Sherali Zeadally Associate Professor Department of Computer Science and Information Technology University of the District of Columbia 4200, Connecticut Avenue, N.W. Washington, DC 20008

Short Biography

Sherali Zeadally received his Bachelor and Master degrees in Computer Science from University of Cambridge, England, and the Doctor of Philosophy degree in Computer Science from University of Buckingham, England, in 1996. Sherali Zeadally was a research staff member at the Advanced Communications Unit at Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, Oxford, England from 1992 to 1995 where he was involved in the design and implementation of high speed network interfaces and broadband multimedia applications. He is a Chartered Engineer (CEng) registered (No. 529071) with the Engineering Council in the United Kingdom.

In March 1996, Sherali Zeadally joined the department of Electrical Engineering at the University of Southern California where he was an Assistant Professor until August 1999. While at USC, he was also one of the principal investigators of the Integrated Media Systems Center (IMSC) at the University of Southern California, an NSF Engineering Research Center where he led the networking research group from 1996 to 1999.

He joined the Department of Computer Science at Wayne State University in August 1999 where he was an Assistant Professor until January 2006. While at Wayne State University, he was the Founder and Director of the High-Speed Networking Laboratory.

In February 2006, he joined the Department of Computer Science and Information Technology at the University of the District of Columbia where he is an Associate Professor. He is the Founder of the NEtwork Systems laboraTory (NEST) at the University of the District of Columbia.

His research has been funded by NSF, NASA, Cisco, HP, Microsoft, Compaq, IBM, Intel, Sun Microsystems, Ixia Corporation, and others.

Awards/Honors

• IET (formerly IEE) Premium Award for Communications, 2011

• Fulbright Specialist Award, Sweden, 2011

• FaST Fellowship, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL)/US Department of Energy, Richland, WA, 2010

• Visiting Professorship Award, Scientific Council, University of Paris XII, Paris, France, 2010

• Visiting Erskine Fellowship, University of Canterbury, New Zealand, 2009

• Boeing Welliver Faculty Fellowship from the Boeing Company, Seattle, 2008

• Outstanding Faculty Award for Graduate Research from the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, University of the District of Columbia, 2008

• University-wide President's Award for Excellence in Teaching (highest award presented annually by the University for Outstanding teaching), Wayne State University, 2004

• Fellow of the Institution of Engineering and Technology (FIET), UK, elected in October 2004

• Fellow of the British Computer Society (FBCS), elected in June 2004

• College of Science Excellence in Teaching Award, Wayne State University, 2003

• College of Science Excellence in Teaching Award, Wayne State University, 2001

• Doctoral research scholarship, University of Buckingham, England

• University of Cambridge Local Examinations Syndicate undergraduate scholarship, University of Cambridge, England

Research Interests

• Computer Networks (wired, wireless)
• Network, System, Cyber Security
• Mobile Computing
• Ubiquitous Computing
• Energy-Efficient networking
• Multimedia Networking and Protocols
• Performance Evaluation of Networks and Systems

The web page to my networking laboratory at the University of the District of Columbia is here

Recent Refereed Publications

Edited Books

• H. Moustafa and S. Zeadally (Editors), Media Networks: Architectures, Applications, and Standards, CRC Press, New York, ISBN 1439877289, to appear, 2012.

• D. Ranasinghe, Q. Sheng, S. Zeadally (Editors), Unique Radio Innovation for the 21st Century: Building Scalable and Global RFID Networks, ISBN: 978-3-642-03461-9, Springer, October 2010.

Book Chapters

• K. Basu, S. Zeadally, F. Siddiqui, "Quality of Service in WiMAX", Book Chapter, to appear in Technologies and Protocols for Future Internet Design: Reinventing the Web, editor D. Vidyarthi, IGI Global, USA, 2011.

• S. Zeadally, H. Moustafa, N. Bihannic, F. Siddiqui, “Mobile TV”, Book Chapter, to appear in Media Networks: Architectures, Applications, and Standards, editors H. Moustafa and S. Zeadally, CRC Press, 2012.

• F. Siddiqui, S. Zeadally, and K. Basu, "Mobile Agent Systems", Book Chapter, to appear in Ubiquitous Multimedia and Mobile Agents: Models and Implementations, editor S. Bagchi, IGI Global, USA, 2011

• H. Moustafa, F. Siddiqui, S. Zeadally, “Digital TV”, Book Chapter, to appear in Media Networks: Architectures, Applications, and Standards, editors H. Moustafa and S. Zeadally, CRC Press, 2012.

• S. Zeadally, H. El-Sayed, and F. Siddiqui, “VoIP: Fundamentals and Managerial Issues”, Book Chapter, Handbook of Technology Management, Vol. III, Chapter 4, editor H. Bidgoli, John Wiley and Sons, 2009.

• S. Zeadally and N. Chilamkurti, "Home Networking: Technologies and Management", Book Chapter, Handbook of Technology Management, Vol. III, Chapter 3, editor H. Bidgoli, John Wiley and Sons, 2009.

• S. Fowler, S. Zeadally, and A. Mellouk, "Quality of Service Support for MPLS-based Wired-Wireless Domains", Book Chapter, End to End Quality of Service Engineering in Next Generation Heterogeneous Networks, editor A. Mellouk, Wiley/ISTE Publishing, 2008.

• S. Zeadally, "Home Networking", Book Chapter, Handbook of Computer Networks, editor H. Bidgoli, John Wiley & Sons, December 2007.

• S. Zeadally and F. Siddiqui, "Internetworking of Heterogeneous Wireless Networks", Book Chapter, Handbook of Computer Networks, editor H. Bidgoli, John Wiley & Sons, December 2007.

• S. Zeadally and F. Siddiqui, "Performance of Mobility Protocols", Book Chapter, Encyclopedia of Internet Technologies and Applications, editors M. Freire and M. Pereira, Information Science Reference, October 2007.

• S. Zeadally and F. Siddiqui, "Voice over IP (VoIP)", Book Chapter, Handbook of Computer Networks, editor H. Bidgoli, John Wiley & Sons, December 2007.

• S. Zeadally and F. Siddiqui, "Mobility Protocols", Book Chapter, Encyclopedia of Internet Technologies and Applications, editors M. Freire and M. Pereira, Information Science Reference, October 2007.

• F. Siddiqui and S. Zeadally, "Stream Control Transmission Protocol (SCTP)", Book Chapter, Encyclopedia of Internet Technologies and Applications, editors M. Freire and M. Pereira, Information Science Reference, October 2007.

• S. Zeadally and A. Kumar, "Personal Area Networking with Bluetooth", Invited Book Chapter, Encyclopedia of Radio Frequency and Microwave Engineering (6-Volume Set), ed. K. Chang, John Wiley & Sons, ISBN 0-471-27053-9, January 2005.

• S. Zeadally, P. Kubher, N. Ansari, "Home Area Networking", Invited Book Chapter, Part 2: Infrastructure for the Internet, Computer Networks and Secure Information Transfer, The Handbook of Information Security, ed. H. Bidgoli, John Wiley & Sons, December 2005.

Journals

• S. Zeadally, H. Moustafa, and F. Siddiqui, “Internet Protocol Television (IPTV): Architecture, Trends, and Challenges”, to appear in IEEE Systems Journal, 2011.

• M. Pearce, S. Zeadally, R. Hunt, "Virtualization: Issues, Security Threats, and Solutions", to appear in ACM Computing Surveys, 2011.

• S. Zeadally, S. Khan, N. Chilamkurti, “Energy-efficient Networking: past, present, and future”, to appear in Journal of Supercomputing, 2011.

• K. Salah, A. Manea, S. Zeadally, and J. Calero, “On Linux Starvation of CPU-bound Processes in the Presence of Network I/O”, to appear in Computers and Electrical Engineering – An International Journal, 2011.

• K. Lin, M. Chen, S. Zeadally, J. Rodrigues, "Balancing Energy Consumption with Mobile Agents in Wireless Sensor Networks", to appear in Future Generation Computer Systems - The International Journal, 2011.

• X. Li, J. Liu, Q. Sheng, S. Zeadally, and W. Zhong, “TMS-RFID: Temporal Management of Large-Scale RFID Applications, to appear in International Journal of Information Systems Frontiers, 2011.

• S. Zeadally, R. Hunt, Y. Chen, A. Irwin, and A. Hassan, "Vehicular Ad Hoc Networks (VANETs): Status, Results, and Challenges", to appear in Telecommunication Systems, Vol. 51, Nos. 2-3, 2012.

• S. Fowler, S. Zeadally, N. Chilamkurti, “Impact of Denial of Service Solutions on Network Quality of Service”, Security and Communication Networks Journal, Vol. 4, No. 10, 2011.

• A. Mellouk, S. Hoceini, and S. Zeadally, “A Bio-Inspired Quality of Service (QoS) Routing Algorithm”, IEEE Communications Letters, Vol. 15, No. 9, 2011.

