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        A. Books:

        B. Book Chapters:

        C. Thesis:      

        1. (c) Mohammad S. Sharawi,
        "Radio Frequency Interference Mitigation Methods Applied to the LAAS Multipath Limiting Antenna for
        System Availability Improvement", Ph.D. Dissertation, Oakland University, Rochester, Michigan, USA, May 2006.

        2. (c) Mohammad S. Sharawi,
        "Codes and Modulation for Spread Spectrum and Broadband Wireless Communications",
        M.Sc. Thesis, Oakland University, Rochester, Michigan, USA, March 2002.
 

        D. Refereed Journal/Magazine Papers:

        11. "High Fidelity Antenna Model Validation Results of a GNSS Multipath Limiting Antenna "
        Daniel N. Aloi and Mohammad S. Sharawi , Accepted in IEEE Transactions on Aerospace and
        Electronic Systems, To appear in 2010.
 
        10. "Comparative Analysis of Single-Channel Direction Finding Algorithms for Automotive Applications at 2400 MHz
        in a Complex Reflecting Environment,"
        Daniel N. Aloi and Mohammad S. Sharawi, Accepted in Physical Communications Journal (Elsevier), August 2009.

        9. "Optical-Electrical Printed Circuit Boards – Part II",
        Mohammad S. Sharawi, IEEE Potentials Magazine, Vol. 28, No. 2, pp. 32-34, March/April 2009.

        8. "Optical-Electrical Printed Circuit Boards – Part I",
        Mohammad S. Sharawi, IEEE Potentials Magazine, Vol. 28, No. 1, pp. 24-27, January/February 2009.

        7. "Null Steering Approach with Minimized PCV and GD for Large Aperture Vertical Antenna Arrays"
        Mohammad S. Sharawi and Daniel N. Aloi, IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation,
        Vol. 55, No. 7, pp. 2120-2123, July 2007.

        6. " GPS Software Receiver Implementations",
        Oleksiy V. Korniyenko and Mohammad S. Sharawi, IEEE Potentials Magazine , Vol. 26, No. 3,
        pp. 42-46, May/June 2007.

        5. "GPS C/N0 Estimation in the Presence of Interference and Limited Quantization Levels",
        Mohammad S. Sharawi, Dennis M. Akos and Daniel N. Aloi, IEEE Transactions on Aerospace and
        Electronic Systems, Vol. 43, No. 1, pp. 227-238, January 2007.

        4. "Enhanced Observed Time Difference Location Technology Through Fading Channels in GSM",    
        Mohammad S. Sharawi, (invited paper), Asian Journal of Information Technology, Vol. 5, No. 10,
        pp. 1158-1165, October 2006.

        3. " Use of low-cost patch antennas in modern wireless technology",
        Mohammad S. Sharawi, IEEE Potentials Magazine, Vol. 25, No. 4, pp. 35-47, July/August 2006.

        2. "Circuit modeling in High Speed Designs",
        Mohammad S. Sharawi and Daniel N. Aloi, IEEE Potentials Magazine, Vol. 24, No. 1, pp. 17-20,
        February/March 2005.

        1. "Practical issues in high speed PCB design",
        Mohammad S. Sharawi, IEEE Potentials Magazine, Vol. 23, No. 2, pp. 24-27, April/May 2004.

       

        E. Refereed Conference Papers:

        20. "A Programmable FPGA Implementation of a Multi-Coded BOC(m,n) Signal Generator for
        Navigation Systems
",
        Mohammad S. Sharawi and Daniel N. Aloi, 51st IEEE Int'l Midwest Symposium on Circuits & Systems
        (MWSCAS'08), Tennessee - USA, August 2008.

        19. "Signal Integrity Characterization and Modelling of a PCI/PCI-x 66/133 MHz Bus",
        Mohammad S. Sharawi, 51st IEEE Int'l Midwest Symposium on Circuits & Systems (MWSCAS'08),
        Tennessee - USA, August 2008.

        18. "The Design and Simulation of a 400/533 Mbps DDRII SDRAM Memory Interconnect Bus"
        Mohammad S. Sharawi and Malik Al-Qdah, IEEE Fifth International Multi-Conference on Systems, Signals,
        and Devices (SSD'08), Amman, Jordan, July 2008.

        17. "Analysis of the Performance of Subcarrier Multiplexed Transmission System Employing Optical Single Side
        Band Modulation (OSSB)
"
        Malik Al-Qdah and Mohammad S. Sharawi, IEEE Fifth International Multi-Conference on Systems, Signals,
        and Devices (SSD'08), Amman, Jordan, July 2008.

        16. "Design and Implementation of a Human Stress Detection System: A Biomechanics Approach"
        Mohammad S. Sharawi, Murad Shibli and Mohammad I. Sharawi, IEEE 5th International Symposium on
        Mechatronics and Its Applications (ISMA'08), Amman - Jordan.

        15. "Design and Implementation of a Low Cost VLF Metal Detector with Metal-Type Discrimination
        Capabilities
",
        Mohammad S. Sharawi and Mohammad I. Sharawi, IEEE International Conference on Signal Processing
        and Communications (ICSPC'07), pp. 480-483, Dubai, UAE, November 2007.

