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Tamer Nadeem

1   Contact Information

Department of Computer Science Voice: (240) 475-3289
Old Dominion University Fax: (413) 502-8829
4700 Elkhorn Ave, Suite 3204 E-mail:
Norfolk, VA 23529, USA WWW: http://www.cs.odu.edu/~nadeem

 

2   Research Interests

Wireless networks, ad-hoc and sensor networks, vehicular networks, network managements, efficient cross layer designs, smart antenna protocols, peer-to-peer systems, pervasive computing, and location determination systems.

 

3   Education

Ph.D., Computer Science (January 2006)
University of Maryland, College Park, USA
Thesis advisor: Prof. Ashok Agrawala
Thesis title: "Efficient Cross Layer Designs for IEEE 802.11 Wireless Networks"

M.Sc., Computer Science (December 2000)
University of Maryland, College Park, USA

M.Sc., Computer Science (May 1998)
Alexandria University, Alexandria, Egypt
Thesis advisor: Prof. Mohamed Ismail, Prof. Walid Aref
Thesis title: "An Interactive Walkthrough Using Binary Space Partitioning (BSP) Tree"

B.Sc., Computer Science (May 1994)
Alexandria University, Alexandria, Egypt (Ranked 3rd)
Senior thesis: "ARABISC: Arabic Word Processor for Windows"


 

4   Work Experience

  • Siemens Corporate Research, Inc., Princeton, NJ, USA
    Member of Research Staff                                       July, 2005 - present
    Duties include research and development of new algorithms, architectures, and systems in the area of wireless networks, more specifically IEEE 802.11 and 802.16 networks. Lead research projects in the area of dynamic radio management for enterprise wireless networks, efficient cross layer protocols for vehicular networks, location estimation and tracking of WLAN devices, statistical characterization of VoWLAN performance parameters as function of channel access, and adaptive Neighbor Report and Intelligent Roaming. Participation in WiFi Alliance and IEEE Standardization meetings. Collaborate with universities and
    supervise several Ph.D. students.

  • Department of Computer Science, University of Maryland, College Park, USA
    Maryland Information and Network Dynamics lab
    Graduate Research Assistant                                 January, 2001 - 2005
    Includes current Ph.D. research, Ph.D. and Masters level course work and research projects.

  • Department of Computer Science, University of Maryland, College Park, USA
    Teaching Assistant                                                  August, 1998 - January, 2001
    Duties included shared administrative responsibilities with faculty instructor, Shared responsibility for lectures, exams, homework assignments, and grades.
  • Fujitsu Labs of America, Inc., College Park, MD, USA
    Research Internship,                                                May, 2004 - June, 2005
    Participating in research in areas of designing and implementing network simulation software for wireless applications. Research involves cross layer optimization of wireless protocols. Participating in the detailed MAC layer simulation including a
    physical layer model.
  • IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, Yorktown Heights, NY, USA
    Research Internship                                               May, 2000 - August, 2000
    Designing and Implementing a secure browser's user interface for the Transparent Digital Rights Management Systems. Building a secure Windows NT file system driver for the Transparent Digital Right Management Systems.
  • Hughes Networks Systems Germantown, MD, USA
    Research Internship                                               May, 1999 - August, 1999
    Building, downloading, and writing applications for Windows CE Operating system images based on TVPAK client software for launching TVPAK browser. Designing and implementing network database model using Raima(network database system) running on the VxWorks operating system for the DirectTV APG.
  • Department of Computer Science, Alexandria University, Alexandria, Egypt
    Research/Teaching Assistant                                August, 1995 - May, 1998
    Includes Masters research/level course work, shared administrative responsibilities with faculty instructor, Shared responsibility for lectures, exams, homework assignments, and grades.
  • Scientific Computation Center, Alexandria University, Egypt
    System Analyst                                                       July, 1995 - May, 1996
    Participated in a team of five members to perform the requirement analysis and implementation of the database system for RAKTA company.
  • Mini-Com Company, Alexandria, Egypt
    Senior Database Designer & Programmer            January, 1995 - September 1995
    Designed and implemented the Accountant Manager database system to fully automate and integrate the accounting management process for medium-scale companies. Designed and implemented a database system to automate the back office management of the Helnan Portsaid hotel.

