Amani Al-shawabka

Education

Ph.D. in Computer Engineering - Northeastern University (2024)
M.S. in Computer Networks and Security - Northeastern University
MBA in Marketing - German Jordanian University, Jordan
B.S. in Communication Engineering - Yarmouk University, Jordan

Amani Al-shawabka earned her Ph.D. in Computer Engineering from Northeastern University in 2024. She received her B.S. degree in Communication Engineering from Yarmouk University in Jordan, an MBA degree in Marketing from the German Jordanian University in Jordan, and an M.S. degree in Computer Networks and Security from Northeastern University. Her research focused on Internet of Things, radio fingerprinting, and deep learning for wireless communications. She started her professional career in mobile network companies, working with Petra Jordanian Mobile Telecommunication Company (The Orange Group) and Umniah Mobile Company (The Batelco group), where she occupied various positions from core network engineering to roaming expert in the marketing sector.

Publications

2023

Journals & Magazines

A. Al-shawabka, P. Pietraski, S. Pattar, P. Johari, and T. Melodia. “SignCRF: Scalable Channel-agnostic Data-driven Radio Authentication System.” (2023)Preprint

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2020

Journals & Magazines

L. Bertizzolo, L. Bonati, E. Demirors, A. Al-shawabka, S. D'Oro, F. Restuccia, and T. Melodia. “Arena: A 64-antenna SDR-based ceiling grid testing platform for sub-6 GHz 5G-and-Beyond radio spectrum research.” Computer Networks (2020)Journal

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Arena is an open-access wireless testing platform based on a grid of antennas mounted on the ceiling of a large office-space environment. Each antenna is connected to programmable software-defined radios (SDR) enabling sub-6 GHz 5G-and-beyond spectrum research. With 12 computational servers, 24 SDRs synchronized at the symbol level, and a total of 64 antennas, Arena provides the computational power and the scale to foster new technology development in some of the most crowded spectrum bands. Arena is based on a three-tier design, where the servers and the SDRs are housed in a double rack in a dedicated room, while the antennas are hung off the ceiling of a 2240 square feet office space and cabled to the radios through 100 ft-long cables. This ensures a reconfigurable, scalable, and repeatable real-time experimental evaluation in a real wireless indoor environment. In this paper, we introduce the architecture, capabilities, and system design choices of Arena, and provides details of the software and hardware implementation of various testbed components. Furthermore, we describe key capabilities by providing examples of published work that employed Arena for applications as diverse as synchronized MIMO transmission schemes, multi-hop ad hoc networking, multi-cell 5G networks, AI-powered Radio-Frequency fingerprinting, secure wireless communications, and spectrum sensing for cognitive radio.

A. Al-shawabka, F. Restuccia, S. D'Oro, and T. Melodia. “Massive-Scale I/Q Datasets for WiFi Radio Fingerprinting.” Computer Networks (2020)Journal

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