Publications

(By Type)

 

• N. Shahriar, R. Ahmed, S. R. Chowdhury, A. Khan, R. Boutaba, and J. Mitra. Generalized Recovery from Node Failure in Virtual Network Embedding. IEEE Transactions on Network and Service Management. Accepted April 2017.

• F. Bouabdallah, C. Zidi, and R. Boutaba. Joint Routing and Energy Management in UnderWater Acoustic Sensor Networks. IEEE Transactions on Network and Service Management. Accepted March 2017.

• J. V. Torres, I. D. Alvarenga, R. Boutaba, O. C. M. B. Duarte. An Autonomous and Efficient Controller-based Routing Scheme for Networking Named-Data Mobility. Computer Communications Journal. Elsevier. Accepted February 2017.

• R. Mijumbi, S. Hasija, S. Davy, A. Davy, B. Jennings, R. Boutaba. Topology-aware Prediction of Virtual Network Function Resource Requirements. IEEE Transactions on Network and Service Management. Vol. 14(1), pp. 106-120, March 2017.

• K. Salah, P. Calyam, R. Boutaba. Analytical Model for Elastic Scaling of Cloud-based Firewalls. IEEE Transactions on Network and Service Management. Accepted December 2016.

• Y. Daldoul, D-E. Meddour, T. Ahmed and R. Boutaba. Block Negative Acknowledgement Protocol for Reliable Multicast in IEEE 802.11. Journal of Network and Computer Applications. Elsevier, Vol. 75, pp. 32-46, November 2016

• S.R. Chowdhury, R. Ahmed, M.M.A Khan, N. Shahriar, R. Boutaba, J. Mitra, and F. Zeng. Dedicated Protection for Survivable Virtual Network Embedding. IEEE Transactions on Network and Service Management. Accepted May 2016.

• M.F. Bari, S.R. Chowdhury, R. Ahmed, R. Boutaba, and O.C.M.B. Duarte. Orchestrating Virtualized Network Functions. IEEE Transactions on Network and Service Management. Accepted May 2016.

• M. M. A. Khan, N. Shahriar, R. Ahmed, and R. Boutaba. Multi-Path Link Embedding for Survivability in Virtual Networks. IEEE Transactions on Network and Service Management. Vol. 13(2), pp. 253-266, April 2016.

• Z. Liu, Q. Zhang, R. Boutaba, Y. Liu, and Z. Gong. ROUTE: run-time robust reducer workload estimation for MapReduce. International Journal of Network Management. Vol. 26(3), pp. 224-244, March 2016.

• M. Gharibi, R. Boutaba and S. Waslander. Internet of Drones. IEEE Access. Vol. 4, pp. 1148-1162, March 2016.

• Z. Liu, Q. Zhang, R. Ahmed, R. Boutaba, Y. Liu and Z. Gong. Dynamic Resource Allocation for MapReduce with Partitioning Skew. IEEE Transactions on Computers. Vol. 65(11), pp. 3304-3317, February 2016.

• C. Zidi, F. Bouabdallah and R. Boutaba. Routing Design Avoiding Energy Holes in UnderWater Acoustic Sensor Networks. Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing Journal (WCMC). Vol. 16(14), pp. 2035-2051, February 2016.

• Y. Daldoul, D-E. Meddour, T. Ahmed, R. Boutaba. Performance and Scalability Evaluation of IEEE 802.11v/aa Multicast Transport. Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing. Accepted December 2015.

• Z. Liu, Q. Zhang, R. Boutaba, Y. Liu, B. Wang. OPTIMA: On-line Partitioning Skew Mitigation for MapReduce with Resource Adjustment. Journal of Network and Systems Management. Springer. Accepted November 2015.

• K. Salah, R. Boutaba and K. Elbadawi. An Analytical Model for Estimating Cloud Resources of Elastic Services. Journal of Network and Systems Management. Springer. Vol. 24(2), pp. 285-308, April 2016.

• R. Mijumbi, J. Serrat, J.-L. Gorricho, N. Bouten, F. De Turck, R. Boutaba. Network Function Virtualization: State-of-the-art and Research Challenges. IEEE Communications Surveys and Tutorials. IEEE Press, Vol. 18(1), pp. 236-262, January 2016.

• A. Amokrane, R. Langar, R. Boutaba, G. Pujolle. Flow-based Management For Energy Efficient Campus Networks. IEEE Transactions on Network and Service Management. IEEE Press. Vol. 12 (4), pp. 565-579, December 2015.

• R. Ahmed, F. Bari, S.R. Chowdhury, R. Golam, R. Boutaba, B. Mathieu. αRoute: Routing on Names. IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking. Accepted November 2015.

• D. M Batista, G. Blair, F. Kon, R. Boutaba, D. Hutchison, R. Jain, R. Ramjee and C. E. Rothenberg. Perspectives on Software-Defined Networks: interviews with five leading scientists from the networking community. In Journal of Internet Services and Applications. Springer. Vol. 6(22), October 2015.

• R. Mijumbi, J. Serrat, J-L. Gorricho and R. Boutaba. A Path Generation Approach to Embedding of Virtual Networks. IEEE Transactions on Network and Service Management. IEEE Press. Vol. 12 (3), pp. 334-348, September 2015.

