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
Contact me about:
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 webpage- Al Homssi, B.,Hourani, A.,Chandrasekharan, S.,Gomez Chavez, K.,Sithamparanathan, K. (2020). On the Bound of Energy Consumption in Cellular IoT Networks In: IEEE Transactions on Green Communications and Networking, 4, 355 - 364
- Chan, H.,Gomez Chavez, K.,Rudolph, H.,Hourani, A. (2020). Hierarchical routing protocols for wireless sensor network: a compressive survey In: Wireless Networks, 26, 3291 - 3314
- Hourani, A.,Ristic, B. (2020). MapperBot/iSCAN: open-source integrated robotic platform and algorithm for 2D mapping In: International Journal of Intelligent Robotics and Applications, 4, 44 - 56
- Hourani, A. (2020). On the Probability of Line-of-Sight in Urban Environments In: IEEE Wireless Communications Letters, 9, 1178 - 1181
- Hourani, A. (2020). (In Press) Interference Modeling in Low-Altitude Unmanned Aerial Vehicles In: IEEE Wireless Communications Letters, , 1 - 4
- Skaria, S.,Hourani, A.,Evans, R.,Sithamparanathan, K.,Parampalli, U. (2019). Interference mitigation in automotive radars using pseudo-random cyclic orthogonal sequences In: Sensors, 19, 1 - 2
- Hourani, A.,Haenggi, M. (2019). Performance of Next-Generation Cellular Networks Guarded With Frequency Reuse Distance In: IEEE Transactions on Communications, 67, 7277 - 7287
- Hewa Ranchagoda, N.,Sithamparanathan, K.,Ding, M.,Hourani, A.,Gomez Chavez, K. (2019). Diversity Based Coverage Improvement for Air-to-Ground Wireless Channels In: Proceedings of the 2019 IEEE International Conference on Wireless for Space and Extreme Environments (WiSEE 2019), Ottawa, ON, Canada, 16-18 October 2019
- Li, Z.,Sithamparanathan, K.,Giorgetti, A.,Hourani, A.,Magowe, K. (2019). Directional antenna channel modeling in urban area using ray tracing In: ITU Journal: ICT Discoveries, 2, 1 - 8
- Sun, S.,Wang, X.,Moran, B.,Hourani, A.,Rowe, W. (2019). Radio Source Localization Using Received Signal Strength in a Multipath Environment In: Proceedings of the 22th International Conference on Information Fusion (FUSION 2019), Ottawa, Canada, 2-5 July 2019
Wireless communications, Stochastic geometry, Aerial networks (UAV Communications), Radar systems, Satellite communications, Millimeter-wave technology, Quantum Communications.
1 PhD Completions and 1 Masters by Research Completions17 PhD Current Supervisions and 1 Masters by Research Current Supervisions
- Distributed Autonomous Spectrum Management (DUST). Funded by: Defence CRC in Trusted Autonomous Systems - Contract from (2019 to 2023)
- 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)
- Autonomous platform for remote aerosol-based threat neutralisation and soldier countermeasure therapeutics. Funded by: Defence Science Insitute (DSI) Grant for Scholarships from (2018 to 2022)