Sherali Zeadally Associate Professor Department of Computer Science and Information Technology University of the District of Columbia School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Suite 113 4200, Connecticut Avenue, N.W. Washington, DC 20008

Short Biography

Sherali Zeadally received the B.A. and M.A. degrees in Computer Science from University of Cambridge, England, and the Ph.D 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. He was elected a Fellow of the British Computer Society (FBCS) in June 2004 and a Fellow of the Institution of Electrical Engineers (FIEE), UK, in October 2004.

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 2006. While at Wayne State University, Sherali Zeadally was the Founder and Director of the High-Speed Networking Laboratory. In 2001, he received the College of Science Excellence in Teaching Award. In 2003, he received a second College of Science Excellence in Teaching Award. In 2004, he received the University-wide President's Award for Excellence in Teaching (highest award presented annually by the University for Outstanding teaching).

In 2006, Sherali Zeadally 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.

In 2004, he received an Outstanding Recognition for his contributions to the International Association of Science and Technology for Development (IASTED) Society, Calgary, Canada.

His research has been funded by NSF, HP, Microsoft, Compaq, IBM, Intel, Sun Microsystems, and most recently Ixia Corporation.

Research Interests

• Computer Networks (wired, wireless)
• Network and System Security
• Mobile Computing
• Ubiquitous Computing
• Multimedia Networking and Protocols
• Operating System Internals
• 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

• L. Zhang and S. Zeadally, "Enabling End-to-end QoS over Hybrid Wired-Wireless Networks", to appear in Wireless Personal Communications (WPC), Springer, 2006.

• F. Siddiqui and S. Zeadally, "Mobility Management across Hybrid Wireless Networks: Trends and Challenges", to appear in Computer Communications, Elsevier Science, 2006.

• S. Fowler and S. Zeadally, "Fast Handover over Micro-MPLS-based Wireless Networks", to appear 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", to appear 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", to appear in Proceedings of 4th IEEE/ACM Communication Networks and Services Research Conference (CNSR 2006), Moncton, New Brunswick, Canada, May 2006.

• 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.

• 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, "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 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.

• 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, 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, 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.

• 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.

• 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, A. Banda, A. Kumar, "Improving Bluetooth Performance in 802.11 Interference Environments", Computer Communications, Vol. 27, No. 7, Elsevier Science, 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 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.

• 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.

  For a full list of publications - please go here

Teaching

CSC 3529-490 - Network Security

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

CSC 4992 - Introduction to Computer Networks

CSC 5250 - Networking, Distributed, Concurrent Programming

CSC 6290 - Data Communications and Computer Networks

CSC 7290 - Broadband Network Architectures

CSC 8260 - Seminar on Wireless Networks

Professional Activities

Editorship

• Co-Editor-in-Chief, International Journal of Internet Protocol Technology, Inderscience Publishers, England.
• Associate Editor, International Journal of Computers and Applications, IASTED Acta Press, Calgary.
• Editorial Board Member, International Journal of Pervasive Computing and Communications,Troubador Publishing, England.
• Editorial Board Member, Journal of Universal Computer Science, Springer-Verlag, Heidelberg.
• Editorial Board Member, Journal of Internet Technology, Taipei,Taiwan.
• Editorial Board Member, WSEAS Transactions on Communications, WSEAS Press, Athens, Greece.
• Editorial Board Member, International Journal of Computer Research, Nova Science Publishers, New York, 2003-2005.

Conferences

• General Co-Chair, IEEE International Workshop on Pervasive Computing and Ad-hoc Communications (PCAC'06), to be held in conjunction with 20th IEEE International Conference on Advanced Information Networking and Applications, Vienna, Austria, April 2006.
• Member, Poster Committee, 15th International World Wide Web Conference (WWW 2006), Edinburgh, 2004-present.
• Member, Program Committee, IASTED 23rd International Multi-Conference on Applied Informatics, Innsbruck, Austria, 2004 - present.
• Member, Program Committee, IASTED Internet and Multimedia Systems and Applications (IMSA), Hawaii, 2000 - present.
• Member, Program Committee, Annual IASTED International Software and Engineering Applications (SEA), Dallas, 1999 - present.
• Member, Program Committee, IEEE International Conference on Computer Communications and Networks (ICCCN), Chicago, 2000 - present.
• Member, Program Committee, IASTED Communications, Internet, and Information Technology(CIIT), St. Thomas, Virgin Islands, 2003 - present.
• 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

• IEE
• IEEE
• British Computer Society