Publications

    2024

  • Jia He, Mostafa Ammar, Ellen Zegura, Emir Halepovic,and Theo Karagioule ``QoE Metrics for Interactivity in Video Conferencing," to appear in Proceedings of ACM MMSys 2024.


    2023

  • Jia He, Mostafa Ammar, and Ellen Zegura. "A Measurement-Derived Functional Model for the Interaction Between Congestion Control and QoE in Video Conferencing." In International Conference on Passive and Active Network Measurement, pp. 129-159. Cham: Springer Nature Switzerland, 2023.

  • Yifeng Cao, Ashutosh Dhekne, and Mostafa Ammar. "ViSig: Automatic Interpretation of Visual Body Signals Using On-Body Sensors." Proceedings of the ACM on Interactive, Mobile, Wearable and Ubiquitous Technologies 7, no. 1 (2023).

  • Ngoc Thi Nguyun, Maria Zubair, Agustin Zuniga, Sasu Tarkoma, Pan Hui, Hyowon Lee, Simon Tangi Perrault, Mostafa H. Ammar, Huber Flores, and Petteri Nurmi. "Is the Price Right? The Economic Value of Sharing Sensors." IEEE Transactions on Computational Social Systems (2023).


    2022

  • Mohammad Hoque, Benjamin Finley, Ashwin Rao, Abhishek Kumar, Pan Hui, Mostafa Ammar, and Sasu Tarkoma. "Context-driven encrypted multimedia traffic classification on mobile devices." Pervasive and Mobile Computing 88 (2023): 101737.

  • Huber Flores, Agustin Zuniga, Sasu Tarkoma, Leonardo Tonetto, Tristan Braud, Pan Hui, Yong Li, Mostafa Ammar, and Petteri Nurmi. "Collaboration stability: Quantifying the success and failure of opportunistic collaboration." Computer 55, no. 8 (2022): 70-81.


  • 2021

  • Yifeng Cao, Ashutosh Dhekne, Mostafa Ammar, "ITrackU: Tracking a Pen-like Instrument via UWB-IMU Fusion," Proceedings of ACM MobiSys 2021, June 2021.

  • Yimeng Zhao, Ahmed Saeed, Ellen Zegura, Mostafa Ammar, "Scouting the Path to a Million-Client Server," Proceedings of Passive and Active Measurement (PAM) Conference, March 2021.
    ( Video )

  • ACM DL Author-ize service Yifeng Cao, Ashutosh Dhekne, Mostafa Ammar, "Physical Games in K-12 despite COVID-19," ACM HotMobile 2021, Poster, February 2021.
  • Jackyi Cao, Xiang Su, Benjamin Finley, Antti Pauanne, Mostafa Ammar, and Pan Hui. "Evaluating multimedia protocols on 5g edge for mobile augmented reality." In 2021 17th International Conference on Mobility, Sensing and Networking (MSN), pp. 199-206. IEEE, 2021.


    2020

  • ACM DL Author-ize service Tarun Mangla, Emir Halepovic, Ellen Zegura, Mostafa Ammar, "Drop the packets: using coarse-grained data to detect video performance issues," Proceedings of ACM Conext 2020, November 2020.

  • Yifeng Cao, Ashutosh Dhekne, Mostafa Ammar, "6 Fit-A-Part: A Protocol for Physical Distancing on a Custom Wearable Device," Proceedings of IEEE ICNP 2020, October 2020.

  • ACM DL Author-ize service Ahmed Saeed, Varun Gupta, Prateesh Goyal, Milad Sharif, Rong Pan, Mostafa Ammar, Ellen Zegura, Keon Jang, Mohammad Alizadeh, Abdul Kabbani, Amin Vahdat, "Annulus: A Dual Congestion Control Loop for Datacenter and WAN Traffic Aggregates," Proceedings of ACM SIGCOMM 2020, August 2020.

  • ACM DL Author-ize service Mohammad A Hoque, Ashwin Rao, Abhishek Kumar, Mostafa Ammar, Pan Hui, Sasu Tarkoma, "Sensing multimedia contexts on mobile devices," Proceedings of the 30th ACM NOSSDVAV Workshop, June 2020.


    2019

  • ACM DL Author-ize service Yimeng Zhao, Ahmed Saeed, Mostafa Ammar, Ellen Zegura, "zD: A Scalable Zero-Drop Network Stack at End Hosts," Proceedings of ACM CoNext Conference, December 2019, Orlando, Fl.

  • Yimeng Zhao, Ahmed Saeed, Mostafa Ammar, Ellen Zegura, "Unison: Enabling Content Provider/ISP Collaboration using a vSwitch Abstraction," Proceedings of IEEE ICNP 2019, October 2019, Chicago, IL.

  • Tarun Mangla, Emir Halepovic, Mostafa Ammar and Ellen Zegura, "Using Session Modeling to Estimate HTTP-based Video QoE Metrics from Encrypted Network Traffic," in IEEE Transactions on Network and Service Managementr, Vol. 16, No. 3, 2019.

  • Ahmed Saeed, Yimeng Zhao, Nandita Dukkipati, Ellen Zegura, Mostafa Ammar, Khaled Harras, Amin Vahdat, "Eiffel: Efficient and Flexible Software Packet Scheduling," Usenix NSDI 2019.


    2018

  • Benjamin Baron,Promthee Spathis,Marcelo de Amorim,Yannis Viniotis,Mostafa Ammar, "Mobility as an Alternative Communication Channel: A Survey," IEEE Communications Surveys and Tutorials. May 2018.

  • Ahmed Saeed, Mostafa Ammar, Ellen Zegura, Khaled A. Harras, "If you can't beat them, augment them: Improving Local WiFi with Only Above-driver Changes," 2018 IEEE International Conference on Network Protocols, Cambridge, UK, September 2018.

  • ACM DL Author-ize service Mostafa Ammar, "ex uno pluria: The Service-Infrastructure Cycle, Ossification, and the Fragmentation of the Internet," SIGCOMM Comput. Commun. Rev. 48, 1 (January 2018).

  • ACM DL Author-ize service Tarun Mangla, Emir Halepovic, Rittwik Jana, Kyung-Wook Hwang, Marco Platania, Mostafa Ammar, Ellen Zegura, "VideoNOC: Assessing Video QoE for Network Operators using Passive Measurements," Proceedings of ACM Multimedia Systems Conference, June 2018, Amsterdam.

  • Tarun Mangla, Emir Halepovic, Mostafa Ammar, Ellen Zegura, "eMIMIC: Estimating HTTP-based Video QoE Metrics from Encrypted Network Traffic," Proceedings of IFIP/IEEE Network Traffic Measurement and Analysis Conference, June 2018, Vienna.
    Best paper Award


    2017

  • Bnjamin Baron, Promethee Spathis, Herve Rivano, Marcelo de Amorim, Yannis Viniotis, Mostafa Ammar, "Centrally-Controlled Mass Data Offloading Using Vehicular Traffic," IEEE Transactions on Network and Service Management, Vol. 14, No. 2, June 2017.

  • Vincenzo Eramo, Emanuelle Miucci, Mostafa Ammar, Francesco Lavacca, "An Approach for Service Function Chain Routing and Virtual Function Network Instance Migration in Network Function Virtualization Architectures," IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking, Vol. 25, No. 4, August 2017.

  • ACM DL Author-ize service Karim Habak, Mostafa Ammar, Ellen Zegura, Khaled Harras, "Workload Management for Dynamic Mobile Device Clusters in Edge Femtoclouds," The Second ACM/IEEE Symposium on Edge Computing San Jose, CA, October 2017.

  • Tarun Mangla, Emir Halepovic, Mostafa Ammar, Ellen Zegura (2017). MIMIC: Using Passive Network Measurements to Estimate HTTP-based Adaptive Video QoE Metrics. The IEEE/IFIP Workshop on Mobile Network Measurement, Dublin, Ireland, June 2017.

  • Mostafa Ammar, Ellen Zegura, Yimeng Zhao, "A Vision for Zero-Hop Networking (ZeN)," Proceedings of the 2017 IEEE International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems (ICDCS) -- Vision Track, Atlanta, GA, June 2017

  • Vincenzo Eramo, Mostafa Ammar, Francesco Lavacca, "Migration Energy Aware Reconfigurations of Virtual Network Function Instances in NFV Architectures," IEEE Access, 2017.

  • Rabee Mustapha Abuteir, Anne Fladenmuller, Olivier Fourmaux, Mostafa Ammar, "Variable-Threshold Buffer Based Adaptation for DASH Mobile Video Streaming," Proceedings of IEEE Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing (IWCMC) 2017 Multimedia Symposium, Valencia, Spain, June 2017.

