{"591229":{"#nid":"591229","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Al-Shehri Chosen for Aramco Researcher Honor","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EAbdallah Al-Shehri has been chosen as the Best-in-Class Young Researcher by Aramco. Selected from approximately 170 Aramco students pursuing Ph.D.s in the U.S. and around the world, Al-Shehri will be honored at the Aramco EXPEC Advanced Research Center International Advisory Committee Meeting, scheduled for this July in Houston, Texas.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EAdvised by Professor Ian Akyildiz, Al-Shehri is a Ph.D. student in the Georgia Tech School of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) and has been a member of the Broadband Wireless Networking Lab since spring 2014. His research topic is \u0026ldquo;OilMoles: Design of Wireless Underground Self-Contained Sensor Networks for Oil Reservoirs Monitoring.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe objective of Al-Shehri\u0026rsquo;s proposed research is to design fully integrated magnetic induction (MI)-based Wireless Underground Sensor Networks (WUSNs) to enable reliable and efficient wireless communications in underground oil reservoirs to perform in-situ monitoring of oil reservoirs. This is very crucial for determining the sweet spot of oil and natural gas reserves, and wireless sensor nodes are a promising technology to collect data from oil reservoirs in real time.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ETo this end, Al-Shehri is proposing contributions in four areas. First, he is developing a novel cross-layer communication framework for MI-based networks in dynamically changing underground environments that combines a joint selection of modulation, channel coding and power control, a transmitter-based CDMA scheme, and a geographic forwarding paradigm. Second, Al-Shehri is developing a novel MI-based localization framework, which exploits the unique properties of the MI field to determine the locations of the randomly deployed sensor nodes in oil reservoirs.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThird, Al-Shehri is proposing an accurate energy model framework of a linear oil sensor network topology that gives feasible sensors\u0026rsquo; transmission rates and sensor network topology while always guaranteeing enough energy. Once that framework is completed, he will design, develop, and fabricate MI-based sensor nodes. Lastly,\u0026nbsp;Al-Shehri will develop a physical MI-based WUSN testbed to validate the performance of the proposed solutions in a practical way as he is going to implement the proposed solutions in the designed MI-based sensor nodes.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EECE Ph.D. student Abdallah Al-Shehri has been chosen as the Best-in-Class Young Researcher by Aramco.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"ECE Ph.D. student Abdallah Al-Shehri has been chosen as the Best-in-Class Young Researcher by Aramco."}],"uid":"27241","created_gmt":"2017-05-02 17:55:19","changed_gmt":"2017-05-03 15:32:04","author":"Jackie Nemeth","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2017-05-02T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2017-05-02T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"591230":{"id":"591230","type":"image","title":"Abdallah Al-Shehri","body":null,"created":"1493747913","gmt_created":"2017-05-02 17:58:33","changed":"1493747913","gmt_changed":"2017-05-02 17:58:33","alt":"","file":{"fid":"225280","name":"Abdallah Alshehri.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/Abdallah%20Alshehri.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/Abdallah%20Alshehri.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":20052,"path_740":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/Abdallah%20Alshehri.jpg?itok=Iond_ukv"}}},"media_ids":["591230"],"related_links":[{"url":"http:\/\/bwn.ece.gatech.edu","title":"Broadband Wireless Networking Laboratory"},{"url":"http:\/\/www.ece.gatech.edu","title":"School of Electrical and Computer Engineering"},{"url":"http:\/\/www.gatech.edu","title":"Georgia Tech"},{"url":"http:\/\/www.saudiaramco.com\/en\/home.html","title":"Aramco"}],"groups":[{"id":"1255","name":"School of Electrical and Computer Engineering"}],"categories":[{"id":"153","name":"Computer Science\/Information Technology and Security"},{"id":"144","name":"Energy"},{"id":"145","name":"Engineering"}],"keywords":[{"id":"174302","name":"Abdallah Al-Shehri"},{"id":"1808","name":"graduate students"},{"id":"1526","name":"wireless"},{"id":"167066","name":"sensors"},{"id":"12096","name":"wireless underground sensor networks"},{"id":"174303","name":"oil reserves"},{"id":"174304","name":"Aramco"},{"id":"109","name":"Georgia Tech"},{"id":"166855","name":"School of Electrical and Computer Engineering"},{"id":"174305","name":"Broadband Wireless Networking Laboratory"}],"core_research_areas":[{"id":"39431","name":"Data Engineering and Science"},{"id":"39451","name":"Electronics and Nanotechnology"},{"id":"39531","name":"Energy and Sustainable Infrastructure"}],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EJackie Nemeth\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ESchool of Electrical and Computer Engineering\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E404-894-2906\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"email":["jackie.nemeth@ece.gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}