• A. Amokrane, R. Langar, M.F. Zhani, R. Boutaba, and G. Pujolle. GreenSlater: On satisfying Green SLAs in Distributed Clouds. IEEE Transactions on Network and Service Management (TNSM). IEEE Press. Vol. 12 (3), pp. 363-376, September 2015.

• G. Meng, Y. Liu, J. Zhang, A. Pokluda, R. Boutaba. Collaborative Security: A Survey and Taxonomy. In ACM Computing Surveys. ACM. Vol. 48(1), pp. 1-42, August 2015.

• Q. Zhang, M. F. Zhani, Y. Yang, R. Boutaba and B. Wong. PRISM: Fine-Grained Resource-Aware Scheduling for MapReduce. IEEE Transactions on Cloud Computing (TCC). IEEE Press, Vol 3(2), pp. 182-194, April 2015

• R. Langar, S. Secci, R. Boutaba, G. Pujolle. An Operations Research Game Approach for Resource and Power Allocation in Cooperative Femtocell Networks. In IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing. IEEE Press. Vol. 14(4), pp. 675-687, April 2015.

• F. Zhou, J. Liu, G. Simon, R. Boutaba. Joint Optimization for the Delivery of Multiple Video Channels in Telco-CDN. IEEE Transactions on Network and Service Management (TNSM). IEEE Press. Vol. 12 (1), pp. 87-100, March 2015.

• Y. Daldoul, D-E. Meddour, T. Ahmed, R. Boutaba. Impact of Device Unavailability on the Reliability of Multicast Transport in IEEE 802.11 Networks. Computer Network. Elsevier. Vol. 79, pp. 236-246, March 2015.

• J. Xiao and R. Boutaba. Reconciling the Overlay and Underlay Tussle. In IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking (TON). Vol. 22(5), pp. 1489-1502, October 2014.

• O. Salem, Y. Liu, A. Mehaoua and R. Boutaba. Online Anomaly Detection in Wireless Body Area Networks for Reliable Healthcare Monitoring. In the IEEE Journal of Biomedical and Health Informatics. IEEE Press. Vol. 18(5), pp. 1541-1551, September 2014.

• A. Bradai, T. Ahmed, R. Boutaba and R. Ahmed. Efficient Content Delivery Scheme for Layered Video Streaming in Large-Scale Networks. In Journal of Network and Computer Applications. Elsevier. Vol. 45, pp. 1–14, July 2014.

• R. Ahmed and R. Boutaba. Design Considerations for Managing Wide Area Software Defined Networks. In IEEE Communications Magazine, Network and Service Management Series. IEEE Press. Vol. 52(7), pp. 116-123, July 2014.

• A. Hatoum, R. Langar, N. Aitsaadi, R. Boutaba, G. Pujolle. Cluster-based Resource Management in OFDMA Femtocell Networks with QoS Guarantees. IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology (TVT). IEEE Press. Vol. 63(5), pp. 2378-2391, June 2014.

• A. Amokrane, R. Langar, R. Boutaba and G. Pujolle. Energy Efficient Management Framework for Multihop TDMA-based Wireless Networks. In Computer Networks Journal (COMNET). Elsevier. Vol. 62, pp. 29-42, April 2014.

• S. Medjiah, T. Ahmed and R. Boutaba. Avoiding Quality Bottlenecks in P2P Adaptive Streaming. In IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications (JSAC). IEEE Press, Vol 32(4), pp. 734-745, April 2014

• Q. Zhang, M. F. Zhani, R. Boutaba and J. Hellerstein. Dynamic Heterogeneity-Aware Resource Provisioning in the Cloud. IEEE Transactions on Cloud Computing (TCC). IEEE Press, Vol 2(1), pp. 14-28, January 2014

• M. G. Rabbani, M. F. Zhani, and R. Boutaba. On achieving high survivability in virtualized data centers. In IEICE Transactions on Communications, Vol. E97-B(1), January 2014.

• Q. Zhang, Q. Zhu, M. F. Zhani, R. Boutaba and J. Hellerstein. Dynamic Service Placement in Geographically Distributed Clouds. IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications (JSAC). IEEE Press, Vol 31(12), pp. 762-772, December 2013

• M. F. Bari, M. R. Haque, R. Ahmed, R. Boutaba and B. Mathieu. A Naming Scheme for P2P Web Hosting. IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications (JSAC). IEEE Press, Vol 31(9), pp. 299-309, September 2013

• J. Xiao and R. Boutaba. The Design and Implementation of an Energy-Smart Home in Korea. Journal of Computing Science and Engineering. Vol. 7(3), pp. 204-210, September 2013.

• A. Amokrane, M. F. Zhani, R. Langar, R. Boutaba, G. Pujolle. Greenhead: Virtual Data Center Embedding Across Distributed Infrastructures. In IEEE Transactions on Cloud Computing (TCC). IEEE Press, Vol 1(1), pp. 36-49, September 2013

• R. Esteves, L. Granville and R. Boutaba. On the Management of Network Virtualization. IEEE Communications Magazine. IEEE Press, Vol. 51(7), pp. 80-88, July 2013.

• M. Rahman and R. Boutaba. SVNE: Survivable Virtual Network Embedding Algorithms for Network Virtualization. In IEEE Transactions on Network and Service Management (TNSM). IEEE Press. Vol. 10 (2), pp. 105-118, June 2013.