  • Karim Habak, Cong Shi, Ellen Zegura, Khaled Harras, Mostafa Ammar, "Elastic Mobile Device Clouds: Leveraging Mobile Devices to Provide Cloud Computing Services at the Edge." Chapter 7 in Fog for 5G and IoT (2017): 159.

  • Yimeng Zhao, Samantha Lo, Ellen Zegura, Nicky Riga, Mostafa Ammar, "Virtual Network Migration on the GENI Wide-Area SDN-Enabled Infrastructure," Proceedings of CNERT '17, the 2017 IEEE INFOCOM International Workshop on Computer and Networking Experimental Research Using Testbeds, May 2017, Atlanta, GA. Longer version can be found at arXiv preprint arXiv:1701.01702

  • Ahmed Saeed, Khaled Harras, Ellen Zegura and Mostafa Ammar, "Local and Low-Cost White Space Detection," Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems, June 2017, Atlanta, GA.


    2016

  • ACM DL Author-ize serviceCloud storage for mobile users using pre-positioned storage facilities
    Benjamin Baron, Prométhée Spathis, Marcelo Dias de Amorim, Mostafa Ammar
    SmartObjects '16 Proceedings of the 2nd Workshop on Experiences in the Design and Implementation of Smart Objects, 2016

  • Nawanol Theera-Ampornpunt, Tarun Mangla, Saurabh Bagchi, Rajesh Panta, Kaustubh Joshi, Mostafa Ammar, and Ellen Zegura, "TANGO: Toward a More Reliable Mobile Streaming through Cooperation between Cellular Network and Mobile Devices," The 2016 IEEE 35th Symposium on Reliable Distributed Systems (SRDS 2016), Hungary, September 2016.

  • ACM DL Author-ize serviceClient-Driven Network-level QoE fairness for Encrypted 'DASH-S'
    Junyang Chen, Mostafa Ammar, Marwan Fayed, Rodrigo Fonseca
    Internet-QoE '16 Proceedings of the 2016 workshop on QoE-based Analysis and Management of Data Communication Networks, 2016

  • Eramo, V., Miucci, E., Ammar, M., ""Study of Reconfiguration Cost and Energy Aware VNE Policies in Cycle-Stationary Traffic Scenarios." IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications, Vol. 34, no. 5, January 2016.

  • Hoseini, S., Fotouhia, A., Hassan, M., Choua, C., Ammar, M., "Efficient and Transparent Use of Personal Device Storage in Opportunistic Data Forwarding," Elsevier Computer Communications Journal, January 2016, pp 47-55.


    2015

  • ACM DL Author-ize serviceVision: The Case for Symbiosis in the Internet of Things
    Ahmed Saeed, Mostafa Ammar, Khaled A. Harras, Ellen Zegura
    MCS '15 Proceedings of the 6th International Workshop on Mobile Cloud Computing and Services, 2015

  • V. Eramo, E. Miucci, M. Ammar: Proposal and Evaluation of a Virtual Router Migration Policy in IP Networks equipped with Adaptive Link Rate Line Cards, Information Journal, vol. 18, no. 8, August 2015, pp. 3507-3522.

  • Alireza Monfared, Mostafa Ammar, Ellen Zegura, David Doria, David Bruno, "Computational Ferrying:Challenges in Deploying a Mobile High Performance Computer," IEEE Autonomic and Opportunistic Communications (AOC), June 2015, Boston, MA.

  • Habak, K., Ammar, M., Harras, K., Zegura, E., "FemtoClouds: Leveraging Mobile Devices to Provide Cloud Service at the Edge," Proceedings of the 8th IEEE International Conference on Cloud Computing, June 2015, New York.

  • Mtibaa, A., Harras, K., Habak, K., Ammar, M., Zegura, E., "Towards Mobile Opportunistic Computing," (Short Paper) Proceedings of the 8th IEEE International Conference on Cloud Computing, June 2015, New York.

  • Mansy, A., Fayed, M., Ammar, M.,"Network-layer Fairness for Adaptive Video Streams," Proceedings of the IFIP Networking Conference, Toulouse, France, May 2015.

  • Eramo, V., Miucci, E., Ammar, M. "Evaluation of Reconfiguration Cost and Energy Aware Virtual Network Embedding Policies," Proceedings of the Workshop on Next Generation Green ICT, IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC), London, UK, June 2015.

  • Gillani, F., Al-Shaer, E., Lo, S., Duan, Q., Ammar, M., Zegura, E., "Agile Virtualized Infrastructure to Proactively Defend Against Cyber Attacks," Proceedings of IEEE INFOCOM 2015, April 2015, Hong Kong.


    2014

  • Eramo, V., Miucci, E., Ammar, M.,"Study of Migration Policies in Energy-Aware Virtual Router Networks," IEEE Communications Letters, Vol. 18, #11, November 2014.

  • Gilani, F., Al-Shaer, E., Demirci, M., Ammar, M., "Problem Localization and Quantification Using Formal Evidential Reasoning For Virtual Networks," IEEE Transactions on Network and Service Management, Vol. 11, # 3, September 2014.

  • ACM DL Author-ize serviceCOSMOS: computation offloading as a service for mobile devices
    Cong Shi, Karim Habak, Pranesh Pandurangan, Mostafa Ammar, Mayur Naik, Ellen Zegura
    MobiHoc '14 Proceedings of the 15th ACM international symposium on Mobile ad hoc networking and computing, 2014

  • Demirci, M., Ammar, M.H., "Design and Analysis of Techniques for Mapping Virtual Networks to Software-Defined Network Substrates," Elsevier Computer Communications Journal, Vol. 45, June 2014.

  • ACM DL Author-ize serviceCoAST: collaborative application-aware scheduling of last-mile cellular traffic
    Cong Shi, Kaustubh Joshi, Rajesh K. Panta, Mostafa H. Ammar, Ellen W. Zegura
    MobiSys '14 Proceedings of the 12th annual international conference on Mobile systems, applications, and services, 2014

  • Lo, S., Ammar, M., Zegura, E., Fayed, M., "Virtual Network Migration on Real Infrastructure: A PlanetLab Case Study," Proceedings of IFIP Networking Conference, Trondheim, Norway, June 2014.


  • 2013

  • Jawhar, I., Ammar, M., Zhang, S., Wu, J., Mohamed, N., "Ferry-Based Linear Wireless Sensor Networks," Proceedings of the IEEE GLOBECOM 2013 Ad Hoc and Sensor Networking Symposium, Atlanta, GA, December 2013.

  • Demirci, M. Gilani, F., Ammar, M., Al-Shaer, E., "Overlay network Placement for Diagnosability," Proceedings of the IEEE GLOBECOM 2013 Next Generation Network Symposium, Atlanta, GA, December 2013.

  • ACM DL Author-ize servicePlausible mobility inference from wireless contacts using optimization
    Alireza K. Monfared, Mostafa H. Ammar, Ellen W. Zegura
    CHANTS '13 Proceedings of the 8th ACM MobiCom workshop on Challenged networks, 2013

  • Lo, S., Ammar, M., Zegura, E., "Design and Analysis of Schedules for Virtual Network Migration," Proceedings of IFIP Networking Conference, Brooklyn, NY, May 2013.


  • 2012

  • Syed Fida Gillani, Ehab Al-Shaer, Mehmet Demirci, Mostafa Ammar, "Fine-Grain Diagnosis of Overlay Performance Anomalies Using End-Point Network Experiences," 8th International Conference on Network and Service Management (CNSM 2012), Las Vegas, NV, October 2012.

  • S. Lo, M. Ammar, E. Zegura, "Design and Analysis of Schedules for Virtual Network Migration", SCS Technical Report ; GT-CS-12-05.

  • ACM DL Author-ize serviceComputing in cirrus clouds: the challenge of intermittent connectivity
    Cong Shi, Mostafa H. Ammar, Ellen W. Zegura, Mayur Naik
    MCC '12 Proceedings of the first edition of the MCC workshop on Mobile cloud computing, 2012

  • ACM DL Author-ize serviceSerendipity: enabling remote computing among intermittently connected mobile devices
    Cong Shi, Vasileios Lakafosis, Mostafa H. Ammar, Ellen W. Zegura
    MobiHoc '12 Proceedings of the thirteenth ACM international symposium on Mobile Ad Hoc Networking and Computing, 2012

    Best Paper Award

  • C. Shi, X. Luo, P. Traynor, M. Ammar, E. Zegura, ``ARDEN: Anonymous networking in delay tolerant networks," Elsevier AD Hoc Networks Journal, Vol. 10, pp918-930, 2012.


    2011

  • Mansy, A., Ammar, M. H., "Analysis of Adaptive Streaming for Hybrid CDN/P2P Live Video Systems," Proceedings of IEEE International Conference on Network Protocols (ICNP), Vancouver, BC, October 2011.