• C. Lin, N. Chilamkurti, S. Zeadally, C. Shieh, "Performance Modeling of MPEG-4 Video Streaming Over IEEE 802.11 Using Distribution Coordination Function", Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing, Vol. 11, No. 9, 2011.

• M. Iftikhar, B. Landfeldt, S. Zeadally, A. Zomaya, "Service Level Agreements (SLAs) Parameter Negotiation between Heterogeneous 4G Wireless Network Operators", Pervasive and Mobile Computing Journal, Vol. 7, No. 5, 2011.

• Y. Wu, D. Ranasinghe, Q. Z. Sheng, S. Zeadally, and J. Yu, “RFID Enabled Traceability Networks: A Survey”, Distributed and Parallel Databases – An International Journal, Vol. 29, Nos. 5-6, 2011.

• R. Mehmood, R. Alturki, and S. Zeadally, “Multimedia Applications over Metropolitan Area Networks (MANs)”, Journal of Network and Computer Applications, Vol. 34, No. 5, 2011.

• T. Booysen, S. Zeadally, and J. Rooyen, "Survey of Media Access Control (MAC) Protocols for Vehicular Ad-Hoc NETworks (VANETs)", IET Communications Journal, Vol. 5, No. 11, 2011.

• E. Cerqueira, S. Zeadally, M. Leszczuk, M. Curado, A. Mauthe, “Recent Advances in Multimedia Networking”, Multimedia Tools and Applications - An International Journal, Vol. 54, No. 3, 2011.

• M. Shore, Y. Du, S. Zeadally, “A Public-Private Partnership Model for National Cybersecurity”, Policy and Internet Journal, Vol. 3, No. 2, Oxford Internet Institute/Oxford University, Berkeley Press, 2011.[One of 10 most popular/downloaded articles of Policy and Internet Journal at Berkeley Press website: June 2011-August 2011]

• M. Tsai, N. Chilamkurti, S. Zeadally, A. Vinel, “Concurrent Multipath Transmission combining Forward Error Correction and Path Interleaving for Video Streaming”, Computer Communications, Vol. 34, No. 9, 2011.

• J. Tellez, S. Zeadally, J. Camara, "Implementation and Performance Evaluation of a Payment Protocol for Vehicular Ad hoc Networks", Electronic Commerce Research Journal, Springer, Vol. 10, No. 2, 2010.

• J. Tellez, S. Zeadally, and J. Camara, “Security Attacks and Solutions for Vehicular Ad-Hoc Networks”, IET Communications Journal, Vol. 4, No. 7, 2010. This paper received the prestigious 2011 IET (formerly IEE) Premium Award for Communications.

• M. Pearce, S. Zeadally, and R. Hunt, “Assessing and Improving Authentication Confidence Management”, Information Management and Computer Security, Vol. 18, No. 2, 2010.

• Q. Sheng, S. Zeadally, Z. Luo, J. Chung, and Z. Maamar, “Ubiquitous RFID: Where Are We?”, International Journal of Information Systems Frontiers, Vol. 12, No. 5, 2010.

• N. Chilamkurti, S. Zeadally, R. Soni, and G. Giambene, “Wireless Multimedia Delivery over 802.11e with Cross-layer Optimization Techniques”, Multimedia Tools and Applications - An International Journal, Vol. 47, No. 1, 2010.

• O. Falowo, S. Zeadally, and H. Chan, “Dynamic Pricing for Load-Balancing in User-Centric Joint Call Admission Control of Next- Generation Wireless Networks”, International Journal of Communication Systems, Vol. 23, No. 3, 2010.

• Tzu-Chi Huang, S. Zeadally, N. Chilamkurti, and Ce-Kuen Shieh, “A Programmable Network Address Translator: Design, Implementation, and Performance”, ACM Transactions on Internet Technology, Vol. 10, No. 1, 2010.

• N. Chilamkurti, S. Zeadally, and F. Mentiplay, "Green Networking for Major Components of Information Communication Technology Systems", EURASIP Journal on Wireless of Information Communication Communications and Networking, Vol. 2009, 2009.

• C. Lin, C. Shieh, C. Ke, N. Chilamkurti, and S. Zeadally, “An Adaptive Cross-layer Mapping Algorithm for MPEG-4 Video Transmission over IEEE 802.11e WLAN”, Telecommunication Systems Journal, Vol. 42, Nos 3-4, December 2009.

• F. Siddiqui, S. Zeadally, H. El-Sayed, N. Chilamkurti, "A Dynamic Network Discovery and Selection Method for Heterogeneous Wireless Networks", International Journal of Internet Protocol Technology, Vol. 4, No. 2, 2009.

• A. Mellouk, S. Hoceïni, S. Zeadally, “Design and Performance Analysis of an Inductive QoS Routing Algorithm”, Computer Communications, Vol. 32, No. 12, 2009.

• K. Brasee, S. Makki, and S. Zeadally, “A Secure Two-Factor Authentication Scheme for Single Sign-On Services”, Security and Communication Networks Journal, Vol. 2, No. 4, 2009.

• H. Liang, S. Zeadally, N. Chilamkurti, C. Shieh, “Optimizing Channel Access in Wireless Local Area Network Environments with a New Backoff Approach”, International Journal of Multimedia and Ubiquitous Engineering, Vol. 4, No. 2, 2009.

• N. Chilamkurti, S. Zeadally, V. Sharma, and A. Vasilakos, “Cross-layer Support for Energy Efficient Routing in Wireless Sensor Networks”, Journal of Sensors, Hindawi Publishing Corporation, Vol. 2009.

• Tzu-Chi Huang, S. Zeadally, N. Chilamkurti, and Ce-Kuen Shieh, "Design, Implementation, and Evaluation of a Programmable Bandwidth Aggregation System for Home Networks", Journal of Network and Computer Applications, Vol. 32, No. 3, 2009.

• J. Mo, Q. Sheng, X. Li, and S. Zeadally, “RFID Infrastructure Design: A Case Study of Two Australian National RFID Projects", IEEE Internet Computing, Vol.13, No. 1, January/February 2009.

• H. El-Sayed, A. Mellouk, L. George, S. Zeadally, "Quality of Service Models for Heterogeneous Networks: Overview and Challenges", Annals of Telecommunications, Vol. 63, No. 11-12, 2008.

• S. Colombo, N. Chilamkurti, S. Zeadally, "A Novel Centralized Clustering Algorithm for Energy-Efficient Wireless Sensor Networks", Invited Paper, International Journal of Autonomous and Adaptive Communications Systems, Vol. 1. No. 2, 2008.

• J. Tellez, J. Camara, S. Zeadally, J. Marquez, "A Secure Vehicle-to-Roadside Communication Payment Protocol in Vehicular Ad Hoc Networks", Computer Communications, Vol. 31, No. 10, 2008.

• F. Siddiqui and S. Zeadally, "An Agent-based Architecture for Fast Context Transfers during Handoffs", International Journal of Ad Hoc and Ubiquitous Computing (IJAHUC), Vol. 3, No. 4, 2008.

• Q. Sheng, X. Li, S. Zeadally, "Enabling Next-Generation RFID Applications: Solutions and Challenges", IEEE Computer, Vol. 41, No. 9, September 2008.

• F. Siddiqui and S. Zeadally, "An Efficient Wireless Network Discovery Scheme for Heterogeneous Access Environments", International Journal of Pervasive Computing and Communications (JPCC), Vol. 4, No. 1, 2008.

• F. Siddiqui and S. Zeadally, "Ubiquitous Wireless Connectivity across Cellular and Wireless Local Area Networks", Journal of Information Science and Engineering, Vol. 24, No. 2, 2008.

• L. Zhang, Q. Cheng, Y. Wang, and S. Zeadally, "A Novel Distributed Sensor Positioning System Using the Dual of Target Tracking", IEEE Transactions on Computers, Vol. 57, No. 2, February 2008.

• S. Zeadally and P. Kubher, "Internet Access to Heterogeneous Home Area Network Devices with an OSGi-based Residential Gateway", Invited paper, in International Journal of Ad Hoc and Ubiquitous Computing, Vol. 3, No. 1, 2008.

• S. Zeadally, N. Sklavos, M. Rathakrishnan, S. Fowler, “End-to-End Security across Wired-Wireless Networks for Mobile Users”, Information Systems Security Journal, Taylor & Francis, Vol. 16, No. 5, 2007.

• S. Zeadally and F. Siddiqui, "An Empirical Analysis of Handoff Performance for SIP, Mobile IP, and SCTP Protocols", Wireless Personal Communications (WPC), Springer, Vol. 43, No. 2, October 2007.

• S. Zeadally and F. Siddiqui, "Security Protocols for Wireless Local Area Networks (WLANs) and Cellular Networks", Invited Paper, Journal of Internet Technology, Vol. 8, No. 1, January 2007.

• L. Zhang and S. Zeadally, "Enabling End-to-End QoS over Hybrid Wired-Wireless Networks", Wireless Personal Communications (WPC), Vol. 38, No. 2, Springer, 2006.

