"If we knew what it was we were doing, it would not be called research, would it?", Albert Einstein (1879-1955)
Habib M. Ammari, Founding Director
Department of Computer Science
Hempstead, New York 11549
Office: 205 Adams Hall
WiSeMAN Research Lab: 305 Roosevelt Hall
Phone: (516) 463-4278
Fax: (516) 463-5790
Email: Habib dot M dot Ammari at hofstra dot edu
I lead the Wireless Sensor and Mobile Ad-hoc Networks (WiSeMAN) Research Lab
whose objective is to conduct fundamental research in wireless sensor and mobile ad-hoc
networking. I will consider motivated Master students as well as senior
undergraduate students to actively participate in WiSeMAN Research Lab, where both theory
and practice are connected. The focus of WiSeMAN Research Lab is on coverage, connectivity,
deployment, data routing and data dissemination, fault tolerance, and security in wireless
sensor networks. Specifically, WiSeMAN Research Lab emphasizes the
design, analysis, and implementation of energy-efficient topology control and data
dissemination protocols for wireless sensor networks with a goal to optimize the very
scarce energy resources of the sensors and extend the network lifetime. I believe
that real experiments are very critical for research in wireless sensor networks. Therefore,
WiSeMAN Research Lab will have the necessary equipments in terms of motes, such as MICAZ motes,
as well as all other required interfaces, such as MIB 510 programming boards and sensor boards,
to build up a sensor testbed, which will help students to conduct real experiments.
Any sound protocol designed to be used by the sensor nodes should be first implemented
to assess its practicality. Conducting real experiments will help students discover other
types of problems and work hard to solve them.
People
Lead Faculty
Habib M. Ammari, Founding Director.
Affiliated Faculty
Krishnan Pillaipakkamnatt, Associate Professor, Hofstra University.
Graduate Students
Raymond Mulligan (Master's Thesis), 2008-present.
James Voulgarakis (Master's Thesis), 2009-present.
Undergraduate Students
John Giudici, 2008-present.
Robert N. Lavoie, 2009-present.
Saad Scheema, 2009-present.
Taylor Schneider, 2009-present.
Steven Vinelli, 2009-present.
A Collaborative and Secure k-Cover-Sense-Inform Framework (k-CSI) for Heterogeneous
Deployment of Mission-Oriented Mobile Wireless Sensor Networks: The goal of this project is to design,
analyze, and implement a k-Cover-Sense-Inform (k-CSI) framework for heterogeneous and mission-oriented mobile
wireless sensor networks, where connected k-coverage, scheduling, and data forwarding are jointly considered.
CSI-HOFSTRA: Cover-Sense-Inform using Homogeneous Off-the-shelf Featured Sensors for Tiered Reliable
Architecture: The goal of this project is to develop a framework, called CSI-HOFSTRA, which will help us
understand, analyze, and optimize the trade-off between deterministic forwarding and opportunistic forwarding
in duty-cycled wireless sensor networks.
National Science Foundation (NSF) Research Grant, $400,000.00 (8/2009-7/2012).
New Faculty Start-up Research Grant from the Dean's Office, Hofstra College of Liberal Sciences and Arts
(HCLAS), Hofstra University, $25,000.00 (9/2008-present).
Faculty Research and Development Grant, Hofstra College of Liberal Sciences and Arts
(HCLAS), Hofstra University, $1,000.00 (5/2009-5/2010).
Research Equipments and T-WiSe
Mobile ad hoc networks and wireless Internet
Habib M. Ammari, ''Lessons learned from the simulation experience of a three-tier
multi-hop wireless Internet architecture,''
Information Sciences, 177(8), pp. 1806-1833, April 2007.
Habib M. Ammari, ''A survey of current architectures for connecting wireless mobile ad hoc
networks to the Internet,''
International Journal of Communication Systems,
20(8), pp. 943-968, August 2007.
Habib M. Ammari, ''Discovery and selection protocols for multi-hop wireless Internet access,''
International Journal of Computer and Applications, 29(1), pp. 25-32,
April 2007.
