Hussein Badr

Rank/Position Title:

Associate Professor

Home Page:

http://www.cs.sunysb.edu/~badr

Date of original appointment to this faculty, followed by dates and ranks of advancement:

1980 original appointment as Assistant Professor

1988 promotion to Associate Professor

Degrees:

Conferences, workshops, and professional development:
5th. Eurosim 2004 Congress, Marne la Vallee (ESIEE Paris), France, September 2004.

Other related computing experience:
Undergraduate Program Director for the Computer Science Program, Department of Computer Science (2 years)
Undergraduate Program Director for the Information Systems Program, Department of Computer Science (10 years)

Department, college, and/or university committee membership:
Undergraduate Committee, Department of Computer Science
Learning Communities Project Advisory Board

Principal publications of the last five years.

1. ``Quantifying the Deployment of TCP Options - A Comparative Study'' (with K. Pentikousis), in IEEE Communications Letters, 8(10), October 2004.
2. ``A Trace-Calibrated Aggregate Error Model for TCP Simulation Studies'' (with A. Patel, K. Pentikousis, P. Sharma & S. Venkatachar), in Proceedings of the 5th. Eurosim 2004 Congress, Marne la Vallee (ESIEE Paris), France, September 2004.
3. ``An Evaluation of TCP with Explicit Congestion Notification'' (with K. Pentikousis), in Annals of Telecommunications, invited paper, 59(1-2), January-February 2004.
4. ``On the Resource Efficiency of Explicit Congestion Notification'' (with K. Pentikousis), in Proceedings of the Networking 2002 Conference, Pisa, Italy, May 2002.
5. ``On the Performance Gains of TCP with ECN'' (with K. Pentikousis & B. Kharmah), in Proceedings of the 2nd. European Conference on Universal Multi-service Networks (ECUMN 2002, Colmar, France, April 2002.
6. ``TCP with ECN: The Case of Two Simultaneous Downloads'' (with K. Pentikousis), International Conference on Advances in Communications (AIC 2001, Rhodes, Greece, July 2001.
7. ``Error Modeling for TCP Simulations'' (with K.Pentikousis), in Proceedings of the 4th. International Eurosim 2001 Congress, Delft, Netherlands, June 2001.
8. ``TCP Probing: Towards an Error Control Schema with Energy and Throughput Gains'' (with V. Tsaoussidis), in Proceedings of the 8th. IEEE International Conference on Network Protocols (ICNP 2000), Osaka, Japan, November 2000.
9. ``Wave and Wait Protocol (WWP): Low Energy, High Throughput for Mobile IP-Devices'' (with V. Tsaoussidis & R. Verma), 8th. IEEE Conference on Networks (ICON 2000), Singapore, September 2000.
10. ``Middleware Design Issues for Cross Domain Application Management in Heterogeneous Networks'' (with Y. Tian, S. Frank & V. Tsaoussidis), 8th. IEEE Conference on Networks (ICON 2000), Singapore, September 2000.
11. ``Energy/Throughput Tradeoffs of TCP Error Control Strategies'' (with V. Tsaoussidis, X. Ge & K. Pentikousis), 5th. IEEE Symposium on Computers & Communications (ISCC 2000, Cap Antibes, France, July 2000.
12. ``The Energy/Throughput Tradeoffs of Reliable Transport Protocols'' (with V. Tsaoussidis), The 2000 International Conference on Parallel & Distributed Processing Techniques & Applications (PDPTA 2000), Las Vegas, Nevada, June 2000.
13. `Error Control for Reliable Transport Protocols: Higher Throughput & Lower Energy Expenditure'', Internet Computing 2000 - An International Conference (IC 2000), Las Vegas, Nevada, June 2000.
14. ``Wave & Wait Protocol (WWP): An Energy-Saving Protocol for Mobile IP-Devices'' (with V. Tsaoussidis & R. Verma), in Proceedings of the 7th. IEEE International Conference on Network Protocols (ICNP '99), Toronto, Canada, November 1999.
15. ``A CORBA-Based Application Service Middleware Architecture and Implementation'' (with V. Tsaoussidis, L. Na & J. Song), 4th. IEEE Symposium on Computers & Communications (ISCC '99), Sharm El-Sheikh, Egypt, July 1999.
16. ``Real-Time Application Management based on CORBA Event Service'' (with V. S. Kaniyar & V. Tsaoussidis), 17th. IASTED Conference in Applied Informatics (AI '99), Innsbruck, Austria, February 1999.
17. ``An Application-Oriented Cross-Domain Resource Management Schema using CORBA'' (with V. Tsaoussidis & G. Sazaklis), IEEE Internet Workshop (IWS '99), Osaka, Japan, February 1999.

Other scholarly activity: grants, sabbaticals, software development, etc.:

Scientific, professional, and honor societies of which you are a member:

Honors and awards:
Excellence-in-Teaching Award, College of Engineering & Applied Science, SUNY at Stony Brook, 1997 & 1999.
Faculty Recognition Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Education, Office for Undergraduate Studies, SUNY at Stony Brook, 1986, 1990 &1993.

Courses taught this and last academic year term-by-term

Academic advising:
Undergraduate Honors Program Project (1 student)
Assigned advisor for 18 undergraduate students during 2004-2005 academic year

Brief description of major research and scholarly activities: