FLORIDA ATLANTIC UNIVERSITY
Department of Computer & Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
ANNUAL FACULTY EVALUATION 2010-11
RESEARCH PLAN FOR 2011-12
Name and Rank: Imad Mahgoub/ Professor Date: April 2011
Department and College: Computer and Electrical Engineering and Computer Science/Engineering and Computer Science
A. Teaching
1.1 Student Evaluations
Table showing my teaching evaluations
Semester / Course # /Sequence # / Course title / # Responded/# Enrolled / Percent
Responded / Quality of Instructions / Rating of The Instructor /
Fall 2010 / CIS 6517-001/89263 / Mobile Computing / 13/15 / 86.7% / 1.58 / 2.00
Fall 2010 / CIS 6517-002/89266 / Mobile Computing / 1/1 / 100% / 1.00 / 1.00
Fall 2010 / CIS 6517-003/89268 / Mobile Computing / 1/1 / 100% / 1.00 / 2.00
Fall 2010 / CET 4333-002/88947 / Computer Organization and Design / 8/11 / 72.7% / 2.38 / 2.50
Spring 2011 / COT 6930-002/20999 / VANET / Not Available Yet
Spring 2011 / COT 6930-004/21001 / VANET / Not Available Yet
Spring 2011 / CDA 4102-002/18157 / Structured Comp Architecture / Not Available Yet
Evaluation scale: From 1 (excellent) to 5 (poor).
1.2 Other Teaching Activities
· DIS Supervised
Table showing DIS Supervised
Semester / Course number / Course title / Number of credits /Summer 10
Fall 10
Spring 11
Spring 11
Spring 11 / COT 6905-005
COT 4900-005
COT 4900-007
COT 4900-008
COT 6900-001 / DIS
DIS
DIS
DIS
DIS / 3
3
3
3
3 /
2. Doctoral and Master’s Degree Committees
a) Number of doctoral committees chaired to completion: 1
· Mike Slavik
b) Number of doctoral committees presently chaired: 4
· Redjem Bouhenguel
· Monika Rathod
· Waleed Al-Ghanem (Co-Advisor)
· Wilmer Arellano
c) Participation in doctoral committees as a member: 3
d) Number of master’s degree committees chaired to completion: 1
· Manira Rani
e) Number of master’s committees presently chaired: 1
· Arthur Souza
f) Participation in master’s degree committees that are completed: 3
B. Research and Other Creative Activities (from May 1, 2010 – April 22, 2011)
1. Publications
(a) Book Chapters
· A. Badi, I. Mahgoub and M. Slavik, “Analysis and Classification of Reliable Protocols for Pervasive Wireless Sensor Networks”, in press, Pervasive Communications Handbook, Editors: S. Shah, M. Ilyas, and H. T. Mouftah, CRC Press, June 2011.
· Imad Mahgoub and Ahmed Badi, “Emergingconcepts in CollectiveSensing”, invited, Autonomous sensor networks,collective sensing strategies for analytical purposes, the Springer’s Series Chemical Sensors and Biosensors edited by prof. Gerald Urban.
(b) Refereed Journals
· Michael J Slavik and Imad Mahgoub, “Spatial Distribution and Channel Quality Adaptive Protocol for Multi-Hop Wireless Broadcast Routing in VANET”, submitted to the IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing.
(c) Refereed Conference Papers
· Michael J Slavik and Imad Mahgoub, “Applying Machine Learning to the Design of Multi-Hop Broadcast Protocols for VANET”, IEEE International Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing Conference (IWCMC2011), Istanbul, Turkey, July 2011.
· Michael J Slavik and Imad Mahgoub, “Designing Statistical Multi-hop Wireless Broadcast Protocols using Confidence Levels from Stochastic Models of Reachability”, IEEE International Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing Conference (IWCMC2011), Istanbul, Turkey, July 2011.
· Michael J Slavik, Imad Mahgoub, and Ahmed Badi, “Analytical Modeling of Spatial Variation of Energy Dissipation in Cluster-based Wireless Sensor Networks”, IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference (WCNC2011), Cancun, Mexico, March 2011.
· Michael J Slavik, Imad Mahgoub, and Monika Rathod, “Statistical Broadcast Protocol Design with WiBDAT: Wireless Broadcast Design and Analysis Tool”, IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference (WCNC2011), Cancun, Mexico, March 2011.
· A. Badi and I. Mahgoub, “Impact of Transmission-related Parameters on the Energy Performance of Cluster-based Routing Protocols for Wireless Sensor Networks”, the Proceedings of the IEEE 7th International Conference on Innovations in Information Technology (Innovations 2011), Abu Dhabi, UAE, April 2011.