Habib M. Ammari, ''Using group mobility and multihomed mobile gateways to connect mobile ad hoc
networks to the global IP Internet,''
International Journal of Communication Systems, 19(10),
pp. 1137-1165, December 2006.
Habib M. Ammari, ''Multihop mobile wireless Internet access: The combined use of gateways
mobility and Mobile IP's simultaneous binding capability,''
IEC Annual Review of Communications, vol. 58, pp. 447-460, November 2005.
Wireless sensor networks
Habib M. Ammari and Sajal K. Das, "Mission-Oriented k-Coverage in Mobile Wireless Sensor Networks,"
Proc. The International Conference on Distributed Computing & Networking (ICDCN), Kolkata, India, January 3-6, 2010.
Habib M. Ammari, Challenges and Opportunities of Connected k-Covered Wireless Sensor Networks: From Sensor
Deployment to Data Gathering, Book, Springer, Studies in Computational Intelligence, Springer, vol. 215, August 2009.
Habib M. Ammari and Sajal K. Das, "Coverage and connectivity in three-dimensional wireless
sensor networks using percolation theory,"
IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems (IEEE TPDS), 20(6), pp. 872-885, June 2009.
Habib M. Ammari and Sajal K. Das, "Fault tolerance measures for large-scale wireless sensor
networks,"
ACM Transactions on Autonomous and Adaptive Systems (ACM TAAS), vol. 4, no. 1, pp. 2:1-2:28, January 2009.
Habib M. Ammari, "Stochastic k-coverage and scheduling in wireless sensor networks," Invited paper,
Proc. of The International Conference on Wireless Algorithms, Systems and Applications (WASA'09), August 2009.
Habib M. Ammari and Sajal K. Das, "Joint k-Coverage, Duty-Cycling, and Geographic Forwarding in Wireless
Sensor Networks,"
Proc. of The Fourteenth IEEE Symposium on Computers and Communications (IEEE ISCC'09), July 2009.
Habib M. Ammari and John Giudici, "On the connected k-coverage problem in
heterogeneous sensor nets: The curse of randomness and heterogeneity,"
Proc. of The 29th IEEE International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems (IEEE ICDCS'09), June 2009.
Habib M. Ammari and Sajal K. Das, "On the Design of k-Covered Wireless Sensor Networks: Self- versus Triggered
Sensor Scheduling,"
Proc. of The 10th IEEE International Symposium on a World of Wireless, Mobile and Multimedia Networks (IEEE WoWMoM'09), June 2009.
Habib M. Ammari, ''Connected k-coverage protocols for densely deployed wireless sensor networks", Book Chapter,
Handbook of Research on Developments and Trends in Wireless Sensor Networks: From Principle to Practice
(H. Jin and W. Jiang, Editors), IGI Global, 2009.
Sajal K. Das and Habib M. Ammari, ''Routing and data dissemination in wireless sensor
networks", Book Chapter,
Wireless Sensor Networks: A Networking Perspective
(J. Zheng and A. Jamalipour, Editors), Wiley-IEEE Press, July 2009.
Habib M. Ammari and Sajal K. Das, ''Integrated coverage and connectivity in wireless sensor networks: A two-dimensional
percolation problem,''
IEEE Transactions on Computers (IEEE TC), 57(10), pp. 1423-1434, October 2008.
Habib M. Ammari and Sajal K. Das, ''Promoting heterogeneity, mobility and energy-aware Voronoi diagram in
wireless sensor networks,''
IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems (IEEE TPDS), 19(7), pp. 995-1008, July 2008.
Habib M. Ammari and Sajal K. Das, ''A trade-off between energy and delay in data
dissemination for wireless sensor networks using transmission range slicing,''
Computer Communications, 31(9), pp. 1687-1704, June 2008.
Habib M. Ammari and Sajal K. Das, ''Joint k-Coverage and Hybrid Forwarding in Duty-Cycled
Three-Dimensional Wireless Sensor Networks,''
Proc. of the 5th IEEE Communications Society
Conference on Sensor, Mesh and Ad Hoc Communications and Networks (IEEE SECON'08),
pp. 170-178, June 2008.
