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Ossama Younis, Ph.D.

 

Senior Research Scientist

Applied Research, Telcordia Technologies, Inc.

One Telcordia Drive, Piscataway, NJ 08854, USA

Office: RRC-1B308

Phone: 1-732-699-4223

Fax: 1-732-336-7013

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Education

§  Ph.D., Purdue University, Department of Computer Science, 2005.

§  M.S., Purdue University, Department of Computer Science, 2003.

§  M.S., Alexandria University, Department of Computer Science, 1999.

§  B.S., Alexandria University, Department of Computer Science, 1995.

 

 

News:

November 09: “Cooperative Adaptive Spectrum Sharing in Cognitive Radio Networks” accepted for publication at IEEE Transactions on Networking, 2010. Joint work with H. Bany-Salameh and M. Krunz

August 09: “Cognitive MANET design for mission-critical networks” accepted for publication at IEEE Communications Magazine for October’09 issue. Joint work with L. Kant, K. Chang, K. Young, and C. Graff.

July 09: Paper: “Automating design of MANETs for future force networks” accepted for publication at the IEEE International Conference for Military Communications (MILCOM’09). Joint work with L. Kant, K. Chang, K. Young, and C. Graff.

Dec. 08: Paper: “Energy-Efficient Clustering/Routing for Cooperative MIMO Operation in Sensor Networks” accepted for publication at IEEE INFOCOM 2009. Joint work with M. Siam and M. Krunz.

Research

§  Wireless network analysis, design, and optimization.

§  Wireless protocol testing and implementation, with emphasis on sensor networks

§  Cognitive networking, with emphasis on dynamic spectrum access and cross-layer design.

§  Internet tomography and measurements.

§  Formal protocol specification and modeling.

Professional Activities and Services:

§  Member of the ACM and the IEEE

§  Editor:

Ø  IARIA International Journal on Advances in Networks and Services

Ø  IARIA International Journal on Advances in Telecommunications

§  Industrial Research Co-chair:

Ø  The Fifth International Conference on Wireless and Mobile Communications (ICWMC 2009)

§  Web Chair:

Ø  The 16th IEEE International Conference on Network Protocols (ICNP 2008)

§  Technical Program Committee (TPC) member :

Ø  The 18th IEEE International Conference on Network Protocols (ICNP 2010)

Ø  IEEE GLOBECOM 2010 (Ad Hoc and Sensor Networks Symposium)

Ø  ICWMC 2006, ICWMC 2007, ICWMC 2008, ICWMC 2009, ICWMC 2010

Ø  IEEE ICCCN 2009, 2008, 2009, 2010 (Internet Services, Systems, and Applications)

Ø  IEEE ICC 2009 (Ad Hoc and Sensor Networking Symposium)

Ø  IEEE LCN 2008

Ø  IEEE WoWMoM 2006, IEEE WoWMoM 2007

Ø  IEEE BROADNETS 2007

Ø  IFIP/IEEE MWCN 2007

Ø  ICESS 2007

Ø  SSN 2007, SSN 2009

Ø  IEEE AINA 2006, IEEE AINA 2007

Ø  MSN 2006

Ø  WWIC 2006

Ø  ACM/SIGMOBILE DIWANS 2006

Publications:

Books:

1.      Ossama Younis, “An Energy-efficient Architecture for Wireless Sensor Networks: Theoretical and Experimental Research,” VDM Verlag, January 2009 [ISBN 978-3639117059].

2.      Sonia Fahmy, Ossama Younis, Venkatesh Prabhakar, Srinivas R. Avasarala, “TCP over Wireless Networks,” Book Chapter in A. Boukerche, “Algorithms and Protocols for Wireless and Mobile Networks,” pp. 677-696, CRC Press, November 2005 [ISBN 1584884657].

Journal Publications:

1.      Haythem Bany-Salameh, Marwan Krunz, and Ossama Younis, “Cooperative Adaptive Spectrum Sharing in Cognitive Radio Networks,” accepted for publication in IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking, 2010.

2.      Ossama Younis, Latha Kant, Kirk Chang, Kenneth Young, and Charles Graff, “Cognitive MANET design for mission-critical networks,” IEEE Communications Magazine, October 2009.

3.      Haythem Bany-Salameh, Marwan Krunz, and Ossama Younis, “MAC Protocol for Opportunistic Cognitive Radio Networks with Soft Guarantees,” accepted for publication in IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing, 2010.

4.      Giridhar Jayavelu, Srinivasan Ramasubramanian, and Ossama Younis, “Maintaining Colored Tress for Disjoint Multi-path Routing under Node Failures,” IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking, vol. 17, no. 1, February 2009, pp. 346-359.

5.      Fan Wang, Ossama Younis, and Marwan Krunz, “Throughput-Oriented MAC for Mobile Ad Hoc Networks: A Game-Theoretic Approach,” Elsevier Ad Hoc Networks Journal, vol. 7, issue 1, January 2009, pp. 98-117.