· Michael J Slavik, Imad Mahgoub, and Fadi Sibai, “The Distance-to-Mean Broadcast Method for Vehicular Wireless Communication Systems”, 7th International Conference on Innovations in Information Technology (ICIIT2011), Abu Dhabi, UAE, April 2011.
· Michael J Slavik and Imad Mahgoub, “On the Scalability of Wireless Multi-Hop Broadcast Protocols with Respect to Density in VANET”, International Conference on Communications and Information Technology (ICCIT2011), Aqaba, Jordan, March 2011.
· Michael J Slavik and Imad Mahgoub, “Statistical broadcast protocol design for unreliable channels in wireless ad-hoc networks”, in IEEE Globecom 2010 – Wireless Networking Symposium (GC10 - WN), Miami, Florida, USA, December 2010.
· M. Slavik, I. Mahgoub, A. Badi and M. Ilyas, “Analytical Model of Energy Consumption in Hierarchical Wireless Sensor Networks”, proceedings of the IEEE 7th International Symposium on High Capacity Optical Networks & Enabling Technologies (HONET 2010), Pages 84-90, December 2010.
· M. Slavik, I. Mahgoub, A. Badi and M. Ilyas, “Design and Implementation of Parallel JiST to Support Distributed Wireless Network Simulation”, proceedings of the IEEE 7th International Symposium on High Capacity Optical Networks & Enabling Technologies (HONET 2010), Pages 154-160, December 2010.
· A. Badi, I. Mahgoub, M. Slavik and M. Ilyas, “Investigation of the Effects of Network Density on the Optimal Number of Clusters in Hierarchical Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs)”, IEEE 7th International Symposium on High Capacity Optical Networks & Enabling Technologies (HONET 2010), Pages 171-177, December 2010.
· Abu Asaduzzaman, Imad Mahgoub, and Fadi Sibai, "Evaluation of the Impact of Miss Table and Victim Caches in Parallel Embedded Systems”, the Proceedings of the 22nd IEEE International Conference on Microelectronics (ICM 2010), December, 2010.
· Michael J Slavik and Imad Mahgoub, “Adapting statistical broadcast to linearly oriented networks for VANETs”, in IEEE International Conference on Wireless and Mobile Computing, Networking and Communications (WiMob 2010), Niagara Falls, Canada, October 2010.
2. Sponsored Research
Submitted Grants (Four)
1. Hybrid Data Dissemination Methods for Practical Vehicular Networking Applications (PI), NSF, $186,292, 2011-2012
2. MRI: Development of Instrumentation to Support Multi-Technology Vehicular Networking Systems Research (PI), NSF, Total of $500,000, August 2011-July 2014
3. Traffic Congestion Detection Using Vehicular Networks (PI), TRB, $96,930, August 2011 – August 2012
4. Real-Time Automated Update of Highway Variable Message Signs Using Vehicular Networks (PI), TRB, $115,000, August 2011 – August 2012
3. Professional Activities
1. Associate Editor, the International Journal of Communication Systems
2. Member of the Steering Committee of the International Symposium on Performance Evaluation of Computer and Telecommunication Systems, 2009-present
3. Member of the Program Committee for the International Conference on Wireless Information Networks and Systems (WINSYS 2011), Seville, Spain, July 18-21, 2011
4. Workshops Chair for the International Conference on Computer, Information and Telecommunication Systems (CITS 2012), Amman, Jordan, February 26-29, 2012
5. Reviewed papers for journals and conferences
4. Awards and other research-related activities
· Awarded One Semester (full salary) Sabbatical for Fall 2011
· Director of the Tecore Wireless Laboratory and the Mobile Computing Group
· I have hosted a visiting research professor, Dr. Eric Gamess (Central University of Venezuela, Caracas, Venezuela) from July 2010 to August 2011.
· I have hosted an intern, Fei Wang (Beihang University, Beijing, China) from February 2011 to June 2011.
C. Service
1. CSE Service
1. Director of the Graduate Programs and Research, CEECS Department, 2009- present.
2. Member, the Computer & Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Department Executive Committee, 2009- present.
3. Member, the Computer & Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Department Graduate Programs Committee, 2009- present.
4. Member, the Computer & Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Department TA/GA Committee, 2009- present.
5. Advisor for CSE graduate students
2. College Service
· Member, The College of Engineering Graduate committee, 2006- present.
RESEARCH PLAN FOR 2010-11
Please note that I will be on sabbatical leave during Fall 2011 semester.
1. Funded Projects and potential buy-outs: If I get funded, I plan to buy-out from one course in Spring 2012.
2. Ph.D. and Master students to be supervised: I will be supervising about 6 Ph.D. students and 2 M.S. students.
3. Potential publications: I plan to edit a handbook, write two journal papers, and three conference papers.
4. Proposals to be submitted: I plan to submit one proposal.