Habib M. Ammari and Sajal K. Das, ''Geographic Forwarding in Duty-Cycled Connected
k-Covered Wireless Sensor Networks,''
Best Contribution Paper Award,
Proc. of the IEEE PerCom 2008: Google Ph.D. Forum-A Ph.D. Forum on Pervasive Computing and Communications, The Sixth Annual IEEE
International Conference on Pervasive Computing and Communications (IEEE PerCom'08),
March 2008.
Habib M. Ammari and Sajal K. Das, ''Clustering-Based Minimum Energy m-Connected k-Covered
Wireless Sensor Networks,''
TPC Best Paper Award,
Proc. of the 5th European Conference on Wireless Sensor
Networks (EWSN'08), Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) 4913,
pp. 1-16, January 30-31, February 1, 2008.
Habib M. Ammari and Sajal K. Das, ''Coverage, Connectivity, and Fault Tolerance Measures
of Wireless Sensor Networks,''
Proc. of the Eighth International Symposium on Stabilization,
Safety, and Security of Distributed Systems (SSS'06),
Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) 4280, pp. 35-49, November 2006.
Habib M. Ammari and Sajal K. Das, ''On Computing Conditional Fault-Tolerance Measures for
k-Covered Wireless Sensor Networks,''
Proc. of the 9th ACM/IEEE International Symposium on Modeling, Analysis and Simulation of
Wireless and Mobile Systems (IEEE/ACM MSWiM'06), pp. 309-316, October 2006.
Habib M. Ammari and Sajal K. Das, ''An Energy-Efficient Data Dissemination Protocol for
Wireless Sensor Networks,''
Proc. of the 2nd IEEE International Workshop on Sensor
Networks and Systems for Pervasive Computing (IEEE PerSenS'06),
in conjunction with PerCom'06, pp. 357-361,
March 2006.
Habib M. Ammari and Sajal K. Das, ''Trade-off between Energy Savings and Source-to-Sink
Delay in Data Dissemination for Wireless Sensor Networks,''
Proc. of the 8th ACM/IEEE International Symposium on Modeling, Analysis and Simulation of
Wireless and Mobile Systems (IEEE/ACM MSWiM'05), pp. 126-133, October 2005.
Habib M. Ammari and Sajal K. Das, ''Data Dissemination in Sensor Networks: Trading off
Energy Savings and Source-to-Sink Delay,'' Poster accepted at the
ACM Student Research
Competition (ACM SRC),
The 11th Annual International Conference on Mobile Computing
and Networking (ACM MobiCom'05), August 28-September 2, 2005.
Theses
Habib M. Ammari,
Energy-Efficient Connected k-Coverage, Scheduling, and Geographic Forwarding
in Wireless Sensor Networks , Ph.D. dissertation,
The University of Texas at Arlington, May 2008.
Habib M. Ammari,
Static and Dynamic Approaches for Program Decomposition, Doctorat De Specialite
dissertation,
Faculty of Sciences of Tunis, Tunisia, December 1996.
Topic: Coverage and connectivity in wireless sensor networks.
Topic: Geographic forwarding in wireless sensor networks.
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HCLAS Science Research Symposium
Date: April 17, 2009
Time: 12:30pm - 1:00pm
Venue: Cultural Center Theater, Hofstra University
Title:
Applications of wireless sensor networks (Part 1)
Speaker: John giudici, Undergraduate Research Assistant
Affiliation: WiSeMAN Research Lab
Date: April 17, 2009
Time: 3:30pm-4:00pm
Venue: Cultural Center Theater, Hofstra University
Title:
Applications of wireless sensor networks (Part 2)
Speaker: Robert N. Lavoie, Undergraduate Research Assistant
Affiliation: WiSeMAN Research Lab
Date: April 17, 2009
Time: 2:30pm-3:00pm
Venue: Cultural Center Theater, Hofstra University
Title:
Coverage problem in wireless sensor networks
Speaker: Raymond Mulligan, Graduate Research Assistant
Affiliation: WiSeMAN Research Lab
HUHC Undergraduate Research Day
Date: May 7, 2009
Time: 1:00pm - 1:30pm
Venue: 127 West Plaza Room, Hofstra University
Title:
On the Connected k-coverage problem in heterogeneous sensor nets
Speaker: John Giudici, Undergraduate Research Assistant
Affiliation: WiSeMAN Research Lab.
