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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
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Ph.D., Purdue University,
Department of Computer Science, 2005.
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M.S., Purdue University,
Department of Computer Science, 2003.
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M.S., Alexandria University,
Department of Computer Science, 1999.
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B.S., Alexandria University,
Department of Computer Science, 1995.
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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.
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Research
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Wireless network analysis, design, and
optimization.
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Wireless protocol testing and implementation,
with emphasis on sensor networks
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Cognitive networking, with emphasis on dynamic
spectrum access and cross-layer design.
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Internet tomography and measurements.
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Formal protocol specification and modeling.
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Professional
Activities and Services:
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Member of the ACM and the IEEE
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Editor:
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IARIA International Journal on Advances in
Networks and Services
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IARIA International Journal on Advances in
Telecommunications
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Industrial
Research Co-chair:
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The Fifth International Conference on Wireless
and Mobile Communications (ICWMC 2009)
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Web
Chair:
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The 16th IEEE International
Conference on Network Protocols (ICNP 2008)
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Technical
Program Committee (TPC) member :
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The 18th IEEE International
Conference on Network Protocols (ICNP 2010)
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IEEE GLOBECOM 2010 (Ad Hoc and Sensor Networks
Symposium)
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ICWMC 2006, ICWMC 2007, ICWMC 2008, ICWMC
2009, ICWMC 2010
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IEEE ICCCN 2009, 2008, 2009, 2010 (Internet
Services, Systems, and Applications)
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IEEE ICC 2009 (Ad
Hoc and Sensor Networking Symposium)
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IEEE LCN 2008
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IEEE
WoWMoM 2006, IEEE WoWMoM 2007
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IEEE
BROADNETS 2007
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IFIP/IEEE
MWCN 2007
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ICESS 2007
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SSN
2007, SSN 2009
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IEEE AINA 2006, IEEE AINA 2007
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MSN
2006
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WWIC 2006
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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.