 

5   Teaching Experience

  • Teaching Assistant (Fall 1998 - Spring 2001)
    Department of Computer Science, University of Maryland, College Park, USA.
  • Lecturer (Fall 1995 - Spring 1998)
    Computer Science Department, Alexandria University, Alexandria, Egypt.
  • Lecturer (Fall 1995 - Spring 1998)
    Scientific Computation Center, Alexandria University, Alexandria, Egypt.

 

6   Professional Experience

  • Technical Program Committee:
    - The 26th IEEE International Performance Computing and Communications Conference (IPCCC 2007), New Orleans, Louisiana, USA, April 11-13, 2007.
    - The First International Workshop on Next Generation Networks for First Responders and Critical Infrastructures (NetCri'07) to be held in conjunction with IPCCC 2007, New Orleans, Louisiana, USA, April 11-13, 2007.
    - The First International Workshop on Pervasive Transportation Systems (PerTrans '07) to be held in conjunction with PerCom 2007, White Plains, New York, USA, March 19-23, 2007.
    - The IEEE 21st International Conference on Advanced Information Networking and Applications (AINA-07), Niagara Falls, Canada, May 21-23, 2007.
    - IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference 2006 (WCNC 2006), Las Vegas, March-April 2006.
    - The 2006 IEEE Sarnoff Symposium, March 2006, Princeton, NJ, USA.
    - The International Conference on Wireless Networks, Communications, and Mobile Computing (WirelessCom 2005), Symposium on Mobile Computing, June 13-16, 2005, Maui, Hawaii.

  • Reviewer: Journal on Selected Areas of Communication, IEEE Transaction on Parallel and Distributed Systems, IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing, IEEE Pervasive Computing, IEEE InfoCom, IEEE ICC, IEEE ICCCN, IEEE Globecom, IEEE VTC, IEEE WCNC, ACM WiSe, IEEE PIMRC, IEEE IPSN, ACM VANET.

  • Member: IEEE, ACM, IEEE Computer Society, IEEE Communication Society.

  • Elected member, Phi Kappa Phi.

  • Elected member, Sigma Xi.

  • Youth director of Egyptian American Cultural Association (EACA)

 

7   Honors and Awards

  • Scientific American Magazine: Seeking Better Web Searches, Rover work cited, February 2005

  • National Science Foundation: PerCom 2005 Travel Grant.
  • The runner up for Best Paper Award at MASS 2004 conference.
  • National Science Foundation: MASS 2004 Travel Grant.
  • University of Maryland, College Park: Elected member for the honor society Phi Kappa Phi, March 2001.
  • Department of Computer Science, University of Maryland, College Park: Department Travel grant, August 2001.
  • The Graduate School, University of Maryland, College Park: Goldhaber Travel Grant, August 2001.
  • Alexandria University, Egypt: Faculty Certificate of Honor, 1989-1994.
  • Summer Scholarship to Slovakia in summer 1993, Working with Informix DBMS on Unix system.
  • Ranked 3rd on the Computer Science Department, Alexandria University, Egypt.
  • Scholarship for Academic Distinction, 1989-1994, Alexandria University, Egypt.

 

8   Patents

  1. WebGuard: a system for web content protection
    Magda Mourad, Jonathan Munson, Tamer Nadeem, Giovanni Pacifici, Marco Pistoia, Alaa Youssef
    US-Patent pending

  2. Transparent digital rights management for extendible content viewers
    Magda Mourad, Jonathan Munson, Tamer Nadeem, Giovanni Pacifici, Marco Pistoia,
    Alaa Youssef
    European-Patent pending

  4. Traffic Viewer: A Scalable Traffic Monitoring System
    Liviu Iftode, Tamer Nadeem, Sasan Dashtinezhad, Chunyuan Liao, Cristian Borcea, Porlin Kang
    US-Patent pending

  5. A Protocol for Improved Utilization of Wireless Network using Interference Estimation\\
    Tamer Nadeem, Lusheng Ji, Jonathan Agre, Ashok Agrawala\\
    US-Patent pending

  6. Enhancing 802.11 Wireless Networks with Directional antenna and Multiple Receivers
     Chenxi Zhu, Tamer Nadeem, Jonathan Agre
    US-Patent pending

  7. VITP: Vehicular Information Transfer Protocol
    Liviu Iftode,     Marios Dikaiakos, Saif Iqbal, Tamer Nadeem
    US-Patent pending

 

9   Books and Books Chapters

  1. Mohamed Younis and Tamer Nadeem
    Book Chapter: “Energy Efficient MAC Protocols of Ad Hoc Networks,”
    Wireless Ad-Hoc and Sensor Networks, Ed. Ahmed Safwat, Kluwer Academic Publishers (to appear).

