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, University of Glamorgan, United Kingdom

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 Grosvenor Square, London. Around the table were: FT VP Research, Managing Director, CTO and the Head of Research in Orange Labs UK in addition to Dean of EE, UCL.

12 November 2007: Invited Lecture at France Telecom-Orange Labs Webinar entitled “Service Science” in Chiswick, London.

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 London which is organised by International Business Wales and Intellect (The Trade Association of UK hi-tech Industry).

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 Cardiff on 12-14 September 2007. I am the General Chair of the conference.

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 Malta.  This is a premier, “must attend” event for all Cantata developer customers – carriers and enterprises alike.

24 October 2006: Royal recognition for scientific contributions: Her Majesty The Queen and the Duke of Edinburgh have given a reception in Buckingham Palace on the evening of 24^th October 2006 to recognise the contribution of more than 500 British scientists. I was invited as one of the recognised scientists!

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.

25 September 2005: I have been invited to be a member of the EPSRC Peer Review College for the period 2006-2009.

07 July 2005: The Saddest day: I was in LONDON on this very sad day. I witnessed the horror of terrorism personally. I still cannot understand how people can be so inhuman, cruel and criminal! I can only thank God for being able to write these lines.

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 Edith Cowan University, Perth, Australia in recognition of scientific Excellence.

20 April 2005: I have been appointed as International Board Member of the Centre of Excellence for MicroPhotonic Systems (COMPS), Edith Cowan University, Australia.

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).

· 06 January 2005: I have been invited to be member of the Management Committee of the IEEE UK&RI Computer Chapter as Wales Representative.

· 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.

· 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.

· 14 Dec. 2004: Four new conference committee memberships. Check full list

· 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.

· 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 Orange. We are among the first to join. I am also member of the experts’ panel of TWUF.

· 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.

· The webpage of the 12^th International Conference on Analytical and Stochastic Modelling Techniques and Applications (ASMTA'05), Riga, Latvia, 01-04 June, 2005 has been updated.

· The webpage of the 1^st 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.