  • ACM DL Author-ize serviceEvaluation of data communication opportunities from oil field locations at remote areas
    Yang Chen, Jens O. Berg, Mostafa Ammar, Ellen Zegura
    IMC '11 Proceedings of the 2011 ACM SIGCOMM conference on Internet measurement conference, 2011

  • Mansy, A., Ammar, M., Zegura, E., ``Deficit Round-Robin Based Message Ferry Routing," IEEE GLOBECOM 2011, Houston TX, Dec. 2011

  • Shi, C., Ammar, M., Zegura, E., ``iDTT: Delay Tolerant Data Transfer for P2P File Sharing Systems," IEEE GLOBECOM 2011, Houston TX, Dec. 2011

  • John Whitbeck, Marcelo Dias de Amorim, Vania Conan, Mostafa Ammar, Ellen Zegura, "From Encounters to Plausible Mobility," Elsevier Journal on Pervasive and Mobile Computing,7(2): 206-222 (2011).

  • Bahadir K. Polat, , Pushkar Sachdeva, , Mostafa H. Ammar , and Ellen W. Zegura, "Message ferries as generalized dominating sets in intermittently connected mobile networks," Elsevier Journal on Pervasive and Mobile Computing,7(2): 189-205 (2011).


  • 2010

  • Mehmet Demirci, Mostafa H. Ammar,"Fair Allocation of Substrate Resources among Multiple Overlay Networks," Proceedings of IEEE MASCOTS 2010, Miami, Floridar, August 2010.

  • Abderrahmen Mtibaa, Martin May, Mostafa H. Ammar, "On the Relevance of Social Information to Opportunistic Forwarding," Proceedings of IEEE MASCOTS 2010, Miami Florida, August 2010.

  • Abderrahmen Mtibaa, Martin May, Mostafa Ammar, Christophe Diot, ``PeopleRank: Combining Social and Contact Information for Opportunistic Forwarding," Proceedings of IEEE INFOCOM 2010 MiniConference, March, 2010, San Diego, CA.

  • ACM DL Author-ize serviceMessage ferries as generalized dominating sets in intermittently connected mobile networks
    Bahadir K. Polat, Pushkar Sachdeva, Mostafa H. Ammar, Ellen W. Zegura
    MobiOpp '10 Proceedings of the Second International Workshop on Mobile Opportunistic Networking, 2010


    2009

  • Hyewon Jun, Mostafa Ammar, Mark Corner, Ellen Zegura, "Hierarchical Power Management in Disruption Tolerant Networks Using Traffic Aware Optimization," Computer Communications, Volume 32, # 16, 2009.

  • ACM DL Author-ize serviceDetecting network neutrality violations with causal inference
    Mukarram Bin Tariq, Murtaza Motiwala, Nick Feamster, Mostafa Ammar
    CoNEXT '09 Proceedings of the 5th international conference on Emerging networking experiments and technologies, 2009

  • Mostafa H. Ammar, Deeparnab Chakrabarty, Atish Das Sarma, Subrahmanyam Kalyanasundaram, Richard J. Lipton: Algorithms for Message Ferrying on Mobile ad hoc Networks. FSTTCS 2009: 13-24

  • ACM DL Author-ize serviceCharacterizing VLAN-induced sharing in a campus network
    Mukarram Bin Tariq, Ahmed Mansy, Nick Feamster, Mostafa Ammar
    IMC '09 Proceedings of the 9th ACM SIGCOMM conference on Internet measurement conference, 2009

  • Srinivasan Seetharaman, Mostafa H. Ammar: Inter-domain policy violations in multi-hop overlay routes: Analysis and mitigation. Computer Networks 53(1): 60-80 (2009)

  • Mehmet Demirci, Samantha Lo, Srinivasan Seetharaman, Mostafa Ammar, "Multi-layer monitoring of overlay networks," Proceedings of Passive and ACtive Measurements WOrkshop (PAM), April 2009.

    2008

  • Dimitrios Antonellis, Ahmed Mansy, Konstantinos Psounis, Mostafa H. Ammar ``Towards Distributed Network Classification for Mobile Ad hoc Networks," (Invited Paper) Proceedings of the Wireless Internet Conference (WICON), November 2008.

  • ACM DL Author-ize serviceSpectral probing, crosstalk and frequency multiplexing in internet paths
    Partha Kanuparthy, Constantine Dovrolis, Mostafa Ammar
    IMC '08 Proceedings of the 8th ACM SIGCOMM conference on Internet measurement, 2008

  • ACM DL Author-ize serviceManaging inter-domain traffic in the presence of bittorrent file-sharing
    Srinivasan Seetharaman, Mostafa H. Ammar
    SIGMETRICS '08 Proceedings of the 2008 ACM SIGMETRICS international conference on Measurement and modeling of computer systems, 2008


    2007

  • Qi He, Constantinos Dovrolis, Mostafa Ammar, "On the Predictability of Large Transfer TCP Throughput," Computer Networks, Volume 51, Issue 14, 10 October 2007, Pages 3959-3977.

  • Junsuk Shin, Rajnish Kumar, Dushmanta Mohapatra, Umakishore Ramachandran, and Mostafa Ammar, "ASAP: A Camera Sensor Network for Situation Awareness," 11th International Conference On Principles Of Distributed Systems (OPODIS'07), Guadeloupe, French West Indies, December 17-20th, 2007.

  • A. Mansy, M. Ammar and E. Zegura, "Reliable Roadside-to-Roadside Data Transfer Using Vehicular Traffic," Proceedings of The IEEE International Workshop on Mobile Vehicular Networks (MoVeNet) (IEEE MASS Workshop), Pisa, Italy, October 2007.

  • Hyewon Jun, Wenrui Zhao, Mostafa Ammar, Ellen Zegura, CHung Ki Lee, "Trading Latency for Energy in Densely Deployed Wireless Ad Hoc Networks using Message Ferrying" Journal of Ad-Hoc Networks, Vol. 5, # 4, pp444-461, 2007.

  • Srini Seetharaman, Mostafa Ammar, "Exit Policy Violations in Multi-hop Overlay Routes: Analysis and Mitigation," Proceedings of IEEE Globecom 2007, Washington, D.C. December 2007.

  • Junsuk Shin, Kishore Ramachandran, Mostafa Ammar, "On Improving the Reliability of Packet Delivery in Dense Wireless Sensor Networks," Proceedings of ICCCN, Honolulu, Hawaii, August 2007.

  • ACM DL Author-ize serviceHybrid routing in clustered DTNs with message ferrying
    Yang Chen, Wenrui Zhao, Mostafa Ammar, Ellen Zegura
    MobiOpp '07 Proceedings of the 1st international MobiSys workshop on Mobile opportunistic networking, 2007

  • ACM DL Author-ize serviceReliable and efficient message delivery in delay tolerant networks using rateless codes
    Badri N. Vellambi, Ramanan Subramanian, Faramarz Fekri, Mostafa Ammar
    MobiOpp '07 Proceedings of the 1st international MobiSys workshop on Mobile opportunistic networking, 2007

  • ACM DL Author-ize service10 networking papers: a blast from the past
    Mostafa H. Ammar
    ACM SIGCOMM Computer Communication Review, 2007

  • Yong Zhu, Constantine Dovrolis, Mostafa Ammar, "Combining multihoming with overlay routing (or, how to be a better ISP without ow ning a network)," INFOCOM 2007, May 2007, Anchorage, Alaska.

  • Srini Seetharaman, Volker Hilt, Markus Hoffman, Mostafa Ammar, "Preemptive Strategies to Improve Routing Performance of Native and Overlay Layers ," INFOCOM 2007, May 2007, Anchorage, Alaska.


    2006

  • Srini Seetharaman, Mostafa Ammar, "Characterizing and Mitigation Inter-Domain Policy Violations in Overlay Routes," Proceedings of IEEE ICNP 2006, October 2006.

  • Qi He, Constantine Dovrolis, Mostafa Ammar, "A Methodology for the Optimal Configuration of TCP Traffic in Network Simulations under Link Load Constraints," Special Issue of SIMULATION: Transactions of the Society for Modeling and Simulation Journal, Vol. 82, No. 5, 279-293, 2006.

  • Minaxi Gupta, Mostafa Ammar, Mustaque Ahamad, "Trade-offs between reliability and overhead in peer-to-peer reputation tracking," Computer Networks: The International Journal of Computer and Telecommunications Networking archive Volume 50 , Issue 4 (March 2006)

  • Yong Zhu, Constantinos Dovrolis, Mostafa Ammar, "Dynamic overlay routing based on available bandwidth estimation: A simulation study," Computer Networks: The International Journal of Computer and Telecommunications Networking, Volume 50 , Issue 6 (April 2006)

  • Wenrui Zhao, Yang Chen, Mostafa Ammar, Mark Corner, Brian Levine, Ellen Zegura, "Capacity Enhancement using Throwboxes in DTNs" Proceedings of IEEE MASS, Vancouver, BC, October 2006.

