Dr. Md. Abdul Alim
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    Professor, ECE Discipline, Khulna University, Khulna


Md. Abdul Alim is a professor in the Electronics and Communication Engineering (ECE) Discipline at Khulna University, Bangladesh. He earned his B.Sc. degree in Electronics and Communication Engineering from Khulna University, Bangladesh, in 2003. He later obtained his M.Eng. in Electronics and Communication Engineering from Chongqing University, China, in 2013, followed by a Ph.D. in Engineering from Osaka University, Japan, in 2018.

In 2024, Dr. Alim completed his postdoctoral research at Aalborg University, Denmark, where he further advanced his expertise in wireless communication systems.

Before joining academia, he gained valuable industrial experience as an Executive Engineer at Siemens Bangladesh, where he worked in the field of cellular wireless communications.

His research interests encompass MAC design for wireless communications, wireless power transmission and estimation, interference mitigation in Wi-Fi and future mobile communication systems, 5G networks, and satellite communication. His work aims to contribute to the development of efficient and reliable communication technologies for next-generation wireless and satellite systems.

  2018:   PhD in Engineering, Graduate School of Information Science and Technology, Osaka University, JAPAN. Thesis Title: Medium access control design for in-band full-duplex wireless communication.

 2013:   Master of Engineering in Electronics and Communication Engineering, Chongqing University, CHINA. Major: Communication Engineering. Thesis Title:  Fuzzy logic based routing protocol for wireless sensor networks.

 2003:   Bachelor of Science in Electronics and Communication Engineering, Khulna University, Khulna, Bangladesh.

 1996:   Higher Secondary Certificate (HSC) Examination, Notre Dame College, Dhaka, Bangladesh.

 1994:   Secondary School Certificate (SSC) Examination, St. Paul's Secondary School, Mongla, Bangladesh.



  • 5G networks and satellite communication
    • In-band full duplex (IBFD) wireless communications
    • Backscatter wireless communications
    • MAC protocol design for wireless communications

Current Research Project/Collaboration

SL Title Research Role Awarded Date Completion Date Funding Agency
1 Designing a Medium Access Control (MAC) protocol for wireless ad-hoc networks by using in-band full-duplex wireless communications for disaster management Principal Investigator 11th March, 2021 28th August, 2022 National

2018 – till date:  Professor, Electronics and Communication Engineering Discipline, Khulna University, Khulna 9208, Bangladesh. http://ku.ac.bd/

2023 – 2024:  Postdoctoral Researcher, Wireless Communication Networks (WCN), Department of Electronics Systems, Aalborg University, Aalborg, Denmark. https://vbn.aau.dk/en/organisations/wireless-communication-networks/persons/

2013 – 2018:  Associate Professor, ECE Discipline, Khulna University, Khulna 9208, Bangladesh. http://ku.ac.bd/

2008 – 2013:  Assistant Professor, ECE Discipline, Khulna University, Khulna 9208, Bangladesh. http://ku.ac.bd/

2005 – 2008:  Lecturer, ECE Discipline, Khulna University, Khulna 9208, Bangladesh. http://ku.ac.bd/

2004 – 2006:  Executive Engineer, SIEMENS Bangladesh (Present Name: Nokia Networks), Gulshan – 1, Dhaka -1212, Bangladesh.

2003 – 2004:  Management Information System Officer, Grameen Communications (A sister organisation of Grameen Bank which is the Nobel Laureate for Peace, 2006), Mirpur-2, Dhaka-1216, Bangladesh.

  • -- Best student paper award in the 14th International Conference on Mobile Computing and Ubiquitous Networking (IEEE ICMU 2023).
  • -- Best student paper award in the 9th IEEE International Conference on Wireless Networks and Mobile Communications (IEEE WINCOM 2022).
  • -- Best student paper award in the 13th IEEE International Conference on Wireless and Mobile Computing, Networking and Communications (IEEE WiMob 2017).
  • -- MEXT (Japan Govt.) full scholarship for PhD program in Osaka University, Japan (2014-2018).
  • -- Chinese Govt. full Scholarship for the Master’s Degree (2011-2013).
  • -- Merit Scholarship awarded by Jessore Board of Intermediate and Secondary ducation, Bangladesh for the good result in S.S.C. Examination (1994).

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[18] Frodouard Minani, Makoto Kobayashi, Takuya Fujihashi, Md. Abdul Alim, Shunsuke Saruwatari, Masahiro Nishi, Takashi Watanabe, “A Fundamental Discussion on Reward-Based Reinforcement Learning for Uplink Resource Allocation in NTN” in Proceedings of 14th International Conference on Mobile Computing and Ubiquitous Networking 2023 (ICMU 2023), IEEE, 2023.  Best Paper Award Winner. 

[17] Enping Zhou, Makoto Kobayashi, Takuya Fujihashi, Md. Abdul Alim, Shunsuke Saruwatari, Masahiro Nishi, Takashi Watanabe, “Reliable Multicast Streaming for Hierarchical Non-Terrestrial Network,” in Proceedings of 9th International Conference on Wireless Networks and Mobile Communications, 2022 (WINCOM, 2022), IEEE, 2022.  Best Student Paper Award Winner.