 

10   Selected Publications – Journals / Magazines

  1. Context-Aware Migratory Services in Ad Hoc Networks
    Oriana Riva, Tamer Nadeem, Cristian Borcea, and Liviu Iftode
    In IEEE Transaction on Mobile Computing (to appear).

  2. Mobility Control for Throughput Maximization in Ad Hoc Networks
    Tamer Nadeem and Srinivasan Parthasarathy
    In Wiley Wireless Communications & Mobile Computing (WCMC) Journal, Special Issues: Wireless Ad hoc Networks - Technologies and Challenges, October 2006.

  3. TrafficView: Traffic Data Dissemination using Car-to-Car Communication
    Tamer Nadeem, Sasan Dashtinezhad, Chunyuan Liao and Liviu Iftode
    In ACM Mobile Computing and Communications Review, Vol. 8, No. 3, pp. 6-19, July 2004.

  4. Instance-Based Networking: A Communication Paradigm for Mobile Applications
    Moustafa Youssef, Tamer Elsayed, Mohamed Hussein, Tamer Nadeem, Adel Youssef and Liviu Iftode
    In ACM Mobile Computing and Communications Review, Vol. 7, No. 4, pp. 66-67, October 2003.

  5. Rover: Scalable Location-Aware Computing
    Suman Banerjee, Tamer Nadeem, Ron Larsen, A. Udaya Shankar, Ashok Agrawala, et al
    IEEE Computer, October 2002.

 

11   Selected Publications – Conferences

  1. Data Rate and Fragmentation Ad hoc Routing
    Tamer Nadeem and Nazif Cihan Tas
    The 4th Annual IEEE Consumer Communications and Networking Conference (CCNC 2007), January 11-13, 2007, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA (to appear)

  2. Enhancing 802.11 Wireless Networks with Directional Antenna and Multiple Receivers
    Chenxi Zhu, Tamer Nadeem, Jonathan Agre
    The Military Communications Conference (MILCOM 2006) - unclassified technical session, October 23-25, 2006, Washington, DC, USA

  3. A Comparative Study of Data Dissemination Models for VANETs
    Tamer Nadeem, Pravin, Shankar, and Liviu Iftode
    The 3rd ACM/IEEE Annual International Conference on Mobile and Ubiquitous Systems: Networks and Services (MOBIQUITOUS 2006), July 17-21, 2006, San Jose, California

  4. VITP: An Information Transfer Protocol Vehicular Computing
    Marios Dikaiakos, Saif Iqbal, Tamer Nadeem, and Liviu Iftode
    To appear in The Second ACM International Workshop on Vehicular Ad Hoc Networks (VANET 2005)in conjunction with ACM MobiCom 2005, August 28-September 2, 2005, Cologne, Germany

  5. Location Enhancement to IEEE 802.11 DCF
    Tamer Nadeem, Lusheng Ji, Ashok Agrawala, and Jonathan Agre
    24th IEEE INFOCOM 2005, March 13-17, 2005, Miami, Florida, USA

  6. EZCab: A Cab Booking Application Using Short-Range Wireless Communication
    Peng Zhou, Tamer Nadeem, Porlin Kang, Cristian Borcea, Liviu Iftode
    3rd  IEEE PerCom 2005, March 8-12, 2005, Kauai Island, Hawaii, USA

  7. Performance of IEEE 802.11 based Wireless Sensor Networks in Noisy Environments
    Tamer Nadeem, and Ashok Agrawala
     IEEE Workshop on Information Assurance in Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNIA'05) in conjunction with 24th IEEE International Performance Computing and Communications Conference (IPCCC'05), April 7-9, 2005, Phoenix, Arizona, USA

