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Dr Marwa Salayma

Marwa Salayma is research associate in the Institute for Signals, Sensors, and Systems (ISSS) in the School ofEngineering and Physical Sciences of Heriot-Watt University. Marwa is performing researchfor underwater wireless sensor networks. Current project: Smart dust for large scale underwaterwireless sensing (USMART). https://research.ncl.ac.uk/usmart/. Marwa received the B.Sc. degree in computer systems engineering from the Electrical Department, Palestine Polytechnic University in 2007, and the M.Sc. degree in computer science from the Jordan University of Science and Technology in 2013. In 2014, she received a Ph.D. studentship from Edinburgh Napier University to do Ph.D. research in the Centre for Distributed Computing, Networking and Security. Her Ph.D. topic is in the field of Wireless Body Area Networks (WBAN) and she is proposing reliable and energy efficient protocols for WBAN. Her research interests are in wireless communication networks, such as Wireless Body Area Networks, Wireless Sensor Networks, Media Access Control (MAC) protocols, cross layering protocols, energy efficient communication, reliable scheduling, and QoS provisioning in wireless networks, and Internet of Things. Her research findings have been published in world leading journals such as IEEE Transactions on Green Communications and Networking, and ACM Computing Surveys, and in prestigious international conferences including IEEE ICC.