Essam Sourour

Dr. Essam Sourour, Professor

Alexandria University, Faculty of Engineering

Dept. of Electrical Engineering, Alexandria, Egypt, 21544

email: [email protected] & [email protected]

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PUBLICATIONS

JOURNAL PUBLICATIONS

  1. Mohamed A. Aboulhassan, Essam A. Sourour, Shawki Shaaban. “Novel Cell Selection Procedure for LTE Hetnets Based on Mathematical Modelling of Proportional Fair Scheduling.” International Journal of Wireless & Mobile Networks (IJWMN), Volume 5, No. 6, December 2013
  2. Said M. Elnoubi, Essam Sourour, and Abbas Elshamly, "Performance of Multicarrier CDMA With DPSK Modulation and Differential Detection in Fading Multipath Channels," IEEE Trans. Veh. Tech, VOL. 51, NO. 3, MAY 2002
  3. E. Sourour and M. Nakagawa, “Mutual decentralized synchronization for inter-vehicle communications,” IEEE Trans. Veh. Tech, Vol. 48, No. 6, November 1999, pp. 2015-2027.
  4. Riaz Esmailzadeh, E. Sourour and M. Nakagawa, “Pre-rake diversity combining in time division duplex CDMA mobile communications,” IEEE Trans. Veh. Tech., Vol 48, No. 3, May 1999, pp. 795-801
  5. Wei Huang, E. Sourour and M. Nakagawa, “Cancellation technique used for DS-CDMA signal in nonlinear optical link,” IEICE Trans. Fundamentals, Vol. E80-A, No. 9, September 1997, pp. 1616-1624.
  6. Riaz Esmailzadeh, M. Nakagawa and E. Sourour, “Time-Division Duplex CDMA Communications,” IEEE Personal Communication Magazine, April 1997, pp. 51-56.
  7. E. Sourour and M. Nakagawa, “Performance of orthogonal multi-carrier CDMA in a multipath fading channel,” IEEE Trans. Com., Vol. 44, No. 3, March 1996, pp. 356-367.
  8. Y. Murata, R. Esmailzadeh, K. Takakusaki, E. Sourour and M. Nakagawa, “Path diversity for FFH/PSK spread spectrum communication systems,” IEEE JSAC, Vol. 12, No. 5, June 1994.
  9. E. Sourour, “Time slot assignments techniques for TDMA digital cellular systems,” IEEE Trans. Veh. Tech. Vol. 42, No. 1, February 1994, pp. 121-127.
  10. E. Sourour and S. C. Gupta, “Direct sequence spread spectrum parallel acquisition in nonselective and frequency selective Rician fading channels,” IEEE JSAC., Vol. 10, No. 3, July 1992, pp. 535-544.
  11. E. Sourour and S. C. Gupta, “Direct sequence spread spectrum acquisition in a fading mobile channel,” IEEE Trans. Com., Vol. 38, No. 7, July 1990, pp. 992-998.