If you are interested to join WiSeMAN Research Lab, be part of it, and work hard to participate to its
continued success, you surely will have the opportunity to work on exciting research projects using
new networking technologies.
If you would like to work with me on your Master's thesis or independent study
project that is related to my research topics and you feel that WiSeMAN Research Lab
is a perfect place for you, please send me an email or drop by my office.
Sep. 15, 2009: Dr. Ammari and his co-author, Dr. Sajal K. Das, have a paper accepted as a regular paper
at a high-quality conference, 11th International Conference on Distributed Computing and Networking
(ICDCN 2010), which will be held in Kolkata, India, January 3-6, 2010.
A total of 169 papers were submitted, of which 37 were accepted as regular papers and 7 as short papers.
Sep. 13, 2009: Dr. Ammari has been invited to serve on the Technical Program Committee (TPC) for the
prestigious INFOCOM 2010-WiP (Work in Progress) Track of The 29th IEEE Conference on Computer Communications
(IEEE Infocom), 2010. Infocom 2010 will be held in San Diego, California, in the week of March 15-19.
Dr. Ammari is also on the TPC for IEEE Infocom 2010.
Sep. 10, 2009: Dr. Ammari has been invited to serve as a Co-Chair of IWCMC 2010 (Wireless Sensor
Networks Symposium).
Aug. 11, 2009: Dr. Ammari has published his first book,
Challenges and Opportunities of Connected
k-Covered Wireless Sensor Networks: From Sensor Deployment to Data Gathering, with Springer.
Jul. 24, 2009: Dr. Ammari has been awarded an NSF Research Grant of $400,000 for his research proposal,
A Collaborative and Secure k-Cover-Sense-Inform Framework (k-CSI) for Heterogeneous
Deployment of Mission-Oriented Mobile Wireless Sensor Networks. Dr. Ammari is the only Principal
Investigator (PI) for this project. Congratulations to Hofstra University and WiSeMAN Research Lab!
Jun. 30, 2009: Dr. Ammari traveled to Sousse, Tunisia to attend ISCC'09
conference and present their research paper (co-authored with Dr. Sajal K. Das). Also, Dr. Ammari attended ISCC'09
to participate to its success as a Session Chair.
Jun. 28, 2009: Dr. Ammari has been invited to serve as a Co-Chair of WiMAN 2010 (The Fourth IEEE
International Workshop on Wireless Mesh and Ad Hoc Networks).
Jun. 21, 2009: Dr. Ammari traveled to Montreal, Quebec, Canada to attend ICDCS'09
conference and present their research paper (co-authored with John Giudici). Also, Dr. Ammari attended ICDCS'09
to participate to the success of WiMAN'09 workshop as a Workshop Co-Chair and also WWASN'09
workshop as a Session Chair. WWASN'09 will be held on Monday, June 22, 2009, while WiMAN'09 workshop will
be held on Friday, June 26, 2009.
Jun. 9, 2009: Dr. Ammari and his co-author, Dr. Sajal K. Das, have a
paper accepted at a top-quality journal, IEEE Transactions on Computers.
May 27, 2009: Dr. Ammari has received an NSF Travel Grant Award of up to $500 to attend and present
a research paper accepted at ICDCS'09, which will be held in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, in June 22-26, 2009.
May 19, 2009: Dr. Ammari has been elected to join the Center for Teaching and Scholarly Excellence (CTSE)
at Hofstra University. He will be appointed as a member of CTSE for three years from 2009-2012.