• S. Zeadally and A. Kumar, "Design, Implementation, and Evaluation of the Audio/Video Distribution Transport Protocol (AVDTP) for High Quality Audio Support over Bluetooth", Computer Communications, Vol. 28, No. 2, Elsevier Science, 2005.

• S. Zeadally and J. Pan, "J2EE Support for Wireless Services", Journal of Systems and Software, Vol. 75, No. 1-2, Elsevier Science, 2005.

• L. Zhang and S. Zeadally, "A Framework for Efficient Resource Management in IEEE 802.11 WLANs", in Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing (WCMC) Journal, John Wiley & Sons, Special Issue on Emerging WLAN Applications and Technologies, Vol. 4, No. 8, December 2004.

• F. Siddiqui and S. Zeadally, "Mobility Management across Hybrid Wireless Networks: Trends and Challenges", Computer Communications, Vol. 29, No. 9, Elsevier Science, 2006. [Ranked 1st among 25 most downloaded articles for Computer Communications Journal during the period October 2005 to December 2005]

• S. Zeadally, L. Zhang, Z. Zhu, J. Lu, "Network Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) Performance on Commodity Operating Systems", Journal of Information and Software Technology, Vol. 46, No. 6, Elsevier Science, 2004.

• S. Zeadally, R. Wasseem, I. Raicu, "Comparison of End-System IPv6 Protocol Stacks", IEE Proceedings Communications, Special issue on Internet Protocols, Technology and Applications (VoIP), Vol. 151, No. 3, June 2004.

• S. Zeadally, F. Siddiqui, P. Kubher, "Voice over IP in Intranet and Internet Environments", IEE Proceedings Communications, Special issue on Internet Protocols, Technology and Applications (VoIP), Vol. 151, No. 3, June 2004.

• S. Zeadally, A. Banda, A. Kumar, "Improving Bluetooth Performance in 802.11 Interference Environments", Computer Communications, Vol. 27, No. 7, Elsevier Science, 2004. [Ranked 10th among 25 most downloaded articles for Computer Communications Journal during the period October 2005 to December 2005]

• S. Zeadally and L. Zhang, "Enabling Gigabit Network Access to End Users", Invited Paper, Proceedings of the IEEE, Special Issue on Gigabit Wireless, Vol. 92, No. 2, February 2004.

Conferences and Workshops

• K. Lin, M. Chen, J. Rodrigues, S. Zeadally, L. Wang, “On Energy Equilibrium in Wireless Sensor Networks”, in Proceedings of 2010 IEEE Globecom Workshop on Advanced Sensor Integration Technology, Miami, Florida, December 2010.

• A. Shukaili, N. Chilamkurti, S. Zeadally, “Enabling "Quality of Service" in IEEE802.16 Networks for Distributed Mesh Topologies”, in Proceedings of The Australasian Telecommunication Networks and Applications Conference (ATNAC 2010), Auckland, New Zealand, October 2010.

• J. Al-Zaabi, N. Chilamkurti, S. Zeadally, and J. Kim, “A Proposed Authentication Protocol for Mobile Users of WiMAX Networks”, in Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Human-Centric Computing, Cebu, Philippines, August 2010.

• H. Liang, N. Chilamkurti, S. Zeadally, C. Ke, “QoS Support over IEEE 802.11e in Multirate Networks”, in Proceedings of IEEE International Symposium on Wireless Pervasive Computing (ISWPC'09), Melbourne, Australia, February 2009.

• F. Siddiqui, S. Zeadally, H. El-Sayed, N. Chilamkurti, "Design, Implementation, and Evaluation of TAILOR (Intelligent Handoff Decision Model for Heterogeneous Networks)", in Proceedings of 5th IEEE International Conference on Innovations in Information Technology (Innovations’08), Al Ain, UAE, December 2008.

• M. Tsai, N. Chilamkurti, S. Zeadally, C. Shieh, H. El-Sayed, “An Efficient Multi-hop FEC Scheme for Wireless Mesh Networks”, in Proceedings of 5th IEEE International Symposium on Wireless Communication Systems 2008 (ISWCS’08), Reykjavik, Iceland, October 2008.

• H. Liang, S. Zeadally, N. Chilamkurti, C. Shieh,, “A Novel Pause Count Backoff Algorithm for Channel access in IEEE 802.11 based Wireless LANs ”, in Proceedings of IEEE International Symposium Computer Science and its Applications (CSA-08), Hobart, Australia, October 2008.

• M. Tsai, N. Chilamkurti, S. Zeadally and C. Shieh, “A Concurrent Multi-path Transmission Control Scheme to Reduce Packet Reordering Latency at the Receiver” in Proceedings of IEEE International Conference on Advanced Technologies for Communications (ATC’08), Hanoi, Vietnam, October 2008.

• R. Soni, N. Chilamkurti, G. Giambene, S. Zeadally, “A Cross-layer Design for H.264 Video Stream over Wireless Local Area Networks”, in Proceedings of IEEE International Symposium Computer Science and its Applications (CSA-08), Hobart, Australia, October 2008.

• C. Yu , S. Zeadally, N. Chilamkurti, C. Shieh, “An Enhanced Uplink Scheduling Scheme for IEEE 802.16 Metropolitan Area Networks”, in Proceedings of ACM/IET/ICST International Workshop on Performance and Analysis of Wireless Networks, Ilan, Taiwan, September 2008.

• K. Brasee, S. Makki, and S. Zeadally, “A Novel Distributed Authentication Framework for Single Sign-On Services”, in Proceedings of IEEE International Conference on Sensor Networks, Ubiquitous, and Trustworthy Computing (SUTC'08), Taichung, Taiwan, June 2008.

• H. Elsayed, S. Zeadally, M. Boulmalf, “Experimental Evaluation and Characterization of the Long-Distance 802.11g Links”, in Proceedings of 7th International Conference on Networking (ICN'08), Cancun, Mexico, April 2008.

• S. Fowler and S. Zeadally, "Defending against Distributed Denial of Service (DDOS) Attacks with Queue Traffic Differentiation over Micro-MPLS-based Networks", in Proceedings of IEEE International Conference on Systems and Networks Communications (ICSNC'06), Tahiti, French Polynesia, November 2006.

• F. Siddiqui and S. Zeadally, "Mobility Protocols for Handoff Management in Heterogeneous Networks", in Proceedings of 11th IFIP International Conference on Personal Wireless Communications (PWC'06), Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS), Springer Verlag, Albacete, Spain, September 2006.

• S. Fowler and S. Zeadally, "Fast Handover over Micro-MPLS-based Wireless Networks", in Proceedings of 11th IEEE International Symposium on Computers and Communications (ISCC 2006), Sardinia, Italy, June 2006.

• F. Siddiqui and S. Zeadally, "SCTP Multihoming Support for Handoffs across Heterogeneous Networks", in Proceedings of 4th IEEE/ACM Communication Networks and Services Research Conference (CNSR 2006), Moncton, New Brunswick, Canada, May 2006.

• S. Fowler and S. Zeadally, "Adaptive Queue Management on Micro-MPLS-based Wireless Networks for Multimedia Traffic", in Proceedings of 4th IEEE/ACM Communication Networks and Services Research Conference (CNSR 2006), Moncton, New Brunswick, Canada, May 2006.

• S. Fowler, S. Zeadally, and F. Siddiqui, "QoS Path Selection Exploiting Minimum Link Delays in MPLS-Based Networks", in Proceedings of IEEE/IEE International Conference on High-Speed Networks (ICHSN'05), Montreal, Canada, August 2005.

• L. Zhang, Q. Cheng, Y. Wang, and S. Zeadally, "Landscape: A High Performance Distributed Positioning Scheme for Outdoor Sensor Networks", in Proceedings of IEEE International Conference on Wireless and Mobile Computing, Networking and Communications (WIMOB'05), Montreal, Canada, August 2005.

• S. Fowler and S. Zeadally, "Priority-based Congestion Control in MPLS-based Networks", in Proceedings of IEEE Advanced Industrial Conference on Telecommunications (AICT'05), Lisbon, Portugal, July 2005.

• F. Siddiqui, S. Zeadally, and S. Fowler, "A Novel Architecture for Roaming between 3G and Wireless LANs", in Proceedings of IEEE International Conference on Multimedia Services Access Networks (MSAN'05), Orlando, Florida, June 2005.

• F. Siddiqui, S. Zeadally, E. Yaprak, "Design Architectures for 3G and IEEE 802.11 WLAN Integration", in Proceedings of 4th IEEE/IEE International Conference on Networking (ICN'05), Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS), Vol. 3421, Springer Verlag, Reunion Islands, France, April 2005.

• S. Zeadally and A. Kumar, "Protocol Support for Audio Streaming between Bluetooth Devices", in Proceedings of IEEE Radio and Wireless Conference (RAWCON 2004), Atlanta, GA, September 2004.