6.      Latha Kant, Ken Young, Ossama Younis, David Shallcross, Kaustubh Sinkar, Anthony McAuley, Kyriakos Manousakis, Kirk Chang, and Charles Graff, “Network Science Based Approaches to Design and Analyze MANETS for Military Application,” IEEE Communications Magazine, vol. 46, no. 11, pp. 56-61, Nov. 2008.

7.      Ossama Younis, Marwan Krunz and Srinivasan Ramasubramanian, “Location-Unaware coverage in Wireless Sensor Networks,” Elsevier Ad Hoc Networks Journal, vol. 6, issue 7, pp. 1078-1097, September 2008.

8.      Ossama Younis, Srinivasan Ramasubramanian, and Marwan Krunz, “Operational Range Assignment in Sensor and Actor Networks,” Ad Hoc Sensor and Wireless Networks Journal, vol. 5, no. 1-2, 2008.

9.      Ossama Younis and Sonia Fahmy, “SYNC-NET: Distributed Time Synchronization in Multi-hop Sensor Networks,” Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing (WCMC), vol. 8, no. 6, pp. 797-809, May 2007.

10.  Ossama Younis, Marwan Krunz, and Srinivasan Ramasubramanian, “Node Clustering in Wireless Sensor Networks: Recent Developments and Deployment Challenges,” IEEE Network (special issue on wireless sensor networking), vol. 20, issue 3, pp. 20-25, May 2006 [10.3% acceptance rate].

11.  Ossama Younis and Sonia Fahmy, “FlowMate: Scalable On-line Flow Clustering,” IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking, volume 13, issue 2, pp. 288-301, April 2005.

12.  Ossama Younis, Sonia Fahmy, and Paolo Santi, “An Architecture for Robust Sensor Network Communications,” International Journal of Distributed Sensor Networks, volume 1, issues 3-4, pp.305-327, 2005.

13.  Ossama Younis and Sonia Fahmy, “HEED: A Hybrid, Energy-Efficient, Distributed Clustering Approach for Ad-hoc Sensor Networks,” IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing, volume 4, issue 4, pp. 366-379, Oct-Dec 2004.

14.  Ossama Younis and Sonia Fahmy, “Constraint-Based Routing in the Internet: Basic Principles and Recent Research,” IEEE Communications Surveys & Tutorials, Volume 5, Issue 1, pp. 2-13, 3rd quarter 2003.

Conference/Workshop Publications:

1.      Ossama Younis, Latha Kant, Kirk Chang, Kenneth Young, and Charles Graff, “Automating design of MANETs for future force networks,” in Proceedings of the International Conference for Military Communications (MILCOM), Boston, MA, November 2009.

2.      Haythem Bany-Salameh, Marwan Krunz, and Ossama Younis, “Dynamic Spectrum Access Protocol Without Power Mask Constraints,” in Proceedings of the IEEE INFOCOM Conference, Brazil, April 2009 [19.6% Acceptance rate].

3.      Mohammad Siam, Marwan Krunz, and Ossama Younis, “Energy-Efficient Clustering/Routing for Cooperative MIMO Operation in Sensor Networks,” in Proceedings of the IEEE INFOCOM Conference, Brazil, April 2009 [19.6% Acceptance rate].

4.      Latha Kant, Kirk Chang, Anthony McAuley, Kyriakos Manousakis, Ossama Younis, Maria Gorlatova, Ken Young, and Charles Graff, “NEDAT- A Toolset to Design and Analyze Future Force Networks,” in Proceedings of the Military Communications Conference (MILCOM), San Diego, CA, November 2008.

5.      Haythem Bany-Salameh, Marwan Krunz, and Ossama Younis, “Distance- and Traffic-Aware Channel Assignment in Cognitive Radio Networks,” in Proceedings of the Fifth IEEE International Conference on Sensor, Mesh, and Ad Hoc Comm. and Networks (IEEE SECON’08), June 2008 [21% Acceptance rate].

6.      Ossama Younis, Marwan Krunz, and Srinivasan Ramasubramanian, “Coverage without Location Information,” in Proceedings of the 13th IEEE International Conference on Network Protocols (IEEE ICNP’07), Beijing, China, October 2007 [14% acceptance rate].

7.      Ossama Younis, Marwan Krunz, and Srinivasan Ramasubramanian, “A Framework for Resilient Online Coverage in Sensor Networks,” in Proceedings of the Fourth IEEE International Conference on Sensor, Mesh, and Ad Hoc Communications and Networks (IEEE SECON’07), San Diego, CA, June 2007 [20% acceptance rate].

8.      Ossama Younis, Srinivasan Ramasubramanian, and Marwan Krunz,, “Location-Unaware Sensing Range Assignment in Sensor Networks,” in Proceedings of IFIP Networking’07, Atlanta, GA, May 2007 [22% acceptance rate].

