Professor Olariu's Home Page

 

Professor of Computer Science

Ph.D. Computer Science, McGill University, Montreal, 1986

Address

Department of Computer Science
Old Dominion University
Norfolk, VA 23529-0162
U.S.A.

Phone: (757) 683-4417
FAX: (757) 683-4900
Email: olariu@cs.odu.edu

 


 
"Far and away the best prize that life offers is the chance
 to work hard at work worth doing" 
 
                                               -- Theodore Roosevelt
 
"Play the hand you're dealt. Don't bother to be better than your 
contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself" 

 
                                               -- William Faulkner
 




RESEARCH INTERESTS

  • Vehicular clouds
  • Wireless sensor networks
  • Vehicular communications
  • Stochastic modeling


RECENT PUBLICATIONS

Book Chapters

  • S. Olariu, R. Florin, and D. C. Marinescu, Toward Platoon-Aware Retiming of Traffic Lights in a Smart City, Chapter 7, pages 143-166, in Vehicle-to-Vehicle and Vehicle-to-Infrastructure Communications: A Technical Approach, F. Hu, (Ed.), Chapman & Hall/ CRC Computer and Information Science Series, Boca Raton, Florida, 2018
  • L. Wang, X. Wang and S. Olariu, Approximation algorithm for clustering in mobile ad-hoc networks, Chapter 21, pages 505-540, in Handbook of Approximation Algorithms and Metaheuristics: Contemporary and Emerging Applications, T. Gonzales, (Ed.), Chapman & Hall/ CRC Computer and Information Science Series, Boca Raton, Florida, 2018
  • X. Wang and S. Olariu, Towards aggregating time-discounted information in sensor networks, Chapter 26, pages 383-417, in Handbook of Approximation Algorithms and Metaheuristics: Contemporary and Emerging Applications, T. Gonzales, (Ed.), Chapman & Hall/ CRC Computer and Information Science Series, Boca Raton, Florida, 2018
  • A. Ghazi Zadeh and S. Olariu, Vehicular Clouds: A survey and future directions, Chapter 17, pages 435-463, in Cloud Computing for Optimization: Foundations, Applications, and Challenges, B. Mishra, H. Das, S. Dehuri, and A. Jagadev, A. (Eds.), Springer-Verlag, Berlin, May 2018
  • R. Florin and S. Olariu, Vehicular clouds: A view from above, Chapter 1, pages 1-29, in Vehicular Cloud Computing for Traffic Management Systems, J. Grover, P. Vinod, and C. Lal (Eds.), IGI Global, Hershey, PA, USA, May 2018
  • R. Florin, S. Abolghasemi, A. Ghazi Zadeh and S. Olariu, Big Data in the parking lot, Chapter 21, pages 425-449, in Big Data Managament and Processing, Kuan-Ching Li, Hai Jiang, and A. Y. Zomaya, (Eds.), Chapman & Hall/ CRC, Boca Raton, Florida, May 2017, ISBN: 9781498768078
  • H. AbdelSalam and S. Olariu, Energy-efficient task management in sensor networks, in The Art of Sensor Networks, H. Ammari, (Ed.), Springer-Verlag, Berlin, 2014
  • S. Olariu, T. Hristov and G. Yan, The next paradigm shift: From vehicular networks to vehicular clouds, in Mobile Ad hoc Networking: Cutting Edge Directions, S. Basagni, M. Conti, S. Giordano and I. Stojmenovic, (Eds.), Wiley, Second Edition, 2013
  • M. Almalag, M. C. Weigle and S. Olariu, MAC protocols for VANET, in Mobile Ad hoc Networking: Cutting Edge Directions, S. Basagni, M. Conti, S. Giordano and I. Stojmenovic, (Eds.), Wiley, Second Edition, 2013

