Personal details: Name: Abbou Fouad Mohammed Nationality: Moroccan Designation: Professor Specialization: Electrical Engineering Academic Qualifications: Degree University Field Year Propadeuse Delft University of Technology Electrical Dec. Netherlands Engineering 1991 Ingenieur (M.Sc) Delft University of Technology Netherlands Electrical Engineering Sept. 1995 Ph. D. Multimedia University Electrical April Malaysia Engineering 2001 Position held: 2008-to date: o Deputy Rector for Academic Affairs & Research and Development o Professor at Al-Madinah International University. o Dean, Institute of Postgraduate Studies. 2008-to 2009 Professor (Alcatel-Lucent visiting fellow) at multimedia university. 2005-2008 associate professor at multimedia university (MMU) and Alcatel-lucent visiting fellow. 2001-2005 Alcatel-lucent visiting fellow at multimedia university (MMU), Malaysia. 1997–2001 Lecturer at multimedia university (MMU), Malaysia. 1996–1997 Researcher at computer assurance service center (casc ), netherlands. 1994–1995 Researcher at PTT Research, Netherlands PHD THESIS SUSPERVISIONS 1. Title: Performance Evaluation and Design of optical burst switched WDM Networks Degree: PHd Student: Status: Graduated 2007 2. Title: Design and Performance Analysis of WDM packet switched Networks Degree: PHd Student: Hakim Mellah Status: Graduated 2008 3. Title: WDM Networks: Contention Resolution, Amplified Spontaneous Emission Noise and Four-Wave Mixing Aware Wavelength Routing and Wavelength Assignment Degree: PHd Student: Tan Saw CHin Status: Graduated 2008 MSC THESIS SUSPERVISIONS 4. Title: Analytical Evaluation of the impact of Cross-phase Modulation (XPM) on the BER Performance of a WDM Transmission System Degree: MEng. Student: P.M.A. Zahidin Status: Graduated 2001 5. Title: Performance Analysis on Phase-Encoded OCDMA Communication System in the presence of Dispersion Degree: MEng. Student: C. H. Chua Status: Graduated 2003 6. Title: A Novel Wavelength Converter Based on Cross-Phase Modulation (XPM) in Single mode Fiber and Sideband Brillouin Amplification Degree: MEng. Student: Jude Lopez Status: Graduated 2003 7. Title: Performance Analysis of SCM-WDM Optical Transmission Systems Degree: MEng. Student: Shamini Subramaniam Status: Graduated 2005 8. Title: Performance Analysis and Design of Optical TDM-WDM Transmission Degree: MSc. Eng, Student: Hiew Chee Choong Status: Graduated 2005 9. Title: Performance Analysis and Design of a WDM Ring Network Degree: MSc. Eng, Student: Katrina D. Dambul Status: Graduated 2005 10. Title: Study and design of an arrayed waveguide grating multiplexer/demultiplexer (AWGM) for dense wavelength division multiplexing (DWDM) optical networks Degree: MSc. Eng, Student: Sim Ee Chiang Status: Graduated 2007 11. Title: Optical Burst Switching Network with NOLM as Buffering-Switching Device Degree: MSc. Eng, Student: M. F. ROGER Status: Graduated 2008 12. Title: Performance Evaluation of Satellite-Based Quantum Optical Communication Systems Degree: MSc. Eng, Student: Richard Etengu Status: Completed 2009 13. Title: WDM Networks: Physical Limitations Aware Switching, Routing and Wavelength Assignment Degree: MSc. Eng, Student: Mohammad Mahadi Hassan Status: Completed 2009 RESEARCH ACTIVITIES CPRA Research Centre Chairperson, 2008-2009 The Centre of Photonics Research and Application (CPRA) is a centre that has been established to spearhead research and innovation in the broad sphere of photonics technologies. The objective of the centre is to conduct R&D on photonics systems and devices for applications in Information and Communication Technology (ICT) and