• S. Zeadally, F. Siddiqui, N. Deepakmavatoor, P. Randhawa, "SIP and Mobile IP Integration to Support Seamless Mobility", in Proceedings of 15th IEEE International Symposium on Personal, Indoor and Mobile Radio Communications (PIMRC 2004), Barcelona, Spain, September 2004.

• S. Zeadally, A. Kumar, A. Banda, "Seamless Bluetooth Connectivity to IPv6 Networks" , in Proceedings of International Conference on Embedded and Ubiquitous Computing (EUC 2004), Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS), Vol. 3207, Springer Verlag, Aizu, Japan, August 2004.

• L. Zhang and S. Zeadally, "HARMONICA: Enhanced QoS Support with Admission Control for IEEE 802.11 Contention-based Access", in Proceedings of 10th IEEE Real-Time and Embedded Technology and Applications Symposium (RTAS 2004), Toronto, Canada, May 2004.

• S. Zeadally and S. Nanduri, "Fast Secure Handoff in Public Wireless LANs", in Proceedings of 59th IEEE Semiannual Vehicular Technology Conference (VTC-2004-Spring), Milan, Italy, May 2004.

• S. Zeadally, N. Deepakmavatoor, P. Randhawa, F. Siddiqui, "Delivery of Voice over Mobile IP in Mobile Environments", in Proceedings of 15th IEE International Symposium on Services and Local Access (ISSLS 2004), Edinburgh, March 2004.

• S. Zeadally, N. Ansari, P. Kubher, and M. Saklay, "Smart Home Networking with OSGI" , in Proceedings of 15th IEE International Symposium on Services and Local Access (ISSLS 2004), Edinburgh, March 2004.

• S. Zeadally and F. Siddiqui, "Design and Implementation of a SIP-based VoIP Architecture", in Proceedings of 18th IEEE International Conference on Advanced Information Networking and Applications (AINA 2004), Japan, March 2004.

• S. Zeadally and F. Siddiqui, "Deploying VoIP over SIP", in Proceedings of 18th International Conference of Information Networking (ICOIN 2004), Basu, Korea, February 2004.

• S. Zeadally, J. Lu, S. Nanduri, "Design and Implementation of a Jini-J2EE Bridge to enable Access to Enterprise Services", in Proceedings of IEEE Consumer Communications and Networking Conference (CCNC '04), Las Vegas, January 2004.

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Teaching

CSIT 3529-434-01 - Data Structures/Analysis of Algorithms

CSIT 3529-352-01 - Information Security

CSIT 3529-490 - Network Security

CSIT 3529-490 - Information Security (operational and organizational)

CSIT 3528-231-02 - Introduction to Computer Science

CSCI 508 - Principles of Data Communication Networks (Graduate)

CSCI 553 - Network Security (Graduate)

CSCI 551 - Computer Network Architecture and Protocol (Graduate)

CSIT 3528-104-04/05 - Introduction to Computer Applications

CSC 4992 - Introduction to Computer Networks

CSIT 3529-499 - Senior Projects

CSC 5250 - Networking, Distributed, Concurrent Programming

CSC 6290 - Data Communications and Computer Networks (Graduate)

CSIT 3529-490-02 - Computer Networking

CSC 7290 - Broadband Network Architectures (Graduate)

CSC 8260 - Seminar on Wireless Networks (Graduate)

Professional Activities

Editorship

• Co-Editor-in-Chief, International Journal of Internet Protocol Technology, Inderscience Publishers, England, 2005 - present.
• Associate Editor, Telecommunication Systems Journal, Springer, New York, 2009-present.
• Associate Editor, Security and Communication Networks, John Wiley and Sons, England, 2007 - present.
• Editorial Board Member, Wireless Personal Communications, Springer, Netherlands, 2007 - present.
• Editorial Board Member, IET Wireless Sensor Systems, IET, England, 2010-present.
• Associate Editor, Computers and Electrical Engineering – An International Journal, Elsevier, 2011 - present
• Editorial Advisory Board Member, Computer Communications, Elsevier, Netherlands, 2008 - present.
• Editorial Board Member, International Journal of Communication Systems, John Wiley and Sons, 2010 - present.
• Editorial Board Member, International Journal of Network Security, Femto Technique Ltd, Taiwan, 2009 - present.
• Editorial Board Member, Journal of Network and Computer Applications, Elsevier, 2009 - present.
• Editorial Board Member, International Journal of Agile Systems and Management, Inderscience Publishers, England, 2010-present.
• Editorial Board Member, International Journal of Computational Science and Engineering (IJCSE), Inderscience Publishers, 2011-present.
• Editorial Board Member, Information Security Journal - A Global Perspective, Taylor & Francis Group, London, England, 2011-present.
• Editorial Board Member, International Journal of Ad Hoc and Ubiquitous Computing, Inderscience Publishers, England, 2009-present.
• Editorial Board Member, International Journal of Advanced Science and Technology, SERC Press, Korea, 2008-present.
• Associate Editor, International Journal of Wireless Networks and Broadcasting Technologies, IGI Global, 2010-present.
• Editorial Board Member, Journal of Universal Computer Science, Springer, Heidelberg, Germany, 2003 - present.
• Editorial Board member, International Journal of Next Generation Computing, Perpetual Innovation, India, 2010-present
• Editorial Board Member, Journal of Internet Technology, Taipei,Taiwan, 2005 - present.
• Associate Editor, International Journal of Computers and Applications, IASTED Acta Press, Calgary, Canada, 2003 - present.
• Editorial Board Member, Far East Journal of Electronics and Communications, Pushpa Publishing, India, 2007 - present.
• Editorial Board Member, WSEAS Transactions on Communications, WSEAS Press, Athens, Greece, 2004 - present.
• Editorial Advisory Board Member, Using Cross-Layer Techniques for Communication Systems, Book, IGI Global, 2012.
• Editorial Advisory Board Member, Technologies and Protocols for the Future of Internet Design: Reinventing the Web, Book, IGI Global, 2010-2011.
• Editorial Board Member, International Journal of Pervasive Computing and Communications, Emerald Group Publishing, England, 2004 - 2010.
• Editorial Board Member, The Handbook of Technology Management (3 Volume set with over 200 contributed chapters), Editor-in-Chief, H. Bidgoli, John Wiley and Sons, 2007-2009.
• Editorial Board Member, International Journal of Computer Research, Nova Science Publishers, New York, 2003-2005.

Guest Editorship of Refereed International Journals

1. Guest editor (with C. Chang and T. Chen), International Journal of Distributed Sensor Networks, Special issue on Cyber Physical Systems using Sensor Technologies, 2012.
2. Guest editor (with H. Chao and C. Lai), KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems, Special issue on Machine 2 Machine Communications: Applications, Architectures and Protocols, 2012, to appear.
3. Guest Editor (with G. Martinez and H. Chao), Information Sciences - An International Journal, Special issue on Cloud Computing Service and Architecture Models, 2012, to appear.
4. Guest Editor (with S. Khan, P. Bouvry, N. Chilamkurti), Journal of Supercomputing, Special issue on Green Networks, 2011, to appear.
5. Guest Editor (with Y. Huang, D. Deng, J. Ding), International Journal of Ad Hoc and Ubiquitous Computing, Special issue on Ubiquitous Multimedia Computing: Systems, Networking, and Applications, 2011, to appear.
6. Guest Editor (with N. Jabeur), International Journal of Next Generation Computing, Special issue on Emerging Networking Technologies and Services, 2011, to appear.
7. Guest Editor (with K. Shih and M. Liang), Tamkang Journal of Science and Engineering, Special issue on Ubiquitous Computing, Technology, and Applications, Vol. 14, No. 3, 2011, to appear.
8. Guest Editor (with M. Curado, A. Mauthe, E. Cerqueira, M. Leszczuk), International Journal of Multimedia Tools and Applications, Special issue on Multimedia Networking, Vol. 54, No. 3, 2011.
9. Guest Editor (with N. Sklavos, C. Tello), Computers and Electrical Engineering – An International Journal, Special issue on Modern Trends in Applied Security: Architectures, Implementations & Applications, Vol. 37, No. 2, 2011.
10. Guest Editor (with C. Chang, Y. Chen, T. Chen), Telecommunication Systems Journal, Special issue on Vehicular Communications, Networks, and Applications, Vol. 51, Nos 2-3, 2012.
11. Guest Editor (with M. Sheng, K. Mitrokotsa, Z. Maamar), Journal of Network and Computer Applications, Special issue on RFID Technology, Systems, and Applications, Vol. 34, No. 3, 2011.
12. Guest Editor (with M. Sheng, Z. Luo, J. Cheung, Z. Maamar), International Journal of Information Systems Frontiers, Special issue on Advances in RFID Technology, Vol. 12, No. 5, 2010.
13. Guest Editor (with H. Chao, Y. Chen, G. Martinez), International Journal of Communication Systems, Special issue on Next Generation Networks, Vol. 23, Nos 6-7, June-July 2010.
14. Guest Editor ((with Z. Zhang, F. Naït-Abdesselam, A. Casimiro), International Journal of Autonomous and Adaptive Communications Systems, Special issue on Security, Trust, and Privacy in Vehicular Communications, Vol. 3, No. 2, 2010.
15. Guest Editor (with Yan Zhang and Hassnaa Moustafa), Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing Journal, Special issue on Recent Advances in Wireless Communications and Networks, Vol. 10, No. 1, January 2010.
16. Guest Editor (with N. Chilamkurti, A. Jamalipour, S. Das), EURASIP Journal on Wireless Communications and Networking, Special issue on Enabling Wireless Technologies for Green Pervasive Computing, Volume 2009, 2009.
17. Guest Editor (with A. Zomaya and H. Chao), Telecommunication Systems Journal, Special Issue on Mobility Management and Wireless Access, Vol. 42, Nos 3-4, December 2009.
18. Guest Editor (with H. Chao and Y. Huang), Telecommunication Systems, Special issue on Cross Layer Design for Cognitive Networks, Vol. 42, No. 1-2, October 2009.
19. Guest Editor (with A. Mellouk and P. Mueller), Annals of Telecommunications, Special issue on Routing and QoS over Heterogeneous Networks, Vol. 63, No. 11-12, 2008.
20. Guest Editor (with H. Chao), Computer Communications, Special Issue on Mobility Protocols for ITS/VANET, Vol. 31, No. 12, 2008.
21. Guest Editor (with B. Wei and B. Landfeldt), Computer Communications, Special Issue on End-to-End Support over Heterogeneous Wired-Wireless Networks, Vol. 31, No. 11, 2008.
22. Guest Editor (with L. Yan), International Journal of Ad Hoc and Ubiquitous Computing, Special issue on Recent Advances on Networking Support for Ubiquitous Computing, Vol. 3, No. 4, 2008.
23. Guest Editor (with L. Yan), International Journal of Pervasive Computing and Communications, Special Issue on Recent Advances of Wireless Communication Technologies for Ubiquitous Computing, Vol. 4, No.1, 2008.
24. Guest Editor (with M. Sheng, Z. Maamar, and M. Cameron), International Journal of Internet Protocol Technology (IJIPT), Special Issue on RFID: Technologies, Applications and Trends, 2007, Vol. 2, No. 3-4, December 2007.