  • ACM DL Author-ize serviceMessage ferry route design for sparse ad hoc networks with mobile nodes
    Muhammad Mukarram Bin Tariq, Mostafa Ammar, Ellen Zegura
    MobiHoc '06 Proceedings of the 7th ACM international symposium on Mobile ad hoc networking and computing, 2006

  • Yang Chen, Jeonghwa Yang, Wenrui Zhao, Mostafa Ammar, Ellen Zegura, "Multicasting in Sparse MANETs Using Message Ferrying" Proceedings of IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Confernece (WCNC), Las Vegas, NV, April 2006.

  • Barath Petit, Mostafa Ammar, Richard Fujimoto, "Protocols for Roadside-to-Roadside Data Relaying over Vehicular Networks" Proceedings of IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Confernece (WCNC), Las Vegas, NV, April 2006.

  • Srinivasan Seetharaman, Mostafa Ammar "On the Interaction between Dynamic Routing in the Native and Overlay Layers" INFOCOM 2006, Barcelona, Spain, April 2006.

  • Yong Zhu, Mostafa Ammar "Algorithms for Assigning Substrate Network Resources to Virtual Network Components" INFOCOM 2006, Barcelona, Spain, April 2006.

  • Jinliang Fan, Mostafa Ammar "Dynamic Topology Configuration in Service Overlay Networks: A Study of Reconfiguration Policies" INFOCOM 2006, Barcelona, Spain, April 2006.

  • Taehyun Kim, Mostafa Ammar, "Receiver Buffer Requirements for Video Streaming over TCP," Proceedings of Visual Communications and Image Processing Conference, San Jose, CA, January 2006.


    2005

  • Taehyun Kim, Mostafa Ammar, "A Comparison of Heterogeneous Video Multicast Schemes: Layered Encoding or Stream Replication?" IEEE Transactions on Multimedia Vol 7, 6, Dec. 2005, pp 1123- 1130

  • Zongming Fei, Mostafa Ammar, Ibrahim Kamel, Sarit Mukherjee, "An Active Buffer Management Technique for Providing Interactive Functions in Broadcast Video-on-Demand System," IEEE Transactions on Multimedia Volume 7, Issue 5, Oct. 2005, pp942 - 950.

  • George F. Riley, Talal M. Jaafar, Richard M. Fujimoto and Mostafa H. Ammar, "Using Ghosts for Global Topology Knowledge in Space-Parallel Distributed Network Simulations," Simulation Journal, 2005, Vol. 81, #4.

  • Srini Seetharaman, Mostafa Ammar, "Overlay Friendly Overlay Networks: A Contradiction in Terms?" Proceedings of ACM HOTNETS IV, November 2005, College Park, Maryland.

  • Mukarram Bin Tariq, Amogh Dhamdhere, Constantine Dovrolis, Mostafa Ammar, "Poisson versus periodic probing of network path performance (or, does PASTA matter?)," Proceedings of the 2005 Internet Measurement Conference, October 2005, New Orleans, LA.

  • ACM DL Author-ize serviceOn the predictability of large transfer TCP throughput
    Qi He, Constantine Dovrolis, Mostafa Ammar
    SIGCOMM '05 Proceedings of the 2005 conference on Applications, technologies, architectures, and protocols for computer communications, 2005

  • Hyewon Jun, Mostafa Ammar, Ellen Zegura, "Power Management in Delay Tolerant Networks: A Framework and Knowledge-Based Mechanisms," Proceedings of the 2nd IEEE COnference on Sensor and Ad Hoc Communication and Networks, Santa Clara, CA, September 2005

  • ACM DL Author-ize serviceMulticasting in delay tolerant networks: semantic models and routing algorithms
    Wenrui Zhao, Mostafa Ammar, Ellen Zegura
    WDTN '05 Proceedings of the 2005 ACM SIGCOMM workshop on Delay-tolerant networking, 2005

  • Barath Petit, Mostafa Ammar, Richard Fujimoto, "Scenario-Specific Topolgy Reduction in Network Simulations," International Symposium on Performance Evaluation of Computer and Telecommunicaiton Systems (SPECTS), July 2005.

  • Pradnya Karbhari, Mostafa H. Ammar, Ellen W. Zegura, "Optimizing End-to-End Throughput for Data Transfers on an Overlay-TCP Path," Proceedings of NETWORKING 2005, Waterloo, Ontario, pp943-955, May 2005.

  • Taehyun Kim and Mostafa H. Ammar, "Optimal Quality Adaptation for Scalable Encoded Video," IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications, vol. 23, no. 2, February 2005,

  • Qi He, Mostafa Ammar, "Dynamic Host-Group/Multi-Destination Routing for Multicast Sessions," Journal of Telecommunication Systems, Vol. 28, pp. 409-433, 2005.

  • Qi He, Constantinos Dovrolis, Mostafa Ammar, "A Methodology for the Optimal COnfiguration of TCP Traffic in Network SImulation under Link Load Constraints," Proceedings of the 38th Annual Siumulation Symposium, San Diego, April 2005.

  • Hyewon June, Wenrui Zhao, Mostafa Ammar, Ellen Zegura, Chungki Lee, "Trading Latency for Energy in Wireless Ad Hoc Networks using Message Ferrying," IEEE PerCom International Workshop on Pervasice Wireless Networking, March 2005

  • Meng Guo, Mostafa Ammar, Ellen Zegura, "V3: A Vehicle-to-Vehicle Live Video Streaming Architecture," IEEE International Conference on Pervasive Computing and Communications (PerCom), 2005.

  • Jeonghwa Yang, Yang Chen, Mostafa Ammar, Chung-Ki Lee, "Ferry Replacement Protocols in Sparse MANET Message Ferrying Systems," IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking (WCNC), May 2005.

  • Wenrui Zhao, Mostafa Ammar, Ellen Zegura, "Controlling the Mobility of Multiple Data Transport Ferries in a Delay Tolerant Network," IEEE INFOCOM 2005, April 2005

  • Begen, Ali C., Yucel Altunbasak, Ozlem Ergun, and Mostafa H. Ammar. "Multi-path selection for multiple description video streaming over overlay networks." Signal Processing: Image Communication 20, no. 1 (2005): 39-60.


    2004

  • Jinliang Fan, Jun Xu, Mostafa H. Ammar, Sue B. Moon: Prefix-preserving IP address anonymization: measurement-based security evaluation and a new cryptography-based scheme. Computer Networks 46(2): 253-272 (2004)

  • Qi He, Mostafa Ammar, George Riley, Richard Fujimoto, "Exploiting the predicatability of TCP steady-state to speedup network simulation," Performance Evaluation, Vol 58,2-3, pp 163-187.

  • Jianjun Zhang, Ling Liu, Calton Pu, Mostafa Ammar, "Reliable peer-to-peer end system multicasting through replication", IEEE Fourth International Conference on Peer-to-Peer Computing, 2004. pp235-242.
  • Wenrui Zhao, Mostafa Ammar, Ellen Zegura, "The Energy-Limited Capacity of Wireless Networks," The First IEEE International Conference on Sensor and Ad hoc Communications and Networks, Sanar Clara, CA, October 2004.

  • Donghua Xu, Mostafa Ammar, "BencHMAP: Benchmark-Based, Hardware and Model-Aware Partitioning for Parallel and Distributed Network Simulation," Proceedings of IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Modeling, Analysis, and Simulation of Computer and Telecommunication Systems (MASCOTS), Volendam, The Netherlands, October 2004.

  • Shashi Merugu, Mostafa Ammar, Ellen Zegura, "Space-Time Routing in Wireless Networks with Preictable Mobility," College of Computing, Georgia Institute of Technology, Technical Report GIT-CC-04-07, March 2004.

  • Meng Guo, Mostafa Ammar, Ellen Zegura, "Cooperative Patching: A client based P2P Architecture for supporting continuous live video streaming," Proceedings of the IEEE International Conferenc on Computers, Communication and Networks (IC3N), Chicago, IL, October 2004.

  • ACM DL Author-ize serviceA message ferrying approach for data delivery in sparse mobile ad hoc networks
    W. Zhao, M. Ammar, E. Zegura
    MobiHoc '04 Proceedings of the 5th ACM international symposium on Mobile ad hoc networking and computing, 2004

  • ACM DL Author-ize serviceSpace-parallel network simulations using ghosts
    George F. Riley, Talal M. Jaafar, Richard M. Fujimoto, Mostafa H. Ammar
    PADS '04 Proceedings of the eighteenth workshop on Parallel and distributed simulation, 2004

  • Yong Zhu, Admela Jukan, Mostafa Ammar, Wesam Alanqar, "End-to-End Service Provisioning inMulti-granularity Multi-domain Optical Networks," 2004 IEEE International Conference on Communication (Optical Networking Symposium), Paris, June 2004.