in other industries that require the use of the technology. This is achieved through a portfolio of collaborative R&D projects, which includes strategic long-term research programmes, industrial collaborative programmes, and consultancy. Chairman of the Optical Communication Group (OCG), 2001-2006 OCG is one of the focus research groups set up under the Center for Photonics Research, Innovation & Applications (CPRIA). The group initially focuses on research related to optical communication. This includes research on areas such as: Photonics devices such as optical sources, optical switches, integrated optics, waveguide, routers, etc. Lightwave system architecture scheme such as Wavelength Division Multiplexing, Time Division Multiplexing, Subcarrier Multiplexing, Soliton transmission, optical computing, etc. Research on fibre non-linearity in optical fibre communication system is also of interest. Chairman of Broadband Technologies Group (BTG), 2001-2006 The Broadband Technologies Group is one of the focus research groups set up under the Center for Photonics Research, Innovation & Applications (CPRIA) The objective of the group is to conduct research in various technical aspects involved in bringing optical broadband networking access to homes and offices. Membership of Academic Committees: (i) Member of Master of Engineering Committee, Faculty of Engg, MMU, Malaysia (Jan 2000to date). (ii) Member, Academic and Corporate Planning Committee, Faculty of Engg, MMU, Malaysia (Jan 2000- July 2002). Professional Activities: Member, Technical Program Committee, 14th IEEE International Conference On Telecommunications (ICT) and 8th IEEE Malaysia International Conference on Communications (MICC), ICT- MICC 14th-17th May 2007, Penang, Malaysia. Member, Program Committee, 8th IFIP/ IEEE International Conference on Mobile and Wireless Communications Networks (MWCN 2006), Hosted by Université Pierre et Marie Curie, Paris, France, in Santiago Chile, 20-25 August, 2006 Member, Technical Program Committee, IEEE International Conference on Networks (ICON), Kuala Lumpur, MALAYSIA, 16 – 18 November 2005. Member, Technical Program Committee, The Second International Conference on Innovations in Information Technology (IIT'05) Emirates Towers Hotel. Dubai, UAE September 26-28, 2005. Member, Technical Program Committee, 7th IFIP International Conference on Mobile and Wireless Communications Networks (MWCN 2005),Hosted by Centre for Telecommunications Research, King's College London. Morocco, 19-21 September, 2005 Chairman of the optical communications session, MMU International Symposium on Information and Communications Technologies (MUSIC) 2004 Conference, Putrajaya, October 2004. Chairman of the Technical Committee, Photonics network technologies, The 9th Asia Pacific Conference on Communications 2003 (APCC2003), Penang from the 21st to 24th September 2003. Chairman of the optical communications session MMU International Symposium on Information and Communications Technologies (MUSIC) 2002 Conference, Kuala Lumpur, October 2002. Membership of Professional Bodies: 1. Member, Institute of Electrical & Electronic Engineers (IEEE) 2. Member, Netherlands Institute of Engineers. Reviewer for the following technical Journals: IEEE Communications letters IEEE Journal of Lightwave technology SPIE: The International Society for Optical Engineering. IEEE Transactions on Communications Research & Publication: Current Research Project (as a Project Leader and researcher): 1. Title: Optical packet switching network: design, performance analysis and contention resolution Supported by E-science