Archival Journals

  • A. Alali, S. Olariu, and S. Jain, ADOPT: A system for Alerting Drivers to Occluded Pedestrian Traffic, Vehicular Communications, 41, 2023, 100601
  • S. Olariu, A Theoretical Validation of the Moving Observer Method, IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems, 24(12), 2023, 14633-146419
  • A. Ghazizadeh, P. Ghazizadeh, R. Mukkamala, and S. Olariu:, Reasoning About Expected Job Completion Time in Dynamic Vehicular Clouds, IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems, 24(8), 2023, 8279-8289
  • R. Florin and S. Olariu, Real-Time Traffic Density Estimation: Putting on-Coming Traffic to Work, IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems, 24(1), 2023, 1374-1383
  • S. Olariu and S. El-Tawab, Introduction to the Special Issue on Real-Time Traffic State Estimation, IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems, 24(1), 2023, 1356-1358
  • M. Aljohani, S. Olariu, A. Alali, and S. Jain, A Survey of Parking Solutions for Smart Cities, IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems, 23(8), 2022, 10012-10029
  • S. H. Bouk, D. B. Rawat, S. Olariu, R. Hussain, Guest Editorial Introduction to the Special Issue on Communication and Computing Technologies, IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems, 23(11), 2022, 22436-22441
  • A. Iqbal and S. Olariu, A survey of enabling technologies for smart communities, Smart Cities, 4(1), 2021, 54-77
  • S. Olariu, Vehicular Crowdsourcing for Congestion Support in Smart Cities, Smart Cities, 4(2), 2021, 662-685
  • R. Florin, P. Ghazizadeh, A. Ghazi Zadeh, R. Mukkamala, and S. Olariu, A tight estimate of job completion time in vehicular clouds, IEEE Transactions on Cloud Computing, 8(3), July-September 2020, 721-734
  • S. Rizvi, S. Zehra, and S. Olariu, MAPark: a multi-agent auction-based parking system in the internet of things, IEEE Intelligent Transportation Systems Magazine, 12, 2020, 2-13
  • R. Florin and S. Olariu, Towards real-time traffic density estimation using vehicle-to-vehicle communications, Transportation Research, Part B, 138, August 2020, 431-456
  • S. Olariu, A survey of vehicular cloud research: Trends, applications, and challenges, IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems, 21(6), June 2020, 2648-2663
  • D. C. Marinescu and S. Olariu, Guest Editorial, Special Issue on Vehicular Clouds, IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems, 21(6), June 2020, 2637-2639
  • S. Rizvi, S. Zehra, and S. Olariu, ASPIRE: An agent-oriented smart parking recommendation system for smart cities, IEEE Intelligent Transportation Systems Magazine, 11(4), November 2019, 48-61
  • R. Florin and S. Olariu, Towards approximating job completion in vehicular clouds, IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems, 20(7), July 2019, 3168-3177
  • R. Florin, P. Ghazizadeh, A. Ghazi Zadeh, S. Olariu, and D. Marinescu, Enhancing reliability and availability through redundancy in vehicular clouds, IEEE Transactions on Cloud Computing, early access 2019
  • R. Florin, P. Ghazizadeh, A. Ghazi Zadeh, and S. Olariu, Towards approximating the mean time to failure in vehicular clouds, IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems, 19(7), July 2018, 2045-2054
  • R. Florin, P. Ghazizadeh, A. Ghazi Zadeh, S. El-Tawab, and S. Olariu, Reasoning about job completion time in vehicular clouds, IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems, 18(7), July 2017, 1762-1771
  • R. Florin and S. Olariu, On a variant of the mobile observer method, IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems, 18(2), 441-449, 2017
  • D. C. Marinescu, A. Paya, J. P. Morrison, and S. Olariu, An approach for scaling cloud resource management, Cluster Computing, 20(1), 909-924, 2017
  • E. C. Whelan, A. C. Nwala, C. Osgood, and S. Olariu, Selective mutation accumulation: a computational model of the parental age effect, Bioinformatics, 32(24), 3790-3797, 2016
  • X. Wang, S. El-Tawab, A. Alhafhi, M. Almalag, and S. Olariu, Towards probabilistic data collection in the NOTICE architecture, IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems, 17(12), 3354-3363, 2016