• F. Bouabdallah, N. Bouabdallah and R. Boutaba. Efficient Reporting Node Selection-Based MAC Protocol for Wireless Sensor Networks. Wireless Networks, Springer. Vol. 19(3), pp. 373–391, April 2013.

• MF. Bari, R. Boutaba, R. Esteves, L. Granville, M. Podlesny, M. Rabbani, Q. Zhang and M. F. Zhani. Data Center Network Virtualization: A Survey. IEEE Communications Surveys and Tutorials. IEEE Press, Vol. 15(2), pp. 909-928, April 2013.

• F. Bouabdallah, N. Bouabdallah and R. Boutaba. Reliable and Energy Efficient Cooperative Detection in Wireless Sensor Networks. Computer Communications Journal. Elsevier. Vol. 36(5), pp. 520-532, March 2013.

• F. Samuel, M. Chowdhury and R. Boutaba. PolyViNE: Policy-based Virtual Network Embedding Across Multiple Domains. In Journal of Internet Services and Applications. Springer. Vol. 4(1), March 2013.

• J. Francois, I. Aib and R. Boutaba. FireCol: A Collaborative Protection Network For the Detection of Flooding DDoS Attacks. IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking. IEEE Press, Vol. 20(6), pp. 1828-1841, December 2012.

• Q. Zhu, C. Fung, R. Boutaba and T. Başar. GUIDEX: A Game-Theoretic Incentive-Based Mechanism for Intrusion Detection Networks. IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications (JSAC). IEEE Press, Vol 30(11), pp. 2220-2230, December 2012

• F. Bari, S.R. Chowdhury, R. Ahmed, R. Boutaba and B. Mathieu. A Survey of Naming and Routing in Information Centric Networks. In IEEE Communications Magazine. Feature issue on Information Centric Networks. IEEE Press, Vol. 50(12), pp. 44-53, December 2012

• C. J Fung, J. Zhang, and R. Boutaba. Effective Acquaintance Management based on Bayesian Learning for Distributed Intrusion Detection Networks. IEEE Transactions on Network and Service Management (TNSM). IEEE Press. Vol. 9 (3), pp. 320-332, September 2012.

• D. Meddour, A. Abdallah, T. Ahmed and R. Boutaba. A Cross Layer Architecture for Multicast and Unicast Video Transmission in Mobile Broadband Networks. Journal of Network and Computer Applications. Elsevier. Vol. 35(5), pp. 1377–1391, September 2012.

• L. Mekouar, Y. Iraqi and R. Boutaba. An analysis of peer similarity for recommendations in P2P systems. Multimedia Tools and Applications. Springer. Vol. 60(2), pp 277-303, September 2012.

• K. Alsubhi, Y. Alhazmi, N. Bouabdallah and R. Boutaba. Security Configuration Management for Intrusion Detection and Prevention Systems. International Journal of Security and Networks (IJSN). Inderscience. Vol. 7(1), pp. 30-39, August 2012.

• K. Alsubhi, I. Aib and R. Boutaba. FuzMet: A Fuzzy-logic based Alert Prioritization Engine for Intrusion Detection Systems. International Journal of Network Management (IJNM), Wiley. Vol. 22(4), pp. 263–284, July 2012.

• R. Boutaba, L. Cheng and Q. Zhang. On Cloud computational models and the heterogeneity challenge. Journal of Internet Services and Applications. Springer. Vol. 3(1), pp. 77-86, May 2012.

• K. Salah, K. Elbadawi and R. Boutaba. Performance Modeling and Analysis of Network Firewalls. In the IEEE Transactions on Network and Service Management. IEEE Press. Vol. 9(1), pp. 12-21, March 2012.

• M. Chowdhury, M. R. Rahman and R. Boutaba. ViNEYard: Virtual Network Embedding Algorithms with Coordinated Node and Link Mapping. IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking (TON). IEEE Press. Vol. 20(1), pp. 206-219, February 2012.

• M. Young and R. Boutaba. Overcoming Adversaries in Sensor Networks: A Survey of Theoretical Models and Algorithmic Approaches for Tolerating Malicious Interference. In IEEE Communications Surveys & Tutorials. IEEE Press. Vol. 13(4), pp. 617-641, December 2011.

• H. Saleet, R. Langar, S. Naik, R. Boutaba, A. Nayak, N. Goel. Intersection-based Geographical Routing Protocol for VANETs: a Proposal and Analysis. IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology (TVT). IEEE Press. Vol. 60(9), pp. 4560-4574, November 2011.

• C. Fung, J. Zhang, I. Aib and R. Boutaba. Dirichlet-based Trust Management for Effective Collaborative Intrusion Detection Networks. IEEE Transactions on Network and Service Management (TNSM). IEEE Press. Vol. 8(2), pp. 79-91, June 2011.

• R. Ahmed and R. Boutaba. A Survey of Distributed Search Techniques in Large Scale Distributed Systems. IEEE Communications Surveys and Tutorials. IEEE Press. Vol. 13(2), pp. 150-167. June 2011.

• C. Fung, J. Zhang, I. Aib and R. Boutaba. Trust Management and Admission Control for Host-based Collaborative Intrusion Detection. In the Journal of Network and Systems Management (JNSM). Springer Vol. 19(2), pp. 257-277, June 2011.

• B. Ishibashi, N. Bouabdallah and R. Boutaba. QoS Capacity of Virtual Wireless Networks. In Computer Networks (COMNET). Elsevier, Vol. 55(7), pp. 1592–1613, April 2011.