        14. "Modeling and Characterization of a Mechatronics System for Human Stress Detection"
        Murad Shibli and Mohammad S. Sharawi, IEEE International Conference on Signal Processing
        and Communications (ICSPC'07), pp. 872-875, Dubai, UAE, November 2007.

        13. "Design of a Linearly Polarized Rectangular Patch Antenna using MoM, FDTD and FEM"
        Mohammad S. Sharawi and Daniel N. Aloi, IEEE Antennas and Propagation International Symposium,
        Wiakiki, Honolulu, Hawaii, USA, June 2007.

        12. "Software Defined Radios: A Software GPS Receiver Example",    
        Mohammad S. Sharawi and Oleksiy V. Korniyenko, IEEE International Conference on Computer
        Systems and Applications (AICCSA 2007), Amman - Jordan, Vol. 1, pp. 562-565, May 2007.

        11. "C/No Estimation in a GPS Software Receiver in the Presence of RF Interference Mitigation Via
        Null Steering for the Multipath Limiting Antenna
",
        Mohammad S. Sharawi and Daniel N. Aloi, IEEE Global Communication Conference (GlobeCom 2006),
        San Francisco, California - USA, 27 November - 1 December 2006.

        10. "Radio Frequency Interference Mitigation via Null Steering for the Multipath Limiting Antenna in Local
        Area Augmentation Systems
",
        Mohammad S. Sharawi and Daniel N. Aloi, IEEE Electro/Information Technology Conference (ETI 2006),
        East Lansing, Michigan - USA, pp. 137-141, May 7-10, 2006.

        9. "Comparative Analysis of Two Null-Steering Approaches for the Multipath Limiting Antenna for LAAS",
        Mohammad S. Sharawi and Daniel N. Aloi, ION National Technical Meeting (ION-NTM 2006),
        pp. 935-948, Monterey, California - USA, January 18-20, 2006.

        8. "A 0.25um CMOS RF Front-End with a Low cost Patch Antenna for GPS receivers",   
        Mohammad S. Sharawi and Daniel N. Aloi, 48th IEEE Int'l Midwest Symposium on Circuits & Systems
        (MWSCAS05), pp. 1334-1337,Cincinnati, Ohio - USA, August 7-10, 2005.
 
        7. "Neural Network Based Approach for Tuning Kalman Filter",
        Oleksiy V. Korniyenko , Mohammad S. Sharawi and Daniel N. Aloi, IEEE Electro/Information Technology
        Conference (EIT 2005), pp. 1-5, Lincoln, Nebraska - USA, May 22-25, 2005.

        6. "An 800Mbps System Interconnect Modeling and Simulation for High Speed Computing",
        Mohammad S. Sharawi and Daniel N. Aloi, IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and
        Systems (ISCAS 2005), Kobe - Japan, Vol. 6, pp. 6198-6201, May 23-26, 2005.

        5. "Modeling and Simulation of High Speed Digital Circuits and Interconnects",
        Mohammad S. Sharawi, Proceedings of the 6th Middle East Symposium on Simulation and Modeling
        (MESM 2004), Amman-Jordan, pp. 153-158, September 14-16, 2004.
        Also being posted on "Teraspeed - IBIS Resources Page" under "Academic Articles",
        http://www.teraspeed.com/ibis_resources.html

        4. "Performance of the EOTD Location Technology in GSM networks through fading channels",
        Mohammad S. Sharawi, The fifth International Conference on Computational Aspects and their
        Applications in Electrical Engineering "CATAEE 2004",Proc. CATAEE2004, Vol. 1, pp. 308-320,
        Philadelphia University, Amman-Jordan, March 2004. [Best Paper AWARD]

        3. "Investigation into the performance of EOTD for GSM users in Telematics applications",
        Mohammad S. Sharawi and Daniel Aloi, Location Services and Navigation Technologies
        conference at SPIE's 17th Annual AeroSense Symposium, Florida - USA, Proc. SPIE Vol. 5084,
        pp. 6-18, April 2003.

        2. "A Hardware Implementation of Genetic Algorithms for Measurement Characterization",
        Mohammad S. Sharawi, James Quinlan, and Hoda S. Abdel-Aty-Zohdy, IEEE 9th International
        Conference of Electronics, Circuits, and Systems (ICECS 2002), Dubrovnik - Croatia, vol. 3,
        pp. 1267-1270, September 2002.

        1. "Optimal-Weights Sensor-Measurement Fusion using Genetic Algorithms",
        Mohammad S. Sharawi, Hoda S. Abdel-Aty-Zohdy, and Robert L. Ewing, Proceedings of the 44th
        IEEE 2001 Midwest Symposium on Circuits and Systems, MWSCAS 2001, Ohio - USA, vol. 2,
        pp. 537-542, August 2001.

 

     * IEEE: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, USA.
        * SPIE: The International Society of Optical Engineering, USA
        * ION: Institute of Navigation, USA