  • P. Ghazizadeh, R. Florin, A. Ghazi Zadeh and S. Olariu, Reasoning about mean time to failure in vehicular clouds, IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems, 17(3), 751-761, 2016
  • R. Florin and S. Olariu, A survey of vehicular communications for traffic signal optimization, Vehicular Communications, 2(2), 70-79, 2015
  • El-Tawab, A. Alfadhi, D. Treeumnuk, D. P. Popescu and S. Olariu, Physical layer aspects of information exchange in the NOTICE architecture, IEEE Intelligent Transportation Systems Magazine, 7(1), 8-18, 2015
  • G. Yan, S. Olariu, J. Wang and S. Arif, Towards providing scalable and robust privacy in vehicular networks, IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems, 15(7), 1896-1906, 2014
  • S. Olariu, S. Mohrekesh, X. Wang and M. C. Weigle, On aggregating information in actor networks, SIGMOBILE Mobile Computing and Communications Review, 18(1), 85-96, 2014
  • G. Yan, D. Wen, S. Olariu and M. C. Weigle, Security challenges in vehicular cloud computing, IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems, 14(1), 284-294, 2013
  • G. Yan, S. Olariu and D. Popescu, NOTICE: An architecture for the notification of traffic incidents, IEEE Intelligent Transportation Systems Magazine, 4(4), 6-16, 2012
  • S. Arif, S. Olariu, J. Wang, G. Yan, W. Yang and I. Khalil, Datacenter at the airport: Reasoning about time-dependent parking lot occupancy, IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems, 23(11), 2067-2080, 2012
  • H. S. AbdelSalam and S. Olariu, BEES: bio-inspired backbone selection in wireless sensor networks, IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems, 23(1), 44-51, 2012
  • H. S. AbdelSalam and S. Olariu, Towards adaptive sleep schedules for balancing energy consumption in wireless sensor networks, IEEE Transactions on Computers, 61(10), 1443-1458, 2012
  • G. Yan and S. Olariu, A probabilistic analysis of link stability in vehicular ad hoc networks, IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems, 12(4), 1227-1236, 2011
  • G. Yan, W. Yang, D. B. Rawat and S. Olariu, SmartParking: A secure and intelligent parking system, IEEE Intelligent Transportation Systems Magazine, 3(1), 18-30, 2011
  • H. S. AbdelSalam and S. Olariu, Toward efficient task management in wireless sensor networks, IEEE Transactions on Computers, 60(11), 1638-1651, 2011
  • F. Barsi, A. A. Bertossi, C. Lavault, A. Navarra, S. Olariu, M. C. Pinotti, and V. Ravelomanana, Efficient location training for heterogeneous sensor and actor networks, IEEE Transaction on Mobile Computing, 10(3), 377-391, 2011
  • D. R. Rawat, D. C. Popescu, G. Yan, S. Olariu, Enhancing VANET performance by joint adaptation of transmission power and contention window size, IEEE Transaction on Parallel Distributed Systems, 22(9), 1528-1535, 2011
  • D. G. Corneil, S. Olariu and L. Stewart, The LBFS structure and recognition of interval graphs, SIAM Journal on Discrete Mathematics, 23(4), 1905-1953, 2009
  • F. Barsi, Alan Bertossi, F. Sorbelli, R. Ciotti, S. Olariu and M. Pinotti, Asynchronous corona training protocols in wireless sensor and actor networks, IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems, 20(8), 1216-1230, 2009
  • G. Yan, S. Olariu, M. C. Weigle, Providing location security in vehicular ad hoc networks, IEEE Wireless Communications, 16(6), 48-55, 2009
  • A. Bertossi, S. Olariu, C. Pinotti, Efficient corona training protocols for sensor networks, Theoretical Computer Science, 40(2), 2-15, 2008
  • S. Olariu and J. Nickerson, A probabilistic model of integration, Decision Support Systems, 45(4), 746-763, 2008
  • V. Giakoumakis and S. Olariu, All minimal prime extensions of hereditary classes of graphs, Theoretical Computer Science, 370, 74-93, 2007
  • S. Olariu, M. Eltoweissy and M. Younis, ANSWER: Autonomous Networked Sensor System, Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing, 67, 114-126, 2007
  • D. G. Corneil, E. Koehler, S. Olariu and L. Stewart, On sub-families of AT-free graphs, SIAM Journal on Discrete Mathematics, 20(1), 241-253, 2006

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