funding from Ministry of Science, Technology & innovation of Malaysia. IRPA Grant : RM 88,100.00 Status: Ongoing project Previous Research Project (as a Project Leader and researcher): 2. Analysis and Design of a Arrayed Waveguide Grating Mux/Demux for DWDM applications Supported by IRPA funding from Ministry of Science, Technology & Education, Government of Malaysia. IRPA Grant : RM 158,000 Internal grant from MMU : RM 62,000 Completed 2004 Previous Research Project (as a Project Coordinator and researcher): 3. Performance Analysis and design of an Optical TDM-WDM Transmission System and network Supported by IRPA funding from Ministry of Science, Technology & Education, Government of Malaysia Grant approved: RM 116,000 Collaboration with Alcatel-Lucent Completed 2005 PUBLICATIONS BOOK CHAPTER A. Abid, F.M. Abbou, H. T. Ewe, and Toufik Taibi, "All-Optical Internet: Next-Generation Network Infrastructure for E-Service Applications," Chap: 12, pp 323-349, Architecture of Reliable Web Application Software, Idea Group Publishing, 2007. ISBN: 1-59904184-7. USA. JOURNAL PAPERS 1. Abbou Fouad Mohammed Chuah Hean Teik, S. P. Majumder, "Limitations of Soliton transmission in a Cascaded Optical Amplifier System", Journal of Optical Communications, Vol. 21, No.5, pp. 165 - 170, October 2000. 2. S. P. Majumder, Md. Hasanuzzaman, and F. M. Abbou, '' Performance of a Dispersion Compensated Optical Direct Detection Line-coded CPFSK System Impaired by SPM ", Journal of Optical Communications, Vol. 21, No.6, pp. 208 - 212, December 2000. 3. Abbou Fouad Mohammed, Chuah Hean Teik, S. P. Majumder, "Soliton propagation in dispersive-nonlinear medium," Fiber and Integrated Optics, Vol. 20, No.2, pp. 197 - 206, March 2001. 4. C. H. Chua, F.M. Abbou, H. T. Chuah, and S. P. Majumder, “Performance Analysis on PhaseEncoded OCDMA Communication System in Dispersive Fiber Medium,” IEEE Photonics Technol. Lett., Vol. 16, No. 2, pp. 668-670, February 2004. 5. C.C. Hiew, F.M. Abbou, H.T.Chuah, S.P. Majumder and A. A. R. Hairul, "BER Estimation of Optical WDM, RZ-DPSK Systems through the Differential Phase Q,”. IEEE Photonics Technol. Lett., Vol. 16, No. 12, pp. 2619- 2621, December 2004. 6. P.M.A. Zahidin, S.P.Majumder, F. M. Abbou, E. M. Razali, “Analytical Evaluation of the impact of Cross-phase Modulation (XPM) on the BER Performance of a WDM Transmission System”, Journal of Optical Communications, Vol. 26, No.2, pp. 79 - 84, February 2005. 7. C.C. Hiew, F.M. Abbou, H.T.Chuah, " Effect of Relative Intensity Noise in Optical Transmission Systems Employing Wavelength Conversion Based on XPM and MZI", Fiber Integrated Optics, Vol. 24, No.1, pp. 45 - 54, February 2005. 8. Katrina D. Dambul, F.M. Abbou, H.T.Chuah, “Performance Analysis of IP Traffic over a WDM Ring Network in the presence of Crosstalk ”, IEICE Electronics Express, Vol. 2 (2005), No. 5, pp.149-153. February 2005. 9. Y. M. Karfaa, F. M. Abbou, C.C. Hiew, and H. T. Chuah, “Analysis of Crosstalk Effect in an OXC employing Wavelength Converters based XPM in SMF in a Multi-wavelength transport Network”, Journal of Optical Communications, Vol. 26, No.1, pp. 17 - 23, February 2005. 10. C.C. Hiew, F.M. Abbou, H.T.Chuah, and S.P. Majumder, “Analysis of Cross-phase Modulation Effects on a Direct Detection Optical Soliton Transmission System in the Presence of GVD, SPM, and ASE noise”, Journal of Optical Communications Online 51. Vol. 26, No.2, pp. 17 - 23, April 2005. 11. Shamini Subramaniam, F. M. Abbou, H. T. Chuah and K.D. Dambul, “Performance evaluation of SCM-WDM fiber micro-cellular communication system in the presence of XPM”, IEICE Electronics Express, Vol. 2, No. 6, pp.1- 6, March 2005. 