STAFF PROFILE
Dr Akram Hourani
Position:
Senior Lecturer
College / Portfolio:
School of Engineering Cluster
School / Department:
Electronic and Telecommunications Eng
Phone:
99259640
Email:
akram.hourani@rmit.edu.au
Campus:
Melbourne City Campus
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Research supervision
Dr Akram Hourani's main research areas are: wireless communications, stochastic geometry, aerial networks, and radar systems.
View more at Dr Hourani’s: Google Scholar | Personal webpageWork Experience
- Engineering / Program Manager ICT (2006 - 2013)
- PhD researcher (2013-2016)
- Research fellow, The university of Melbourne (2016)
- Lecturer, RMIT University (2016 - Current)
Research Projects Involvement
- SmartCities Project "Intelligent asset management in community partnership” with the councils of: St. Kilda, Brimbank, Kingston- Role Chief Investigator
- "Yarra Valley Water Project: wireless communication for next generation digital water meters". Role: Chief Investigator.
- ABSOLUTE: Europe-Union FP-7 Project. Public safety and disaster recovery communication solutions. Role: PhD Researcher
- Australian Research Council Discovery Project Grant "Cognitive Radars for Automobiles", ARC grant number DP150104473. Role: Research Fellow (UniMelb)
Honors and awards
- Certificate of Achievement for “excellent teaching performance”, School of Engineering, RMIT University, 2018
- Senior member at the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineering (SMIEEE)
- High Achiever in the Student Choice Teaching Award for RMIT Collage of Science, Engineering and Health (2015).
- First Prize Award for the Best Presentation, RMIT Higher Degree Research Conference (2014).
Current PhD Students
- Signal processing for next generation miniature radar systems
- Energy consumption modelling and optimization for wireless IoT networks
- Next generation IoT-over-Satellite and UAV
Course Coordination
- EEET2368 Network Fundamentals and Applications (2018)
- EEET1086 and EEET1148 Network Access Systems (2018)
- EEET2370 and EEET2371 Wireless Sensor Networks and IoT (2019)
- Bachelor of Engineering in Communication and Electronics, Beirut Arab University, Beirut, Lebanon (2006)
- Doctor of Philosophy (Wireless Communications), RMIT University, Melbourne, Australia (2016).
Dr Hourani has more than 8 years of industry experience prior joining academia, he worked as a radio and network planning engineer for mobile telecom industry, and then as an ICT Program / Engineering Manager for many projects spanning over different technologies including mobile networks deployment, satellite networks, and railway communication systems, in his roles Dr Hourani combined both managerial and technical skills for excellent project delivery and business acquisition.
Industry technical skills
- ICT systems design and architecture (Wireless Networks, Indoor and outdoor RF Planning, Satellite Systems)
- Bidding and cost estimation
- Embedded systems research and development
Industry managerial skills
- Business development
- Program and project management
- Corporate strategic planning
- Skaria, S.,Hourani, A.,Lech, M.,Evans, R. (2019). Hand-Gesture Recognition Using Two-Antenna Doppler Radar With Deep Convolutional Neural Networks In: IEEE Sensors, 19, 3041 - 3048
- Chan, C.,Kurnia, F.,Hourani, A.,Gomez Chavez, K.,Sithamparanathan, K.,Rowe, W. (2019). Open-Source and Low-Cost Test Bed for Automated 5G Channel Measurement in mmWave Band In: Journal of Infrared, Millimeter, and Terahertz Waves, 40, 535 - 556
- Hourani, A.,Evans, R.,Sithamparanathan, K.,Moran, W.,Eltom, H. (2018). Stochastic Geometry Methods for Modeling Automotive Radar Interference In: IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems, 19, 333 - 344
- Hourani, A.,Gomez Chavez, K. (2018). Modeling cellular-to-UAV path-loss for suburban environments In: IEEE Wireless Communications Letters, 7, 82 - 85
- Al Homssi, B.,Hourani, A.,Evans, R.,Gomez Chavez, K.,Sithamparanathan, K.,Rowe, W.,Loney, M. (2018). Free Spectrum for IoT: How Much Can It Take? In: Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Communications Workshops (ICC Workshops 2018), Kansas City, Missouri, United States, 24-29 May 2018
- Wang, S.,Chandrasekharan, S.,Gomez Chavez, K.,Sithamparanathan, K.,Hourani, A.,Asghar, M.,Russello, G.,Zanna, P. (2018). SECOD: SDN sEcure COntrol and Data Plane Algorithm for Detecting and Defending DoS Attacks In: Proceedings of the 2018 IEEE/IFIP Network Operations and Management Symposium (NOMS 2018), Taipei, Taiwan, 23-27 April 2018
- Manzoor, B.,Hourani, A.,Gomez Chavez, K.,Sithamparanathan, K.,Ding, M. (2018). 2D versus 3D Geometric Modelling for Massive Access Networks in 5G-IoT Applications In: Proceedings of�the 12th�International Conference on Signal Processing and Communication Systems (ICSPCS 2018), Cairns, Australia, 17-19 December 2018
- Chandrasekharan, S.,Sithamparanathan, K.,Gomez Chavez, K.,Hourani, A.,Reynaud, L.,Gourhant, Y. (2018). Terminal Cooperation using Game Theory for Energy Efficiency in Radio Access Networks: A Simulation Based Performance Analaysis In: Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Computer and Communication Engineering (ICCCE 2018), Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, 19-20 September 2018
- Al Homssi, B.,Hourani, A.,Gomez Chavez, K.,Chandrasekharan, S.,Sithamparanathan, K. (2018). Energy-Efficient IoT for 5G: A Framework for Adaptive Power and Rate Control In: Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Signal Processing and Communication Systems (ICSPCS 2018), Cairns, Australia , 17-19 December 2018
- Sun, S.,Wang, X.,Moran, B.,Hourani, A.,Rowe, W. (2017). Maximum Likelihood Indoor Localization of a WiFi Radio Transmitter with Structural Knowledge In: Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Signal Processing Systems 2017, Auckland, New Zealand, 27-30 November 2017
Wireless communications, Stochastic geometry, Aerial networks (UAV Communications), Radar systems, Satellite communications, Millimeter-wave technology, Quantum Communications.
11 PhD Current Supervisions and 2 Masters by Research Current Supervisions
- Distributed Autonomous Spectrum Management (DUST). Funded by: Defence CRC in Trusted Autonomous Systems - Contract from (2019 to 2022)
- Wireless systems for vehicular access, security and safety. Funded by: Automotive Engineering Graduate Program from (2019 to 2021)
- Northern Melbourne Smart Cities Network, enabling data to drive change (administered by City of Whittlesea). Funded by: Smart Cities and Suburbs Program - 2017 onwards from (2019 to 2020)
- Intelligent asset management in community partnership. Funded by: Smart Cities and Suburbs Program - 2017 onwards from (2018 to 2019)