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Professor Sana Salous, BEE MSc PhD FIET SMIEEE

Chair of Communications Engineering in the School of Engineering and Computing Sciences

Telephone: +44 (0) 191 33 42532

Room number: E480 (Christopherson)

Biography

Professor Salous started her academic career in 1984-1988 as an Assistant Professor at Yarmouk University, Jordan. After working at Liverpool University as Research Associate, in 1989 she joined the Department of Electrical Engineering & Electronics at UMIST as a lecturer, where she was promoted to Senior Lecturer in 2000 and Reader in 2002. In 2003 she joined Durham University where she currently holds the Chair in Communication Engineering.

International Vice Chair of Commission C on Radiocommunication Systems and Signal Processing of the International Union of Radio Science, (URSI)
Associate Editor of Radio Science, American Geophysical Union
Associate Editor of Communications Systems, John Wiley

Research Groups

Electronics Research Group

Research Interests

Design of channel sounder and radar systems
Radio channel characterisation for onbody and small cells at 60 GHz
Radio channel measurements in 2-6 GHz bands
Radio propagation studies for long range communications via slywave
Wireless communications for mobile radio applications

Teaching Areas

Digital and Radio Communication
Signal Processing

Selected Publications

Conference papers

N. Abbasi, S.D. Gunashekar, E.M. Warrington, S. Salous, S.M. Feeney, L. Bertel, D. Lemur & M. Oger (2009), Capacity estimation of HF MIMO systems, 11th International Conference on Ionospheric Radio Systems and Techniques. Edinburgh, IET, UK.

Edited works: conference proceedings

S.D. Gunashekar, E.M. Warrington, S Salous, S.M. Feeney, N.M. Abbasi, D. Lemur and M. Oger
(2009).
The use of heterogeneous antenna arrays in experimental HF-MIMO links
. EUCAP 2009, Berlin, Germany.
Feeney, S.M., Salous, S. Warrington, E.M. Gunashekar, S.D., Abbasi, N. Bertel, L. Lemur, D. & Oger, M. (2009). Compact antenna arrays for HF MIMO applications. Ionospheric radio Systems and Techniques, 2009. (IRST 2009). The Institution of Engineering and Technology 11th International Conference on, Edinburgh, UK, IEEE.
Salous, S & Hinostroza, V (2002). Bi-dynamic indoor measurements with high resolution channel sounder. I E E E.

Journal papers: academic

Xiang Cheng, Cheng-Xiang Wang, David I. Laurenson, Sana Salous & Athanasios V. Vasilakos (2011). New deterministic and stochastic simulation models for non-isotropic scattering mobile-to-mobile Rayleigh fading channels. Wireless Communication and Mobile Computing 11(7): 829-842.
Zhe Wang & Sana Salous (2011). Spectrum Occupancy Statistics and Time Series Models for Cognitive Radio. Journal of Signal Processing Systems 62(2): 145-155.
Abdallah M. Feeney, S.M., Salous, S. & Lewenz, R. (2010). Design and calibration of circular uniform beam array for wideband channel characterisation. IET Microwaves, Antennas & Propagation 4(1): 43-53.
Gunashekar, S.D., Warrington, E.M., Feeney, S.M., Salous, S. & Abbasi, N.M. (2010). MIMO communications within the HF band using compact antenna arrays. Radio Science 45: RS6013.
Xiang Cheng, Cheng-Xiang Wang, David Laurenson, Sana Salous & Anthanasios Vasilakos (2009). An adaptive geometry-based stochastic model for non-isotropic MIMO mobile-to-mobile channels. IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications 8(9): 4824-4835.
H. Gokalp, G.Y. Taflan & S. Salous (2009). In-band interference reduction in FMCW channel data using Prony modelling. Electronics Letters 45(2): 132-133.
S. D. Gunashekar, E. M. Warrington, S. Salous, S. M. Feeney, N. M. Abbasi, & L. Bertel, D. Lemur, and M. Oger (2009). Investigations into the feasibility of multiple input multiple output techniques within the HF band: Preliminary results. Radio Science 44(RS0A19): 1-15.
Gunashekar, S.D. Warrington, E. Michael Strangeways, Hal J., Erhel, Y., Salous, S., Feeney, S.M., Abbasi, N.M., Bertel, L., Lemur, D., Marie, F. & Oger, M. (2009). Utilization of antenna arrays in HF systems. Annals of Geophysics 52 (3/4)(3/4): 323-338.
N. Razavi-Ghods & S. Salous (2009). Wideband MIMO channel characterisation in TV studios and inside buildings in the 2.2-2.5 GHz frequency band. Radio Science 44(5): 1-13.
Michail Matthaiou1, Nima Razavi-Ghods, David I. Laurenson & Sana Salous (2008). Dual frequency MIMO measurements in the 2.26–2.5 GHz band. Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing 8(5): 607-614.
K. Khokhar S. Salous (2008). Frequency domain simulator for mobile radio channels and for IEEE 802.16-2004 standard using measured channels. IET Communications 2(7): 869-877.
Salous S.,, Feeney S.,, Khokhar K., & Lewenz R. (2008). Measurements of radio channels and bit error rate estimation of IEEE802.16 standard in semi-rural environment at three frequencies in the 2–6 GHz frequency band. IET Communications 2(7): 878-885.
Salous, S. & Gokalp, H. (2007). Medium- and large-scale characterization of UMTS-allocated frequency division duplex channels. IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology 56(5): 2831-2843.
Salous, S., Filippidis, P., Lewenz, R., Hawkins, I., Razavi-Ghods, N. & Abdallah, M. (2005). Parallel receiver channel sounder for spatial and MIMO characterisation of the mobile radio channel. IEE proceedings communications 152(6): 912-918.
Salous, S. & Hinostroza, V. (2005). Wideband indoor frequency agile channel sounder and measurements. IEE proceedings microwaves, antennas and propagation 152(6): 573-580.
Arikan, F., Arikan, O. & Salous, S. (2002). A new algorithm for high-quality ionogram generation and analysis. Radio science 37(1): 1004.
Salous, S. & Gokalp, H. (2002). Dual-frequency sounder for UMTS frequency-division duplex channels. IEE proceedings communications 149(2): 117-122.

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