Habib M. Ammari

Assistant Professor

Department of Computer Science

Hofstra University

Hempstead, New York 11549

Office: Adams Hall 205

Phone: (516) 463-4278

Fax: (516) 463-5790

Email: Habib dot M dot Ammari at hofstra dot edu

 

 

Areas of Interest

Wireless sensor and mobile ad hoc networks, mobile wireless Internet, and computational geometry.

Biographical Sketch

I am an Assistant Professor at the Department of Computer Science, Hofstra University starting from Fall 2008. I received my Ph.D. degree in Computer Science and Engineering from the Department of Computer Science and Engineering, The University of Texa at Arlington in May 2008 and my M.S. degree in Computer Science from Southern Methodist University in December 2004. I also received my Doctorat de Spécialité and Diploma of Engineering degrees in Computer Science from the Faculty of Sciences of Tunis, Tunisia, in December 1996 and July 1992, respectively.

For more information, here is my biography.

Research

My primary research interests lay in the area of wireless sensor and mobile ad hoc networks. In particular, I am interested in energy-efficient data dissemination, coverage, connectivity, and fault-tolerance in wireless sensor networks. Specifically, my research focuses on the design, analysis, and implementation of optimized and localized fault-tolerant, energy-efficient data dissemination and topology control protocols for promoting the longevity of wireless sensor networks. Another facet of my research work is concerned with the design of secure, adaptive, and fault-tolerant architectures for connecting wireless sensor and mobile ad hoc networks to the global IP Internet with a goal to provide the user with seamless ways to access the sensed data. In my research, I use fundamental concepts and models from computational geometry, such as Voronoi diagram and Delaunay triangulation; graph theory, such as connectivity and conditional connectivity; and physics and chemistry, such as percolation theory.

Prospective Students

I lead the Wireless Sensor and Mobile Ad-hoc Networks (WiSeMAN) Research Laboratory 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, where both theory and practice are connected. The focus of WiSeMAN 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 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.

If you are interested 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 laboratory is a perfect place for you, please send me an email or drop by my office.

Teaching

Awards

  • Computer Science and Engineering Outstanding Ph.D. Student Award, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, The University of Texas at Arlington, 2008.
  • Best Contribution Paper Award, Google Ph.D. Forum, The Sixth Annual IEEE International Conference on Pervasive Computing and Communications (PerCom'08), March 2008.
  • The TPC Best Paper Award, The 5th European conference on Wireless Sensor Networks (EWSN'08), January 30-31, February 1, 2008.
  • NSF and SAP Travel Grant Award, ACM/IEEE International Conference on Information Processing in Sensor Networks (IPSN'08), April 2008.
  • NSF Travel Grant Award, The Sixth Annual IEEE International Conference on Pervasive Computing and Communications (PerCom'08), March 2008.
  • Funding from Dean's Office at UTA, The Sixth Annual IEEE International Conference on Pervasive Computing and Communications (PerCom'08), March 2008.
  • Conference Travel Award, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, The University of Texas at Arlington, EWSN'08, January 30-31, February 1, 2008.
  • NSF and SAP Travel Grant Award, ACM/IEEE International Conference on Information Processing in Sensor Networks (IPSN'07), April 2007.
  • Conference Travel Award, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, The University of Texas at Arlington, IPSN'07, April 2007.
  • Conference Travel Award, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, The University of Texas at Arlington, MSWiM'06, October 2006.
  • Conference Travel Award, IEEE MASS'05 Conference Organizers, November 2005.
  • Conference Travel Award, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, The University of Texas at Arlington, MASS'05, November 2005.
  • Conference Travel Award, ACM MobiCom'05 Student Research Competition Organizers, August 28-September 2, 2005.
  • Conference Travel Award, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, The University of Texas at Arlington, ACM MobiCom'05, August 28-September 2, 2005.
  • Best Graduate Student Paper Award, Nokia Budding Wireless Innovators Awards 1st Prize, Department of Electrical Engineering, Southern Methodist University, May 2004.
  • Best Graduate Student Presentation Award, Ericsson Award 1st Prize, Graduate Research Day, Southern Methodist University, February 2004.
  • Laureate in Physics and Chemistry, Faculty of Sciences of Tunis, Tunisia, Academic years 1987 and 1988 (ranked the 1st among about 400 undergraduate students).

Honors

  • Selected for inclusion in the 2010 Edition of Who's Who in America.
  • Selected for inclusion in the 2008-2009 Honors Edition of Madison Who's Who Among Executives and Professionals.
  • Selected for inclusion in the 2006 Edition of Who's Who in America.

Professional Activities

Editorial Boards

Conference Organization

Technical Program Committee

Publicity Chair

Reviewer for Journals and Conferences

Selected Publications

Mobile ad hoc networks and wireless Internet

  1. 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.

  2. 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.

  3. 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.

  4. 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.

  5. 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

  1. 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.

  2. 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), To appear, 2008.

  3. 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), To appear, 2008.

  4. 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), To appear, 2008.

  5. 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.

  6. Sajal K. Das and Habib M. Ammari, ''Routing and data dissemination in wireless sensor networks,'' Book Chapter, to appear in Wireless Sensor Networks: A Networking Perspective (J. Zheng and A. Jamalipour, Editors), Wiley-IEEE Press, 2008.

  7. 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.

  8. 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.

  9. 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.

  10. 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.

  11. 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.

  12. 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.

  13. 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.

  14. 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

  1. 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.

  2. Habib M. Ammari, Static and Dynamic Approaches for Program Decomposition, Doctorat De Specialite dissertation, Faculty of Sciences of Tunis, Tunisia, December 1996.

Last updated: 9/1/2008