Waheed Muhammad

E-mail: rmwaheed@gmail.com

Career

Summary

13+ years of experience in telecommunication industry. Extensive hand on experience

includes; working on wireless technologies (CDMA/EVDO, WiMax, LTE/LTE-A) as well as

OF/Cu based wire line networks. Expertise are in Radio access design, RF planning and

optimization of CDMA/EVDO & LTE/LTE-A networks. Currently working as National

Manager, Wireless Network Planning for Emirates Telecom (Etisalat). Experience in

wireless domain include; Network Planning/Design, planning rollouts/expansions, network

performance analysis, KPI analysis & Optimization.

Work

Experience

[ July 2007 – Till date ]

Consultant Telecom

 Architect solutions for evolution of 2G/3G networks to LTE/LTE-A.

 Wireless access network planning, design and dimensioning.

 Plans to increase throughput coverage and capacity of radio networks.

[ June 2001 – Till date ] Emirates Telecom (Etisalat Pakistan-PTCL)

Senior Manager Wireless Network Planning/Design

3G evolution to LTE

 National Manager for evolving 3G to LTE network.

 LTE radio access network planning and designing using Multi Standard Radios (MSR) base

Stations.

 Preparation of evolution plan, TOR, Test Protocol to evolve company’s 3G network to LTE.

 Spectrum re-farming for overlaying LTE network.

 National manager for planning evolution, installation, testing and performance analysis of LTE

network using tools like (Aircom-Asset, Genex-Probe, Nemo-Anite, Mentum-Planet.)

 Evaluation of LTE solution, its features, interfaces and evaluation in accordance to 3GPP

Releases Rel.8 & 9.

 IoT of collocated solution and analysis of evolution impact on existing network.

CapEx & New Project Plan

 Preparation of RFPs including BoQ and Scope of Work based on the regional planning

team feedback, network evolution, technology trends, resource utilization and network

loading.

 Project evaluation based on time, cost, and quality constraints against commercial

requirements.

 RFP and Contract vetting, technical evaluation and price negotiation.

 Hardware and Software resource dimensioning and traffic modeling.

 New technology and Strategic Project Planning.

 Inventory management of all contracts and BoQs.

Project Execution

 National Manger for BSS/RF Planning dimensioning, design and rolling out (LTE/LTE-A,

WiMAX, CDMA 1x and EVDO) Networks.

 Responsible for coverage/capacity planning, KPI analysis and optimization of

CDMA/EVDO/DAS-IBS/LTE & LTE-A networks.

 Network Topology and Connectivity Design and approvals.

 Defining CEB (Coverage Expectation Boundary) to launch the network.

 Link Budgeting, Model tuning & RF coverage simulation by using Aircom Asset, Mentum

Planet & Atoll network planning tools.

 Frequency/spectrum planning, LAC, Cell ID, PN and neighbor list planning.

 Coordinating with the regional planning and development teams for planning and project

deliverable updates.

 Contract management, conflict resolution, design reviews and approvals.

Change Management

 Evaluation of Hardware and software change requirements.

 Evaluation of cutover and change plans.

 Planning and rolling out swap of existing systems with SDR BTSs for capacity expansion and

with dual band SDR BTSs for Capex/Opex reduction.

Miscellaneous

 Recommendations for technical specification.

 Planning process development.

 Coordinating with regional planning teams for project update and tracking.

 Conducting site surveys in working with sub-contractors quality control and approvals.

 More professional exposure by dealing with world famous vendors & consultant. companies

such as Alcatel Lucent, Motorola (USA), ZTE (China), Huawei Technologies (China), Nera,

NEC, Qualcomm (USA), Air com(USA), Ericsson, Samsung, Anite, Mentum etc.

Senior Engineer RF

Network Planning:

 Conduct Radio network planning for the CDMA2000 1x/EVDO Wireless Network

 Plan Radio Network Coverage based on commercial plans to target new areas

 Fill the coverage holes and improve QoS.

 Tentative network planning based on simulation tools, site surveys, link budgeting and

engineering parameter design.

Testing & Managing Network Performance:

 Analyze BSS and RF KPIs and take measures for improvement of network KPIs & QoS/QoE

 Manage the Terminal performance and conduct qualification Testing

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Prepare specifications and technical evaluation of the system

Reports Generation

Preparation of network performance reports

Coordination Activities

 Coordinate with the other departments for their support in dealing with the network issues

 Coordinating with (TDR) Transmission Development Region for transmission network design

and implementation

Divisional Engineer

 Lead the team responsible for company’s OSP network, its performance analysis,

network planning, design layouts & execute expansions.

 Local network optimization through Re-Engineering.

 Divisional in charge and responsible of routine O&M, preventive and corrective

maintenance of copper as well as optical fiber based access networks and outside

plant (OSP).

 OSP Network Planning, Laying, Splicing, Jointing, fault location, routine O&M.

 Business Manager of telecom services (Voice, data) over wire line (Copper, Optical

Fiber, ONUs), as well as Wireless (CDMA), for a huge geographic area.

Asst. Divisional Engineer

 Routine O&M work, inter-operator interfacings, database creation/screening at transit

exchanges of the company’s main interconnect point with local, national,

International, cellular, NGN, PCCS, VOIP and IN networks.

 Executed expansions, conduct acceptance testing and commissioning of network

additions (VOIP, NGN, Soft switches, High capacity Transit exchanges, Signaling

transfer points STPs, Media gateways etc.) and their O&M.

 National/International telecom traffic analysis, routing, charging, network optimization

and management of circuit switched, NGN, soft switches as well as VOIP networks.

Interfacing VOIP platforms with international operators and revenue co-sharers.

[ Oct 2000 – June 2001 ]

Project Management Organization.

Asst. Manager

 Manager of quality assurance (QA) and control (QC) during manufacturing,

assembling, simulation & testing of electronic boards/equipments/ control systems.

 Officer in charge of QA and QC for the production activities carried out by the

Organization.

Teaching Experience

 Have been teaching Artificial Intelligence and wireless communications at different levels.

 Supervised bachelor and master level students in their research work and graduation

thesis work.

Professional

Memberships

 International Association of Computer Science and Information Technology (ICASIT).

 Pakistan Engineering Council (PEC).

 Member editorial board academicjournals.org (AJAR).

Professional

Trainings/

Courses/

Certifications

 Informa Certified LTE Radio Planning & Optimization Professional.

 RF Planning and Optimization by Mentum France.

 Drive Testing and analysis on Nemo by Anite Finland .

 File Management System & Financial Approval System by ZTE china.

 Billing and Customer Care System by ZTE china.

 Next Generation Networks and High Capacity Transit Exchanges by HUAWEI, China.

 Telecommunication Traffic Analysis and Forecasting by NPGIT (ICT) PTCL.

 Operation & Maintenance of HUAWEI Switching Systems by HUAWEI, China.

 PTCL Telecommunication Staff College Course for telecom engineers.

 SIEMENS Switching Systems, Surpass (NGN) and Datacom.

Research

Activities

Fields of Active Interests

 Radio resource management & optimization in Cognitive radios/network, Software Defined

Radios (SDRs), 4G & beyond networks.

 R.F Spectrum management.

 Capacity and coverage optimization in LTE/ LTE-A networks.

 Performance improvement of CDMA networks.

 Streaming video VBR transport over high speed all optical networks.

 Scalable Video Coding (SVC).

Dissertations

 Radio Resource Management in Cognitive Radio using Evolutionary Techniques.

 Concept of Relaying in LTE-Advanced.

 Symbol error probability and multi user detection in CDMA network.

Research Reports

 Spectrum management in Cognitive Radio Networks (CRNs).

 Mobility management in WiMAX.

 Quadruple play over IMS.

Research Publications

 “Low Complexity Algorithms for Transmit Antenna Selection in Cognitive MIMO

System” 35th IEEE Conference on Local Computer Networks (LCN 2010)

Denver, Colorado, USA.

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“Evolutionary Algorithms for Radio Resource Management in Cognitive Radio

Network” 28th IEEE International Conference on Performance Computing and

Communications, 2009 (IPCCC ’09) Phoenix, Arizona, USA.

“Evolutionary Schemes for Cognitive Radio Adaptation” 5th International

Conference on Wireless Communications, Networking and Mobile Computing,

2009 (WiCOM '09).

“Cognitive Radio Parameter Adaptation in Multicarrier Environment” Fifth

International Conference on Wireless and Mobile Communications, 2009 (ICWMC

'09) Cannes, France.

“Experimental evaluation of VBR transport over optical burst switching network”

second IEEE International Conference on Computer Science and Information

Technology, 2009 (ICCSIT 2009).

“Novel Mechanism for Smoothing and Efficient Transport of SVC Coded Video over

Optical Burst Switching Network Pacific-Asia Conference on Circuits,

Communications and Systems, 2009. (PACCS '09).

 “Streaming Video in Cellular Networks Using Scalable Video Coding Extension of

H.264-AVC” 4th International Conference on Wireless Communications, Networking

and Mobile Computing, 2008 (WiCOM '08).

Education

PhD.

 Communication and Information System.

Specialization in Software Defined Radios (SDRs) enabling technology for evolution of

2G/3G to 4G/LTE and Beyond Networks.

MSc. Telecommunication Engineering

 1st position throughout the academic session.

MSc. Electronics Engineering

 With major in optical and wireless communications.

BSc. Electrical Engineering

 With major in Electronics & Communications.

BSc.

 Mathematics and Physics.

Language

Skills

 English, Arabic, Urdu, Punjabi, Hindi, Chinese.

References: To be furnished upon request.