May 15, 2009: John A. Giudici, an Undergraduate Research Assistant and a Member of WiSeMAN Research Lab,
received a Travel Grant Award of up to $400 from the Dean's Office at HCLAS to attend ICDCS'09 conference.
John is a co-author with Dr. Ammari of their ICDCS'09 paper. Congratulations John!
May 11, 2009: Dr. Ammari has been awarded an NSF Travel Grant of up to $1,400 from IEEE WoWMoM 2009 Organizing
Committee so he can attend the conference and present his research paper at WoWMoM'09, which will be held
in Kos, Greece, on June 15-19, 2009.
May 7, 2009: John A. Giudici, an Undergraduate Research Assistant and a Member of WiSeMAN Research Lab,
participated in the Undergraduate Research Day, which was organized by Hofstra University Honors College
(HUHC) on May 7, 2009. John presented our research paper, titled "On the Connected k-Coverage Problem in
Heterogeneous Sensor Nets: The Curse of Randomness and Heterogeneity", which has been accepted at ICDCS'09
conference.
Apr. 28, 2009: Dr. Ammari has been elected by The Special Committee on Recruitment, Elections and Nominations
(SCREAN) to serve a three-year term on the University Senate representing HCLAS, Division of Natural Sciences.
The Senate Executive Committee has assigned him to the Faculty Affairs Committee.
Apr. 27, 2009: Dr. Ammari has been awarded $1,000 from Hofstra College of Liberal Arts and Science (HCLAS)
for his Faculty Research and Development Grant proposal. The elected members of the Executive Committee
and representative from each division of HCLAS reviewed proposals from 116 applicants while the budget
for this year's Faculty Research and Development Grant is $105,000.
Apr. 17, 2009: John A. Giudici, Robert Lavoie, and Jeremy Lewitt, three Undergraduate Research Assistant,
and Raymond Mulligan, a Graduate Research Assistant, all of them are Members of WiSeMAN Research Lab,
participated in the HCLAS Science Research Symposium, which was organized by Hofstra College
of Liberal Arts and Science (HCLAS) on April 17, 2009. While Jeremy presented an overview of wireless sensor
networks, John and Robert discussed several of their real-world applications. On the other hand, Raymond Mulligan
discussed the problem of k-coverage in two-dimensional and three-dimensional wireless sensor networks,
which is related to the research topic of his Master's Thesis.
Mar. 25, 2009: Dr. Ammari has been invited by Drs. Azer Bestavros and Benyuan Liu, TPC Co-chairs of the
International Conference on Wireless Algorithms, Systems and Applications (WASA'09),
to submit an Invited Paper to WASA'09. The paper will be included in the conference proceeding published in the
Springer-LNCS series.
Mar. 8, 2009: Dr. Ammari traveled to Galveston, Texas to attend PerCom'09
conference and participate to the success of IQ2S'09
workshop as a Program Co-Chair and a
Chair of one of its sessions. IQ2S'09 workshop will be held on Monday, March 9, 2009.
Feb. 20, 2009: Dr. Ammari traveled to Arlington, Texas to attend the
Engineering Week Award Ceremony at the University of Texas at Arlington. He received the
Nortel Outstanding CSE Doctoral Dissertation
Award for his dedication to research and overall preparation as a scholar,
from the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at The University of Texas at
Arlington (Alma Mater!).
Feb. 17, 2009: Room 305 Roosevelt Hall has been given and designated by the Dean's Office
as the location of WiSeMAN Research Lab. Dr. Ammari and his Graduate and Undergraduate
Research Assistants are very grateful and thankful to Dr. Bernard Firestone, Dean of Hofstra
College of Liberal Arts and Science (HCLAS), and Mr. Richard Apollo, Senior Assistant Dean for
HCLAS Planning and Budget, for their wonderful and continuous support to WiSeMAN Research Lab.
Feb. 9, 2009: Dr. Ammari and his co-author, John Giudici, have a
paper accepted at a high-quality conference, The 29th IEEE International Conference on
Distributed Computing Systems (IEEE ICDCS 2009), which will be held in Montreal, Quebec,
Canada, June 22-26, 2009. The paper selection in ICDCS is highly competitive.