  • Pradnya Karbhari, Mostafa Ammar, Amogh Dhamdhere, Himanshu Raj, George Riley and Ellen Zegura "Bootstrapping in Gnutella: A Measurement Study," Proceedings of the Passive and Active Measurements Workshop, Antibes Juan-les-Pins, France, April 2004.

  • Meng Guo, Mostafa Ammar, Scalable Live Video Streaming to cooperative clients using time shifting and video patching," Proceedings of INFOCOM 2004, Hong Kong, Marh 2004.

  • Qi He, Mostafa Ammar "Congestion Control and Message Loss in Gnutella Networks," Proceedings of SPIE Conference on Multimedia Computing and Networking(MMCN), Santa Clara, CA, January 2004.


    2003

  • Zongming Fei, Mengkun Yang, Mostafa Ammar, Ellen Zegura, "A Framework for allocating Clients to Rate-Constrained Multicast Servers," Computer Communications Journal 26(12), pp1255-1262, 2003.

  • Li Zou, Mostafa Ammar, "A File-Centric Model for Peer-to-Peer File-Sharing Systems," Proceedings of ICNP 2003, Atlanta, GA, Nov. 2003.

  • ACM DL Author-ize serviceWhy Johnny can't multicast: lessons about the evolution of the internet
    Mostafa H. Ammar
    NOSSDAV '03 Proceedings of the 13th international workshop on Network and operating systems support for digital audio and video, 2003

  • Pradnya Karbhari, Mostafa Ammar, Amogh Dhamdhere, Himanshu Raj, George Riley and Ellen Zegura "Bootstrapping in Gnutella: A Preliminary Measurement Study," Georgia Tech, College of Computing, Tech Report GIT-CC-03-35, May 2003.

  • Richard Fujimoto, Kalyan Perumalla, Alfred Park, Hao Wu, Mostafa Ammar, George Riley, "Large Scale Simulation: How Big? How Fast?," Proceedings of the 11th IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Modeling, Analysis and Simulation of Computer and Telecommunicatin Systems (MASCOTS), October 2003.

  • Qi He, Mostafa Ammar, George Riley, Himanshu Raj, Richard Fujimoto, "Mapping Peer Behavior to Packet-Level Details: A Framework for Packet-Level Simulation of Peer-to-Peer Systems," Proceedings of the 11th IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Modeling, Analysis and Simulation of Computer and Telecommunicatin Systems (MASCOTS), October 2003.

  • Minaxi Gupta, Mostafa Ammar, ``Service Differentiation in Peer-to-Peer Networks Utilizing Reputations," Proceedings of the Networked Group Communications (NGC) workshop, October 2003.

  • Qi He, Mostafa Ammar "Dynamic Host-Group/Multidestination Routing for Multicast Sessions," Proceedings of the IEEE Intenational Conference on Computer Communications and Networks, November 2003.

  • Paul Judge, Mostafa Ammar, ``CITADEL: A Content protection Architecture for Decentralized Peer-to-Peer Systems," Proceedings of IEEE GLOBECOM 2003, San Francisco, CA, Decemeber 2003.

  • ACM DL Author-ize serviceA reputation system for peer-to-peer networks
    Minaxi Gupta, Paul Judge, Mostafa Ammar
    NOSSDAV '03 Proceedings of the 13th international workshop on Network and operating systems support for digital audio and video, 2003

  • Christos Gkantsidis, Mostafa Ammar, Ellen Zegura, ``On the Effect of Large-Scale Deployment of Parallel Downloading," Third IEEE International Workshop on Internet Applications (WIAPP 03), San Jose, CA, June 2003.

  • Donghua Xu, George Riley, Mostafa Ammar, Richard Fujimoto, "Enabling large-scale multicast simulations by reducing memory requirements," Proceedings of the Parallel and Distributed Simulation Workshop, 2003.

  • Wenrui Zhao, Mostafa Ammar, "Message Ferrying: Proactive Routing in Highly-Partitioned Wireless Ad Hoc Networks," Proceedings of the IEEE Workshop on Futrure Trends in Distributed Computing Systems, Puerto Rico, May 2003.

  • Paul Judge, Mostafa Ammar, "The Benefits and Challenges of Providing Content Protection in Peer-to-Peer Systems," International Workshop for Technology, Economy, Social and Legal Aspects of Virtual Goods, May 2003, Ilmenau, Germany.

  • Hyewon Jun, Matt Sanders, Mostafa Ammar, Ellen Zegura, "Binding Clients to Replicated Servers: Initial and Continuous Binding," Proceedings of the IEEE Workshop on Futrure Trends in Distributed Computing Systems, Puerto Rico, May 2003.

  • Yong Zhu, Admela Jukan, Mostafa Ammar, "Multi-Segment Wavelength Routing in Large-Scale Optical Networks," IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC 2003), Anchorage, Alaska, May 2003.

  • Minaxi Gupta, Mostafa Ammar, "A Novel Multicast Scheduling Scheme for Multimedia Server with Variable Access Patterns," IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC 2003), Anchorage, Alaska, May 2003.

  • Taehyun Kim, Mostafa Ammar, ``Optimal Quality Adaptation for MPEG-4 Fine-Grained Scalable Video," Proceedings of INFOCOM 2003, April 2003, San Francisco.

  • Pradnya Karbhari, Ellen Zegura, Mostafa Ammar, ``Multipoint-to-Point Session Fairness in the Internet," Proceedings of INFOCOM 2003, April 2003, San Fracisco.

  • Paul Judge, Mostafa Ammar, "Security Issues and Solutions in Multicast Content Distribution: A Survey," IEEE Network Magazine, 2003.

  • Lenitra Clay, Mostafa Ammar, Ellen Zegura, Russ Clark, "Posting Protocol for Improved Keyword Searches in Peer-to-Peer Systems," Proceedings of MMCN 2003, Multimedia Computing and Networking, January 2003.

  • ACM DL Author-ize serviceEditorial
    Mostafa Ammar
    IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking (TON), 2003


    2002

  • Paul Judge and Mostafa Ammar, "The role of watermarking in securing peer-to-peer systems," ACM Workshop on Multimedia Security, December 2002.

  • Jun Xu, Jinliang Fan, Mostafa Ammar, Sue Moon, "Prefix-Preserving IP Address Anonymization", Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Network Protocols, 2002.

  • Paul Judge, Mostafa Ammar, "WHIM: Watermarking Multicast Video with a Hirarchy of Intermediaries," Computer Networks 39(6): 699-712 (2002)

  • Jinliang Fan, Paul Judge, Mostafa Ammar, "HySor: Group Key Management with Collusion-Scalability Tradeoffs Using a Hybrid Structuring of Receivers," Proceedings of the IEEE Internation Conference on Computer Communications Networks, 2002.

  • Minaxi Gupta, Mostafa Ammar, "Providing Multicast Communication in a Differentiated Service Network Using Limited Branching Techniques," Proceedings of the Third International Conference on Internet Computing, Las Vegas, Nevada, June 2002.

  • Clay, L. M., Ammar, M. H., and Zegura, E. W., "Protocols for Selection Among Replicated Multicast Servers", Proceedings of the Third International Conference on Internet Computing, Las Vegas, Nevada, June 2002, p. 132-139.

  • Li Zou, Ellen Zegura, Mostafa Ammar, "The Effect of Peer Selection and Buffering Strategies on the Performance of Peer-to-Peer File Sharing Systems," Proceedings of MASCOTS 2002, October 2002.

  • Qi He, Mostafa Ammar, George Riley, Richard Fujimoto, ``Exploiting the Predicatability of TCP's Steady-State Behavior to Speed Up Network Simulation," Proceedings of MASCOTS 2002 , October 2002.

  • ACM DL Author-ize serviceSelecting among replicated batching video-on-demand servers
    Meng Guo, Mostafa H. Ammar, Ellen F. Zegura
    NOSSDAV '02 Proceedings of the 12th international workshop on Network and operating systems support for digital audio and video, 2002

  • Steve Ferenci, Richard Fujimoto, Mostafa Ammar, Kalyan Perumulla, George Riley, ``Updateable Network Simulations," Proceedings of the 2002 Parallel and Distributed Simulation Conference, May 2002, Arlington, VA. ( Winner of Best Paper Award )

  • Meng Guo, Mostafa Ammar, Ellen Zegura, Fang Hao, "A Probe-Based Server Selection Protocol for Differentiated Service Networks," Proceedings of ICC 2002.