• Y. Diao, H. Lutfiyya, N. Liman and R. Boutaba. A Report on CNSM 2010. Journal of Network and Systems Management, Vol. 19(1), pp. 137-142. March 2011 – Conference Report.

• N. Bouabdallah, B. Ishibashi, R. Boutaba. Performance of Cognitive Radio-based Wireless Mesh Networks. IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing (TMC). IEEE Press, Vol. 10(1), pp. 122-135, January 2011.

• N. Bouabdallah, R. Langar and R. Boutaba. Design and Analysis of Mobility-Aware Clustering Algorithms for Wireless Mesh Networks. In IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking (TON). IEEE Press, Vol. 18(6), pp. 1677-1690, December 2010.

• N. Limam, R. Boutaba. Assessing Software Service Quality and Trustworthiness at Selection Time. IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE). IEEE Press, Vol. 36(4), pp. 559-574, July/August 2010.

• Q. Zhang, L. Cheng, R. Boutaba. Cloud Computing: State-of-the-Art and Research Challenges. Journal of Internet Services and Applications(JISA). Springer London, Vol. 1(1), pp. 7-18, May 2010.

• M. Chowdhury, R. Boutaba. A Survey of Network Virtualization. In Computer Networks (COMNET). Elsevier, Vol. 54(5), pp. 862-876, April 2010.

• H. Saleet, O. Basir, R. Langar, R. Boutaba. Region-Based Location-Service-Management Protocol for VANETs. IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology (TVT). IEEE Press, Vol. 59(2), pp. 917-931, February 2010.

• S. Waharte, B. Ishibashi, R. Boutaba and D. Meddour. Design and Performance Evaluation of IAR: Interference-Aware Routing Metric for Wireless Mesh Networks. ACM Mobile Networks and Applications (MONET). Springer Netherlands, Vol. 14(5), pp. 649-660, October 2009.

• R. Langar, R. N. Bouabdallah, R. Boutaba, and B. Sericola. Proposal and analysis of adaptive mobility management in IP-based mobile networks. IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications. IEEE Press, Vol. 8(7), pp. 3608-3619, July 2009.

• F. Bouabdallah, N. Bouabdallah and R. Boutaba. On Balancing Energy Consumption in Wireless Sensor Networks. IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology (TVT). IEEE Press, Vol. 58(6), pp. 2909-2924, July 2009.

• M. Chowdhury and R. Boutaba. Network virtualization: state of the art and research challenges. IEEE Communications Magazine. IEEE Press, Vol. 47(7), pp. 20-26, July 2009.

• D. Meddour, U. Javaid, N. Bihannic, T. Rasheed and R. Boutaba. Completing the Convergence Puzzle: A Survey and A Roadmap. IEEE Wireless Communications Magazine (WCN). IEEE Press, Vol. 16(3), pp. 86-96, June 2009.

• L. Mekouar, Y. Iraqi and R. Boutaba. A Contribution-Based Service Differentiation Scheme for Peer-to-Peer Systems. In Journal on Peer-to-Peer Networking and Applications. Springer New York, Vol. 2(2), pp. 146-163, June 2009.

• R. Ahmed and R. Boutaba. Plexus: A Scalable Peer‐to‐peer Protocol Enabling Efficient Subset Search. In IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking (TON). IEEE Press, Vol. 17(1), pp. 130-143, February 2009.

• R. Langar, N. Bouabdallah, and R. Boutaba. Mobility-Aware Clustering Algorithms with Interference Constraints in Wireless Mesh Networks. In Computer Networks (COMNET). Elsevier, Vol. 53(1), pp. 25-44, January 2009.

• F. Bouabdallah, N. Bouabdallah and R. Boutaba. Towards Reliable and Efficient Reporting in Wireless Sensor Networks. In IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing (TMC). IEEE Press, 7(8): 978-994, August 2008.  

• R. Langar, N. Bouabdallah and R. Boutaba. A Comprehensive Analysis of Mobility Management in MPLS-Based Wireless Access Networks. In IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking (TON). IEEE Press 16(4): 918-931, August 2008.  

• S. Waharte, J. Xiao and R. Boutaba. Sensor-based Architecture for QoS Provisioning and Fast Handoff Management in WLANs. In Annals of Telecommunications. Springer, 63(3-4): 137-148, April 2008.

• Y. Tang, E. Al-Shaer, R. Boutaba. Active Integrated Fault Localization for Internet & Overlay Networks. IEEE Transactions Network & Service Management (TNSM). IEEE Press, 5(1): 36-49, March 2008

•   W. Golab and R. Boutaba. Path Selection in User-Controlled Circuit-Switched Optical Networks. Journal of Optical Switching and Networking, Elsevier, 5 (2-3): 123-138, February 2008.

•   I. Jama, T. Ahmed, H. Nafaa and R. Boutaba. Meet In the Middle Cross-Layer Adaptation for Audiovisual Content Delivery. In IEEE Transactions on Multimedia (TMM), IEEE Press, 10 (1): 105‐120, January 2008.

•   R. Boutaba and I. Aib. Policy-Based Management: A Historical Perspective. In Journal of Network and Systems Management (JNSM). Springer, Vol. 15 (4), pp. 447-480, December 2007.