CONFERENCE PUBLICATIONS

  1. Mohamed Aboul Hassan, Essam Sourour, Shawky Shaaban, "Novel resource allocation algorithm for improving reuse one scheme performance in LTE networks," 2014 21st International Conference on Telecommunications (ICT), vol. 1, pp.166 to 170, 4-7 May 2014
  2. Mahmoud Elgenedy, Essam Sourour, Magdy Fikri, Mohammed Nafie, "Iterative MMSE-DFE equalizer for the high data rates HF waveforms in the HF channel,"Signals, Systems and Computers, 2013 Asilomar Conference on, vol., no., pp.1243,1247, 3-6 Nov. 2013
  3. Ahmed Wagdy,  Tamer Khattab, Essam Sourour, "Modified QR-D and MMSE PMI selection technique for MIMO closed loop spatial multiplexing in LTE/LTE-advanced,"GCC Conference and Exhibition (GCC), 2013 7th IEEE, vol., no., pp.93,97, 17-20 Nov. 2013
  4. Mahmoud Elgenedy, Essam Sourour, Magdy Fikri, "Iterative Bi-directional Kalman-DFE equalizer for the high data rate HF waveforms in the HF channel," Communications, Signal Processing, and their Applications (ICCSPA), 2013 1st International Conference on , vol., no., pp.1,6, 12-14 Feb. 2013
  5. Karim Banawan, Essam Sourour, "Turbo equalization of precoded collaborative MIMO for the uplink of LTE-advanced," Computing, Networking and Communications (ICNC), 2013 International Conference on , vol., no., pp.988,993, 28-31 Jan. 2013
  6. Nancy Diaa El-Din; Essam Sourour, Karim Seddik, Ibrahim Ghaleb, "Coordinated partial co-channel deployment in two-layer networks," Computing, Networking and Communications (ICNC), 2013 International Conference on , vol., no., pp.1162,1167, 28-31 Jan. 2013
  7. Nancy Diaa El-Din; Essam Sourour, Karim Seddik, Ibrahim Ghaleb, "A modified joint processing technique for Coordinated Multi-Point Transmission in LTE-advanced," Wireless Information Technology and Systems (ICWITS), 2012 IEEE International Conference on , vol., no., pp.1,4, 11-16 Nov. 2012
  8. Karim Banawan, Essam Sourour, " Combined collaborative and precoded MIMO for uplink of the LTE-advanced," Radio Science Conference (NRSC), 2012 29th National , vol., no., pp.523,531, 10-12 April 2012
  9. Mofreh El-Gendy, Essam Sourour, "A study of access methods effect on the performance of two-tier LTE femtocell networks," Radio Science Conference (NRSC), 2011 28th National , vol., no., pp.1,8, 26-28 April 2011
  10. Karim Banawan, Essam Sourour ,"Enhanced SIC and Initial Guess ML Receivers for Collaborative MIMO of the LTE Uplink," Vehicular Technology Conference (VTC Fall), 2011 IEEE , vol., no., pp.1,5, 5-8 Sept. 2011
  11. Hany Ismail, Essam Sourour, "Downlink interference mitigation for two-tier LTE femtocell networks," Radio Science Conference (NRSC), 2011 28th National , vol., no., pp.1,8, 26-28 April 2011
  12. Nancy Diaa El-Din; Essam Sourour, Karim Seddik, Ibrahim Ghaleb., "Femtocells interference avoidance using Femtocell Identification," Radio Science Conference (NRSC), 2011 28th National , vol., no., pp.1,9, 26-28 April 2011
  13. Hamza, A.M.; Sourour, E.; El-Khamy, S.; , "Low Complexity Novel Methods for Initial Timing Synchronization in Mobile WiMAX OFDMA System," Vehicular Technology Conference Fall (VTC 2010-Fall), 2010 IEEE 72nd , vol., no., pp.1-5, 6-9 Sept. 2010
  14. Salwa Serag Eldin, Mohamed Nasr, S. Khamees, Essam Sourour, Mohamed Elbanna, "Performance enhancement of IEEE802.11n wireless LAN using irregular LDPCC,"Wireless and Optical Communications Networks, 2009. WOCN '09. IFIP International Conference on, vol., no., pp.1,5, 28-30 April 2009
  15. Salwa Serag Eldin, Mohamed Nasr, S. Khamees, Essam Sourour, Mohamed Elbanna, "LDPC coded MIMO OFDM-based IEEE 802.11n wireless LAN,"Wireless and Optical Communications Networks, 2009. WOCN '09. IFIP International Conference on, vol., no., pp.1,5, 28-30 April 2009