  • Zongming Fei, Mostafa Ammar, Ellen Zegura, "Multicast Server Selection: Problems, Complexity and Solutions," IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communication, Special Issue on Internet Proxy Services, vol. 20, no. 7, pp.1399-1413, September 2002. .

  • Fang Hao, Ellen Zegura, Mostafa Ammar, "QoS Routing for Anycast Communications: Motivation and an Architecture for DiffServ Networks," IEEE Communications Magazine, June 2002.

  • Paul Judge, Mostafa Ammar, "GOTHIC: A Group Access Control Architecture for Secure Multicast and Anycast," Proceedings of INFOCOM 2002, June 2002.

  • George Riley, Mostafa Ammar, "Simulating Large Networks: How Big is Big Enough?" Proceedings of First International Conference on Grand Challenges for Modeling and Simulation, January 2002.

  • ACM DL Author-ize serviceEditorial
    Mostafa H. Ammar
    IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking (TON), 2002


    2001

  • Jun Xu, Jinliang Fan, Mostafa Ammar, Sue Moon, "On the design and performance of prefix-preserving IP traffic trace anonymization," Proceedings of the 2001 International Measurement Workshop, November 2001 (short paper).

  • Zongming Fei, Mostafa Ammar, Ellen Zegura, "Efficient Server Replication and Client Re-Direction for Multicast Services," Proceedings of SPIE/ITCOM Conference on "Scalability and Traffic Control in IP Networks," Denver, Colorado, August 2001.

  • Li Zou, Mostafa Ammar, Christoph Diot, "An Evaluation of Grouping Techniques for State Dissemination in Netwokred Multi-User Games" Proceedings of the Ninth International Symposium on Modelling, Analysis, and Simulation of Computer and Telecommunication Systems, (MASCOTS'01), August 2001

  • Xu, Donghua; Riley, G. F.; Ammar, M. H.; Fujimoto, R. M., ``Split Protocol Stack Network Simulations using the Dynamic Simulation Backplane'' Proceedings of the Ninth International Symposium on Modelling, Analysis, and Simulation of Computer and Telecommunication Systems, (MASCOTS'01), August 2001

  • ACM DL Author-ize serviceA comparison of layering and stream replication video multicast schemes
    Taehyun Kim, Mostafa H. Ammar
    NOSSDAV '01 Proceedings of the 11th international workshop on Network and operating systems support for digital audio and video, 2001

  • Riley, G. F., Ammar, M. H., Zegura, E. W. ``Efficient Routing With Nix-Vectors'' Proceedings of High Speed Switching and Routing 2001 (HPSR'01).

  • Fang Hao, Ellen Zegura, Mostafa Ammar, ``Supporting Server Selection in Differentiated Service Networks," Proceedings of INFOCOM 2001, Anchorage, Alaska, April 2001.

  • Riley, G. F., Ammar, M. H., Fujimoto, R. M., Perumalla, K., Xu, D. "Distributed Network Simulations using the Dynamic Simulation Backplane'' Proceedings of International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems 2001 (ICDCS'01)


    2000

  • Paul Judge, Mostafa Ammar, "WHIM: Watermarking Multicast Video with a Hirarchy of Intermediaries," Proceedings of NOSSDAV 2000, Chapel Hill, NC, June 2000.

  • Riley, G. F., Fujimoto, R. M, Ammar, M. H., "Stateless Routing in Network Simulations," Proceedings of MASCOTS 2000, San Francisco, CA, Ausgust 2000.

  • Riley, G. F., Fujimoto, R. M, Ammar, M. H., "Network Aware Time Management and Event Distribution'' Proceedings 14th Workshop on Parallel and Distributed Simulation (PADS), Bologna, Italy, May 2000.

  • Tianji Jiang, Mostafa H. Ammar and Ellen W. Zegura, "On the Use of Destination Set Grouping to Improve Inter-receiver Fairness for Multicast ABR Sessions", Proceedings of IEEE INFOCOM'2000 , Tel-Aviv, Israel, March, 2000.


  • 1999

  • Donahoo, M. J., Ammar, M. H., Zegura, E., "Multiple Channel Multicast Scheduling for Bulk-Data Transport,'' Proceedings of IEEE INFOCOM 99, New York, April 1999.

  • Lenitra Clay, Mostafa Ammar, "Design and Evaluation of Router-Supported and End-to-End Multicast Receiver-Based Scoping Protocols," Proceedings of the International Conference on Computer, Communications and Networks, May 1999.

  • George Riley, Richard Fujimoto, Mostafa Ammar, "A Generic Framework for Parallelization of Network Simulations," Proceedings of the Seventh International Symposium on Modelling, Analysis and Simulation of Computer and Telecommunications Systems, October 24-28, 1999, University of Maryland, College Park, MD, pp. 128-135.

  • Zongming Fei, Mostafa Ammar, Ibrahim Kamel, Sarit Mukherjee, Providing Interactive Functions through Active Client buffer Management in Partitioned Video Broadcast," Proceedings of the 1999 Workshop on Networked Group Communication, Pisa, Italy, November 1999, Springer Verlag, lecture Notes in Computer Science. 1736, pp152-169.

  • Tianji Jiang, Ellen Zegura, Mostafa Ammar, "Inter-Receiver Fair Multicast Communication over the Internet" Proceedings of NOSSDAV 99, June 1999.

  • Zongming Fei, Mostafa Ammar, Ellen Zegura, "Optimal Allocation of Clients to Replicated Multicast Servers" Proceedings of the 1999 IEEE International Conference on Network Protocols, November 1999, pp 69-76.

  • Fei, Z., Kamal, I., Mukherjee, S., Ammar, M., "Providing Interactive Functions for Staggered Multicast Near Video-on-Demand Systems (Extended Abstract)," Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Multimedia Computing and Systems (Poster paper), June 1999.

  • Li, X., Ammar, M. H., Paul, S. "Video Multicast over the Internet" IEEE Network Magazine, Vol. 13. No. 2, March/April 1999, pp46-60.

  • Li, X., Paul, S., Ammar, M. H., ``Multi-Session Rate Control for Layered Video Multicast" Proceedings of Symposium on Multimedia Computing and Networking, San Jose, CA, January 1999.

  • Almeroth, K., Ammar, M. H., "An Alternative Paradigm for Scalable On-Demand Applications: Evaluating and Deploying the Interactive Multimedia Jukebox," IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering,Vol. 11, No. 4, July/August 1999, pp658-672.


    1998

  • Krupczak, R., Calvert, K., Ammar, M., "Protocol Programming in Java," IEEE Communications Magazine, Vol. 36, No. 10, pp93-99, October 1998.

  • Ammar, M. H., Almeroth, K., Clark, R. J., Fei, Z., ``Multicast Delivery of Web Pages OR How to make Web servers pushy,'' Proceedings of the Workshop on Internet Server Performance, Madison, Wisconsin, June 1998.

  • Jiang, T., Zegura, E. W., Ammar, M. H., "Improved Consolidation Algorithms for Point-to-Multipoint ABR Service," Proceedings of ATM '98 Workshop, May 1998, Fairfax, Virginia.

  • ACM DL Author-ize serviceInter-receiver fairness: a novel performance measure for multicast ABR sessions
    Tianji Jiang, Mostafa H. Ammar, Ellen W. Zegura
    SIGMETRICS '98/PERFORMANCE '98 Proceedings of the 1998 ACM SIGMETRICS joint international conference on Measurement and modeling of computer systems, 1998

  • Almeroth, K., Ammar, M. H., "The Interactive Multimedia Jukebox (IMJ): A New Paradigm for the On-Demand Delivery of Audio/Video," Proceedings of the 7th WWW conference, Brisbane, Australia, April 1998. (Winner of the Best Paper Award for the WWW7 Conference.)

  • Fei, Z., Bhattacharjee, S., Zegura, E. W., Ammar, M. H., ``A Novel Server Selection Technique for Improving the Response Time of a Replicated Service,'' Proceedings of INFOCOM 98, March/April 1998, San Francisco, CA.

  • Riley, G. F., Ammar, M. H., Clay, L., ``Receiver-Based Multicast Scoping: A new cost-conscious join/leave paradigm,'' Protocols, Austin, Texas, October 1998.

  • Mahajan, S., Donahoo, M., Navathe, S., Ammar, M., Malik, S., ``Grouping techniques for update propagation in intermittently-connected databases,'' Proceedings of the 1998 IEEE Conference on Data Engineering, Orlando, Florida, February 1998.

  • Almeroth, K. C., Ammar, M. H., Fei, Z., ``Scalable Delivery of Web Pages Using Cyclic Best-Effort (UDP) Multicast,'' Proceedings of INFOCOM 98, March/April 1998, San Francisco, CA.

  • Krupczak, R. D., Calvert, K. L., Ammar, M. H., ``Implementing Protocols in Java: The Price of Portability,'' Proceedings of INFOCOM 98, March/April 1998, San Francisco, CA.

