Dr Sinan Khwandah
PhD

Senior Lecturer

School of Technology and Maritime Industries

sinan.khwandah@solent.ac.uk

Room no. RM402

Biography

Sinan received a BSc (Hons) degree in Electrical Engineering in 2004, a Diploma degree in Computer and Auto-Control in 2005, an MSc degree in Computer, and Auto Control in 2009 from Damascus University; an MSc in Wireless Communication Systems in 2011 and a PhD from Brunel University London in 2015.

Sinan joined Solent in 2015. Prior to teaching at Solent, he taught in the telecommunications department at Damascus University from 2005 to 2010, working on the public sector automation and networking projects with the technical team of the electronic and computer systems unit at Damascus University.

Sinan’s current role at Solent is lecturer in engineering. This involves the design and delivery planning of learning activities, together with the delivery to students, for a range of lectures and practical sessions. This also includes exam preparation sessions. At Solent, he leads several units and supervises students for final year undergraduate projects. He also took responsibility for delivery of units to the Technology Foundation Programme and taught students with a wide range of skills and abilities.

Sinan is a skilled engineer in existing technologies and fulfilled education and experience requirements to be certified in several areas such as Certified Radio Engineer from Telecoms Academy London and Cisco Systems. Throughout his career, his research has been focused on communication and networks. His latest research is concerned with cellular networks including radio planning and system optimisation, management of heterogeneous networks, MIMO, and network architecture. He has contributed to several international conferences, is involved with improving science writing and editing and is active in peer reviewing high-quality publications for several international publishers such as IEEE and Springer.

He is a member of the IEEE and the IET and is a Fellow of the Academy of Higher Education.

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Further information

Sinan has worked in different universities since 2005. He has teaching experience at undergraduate and postgraduate levels in the areas of communications and computer networks, radio systems, electronic circuits, automation and control, analogue and digital electronics, signal processing, renewable and solar systems, power storage systems, maths, IT, and technology concepts.

S. Khwandah, J. Cosmas, I. A. Glover, P. I. Lazaridis, N. R. Prasad and Z. D. Zaharis, " Energy Efficient Mobility Enhancement in LTE Pico–Macro HetNet Systems," in WPC, pp. 1-12, Jun 2019.
S. Khwandah, J. Cosmas, I. A. Glover, P. I. Lazaridis, G. Araniti and Z. D. Zaharis, "An Enhanced Cognitive Femtocell Approach for Co-Channel Downlink Interference Avoidance," in IEEE Wireless Communications, vol. 23, no. 6, pp. 132-139, January 2017.
S. A. Khwandah, J. P. Cosmas, I. A. Glover, P. I. Lazaridis, N. R. Prasad and Z. D. Zaharis, "Direct and External Intensity Modulation in OFDM RoF Links," in IEEE Photonics Journal, vol. 7, no. 4, pp. 1-10, Aug. 2015.
S. A. Khwandah, J. P. Cosmas, Z. D. Zaharis, P. I. Lazaridis and A. Mihovska, "Self-Organized Scheme for Unique Cell ID Assignment during Femtocell Deployment," 2019 53rd Asilomar Conference on Signals, Systems, and Computers, Pacific Grove, CA, USA, 2019, pp. 363-367.
S. A. Khwandah, J. P. Cosmas, Z. D. Zaharis, P. I. Lazaridis, I. A. Glover and S. M. Saleh, "Interference Management Scheme for Co-channel Femtocells," 2018 24th International Conference on Automation and Computing (ICAC), Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom, 2018, pp. 1-4.
S. M. Saleh, S. A. Khwandah, W. Hardt, M. Hilbrich and P. I. Lazaridis, "Estimating the 2D Static Map Based on Moving Stereo Camera," 2018 24th International Conference on Automation and Computing (ICAC), Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom, 2018, pp. 1-5.
S. A. Khwandah, M. Bassam, J. P. Cosmas, Z. Zaharis and P. Lazaridis, " Video performance using adaptive DRX Switching for LTE-A," 2017 IEEE International Symposium on Broadband Multimedia Systems and Broadcasting, Cagliari, Italy, 2017.
R. Hasan, S. A. Khwandah, H. Hussein and M. Eibl, “Improvement of Speech Recognition Results by Combining Different Systems”, The 23rd IEEE International Conference on Automation and Computing (ICAC’17), 7-8 September 2017, Huddersfield, UK.

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