Marwa Salayma

Marwa Salayma is research associate in the Institute of Signals, Sensors, and Systems (ISSS) in the School of Engineering and Physical Sciences at Heriot-Watt University. Marwa is performing research for underwater acoustic sensor networks. Current project: Smart dust for large scale underwater wireless sensing (USMART). Marwa received the PhD degree from Edinburgh Napier University in 2018. She conducted her PhD research in the Centre for Distributed Computing, Networking and Security, and her PhD topic was in the field of Wireless Body Area Networks (WBAN). She received the M.Sc. degree in Computer Science from Jordan University of Science and Technology in 2013, and the B.Sc. degree in Computer Systems Engineering from the Electrical Department, Palestine Polytechnic University in 2007. Her research interests are in wireless communication networks , such as wireless body area networks, wireless sensor networks, and underwater acoustic sensor network. Marwa works in proposing Media Access Control (MAC) protocols, cross layering protocols, energy efficient communication, reliable scheduling, and QoS provisioning in wireless networks, and Internet of Things. Marwa is an expert in using networks simulation tools. 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.