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Dear IEEE members

The distinguished Lecturer Program has invited  Dr. Hossam Hassanein (Telecommunications Labs, Queens University, Canada)

to give a talk in the Faculty of Engineering, Cairo University on Tuesday March 10, 2009 (5.00 PM) Hall 8208 (Electronics and Communications Engineering, Dept., Giza)

I hope you will be able to attend.

Thank you and kind regards

Prof. Samir I. Shaheen

Vice Chair -Egypt Section

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IEEE Egypt cordially invites you to

The IEEE Communications Society Distinguished Lecturer

Hossam Hassanein

Telecommunications Research Lab

Queen’s University

Kingston, Canada

Enabling Ubiquitous Mobile Services

Abstract

Internet users are increasingly using interactive services such as multimedia messaging, social networks (e.g., facebook, myspace), sharing (e.g., torrents) and collaborative applications (e.g., wiki pages). Emerging services (e.g. telemedicine or telepresence) are also gaining popularity. Simultaneously, Internet users are becoming more and more mobile, and are growingly interested in maintaining full access to their services mix while on the go. Together, these developments are straining current architectures for service delivery in wireless and mobile networks, which were not designed to handle large and highly variable information transfer, accommodate dynamic mobility and employ isolated service management platform. They are also mostly static and impersonal in their management as they do not adapt to individual user requirements, habits or surroundings.

In this talk I address the topic of ubiquitous mobile services from three complementary directions. The first considers techniques for establishing means to seamlessly combine different wireless access technologies and structures, in addition to different service deployment and management platforms. The second describes design and operation guidelines of robust and opportunistic networks that can handle the highly dynamic requirements of future services and their QoS while exploiting variations in network and medium conditions. The third addresses support for collaborative and peer-to-peer applications in next generation wireless environments.

About the Speaker:

Hossam Hassanein is a leading researcher in the School of Computing at Queen's University in the areas of broadband, wireless and variable topology networks architecture, protocols, control and performance evaluation. Before joining Queen's University in 1999, he worked at the department of Mathematics and Computer Science at Kuwait University (1993-1999) and the department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Waterloo (1991-1993). Dr. Hassanein obtained his Ph.D. in Computing Science from the University of Alberta in 1990. He is the founder and director of the Telecommunication Research (TR) Lab http://www.cs.queensu.ca/~trl in the School of Computing at Queen’s. Dr. Hassanein has more than 300 publications in reputable journals, conferences and workshops in the areas of computer networks and performance evaluation. He has delivered numerous invited talks and tutorials at key international venues, including Unconventional Computing 2007, IEEE ICC 2008, IEEE CCNC 2009 and IEEE GCC 2009. Dr. Hassanein has organized and served on the program committee of a number international conferences and workshops. He also serves on the editorial board of a number of International Journals. He is a senior member of the IEEE and is currently vice-chair of the IEEE Communication Society Technical Committee on Ad hoc and Sensor Networks (TC AHSN). Dr. Hassanein is the recipient of Communications and Information Technology Ontario (CITO) Champions of Innovation Research award in 2003. In 2007, he received best paper awards at the IEEE Wireless Communications and Networks and the IEEE Global Communication Conferences (both flagship IEEE communications society conferences). Dr. Hassanein is an IEEE Communications Society Distinguished Lecturer.