Amr Mohamed

PHD Candidate

Electrical Engineering dept.

University of British Columbia

Tel: +604-222-0484

Fax: +604-222-2777

email: amrm@ece.ubc.ca

Amr Mohamed received his M.S. and Ph.D. in electrical and computer engineering from the University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada, 2001, and 2006 respectively. He received his B.S. from Cairo University in 1993. He worked as a senior software engineer in IBM Innovation Centre in Vancouver from 1998 to 2007 taking a leadership role in many software development projects. Between 2001 and 2006 Dr. Mohamed was working as a research assistant in the Lab for Advanced Networking at the University of British Columbia. Since 1994 Amr has been working as a Research and Teaching Assistant at the National Telecommunication Institute, Cairo, Egypt. His research interests include networking and Medium access control layer techniques in wired, wireless, and WDM optical networks, resource optimization for wired and wireless ad hoc networks, cross-layer communication systems design and modeling, uni-rate and multi-rate multicast communications, QoS for WDM Networks, videoconferencing, video Broadcast/Multicast, and MPEG4 video streaming. Dr. Mohamed has authored or co-authored 20 refereed journal and conference papers, with one awarded best paper for the month from GESTS trans on computing, Korea and one book. He also received 2 team awards and 1 individual award for his accomplishments at IBM.

Ph.D. in Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, B.C., Canada

M.A.Sc. in Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of British Columbia, Canada

B.A.Sc. in Electronics and Electronic Communications, Faculty of Engineering, Cairo University, Egypt.

Books

Author: Amr Mohamed

Utility-Based Resource and Qos Optimization in Packet Networks - Link and Network Level Optimization, publisher VDM Verlag (September 2008)

1. A. Mohamed, “Utility-based Resource and QoS Optimization in Wired and Wireless Networks”, PhD thesis, UBC, Aug., 2006.

2. A. Mohamed, “Novel Push-Model Framework For Realizing Multi-Service MPEG4 Streams In Broadcast Applications”, M.A.Sc Thesis, UBC, Sept., 2001.

1. A. Kaheel, T. Khattab, A. Mohamed, and H. Alnuweiri. Quality-of-service mechanisms in IP-over-WDM networks. IEEE Communications Magazine, 40(12):38–44, December 2002.

2. A. Mohamed and H. Alnuweiri. Cross-layer distributed approach for optimal rate allocation for homogeneous wireless multicast. IET communications journal, special Issue on Wireless Mobile Networks: Cross-Layer Communication, April 2007.

3. A. Mohamed and H. Alnuweiri. Dynamic programming QoS-based classification for links with limited service levels. International Transactions on Computer Science and Engineering (GESTS), 19(1):97–108, October 2005.

4. A. Mohamed and H. Alnuweiri. “Utility-based Optimal Rate Allocation for Heterogeneous Wireless Multicast”, In proceedings of IEEE International conference on communications ICC, June 2007.

5. A.Mohamed and H. Alnuweiri. Optimal resource allocation for homogeneous wireless multicast. In Proceedings of IEEE Globecom, San Francisco, November 2006.

6. Amr Mohamed and Hussein Alnuweiri. "optimal resource allocation for homogeneous wireless multicast", Technical report, University of British Columbia, BC, Canada 2006.

7.  T. Khattab, A. Mohamed, A. Kaheel and H. Alnuweiri. “Optical Packet Switching with Packet Aggregation”, Published in IEEE SOFTCOM 2002.

8. A. Mohamed and H. Alnuweiri. Dynamic programming QoS-based classification for links with limited service levels. In proceedings of IEEE Conference on local area networks LCN, Sydney, Australia, pages 51–58, November 2005.

9. 4. A. Mohamed and H. Alnuweiri. "Wireless Multicast Cross-Layer Framework for Rate Allocation: Protocol Design", International Conference and Exhibition on Next Generation Mobile Applications, Services, and Technologies - NGMAST, workshop on future multimedia networking (FMN), Cardif, Wales, GB, September 2008.

10. A. Mohamed and H. Alnuweiri. Optimal QoS-based classification for link models with predetermined service levels. In proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Telecommunications, Contel, Zagreb, Croatia, 2:375– 382, June 2005.

11. A. Mohamed and H. Alnuweiri. Stochastic QoS-based classification for link models with calculated service levels. In proceedings of Conference on Communications, Computers and signal Processing, PACRIM, pages 364–367, August 2005.

12. A. Mohamed and H. Alnuweiri. QoS-based partitioning and resource allocation for link models with variable service levels. In proceedings of IEEE ISCC, Sardinia, Italy, June 2006.

13. A. Mohamed and H. Alnuweiri. A distributed iterative algorithm for optimal rate allocation for homogeneous wireless multicast. In proceedings of IST mobile & wireless communications summit, Greece, June 2006.

14. A. Mohamed and H. Alnuweiri. Design of a cross-layer optimization framework for rate allocation in wireless multicast. In proceedings of IEEE International conference on Mobile Ad-hoc and Sensor Systems (MASS), Vancouver, Canada, October 2006.

15. A. Mohamed and H. Alnuweiri. “Cross-layer Framework for Rate Allocation in Heterogeneous Wireless Multicast”, In Proceedings of IIT, Dubai, UAE, Oct. 2006.

16. Mohamed and H. Alnuweiri. “A Distributed Iterative Algorithm for Optimal Rate Allocation for Homogeneous Wireless Multicast”, In Proceedings of ICENCO, Cairo, Egypt, Nov. 2006.

17. A. Mohamed, A. Kaheel, T. Khattab, and H. Alnuweiri. “Evaluation of Optical Packet Switch as Edge Device Using OPNET Modeler”. Published in Opnetwork IEEE conference in Washington, US, September 2002.

18. Y. Pourmohammadi, K. Asrar Haghighi, A. Mohamed, H. M. Alnuweiri, Streaming MPEG-4 over IP and Broadcast Networks: DMIF Based Architectures, Packet Video 2001 workshop.

19. A. Mohamed, H. M. Alnuweiri, “Mpeg4 Broadcast: A Client/Server Framework For Multi-Service Streaming Using Push Channels”, MMSP 2001 workshop.

Lab for advanced networking (LAN), member

Center for Wireless Systems and Applications, to be established at QSTP, Qatar

Technical program committee:

Innovation in information technology (IIT) in Dubai, 2007

International conference on communications, ICC 2008, China

The 6th IEEE/ACS International Conference on Computer Systems and Applications, AICCSA 08, Qatar

Technical reviewer

EURASIP, Journal on Wireless Communications and Networking

Elsevier, The International Journal of Computer and Telecommunications Networking

Senior software engineer in IBM/VIC, Vancouver, Canada, performing leadership roles in custom application development applications in the fields of healthcare, Network management, and e-business development.

Software engineer in IBM WTC, Egypt branch, Cairo, Egypt, participating in a team developing worldwide IBM corporate tools and applications.

Network engineer in ICCC Cairo, Cairo, Egypt, developing embedded software and device drivers for network and digital telephony hardware.