• J. Xiao and R. Boutaba. Assessing Network Service Profitability: Modeling from Market Science Perspective. In IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking (TON). IEEE Press, Vol. 15 (6), pp. 1307-1320, December 2007.  

• I. Aib and R. Boutaba. On leveraging policy-based management for maximizing business profit. In IEEE Transactions on Network and Service Management (TNSM). IEEE Press, Vol. 4 (3), pp. 163-176, December 2007.  

• R. Ahmed, N. Limam, J. Xiao, Y. Iraqi and R. Boutaba. Resource and Service Discovery in Large-scale Multi-domain Networks. In IEEE Communications Surveys. IEEE Press, Vol. 9 (4), pp. 2-30, December 2007. Recipient of the IEEE Communication Society 2008 Fred W. Ellersick Prize.

• M. Ghaderi and R. Boutaba. Towards all-IP wireless networks: architectures and resource management mechanism. In Int. Journal on Wireless and Mobile Computing. Inderscience Publishers, Vol. 2(4), pp. 263-274, December 2007.  

• W. Golab and R. Boutaba. Admission Control in Data Transfers over Lightpaths. In IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications (JSAC) - Optical Communications and Networking series. IEEE Press, Vol. 25 (6), pp. 102-110, April 2007.  

•   I. Aib and R. Boutaba. PS: A Policy Simulator. IEEE Communications Magazine, IEEE Press, Vol. 45 (4), pp. 130-136. April 2007.

• M. Ghaderi, R. Boutaba and G. Kenward. Joint call and packet QoS in cellular packet networks. In Computer Networks (COMNET). Elsevier, Vol. 51 (4), pp. 1060-1071, March 2007.  

• N. Limam, J. Ziembicki, R. Ahmed, Y. Iraqi, T. Li, R. Boutaba and F. Cuervo. OSDA: Open Service Discovery Architecture for Efficient Cross-domain Service Provisioning. In Computer Communications (COMCOM). Elsevier, Vol. 30 (3), pp. 546-563, February 2007.  

• R. Ahmed and R. Boutaba. Distributed Pattern Matching: A Key to Flexible and Efficient P2P Search. In IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications (JSAC) – Special issue on Peer-to-peer Networks. IEEE Press, Vol. 25 (1), pp. 73-83, January 2007.  

• B. Aoun and R. Boutaba, Clustering in Wireless Sensor Networks with Latency and Energy Consumption Constraints, in the Journal of Network and Systems Management, Volume 14:3 - Springer, 2006.  

• B. Aoun, R. Boutaba and Y. Iraqi, Gateway Placement Optimization in WMN with QoS Constraints, in IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications (JSAC), Special Issue on Multi-hop Wireless Mesh Networks, Vol. 24 (11), pp. 2127-2136, November 2006. 

• S. Waharte, R. Boutaba, Y. Iraqi and B. Ishibashi, Routing Protocols in Wireless Mesh Networks: Challenges and Design Considerations, in the Multimedia Tools and Applications (MTAP) journal, Special Issue on Advances in Consumer Communications and Networking, Vol. 29 No. 3, pp. 285-303, June 2006.  

• W. Liu and R. Boutaba, pMeasure: A Peer-to-Peer Measurement Infrastructure For the Internet. In Computer Communications Journal, Special Issue on Monitoring and Measurements of IP Networks, 2005. 

•   M. Ghaderi and R. Boutaba. Call Admission Control for Voice/Data Integration in Broadband Wireless Networks. In the IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing, Vol. 5 No. 3, pp. 193-207, March 2006.

• A. Virk and R. Boutaba. Economical Protection in MPLS Networks. Journal of Computer Communications. Elsevier, Volume 29, Issue 3, pp. 402-408, February 2006.  

• S. Waharte and R. Boutaba. Dynamic cell-based MAC protocol for target detection applications in wireless sensor networks. In the Journal of Computer Communications (COMCOM), Elsevier Science, Volume 29, Issue 4 , pp. 429-436, February 2006. 

• A. Haque, P-H. Ho and R. Boutaba. Spare Capacity Reconfiguration using Group Shared Protection (GSP) in Optical Networks. Computer Networks, special issue on Optical Networks, Volume 50, Issue 2, pp. 168-180, Feb. 2006.  

• L. Mekouar, Y. Iraqi and R. Boutaba, Peer-to-Peer Most Wanted: Malicious Peers, in International Computer Networks Journal, Special Issue on Management in Peer-to-Peer Systems: Trust, Reputation and Security, Vol. 50, No. 4, pp. 545-562, 2006

• J. Xiao and R. Boutaba, QoS-Aware Service Composition and Adaptation in Autonomic Communication, IEEE Journal on selected areas in communication (JSAC), Special Issue on Autonomic Communication Systems, pp. 2344-2360, vol. 23, no.12, 2005.  

• B. Ishibashi and R. Boutaba. Topology and Mobility Considerations in Mobile Ad hoc Networks, in Ad hoc Networks Journal (Elsevier), Vol. 3, No. 6, pp. 762-776, November 2005.  

• T. Ahmed, R. Boutaba and A. Mehaoua. A Measurement-Based Approach for Dynamic QoS Adaptation in DiffServ Network, Journal of Computer Communications, Special issue on End-to-End Quality of Service Differentiation, Elsevier Science, Vol 28/18, pp 2020-2033, Nov. 2005.  

