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Mh’d Yakub AbuAlhoul

Mh’d Ya’kub Abualhoul works currently as Scientific Researcher and project coordinator at INRIA, where he received his Ph.D. in Robotics and Communication for Intelligent Transport System from both Mine ParisTech University and INRIA Research Institute, Paris-France in 2016. He holds an M.Sc. degree in Photonics and Communication engineering from Lund University (LTH), Lund-Sweden, and a B.Sc. in Wireless Communication Engineering from Yarmouk University, Irbid-Jordan. He was a research assistant in the department of communication engineering at Lund University and Özyeğin Üniversitesi from October 2011 until January 2012, January 2012 until June 2012, respectively. For a one year followed, Mohammad was working as an expert engineer at INRIA/RITS, in which he mainly worked on communication for ITS.

  • Current Position; Researcher and project coordinator.
  • Period ; 2017 – present
  • Phone ; +33 (0)1 80 49 41 91
  • Email address ; mohammad.abu_alhoul@inria.fr.

Ph.D. Thesis description:

TITLE: 
VISIBLE LIGHT AND RADIO COMMUNICATION FOR COOPERATIVE AUTONOMOUS DRIVING: applied to vehicle convoy.

Communications par lumière visible et radio pour la conduite coopérative autonome : application à la conduite en convois
ABSTRACT

With the extensive development of the automobile industry and the popularity of using personal road vehicles in the last decade, both traffic accidents and road congestion levels have rapidly increased. Researchers have shown that the significant number of traffic accidents are mainly due to the inability and slow responses of drivers to take the right actions on time, together with the misleading predictions. Taking advantage of advanced wireless communications to enable Cooperative Intelligent Transportation Systems (C-ITS) can improve road fluidity and driver comfort. Ensuring the safety requirements has been the primary interest of the standardization societies dedicated to developing C-ITS applications, in particular with the expected significant demand for a broad range of applications targeting these strict safety requirements. Radio Frequency (RF) communication technologydeployingIEEE802.11p standard for vehicular applications have been dedicated to facilitating relatively medium communication range that supports high data rate for the vehicular environment, where the technology meant to operate within the road safety requirements level. As a consequence of the accelerated increase of the wireless-based communication devices numbers for Intelligent Transport Systems (ITS) applications, the RF communication solutions are pushed toward an insatiable demand for wireless networks data access and a remarkable increase in both latency and channel congestion levels. This instability introduced more usage constraints when C-ITS is required. An example of such applications where the safety requirements and usage constraints might be strictly sharp are the convoy-based ITS applications. The reliability of these applications highly depends on the quality of the Vehicle-to-Vehicle (V2V) communication link, therefore, understanding the safety requirements for ITS applications and investigating the limits of the existing communication solutions are extremely important.

Several solutions and supportive communication technologies were proposed to overcome the usage constraints of the RF technology for C-ITS applications. Suggested solutions were the specific diversity techniques as in directional and smart antennas. Other solutions suggest the use of an independent communication medium such as Infra-Red (IR), Visible light communication (VLC). By realizing both low-cost implementation and dual functionality, VLC has become an outstanding intriguing supportive technology by using the vehicular existed infrastructure, (e.g. rear and front lamps) as transmission units. However, very few efforts have been made to extend and address this technology to particular ITS applications that take into consideration the real-world environment and the optical channel characteristics. This thesis effort contributes to the autonomous vehicular communication and urban mobility improvements. The work addresses the main radio-based V2V communication limitations and challenges for ITS hard-safety applications and intends to deploy the vehicular lighting system as a supportive communication solution for platooning of IVC-enabled autonomous vehicles. The ultimate objectives of this Ph.D. research are to integrate the VLC system within the existing C-ITS architecture by developing a VLC prototype, together with sufficient hand-over algorithms enablingVLC, RF, and perception-based solutions in order to ensure the maximum safety requirements and the continuous information exchange between vehicles. The feasibility and efficiency of the VLC-RF system implementation and handover algorithms were subjects to deep investigations over six self-contained chapters meant to facilitate a logical progression of materials and to enable a relatively easy access. In addition to the improvement in road capacity by utilizing the convoy-based autonomous driving systems. The carried out simulations followed-up by experimental results proved that the integration of VLC with the existed RF solutions lead to a definite benefit in the communication channel quality and safety requirements of a platooning system when a proper hand-over algorithm is utilized.
The Ph.D main framework.
  • Study and define the failure scenarios in the existed communication standardized technology for ITS.
  • Study the applicability to update RITS CyCab (Automated Vehicle) in order to use VLC by employing existed infrastructure in the vehicle as signal emitters, such as Back-Lights, Front-Lights… etc.
  • Simulating and studying the propagation characteristics of the latest models using VLC for Platooning scenarios, such as Link-Budget, Bit-Error-Rate, Packets Delivery performance.
  • Proposing Hand-over algorithm between both RF and Optical based solutions.
  • Conducting practical implementation (Test-Bench), using Light communication in order to use it in RITS CyCab for future long term experimentations.
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Education

