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Computer Science

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74
Citations
22434
World Ranking
1492
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778

Electronics and Electrical Engineering

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68
Citations
20477
World Ranking
1008
National Ranking
425

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2020 - Member of Academia Europaea
  • 2003 - ACM Fellow For contributions to the design of systems and protocols for scalable network services.
  • 2002 - IEEE Fellow For contributions to the design of scalable multimedia services and their network support.

Overview

Mostafa H. Ammar is affiliated with the Georgia Institute of Technology in the United States. The primary fields of study for their research include Computer Science and Engineering, with a strong focus on computer networks and communications. Their subfields extend into computer vision and pattern recognition, electrical and electronic engineering, computer science applications, and artificial intelligence.

The researcher's work covers several main topics, including image and video quality assessment, IoT and edge/fog computing, mobile crowdsensing and crowdsourcing, software-defined networks and 5G, radiation effects in electronics, quantum-dot cellular automata, and network traffic and congestion control.

Mostafa H. Ammar has contributed to a range of publications, some of the recent papers authored or co-authored include:

  • 5G MEC Computation Handoff for Mobile Augmented Reality, 2021, arXiv (Cornell University)
  • Evaluating Multimedia Protocols on 5G Edge for Mobile Augmented Reality, 2021, 2021 17th International Conference on Mobility, Sensing and Networking (MSN)
  • Collaboration Stability: Quantifying the Success and Failure of Opportunistic Collaboration, 2022, Computer
  • ViSig, 2023, Proceedings of the ACM on Interactive Mobile Wearable and Ubiquitous Technologies
  • Context-driven encrypted multimedia traffic classification on mobile devices, 2022, Pervasive and Mobile Computing

The frequent co-authorship network of Mostafa H. Ammar includes:

  • Sasu Tarkoma
  • Benjamin Finley
  • Pan Hui
  • Ellen Zegura

Their publications often appear in venues such as the International Journal of Security and Networks, the 2021 17th International Conference on Mobility, Sensing and Networking (MSN), Computer, Proceedings of the ACM on Interactive Mobile Wearable and Ubiquitous Technologies, and Pervasive and Mobile Computing.

Throughout their career, Mostafa H. Ammar has received several recognitions. They were named a Member of Academia Europaea in 2020. Additionally, they were recognized as an ACM Fellow in 2003 for contributions to the design of systems and protocols for scalable network services, and as an IEEE Fellow in 2002 for work related to scalable multimedia services and their network support.

Best Publications

  • A message ferrying approach for data delivery in sparse mobile ad hoc networks

    W. Zhao;M. Ammar;E. Zegura

  • Algorithms for Assigning Substrate Network Resources to Virtual Network Components

    Y. Zhu;M. Ammar

  • A reputation system for peer-to-peer networks

    Minaxi Gupta;Paul Judge;Mostafa Ammar

  • Controlling the mobility of multiple data transport ferries in a delay-tolerant network

    W. Zhao;M. Ammar;E. Zegura

  • Message ferrying: proactive routing in highly-partitioned wireless ad hoc networks

    Wenrui Zhao;M.H. Ammar

  • The use of multicast delivery to provide a scalable and interactive video-on-demand service

    K.C. Almeroth;M.H. Ammar

  • Message ferry route design for sparse ad hoc networks with mobile nodes

    Muhammad Mukarram Bin Tariq;Mostafa Ammar;Ellen Zegura

  • Serendipity: enabling remote computing among intermittently connected mobile devices

    Cong Shi;Vasileios Lakafosis;Mostafa H. Ammar;Ellen W. Zegura

  • The grid protocol: a high performance scheme for maintaining replicated data

    S.Y. Cheung;M.H. Ammar;M. Ahamad

  • PeopleRank: Social Opportunistic Forwarding

    Abderrahmen Mtibaa;Martin May;Christophe Diot;Mostafa Ammar

  • A novel server selection technique for improving the response time of a replicated service

    Z.-M. Fei;S. Bhattacharjee;E.W. Zegura;M.H. Ammar

  • Femto Clouds: Leveraging Mobile Devices to Provide Cloud Service at the Edge

    Karim Habak;Mostafa Ammar;Khaled A. Harras;Ellen Zegura

  • Layered video multicast with retransmissions (LVMR): evaluation of hierarchical rate control

    X. Li;S. Paul;M. Ammar

  • Dynamic Topology Configuration in Service Overlay Networks: A Study of Reconfiguration Policies

    J. Fan;M. H. Ammar

  • An Approach for Service Function Chain Routing and Virtual Function Network Instance Migration in Network Function Virtualization Architectures

    Vincenzo Eramo;Emanuele Miucci;Mostafa Ammar;Francesco Giacinto Lavacca

  • Application-layer anycasting: a server selection architecture and use in a replicated Web service

    Ellen W. Zegura;Mostafa H. Ammar;Zongming Fei;Samrat Bhattacharjee

  • Application-layer anycasting

    S. Bhattacharjee;M.H. Ammar;E.W. Zegura;V. Shah

  • Capacity Enhancement using Throwboxes in DTNs

    Wenrui Zhao;Yang Chen;Mostafa Ammar;Mark Corner

  • On the use of destination set grouping to improve fairness in multicast video distribution

    Shun Yan Cheung;M.H. Ammar;Xue Li

  • Multicasting in delay tolerant networks: semantic models and routing algorithms

    Wenrui Zhao;Mostafa Ammar;Ellen Zegura

  • Prefix-preserving IP address anonymization: measurement-based security evaluation and a new cryptography-based scheme

    Jun Xu;Jinliang Fan;M.H. Ammar;S.B. Moon

Frequent Co-Authors

Ellen W. Zegura
Ellen W. Zegura Georgia Institute of Technology
Richard M. Fujimoto
Richard M. Fujimoto Georgia Institute of Technology
George F. Riley
George F. Riley Georgia Institute of Technology
Mustaque Ahamad
Mustaque Ahamad Georgia Institute of Technology
Kevin C. Almeroth
Kevin C. Almeroth University of California, Santa Barbara
Khaled A. Harras
Khaled A. Harras Carnegie Mellon University
George N. Rouskas
George N. Rouskas North Carolina State University
Nick Feamster
Nick Feamster University of Chicago
Saurabh Bagchi
Saurabh Bagchi Purdue University West Lafayette
Ehab Al-Shaer
Ehab Al-Shaer Carnegie Mellon University

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