  8. IEEE 802.11 Fragmentation-Aware Energy-Efficient Ad-Hoc Routing Protocols
    Tamer Nadeem, Ashok Agrawala
    IEEE International Conference on Mobile Ad-hoc and Sensor Systems, October 24-27, 2004, Fort Lauderdale, Florida, USA

  9. Energy-Efficient Reliable Paths for On-Demand Routing Protocols
    Tamer Nadeem, Suman Banerjee, Archan Misra, Ashok Agrawala
    Sixth IFIP IEEE International Conference on Mobile and Wireless Communication Networks, October 25-27, Paris, France

  10. IEEE 802.11 DCF Enhancements for Noisy Environments
    Tamer Nadeem, Ashok Agrawala
    The 15th IEEE International Symposium on Personal, Indoor and Mobile Radio Communications (PIMRC 2004), Barcelona, Spain 5-8, September 2004

  11. TrafficView: A Driver Assistant Device for Traffic Monitoring based on Car-to-Car Communication
    Sasan Dashtinezhad, Tamer Nadeem, Bogdan Dorohonceanu, Cristian Borcea, Porlin Kang, Liviu Iftode
    IEEE Semiannual Vehicular Technology Conference, May 17-19, 2004, Milan, Italy

  12. TrafficView: A Scalable Traffic Monitoring System
    Tamer Nadeem, Sasan Dashtinezhad, Chunyuan Liao, Liviu Iftode
    2004 IEEE International Conference on Mobile Data Management (MDM), Berkeley, California, USA, January 19-22, 2004.

  13. ATP: Autonomous Transport Protocol
    Tamer Elsayed, Mohamed Hussein, Moustafa Youssef, Tamer Nadeem, Adel Youssef, Liviu Iftode
    IEEE Midwest Symposium on Circuits and Systems (MWSCAS), December 2003, Cairo, Egypt.

  14. Adaptive Time-Based Dispatching of Distributed Real-Time Tasks
    Sameh Elsharkawy, Ashok Agrwala, Tamer Nadeem
    16th International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Computing Systems, August 13-15, 2003, Nevada, USA.

  15. Implementation of a Scalable Context-Aware Computing System
    Tamer Nadeem, Suman Banerjee, A. Udaya Shankar, Ashok Agrawala et al.
    Personal Wireless Communications (PWC 2003), September 23-25, 2003, Venice, Italy.

  16. Efficient Time-Based Topology-Dependent Scheduling for Radio Packet Networks
    Tamer Nadeem, Ashok Agrawala
    IASTED International Conference on Communications and Computer Networks(CCN 2002), November 4-6, 2002 Cambridge, USA.

  17. A Study of Three Browser History Mechanisms for Web Navigation
    Tamer Nadeem, Bill Killam
    5th International Conference on Information Visualization, London, England, 25- 27 July 2001.

 

12   Selected Publications – Under Submission

  1. Opportunistic Mechanisms for IEEE 802.11 Networks using Directional Antenna
    Tamer Nadeem, Tamer Elsharnouby, Ashok Agrawala
    Under submission for Conference Submission.
  2. On Spatial Fairness of the 802.11 DCF Protocol and the Role of Directional Antenna
    Chenxi Zhu, Tamer Nadeem, Jonathan Agre
    Under submission for Conference Submission.
  3. Energy-Efficient Cross-Layer Designs for IEEE 802.11
    Tamer Nadeem, Ashok Agrawala
    In Preparation for Journal Submission.
  4. LED: A Location Enhancement for IEEE 802.11 DCF
    Tamer Nadeem, Lusheng Ji, Ashok Agrawala, Jonathan Agre
    Under Submission for Journal Submission.
  5. Is Fine-grained Transmit Power Control (Really) Useful?
    Vivek Shrivastava, Dheeraj Agrawal, Arunesh Mishra, Suman Banerjee, Tamer
    Nadeem
    Under submission for Conference Submission.
  6. Effect of Antenna Placement and Diversity on Vehicular Network
    Communications
    S. Kaul, K. Ramachandran, P. Shankar, S. Oh, M. Gruteser, I. Seskar, T. Nadeem
    Under submission for Conference Submission.

     


13   Selected Publications – Refereed Posters / Demos

  1. On the (In)Feasibility of Fine Grained Transmit Power Control
    Vivek Shrivastava, Dheeraj Agarwal, Arunesh Mishra, Suman Banerjee, Tamer
    Nadeem
    Research poster at the Twelfth Annual International Conference on Mobile Computing and Networking, (MobiCom) 2006, Los Angeles, CA, USA, September 24-29, 2006.