12. Ezmir M.R, S. P. Majumder*, F. M. Abbou, “Eye Penalty Due to Cross-Phase Modulation (XPM) in a Single Segment WDM IM/DD Transmission System”, Journal of Optical Communications, Vol. 26, No. 3, pp. 125 - 130, June 2005. 13. A. Abid, F. M. Abbou, H. T. Ewe, “Staged Reservation scheme for Optical Burst Switching Networks”, IEICE Electronics Express, Vol. 2, No. 11, pp.327-332, June 2005. 14. S.P Majumder, A. Azhari and F. M. Abbou; “Impact of Fiber Chromatic Dispersion on the BER Performance of an Optical CDMA IM/DD Transmission System”, IEEE Photonics Technol. Lett., Volume 17, Issue 6, pp:1340 - 1342 June 2005. 15. C.C. Hiew, F.M. Abbou, H.T.Chuah, S.P. Majumder and A. A. R. Hairul, “Impact of a Post-OTDMDemultiplexing Optical Filter on dense OOK OTDM-WDM Transmission”, Fiber Integrated Optics, Vol. 24, No. 5, pp. 457 – 470, September-October 2005. 16. Ng Wai Ling, F. M. Abbou, A. Abid, and H. T. Chuah; “Performance Evaluation of FH-OCDMA in The Presence of GVD and SPM”, IEICE Electronics Express, Vol. 2 , No.23, pp.583-588. December 2005. 17. C.C. Hiew, F.M. Abbou, H.T. Chuah, and A. A. R. Hairul, “A Technique to Improve Optical Time Division Multiplexing-Wavelength Division Multiplexing Performance”, IEICE Electronics Express, Vol. 2 , No.24, pp.1-6. December 2005. 18. Hakim Mellah and F. M. Abbou, “Contention Resolution in Slotted WDM Optical Packet Switching Networks using Cascaded Auxiliary Switch”, IEE Proc. Communications, Vol. 153, No. 2, pp. 205 – 206. April 2006. 19. C.C. Hiew, F.M. Abbou, H.T. Chuah, S.P. Majumder and A. A. R. Hairul, “Nonlinear BER Performance of Dense Optical WDM Manhattan Street Network with Deflection Routing”, IEEE Photonics Technol. Lett. Vol. 18, Issue 9, pp. 1031 – 1033, 2006. 20. H. Mellah, F. M. Abbou, “MPLS over Segmented WDM Optical Packet Switching Networks”, Journal of Computer Science, Vol. 2, No. 5, pp 431-433, 2006. 21. H. Mellah and F. M. Abbou, " Labeled Burst Switching," Journal of Applied Sciences Vol. 6, No 8, pp 1814-1817, 2006. 22. F. M. Abbou, H. T. Chuah, S. P. Majumder, and A. Abid, “Semi-analytical BER Performance of a Direct Detection Soliton Transmission System,” IEICE Electronics Express, Vol. 3 (2006), No.10, pp.203-208. 23. Tang M. F, Abbou F. M, Abid A., Mishra V.N. and Chuah H.T.," Packet Loss Rate of an Optical Burst Switch with Nonlinear Optical Loop Mirrors,” IEICE Electronics Express, Vol. 3 (2006), No. 11, pp.243-248. 24. A. Abid, F.M. Abbou, and H.T. Ewe, “Effective Implementation of Burst Segmentation Techniques in OBS Networks,” International Journal of Information Technology (IJIT), Vol. 3, No. 4, pp231-236, 2006. 25. Hairul A. Abdul-Rashid, F. M. Abbou, Hean-Teik Chuah, Moncef B. Tayahi, Malik T. Al-Qdah and Sivakumar Lanka, “System performance optimization in SCM-WDM passive optical networks in the presence of XPM and GVD”. IEEE Communications Letters, Vol. 10, Issue 9, pp 670 - 672, Sept. 2006. 26. Saw Chin Tan, F. M. Abbou and H.T. Ewe," Ant-based contention resolution in slotted WDM optical packet switched networks”, IEICE Electron. Express, Vol. 3, No. 24, pp.540-545, (2006). 27. Saw Chin Tan, F. M. Abbou and H.T. Ewe," Ant-based contention-resolution schemes for shared fiber-delay line optical packet switches," INFOCOMP Journal of Computer Science, March, 2007. 28. Nadir Hossain, Ahmed W. Naji, Vivekanand Mishra, Abbou F. Mohammed, Hairul A. A. Rashid and Faidz Abd. Rahman, “ Numerical analysis and optimization of remotely pumped double pass Erbium doped fiber amplifier,” IEICE Electronics Express, Vol. 4 (2007), No. 5, pp.172-178. 