  16. Essam Sourour, Ayman Elezabi, "Robust Acquisition of Hybrid Direct Sequence-Slow Frequency Hopping Spread-Spectrum under Multi-Tone and Gaussian Interference in Fading Channels," Wireless Communications and Networking Conference, 2008. WCNC 2008. IEEE , vol., no., pp.917-922, March 31 2008-April 3 2008
  17. Islam Atef, N. Sadek, Essam Sourour, "Performance of variable multicodes and space time transmit diversity on mobile internet services using HSDPA," Information and Communications Technology, 2007. ICICT 2007. ITI 5th International Conference on , vol., no., pp.27-32, 16-18 Dec. 2007
  18. Amr Otefa; N. Boghdadly, Essam Sourour, "Performance analysis of 802.11n wireless LAN physical layer," Information and Communications Technology, 2007. ICICT 2007. ITI 5th International Conference on , vol., no., pp.279-288, 16-18 Dec. 2007
  19. Ayman Elezabi, Essam Sourour, "Performance of hybrid direct sequence-slow frequency hopping spread-spectrum acquisition under partial band interference and fading channels," Vehicular Technology Conference, 2005. VTC-2005-Fall. 2005 IEEE 62nd , vol.3, no., pp. 1509-1513, 25-28 Sept., 2005
  20. Essam Sourour; H. El-Ghoroury, D. McNeill, "Frequency offset estimation and correction in the IEEE 802.11a WLAN," Vehicular Technology Conference, 2004. VTC2004-Fall. 2004 IEEE 60th , vol.7, no., pp. 4923-4927 Vol. 7, 26-29 Sept. 2004
  21. Essam Sourour, “Effect of carrier separation with bandwidth limitation on the performance of multi-carrier DS-CDMA systems in multipath fading channels,” Personal, Indoor, Mobile Radio Communications Conference, PIMRC 2001, Sep/Oct 2001, San Diego, California, USA, Page(s): G-17 -G-21 vol.2.
  22. Essam Sourour, "Rake receive performance for CDMA systems with quasi-orthogonal codes and forward link fast power control," VTC'2000, Spring, Tokyo, Japan, May 15-18, 2000, pp. 1470-1474, vol. 2.
  23. Essam Sourour, Gregory Bottomley and Rajaram Ramesh, “Direct Sequence Spread Spectrum Acquisition with sample accumulation in fading channels,” IEEE Veh. Tech. Conference, VTC’99 Fall, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, September 19-22, 1999, pp. 2198-2202.
  24. Essam Sourour and Gregory Bottomley, “Effect of frequency offset on DS-SS acquisition in slowly fading channels,” IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference, WCNC 99, New Orleans, Louisiana, September 21-24, 1999.
  25. Essam Sourour, Gregory Bottomley and Rajaram Ramesh, “Delay tracking for Direct Sequence Spread Spectrum systems in multipath fading channels,” IEEE Veh. Tech. Conference, VTC’99 Spring, Houston, Texas, USA, May 16-19, 1999.
  26. Said El-Khamy, Essam Sourour and Tamer Kadous, “Analysis of incoherent pre-rake TDD/DPSK/CDMA wireless portable communications,” National Radio Science Conference, Feb 24-26, 1998, Helwan, Cairo, Egypt.
  27. Gregory Bottomley, Essam Sourour and Rajaram Ramesh, “Optimizing the performance of limited complexity rake receivers,” IEEE Veh. Tech. Conference, VTC’98, Ottawa, Canada, May18-21, 1998, pp. 968-972.
  28. Essam Sourour, Gregory Bottomley and Rajaram Ramesh, “Direct Sequence Spread Spectrum Acquisition with fast search and parallel verification in a multipath fading channel,” WPMC ’98, Yokosuka, Japan, November 4-6, 1998, pp. 404-409.
  29. Essam Sourour, Tamer Kadous and Said El-Khamy,”The performance of TDD/CDMA systems using pre-rake combining with different diversity techniques and imperfect channel estimation,” 1997
  30. Tamer Kadous, E. Sourour and S. El-Khamy, “Comparison between various diversity techniques of the pre-rake combining in TDD/CDMA,” IEEE Veh. Tech. Conference, VTC’97, Phoenix, Arizona, USA, May 4-7, 1997 pp.2210-2214
  31. E. Sourour and M. Nakagawa, “Mutual decentralized synchronization for inter-vehicle communications,” Proceedings of the Intelligent Vehicles ‘96 conference, Tokyo, Japan, September 18-20, 1996, pp. 272-277.