  2. TrafficView: How Far Can You See?
    Tamer Nadeem, Porlin Kang, Cristian Borcea, Liviu Iftode
    Demo and Research poster at the Tenth Annual International Conference on Mobile Computing and Networking, (MobiCom) 2004, Philadelphia, PA, USA, Sep. 26 - Oct. 1, 2004.

  3. Autonomous Transport Protocol
    Tamer Elsayed, Mohamed Hussein, Moustafa Youssef, Tamer Nadeem, Adel Youssef, Liviu Iftode
    Research poster at the Eleventh Annual International Conference on Network Protocols, (ICNP) 2003, Atlanta, GA, USA, November 4-7, 2003.

  4. IBN: A Communication Paradigm for Mobile Applications
    Moustafa Youssef, Tamer Elsayed, Mohamed Hussein, Tamer Nadeem, Adel Youssef, Liviu Iftode
    Research poster at the Ninth Annual International Conference on Mobile Computing and Networking, (MobiCom) 2003, San Diego, CA, USA, September 14-19, 2003.

  5. WebGuard: A System for Web Content Protection
    M. Mourad, J. Munson, T. Nadeem, G. Pacifici, A. Youssef, Research Poster at the 10th International World Wide Web Conference, Hong Kong, China, May 2001.

  6. Rover Technology: Implementation of a Scalable Context-Aware Computing System
    Tamer Nadeem, Suman Banerjee, A. Udaya Shankar, Ashok Agrawala et al.
    Research poster at the First International Conference on Mobile Systems, Applications, and Services, (MobiSys) 2003, San Francisco, CA, USA, May 5-8, 2003.

 

14   Other Technical Reports

  1. Exploiting the Opposite Direction in Data Dissemination for Vehicular Ad-hoc Networks
    Tamer Nadeem
    SCR-06-TR-784, Siemens Corporate Research, 2006.

  2. Energy-Efficient Reliable Paths for On-Demand Routing Protocols
    Tamer Nadeem, Suman Banerjee, Archan Misra, Ashok Agrawala
    CS-TR-4582, Department of Computer Science, University of Maryland, College Park, March 2004

  3. TrafficView: Towards a Scalable Traffic Monitoring System
    Tamer Nadeem, Sasan Dashtinezhad, Chunyuan Liao, Liviu Iftode
    CS-TR-4530, Department of Computer Science, University of Maryland, College Park, 2003.

  4. ATP: Autonomous Transport Protocol
    Tamer Elsayed, Mohamed Hussein, Moustafa Youssef, Tamer Nadeem, Adel Youssef, Liviu Iftode
    CS-TR-4483, Department of Computer Science, University of Maryland, College Park, May 2003.

  5. Efficient Time-Based Topology-Dependent Scheduling for Radio Packet Networks
    Tamer Nadeem, Ashok Agrawala
    CS-TR-4377, Department of Computer Science, University of Maryland, College Park, 2002.

  6. Survey on Wireless and Mobile ATM Networks
    Tamer Nadeem, Raymond Miller
    CS-TR-4347, Department of Computer Science, University of Maryland, College Park, 2001.

  7. Rover Technology: Enabling Scalable Location-Aware Computing
    Suman Banerjee, Sulabh Agarwal, Kevin Kamel, Andrzej Kochut, Christopher Kommareddy, Tamer Nadeem, Pankaj Thakkar, Bao Trinh, Adel Youssef, Moustafa Youssef, Ron Larsen, A. Udaya Shankar, Ashok Agrawala
    CS-TR-4312, 2001.

  8. The Effects of the Browser History Mechanisms on the Web Navigation
    Tamer Nadeem, Bill Killam
    CS-TR-4269, Department of Computer Science, University of Maryland, College Park, 2001.

  9. WebGuard: a system for web content protection
    M. Mourad, J. Munson, T. Nadeem, G. Pacifici, M. Pistoia, A. Youssef
    IBM Research Report RC21944, 2001.

 

15   Citizenship and Status

Egyptian, H-1B visa.

 

16   References

Available upon request.

 
 
 
 

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