29. Nadir Hossain, Naji, A. W., Mishra, V., Abbou, F. M., Hairul, A. A. R., and Faidz, A. R. “Numerical and Experimental Analysis of Remotely Pumped Dual-Function EDFA”, International Journal of Microwave and Optical Technology, Vol. 2, No. 2, pp. 162-171, 2007. 30. Nadir Hossain, Naji, A. W., Mishra, V., Abbou, F. M., Al-Mansoori, M. H., Mahdi, M. A., and Faidz, A. R. “Modeling, Optimization and Experimental Evaluation of Remotely Pumped Double Pass EDFA”, Microwave and Optical Technology Letter, vol. 49, Issue 9, pp. 2257-2261, September 2007. 31. Nadir Hossain, Naji, A. W., Mishra, V., Abbou, F. M., Hairul, A. A. R., and Faidz, A. R. “Theoretical Analysis, Optimization and Experimental Evaluation of Dual Function DP R-EDFA”, Journal of Russian Laser Research, Springer, vol. 28, no. 3, pp. 294 – 304, 2007. 32. E. C. Sim, F. M. Abbou, A. Faidz, “System Degradation Due to Phase Error Induced Crosstalk in WDM Optical Networks Employing Arrayed Waveguide Grating Multi/Demultiplexer”. Journal Of Optical and Quantum Electronics, Springer , Vol. 39, Number 7 pp 553–560, May/2007. 33. Saw Chin Tan, F. M. Abbou and H.T. Ewe," Ant Algorithm for Amplifier Spontaneous Emission (ASE)-Aware Routing,” IEICE Electronics Express,Vol. 4,No. 8, pp.264-270, April 2007. 34. Yasin M. Karfaa, M. Ismail, Abbou, F. M, Shaari S., “Evaluation of Linear Crosstalk Effects in Array Waveguide Grating Router in WDM Networks ,” Journal of Optical Communications, Vol. 28, No.2 , pp. 100 - 102, Sept. 2007. 35. F. M. Abbou, H. Y. Wong, L. H. Hiap, A. Abid and H. T. Chuah, “Comparison of Walsh Code and m-Sequence Performance of SPECTS OCDMA in the presence of GVD and SPM”, Journal of Optical Communications, Vol. 28, No. 2 , pp. 145 - 147, Sept. 2007. 36. H. Mellah and F. M. Abbou, "Analytical Model for Contention Resolution in Synchronous Optical Packet Switching," Journal of Optical Communications,Vol. 28, No. 2 , pp. 155-157, Sept. 2007. 37. Saw Chin Tan, F. M. Abbou and H.T. Ewe," An Ant-based Algorithm for Dynamic Routing in Optical WDM Networks," IEE Proc. Communications, No. 4, pp. 693 – 695, August 2007. 38. Katrina D. Dambul, F.M. Abbou, and H. T. Chuah, “Impact of XPM and SRS on the Performance of IP Traffic over a WDM Ring Network”, Journal of Optical Communications,Vol. 28, No. 3 , pp. 198-200, November 2007. 39. Tang M. F, F. M. Abbou, Mishra V.N. and Nadir Hossain, “An efficient buffering- switching technique based integrated NOLM and loop buffer for OBS network,” Journal of Optical Communications ,Vol. 28, No. 3 , pp. 212-215 , November 2007 40. F.M. Abbou, H. Y. Wong, H.T. Chuah, C.C. Hiew and A. Abid, “Optical TDM-WDM Propagation Impairments”. Journal of Optical Communications,Vol. 28, No. 3 , pp. 221-224, November 2007. 41. Yasin M. Karfaa, M. Ismail, Abbou, F. M, Shaari S.and S.P. Majumder , “Crosstalk Penalty in an OXC with Wavelength Converter in the Presence of Interferometric Intensity-Relative Output-ASE Noises,” Journal of Applied Sciences, 7 (23): 3705-3712, 2007. 42. A. Abid, F.M. Abbou, and H.T. Ewe, “On the Resource Allocation in Optical Burst Switching Networks," Journal of Applied Sciences, 7 (20): 3057-3062, 2007. 43. Saw Chin Tan, F. M. Abbou and H.T. Ewe," Impact of Four Wave Mixing (FWM) in Ring and Mesh Topologies For RWA,” Journal of Applied Sciences, 7 (24): 4032-4035, 2007. 44. Saw Chin Tan, F. M. Abbou and H.T. Ewe," Four Wave Mixing (FWM) Aware-Wavelength Assignment Using Ant-based Algorithm,” Journal of Applied Sciences, 7 (23): 3796-3800, 2007. 45. Saw Chin Tan, F. M. Abbou and H.T. Ewe," An efficient Heuristic algorithm for Wavelength Assignment in WDM Network,” Journal of Applied Sciences 7 (23): 3796-3800, 2007. 