Mohammed Abo-Zahhad

Bio: Mohammed Abo-Zahhad is an academic researcher from Egypt-Japan University of Science and Technology. The author has contributed to research in topics: Wireless sensor network & Wavelet. The author has an hindex of 24, co-authored 125 publications receiving 1917 citations. Previous affiliations of Mohammed Abo-Zahhad include Assiut University & Jordan University of Science and Technology.

A Novel Biometric Approach for Human Identification and Verification Using Eye Blinking Signal

Abstract: In this letter, a novel technique is adopted for human recognition based on eye blinking waveform extracted from electro-oculogram signals. For this purpose, a database of 25 subjects is collected using Neurosky Mindwave headset. Then, the eye blinking signal is extracted and applied for identification and verification tasks. The pre-processing stage includes empirical mode decomposition to isolate electro-oculogram signal from brainwaves. Then, time delineation of the eye blinking waveform is utilized for feature extraction. Finally, linear discriminant analysis is adopted for classification. Based on the achieved results, the proposed system can identify subjects with best accuracy of 97.3% and verify them with an equal error rate of 3.7%. The obtained results in this letter confirm that eye blinking waveform carries discriminant information and is therefore appropriate as a basis for human recognition task.

An energy consumption model for wireless sensor networks

Abstract: Energy consumption and energy modeling are important issues in designing and implementing of Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs), which help the designers to optimize the energy consumption in WSN nodes. Good knowledge of the sources of energy consumption in WSNs is the first step to reduce energy consumption. Therefore, an accurate energy model is required for the evaluation of communication protocols. In this paper, we provide an energy model for WSNs considering the physical layer and MAC layer parameters by determining the energy consumed per payload bit transferred without error over AWGN channel. We show how the transmission power must be chosen in order to achieve energy-efficient communications over AWGN channel. We also find that, for each modulation scheme, there are optimal transmission power at which the energy consumption is minimized. Moreover, we investigated the energy saving gained from optimizing the constellation size.

Genomic Analysis and Classification of Exon and Intron Sequences Using DNA Numerical Mapping Techniques

Abstract: Using digital signal processing in genomic field is a key of solving most problems in this area such as prediction of gene locations in a genomic sequence and identifying the defect regions in DNA sequence. It is found that, using DSP is possible only if the symbol sequences are mapped into numbers. In literature many techniques have been developed for numerical representation of DNA sequences. They can be classified into two types, Fixed Mapping (FM) and Physico Chemical Property Based Mapping (PCPBM ( . The open question is that, which one of these numerical representation techniques is to be used? The answer to this question needs understanding these numerical representations considering the fact that each mapping depends on a particular application. This paper explains this answer and introduces comparison between these techniques in terms of their precision in exon and intron classification. Simulations are carried out using short sequences of the human genome (GRch37/hg19). The final results indicate that the classification performance is a function of the numerical representation method.

Wavelet transforms and the ECG: a review.

Abstract: The wavelet transform has emerged over recent years as a powerful time-frequency analysis and signal coding tool favoured for the interrogation of complex nonstationary signals. Its application to biosignal processing has been at the forefront of these developments where it has been found particularly useful in the study of these, often problematic, signals: none more so than the ECG. In this review, the emerging role of the wavelet transform in the interrogation of the ECG is discussed in detail, where both the continuous and the discrete transform are considered in turn.

Coded Communication over Fading Channels

Abstract: In studying the performance of coded communications over memoryless channels (with or without fading), the results are given as upper bounds on the average bit error probability (BEP). In principle, there are three different approaches to arriving at these bounds, all of which employ obtaining the so-called pairwise error probability , or the probability of choosing one symbol sequence over another for a given pair of possible transmitted symbol sequences, followed by a weighted summation over all pairwise events. In this chapter, we will focus on the results obtained from the third approach since these provide the tightest upper bounds on the true performance. The first emphasis will be placed on evaluating the pairwise error probability with and without CSI, following which we shall discuss how the results of these evaluations can be used via the transfer bound approach to evaluate average BEP of coded modulation transmitted over the fading channel.