  • Li, X., Paul, S., Ammar, M. H., ``Layered Video Multicast with Retransmissions (LVMR): Evaluation of Hierarchical Rate Control,'' Proceedings of INFOCOM 98, March/April 1998, San Francisco, CA.

    1997

  • George Rouskas and Mostafa Ammar, ``Multidestination Communication over tunable-Receiver, Single-Hop WDM Networks,'' IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communication, Vol. 15, April 1997, pp501-511.

  • Talpade, R., Ammar, M.H., RFC 2149, May 1997.

  • K. Almeroth and M. Ammar, "Multicast Group Behavior in the Internet's Multicast Backbone (MBone)", IEEE Communications, June 1997.

  • Russell Clark and Ammar, Mostafa. "Providing Scalable Web Service Using Multicast Delivery ", Computer Networks and ISDN Systems Journal, Vol. 29, pp841-858, 1997. (Previous Version in Proceedings of the IEEE Workshop on Services in Distributed and Networked Environments, Whistler, Canada, June 1995.)

  • Xue Li, Sanjoy Paul, Pramod Pancha, Mostafa Ammar, ``Layered Video Multicast with Retransmission (LVMR): Evaluation of Error Recovery Schemes'' Proceedings of NOSSDAV 97, St. Louis. MO, May 1997.

  • Talpade, R., Ammar, M. H., Multicast Server Architectures for Supporting IP Multicast over ATM, in Proceedings of the 7th IFIP Conference on High Performance Nteworking, April 1997.

  • Russell J. Clark, Mostafa H. Ammar and Kenneth L. Calvert. "Protocol Discovery in Multiprotocol Networks", Mobile Networks and Applications, Vol. 2, pp271-284, 1997.

  • George Rouskas and Mostafa Ammar, ``Multidestination Communication over tunable-Receiver, Single-Hop WDM Networks,'' IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communication, Vol. 15, April 1997, pp501-511.

    1996

  • Krupczak, Bobby and Ammar, Mostafa and Calvert, Ken. "Multi-Subsystem Protocol Architectures: Motivation and Experience with an Adapter-Based Approach", Proceedings of INFOCOM 96, San Francisco, California, March 1996.

  • Cheung, S. Y., Ammar, Mostafa, and Li, Xue. "On the Use of Destination Set Grouping to Improve Fariness in Multicast Video Distribution," Proceedings of INFOCOM 96, March 1996, San Fransisco.

  • K. Almeroth and M. Ammar, "On the Use of Multicast Delivery to Provide a Scalable and Interactive Video-on-Demand Service", Journal on Selected Areas of Communication, August 1996.

  • Li, Xue and Ammar, Mostafa "Bandwidth Control for Replicated-Stream Multicast Video Distribution" Proceeding of the FIFTH IEEE INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM ON HIGH PERFORMANCE DISTRIBUTED COMPUTING (HPDC-5), Syracuse,NY, August 1996.

  • K. Almeroth and M. Ammar, "Mlisten: Capturing and Analyzing Participant Behavior in MBone Audio Sessions," Proceeding of the FIFTH IEEE INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM ON HIGH PERFORMANCE DISTRIBUTED COMPUTING (HPDC-5), Syracuse,NY, August

  • Cheung, S. Y., Ammar, M. H., "Using Destination Set Grouping to Improve the Performance of Window-controlled Multipoint Connections," Computer Communications Journal, Vol. 19, 1996, pp723-736. (Also in, Proceedings of International Conference on Computer Communication and Networks , Las Vegas, Nevada, September, 1995, pp388-395.)

    Talpade, R., Ammar, M.H., Multiple MCS support using an enhanced version of the MARS server, draft-talpade-ion-multiplemcs-01.txt, December 1996.

  • Talpade, R., Armitage, G. J. (Bellcore), Ammar, M.H., Experience with Architectures for Supporting IP Multicast over ATM , in Proceedings of IEEE ATM '96 Workshop, San Francisco, August, 1996.

  • George Rouskas and Mostafa Ammar "Minimizing Delay and Packet Loss in Single-Hop Lightwave WDM Networks Using TDM Schedules," Journal of High Speed Networks, Vol. 5, 1996, pp304-328.

  • Bobby Krupczak, Ken Calvert, Mostafa Ammar. "Protocol Portability through Module Encapsulation", Proceedings of the International Conference on Network Protocols (ICNP-96), Columbus, Ohio, October 29 - November 1, 1996. pg 56-63.


    1995

  • Mostafa Ammar and George Rouskas, "On the Performance of Protocols for Collecting Responses over a Multiple-Access Channel", IEEE Transactions on Communications, February 1995.

  • Russell Clark and Ammar, Mostafa. "Providing Scalable Web Service Using Multicast Delivery" , Proceedings of the IEEE Workshop on Services in Distributed and Networked Environments, Whistler, Canada, June 1995.

  • Cheung, S. Y., Ammar, M. H., "Using Destination Set Grouping to Improve the Performance of Window-controlled Multipoint Connections," Proceedings of International Conference on Computer Communication and Networks , Las Vegas, Nevada, September, 1995, pp388-395. (Also in Computer Communications Journal, Vol. 19, 1996, pp723-736.)

  • Russell J. Clark, Mostafa H. Ammar and Kenneth L. Calvert. "Protocol Discovery in Multiprotocol Networks," Proceedings of ICCCN 95, Las Vegas, Nevada, Septemeber 1995.

  • Almeroth, Kevin and Ammar, Mostafa. "On the Performance of a Multicast Delivery Video-on-Demand Service with Discontinuous VCR Actions", Proceedings of ICC '95, Seattle, WA June 1995.

  • Talpade, R., Ammar, M. H., "Single Connection Emulation (SCE): An Architecture for Providing a Reliable Multicast Transport Service," Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems, Vancouver, BC, Canada, June 1995.

  • Bernabeu, J., Ammar, M. H., Ahamad, M., ``Optimizing a Generalized Polling Protocol for Resource Finding over a Multiple Access Channel,'' Computer Networks and ISDN Systems , Vol. 27, 1995, pp412-420.

  • George Rouskas, and Mostafa Ammar, "Dynamic Reconfiguration in Multihop WDM Networks", Journal of High Speed Networks, Vol. 4, 1995, pp221-238.


  • 1994

  • Ammar, M. H., "Probabilistic Multicast: Generalizing the Multicast Paradigm to Improve Scalability,'' Proceedings of IEEE INFOCOM 94, Toronto, Canada, June 1994, pp848-855.

  • Rouskas, G., Ammar, M. H., "Multi-Destination Communication Over Single-Hop Lightwave WDM Networks," Proceedings of IEEE INFOCOM 94, Toronto, Canada, June 1994, pp1520-1527.

  • Almeroth, Kevin and Ammar, Mostafa. "A Scalable, Interactive Video-On-Demand Service Using Multicast Communication", In, Proceedings of International Conference on Computer Communication and Networks , San Francisco, California, September, 1994, pp292-301.

  • Russell J. Clark, Mostafa H. Ammar and Kenneth L. Calvert. Multiprotocol Interoperability In IPng, RFC 1683, August, 1994.

  • Russell J. Clark, Kenneth L. Calvert and Mostafa H. Ammar. "On the Use of Directory Services to Support Multiprotocol Interoperability," In Proceedings of IEEE INFOCOM '94, Toronto, June, 1994.

  • Ahamad, M., Ammar, M. H., Cheung, S. Y., ``Replicated Data Management in Distributed Systems,'' Readings in Distributed Computing, IEEE Computer Society Press, T. Casvant and M. Singhal (eds), 1994.


    1993

  • Lee, C. K., Burns, J., Ammar, M. H., "Protocols for Collecting Responses in Multi-hop Radio Networks," Proceedings of INFOCOM 93, San Francisco, California, March/April 1993, pp 439-446.

  • Russell J. Clark, Mostafa H. Ammar and Kenneth L. Calvert, "Multiprotocol Architectures as a Paradigm for Achieving Interoperability," Proceedings of IEEE INFOCOM '93, San Francisco, April, 1993.

  • George Rouskas, and Mostafa Ammar. "Analysis and Optimization of Transmission Schedules for Single-Hop WDM Networks", Proceedings of INFOCOM 93, San Francisco, California, March/April 1993.

  • Ammar, M. H., Cheung, S. Y., Scoglio, C., "Routing Multipoint Connections Using Virtual Paths in an ATM Network" Proceedings of INFOCOM 93 , San Francisco, California, March/April 1993, pp98-105.

  • Stevens, D. S., Ammar, M. H., ``Strategies for Group Testing in Multi-Hop Radio Networks,'' Proceedings of the International Conference on Communications (ICC), Geneva, Switzerland, June 1993, pp1609-1613.

