Browsing School of Computing Graduate Theses by Author "Hassanein, Hossam S."
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AppaaS: Provisioning of Context-Aware Mobile Applications as a Service
Ejaz, Ali (2013-02-01)The global mobile application market is booming in all directions and business giants, viz. Google and Apple, have acknowledged the huge expansion in their Application Market and App Store. There is a demand though for a ... -
Co-simulation Environment for Modeling Networked Cyber-Physical Systems
Alharthi, Mohannad (2014-04-25)Cyber-physical systems (CPSs) represent a new generation of engineered systems that tightly integrates computations, communications (cyber) and physics. Simulation plays a considerable role in validating CPSs as it ... -
CrowdNav:Information Dissemination System for Traffic Enhancement
Al-Yaseen, Dina Ayad (2012-04-30)In this work we present a traffic information dissemination system that seeks to deliver relevant traffic information to drivers to help make their driving experience more efficient, pleasant and safe. The system uses ... -
Defending Against DDoS and Unauthorized Access Attacks in Information Centric Networking
AbdAllah, EslamInformation Centric Networking (ICN) is a new communication paradigm that focuses on content retrieval from the network regardless of the content storage location. ICN changes the security model from securing the path to ... -
Delay-based packet scheduling for High Speed Downlink Packet Access
Husain, Samreen Riaz (2007-08-29)High Speed Downlink Packet Access (HSDPA) is a cellular system that was standardized by the 3rd Generation Partnership Project (3GPP). HSDPA can support data rates of up to 14.4 Mbps through the use of a shared channel. ... -
Discovery, Personalization and Resource Provisioning of Mobile Services
Elgazzar, Khalid (2013-09-04)Mobile service provisioning is intended to serve interoperable functionality from mobile devices over the network. The mobile service paradigm shifts the role of mobile devices from consumers to providers, opening up new ... -
Distributed Object-Localization Using RFID Crowdsourcing
Eslim, Lobna (2015-09-15)Internet of Things (IoT) refers to an evolution of the current Internet in which a large number of “smart objects” sense their surroundings and communicate amongst themselves and to data analytic servers. IoT applications ... -
Efficient Over-the-air Remote Reprogramming of Wireless Sensor Networks
Shafi, Nasif Bin (2011-11-29)Over-the-air reprogramming is an important aspect of managing large wireless sensor networks. However, reprogramming deployed sensor networks poses significant challenges due to the energy, processing power and memory ... -
Enabling Indoor Location-based Services Using Ultrasound
Javed, Tayyab (2013-02-01)In the context of location, large amounts of information are available on the Internet to be accessed by people via different devices. However, at times people have to manually search and access it. If the space where ... -
Enabling Ultra Large-Scale Radio Identification Systems
Ali, Kashif (2011-08-31)Radio Frequency IDentification (RFID) is growing prominence as an automated identification technology able to turn everyday objects into an ad-hoc network of mobile nodes; which can track, trigger events and perform ... -
Frame Partitioning in WiMax Mesh Mode
Albluwi, Qutaiba (2008-10-02)WiMax or the IEEE 802.16 standard is one of the most promising broadband wireless technologies nowadays. It is characterized by its high data rates, large coverage area, flexible design and QoS support. The standard ... -
A Framework for Data Delivery in Integrated Internet of Things Architectures
Alfagih, Ashraf (2013-05-01)The Internet of Things (IoT) represents a networking paradigm where entities are viewed as objects that are identifiable, traceable and connected. This view requires the integration and interoperability of numerous wireless ... -
A Framework for Efficient Bandwith Management in Broadband Wireless Access Systems
Al-Manthari, Bader (2009-04-06)Broadband Wireless Access Systems (BWASs) such as High Speed Downlink Packet Access (HSDPA) and the Worldwide Interoperability for Microwave Access (WiMAX), pose a myriad of new opportunities for leveraging the support ... -
A Framework for Peer-to-Peer Computing in Mobile Ad Hoc Networks
Mawji, Afzal (2010-02-02)Peer-to-peer (P2P) applications are enormously popular on the Internet. Their uses vary from file sharing to Voice-over-IP to gaming and more. Increasingly, users are moving toward wireless networked devices and wish to ... -
Global Resource Utilization for Synergetic Wireless Sensor Networks
Oteafy, Sharief M. A. (2013-08-28)In a domain with diverse multi-disciplinary views of what a Wireless Sensor Network (WSN) is, tracking progress and developing efficient WSNs is inherently a complex process. The main motivation of this work is advancing ... -
Grid-Based Deployment for Wireless Sensor Networks in Outdoor Environment Monitoring Applications
Al-Turjman, Fadi (2011-05-02)Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) overcome the difficulties of other monitoring systems, as they require no human attendance on site, provide real-time interaction with events, and maintain cost and power efficient operations. ... -
Interference-Optimal Frequency Allocation in Femtocellular Networks
Ouda, Mahmoud (2012-04-02)The evolution of Mobile Internet has led to the growth of bandwidth demanding applications like video streaming and social networking. The required data rates projected for such applications cannot be sustained by current ... -
Mobile Data Collectors in Wireless Sensor Networks
Al-Salih, Waleed (2009-04-27)Recent advances in wireless and sensing technologies have enabled the deployment of large scale Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) which have a wide range of scientific and commercial applications. However, due to the limited ... -
Mobile Small cells in Cellular Heterogeneous Networks
Qutqut, Mahmoud (2014-10-01)The unprecedented soaring demand for capacity and coverage on cellular networks is challenging and straining operators. The current improvements in cellular standards are significantly behind the exponential growth in ... -
Multi-hop Localization in Large Scale Deployments
Ibrahim, Walid (2014-05-01)The development of Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) is enabled by the recent advances in wireless communication and sensing technologies. WSN have a wide range of scientific and commercial applications. In many applications ...