Edited Refereed Conference/Workshop Proceedings

1. S. Zeadally (editor with N. Chilamkurti, C. Cheung, B. Bensaou, S. Misra), Proceedings of the International Symposium on Wireless Pervasive Computing (ISWPC 2011), Hong Kong, China, February, 2011.
2. S. Zeadally (editor with M. Badra et al.), Proceedings of the 4th IFIP International Conference on New Technologies, Mobility, and Security, Paris, France, February 2011.
3. S. Zeadally (editor with A. Mellouk and S. Mohammed), Proceedings of 2010 IEEE Globecom Workshop on Smart Communications and Network technologies applied on Autonomous Systems (SaCoNAS), Miami, Florida, December 2010.
4. S. Zeadally (editor with F. Naït-Abdesselam), Proceedings of the 3rd IEEE International Workshop on Wireless and Internet Services (WISe 2010), Denver, Colorado, October 2010.
5. S. Zeadally (editor with Q. Sheng, A. Mitrokotsa, Z. Maamar), Proceedings of the Fourth International Workshop on RFID Technology: Concepts, Applications, Challenges (IWRT 2009), Madeira, Portugal, June 2010.
6. S. Zeadally (editor with E. Cerqueira, M. Curado, and M. Leszczuk), Proceedings of the Third International Workshop on Future Multimedia Networking, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, LNCS Vol. 6157, Springer, Krakow, Poland, June 2010.
7. S. Zeadally (editor with N. Chilamkurti, H. Chen, and S. Yeo), Proceedings of the International Conference on Next Generation Wireless Systems (NGWS’09), Melbourne, Australia, October 2009.
8. S. Zeadally (Associate Editor with B. Gavish et al.), Proceedings of 2009 IFIP Networking and Electronic Commerce Research Conference (NAEC 2009), Lake Garda, Italy, October 2009.
9. S. Zeadally (editor with A. Mauthe, E. Cerqueira and M. Curado), Proceedings of the Second International Workshop on Future Multimedia Networking, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, LNCS Vol. 5630, Springer, Coimbra, Portugal, June 2009.
10. S. Zeadally (editor with Q. Sheng, A. Mitrokotsa, Z. Maamar), Proceedings of the Third International Workshop on RFID Technology: Concepts, Applications, Challenges (IWRT 2009), Milan, Italy, May 2009.
11. S. Zeadally (editor with J. Park, R. Hsu, H. Chao, M. Denko, S. Ahamed), Proceedings of 3rd IEEE International Workshop on Web and Pervasive Security (WPS 2009), Galveston, TX, March 2009.
12. S. Zeadally (editor with B. Landfeldt), Proceedings of the 6th ACM International Symposium on Mobility Management and Wireless Access (MobiWAC 2008), Vancouver, Canada, October 2008.
13. S. Zeadally (Associate Editor with B. Gavish et al.), Proceedings of 2008 IFIP Networking and Electronic Commerce Research Conference (NAEC 2008), Lake Garda, Italy, September 2008.
14. S. Zeadally (editor with M. Sheng, Z. Maamar, M. Cameron), Proceedings of the 2nd International Workshop on RFID Technology (IWRT'08), Barcelona, Spain, June 2008.
15. S. Zeadally (editor with A. Zomaya), Proceedings of the 5th ACM International Workshop on Mobility Management and Wireless Access (MobiWAC 2007), Chania, Greece, October 2007.
16. S. Zeadally (editor with M. Denko, X. Chen, H. Chao, and L. Yang), Proceedings of IEEE International Workshop on Pervasive Computing and Communications (PCAC'06), Vienna, Austria, April 2006.
17. S. Zeadally (Associate Editor) et al., Proceedings of the International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Processing Techniques and Applications (PDPTA'99), with H. Arabnia (Editor), Volume 1, CSREA Press, June 1999.

Refereed International Conferences and Workshops

Chairmanships

1. Program Co-Vice-Chair, Ad Hoc, Mesh and Sensor Networks track, 26th IEEE Advanced Information Networking and Applications (IEEE AINA-2012), Tokyo, Japan, March 2012.
2. Technical Program Co-Chair, Australasian Telecommunication Networks And Applications Conference (ATNAC 2011), Melbourne, Australia, November 2011.
3. General Co-Chair, International Workshop on Information Assurance and Security (WIAS-11) in conjunction with the 2nd International Conference on Ambient Systems, Networks and Technologies (ANT-2011), Niagara Falls, Ontario, Canada, September 2011.
4. Co-Chair, Fifth International Workshop on RFID Technology - Concepts, Applications, Challenges (IWRT 2011) in conjunction with the 8th International Conference on Mobile Web Information Systems (MobiWIS 2011), Niagara Falls, Ontario, Canada, September 2011.
5. Technical Program Chair, International Symposium on Wireless and Pervasive Computing (ISWPC 2011), Hong Kong, China, February 2011.
6. Technical Program Co-Chair, 4th IFIP International Conference on New Technologies, Mobility, and Security, Paris, France, February 2011.
7. Technical Program Co-Chair, IEEE International Workshop Towards Smart Communications and Network technologies applied on Autonomous Systems (SaCoNAS) (in conjunction with IEEE Globecom 2010), Miami, Florida, December 2010.
8. Program Co-Chair, 3rd IEEE International Workshop on Wireless & Internet Services (WISe 2010), held in conjunction with 35th IEEE International Conference on Local Computer Networks), Denver, Colorado, October 2010.
9. Co-Chair, Wireless Network Symposium, 2010 IEEE Conference on Wireless Communications, Networking, and Information Security (WCNIS 2010), Beijing, China, June 2010.
10. Co-Chair, 4th International Workshop on RFID Technology (IWRT'10), held in conjunction with the 12th International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems (ICEIS'10), Madeira, Portugal, June 2010.
11. Technical Program Chair, 3rd International Workshop on Future Multimedia Networking (FMN'10), Krakow, Poland, June 2010.
12. Technical Program Co-Chair, International Workshop on Vehicular Communications, Networks, and Applications (VCNA 2009), held in conjunction with the 10th International Symposium on Pervasive Systems, Algorithms and Networks, I-SPAN 2009, Kaoshiung, Taiwan, December 2009.
13. Technical Program Co-Chair, International Conference on Next Generation Wireless Systems (NGWS 2009), Melbourne, Australia, October 2009.
14. Technical Program Co-Chair, 2nd International Workshop on Future Multimedia Networking (FMN’09), Coimbra, Portugal, June 2009.
15. Co-Chair, Workshop on Mobility and its Applications, held in conjunction with International Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing (IWCMC 2009), Leipzig, Germany, June 2009.
16. Co-Chair, 3rd International Workshop on RFID Technology (IWRT'09), held in conjunction with the 11th International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems (ICEIS'09), Milan, Italy, May 2009.
17. General Co-Chair, 3rd International Workshop on Web and Pervasive Security (WPS-09), held in conjunction with 7th Annual IEEE International Conference on Pervasive Computing and Communications, Dallas, Texas, March 2009.
18. Steering Committee Chair, IEEE International Symposium on Wireless Pervasive Computing, Melbourne, Australia, February 2009.
19. Vice Chair, Network Protocol Track, International Conference on Embedded and Ubiquitous Computing (EUC '08), Shanghai, China, December 2008.
20. General Chair, 6th ACM International Symposium on Mobility Management and Wireless Access, held in conjunction with the 11th ACM/IEEE International Symposium on Modeling, Analysis and Simulation of Wireless and Mobile Systems (MSWiM 2008), Vancouver, Canada, October 2008.
21. Technical Co-Chair, ACM/IET/ICST International Conference on Mobile Technology, Applications and Systems (Mobility 2008), Ilan, Taiwan, September 2008.
22. Technical Program Co-Chair, ACM International Workshop on Performance and Analysis of Wireless Networks, held in conjunction with the International Conference on Mobile Technology, Applications and Systems (Mobility 2008), Ilan, Taiwan, September 2008.
23. Co-Chair, 2nd International Workshop on RFID Technology (IWRT'08), held in conjunction with the 10th International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems (ICEIS'08), Barcelona, Spain, June 2008.
24. Technical Program Chair, 5th ACM International Workshop on Mobility Management and Wireless Access (MobiWAC 2007) , held in conjunction with the 10th ACM/IEEE International Symposium on Modeling, Analysis and Simulation of Wireless and Mobile Systems (MSWiM 2007), October 2007.
25. General Co-Chair, IEEE International Workshop on Pervasive Computing and Ad-hoc Communications (PCAC'06), held in conjunction with 20th IEEE International Conference on Advanced Information Networking and Applications, Vienna, Austria, April 2006.

Current Technical Program Committee Memberships

• Member, Program Committee, First International ICST Conference on Eco-Technology and Green Computing, Chennai, India, August 2012.
• Member, International Advisory Committee, 7th International Symposium on Wireless and Pervasive Computing (ISWPC 2012), Dalian, China, July 2012.
• Member, Steering Committee, 3rd IEEE International Workshop on SmArt COmmunications in NEtwork Technologies (SaCoNeT-III) SaCoNeT 2012 (in conjunction with 2012 IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC'12)), Ottawa, Canada, June 2012.
• Member, Program Committee, IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC 2012), Symposium on Communication Software Services and Multimedia Applications, Ottawa, Canada, June 2012.
• Member, Program Committee, IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC 2012), Symposium on Ad-Hoc and Sensor Networking, Ottawa, Canada, June 2012.
• Member, Program Committee, IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC 2012), Wireless Networks Symposium, Ottawa, Canada, June 2012.
• Member, Program Committee, Vehicular Technology and Telematics Symposium, 2012 International Conference on Communications, Mobility, and Computing (CMC 2012),Guilin, China, May 2012.
• Member, Program Committee, The Fourth International Conference on Advances in Multimedia (MMEDIA 2012), Chamonix, France, April 2012.
• Member, Program Committee, 2012 IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference (WCNC’12), Paris, France, April 2012.
• Member, Program Committee, The Eighth International Conference on Networking and Services (ICNS 2012), St. Maarten, Netherlands, Antilles, March 2012.
• Member, Program Committee, 2012 International Conference on Computer, Information Technology, and Telecommunication Systems (CITS 2012), Amman, Jordan, February 2012.
• Member, Program Committee, 2nd International Conference on Pervasive and Embedded Computing and Communication Systems (PECCS’12), Rome, Italy, February 2012.
• Member, Program Committee, 7th International Conference on Systems (ICONS 2012), Reunion Island, France, February 2012.
• Member, Program Committee, International Conference on Computing, Networking and Communications, Communication Software and Services Symposium, Maui, Hawaii, February 2012.
• Member, Program Committee, IEEE Globecom 2011 - Ad-hoc and Sensor Networking Symposium, Houston, Texas, December 2011.
• Member, Program Committee, 2011 IEEE Globecom - Workshop on Mobile Computing and Emerging Communication Networks (MCECN’11), Houston, Texas, December 2011.
• Member, Program Committee, 2011 International Workshop on Computing and Communications, Jeju, Korea, December 2011.
• Member, Program Committee, 2011 IEEE Globecom – 2nd IEEE Workshop on Multimedia Communications and Services, Houston, Texas, December 2011
• Member, Program Committee, International Conference on Advanced Computing, Chennai, India, December 2011.
• Member, Program Committee, 3rd IEEE International Conference on Cloud Computing Technology and Science (IEEE CloudCom 2011), Athens, Greece, December 2011.
• Member, Program Committee, 3rd International Conference on Computer Science and its Applications (CSA-11), Jeju, Korea, December 2011.
• Member, Program Committee, 4th International Conference on Advances in Human-oriented and Personalized Mechanisms, Technologies, and Services (CENTRIC 2011), Barcelona, Spain, October 2011.
• Member, Program Committee, 11th IEEE International Workshop on Wireless Local Networks (WLN'11), held in conjunction with 36th IEEE Conference on Local Computer Networks, Bonn, Germany, October 2011.
• Member, Program Committee, 14th ACM International Conference on Modeling, Analysis, and Simulation of Wireless and Mobile Systems (MSWiM 2011), Miami, Florida, October 2011.
• Member, Program Committee, IEEE/ACM International Conference on Internet of Things (IoT), Dalian, China, October 2011.
• Member, Program Committee, International Conference on Selected Topics in Mobile & Wireless Networking(iCOST'2011), Shanghai, China, October 2011.
• Member, Program Committee, 6th Latin American Networking Conference 2011, Quito, Ecuador, October 2011.
• Member, Program Committee, IEEE International Conference on e-Business Engineering, Green Supply Chain, Business and RFID track, Beijing, China, October 2011.