46. Saw Chin Tan, F. M. Abbou and H.T. Ewe," Impact Of Four Wave Mixing (FWM) in Routing and Wavelength Assignment,” American Journal of Applied Sciences 7 (24): 4032-4035, 2007. 47. F.M. Abbou, C.C. Hiew, H.T. Chuah, D.S. Ong, and A. Abid, “A Detailed Analysis of Cross-Phase Modulation Effects on OOK and DPSK Optical WDM Transmission Systems in the Presence of GVD, SPM and ASE Noise,” J. R. Laser Research, Springer New York, Vol: 29, Number 1, pp. 57-70, January 2008. 48. F.M. Abbou, H.T. Chuah and C.C. Hiew, and A. Abid, “Comparisons of RZ-OOK and RZ-DPSK in Dense OTDM-WDM Systems Using Q-Factor Models”, J. R. Laser Research, Springer New York, Vol: 29, Number 2, pp. 133-141, January 2008. 49. H. Mellah and F. M. Abbou, “Performance Analysis of a Slotted WDM Manhattan Street Network in the Presence of Physical Limitations," Journal of Optical Communications, Online publication, No.3, November 2008. 50. S. C. Tan, F. M. Abbou, Ewe Hong Tat, “Selective Assign Shortest Path First (SASPF) algorithm for RWA in the Presence of Four Wave Mixing”, IET Communications, 7(3), pp.1097-1102, July 2009. CONFERENCE PAPERS 51. A. Abid, F.M. Abbou, and H.T. Ewe, “On The Control Packet Structure of The Optical BurstSwitched Networks,” 4th International conference on Computer Science and Information Technology CSIT 2006, pp 346-347, 5 - 7 April 2006, Amman, Jordan. 52. A. Abid, F.M. Abbou, and H.T. Ewe, “Design issues of optical core switches for All-optical Internet backbone traffic,” International Science Congress (ISC) 2005, Information and Communication Technology (ICT) module, pp 346-347, 3 - 6 August 2005. 53. A. Abid, F.M. Abbou, and H.T. Ewe, T. Taibi, “A new signaling and reservation protocol for Optical Burst Switching networks,” International Conference on Information Technology and Multimedia, Nov. 22 – 24, 2005. 54. A. Abid, F.M. Abbou, and H.T. Ewe, “QoS provisioning in OBS networks with an easy improvement to the Staged Reservation Scheme (SRS),” The IEEE Malaysia International Conference on Communications (MICC) and the IEEE International Conference on Networks (ICON). MICC-ICON, 13-14th Dec 2005. 55. H. Mellah, F. M. Abbou and A. Abid, “Self-Routing For Optical Burst Switched Networks”, Wireless and Optical Communications Networks, 2005. WOCN 2005. Second IFIP International Conference on March 6 - 8, Page(s): 123 – 125, March 6 - 9, 2005. 56. K.D. Dambul, F.M. Abbou and H.T. Chuah, “Performance Analysis of a WDM Ring Network in the presence of Accumulated ASE noise”, IEEE LEOS Malaysian Conference on Photonics, vol. 1, pp 25-29, 30th September 2004, Bangi, Malaysia. 57. A. Abid, F.M. Abbou, and H.T. Ewe, “Partial burst dropping strategy for Optical Burst Switching Networks,” SoftCOM 2004 12th International Conference on Software, Telecommunications & Computer Networks, pp 351-355, 2004, Venice, Italy. 58. A. Abid, F. M. Abbou, H. T. Ewe, and H. Mellah, “IP over buffer-less WDM networks using Optical Burst Switching”, IEEE LEOS Malaysian Conference on Photonics, vol. 1, pp 42-46, 30th September 2004, Bangi, Malaysia 59. C.C. Hiew, F.M. Abbou, H.T.Chuah, S.P. Majumder and A. A. R. Hairul, " OTDM-WDM Propagation Impairments and Techniques to Improve Performance," The IASTED International Conference on COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS AND NETWORKS (CSN), September 1-3, 2004, Marbella, Spain. 60. H. Mellah and F. M. Abbou, A Abid, "A Framework for Labeled Burst Switching," IADAT- tcn2004, International Conference on Telecommunications and Computer Networks, Spain, December 1 - 3, 2004. 