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Hussein Jamaluddin Khaleel

Communication Engineering Department
Lecturer

Hussein J Khaleel is a holder of Ph.D. in Electronics and Communications Engineering from Politecnico di Torino in Italy in 2011. He received an M.Sc. in Information and Communications Engineering from the University of Karlsruhe in Germany in 2007. He earned a B.Sc. in Electronics and Communications Engineering from the University of Baghdad in Iraq in 2004.

His research interests are in the field of dependable wireless communications and security in scope of the Internet of Things (IoT).

Professional experience include:

  • Lecturer at the Department of Communications Engineering, University of Technology, Baghdad, Iraq
  • R&D Expert at Tamata E-Commerce, Baghdad, Iraq
  • Head of the Department of Communications Engineering at Al-Shaab University, Baghdad, Iraq
  • Senior Software Developer at Dell Technologies, Toronto, Canada
  • Embedded Software Developer – R&D at Fortress Technology, Toronto, Canada
  • Head of Research Unit at ISMB Research Center, Turin, Italy
  • Researcher at ISMB Research Center, Turin, Italy
  • Electromagnetic Fields, Dept. of Communications Engineering, University of Technology, Iraq, 2025
  • Electromagnetic Fields, Dept. of Communications Engineering, Al-Shaab University, Iraq, 2024
  • Mobile Communications, Dept. of Computer Techniques Engineering, Dijlah University College, Iraq, 2016
  • Statistical Signal Analysis Lab, Department of Electronics, Politecnico di Torino, Italy, 2010
  • Computer Aided Design of Wireless Communication Systems Lab, Department of Electronics, Politecnico di Torino, Italy, 2010
  1. F.Penna, C. Pastrone, H. Khaleel, M. A. Spirito, R. Garello, “Characterization of Wi-Fi interference for dynamic channel allocation in WPANs”, Reliable Communications for Short-range Wireless Systems. Cambridge University Press, 2011.
  2. Khaleel, H.; Conzon, D.; Kasinathan, P.; Brizzi, P.; Pastrone, C.; Pramudianto, F.; Eisenhauer, M.; Cultrona, P.A.; Rusina, F.; Lukac, G.; Paralic, M., “Heterogeneous Applications, Tools, and Methodologies in the Car Manufacturing Industry Through an IoT Approach,” in Systems Journal, IEEE, vol.PP, no.99, pp.1-1, Sep 2015.
  3. Khaleel, H.; Penna, F.; Pastrone, C.; Tomasi, R.; Spirito, M.A., “Frequency Agile Wireless Sensor Networks: Design and Implementation,” IEEE Sensors Journal, vol.12, no.5, pp.1599,1608, May 2012. (ranked #16 most downloaded Sensors Journal papers in the month of May, 2012).
  4. Younesian, E.; Khaleel, H.; Delgado, M.T.; Pastrone, C.; Garello, R., “Packet-Loss Modelling for Multi-Radio Wireless Sensor Networks,” IEEE 10th International Conference on Wireless and Mobile Computing, Networking and Communications (WiMob), 8-10 Oct. 2014.
  5. Khaleel, H.; Kasinathan, P.; Pastrone, C., “Demo: Dependable and Scalable Multi-Radio Networked Embedded System,” 22nd International Conference on Software, Telecommunications and Computer Networks (SoftCOM 2014), 17-19 September 2014. (Won the Best Demo Award)
  6. Prabhakaran Kasinathan, Gianfranco Costamagna, Hussein Khaleel, Claudio Pastrone, and Maurizio A. Spirito. DEMO: An IDS framework for internet of things empowered by 6LoWPAN. In Proceedings of the 2013 ACM SIGSAC conference on Computer & communications security (CCS ’13). ACM, New York, NY, USA, 1337-1340. November 4 – 8, 2013. Berlin, Germany.
  7. Delgado, M.T.; Khaleel, H.; Pastrone, C.; Spirito, M.A., “Underlying connectivity mechanisms for multi-radio wireless sensor and actuator networks,” IEEE 9th International Conference on Wireless and Mobile Computing, Networking and Communications (WiMob) 2013, pp.408,413, 7-9 Oct. 2013.
  8. Brizzi, P.; Conzon, D.; Khaleel, H.; Tomasi, R.; Pastrone, C.; Spirito, A.M.; Knechtel, M.; Pramudianto, F.; Cultrona, P., “Bringing the Internet of Things along the manufacturing line: A case study in controlling industrial robot and monitoring energy consumption remotely,” IEEE 18th Conference on Emerging Technologies & Factory Automation (ETFA), pp.1,8, 10-13 Sept. 2013.
