Qatar Foundation Annual Research Conference Proceedings Volume 2016 Issue 1

Information technology has had a great impact on education and research by enabling additional teaching and researching strategies. According to the 2014 Sloan Survey of Online Learning, the number of students who have taken at least one online course increased to a new total of 7.1 million during the Fall 2013 semester. Remote laboratory technology has made a great progress in the arena of online learning. Internet remot Read More

With the increasing demand for access to content in foreign languages in recent years, we have also seen a steady improvement in the quality of tools that can help bridge this gap. One such tool is Statistical Machine Translation (SMT), which learns automatically from real examples of human translations, without the need for manual intervention. Training such a system takes just a few days, sometimes even hours, but require Read More

Nowadays a lot of massive data is stored and typically, the data itself contains a lot of non-trivial but useful information. Data mining techniques can be used to discover this information which can help the companies for decision-making. However, in real life applications, data is massive and is stored over distributed sites. One of my major research topics is to protect privacy over this kind of data. Previously, the important ch Read More

FPGAs has many significant features that serves as a platform for processing real time algorithm. It gives substantially higher performance over programmable Digital Signal Processor (DSPs) and microprocessor. At present, the use of FPGA in research and development of applied digital systems for specific tasks are increasing. This is due to the advantages FPGAs has over other programmable devices. These advantages Read More

Since the twenty-first century, digital technologies are increasingly supporting teaching and learning activities. Because learning is effective when it starts early, advanced early years' educational tools are highly recommended to help new generations gain the necessary skills to successfully build opportunities and progress in life. With all the digital learning advances, there are still many problems that teachers, students and paren Read More

Introduction Road safety is a world-wide health challenge that is of great importance in Qatar. According to WHO [1], global traffic fatalities and injuries are in the millions per year. Qatar has one of the world's highest rate of traffic fatalities, which causes more deaths than common diseases [2]. Traffic congestion and vehicle fuel utilization are two other major problems. Integrating vehicle communication into intelligent transp Read More

Future intelligent transport systems (ITS) are envisaged to offer drivers with a safer and comfortable driving experience by using wireless data exchange between vehicles. A number of applications could be realized with the increased vehicle vision and awareness provided by this technology known as Vehicular Ad hoc Network (VANETs). These applications include cooperative awareness, warning notification, safe l Read More

Over the last decade, mobile communications have been witnessing an unprecedented rise of mobile user demand that is perpetually increasing due to the introduction of new services requiring extremely fast and reliable connectivity. Moreover, there is an important increase of the number of devices connected to cellular networks because of the emergence of the machine-type communication and internet of things. Indeed Read More

As well known, wireless channels are characterized by temporal and spatial variations due to different reasons such as multipath propagation of the signals, and mobility of the communicating devices or their surrounding environment. This has two consequences. First, the channel quality (i.e. amplitude) varies resulting in changes in the amount of data rate (in bits/sec) that can be received reliably over the channel. Second, th Read More