9.      Fan Wang, Ossama Younis, and Marwan Krunz, “Throughput-Oriented MAC for Mobile Ad Hoc Networks with Variable Packet Sizes,” in Proceedings of the Third IEEE International Conference on Sensor, Mesh, and Ad Hoc Communications and Networks (IEEE SECON’06), Reston, VA, September 2006 [25.8% acceptance rate].

10.  Fan Wang, Ossama Younis, and Marwan Krunz, "GMAC: A Game-theoretic MAC Protocol for Mobile Ad Hoc Networks," In Proceedings of the 4th International Symposium on Modeling and Optimization in Mobile, Ad Hoc, and Wireless Networks (WiOpt’06), pp. 133-141, Boston, April 2006.

11.  Ossama Younis and Sonia Fahmy, "A Scalable Framework for Distributed Time Synchronization in Multi-hop Sensor Networks," In Proceedings of the Second IEEE International Conference on Sensor and Ad Hoc Communications and Networks (IEEE SECON’05), pp. 13-23, Santa Clara, September 2005 [27% acceptance rate].

12.  Ossama Younis and Sonia Fahmy, "An Experimental Study of Routing and Data Aggregation in Sensor Networks," In Proceedings of the IEEE International Workshop on Localized Communication and Topology Protocols for Ad Hoc Networks (IEEE LOCAN’05) , Washington, DC, November 2005.

13.  Ossama Younis, An Architecture for Scalable, Long-Lived Sensor Networks, in INFOCOM 2005 Student Workshop, Miami, Florida, March 2005.

14.  Ossama Younis and Sonia Fahmy, "Distributed Clustering for Ad-hoc Sensor Networks: A Hybrid, Energy-Efficient Approach," Proceedings of IEEE INFOCOM, Hong Kong, March 2004 [18.4% acceptance rate].

15.  Ossama Younis, Sonia Fahmy, and Paolo Santi, "Robust Communications for Sensor Networks in Hostile Environments," In Proceedings of the Twelfth IEEE International Workshop on Quality of Service (IEEE IWQoS’04), pp. 10-19, Montreal, Canada, June 2004. [15.6% acceptance rate for full papers].

16.  Ossama Younis and Sonia Fahmy, "Distributed Clustering for Scalable, Long-Lived Sensor Networks", Extended abstract in the 9th Annual International Conference on Mobile Computing and Networking, ACM MobiCom, San Diego, CA, September 2003.

17.  Ossama Younis and Sonia Fahmy, "On Efficient On-line Grouping of Flows with Shared Bottlenecks at Loaded Servers," Proceedings of the Tenth IEEE International Conference on Network Protocols (IEEE ICNP’02), pp. 175-184, Paris, France, November 2002. [14.7% acceptance rate].

18.  Ossama Younis, Wafaa A. El-Haweet, M. Nazih El-Derini, "Dynamic Bandwidth Allocation for VBR Video Sources with Different QoS Requirements in ATM Networks," IEEE Middle East Workshop on Networking, Lebanon, November 1999.

Under Preparation/Submitted:

1.      Ossama Younis, Sheetal Doshi, Kirk Chang, Sunil Samtani, and Aristides Staikos, “A Framework for Evaluating Cross-Layer Design Approaches.”

2.      Ossama Younis, Marwan Krunz, and Srinivasan Ramasubramanian, “ROC: Resilient Online Coverage for Surveillance Applications.”

3.      Mohamed Hassan, Marwan Krunz, and Ossama Younis, “Adaptive Playback Technique for Media Streaming over Wireless Channels.”

Ph.D. Dissertation:

Ossama Younis, “An Energy-Efficient Architecture for Wireless Sensor Networks,” Ph.D. Dissertation, Purdue University, USA, August 2005.

Technical Reports:

1.      Ossama Younis, Marwan Krunz, and Srinivasan Ramasubramanian, “Sensing Range Assignment in Location-Unaware Networks,” University of Arizona, November 2006.

2.      Ossama Younis, Marwan Krunz, and Srinivasan Ramasubramanian, “On Maximizing Coverage Time in Location-Unaware Wireless Sensor Networks,” University of Arizona, July 2006.

3.      Ossama Younis and Sonia Fahmy, “Energy-Efficient Routing and Data Aggregation in Sensor Networks: An Experimental Study,” CSD TR-04-031, Purdue University, 2004.

4.      Ossama Younis and Sonia Fahmy, “On Time Synchronization in Multi-hop Sensor Networks,” CSD TR-04-020, Purdue University, June 2004.

5.      Ossama Younis and Sonia Fahmy, “Distributed Clustering for Scalable, Long-Lived Sensor Networks,” CSD TR-03-026, Purdue University, 2003.

6.      Sonia Fahmy Venkatesh Prabhakar, Srinivas R. Avasarala, and Ossama Younis, “TCP over Wireless Links: Mechanisms and Implications,” CSD-TR-03-004, Purdue University 2003.

7.      Ossama Younis and Sonia Fahmy, “On Efficient On-line Grouping of Flows with Shared Bottlenecks at Loaded Servers,” CSD-TR-02-018, Purdue University, 2002.