  32. E. Sourour, “Effect of amplifier non-linearity on the performance of the multi-carrier CDMA system,” IEEE Veh. Tech. Conference, VTC’96, Atlanta, Georgia, April 28-May 1, 1996, pp. 1853-1857.
  33. Wei Huang, Essam Sourour and M. Nakagawa, “A co-channel interference and non-linear distortion cancellation for DS/CDMA in optical link,” ISSSTA’ 96, Mainz, Germany, September 1996, pp. 595-599.
  34. Essam Sourour, “The effect of cellular portable unit amplifier non-linearity on the performance of the multi-carrier CDMA system,” ISSSTA’ 96, Mainz, Germany, September 1996, pp. 1351-1355.
  35. Riaz Esmailzadeh, E. Sourour and M. Nakagawa, “Pre-rake diversity combining in time division duplex CDMA mobile communications,” IEEE Personal, Indoor, Mobile Communications conference, PIMRC’95, Toronto, Canada, September 27-29, 1995, pp. 431-435.
  36. E. Sourour and M. Nakagawa, “Performance of orthogonal multi-carrier CDMA in a multipath fading channel,” IEEE GLOBECOM’94, San Francisco, California, November 28 to December 2, 1994, pp. 390-394.
  37. W. Huang, E. Sourour and M. Nakagawa, “Nonlinear effect of faded DS/CDMA signals in optical transmissions,” International Conference on Information theory and its Applications, ISITA’94, Sydney, Australia, November 20-24, 1994, pp. 115-120.
  38. E. Sourour and M. Nakagawa, “A modified multi-stage co-channel interference cancellation in asynchronous CDMA systems,” IEEE Personal, Indoor, Mobile Communications conference, PIMRC’94, The Hague, The Netherlands, September 18-22, 1994, pp. 425-429.
  39. E. Sourour and M. Nakagawa, “Two stage co-channel interference cancellation in orthogonal multi-carrier CDMA in a frequency selective fading channel,” IEEE Personal, Indoor, Mobile Communications conference, PIMRC’94, The Hague, The Netherlands, September 18-22, 1994, pp. 189-193.
  40. E. Sourour and M. Nakagawa, “Performance of orthogonal multi-carrier CDMA in a nonfading and frequency nonselective fading channels,” International Symposium on Spread Spectrum Techniques and Applications, ISSSTA ’94, July 4-6, 1994, Oulu, Finland, pp. 203-207.
  41. H. M. H. Shalaby and E. Sourour, “Co-channel interference cancellation in optical synchronous CDMA communication systems,” International Symposium on Spread Spectrum Techniques and Applications, ISSSTA ‘94, July 4-6, 1994, Oulu, Finland, pp. 579-583.
  42. E. Sourour, “Time slot assignment techniques for TDMA digital cellular systems,” IEEE Veh. Tech. Conference, VTC’93, Secaucus, New Jersey, May 18-20, 1993, pp. 269-272.
  43. E. Sourour, “Capacity of TDMA digital cellular communication system,” IEEE Veh. Tech. Conference, VTC ‘92, Denver, Colorado, 1992, pp. 1070-1073
  44. H. Tawfik and E. Sourour, “Capacity of dual mode North American cellular system, IEEE Veh. Tech. Conference, VTC ‘92, Denver, Colorado, 1992, pp. 558-561.
  45. Sourour, S. C. Gupta and W. Refai, “Direct sequence spread spectrum serial acquisition in a nonselective and frequency selective fading channels,” IEEE Military Communication Conference, MILCOM ‘90, Monterey, California, Sept. 30 to Oct. 3, 1990, pp. 171-175.
  46. E. Sourour and S. C. Gupta, “Direct sequence spread spectrum parallel acquisition in nonselective Rician fading channels,” Globecom ‘89, Dallas, Texas, Nov. 27-30, 1989, pp. 1629-1633.
  47. E. Sourour and S. C. Gupta, “Direct sequence spread spectrum acquisition in fading mobile channels,” IEEE Veh. Tech. Conference, VTC ‘89, San Francisco, California, 1989.
  48. E. Sourour and S. El-Noubi, “Error analysis of BFSK-FH system with diversity under partial band multiple tone interference,” IEEE Military Communication Conference, MILCOM ‘86, 1986