  • Ecole MINES ParisTech, Paris, France                                                                                Sept 2013 – Dec 2016
    • Ph.D. Candidate, Visible Light and Radio communications for automated driving
    • Thesis Title: VISIBLE LIGHT AND RADIO COMMUNICATION FOR COOPERATIVE AUTONOMOUS DRIVING: applied to vehicle convoy.
  • Lund University, Lund, Sweden                                                                                            Sept 2009 – Sept 2011
    • M.Sc., Engineering in Photonics & Communications
    • Master Thesis: Free Space Optical Link for Biomedical Applications
  • Yarmouk University, Irbid, Jordan                                                                                       Sept 2005 – Sept 2008
    •  B.Sc., Telecommunications Engineering
    • Graduation Project: Wireless Electro Cardio Graphic System
  • Albalqa University, Amman, Jordan                                                                                       Sept 2000 – May 2002
    •  Diploma in Telecommunication Engineering

Previous Experience

  • Jan,2017 – Present:  Researcher and project coordinator at RITS Team, INRIA, Paris France – AUTOC-ITS Project.
  • Nov, 2013 – Dec, 2016: PhD Candidate at Imara/RITS Team/Project, INRIA, Paris France – Visible Light and Radio communications for automated driving.
  • Oct, 2012 – Oct, 2013: Expert Engineer at Imara Team, INRIA, Paris France – Studying the visibility of using vehicular signaling light as a communication medium, as supportive solution alongside radio communications for ITS applications.
  • Jan, 2012 – Jun, 2012: Researcher & Teaching assistant, Özyeğin Üniversitesi, Istanbul, Turkey – Free Space Optical channels modeling and undergraduate student assistant.
  • Oct, 2011 – Jan, 2012: Research Assistant, OLund University, Lund, Sweden – Distributed Antenna Systems Measurements.

Related Publications

  1. Abualhoul, M.Y.; Svenmarker, P.; Qin Wang; Andersson, J.Y.; Johansson, A.J., “Free space optical link for biomedical applications,” in Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (EMBC), 2012 Annual International Conference of the IEEE , vol., no., pp.1667-1670, Aug. 28 2012-Sept. 1 2012
    doi: 10.1109/EMBC.2012.6346267
  2. Abualhoul, M.Y.; Marouf, M.; Shagdar, O.; Nashashibi, F., “Platooning control using visible light communications: A feasibility study,” in Intelligent Transportation Systems – (ITSC), 2013 16th International IEEE Conference on , vol., no., pp.1535-1540, 6-9 Oct. 2
  3. Younes Bouchaala, Mohamed Marouf, Mohammad Y. Abualhoul, Evangeline Pollard, Oyunchimeg Shagdar and Fawzi Nashashibi., “WAVE Low Latency Video Streaming for Platooning Safety Real-Time Application” DOI: 10.13140/RG.2.1.1234.6083 Conference: VNC2013, At USA
  4. Abualhoul, M.Y.; Marouf, M.; Shag, O.; Nashashibi, F., “Enhancing the field of view limitation of Visible Light Communication-based platoon,” in Wireless Vehicular Communications (WiVeC), 2014 IEEE 6th International Symposium on , vol., no., pp.1-5, 14-15 Sept. 2014
    doi: 10.1109/WIVEC.2014.6953221

  5. Abualhoul, M.Y.; Shag, O.; Nashashibi, F., “Visible Light Inter-Vehicle Communication for Platooning of Autonomous Vehicles”, 2016 IEEE Intelligent Vehicles Symposium IV2016, Gothenburg, Sweden, Jun. 2016. DOI: 10.1109/IVS.2016.7535434 [Online]: http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/7535434/

  6.  M. Abualhoul, P. Merdrignac, O. Shagdar, and F. Nashashibi, “Study and Evaluation of Laser-based Perception and Light Communication for a Platoon of Autonomous Vehicles”, in 2016 IEEE 19th Intelligent Transportation Systems Conference (ITSC 2016), Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. [Online]: http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/7795802/
  7. Rodrigo Castiñeira, Jose Eugenio Naranjo, Mauro Gil, Felipe Jimenez, Pedro Serra, Alerto Valejo, Alireza Asvadid, Cristiano Premebidad, Mohammad Y. Abualhoul, Fawzi Nashashibi, “AUTOCITS-Regulation study for interoperability in the adoption of autonomous driving in European urban nodes”, in Transport Research Arena (TRA) 2018(TRA2018),Vienna .
  8. M. Abualhoul, Edgar Talavera, and F. Nashashibi, “The Use of Lane-Centering to Ensure the Visible Light Communication Connectivity for a Platoon of Autonomous Vehicles”, in 2018 IEEE International Conference on Vehicular Electronics and Safety (ICVES2018). 
  9. M. Abualhoul, Mustafa Al-Bado, Oyunchimeg Shagdar, and F. Nashashibi, “A Proposal for VLC-Assisting IEEE802.11p Communication for Vehicular Environment Using a Prediction-based Handover”, in The 21st IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Transportation Systems(ITSC2018), Maui, Hawaii, USA.

  10.  M. Abualhoul, “Visible light and radio communication for cooperative driving: A study applied on vehicle convoy autonomous driving systems”, Published book. ISBN-13: 978-3-639-60779-6, ISBN-10: 3639607791. [Online] https://www.morebooks.de/store/gb/book/visible-light-and-radio-communication-for-cooperative-driving/isbn/978-3-639-60779-6.

     

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