  • Lee, C. K., Burns, J., Ammar, M. H., "Improved Randomized Broadcast Protocols in Mutli-hop Radio Networks," Proceedings of the International Conference on Network Protocols, San Francisco, California, October 1993, pp6-13.

  • Lindgren, B., Krupczak, B., Ammar, M. H., Schwan, K., "Parallel and Configurable Protocols: Experience with a Prototype and an Architectural Framework," International Conference on Network Protocols, San Francisco, California, October 1993, pp234-242.


    1992

  • Ammar, M. H., Wu, L. R. "Improving the Performance of Point to Multi-Point ARQ Protocols through Destination Set Splitting," Proceedings of IEEE INFOCOM `92, Florence, Italy, May 1992, pp 262-271.

  • Cheung, S. Y., Ammar, M. H., Ahamad, M., ``The Grid Protocol: A High Performance Scheme for Maintaining Replicated Data,'' IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering, Vol. 4, # 6, December 1992, pp 582-592.


    1991

  • Mostafa Ammar and George Rouskas, "On the Performance of Protocols for Collecting Responses over a Multiple-Access Channel", In Proceedings of IEEE Infocom 91, March 1991.

  • ACM DL Author-ize serviceMultidimensional voting
    Mustaque Ahamad, Mostafa H. Ammar, Shun Yan Cheung
    ACM Transactions on Computer Systems (TOCS), 1991

  • Bernabeu-Auban, J., Ahamad, M., Ammar, M. H., ``Resource Finding in Store-and-Forward Networks,'' Acta Informatica, Vol. 28 , # 7 , October 1991, pp 657-680.

  • Stevens, D. S., Ammar, M. H., ``Evaluation of A Distributed TDMA Rescheduling Procedure for Mobile Packet Radio Networks,'' in Proceedings of 1991 Military Communications Conference, November 1991, McLean, Virginia, pp1167-1171.

  • Ammar, M. H., Stevens, D. S., ``A Distributed TDMA Rescheduling Procedure for Mobile Packet Radio Networks,'' in Proceedings of The IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC '91), Denver, Colorado, June 1991, pp1609-1613.


    1990

  • Ahamad, M., Ammar, M. H., Cheung, S.Y., ``Optimizing the Performance of Replica Control Protocols,'' Proceedings of the IEEE Workshop on the Management of Replicated Data, Houston, Texas, November 1990, pp102-107.

  • Ammar, M. H., Ahamad, M. , Cheung, S. Y., ``Performance of Quorum Consensus Protocols for Mutual Exclusion from the User's Point of View,'' Proceedings of the Second IEEE Workshop on Future Trends of Distributed Computing Systems in the 1990's, Cairo, Egypt, September 1990, pp413-419.

  • Ammar, M. H., Stevens, D.S., ``Evaluation of Slot Allocation Strategies for TDMA Protocols in Packet Radio Networks,'' Proceedings of The 1990 Military Communications Conference (MILCOM), Monterey, California, October 1990, pp835-839.


    1989

  • Bernabeu, J., Ammar, M. H., Ahamad, M., ``Optimal Selection of Multicast Groups to Locate Resources in a Distributed System,'' Proceedings of INFOCOM 89, April 89, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, pp312-321.

  • Cheung, S.Y., Ahamad, M., Ammar, M.H., ``Optimizing Vote and Quorum Assignments for Reading and Writing Replicated Data,'' "IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering, Vol. 1, # 3, September 1989, pp 387-397.

  • Ahamad, M., Ammar, M. H., ``Performance Characterization of Quorum-Consensus Algorith ms for Replicated Data,'' IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering, Vol. 15, # 4, April 1989, pp492-496.

  • Ammar, M. H., Gershwin, S. B., ``Equivalence Relations in Queueing Models of Fork/Join Networks with Blocking,'' Performance Evaluation, Vol. 10, # 12, December 1989, pp 233-245.


    1988

  • Ammar, M. H., Bernabeu, J. A., Ahamad, M., ``Using Hint Tables to Locate Resources in Distributed Systems,'' Proceedings of the IEEE INFOCOM `88, New Orleans, Louisiana, April 1988, pp1050-1059.

  • Ahamad, M., Ammar, M. H., Bernabeu, J. A., Khalidi, M. Y., ``Using Multicast Communication to Locate Resources in a LAN-Based Distributed System,'' Proceedings of IEEE 13th Conference on Local Area Networks, October 1988, Minneapolis, Minnesota, pp193-202.

  • Ammar, M. H., Chung, K. D., ``Performance of a Manufacturing System Using a Token-Passing Communication Network,'' Proceedings of IEEE INFOCOM `88, New Orleans, Louisiana, April 1988, pp496-504.


    1987

  • Ammar, M. H., Wong, J. W., "On the Optimality of Cyclic Transmission in Teletext Systems,'' IEEE Transactions on Communications, Vol. 35, # 1, January 1987, pp68-73.

  • Wong, J. W., Ammar, M. H., ``Performance Analysis of Shared Response Systems,'' in Current Advance is Distributed Computing and Communications, Y. Yemini (ed.), Computer Science Press, 1987, pp3-16

  • Ammar, M. H., ``Teletext-Like Information Delivery Using Broadcast Polling,'' Computer Networks and ISDN Systems, Vol. 12, # 2, March 1987, pp107-115.

  • Ammar, M. H., ``Response Time in a Teletext System: An Individual User's Perspective,'' IEEE Transactions on Communications, Vol. 35, # 11, November 1987, pp1159-1170.

  • Ammar, M. H., ``Performance of a Two-Stage Manufacturing System with Control and Communication Overhead,'' IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics, Vol. 17, # 4, July/August 1987, pp661-665.

  • Ammar, M. H., ``An Individual User's Perspective of Response Time in a Teletext System,'' Proceedings of IEEE INFOCOM `87, San Francisco, California, April 1987, pp534-543.

  • Ahamad, M., Ammar, M. H., ``Performance Characterization of Quorum-Consensus Algorithms for Replicated Data,'' Proceedings of the Sixth Symposium on Reliability in Distributed Software and Database Systems, Williamsburg, Virginia, March 1987, pp161-168.


    1986

  • Ammar, M. H., Wong, J. W., ``Response Time Distribution of Information Systems Using Broadcast Delivery,'' Proceedings of INFOCOM `86, Miami, Florida, April 1986, pp172-179.

  • Dykeman, H. D., Ammar, M. H., Wong, J. W., ``Scheduling Algorithms for Videotex Systems Under Broadcast Delivery,'' Proceedings of the 1986 International Conference on Communications, Toronto, Ontario, June 1986, pp1847-1851.

  • Wong, J. W., Ammar, M. H., ``Response Time Performance of Videotex Systems,'' IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications, Vol. 4, # 7, October 1986, pp1174-1180.

  • Ammar, M. H., ``Performance Analysis of a Manufacturing System with Integrated Control and Communication Functions,'' Proceedings of the 1986 IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics, Atlanta, Georgia, October 1986, pp1573-1577.

  • Ammar, M. H., ``A Broadcast Polling Scheme for Teletext-Like Information Delivery,'' Proceedings of the IEEE Global Telecommunications Conference (GLOBECOM `86), Housto n, Texas, December 1986, pp1246-1250.


    1985

  • Ammar, M. H., Wong, J. W., "The Design of Teletext Broadcast Cycles,'' Performance Evaluation, Vol. 5, # 4, November 1985, pp235-242.

  • Wong, J. W., Ammar, M. H., "Analysis of Broadcast Delivery in a Videotex System,'' IEEE Transactions on Computers, Vol. 34, # 9, September 1985, pp863-866.

  • Ammar, M. H., Wong, J. W., ``On the Optimality of Cyclic Transmission in Teletext Systems,'' Proceedings of the 24th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, Ft. Lauderdale, Florida, December 1985, pp1266-1269.

  • Ammar, M. H., Wong, J. W., ``Response Time Optimization in Teletext Systems,'' Proceedings of IEEE INFOCOM `85, Washington, D.C., April 1985, pp266-272.


    1984

  • Wong, J. W., Ammar, M. H., ``Analysis of Broadcast Delivery in Videotex Systems,'' Proceedings of the IEEE Global Telecommunications Conference (GLOBECOM `84), Atlanta, Georgia, November 1984, pp933-937.


    1980

  • Ammar, M. H., Gershwin, S. B., ``Equivalence Relations in Queueing Models of Manufacturing Networks,'' Proceedings of the 19th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, Albuquerque, New Mexico, December 1980, pp715-721.


    1979

  • Gershwin, S. B., Ammar, M. H., ``Reliability in Flexible Manufacturing Systems,'' Proceedings of the 18th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, Ft. Lauderdale, Florida, December 1979, pp540-545.