Research Centre: Director, The Integrated Communications Research Centre
Research Unit: Head, The Mobile Computing, Communications, and Networking Research Unit
Postal Address: Faculty of Advanced Technology,
Telephone: +44 (0) 1443 482780
Fax: +44 (0) 1443 482780
E-mail: kbegain@glam.ac.uk
Latest News
13 November 2007: Invited to Orange VIP table on the IET Innovation Award Ceremony in
Marriot Hotel at
12 November 2007: Invited Lecture at France Telecom-Orange Labs Webinar entitled “Service
Science” in Chiswick,
11-14 September 2007: NGMAST’07
has been a great success.
15 May 2007: I have been
invited to join a Welsh Assembly Government ICT Special Interest Group
subcommittee on “Future and Horizons”. The remit of the subcommittee is to
advise WAG on the future of telecoms.
18
January 1007: I have been invited to deliver the Keynote Speech at
the “After 5” event
on Mobility in
22 November 2006: Preparations started for
the International Conference and Exhibition on
Next Generation Mobile Applications, Services and Technologies (NGMAST’07) to
be held in
26 October
2006: I have been invited to deliver the Keynote Speech at the First Annual
European Cantata Technology User Conference held on 25 – 27 October 2006, in
the beautiful location of
24 October 2006: Royal
recognition for scientific contributions: Her
Majesty The Queen and the Duke of
July 2006: Invitation to join the Editorial Board of
the International Journal on Modelling and Simulation in Engineering, Hindawi
Publishing House, USA..
30 May 2006: I have been elected as
the Chairman of the European Council for Modelling and
Simulation in the Annual General Meeting of the Council which was held
in Bonn, Germany.
06 July 2005: Appointment as Adjunct
Professor at ECU accepted and confirmed!
01 July 2005:
GREAT HONOUR: I have been offered an Adjunct Professorship by
the
20 April 2005: I have been appointed
as International Board Member of the Centre of Excellence for MicroPhotonic Systems
(COMPS),
16 April 2005: I have been granted
the British Computer Society Fellow (FBCS)
status and the Chartered IT Professional (CITP)
title by invitation!
April 2005: MoCoNet has been granted
£265K for the establishment of new state-of-art
labs:
1. Wireless Application Lab
2. MicroPhotonics Test Lab
18 April 2005: Deadline for the CR
papers for ASMTA2005
7 April 2005: I have been elected
by The Steering Committee of the UK
Society of Modelling and Simulation to the General
Chair of the 2006 International Conference on Modelling and Simulation
to be held in Oxford in April 2006.
12 February 2005: Invitation to join
the Editorial Board of the Journal of Communications Software and Systems
(JCOMSS).
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06 January 2005: I have been invited
to be member of the Management Committee of the IEEE UK&RI Computer Chapter
as Wales Representative.
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14 Dec. 2004: Guest Editors: I Awan
and K. Al-Begain: approval obtained for Special Issue of the International Journal of Wireless
Information Networks on Performance Modelling of Wireless and Mobile
Networks, Kluwer.
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14 Dec. 2004: Guest Editors: I Awan and K. Al-Begain:
approval obtained for Special Issue of the International Journal of Computer
and System Sciences (JCSS) on Performance Modelling of Wired/Wireless System
and Networks, Elsevier.
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14 Dec. 2004: Four new conference committee memberships. Check full list
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Royal Academy of Engineering/Vodafone Group Grants
to host two distinguished professors as follows:
Prof. Kamal Alameh, Microphotonic Communications, Cowan
Edith University, Australia (Grant: £6,800) 03-31 January 2005.
Prof. Alexander Dudin, Queueing Theory and modelling of
mobile systems, Belarus State University, Belarus (Grant: £6,200) 01-28 March
2005.
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The
Mobile Computing and Networking Research Group and the School of Computing are now
members of The Wireless
University Forum (TWUF) sponsored by Vodafone and
·
The
MSc. in Mobile Computing has been successfully
launched. Additionally, our mobile
computing lab has been set up jointly at the moment with the networking lab.
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The webpage of the 12th
International Conference on Analytical and Stochastic Modelling Techniques
and Applications (ASMTA'05),
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The webpage of the 1st
International Workshop on Performance
Modelling of Wired, Wireless and Mobile Networking and Computing as part of IC PADS2005,
Japan 22-25 July 2005 is on now.