ROSILAH HASSAN (SMIEE, Ts, Dr.)

ROSILAH HASSAN (SMIEE, Ts, Dr.) is an Associate Professor at Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia (UKM) in the Faculty of Information Science and Technology (FTSM). She received her PhD in Mobile Communication from the University of Strathclyde, United Kingdom, in May 2008. She obtained her Master of Electrical (M.E.E) Engineering in Computer and Communication from the UKM, Malaysia, in 1999. Her first Degree was BSc. in Electronic Engineering from Hanyang University, Seoul, South Korea. Rosilah Hassan worked as an Engineer with Samsung Electronic Malaysia in Seremban, Malaysia before joining UKM in 1997. Besides being a Senior Lecturer, she got experience in management post for the university as the Deputy Director of Academic Entrepreneurship for over seven years. She also is the Head of the Network and Communication Technology (NCT) lab in her Faculty since 2010. Her research interests are in Wireless Communications Systems, Networking, IoT, and Big Data. She has had experience as an external examiner for Master and PhD for both national and international level. She is also an active member of IEEE, Malaysia Society for Engineering (MySET), Malaysian Board of Technologists (MBoT), and IET.

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Information and Communication Technology (ICT) have grown exponentially over the past few years. From these developments, significant changes in the way individuals’ access and retrieve information took place. The Internet, once based in home desktops, left its traditional cyberspace and became accessible from a variety of portable smart device. Nowadays, data can be retrieved from physical objects, smart environments, wearable devices, among others. Technologies such as Near Field Communications (NFC), Quick Response Codes (QR Codes), Augmented Reality (AR), Radio Frequency Identification (RFID), and smart wearable device have the ability to incorporate digital to real world objects and scenes, diminishing the divide between people, objects, and information. The link between the online and offline spheres through this technology is called Outernet. In other words, Outernet is defined as merge of offline and online world. A fully operational Outernet requires the launch of hundreds of satellites into low Earth orbit. Each satellite, which receives data from a network of ground stations, will broadcast the Internet to phones and computers, giving billions of people around the world free online access. Outernet intends to be a first-of-class broadcasting solution uniquely enabled by advances in small satellite engineering. The planned effort will use large constellations of nanosatellites, launched through rideshare opportunities, to deliver a variety of daily internet media and information content globally. Outernet system will use several new data protocols, asynchronous communications methods, and mature schemes to create interference-tolerant networks in order to establish ubiquitous service and minimize barriers to access by use