• R. Ahmed, R. Boutaba, F. Cuervo, Y. Iraqi, T. Li. N. Limam, J. Xiao and J. Ziembicki, Service naming in large-scale and multi-domain networks, IEEE Communications Surveys & Tutorials, Volume 7, Issue 3, pp.:38 - 54, Third Quarter 2005. 

• E. Al-Shaer, H. Hamed, R. Boutaba, M. Hasan.  Conflict Classification and Analysis of Distributed Firewall Policies. In the IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications (JSAC), Volume 23, Issue 10, pp.:2069 - 2084, Oct. 2005.  

• A. Nafaa, A. Ksentini, A. Mehaoua, B. Ishibashi, Y. Iraqi and R. Boutaba, Sliding Contention Window (SCW): Towards Backoff Range-based Service Differentiation Over IEEE 802.11 Wireless LAN Networks, in IEEE Network Magazine, special issue on Wireless Local Area Networking: QoS provisioning & Resource Management, pp. 45-51, July/August 2005.  

• T. Ahmed, A. Mehaoua, R. Boutaba and Y. Iraqi. Adaptive packet video streaming over IP networks: a cross-layer approach. In the IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications (JSAC), Vol.23, No. 2, pp. 385-401, February 2005.  

• Y. Iraqi and R. Boutaba, Weight Allocation in Distributed Admission Control for Wireless Networks, In the International Computer Communications Journal, Elsevier Science, Vol. 28, No. 2, pp. 199-214, 2005.

•   B. Ishibashi and R. Boutaba. Forward Focus: Using Routing Information to Improve Medium Access Control in Ad hoc Networks. In the International Journal on Wireless Communication and Mobile Computing, Special issue on Medium Access Control Protocols for Wireless ad hoc Networks, 2004.

• M. Ghaderi and R. Boutaba. Call Admission Control in Mobile Cellular Networks: A Comprehensive Survey. In Press. International Journal on Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing. John Wiley, 2004.

• R. Boutaba, Y.H. Cho, M. Ejiri, and S.B. Kim. Managing Next Generation Convergence Networks and Services - A Report on NOMS 2004, International Journal of Network and Systems Management, Vol. 12, No. 2, pp. 277-282, 2004.

• R. Boutaba, A. Polyrakis and A. Fernandez Casani. Active Networks as a Developing and Testing Environment for Networks Protocols. Annals of Telecommunications, Vol. 59, No. 5-6, pp. 495-514, 2004. 

• R. Boutaba, W. Golab, Y. Iraqi and B. St. Arnaud. Lightpaths on Demand: A Web Services Based Management System, IEEE Communications Magazine, Special Issue on XML-based Management, June 2004. 

• T. Li, Y. Iraqi and R. Boutaba, Pricing and Admission Control for QoS-Enabled Internet, Journal of Computer Network, Special issue on Internet Economics, 2004.

• W. Golab and R. Boutaba. Policy-Driven Automated Reconfiguration for Performance Management in WDM Optical Networks,  IEEE Communications Magazine, Special Issue on Management of Optical Networks, January 2004.

•   R. Boutaba, Y. Iraqi and A. Mehaoua. A Multi-Agents Architecture for QoS Management in Multimedia Networks, International Journal of Network and Systems Management, special issue on E-business Management, March 2003.

• R. Boutaba, W. Golab, Y. Iraqi, T. Li and B. St. Arnaud. Grid-Controlled Lightpaths for High Performance Grid Applications, Journal of Grid Computing, Special Issue on High Performance Networking, Vol. 1, No. 4, pp. 387-394, 2003.  

• R. Boutaba, W. Szeto and Y. Iraqi. DORA: Efficient Routing Algorithm for MPLS Traffic Engineering, International Journal of Network and Systems Management, special issue on Traffic Engineering and Management, Vol. 10, No. 3, pp. 311-327, 2002.  

• A. Polyrakis and R. Boutaba. The Meta-Policy Information Base. IEEE Network, special issue on Policy-Based Networks, Vol.16, No. 2, pp. 40-48 2002.  

• R. Boutaba and A. Polyrakis. Projecting Advanced Enterprise Network and Service Management to Active Networks. IEEE Network Magazine (special issue on Enterprise Network and Service Management), Vol.16, No.1, pp. 28-33, 2002.  

•   R. Boutaba and A. Polyrakis. Extending COPS-PR with Meta-policies for Scalable Management of IP Networks. International Journal on Networks and Systems Management (special issue on Management of Converged Networks), Vol.10, No.1, pp. 91-106, 2002.

• R. Boutaba. On Managing Virtual Private Networks. In IEEE Canadian Review, Winter 2002, No. 39, pp. 19-22, 2002

•   R. Boutaba, N. Red, Y. Rasheed and A. Leon-Garcia. Distributed Video Production: Tasks, Architecture and QoS Provisioning. International Journal on Multimedia Tools & Applications, Kluwer Academic Publishers, Vol.16, No.1/2, pp. 99-136, 2002.

• R. Boutaba, S. Omari and A. Virk. SELFCON: An Architecture for Self-Configuration of Networks. International Journal of Communications and Networks (special issue on Management of New Networking Infrastructure and Services), Vol.3(4). pp. 317-323. December 2001 Recipient of Best paper award of the International KIKS/ IEEE Journal of Communication Networks (Best paper of the year 2001)

• Y. Iraqi and R. Boutaba. Supporting MPEG Video VBR Traffic in Wireless Networks. International Computer Communications Journal, Elsevier Science, Vol. 24 (12), pp. 1188-1201, 2001.

