KING FAHD UNIVERSITY OF PETROLEUM &
MINERALS
COLLEGE OF COMPUTER SCIENCES &
ENGINEERING
COMPUTER ENGINEERING DEPARTMENT
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A SEMINAR
by
COE Guest Speaker Prof. Raouf Boutaba
Professor, David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science, University of Waterloo,
Ontario, Canada
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Title of Seminar: “Research Directions in Cloud Computing”
Date :
Tuesday, March 11, 2014
Time
: 1:30
p.m. - 2:30 p.m.
Location : Building 24, Room 120
Abstract: The
past few years have witnessed the rise of cloud computing, a paradigm that
harnesses the massive resource capacity of data centers to support Internet
applications in a scalable, flexible, reliable and cost-efficient manner.
However, the rapid growth in scale and complexity of today’s cloud environments
brings new challenges ranging from the design of new cloud infrastructures to
the management of cloud resources and services.
This talk will review the concepts underlying cloud
computing and will explore some of the fundamental challenges and research
directions in the design and management of cloud infrastructures, including
resource management, energy efficiency, Big data analytics, pricing and
security.
Bio: Prof. RAOUF BOUTABA received the M.Sc and Ph.D. in
Computer Science from the Université de Pierre et Marie Curie, France, in 1990
and 1994 respectively. Currently, he is a Professor with the David R. Cheriton
School of Computer Science, University of Waterloo, Canada. He held visiting
professorships at the University of Toronto (Canada), POSTECH (Korea), the
Université de Pierre & Marie Curie – Paris VI, Telecom ParisTech, and
Université Henry Descartes – Paris V (France).
He is the founding Editor-in-Chief for the IEEE
Transactions on Network and Service Management (2007-2010), and a past editor
for the Elsevier Computer Networks journal (2004-2008). He is currently an
Editor for the IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing (since 2011), an Advisory
Editorial Board member of the Springer Journal of Network and Systems
Management (since 2001), an Editorial Board member of the ACM/Wiley
International Journal of Network Management (since 2011), an editor for the
KICS/IEEE Journal of Communications and Networks (since 2002), an editor for
the Wiley Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing journal (since 2010),
and an editor for the Springer Journal of Internet Services and Applications
(since 2010). He is also on the editorial board of several other journals and
guest-edited several special issues for various journals including the IEEE
Journal on Selected Areas in Communications and many others. Prof. Boutaba was
the General or Technical Program Chair of several IEEE, IFIP and ACM
conferences/symposia/workshops, and was the founder of several international
conferences. He is the Chair of the Steering Committee of the IFIP/IEEE IM and
IEEE/IFIP NOMS , IEEE/IFIP/ACM CNSM, IEEE CloudNet, and a member of the
steering committees of several other conferences. Prof. Boutaba is an active
member of the IEEE Communications Society and held several offices including –
Director of the Conference Publications Board (2008-2009), the Society
Relations Board (2006-2007), and the Standards Board (2005-2006); - Member of
the Education Board (2008-2009), the Sister Societies Board (2008-2009), the
Standards Board (2006-2007), the Online Content Board (2004-2005), and Voting
Member of the Meetings & Conferences Council since 2004. He was elected in
leadership positions of several technical committees of the IEEE Communications
Society including – Chair of the Technical Committee on Information
Infrastructure (2006-2009); - Founding Chair of the Technical Committee on
Autonomic Communications (2006-present); Prof. Boutaba is also active in the
IFIP. He served as the Chair of the Working Group 6.6 on Network and
Distributed Systems Management (2001-2007) and currently serves as an Expert
member of the IFIP Technical Committee 6 on Communication Systems.
His research interests are in resource, network
and service management in wired and wireless networked systems with a current
focus on network virtualization, cloud computing and information centric
networking.
All KFUPM faculty, researchers and students are cordially
invited to attend.
Refreshment (Tea and Coffee, & Water) will be served.
Dr. Basem Al-Madani
Chairman,
Computer Engineering Department
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KING FAHD UNIVERSITY OF PETROLEUM &
MINERALS
COLLEGE OF COMPUTER SCIENCES &
ENGINEERING
COMPUTER ENGINEERING DEPARTMENT
*****
A SEMINAR
by
COE Guest Speaker Prof. Mario Gerla
Professor, Computer Science Department, University of California,
Los Angeles (UCLA), USA
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Title
of Seminar: “Scalable Opportunistic VANET Content
Routing With Encounter Information”
Date
: Tuesday, March 11, 2014
Time
: 2:40 pm – 3:40 pm
Location : Building 24, Room 120
Abstract: Recently,
Information Centric Networking (ICN) has attracted much attention also for
mobiles. Unlike host-based communication models, ICN promotes data names as the
first-class citizen in the network. However, the current ICN name-based routing
requires Interests be routed by name to the nearest replica, implying the
Interests are flooded in VANET. This introduces large overhead and
consequently degrades wireless network performance. In order to maintain the
efficiency of ICN implementation in VANET, we propose an opportunistic
geo-inspired content based routing method. Our method utilizes the last
encounter information of each node to infer the locations of content holders.
With this information, the Interests can be geo-routed instead of being flooded
to reduce the congestion level of the entire network. The simulation results
show that our proposed method reduces the scope of flooding to less than two
hops and improves retrieval rate by 1.42 times over flooding-based methods.
Keywords—VANET; ICN; Routing
Bio: Prof.
Mario Gerla is a Professor in the Computer Science Dept at UCLA. He holds an
Engineering degree from Politecnico di Milano, Italy and the Ph.D. degree from
UCLA. He became IEEE Fellow in 2002. At UCLA, he was part of the team that
developed the early ARPANET protocols under the guidance of Prof. Leonard
Kleinrock. He joined the UCLA Faculty in 1976.
At UCLA he has designed network protocols including ad hoc
wireless clustering, multicast (ODMRP and CODECast) and Internet transport (TCP
Westwood). He has lead the ONR MINUTEMAN project, designing the next generation
scalable airborne Internet for tactical and homeland defense scenarios. He is
now leading several advanced wireless network projects under Industry and
Government funding. His team is developing a Vehicular Testbed for safe
navigation, content distribution, urban sensing and intelligent transport.
Parallel research activities are wireless medical monitoring using smart phones
and cognitive radios in urban environments.
He has served as a Technical Program Committee member of
many international conferences, and is active in the organization of
conferences and workshops, including MedHocNet and WONS. He serves on the IEEE
TON Scientific Advisory Board. He was recently recognized with the annual
MILCOM Technical Contribution Award for 2011 and the IEEE Ad Hoc and Sensor
Network Society Achievement Award in 2011.
All KFUPM faculty, researchers and students are cordially
invited to attend.
Refreshment (Tea and Coffee, & Water) will be served.
Dr. Basem Al-Madani
Chairman,
Computer Engineering Department