Ameen Chilwan Ph.D. Candidate Supervisor: Leif Arne Rønningen Co-Supervisor: Yuming Jiang
Outline Who/What am I? What cool stuff have I done so far? Studies Work What’s so great about Tanzania? Country Places My Home Town People Life Style Food Music Sports
WHO/WHAT AM I?
My Ethnicity AFRO – INDO – ARABIAN
WHAT COOL STUFF HAVE I DONE SO FAR?
High School – 2002
B.Sc. In Telecommunications Engineering University of Dar es Salaam (2007) Analysis of Co-existance of GSM900 and CDMA2000 on 900 MHz Cellular Band in Tanzania GSM900 Transmitter CDMA2000 Receiver GSM900 Receiver CDMA2000 Transmitter 900 MHz Cellular Band (Channel) f PSD f0 CDMA2000 Signal GSM900 Signal
M.Sc. In Telematics – NTNU (2011) Specialized in Networks & QoS Dependability Differentiation in Cloud Services Both analytical and simulation approach Supervised By: Poul Heegaard Astrid Undheim Conference Paper: Differentiated Availability in Cloud Computing SLAs Presented in GRID 2011
M.Sc. In Telematics – 2 Before After
PhD Area of Research Collaboration Spaces Network study for DMP Simulation Hardware Implementation Network CODEC Trans-mitter Receiver Some processing Source Node Interim Target Some more processing
Work Experience Network Quality Administrator (2007-09) At ZANTEL (part of etisalat group) Traffic analysis and engineering Summer Internships TTCL (2004) Auvionics (2004) TCAA (2005) ZANTEL (2006) NTNU (2011)
WHAT’S SO GREAT ABOUT TANZANIA?
Neighbours: Kenya Uganda Rwanda Burundi DR Congo Zambia Malawi Mozambique
My Country The United Republic of Tanzania Tanganyika (Independance 1961) Zanzibar (Independance 1963) Merger to form Tanzania in 1964 Capital: Dodoma (since 1996) Largest City: Dar es Salaam (around 4m people) Population: Around 44m people (last census 2002) Around 800k wild animals (last census 2010 - Serengeti) Area: 886,600 sq.km. Land area A bit more than 25% is wild life (national parks, reserves etc.)
The Lion King MCMXXXVIII (1938th)
Li’l bit of History Arabs, kizimkazi mosque Persians, kaole ruins Portugese, fort jesus Arabs, znz Germans british
Tribes distribution map
Places Kilimanjaro White sand beach Znz Serengeti Ngorongoro crater Lake tanganyika
mwanza Darwin’s nightmare Bismarck rock 2nd largest (around 1.2m – 2011 estimate)
Sukuma people Cow herd Anaeshangaa mataa
Famous Tanzanians – 1 Julius Nyerere First President Father of Nation
Famous Tanzanians – 2 Asha Rose Migiro Deputy Secretary General of UNO EX-Foreign Minister
Famous Tanzanians – 3 Hasheem Thabeet NBA Professional Houston Rockets
Famous Tanzanians – 4