• A. Mehaoua, R. Boutaba, Y. Rasheed, A. Leon-Garcia. An Integrated Framework for Efficient Transport of Real-time MPEG Video Over the UBR Best Effort Service. International Journal of Real Time Imaging (special issue on Adaptive Real-time Multimedia Transmission over Packet Switching Networks), Vol. 7, No. 3, pp. 287-300. 2001.  

•   R. Boutaba, W. Ng and A. Leon-Garcia. Web-based Customer Management of Virtual Private Networks. International Journal of Networks and Systems Management (special issue on Web-based Management), Plennum Press, Vol. 9 No. 1, pp. 67-87, 2001.

• Y. Iraqi and R. Boutaba. Resource Management Issues in Future Wireless Multimedia Networks. International Journal of High Speed Networking (special issue on the Management of Multimedia Networking), Vol.9, No.3-4, pp. 231-260, 2000.  

• A. Mehaoua and R. Boutaba. MPEG Video Transmission over Broadband ISDN. International Journal on Parallel Computers (special issue on Telecommunications Services Engineering), Oxford-Hermes Science, Vol.12, No. 2, pp. 211-258, 2000.

• A. Mehaoua and Raouf Boutaba. Load Balancing of Hierarchical MPEG2 Video Streams over VBR-RT and ABR Services. International Journal on Interoperable Communication Networks (special issue on QOS Management in Multimedia Networks), Baltzer Science, Vol. 2(4), pp. 225-242, 2000.

• Y. Iraqi, R. Boutaba and A. Leon-Garcia. QoS Control in Wireless ATM Networks. International Journal on Mobile Networks and Applications, ACM/Baltzer, Vol.5, N° 2, pp. 137-145, 2000.  

• H. Labiod and R. Boutaba. Performance Evaluation of Block Error Correcting Codes for High Speed Wireless Communication Links. International Journal on Interoperable Communication Networks (special issue on QOS Management in Multimedia Networks), Baltzer Science, Vol.2, N° 4, pp. 171-187, 2000.

• M. Guiagoussou, R. Boutaba and G. v. Bochmann. A Framework for Alarm Correlation and Fault Diagnosis. In International Journal on Networking and Information Systems, Oxford-Hermes Science, Vol. 2, N° 4, pp. 459-482, 1999.

• A. Mehaoua, Z. Fan, S. Denazis and R. Boutaba. Active Nets: Principles and Applications. International Journal on Networking and Information Systems, Oxford & Hermes Science, Vol. 2, N° 1, pp. 25-46, 1999.

• R. Boutaba and A. Hafid. A Generic Platform for Scalable Access to Multimedia-on-Demand Systems. IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications (special Issue on Service Enabling Platforms for Networked Multimedia Systems),  Vol. 17, N° 9, pp. 1599-1613, 1999.  

• N. Agoulmine and R. Boutaba. Evolution of Telecommunication Management toward Distributed, Intelligent and Cost-effective Architectures. International Journal on Networking and Information Systems, Oxford-Hermes Science, Vol. 1, N° 4-5, pp. 433-468, 1998.

• A. Mehaoua and R. Boutaba. Performance Analysis of Cell discarding techniques for best effort video communications over ATM Networks. International Journal on Computer Networks and ISDN Systems, Elsevier Science, Vol. 29, no. 17-18, pp. 1999-2019, 1998.  

• R. Boutaba, K. El-Guemhioui and P. Dini. An Outlook to Intranet Management, IEEE Communications Magazine (special issue on Intranet Services and Communication Management), Vol. 35, No. 10, pp. 92-99, October 1997.  

• R. Boutaba and K. Foughali. A Distributed Open Platform and its Federation for Tools Inter-working in Software Engineering Environments. International Journal on Integrated Computer Aided Engineering. J. Wiley & Sons, Vol.3, No.3, pp. 178-198, 1996.

• R. Boutaba and S. Znaty. An Architectural Approach for Integrated Networks and Systems Management. ACM Computer Communication Review, Vol.25, No. 5, pp. 13-39, 1995.

 

• A. Azzouni, T. M. T Nguyen, R. Boutaba, G. Pujolle. Limitations of OpenFlow Topology Discovery Protocol. 16th Annual Mediterranean Ad Hoc Networking Workshop (MED-HOC-NET). Budva, Montenegro, Jun 28 - 30, 2017. Poster.

• N. Shahriar, S. R. Chowdhury, R. Ahmed, A. Khan, R. Boutaba, J. Mitra, and L. Liu. Joint Backup Capacity Allocation and Embedding for Survivable Virtual Networks. IFIP Networking. Stockholm, Sweden, June 12-16, 2017.

• C. Zaidi, F. Bouabdallah, R. Boutaba and A. Mehaoua. Toward Avoiding Energy Holes in UnderWater Acoustic Sensor Networks. The 13th International Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing Conference (IWCMC). Valencia, Spain. June 26-30, 2017.

• S. R. Chowdhury, R. Ahmed, N. Shahriar, A. Khan, R. Boutaba, J. Mitra, and L. Liu. ReViNE: Reallocation of Virtual Network Embedding to Eliminate Substrate Bottlenecks. IEEE/IFIP Integrated Network Management Symposium (IM). Lisbon, Portugal. May 8 - 12, 2017.

