List of Publications

Papers in refereed journals

[J1] Ouassim Karrakchou, Nancy Samaan, Ahmed Karmouch,  FCTrees: A Front-Coded Family of Compressed Tree-Based FIB Structures for NDN Routers. IEEE Trans. Netw. Serv. Manag. 17(2): 1167-1180 (2020).

[J2] Jose Barrameda, Nancy Samaan, A Robust Formulation for Efficient Application Offloading to Clouds. IEEE Trans. Cloud Comput. 8(3): 710-720 (2020).

[J3] P Sun, N Samaan, A novel vanet-assisted traffic control for supporting vehicular cloud computing, IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems, to appear.

[J4] O Runsewe, N Samaan, Cloud resource scaling for time-bounded and unbounded big data streaming applications, IEEE Transactions on Cloud Computing, to appear.

[J5] J. Barrameda and N. Samaan “A Novel Statistical Cost Model and an Algorithm for Efficient Application Offloading to Clouds", Cloud Computing, IEEE Transactions on , 6(3): 598-611 ().

[J6] B. Wanis, N. Samaan and  A.  Karmouch, "Efficient Modeling and Demand Allocation for Differentiated Cloud Virtual-Network as-a Service Offerings," Cloud Computing, IEEE Transactions on , to Appear,2016.

[J7] P. Sun and N. Samaan,” Random Node Failures and Wireless Networks Connectivity: Theoretical Analysis” IEEE Wireless Communications Letters, VOL. 4, NO. 5, OCTOBER 2015.

[J8] P. Sun and N. Samaan, “A QoS Aware Joint Design for Wireless Mesh Networks”, Journal of wireless networks, Springer,  20(5): 961-973(2014).

 

[J9] N. Samaan, A Novel Economic Model for Capacity Sharing in a Federation of Selfish Cloud Providers, IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems, 25(1): 12-21 (2014) (10 pages).

 

[J10]  T. Ghazar and N. Samaan, Pricing Utility-Based Virtual Networks for Efficient Embedding onto a Shared Substrate Network, IEEE Transactions on Network and Service Management, vol.10, no.2, pp.119,132, June 2013.

 

[J11]  Z. Tian and N. Samaan, A Novel Approach for Modeling and Managing Spontaneous Social Communities over MANETs, Journal of Social Network Analysis and Mining, Springer, vol. 3, no.3, pp. 685-700, Sept. 2013.

 

[J12]  J. Barrameda and N. Samaan, Bounds for Minimum Interference in Full Multi-Interface Multi-Channel Wireless Networks, IEEE Transactions on Wireless communications, 10:11: 3956-3965, 2011. (10 pages)

 

[J13]  N. Samaan and A. Karmouch, Autonomous Network Management: A survey and a new approach, IEEE Communications Surveys and Tutorials, 11:3: 22-36, 2009.

 

[J14]  N. Samaan and A. Karmouch "Network Anomaly Diagnosis via Statistical Analysis and Evidential Reasoning", IEEE Transactions on Network and Service Management, Vol. 5, No. 1, June 2008.

 

[J15]  N. Samaan and A. Karmouch, A Mobility Prediction Scheme Based on Dempster- Shafer Theory of Evidence,  IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing, 4:6: 537- 551, 2005. (Cited first in the “Scanning the Literature” article, IEEE Wireless Communication magazine, April 2006, Volume: 13, Issue: 2 ).

 

[J16]  N. Samaan and A. Karmouch “An Automated Policy-Based Management Framework for Wired/Wireless Differentiated Communication Systems”, IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications (JSAC), Autonomic Communication systems, 23:12:2236-2247, 2005.

 

 

Papers in Refereed Conference Proceedings

[C1]         O Karrakchou, N Samaan, A Karmouch, EP4: An Application-Aware Network Architecture with a Customizable Data Plane, IEEE International Conference on High Performance Switching and Routing, HPSR2021,  7-9 June 2021,  Paris, France.

 

[C2]         Z Huang, N Samaan, A Karmouch, A Novel Resource Reliability-Aware Infrastructure Manager for Containerized Network Functions,  IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC2021),  2021.

 

[C3]         X Li, N Samaan, A Karmouch, An Automated VNF Manager based on Parameterized-Action MDP and Reinforcement Learning, IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC2021).

 

[C4]         O Karrakchou, N Samaan, A Karmouch, ENDN: An Enhanced NDN Architecture with a P4-programmabIe Data Plane, Proceedings of the 7th ACM Conference on Information-Centric Networking 2020.

