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      Dr Purav Shah

      BEng, MSc, PhD, FHEA, MIEEE
      ROLE: Senior Lecturer
      SCHOOL: Science & Technology
      DEPARTMENT: Design Engineering & Maths
      TELEPHONE: +44 (0)20 8411 5317
      EMAIL: P.Shah@mdx.ac.uk
      1. Biography &
        Qualifications
      2. Learning &
        Teaching Interests
      3. Research Outputs &
        Interests
      4. Funded Research &
        Knowledge Exchange Projects
      5. Engagement &
        Impact

      • Biography &
        Qualifications

        Dr Purav Shah joined Middlesex University in 2010. He is a Senior Lecturer in the Design Engineering and Mathematics Department within the Faculty of Science and Technology. Prior to that, he was an Associate Research Fellow at the University of Exeter on EU-FP6 PROTEM project on scanning probe-based memories from 2008 to 2010. His work included read channel design; noise modelling and signal processing for probe storage. 

        He received his PhD in Communication and Electronics Engineering from University of Plymouth, UK, in 2008. He is also a UK HEA Fellow.


        Languages Spoken

        English - Fluent

        Gujarati - Fluent

        Hindi - Fluent

      • Learning &
        Teaching Interests

        Programme Leader: MSc Telecommunications Engineering (2014- present)

        CCE3000: Real-Time Systems (Year 3) BEng/MEng Computer Systems Engineering module (2018)

        CCE2040: Digital System Design  (Year 2) BEng/MEng Computer and Communications Engineering & BEng/MEng Computer Systems Engineering module  (2015-present)

        CCE4810 - Data Communications and Information Theory - MSc Telecommunications Engineering module  (2014- present)

        CCE4840 - Broadband Technologies and Fiber Optics - MSc Telecommunications Engineering module (2014- present)

        CCE4820 - Digital Transmission Systems - MSc Telecommunications Engineering module (2010- present)

         

         

         

         

      • Research Outputs &
        Interests

        Doctoral and Masters (Research) students are welcome in the areas of:

        • System Modelling of Wireless Networks
        • Multimedia Networking
        • Software-Defined Networking
        • Internet of Things/Everything (IoT/IoE)
        • M2M solutions
        • Application of AI in Wireless Networks

        Recent PhD Completions:

        Yetish G Joshi (2016) -  Low complexity in-loop perceptual video coding using pixel based image quality assessment workflows (Now working at V-NOVA) (Director of Studies)

        Fredrick O Adero (2017) -  Modelling and Performability Evaluation of Wireless Sensor Networks (Now working as Senior lecturer in University of Kenya, Nairobi) (Co-Supervisor) 

         

        Current PhD students:

        Kamran Ali ( Part time - expected 2019) - Architecture for Public Safety Networks using Device to Device Communications (D2D/M2M) (Co-Supervisor)

        Vishnu Paranthaman (expected 2018) - Resource Allocation in Heterogeneous Networks (HetNets) (Co-Supervisor)

        Ahmed Al-Jawad (Part time - expected 2019) - A per-Flow End-to-End QoS Solution with Guaranteed Services in Software Defined Networking (SDN) (Co-Supervisor)

         

         Further information can be found at my Research Gate page.

        Publication Feed

        Performance evaluation of routing strategies over multimedia-based SDNs under realistic environments

        Al-Jawad, Ahmed and Shah, Purav and Gemikonakli, Orhan and Comsa, Ioan-Sorin and Trestian, Ramona (2020) Performance evaluation of routing strategies over multimedia-based SDNs under realistic environments. In: IEEE Conference on Network Softwarization, 29 June - 03 Jul 2020, Virtual Conference. (Accepted/In press)

        Towards autonomous driving: a machine learning-based pedestrian detection system using 16-layer LiDAR

        Mihai, Stefan and Shah, Purav and Mapp, Glenford E. and Nguyen, Huan X. and Trestian, Ramona (2020) Towards autonomous driving: a machine learning-based pedestrian detection system using 16-layer LiDAR. In: COMM 2020, 18-20 Jun 2020, Bucharest, Romania. (Accepted/In press)

        Security aspects of communications in VANETs

        Mihai, Stefan and Dokuz, Nedzhmi and Ali, Meer Saqib and Shah, Purav and Trestian, Ramona (2020) Security aspects of communications in VANETs. In: COMM 2020, 18-20 Jun 2020, Bucharest, Romania. (Accepted/In press)

        Deployment of drone-based small cells for public safety communication system

        Ali, Kamran and Nguyen, Huan X. and Vien, Quoc-Tuan and Shah, Purav and Raza, Mohsin (2020) Deployment of drone-based small cells for public safety communication system. IEEE Systems Journal . pp. 1-10. ISSN 1932-8184 (Published online first)

        An optimal power allocation for D2D communications over multi-user cellular uplink channels

        Omorinoye, Adeola Abraham and Vien, Quoc-Tuan and Le, Tuan Anh and Shah, Purav (2019) An optimal power allocation for D2D communications over multi-user cellular uplink channels. In: 5th EAI International Conference on Industrial Networks and Intelligent Systems (INISCOM 2019), 19 Aug 2019, Ho Chi Minh, Vietnam, Vietnam.

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      • Funded Research &
        Knowledge Exchange Projects

        1. Newton Fund Researcher Links call (British Council) 2017 - £2K, Topic:  Disaster Management: An ICT Approach with 5G-and-Beyond Communications & Networks

      • Engagement &
        Impact

        Reviewer of the following:

        • IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics (2018)
        • IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing (2018)
        • IET Communications (2016 - on)
        • International Journal of Distributed Sensor Networks (2016-on)
        • IET Electronics Letters (2015 - on)
        • IEEE Communications Letters (2016 - on)
        • IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Coding (TCSVT) (2014 - on)
        • KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (2014 - on)
        • MDPI Sensors (2015)
        • International Journal on Communication Systems (IJCS), Wiley (2013)
        • Journal of Systems and Software (JSS), Elsevier (2016 - on)
        • Computer Networks, Elsevier (2015 - on)

        Technical Program Committee Member (TPC)/Technical Committee Member (TCM) for:

        • TPC for the 11th Wireless Days Conference (WD 2019)  24 – 26 April 2019, Manchester, United Kingdom 
        • TPC for The 3rd International Conference on Recent Advances in  Signal Processing, Telecommunications & Computing (SigTelCom2019)
        • TPC for the 13th IEEE International Symposium on Broadband Multimedia Systems and Broadcasting, June 6-8, 2018, Valencia, Spain

        • TPC for Workshop on 5G in Internet of Things (5G-IoT) in conjunction with LCN 2017, October 2017, Singapore.

        • TPC for Internet of People and Things (IPAT 2017) workshop, June 2017, London 

        • TCM for PIMRC 2016, Spain

        • TCM of ICC 2015, London, Ad-Hoc and Sensor Networking Symposium

        • TPC of AINA 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018 Workshop on Engineering Energy Ecient WSN's (EEEWSN)

         

        External Examiner at University of Plymouth, BEng/MEng Electrical and Electronics Engineering Programmes

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