Summer 2012 (TA)
- Courses: None
May 29
- Studied Mobility Management/Handover in Macrocell/femtocell LTE networks. The main challenges lie within hand-in (handover from macrocell to femtocell) which itself is another research field. It has issues like discovering neighboring femto BS, admission control and selection of appropriate femto cell for handover.
- Looked into Nokia's approach (they mainly discussed various parameters without discussing the inner details of their approach i.e. working methodology).
- Designing LTE network in OPNET.
May 15
- Installed OPNET and completed Basic and Advanced tutorials under Modeler Tutorials.
- Explored LTE Model Library (could not run on OPNET as we don't have LTE license and Saleh has contacted them about this)
- Looking into Mobility Management for Femtocells.
Spring 2012 (RA)
- Courses:
- CMPT-880: Special Topics in Computer Graphics, HCI, Computer Vision, and Visualization (Medical Image Analysis)
- CMPT-886: Special Topics in Operating Systems
May 1
- Completed the survey and reported to Abdul Hasib.
- Working with user-association and OPNET with Abdul Hasib.
April 17
- Working with Abdul Hasib on LTE-Advanced HetNet and explored some potential research fields.
- Cost effective deployment of relay/femto cells.
- User association to macro/micro cell to improve performance.
- Carrier component allocation to improve fairness, reduce interference.
- Working on to create literature review and going to explore Facility Location Optimization (MITACS) as well.
March 27
- Working with Abdul Hasib on LTE-Advanced Resource Allocation and Interference Management.
February 17
- Concluded applicability of MapReduce to BioInformatics dataset with some comments.
- Read the report of Ahmed Hamza and discussed with him to get acquainted with the task of 3D video processing primitives on cloud platforms.
- Explored open source solutions to figure out some which can be helpful for 3D video processing primitives.
- Discussed with Ahmed about the strategy in search of an appropriate solution.
- Here is the report.
January 27
- Ran some experiments on Fei Gao's thesis work to get acquainted with it.
- Exploring different techniques to speed up similarity measurement in BioInformatics data e.g. DNA/RNA sequences report.
- The two 8 level courses consuming too much time and the initial shuffle between TA/RA
- I believe things will improve from next week.
- Planning to explore a bit more on existing approaches with BioInformatics data including kernel based clustering algorithms as those are closely related with Fei Gao's work with comments from Wael Abd-Almageed, Ph.D in mind.
January 4
- Read the thesis paper of Fei Gao and generated the report.
- Planning to run some experiments on Fei Gao's work in the cluster of our Lab.
Fall 2011 (RA)
- Courses:
- CMPT-705: Design and Analysis of Algorithms
- CMPT-726: Machine Learning
December 29
- Discussed with Fei Gao about his research work and BioInformatics data.
- Reading the thesis paper of Fei Gao.
November 22
- Created Azure sample application using Azure storage and tested using my free azure test account.
- Explored abstracts and introductions of papers to find out some papers with unexplored materials to be read.
- Spent some time to figure out Machine Learning Project related to my research field.
- Produced the report.
November 9
- Read a couple of more papers thoroughly to cover another dimension and generated the report.
- Planning to look for any new idea that is not covered by looking into papers.
- Also planning to look into details of some development module like Merkel trees etc.
October 25
- Went through some papers (only the 1st phase reading) to decide some more papers to read and learn.
- Read a couple of more papers thoroughly and analyzed all the papers read so far.
- Created the report.
October 11
- Read several more papers and generated corresponding report.
September 23
- Read a few more papers.
- Created initial report on my reading.
September 6
- Wrote some sample programs on Azure for both VS 2008 and VS 2010
- Went through the paper "Ensuring Data Storage Security in Cloud Computing" as part of the survey
