths and ubiquitous mobility unleashing new applications and capabilities. Significant new use cases for advanced wireless technologies once thought to be science fiction, are the unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs). UAVs are emerging as enablers for supporting many applications and services, such as precision agriculture, search and rescue, temporary network deployment, coverage extension, and security. UAVs are being considered for integration into emerging wireless networks as aerial users or network support nodes, e.g., aerial relays (ARs) or aerial base stations (ABSs). This talk will introduce critical research problems and opportunities for 3D wireless connectivity and present different research projects for enabling advanced wireless research, development, and at scale experimentation with UAVs. Specifically, it will discuss a series of research efforts to leverage UAVs in wireless networks to contribute to physical layer techniques that enhance security performance, specifically the availability, resilience, and confidentiality of advanced wireless networks and services. The communication security implications of terrestrial wireless networks in the presence of eavesdropping are highlighted. The research covers various communication scenarios under practical configurations, including static, mobile, single user, eavesdropper, and multiple users and eavesdroppers. The study items develop mathematical tools and apply machine learning algorithms for jointly optimizing UAV trajectory and communication parameters.
Dr. Aly Sabri Abdalla is a Postdoctoral Researcher in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Mississippi State University. He received his Ph.D. in 2023 from the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Mississippi State University. Previously, he graduated from the Arab Academy for Science and Technology, Egypt, with a BS and MS degree in electrical engineering. His research interests include mobile communications, software radio, spectrum sharing, wireless testbeds and testing, and wireless security with application to mission-critical communications, open radio access networks (O-RAN), unmanned aircraft systems, and reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RISs). He has an impressive publication record with publications in top venues such as IEEE Wireless, IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology, and IEEE Communications Magazine.
* For further information contact: Dr. Jenny Du | du@ece.msstate.edu | 5-2035
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