Past

• Member, Program Committee, 2nd International Conference on Emerging Intelligent Data and Web Technologies – Security, Trust, and Reputation Track, Tirana, Albania, September 2011.
• Member, Program Committee, 13th IEEE Conference on High Performance Computing and Communications (HPCC-2011), Banff, Canada, September 2011.
• Member, Program Committee, 22nd Annual IEEE International Symposium on Personal, Indoor, and Mobile Radio Communications (PIMRC'11), Local and Personal Area Networks track, Toronto, Canada, September 2011.
• Member, Program Committee, 14th International Conference on Network-Based Information Systems (NBiS-2011) – Energy Efficient Networks and Green IT track, Tirana, Albania, September 2011.
• Member, Program Committee, International Workshop on Privacy, Security, and Trust in Mobile and Wireless Systems (MobilPST 2011) in conjunction with ICCCN 2011, Maui, Hawaii, August 2011.
• Member, Program Committee, 2011 IEEE/ACM International Conference on Green Computing and Communications (GreenCom 2011), Chengdu, China, August 2011.
• Member, Program Committee, Fourth International Conference on Advances in Mesh Networks (MESH 2011), Cote d'Azur, France, August 2011.
• Member, Program Committee, 7th International Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing Conference (IWCMC 2011), Symposium on Communication and Information Theory, Istanbul, Turkey, July 2011.
• Member, Program Committee, IEEE International Workshop on Networking and Communications for Advanced Society (NCAS2011), held in conjunction with the 7th International Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing Conference (IWCMC 2011), Istanbul, Turkey, July 2011.
• Member, Program Committee, Workshop on optimization issues in energy efficient distributed systems (OPTIM 2011) to be held as part of The International Conference on High Performance Computing & Simulation (HPCS 2011), Istanbul, Turkey, July 2011
• Member, Program Committee,IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC 2011), Symposium on Selected Areas in Communications - eHealth Track (SAC-EH), Kyoto, Japan, June 2011.
• Member, Program Committee, 16th IEEE Symposium on Computers and Communications (ISCC' 11), Corfu, Greece, June 2011.
• Member, Program Committee,IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC 2011), Wireless Networking Symposium, Kyoto, Japan, June 2011.
• Member, Program Committee,Third International Workshop on Specialized Ad Hoc Networks and Systems (SAHNS 2011), Minneapolis, MN, June 2011.
• Member, Program Committee, 7th International Conference on Wireless and Mobile Communications (ICWMC 2011), Luxembourg, June 2011.
• Member, Program Committee, IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC 2011), Communication Software, Services, and Multimedia Applications Symposium, Kyoto, Japan, June 2011.
• Member, Program Committee, The Seventh International Conference on Networking and Services (ICNS 2011), Venice, Italy, May 2011.
• Member, Program Committee, 2011 International Conference on Network Computing and Information Security (NCIS'11), Guilin, China, May 2011.
• Member, Program Committee, 2011 IEEE International Workshop on Ubiquitous Media and Embedded System (UMES 2011), Busan, South Korea, May 2011.
• Member, Program Committee, 9th IEEE/ACM Annual Communication Networks and Services Research Conference (CNSR 2011), Ottawa, Canada, May 2011.
• Member, Program Committee, The Third International Conference on Advances in Multimedia (MMEDIA 2011), Budapest, Hungary, April 2011.
• Member, Program Committee, 10th International Symposium on Programming and Systems, Algiers, Algeria, April 2011.
• Member, Program Committee, 14th SCS/ACM Communications and Networking Simulation Symposium (CNS’11), Boston, MA, April 2011.
• Member, Program Committee, International Conference on Pervasive and Embedded Computing and Communication Systems (PECCS’11), Algarve, Portugal, March 2011.
• Member, Program Committee, IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference (WCNC 2011), Cancun, Mexico, March 2011.
• Member, Program Committee, 3rd International Conference on Wireless Information Networks & Business Information System (WINBIS'11), Kathmandu, Nepal, February 2011.
• Member, Technical Advisory Committee, International Conference on Information, Signal, and Communication (ICISC 2011), Gujarat, India, February 2011.
• Member, Program Committee, IEEE Globecom 2010 - Ad-hoc and Sensor Networking Symposium, Miami, Florida, December 2010.
• Member, Program Committee, IEEE Globecom 2010 - Communications Software, Services and Multimedia Applications Symposium (CSSMA), Miami, Florida, December 2010.
• Member, Program Committee, IEEE Globecom 2010 - Workshop on Mobile Computing and Emerging Communication Networks (MCECN’10), Miami, Florida, December 2010.
• Member, Program Committee, 2nd International Conference on Advanced Computing, Chennai, India, December 2010.
• Member, Program Committee, IEEE Globecom 2010 – International Workshop on Advanced Sensor Integration Technology (ASIT 2010), Miami, Florida, December 2010.
• Member, Program Committee, IEEE/ACM International Conference on Green Computing and Communications (GreenCom 2010), Computer Networking Track, Hangzhou, China, November 2010.
• Member, Program Committee, 1st IET International Conference on Wireless Sensor Network (IET-WSN 2010), Beijing, China, November 2010.
• Member, Program Committee, 2nd International Conference on Cloud Computing Technology and Science, Indianapolis, November 2010.
• Session Co-Chair/Organizer, Session on “Future Internet Challenges”, Networking and Electronic Commerce Research Conference 2010 (NAEC 2010), Riva Del Garda, October 2010.
• Member, Program Committee, 10th IEEE International Workshop on Wireless Local Networks (WLN'10), held in conjunction with 35th IEEE Conference on Local Computer Networks, Denver, Colorado, October 2010.
• Member, Program Committee, 1st International Workshop on Engineering Low-Carbon Business (ELCB’10), Shanghai, China, October 2010.
• Member, Program Committee, 8th ACM International Symposium on Mobility Management and Wireless Access, Bodrum, Turkey, October 2010.
• Member, Program Committee, 2nd International Workshop on Design, Optimization and Management of Heterogeneous Networked Systems (DOM-HetNetS’10), San Diego, California, September 2010.
• Member, Program Committee, 3rd International Conference on Human-Centric Computing (Human-Com-10), Privacy, Security, and Trust Management Track, Cebu, Philippines, August 2010.
• Member, Program Committee, 3rd International Conference on Advances in Human-oriented and Personalized Mechanisms, Technologies, and Services (CENTRIC 2010), Nice, France, August 2010.
• Member, Program Committee, 2nd International Workshop on Communication Technologies for Vehicles (Nets4Cars 2010), Newcastle, UK, July 2010.
• Member, Program Committee, Workshop on Optimization Issues in Energy Efficient Distributed Systems (OPTIM 2010) held as part of The International Conference on High Performance Computing & Simulation (HPCS 2010), Normandy, France, July 2010.
• Member, Program Committee, The Second International Conference on Advances in Multimedia (MMEDIA 2010), Athens, Greece, July 2010.
• Member, Program Committee, The First International Workshop on Cloud Computing Interoperability and Services (InterCloud 2010), held in conjunction with 6th International Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing Conference (IWCMC 2010), Normandy, France, July 2010.
• Member, Program Committee, 8th IEEE/ACM Annual Communication Networks and Services Research Conference (CNSR 2010), Montreal, Canada, May 2010.
• Member, Program Committee, 2nd International Conference on Mobile Lightweight Wireless Systems (Mobilight’10), Barcelona, Spain, May 2010.
• Member, Program Committee, 5th International Conference on Grid and Pervasive Computing (GPC 2010), Hualien, Taiwan, May 2010.
• Member, Program Committee, 2nd Open NGN and IMS Testbeds Workshop, held in conjunction with 6th International Conference on Testbeds and Research Infrastructures for the Development of Networks and Communities (TRIDENTCOM 2010), Berlin, Germany, May 2010.
• Member, Program Committee, IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference (WCMC 2010), Sydney, Australia, April 2010.
• Member, Program Committee,13th SCS/ACM Communications and Networking Simulation Symposium (CNS’10), Orlando, Florida, April 2010.
• Member, Program Committee, 24th IEEE International Conference on Advanced Information Networking and Applications (AINA 2010), Vehicular Networks and Applications track, Perth, Australia, April 2010.
• Member, Program Committee, IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference (WCNC 2010), Sydney, Australia, April 2010.
• Member, Program Committee, The Sixth International Conference on Networking and Services (ICNS 2010), Cancun, Mexico, March 2010.
• Member, Program Committee, 2nd International Conference on Wireless Information Networks & Business Information System (WINBIS'10), Kathmandu, Nepal, February 2010.
• Member, Program Committee, 1st International Conference on Cloud Computing (CloudCom 2009), Beijing, China, December 2009.
• Member, Program Committee, 3rd IFIP International Conference on New Technologies, Mobility and Security (NTMS'09), Cairo, Egypt, December 2009.
• Member, Program Committee, International Conference on Information Technology (ICIT 2009), Bhubaneswar, India, December 2009.
• International Advisory Committee member, 4th IEEE International Conference on Ubiquitous Information Technologies & Applications (IEEE ICUT-09), Fukuoka, Japan, December 2009.
• Member, Program Committee, 2nd ACM Workshop on Many-Task Computing on Grids and Supercomputers (MTAGS), Co-located with IEEE/ACM International Conference for High Performance Computing, Networking, Storage and Analysis (SC09), Portland, November 2009.
• Member, Program Committee, 9th IEEE International Workshop on Wireless Local Networks (WLN'09), to be held in conjunction with 34th IEEE Conference on Local Computer Networks, Zurich, Switzerland, October 2009.
• Member, Program Committee, IFIP Networking and Electronic Commerce Research Conference 2009 (NAEC 2009), Lake Garda, Italy, October 2009.
• Member, Program Committee, 2nd IEEE International Workshop on Wireless Internet Services (WISe'09), to be held in conjunction with 34th IEEE International Conference on Local Computer Networks (LCN 2009), Zurich, Switzerland, October 2009.
• Member, Program Committee, 7th ACM International Symposium on Mobility Management and Wireless Access, Canary Islands, Spain, October 2009.
• Member, Program Committee, International Workshop on Dependable Wireless Sensor and Actuator Networks, for Critical Infrastructure Protection (DWSAN4CIP 2009), Madrid, Spain, November 2009.