[16] Md Abdur Rahman, Md Mizanur Rahman and Md Abdul Alim, "Design and Performance Analysis of an In-Band Full-Duplex MAC Protocol for Ad Hoc Networks," In Telecom, vol. 4, no. 1, pp. 100-117. MDPI, Jan, 2023.

[15] Enping Zhou, Makoto Kobayashi, Takuya Fujihashi, Md. Abdul Alim, Shunsuke Saruwatari, Masahiro Nishi, Takashi Watanabe, “ Reliable Multicast Streaming for Hierarchical Non-Terrestrial Network,” Accepted in  The 9th International Conference on Wireless Networks and Mobile Communications, 2022 (WINCOM, 2022), IEEE, 2022. Best Student Paper Award Winner. 

[14] Md. Abdur Rahman, Md. Mizanur Rahman, Md. Abdul Alim, “In-band Full-duplex MAC Protocol for Ad Hoc Networks,” in Proceedings of International Conference on Electronics, Communications and Information Technology 2021 (ICECIT 2021), pp.1-5, IEEE, 2021.

[13] K. M. Hasan, M. A.l Alim, M. Maniruzzaman, G. M. A. Rahaman, M. S. Ahsan, and S. H. Newaz. "Design and Development of an Aircraft Type Multi-functional Autonomous Drone." In 2020 IEEE Region 10 Symposium (TENSYMP), pp. 734-737. IEEE, 2020.

[12] Md. Abdul Alim, Shunsuke Saruwatari, Takashi Watanabe, “Asym-FDMAC: In-band full-duplex medium access control protocol for asymmetric traffic in wireless LAN,” Wireless Networks, Springer, 2018, impact factor: 1.98. DOI:  https://doi.org/10.1007/s11276-018-1827-8

[11] Md. Abdul Alim, Makoto Kobayashi, Shunsuke Saruwatari, Takashi Watanabe, “In-band full-duplex medium access control design for heterogeneous wireless LAN," EURASIP Journal on Wireless Communications and Networking, Springer, 2017.1 (2017): 83. Impact factor: 1.529. DOI:  https://doi.org/10.1186/s13638-017-0867-6

[10] Md. Abdul Alim, Shunsuke Saruwatari, Takashi Watanabe, “Backscatter MAC Protocol for Future Internet of Things Networks,” 13th IEEE International Conference on Wireless and Mobile Computing, Networking and Communications (WiMob 2017), October 2017. Student Best Paper Award Winner.   

[9] Md. Abdul Alim and Takashi Watanabe, "Full Duplex Medium Access Control Protocol for Asymmetric Traffic," in Proceedings of 84th IEEE Vehicular Technology Conference (VTC-Fall), pp. 1-6. IEEE, 2016.

[8] Makoto Kobayashi, Md. Abdul Alim, Shunsuke Saruwatari, Takashi Watanabe, “A basic analysis of medium access control for full-duplex WLAN,” in Proceedings of 9th Mobile Computing and Ubiquitous Networking (ICMU), pp. 1-6, IEEE, October, 2016.

[7] Md. Abdul Alim, Makoto Kobayashi, Takashi Watanabe, "Full duplex medium access control design for heterogeneous WLAN," in Proceedings of 22th European Wireless Conference, pp. 1-7, VDE, 2016.

[6] Md. Abdul Alim, Yucheng Wu, Wei Wang, “A fuzzy based clustering protocol for energy-efficient wireless sensor networks,” Proceedings of 2nd International Conference on Computer Science and Electronics Engineering (ICCSEE, 2013), pp.  2875-2879, March, 2013. (Hangzhou, China). 

[5] Md. Abdul Alim, Md. Mahbub Hossain, "A Study and Analysis of Channel Modeling for the Ultra Wide Band Wireless Body Area Network," International Journal of Computer and Information Technology (JCIT), vol. 1, issue 1, pp. 17-19, July, 2010.

[4] Md. Mahbub Hossain, Md. Abdul Awal, Md. Abdul Alim, "Performance Analysis of DS-CDMA over a Non Fading Channel with Perfect Power Control under Different Processing Gain," Journal of Computer and Information Technology (JCIT), vol. 1, issue 1,  pp. 20-23, July, 2010.

[3] M. A. Alim, M M. Rahman, M. M. Hossain, "Analysis of Large-scale Propagation Models for Mobile Communications in Urban Area," International Journal of Computer Science and Information Security (IJCSIS), vol. 7, no. 1, pp. 135-139, February, 2010.

[2] Md. M. Hossain, Md. M. Rahman, Md. M. Alim, "Performance Analysis of Uplink & Downlink Transmission in CDMA System," Journal of Telecommunications, vol. 1, issue 1, pp. 84-86, Feb. 2010.

[1] M. M. Rahman, M. A. Alim, “Auto-Correlation and Cross-Correlation Performance Analysis of CDMA Codes,” International Conference on Electronics, Computer and Communication (ICECC-2008), Rajshahi, Bangladesh, June 27-29, 2008.