• R. Mijumbi, S. Hasija, S. Davy, A. Davy, B. Jennings, and R. Boutaba. A Connectionist Approach to Dynamic Resource Management for Virtualised Network Functions. IEEE/ACM/IFIP Conference on Network and Service Management (CNSM). Montreal, Quebec, Canada. October 31 - November 04, 2016.

• N. Shahriar, R. Ahmed, A. Khan, S. R. Chowdhury, R. Boutaba, and J. Mitra. ReNoVatE: Recovery from Node Failure in Virtual Network Embedding. IEEE/ACM/IFIP Conference on Network and Service Management (CNSM). Montreal, Quebec, Canada. October 31 - November 04, 2016.

• A. R. Roy, S. R. Chowdhury, M. F. Bari, R. Ahmed, and R. Boutaba. Emulating an Infrastructure with EASE. IEEE/ACM/IFIP Conference on Network and Service Management (CNSM) (Mini-conference). Montreal, Quebec, Canada. October 31 - November 04, 2016.

• A. Azzouni, O. Braham, T. M. T. Nguyen, G. Pujolle, R. Boutaba. Fingerprinting OpenFlow controllers: The first step to attack an SDN control plane. IEEE Global Communications Conference (GLOBECOM). Washington, DC, USA. December 4–8, 2016

• S. Q. Zhang, Q. Zhang, A. Tizghadam; B. Park, H. Bennazadeh, A. Leon-Garcia, R. Boutaba. Sector: TCAM Space Aware Routing on SDN. 28th International Teletraffic Conference (ITC), IEEE, ACM. Würzburg (Germany), 12–16 September 2016.

• N. Shahriar, R. Ahmed, S. R. Chowdhury, M. M. A. Khan, R. Boutaba, J. Mitra and F. Zeng. Connectivity-aware Virtual Network Embedding. IFIP Networking, Vienna (Austria), May 17-19, 2016.

• S.R. Chowdhury, R. Ahmed, M. M. A. Khan, N. Shahriar, R. Boutaba, J. Mitra, and F. Zeng. Protecting Virtual Networks with DRONE. IEEE/IFIP Network Operations and Management Symposium (NOMS). Istanbul (Turkey), April 25-29, 2016.

• L. R. Bays, L. P. Gaspary, R. Ahmed, R. Boutaba. Virtual Network Embedding in Software-Defined Networks. IEEE/IFIP Network Operations and Management Symposium (NOMS). Istanbul (Turkey), April 25-29, 2016.

• L. Dolberg, J. François, S.R. Chowdhury, R. Ahmed, R. Boutaba, and Engel, T. A Generic Framework to Support Application-Level Flow Management in Software-Defined Networks. IEEE NetSoft 2016 (Short paper). Seoul, South Korea, June 6-10, 2016.

• M. F. Bari, S. R. Chowdhury, R. Ahmed, and R. Boutaba. nf.io: A File System Abstraction for NFV Orchestration. IEEE Conference on Network Function Virtualization and Software Defined Networks (NFV-SDN), San Francisco (USA), November 18-21, 2015.

• M. M. A. Khan, N. Shahriar, R. Ahmed, and R. Boutaba. SiMPLE: Survivability in Multi-Path Link Embedding. IEEE/ACM/IFIP International Conference on Network and Service Management (CNSM), Barcelona (Spain), November 9-13, 2015.

• M. F. Bari, S. R. Chowdhury, R. Ahmed, and R. Boutaba. On Orchestrating Virtual Network Functions. IEEE/ACM/IFIP International Conference on Network and Service Management (CNSM), Barcelona (Spain), November 9-13, 2015.

• M. Ghaznavi, A. Khan, N. Shahriar, K. Alsubhi, R. Ahmed, R. Boutaba. Elastic Virtual Network Function Placement. IEEE International Conference on Cloud Networking (CloudNet). Niagara Falls (Canada), October 5-7, 2015.

• M. F. Bari, S. R. Chowdhury, R. Ahmed and R. Boutaba. nf.io: A File System Abstraction for NFV Orchestration. ACM SIGCOMM 2015, London (UK), August 17-21, 2015. (Demo).

• Q. Zhang, S. Zhang, A. Leon-Garcia and R. Boutaba. Aurora: Adaptive Block Replication in Distributed File Systems. In the 35th International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems (ICDCS), Columbus, Ohio (USA), June 29-July 02, 2015.

• D. Marcon, M. Neves, R. Oliveira, L. Bays, R. Boutaba, L. Gaspary, and M. Barcellos. IoNCloud: Exploring Application Affinity to Improve Utilization and Predictability in Datacenters. In the IEEE International Conference on Computer Communications (ICC). London (UK), June 8-12, 2015.

• Z. Liu, Q. Zhang, M. F. Zhani, R. Boutaba, Y. Liu and Z. Gong. DREAMS: Dynamic Resource Allocation for MapReduce with Data Skew. In IFIP/IEEE Integrated Network Management Symposium (IM). Ottawa (Canada), May 11-15, 2015.

• J. Li, J. Xiao, J. Hong and R. Boutaba. FSM-based Wi-Fi Power Estimation Method for Smart Devices. In IFIP/IEEE Integrated Network Management Symposium (IM). Ottawa (Canada), May 11-15, 2015.

• A. