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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?.
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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
My Ethnicity AFRO – INDO – ARABIAN
GSM900 Transmitter GSM900 Receiver 900 MHz Cellular Band (Channel) CDMA2000 Receiver CDMA2000 Transmitter PSD GSM900 Signal CDMA2000 Signal f f0 B.Sc. In Telecommunications EngineeringUniversity of Dar es Salaam (2007) Analysis of Co-existance of GSM900 and CDMA2000 on 900 MHz Cellular Band in Tanzania
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 CODEC CODEC Network Receiver Trans-mitter Some more processing Some processing Interim Node Target Node Source Node
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)
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.)
Li’l bit of History • Arabs, kizimkazi mosque • Persians, kaole ruins • Portugese, fort jesus • Arabs, znz • Germans • british
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