 

[C5]         Kaiyi Zhang, Nancy Samaan, Optimized Look-Ahead Offloading Decisions Using Deep Reinforcement Learning for Battery Constrained Mobile IoT Devices. SmartCloud 2020: 181-186.

 

 

[C6]             O. Runsewe and N. Samaan, “CRAM: a Container Resource Allocation Mechanism for Big Data Streaming Applications”, IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Cluster, Cloud and Grid Computing. Larnaca, Cyprus, Spain, May 14-17, 2019.

 

[C7]              O. Karrakchou, N. Samaan, A. Karmouch, “FCTree: A Space Efficient FIB Data Structure for NDN Routers”, 43rd IEEE Conference on Local Computer Networks (LCN) , October 1-4, 2018, Chicago, USA.

[C8]             O. Karrakchou, N. Samaan, A. Karmouch, “A Survey of Routing Mechanisms in ICNs, 6th International Conference on Multimedia Computing and Systems (ICMCS’18) , Rabat, Morocco, May 10-12, 2018.

[C9]              O. Runsewe and N. Samaan “Cloud Resource Scaling for Big Data Streaming Applications Using A Layered Multi-dimensional Hidden Markov Mode 17th IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Cluster, Cloud and Grid Computing. Madrid, Spain, May 14-17, 2017.

[C10]          P Sun, N Samaan Random node failures and  wireless  networks  connectivity: A novel recovery scheme Electrical and Computer Engineering (CCECE), 2016 IEEE Canadian Conference, p.1-6

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[C12]      I. Al Ridhawi, N. Samaan and A. Karmouch, "A QoS Monitor Selection Mechanism for Cellular Data Networks," 2015 IEEE Global Communications Conference (GLOBECOM), San Diego, CA, 2015, pp. 1-7.

 

[C13]      B. Wanis, N. Samaan and A. Karmouch, “Modeling and Pricing Cloud Service Elasticity for Geographically Distributed Applications” , IFIP/IEEE Integrated Network Management Symposium (IM 2015), May 11-15, 2015, Ottawa, Canada

 

[C14]      Jose Barrameda, Nancy Samaan, A novel application model and an offloading mechanism for efficient  mobile computing. WiMob 2014: 419-426

 

[C15]      H. Abid and N. Samaan,” A Novel Scheme for Node Failure Recovery in Virtualized Networks”, the 5th IFIP/IEEE International Workshop on Management of the Future Internet (ManFi), 27-31 May 2013 Ghent Belgium.

 

[C16]      B. Wanis, N. Samaan, and A. Karmouch “Substrate Network House Cleaning via Live Virtual Network Migration”, IEEE International Conference on Communications ( ICC 2013), Budapest, Hungary, Jun 9-13, 2013 (6 pages).

 

[C17]          1. Z. Tian and N. Samaan,” A Novel Distributed Scheme for Building Spontaneous Social Communities over MANETs”,     9th  IEEE International Conference on Mobile Ad-hoc and Sensor Systems (IEEE MASS 2012) ,October 8-11, in Las Vegas, Nevada, USA.

 

[C18]          I. Al Ridhawi, N. Samaan, and Ahmed Karmouch Simulator-Assisted Joint Service-Level-Agreement and Vertical-Handover Adaptation for Profit Maximization, The 12th IEEE/IPSJ International Symposium on Applications and the Internet, SAINT 2012, Izmir, Turkey, , July 16 - 20, 2012 (8 pages).

 

 

[C19]          Y. Al Ridhawi, I. Ridhawi, N. Samaan and A. Karmouch “An Adaptive Vertical Handover of Service Specific Overlay Networks”, The 3rd International Workshop on Enablers for Ubiquitous and Context-Aware Services on Sensor Networks (EUCASS 2012) , Izmir, Turkey , July 16 - 20, 2012  ( 6 pages).

 

[C20]          E. Korotich  and N. Samaan “A Novel Architecture for Efficient Management of Multimedia-Service Clouds”,  IEEE Global  Communications Conference (Globecom 2011), Enabling Green Wireless Multimedia Communications, 5-9 Dec. Houston, Texas, USA, 2011 (5 pages).

 

[C21]          I. Al Ridhawi, N. Samaan and A. Karmouch, “A Policy-Based Simulator for assisted Adaptive Vertical Handover”, IEEE International Symposium on Policies for Distributed Systems and Networks, Pisa, Italy, June 6-8, 2011 ( 8 pages).

 

[C22]          T. Ghazar and  N. Samaan 'A Hierarchical Approach for Efficient Virtual Network Embedding Based on Exact subgraph Matching”, ”, IEEE Global  Communication s Conference (Globecom 2011), Next Generation Networking Symposium, 5-9 Dec. Houston, Texas, USA, 2011.

