• Professor, Qatar
  • Maersk Oil Qatar Professor in STEM Leadership
Hussein Alnuweiri

Educational Background

  • Ph.D., University of Southern California – 1989
  • M.S.E.E., King Fahd University of Petroleum & Minerals – 1984
  • B.A.S., King Fahd University of Petroleum & Minerals – 1983

Research Interests

    • Advanced computing structures
    • Application-specific parallel and multi-processing architectures
    • Configurable computing
    • High-speed digital design, parallel and distributed algorithms
    • Wireless and sensor networks
    • Scheduling theory
    • Traffic engineering
    • Quality-of-service mechanisms in wired and wireless networks

Selected Publications

  • A. Mohamed and H. M. Alnuweiri, "Cross-layer Optimal Rate Allocation for Heterogeneous Wireless Multicast", Elsevier Journal on Ad hoc Networks.
  • T. Khattab, and H. M. Alnuweiri, "Optical CDMA for All-Optical Sub-Wavelength Switching in Core GMPLS Networks", IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Comm.(JSAC), Vol.25 No.5 June 2007.
  • A. Mohamed and H. M. Alnuweiri, "Cross-Layer Distributed Approach for Optimal Rate Allocation for Homogeneous Wireless Multicast". IET (IEEE) Communications Journal, special Issue on Wireless Mobile Networks: Cross-Layer Communication, April 2007.
  • M. Elkashlan, T. Khattab, H. M. Alnuwieri, "Statistics of General Order Selection in Correlated Nakagami Fading Channels", to appear in IEEE Transactions on Communications, 2008.
  • Y. Pourmohammadi Fallah and H. M. Alnuweiri, "Hybrid Polling and Contention Access Scheduling in IEEE 802.11e Wireless LANs", Invited Paper, Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing, Elsevier, Vol. 67, Issue 2, Feb. 2007, pp. 242-256.
  • Kaheel and H. M. Alnuweiri, "A New Analytical Model for Computing Blocking Probability in Optical Burst Switching Networks", IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Comm.(JSAC), vol. 24, No. 12, December 2006, pp. 120-128.
  • H. Tayyar and H. M. Alnuweiri, "Analysis of Virtual-Time Complexity in Weighted Fair Queuing", Journal of Computer Communications, 28. 2005, pp. 802-810.
  • Y. Pourmohammadi Fallah, P. Nasiopoulos, H. Alnuweiri, "Scheduled and Contention Access Transmission of Partitioned H.264 Video over WLANs", IEEE Globecom 2007.