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Abdullah Halafi

About Abdullah Halafi

Abdullah Halafi

  • Ph.D., Electrical and Computer Engineering

communication systems underwater wireless optical networks wireless sensor networks

Abdullah Halafi obtained his Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering under the supervision of Professor Basem Shihada at Networking Research Lab in King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST), in 2018. Abdullah Al-Halafi received the B.Sc. degree in electrical engineering from the King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals, Saudi Arabia, in 2003, the M.Sc. degree in electronics and electrical engineering from the University of Glasgow, U.K., in 2006. He was involved in engineering and project management of various large-scale communications and control systems projects at

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2014

  • Underwater Video Communications

    Wed, Jan 1 2014 - Tue, Jan 1 2019

    underwater video communications

    In this project, we aim at understanding and addressing buffering and packet scheduling requirements when data from multiple VLC links needs to be aggregated across an acoustic network.

2012

  • Perpetual Wireless Sensor Networks

    Sun, Jan 1 2012 - Sun, Jan 1 2017

    wireless sensor networks

    In this project, we tackled the dense deployment and energy efficient operation of sensor systems in underwater and terrestrial environments.

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  • Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE)
  • Networking Research Lab (NETLAB)

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  • Publications on IEEE Xplore
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