  9. Pramudianto, Ferry; Simon, Jonathan; Eisenhauer, Markus; Khaleel, Hussein; Pastrone, Claudio; Spirito, Maurizio, “Prototyping the Internet of Things for the future factory using a SOA-based middleware and reliable WSNs,” IEEE 18th Conference on Emerging Technologies & Factory Automation (ETFA), pp.1,4, 10-13 Sept. 2013.     
  10. Khaleel, H.; Delgado, M.; Pastrone, C.; Spirito, M.A.; Tchabou, S.; Garello, R., “Multi-access interface selection based on data mining algorithm,” IEEE-APS Topical Conference on Antennas and Propagation in Wireless Communications (APWC), pp.1457,1460, 9-13 Sept. 2013.
  11. Penna, F.; Khaleel, H.; Pastrone, C.; Tomasi, R.; Spirito, M., “On spectrum sensing duration in cognitive wireless sensor networks,” 3rd International Symposium on Applied Sciences in Biomedical and Communication Technologies (ISABEL 2010), IEEE, pp.1,5, 7-10 Nov. 2010.
  12. Tomasi, H. Khaleel., F. Penna, C. Pastrone, R. Garello, M. A. Spirito, “Frequency Agility in IPv6-based Wireless Personal Area Networks (6LoWPAN),” International Conference on Wired/Wireless Internet Communications (WWIC 2010), Springer, Jun, 2010.
  13. Hussein Khaleel, Federico Penna, Claudio Pastrone, Riccardo Tomasi, and Maurizio A. Spirito, “Distributed spectrum sensing and channel selection in opportunistic wireless personal area networks”. In proceedings of the Second International Workshop on Mobile Opportunistic Networking (MobiOpp’10), ACM, Feb. 2010. (Won the Best Demo Award).
  14. Pastrone, H. Khaleel, F. Penna, M. A. Spirito, R. Garello, “WSN-based Spectrum Sensing to Monitor Wi-Fi Channel Occupation” In SDR-Italy ’09 – from Software Defined Radio to Cognitive Networks, Nov. 2009.
  15. Hussein Khaleel, Mirko Franceschinis, Riccardo Tomasi, Marina Mondin, “Accuracy-driven synchronization protocol: implementation and experimental evaluation,” In Proceedings of the International Conference on Management of Emergent Digital EcoSystems (MEDES ’09), ACM, Oct. 2009.
  16. Khaleel, H.; Pastrone, C.; Penna, F.; Spirito, M.A.; Garello, R., “Impact of Wi-Fi traffic on the IEEE 802.15.4 channels occupation in indoor environments,” International Conference on Electromagnetics in Advanced Applications (ICEAA’09), IEEE, pp.1042,1045, 14-18 Sept. 2009.
  17. Sellone, F.; Khaleel, H.; Urso, M.; Franceschinis, M.; Mondin, M., “Accuracy-Driven Synchronization Protocol,” Second International Conference on Sensor Technologies and Applications (SENSORCOMM ’08), IEEE, pp.93,98, 25-31 Aug. 2008.

Conducted research in the field of Wireless Sensor Networks, the Internet of Things and embedded systems, including:

  • Dependable communications of low power, short range and low rate wireless devices
  • Cognitive radio
  • Security on resource constrained SoCs
  • Statistical algorithms enabling machine learning and artificial intelligence

Industrial R&D

  • Modeling, simulation and optimization of electromagnetic systems
  • Filtering and signal processing
  • Scientific programming
  • D. in Electronics and Communications Engineering, Politecnico di Torino, Turin, Italy, 2011
  • Sc. in Information and Communications Engineering, University of Karlsruhe, Karlsruhe, Germany, 2007
  • Sc. in Electronics and Communications Engineering, University of Baghdad, Baghdad, Iraq, 2004

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  • IEEE Sensors Journal one of 25 most downloaded paper in May 2012
  • Best Demo Award in IEEE SoftCom2014 conference, Split, Croatia, Sep 2014
  • Best Demo Award in ACM MobiOpp’10 workshop, Pisa, Italy, Feb 2010
  • Research grant for one year from the Polytechnic of Turin, Turin, Italy, Jan 2009
  • Research grant for one year from the Polytechnic of Turin, Turin, Italy, Jan 2008
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