61. H. Mellah and Abbou Fouad Mohammed, “Path Protection/Restoration in IP/MPLS-Based Networks using LSP Tunnels”, 3th International Symposium on Communications and Information Technologies, ISCIT 2003, pp 635-655, Songkhla, Thailand, 3-5 September 2003. 62. H. Mellah and Abbou Fouad Mohammed, “Local Path Protection/Restoration in MPLS-Based Networks”, IEEE 9th Asia Pacific Conference on Communication APCC 2003, pp 620-622, 2124 September 2003 Penang, Malaysia. 63. P.M. A. Zahidin, S. P. Majumder, A. F. Mohammed, “Analytical Performance Evaluation of CrossPhase Modulation (XPM) in Multisegments IM/DD WDM Transmission System”, MMU International Symposium on Information and Communications Technologies, M²USIC'03, 2 - 3 October 2003. 64. M.Z Majumder, S. S, Yusoff.; Mohammed A.F.; H. T. Chuah, ”Effect of polarization mode dispersion on optical heterodyne CPFSK system”, Global Telecommunications Conference, 2000. GLOBECOM '00. IEEE, Volume: 2, 2000. Page(s): 1233 -1236 vol.2 65. Abbou Fouad Mohammed, Chuah Hean Teik, S. P. Majumder, "Soliton Transmission in the Presence of Higher Order Fiber Nonlinear effects", 1st International East Asian Conference on Lightwave Systems, lasers & Optoelectronics, 16th -18th March 1999. 66. P. S/O K. Gunaselan and Abbou Fouad Mohammed, "Influence of Spurious Emission On Radio Signals In Malaysia," RECEE 2000, 16 February 2000 UNITEN, Malaysia. 67. Md. Hasanuzzaman, S. P. Majumder, Abbou F. Mohammed, " Performance Of NRZ And AMI Coded Optical Direct Detection CPFSK Transmission System Impaired By GVD And SPM", Proc. 2nd International Conference on Information, Communications & Signal Processing '99 (ICICS'99), Singapore, Dec 7-10, 1999. 68. Karfaa, Yasin M.; Ismail, M.; Abbou, F. M; Shaari S.,"Homodyne Linear Crosstalk Impact in an Array Waveguide Router as an OADM for WDM Networks", Semiconductor Electronics, 2006. ICSE '06. IEEE International Conference on Oct. 29 2006-Dec. 1 2006 Page(s):319 – 323 69. Nadir Hossain, Hasnayeen, M. A., Naji, A. W., Mishra, V., Abbou, F. M., Hairul, A. A. R. and Faidz, A. R. “Numerical Analysis of remotely pumped EDFA incorporated with a CFBG” Proceedings of the seventh IASTED International Conferences on Wireless and Optical Communications (WOC’07), May, 30 - June, 1, 2007, Montreal, Quebec, Canada 70. Nadir Hossain, Mishra, V., Hairul, A. A. R., Abbou, F. M., Faidz, A. R., Quadir, S. M. M., AlMansoori, M. H., Mahdi, M. A. and Naji, A. W. “A Numerical Analysis of R-EDFA for Long Haul OFCS”, Proceedings of the fourth International Conference on Science of Electronic, Technologies of Information and Telecommunications (SETIT’07), Hammamet, Tunisia. March 25-29, 2007, 71. Nadir Hossain, Naji, A.W., Mishra, V., Abbou, F.M., Hasnayeen, M. A., Hairul, A. A. R. and Faidz, A. R. “Numerical Analysis of Pump Propagation Direction in Distributed Raman Amplifiers”, Proceedings of the fourth International Conference organized by Electrical Engineering/Electronics, Computer, Telecommunications and Information Technology (ECTI) Association, Thailand (ECTI-CON’07), May 9-12, 2007, Chiang-Rai, Thailand. 72. Nadir Hossain, Mishra, V., Hairul, A. A. R., Abbou, F. M., Faidz, A. R., Al-Mansoori, M. H., Mahdi, M. A., and Naji, A. W. “Distributed Raman Amplifiers for Long-Haul OFCS”, Proceedings of the MMU International Symposium on Information and Communications Technologies, November 16-17, 2006,Petaling Jaya, Malaysia. 76. Yasin M. Karfaa, M. Ismail, Abbou, F. M, & Shaari S., “Effects of Crosstalk in an Array Waveguide Grating Add/Drop Router on the Performance of WDM Networks”, IEEE, ICT – MICC 2007 Proceedings, May 11-14, 2007, Penang, Malaysia.