The Program Committee only selected 74 papers out of 455 submissions (16% acceptance rate).
John Guicidi is an Undergraduate Research Assistant and a Member of WiSeMAN Research lab.
Jan. 14, 2009: One paper from WiSeMAN Research Lab (co-authored with Dr. Das) has appeared
in the ACM Transactions on Autonomous and Adaptive Systems (ACM TAAS), volume 4, Issue 1,
January 2009.
Nov. 18, 2008: Dr. Ammari has been considered for inclusion in the upcoming 2010 Edition
of Who's Who in America, which is scheduled for publication in October 2009.
Journals, Conferences, and Workshops - CFPs
Real-World Testbeds
ENL Sensor Network Testbed, University of Southern California, USA.
Roofnet, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA.
CitySense - An Open, Urban-Scale Sensor Network Testbed, Harvard University, USA.
MoteLab: Harvard Sensor Network Testbed, Harvard University, USA.
Kansei: Sensor Testbed for At-Scale Experiments,
The Ohio State University, USA.
Emulab - Network Emulation Testbed, University of Utah, USA.
The WUSTL Wireless Sensor Network
Testbed, Washington University in St. Louis, USA.
remote-testbed, University of Copenhagen (Denmark) and Cork Institute of Technology (Ireland).
Imote2 Sensor Network Testbed, University of Washington, USA.
BigNet Sensor Network Testbed, The University of Melbourne, Australia.
ORTUN: Open Research Testbed for Underwater
Ad Hoc and Sensor Networks, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Massachusetts Institute of Technology,
University of Southern California/ISI, University of Connecticut, and University of Massachusetts, Amherst, USA.
Cyber Physical Computing (CyPhy),
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA.
Harvard Sensor Networks Lab,
Harvard University, USA.
Stanford Information Networks Group (SING),
Stanford University, USA.
Center for Sensed Critical Infrastructure Research (CenSCIR),
Carnegie Mellon University, USA.
Center for Embedded Networked Sensing (CENS),
University of California, Los Angeles, USA.
Rad Lab, University of California, Berkeley, USA.
Software Environment for Networks of Sensors and Embedded Systems
(SENSES), University of California, Davis, USA.
Wireless Sensors and Mobile Ad Hoc Networks (WiSe MANet)
Lab, The University of Memphis, USA.
Experimental Laboratory for Advanced Networking and
Systems (eLANS), Michigan State University, USA.
Networks and Mobile Systems (NMS), Massachusetts Institute of Technology,
USA.
Sensor Networks Research Group, University of Wisconsin - Madison,
USA.
Dependable Distributed and Networked Systems, The Ohio State University,
USA.
Autonomous Networks Research Group (ANRG),
University of Southern California, USA.
Sensor Networks Research Group (Sensors),
University of Southern California, USA.
Intelligent Sensor Grid and Informatics (ISGRIN),
University of Houston, USA.
Interoperable Smart Sensors and Networking Lab (ISSNet),
University of Houston, USA.
Sensor Networking Laboratory, Louisiana State University, USA.
Mobile Ad-hoc and Sensor Networks (MACS), City University of Hong Kong,
Hong Kong.
Primary Contact
Habib M. Ammari, Assistant Professor
John Giudici
This webpage is maintained by Dr. Habib M. Ammari.
WiSeMAN Research Lab Manager
Department of Computer Science
Hofstra University
Hempstead, New York 11549
Office: 205 Adams Hall
WiSeMAN Research Lab: 305 Roosevelt Hall
Phone: (516) 463-4278
Fax: (516) 463-5790
Email: Habib dot M dot Ammari at hofstra dot edu
Department of Computer Science
Hofstra University
Hempstead, New York 11549
WiSeMAN Research Lab: 305 Roosevelt Hall
Phone: (516) 463-4278
Fax: (516) 463-5790
Email: JGIUDI2 at pride dot hofstra dot edu (JGIU3RD at comcast dot net)
Last updated: October 10, 2009.