 

[C23]          J. Barrameda and N. Samaan, “Solution Space Characterization and a Fast Algorithm for the Channel Assignment Problem in Wireless Mesh Networks”,  IEEE Globecom 2010, 6-8 Dec. Miami, Florida, USA.

 

[C24]          N. Samaan, Achieving Self-Management in a Distributed System of Autonomic BUT Social Entities, 3rd IEEE/IFIP International Workshop on Modelling Autonomic Communications Environments (MACE 2008), Sept., 22-26, Samos Island, Greece (14 pages).

 

[C25]          N. Samaan, H. Harroud and A. Karmouch, PACMAN: a Policy-based Architecture for Context Management in Ambient Networks, IEEE Consumer Communications and Networking Conference (CCNC07), Las Vegas, Nevada, 11-13, pp: 497-502. Jan. 2007 (6 pages).

 

[C26]          N. Samaan and A. Karmouch,  Circumscriptive Context Reasoning for Automated Network Management Operations, IEEE Globecom 2006 – General Conference on Emerging Technologies - Autonomic Communication/Networking Principles, Nov.27-Dec.1 ,2006,  pp:1-6, San Francisco, California, USA (6 pages).

 

[C27]          N. Samaan and A. Karmouch, A Novel Approach Towards Autonomic Management in Context-Aware Communication Systems in Mobility Aware Technologies and Applications, 2nd  International Workshop, MATA2005, Montreal, Canada, October 17-19, 2005, Lecture Notes in Computer Science 3744 Springer 2005, pp 374-383 (10 pages).

 

[C28]          N. Samaan and A. Karmouch, A User Centric Mobility Prediction Approach Based on Spatial Conceptual Maps, IEEE International Conference on Communications, Seoul, Korea, 16-20 May, ICC 2005, pp: 1413- 1417 (5 pages).

 

[C29]          N. Samaan and A. Karmouch, Adaptive Policies for Management of Autonomous Communication systems, 7th  International Symposium on Communications Interworking, Ottawa, Canada, November 29, 30-December 1, 2005.

 

[C30]          N. Samaan, B. Benmammar, F. Krief, and A. Karmouch Prediction-based Advance Resource Reservation in Mobile Environments, in the 18th Annual Canadian Conference on Electrical and Computer Engineering, CCECE05, May 1-4, 2005, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan Canada.

 

[C31]          N. Samaan and A. Karmouch, "A Case-Based Reasoning Approach for Automated Management in Policy-Based Network, 15th IFIP/IEEE International Workshop on Distributed Systems: Operations and Management, DSOM 2004, Davis,CA, USA, Nov. 15-17, 2004. Lecture Notes in Computer Science 3278 Springer 2004, pp 76-87 (10 pages).

 

[C32]          A. Karmouch, A. Galis, R. Giaffreda, A. Jonsson, A. Karlsson, R. Glitho, M. Smirnov, M. Kleis, C. Reichert, A. Tan, M. Khedr, N. Samaan, L. Heimo, M. Barachi, T. Kanter, J. Dang, Contextware Research Challenges in Ambient Networks, Mobility Aware Technologies and Applications, 1st  International Workshop, MATA2004, Florianópolis, Brazil, October 20-22, 2004, Proceedings. Lecture Notes in Computer Science 3284 Springer 2004, pp 62-77 (6 pages).

 

[C33]          N. Samaan, A. Karmouch, and H. Kheddouci “Mobility Prediction Based Service Location and Delivery”,  17th IEEE Canadian Conference on Electrical and Computer  engineering (CCECE 2004), May 2-5, Niagara Falls, Ontario, Canada (5 pages).

 

[C34]          N. Samaan and A. Karmouch Prediction-Based Policy Adaptation for QoS Management in Wireless Networks, in proceedings of the 4th IEEE International Workshop on Policies for Distributed Systems and Networks (POLICY 2003), Italy 4-6 June 2003 (6 pages).

 

[C35]          N. Samaan and A. Karmouch, An Evidence-Based Mobility Prediction Agent Architecture, Mobile Agents for Telecommunication Applications, 5th International Workshop, MATA 2003, Marakech, Morocco, October 8-10, 2003, Proceedings. Lecture Notes in Computer Science 2881 Springer 2003, pp 230-239 (10 pages).

 

[C36]          N. Samaan and A. Karmouch, A Multi-Agent Framework for QoS adaptation Using Policies in wireless Environments, Gestion de Réseaux Et de Services, 24 -27 Février 2003, Fortaleza, Ceará, Brazil.

 

 

 

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