M. Béchir KHROUF

Rte Afrane Km 1.5 - Ceinture N°5 Sfax 3003
bechir.khrouf AT gmail.com
26 ans, Tunisien, célibataire

Radio, Backhaul & Frequency Network Expert

Professional Experience

RF Engineer at Orascom Telecom Tunisia (August 2005- January 2007)

Radio Planning, deployment, Site Survey, Study on planning tools, Indoor and micro radio network solution, Outdoor micro-cell and multi-band layer solution, Drive test engineering for Indoor and Outdoor scenario, Radio field strength simulation, propagation and calibration, maintenance and upgrade Network Planning Tools, design and implementation of several tools and applications used by the department, evaluation of new software and products.

WiMAX Radio, Backhaul, Frequency project leader at Divona Telecom (since February 2007)

WiMAX (802.16-Rel 2004) and Microwave Radio Planning, Radio, Backhaul and Frequency design, Site Survey, Greenfield, Open field, Study on planning tools, Network Planning Tools administrator, RSSI and SINADR Field Strength simulation, Certify and Update sector controller version, evaluation of new software and products, create and upgrade of New Utility.

General Manager (Owner) at MTD Technology (Since December 2007)

Development of a new multi-planning radio mobile tool with flexible GIS interface, advanced features and robust algorithm for each module (Microwave design, fixed & mobile WiMAX Network).

Radio Network Design Expert at Maroc Telecom (February 2008 – Mars 2008)

2G/GPRS/EDGE Motorola technology expert radio network coverage for the benefit of telecom morocco : Site Survey, Greenfield, Structure and Civil works, Open field, Study on planning tools.

Planning Tools

Ellipse Mobile, Ellipse Microwave, Ellipse PMP, Atoll, ICS Telecom, MapInfo, Vertical Mapper, ArcView, , TEMS Investigation, Agilent, Sagem Mapping Tools, Hytem Receiver, WaveSight, RNO, RNM, RCM, K12.

Networks Knowledge

GSM, GPRS, EDGE, Indoor & Outdoor Radio Planning Engineering, FH, WiMAX

Technologies Knowledge

Alcatel, Siemens, Redline (AN-100U Base Station, SU-O Subscriber Unit, SU-I Subscriber Unit), DragonWave (AirPair Flex 50 Mbits Release 4, AirPair Flex 150 Mbits Release 4, AirPair Flex 200 Mbits Release 4).

Publications

“Indoor Prediction Of Propagation Using Dominant Path: Study And Calibration”

published in the 12th International Conference on Electronics, circuits and Systems, ICECS’05 - Gammarth, Tunisia, December 11-14th, 2005.

“Radio Network Optimisation Using Neural Network”

Indoor radio network optimising using artificial neural networks (submitted to an actual conference)

International Conference

12th International Conference on Electronics, circuits and Systems, ICECS’05

Gammarth, Tunisia, December 11-14th, 2005.

World summit on the information society

Tunis 2005.

In-Building Solutions 2006

September 26-28 2006 in Dubai, United Arab Emirates.

Academic Education

Since January 2006

Starting master's degree in telecommunications: ‘Radio field strength prediction and optimising number and position of micro cell sites into a GSM indoor scenario’’: Optimisation and improvement of an existent GSM indoor radio network using geographic systems and dominant path.

2002-2005 : National Diploma in Engineering - Telecommunications

* Project of the End of Studies: ‘‘Indoor GSM Propagation: algorithm study and software implementation’’.
* Specialty: Architecture of Telecom Systems.
* Three years at the Higher Telecommunications School of Tunis (SUP'COM): intensive courses in the GSM, GPRS UMTS, Digital Signal Processing fields, microwave technology, wave propagation basis and some others telecommunications.

2000 – 2002: Preparatory Institute for Scientific and Engineering Studies of Sfax ‘‘IPEIS’’.

1993 – 2000: High School 15 novembre 1955 – Sfax.

Education and training courses

EDGE: Enhanced Data rates for GSM Evolution.

Programming Microsoft Access 2002.

Java, UML and CORBA.

Kathrein’s literature.

Introduction to Quality of Service and Traffic Load Monitoring BSS release B9.

Multi-layer & Multi-band radio network optimising (Alcatel training).

Ellipse Mobile 6.3, Ellipse MW 6.6 and Ellipse PMP 6.6.

Redline RF Training

DragonWave WiMAX Backhaul training.