• Member, Program Committee, 2nd International Workshop on Advances in RFID (AIR 2009), to be held in conjunction with IEEE ICEBE 2009, Macao, China, October 2009.
• Member, Program Committee, 2nd International Conference on Advances in Human-Oriented and Personalized Mechanisms, Technologies, and Services, Porto, Portugal, September 2009.
• Member, Program Committee, The First International Conference on Evolving Internet (INTERNET 2009), Cap Esterel, France, August 2009.
• Member, Program Committee, Workshop on Nano, Molecular, and Quantum Communications (NanoCom 2009), in conjunction with ICCCN 2009, San Francisco, CA, USA, August 2009.
• Member, Program Committee, 18th International Conference on Computer Communications and Networks (ICCCN 2009), Network Architecture and Protocols track, San Francisco, August 2009.
• Member, Program Committee,The First International ICST Conference on Communications Infrastructure, Systems and Applications in Europe (EuropeComm 2009), London, England, August 2009.
• Member, Program Committee, 13th IASTED International Conference on Internet and Multimedia Systems and Applications (IMSA), Hawaii, August 2009.
• Member, Program Committee, Smart Homes Infrastructures and Interactions Workshop, 18th IEEE International Workshops on Enabling Technologies: Infrastructures for Collaborative Enterprises (WETICE 2009), Groningen, Netherlands, July 2009.
• Member, Program Committee, 9th IASTED International Conference on Wireless and Optical Communications (WOC’09), Banff, Alberta, Canada, July 2009.
• Member, Program Committee, Workshop on Emerging Multimedia Communication Technologies, to be held in conjunction with 2009 IEEE International Conference on Multimedia & Expo, Cancun, Mexico, July 2009.
• Member, Program Committee, The First International Conference on Advances in Multimedia (MMEDIA 2009), Colmar, France, July 2009.
• Member, Program Committee, 2nd International Workshop on Specialized Ad Hoc Networks and Systems (SAHNS 2009), held in conjunction with the 29th IEEE International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems (ICDCS 2009), Montreal, June 2009.
• Member, Program Committee, IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC'09), Wireless Networking Symposium, Dresden, Germany, June 2009.
• Member, Program Committee, IFIP/IEEE Network and Service Security International Conference 2009 (N2S’09), Paris, France, June 2009.
• Member, Program Committee, 4th International Conference on Grid and Pervasive Computing, Geneva, Switzerland, May 2009.
• Member, Program Committee, 7th IEEE/ACM Annual Communication Networks and Services Research Conference (CNSR 2009), New Brunswick, Canada, May 2009.
• Member, Program Committee, 2009 IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference (WCNC’09), Budapest, Hungary, April 2009.
• Member, Program Committee, 2nd Workshop on Experimental Evaluation and Deployment Experiences on Vehicular Networks, held in conjunction with TRIDENTCOM 2009, Washington DC, April 2009.
• Member, Program Committee, The 5th International Conference on Networking and Services (ICNS’09), Valencia, Spain, April 2009.
• Member, Program Committee, 12th SCS/ACM Communications and Networking Simulation Symposium (CNS’09), San Diego, March 2009.
• Member, Program Committee, IEEE Globecom 2008, Communications Software and Services Symposium, New Orleans, December 2008.
• Member, Program Committee, 16th International Conference on Advanced Computing and Communication, Chennai, India, December 2008.
• Member, Program Committee, Workshop on Many-Task Computing on Grids and Supercomputers, co-located with ACM/IEEE International Conference for High Performance, Networking, Storage and Analysis, Austin, Texas, November 2008.
• Member, Program Committee, 8th IEEE International Workshop on Wireless Local Networks (WLN’08), held in conjunction with 33rd IEEE Conference on Local Computer Networks (LCN), Montreal, Canada, October 2008.
• Member, Program Committee, 4th ACM International Workshop on Wireless Multimedia Networking and Performance Modeling (WMuNeP 2008), Vancouver, Canada, October 2008.
• Member, Program Committee, The 2008 International Symposium on Computer Science and its Applications (CSA-08), Australia, October 2008.
• Member, Program Committee, International Conference on Advances in Human-oriented and Personalized Mechanisms, Technologies, and Services (I-CENTRIC 2008), Malta, October 2008.
• Member, Program Committee, First International Workshop on Advances in RFID (AIR 2008), held in conjunction with IEEE ICEBE 2008, Xi'An, China, October, 2008.
• Member, Program Committee, IFIP Networking and Electronic Commerce Research Conference 2008 (NAEC 2008), Lake Garda, Italy, September 2008.
• Member, Program Committee, 3rd International Conference on Nano-Networks (Nano-Net 2008), Boston, September 2008.
• Member, Program Committee, 1st International Workshop on Future Multimedia Networking, Cardiff, UK, September 2008.
• Member, Program Committee, International Workshop on Wireless Technologies for Smart Homes, held in conjunction with the International Conference on Mobile Technology, Applications and Systems (Mobility 2008), Taiwan, September 2008.
• Member, Program Committee, IEEE International Symposium on Personal, Indoor and Mobile Radio Communications (PIMRC’08), Cannes, France, September 2008.
• Member, Program Committee, Network Security Symposium, held in conjunction with 17th IEEE International Conference on Computer Communications and Networks (IC3N'08), US Virgin Islands, August 2008.
• Member, Program Committee, IASTED Internet and Multimedia Systems and Applications (IMSA), Hawaii, 2000 - 2007.
• Member, Program Committee, 3rd International ICST International Conference on Scalable Information Systems (Infoscale’ 08), Vico Equense, Italy, June 2008.
• Member, Program Committee, 5th International Conference on Autonomic and Trusted Computing (ATC-08), Oslo, Norway, June 2008.
• Member, Program Committee, IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC'08), Wireless Networking Symposium, Beijing, China, May 2008.
• Member, Program Committee, 8th IASTED Wireless and Optical Communications (WOC 2008), Quebec, Canada, May 2008.
• Member, Program Committee, 3rd International Conference on Grid and Pervasive Computing, Kunming, China, May 2008.
• Member, Program Committee, 6th IEEE/ACM Annual Communication Networks and Services Research Conference (CNSR 2008), Nova Scotia, Canada, May 2008.
• Member, Program Committee, 11th Communications and Networking Simulation Symposium, Ottawa, Canada, April 2008.
• Member, Program Committee, 1st ACS/IEEE International Workshop on Wireless Internet Services (WISe'08), held in conjunction with 6th ACS/IEEE International Conference on Computer Systems and Applications (AICCSA'08), Doha, Qatar, April 2008.
• Member, Program Committee, IEEE AINA 2008, Mobile Network and Applications Track, Okinawa, Japan, March 2008.
• Member, Program Committee, 1st International Workshop on Peer to Peer Networks (PPN'07), Algarve, Portugal, November 2007.
• Member, Program Committee, Annual IASTED International Software and Engineering Applications (SEA), Cambridge, MA, 1999 - 2007.
• Member, Program Committee, IASTED Communications, Internet, and Information Technology(CIIT), Banff, Alberta, 2003 - 2007.
• Member, Program Committee, IASTED International Conference on Software Engineering (SE 2007), 25th International Multi-Conference on Applied Informatics, Innsbruck, Austria, 2004 - 2007.
• Member, Program Committee, 3rd IEEE International Workshop on Performance and Management of Wireless and Mobile Networks (P2MNet 2007), held in conjunction with the 32nd IEEE Conference Local Computer Networks, Dublin, Ireland, October 2007.
• Member, Program Committee, Special Session on "Intelligent Internet Systems: Emerging Technologies and Applications", held in conjunction with 4th IFIP Conference on Artificial Intelligence Innovations and Applications (AIIA 2007), Athens, Greece, September 2007.
• Member, Program Committee, Broadband Networking and Protocols Symposium, held in conjunction with 16th IEEE International Conference on Computer Communications and Networks (IC3N'07), Hawaii, August 2007.
• Member, Program Committee, Pervasive Computing and Mobile Networking track of 16th IEEE International Conference on Computer Communications and Networks (IC3N'07), Hawaii, August 2007.
• Member, Program Committee, 2007 IEEE International Workshop on Smart Living Space, held in conjunction with IEEE International Conference on Multimedia and Ubiquitous Engineering (MUE 2007), Seoul, Korea, April 2007.
• Member, Program Committee, 5th IEEE/ACM Annual Communication Networks and Services Research Conference (CNSR 2007), New Brunswick, Canada, May 2007.
• Member, Program Committee, 7th IASTED Wireless and Optical Communications (WOC 2007), Quebec, Canada, June 2007.
• Member, Program Committee, 2007 IEEE International Symposium on Ubisafe Computing (UbiSafe-07), Niagara Falls, Canada, May 2007.
• Member, Poster Committee, 15th International World Wide Web Conference (WWW 2006), Edinburgh, 2004-present.
• Member, Program Committee, IEEE International Conference on Computer Communications and Networks (ICCCN), Chicago, 2000 - 2004.
• Member, Program Committee, 19th IEEE International Conference on Advanced Information Networking and Applications (AINA 2005),Taiwan, March 2005.
• Member, Scientific Committee, Wi-Fi Voice Conference 2004, Paris, France, May 2004.
• Member, Program Committee, WSEAS 4th International Conference on Information Science, Communications and Applications (ISA 2004), Miami, Florida, April 2004.
• Member, Program Committee, IASTED Wireless and Optical Communications (WOC), Banff, Canada, 2001 - 2002.
• Member, Program Committee, World Multi-conference on Systemics, Cybernetics, and Informatics, 2000 - 2001.
• Member, Program Committee, 17th Annual AoM/IAoM International Conference on Computer Science, San Diego, CA, 1999.
• Member, Program Committee, 6th International Conference on Distributed Multimedia Systems (DMS '99), Aizu, Japan, 1999.

Affiliations

• Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET) (formerly IEE)
• British Computer Society

Acknowledgements: I have, so far, been privileged to collaborate with many world-class researchers (undergraduate/graduate students, scientists, and numerous professors) over the years from around the world (South America, North America, Europe, Asia, Middle East, Australia/New Zealand, and Africa) in many of my research activities and publications. All these great colleagues have contributed (and continue to contribute) in one way or another to my research accomplishments and academic career. My deepest gratitude goes to all of them.

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