Staff Publications- Faculty of Engineering: Recent submissions
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A Study of Low Complexity Antenna Selection Algorithms for Signed Quadrature Spatial Modulation
(IEEE, 2020-12)Transmit antenna selection (TAS) is a practical method to improve the bit-error-rate (BER) performance of a multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) systems. TAS is of particulate importance when spatial modulation (SM) is ... -
Generalized Space-Time Block Coded Quadrature Spatial Modulation
(Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), 2020-12)Recently, quadrature spatial modulation (QSM) has been proposed for MIMO communication systems. It introduced to enhance the overall throughput of conventional spatial modulation (SM) techniques by creating an extra ... -
House of Quality: A Method to Identify Landscape Design Requirements
(Emerald Publishing, 2020)The level of live, reduction of pollution, positive human health is affected by the quality of landscape. In addition, many benefits like aesthetic, psychological, and social can be achieved. The quality of land scape is ... -
The Role of University Education in Directing Architects towards Conserving the Sustainability of the Urban Cultural Heritage (Comparative Study)
(Deanship of Scientific Research- Al-Ahliyya Amman University, 2018)University architectural education aims to graduate architects with abilities and potentials that fulfil the demands of the labor market. The university study plans contribute significantly to the formation of the students’ ... -
Net Zero Energy Retrofit Shading Strategies of Buildings in Gaza, Case Study: Multi-Storey Residential Buildings
(IEEE, 2019)Envelope of buildings plays a major role in achieving net zero energy for existing buildings, through reducing energy demand. Providing shading on a building envelope is considered a basic strategy to minimize energy usage, ... -
Assessment of Educational Outputs of Low-income Housing Project
(The Islamic University of Gaza, 2018)The provision of housing to meet the rapid increase in population from all economic classes is a target of most housing programs. This paper aims to suggest a new type of economic housing in Gaza- Palestine through an ... -
Post-war Restoration of Traditional Houses in Gaza
(Springer, Cham, 2020)In the past decade, the city of Gaza has suffered from three consecutive wars in 2008–2009, 2012 and 2014. As a result, severe physical destructions impacted all aspects of urban life. The impact of destructions on historical ... -
Performance Investigation of 1.6 Tbps Hybrid WDM-PDM-OFDM-based Free Space Optics Transmission Link
(The final publication is available at link.springer.com, 2020)A novel ultra-high capacity free space optics (FSO) link has been developed by incorporating hybrid wavelength divison multiplexing (WDM)-polarization division multiplexing (PDM)-orthogonal frequency division multiplexing ... -
Highly Efficient Solar Energy Conversion Using Graded-index Metamaterial Nanostructured Waveguide
(2020)In this paper, a graded-index metamaterial (GIM) nanostructured waveguide is proposed to enhance the performance of solar cells via a tunable absorption spectrum. The proposed four-layer nanostructured waveguide consists ... -
The design and analysis of a dual‑diamond‑ring PCF‑based sensor
(Springer Science+Business Media, LLC, part of Springer Nature 2020, 2020)A dual-diamond-ring photonic crystal fber (PCF)-based sensor is proposed and analyzed herein for the detection of the concentration of alcohol in aqueous solution. Commercially available fnite element method (FEM)-based ... -
Estimated View of Renewable Resources as a Sustainable Electrical Energy Source, Case Study
(2020)Renewable energy resources for energy generation in the Gaza Strip (GS) emerge as a complementary resource, not only to meet the need of society for energy in various forms, but also to find available, sustainably, and ... -
Office Appliances Identification and Monitoring using Deep Leaning based Energy Disaggregation for Smart Buildings
(IEEE, 2020-10)Analysis of electrical energy metering profiles has experienced a substantial increase of research activity in recent years. This smart metering is a tool for monitoring energy usage and users’ behaviors as a pre-requisite ... -
Transmit antenna selection schemes for STBC-SM
(The Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey, 2020-07-29)The coupling of space-time block codes (STBCs) with the spatial modulation (SM) scheme can introduce a spatial diversity to the SM systems. This paper presents antenna selection techniques to provide an additional ... -
Super-orthogonal double space-time trellis code
(Elsevier BV, 2020)This study develops a new class of super-orthogonal trellis codes for four transmit antennas based on double space-time codes. The transmit antennas are divided into two groups, each having two transmit antennas. The ... -
Integrating Bat Algorithm to Inverse Weighted K-means
(Blue Eyes Intelligence Engineering and Sciences Engineering and Sciences Publication - BEIESP, 2019-07-30)Inverse Weighted K-means less sensitive to poorinitialization than the traditionalK-means algorithm. Therefore, this paper introduce a new hybrid algorithm that integrates inverse weighted k-means algorithm ... -
Optimization of Travelling Salesman Problem using NN Clustering and Genetic Algorithm
(Islamic University of Gaza, 2019-03-26)TSP (traveling salesman problem) is one of the typical NP-hard problems in combinatorial optimization problem. We present a genetic algorithm for solving the traveling salesman problem to optimality for TSP, however it ... -
Deep Learning HMM Versus Multi-resolution transforms for Soft biometric estimation
(UDIMA Universidad a Distancia de Madrid, 2018-10-01)This work is to introduce two different methodologies to estimate the soft biometric traits from face image. The first proposed methodology to extract effective features from facial images using two multi-resolution ... -
Robust Breast Cancer Classification Using Wave Atom and Back Propagation Neural Network
(Universiti Putra Malaysia Press, 2019-07-01)The breast cancer automatic diagnosis is a critical real world medical challenge. This study proposes a classifying cancer tumor method based on their gene expression signatures to specific diagnostic categories. The ... -
Two layers corrugated semiconductor solar cell
(Elsevier BV, 2019-03)A new two-layer-waveguide solar cell is introduced. It consists of silicon monoxide (SiO) layer on top of Fe-InGaAsP film surrounded by Air cladding and transparent conducting oxides (TCO) substrate. Both TE and TM reflection ... -
Study of Utilization of Embedded Metal Nanoparticles in Dielectric Thin Film for Humidity Sensing
(Springer Science and Business Media LLC, 2019-09-30)This paper presents a theoretical study of the utilization of the shift in the reflection peak of the thin dielectric film with embedded metal nanoparticles (NPs) towards humidity and vapor applications. The presence of ...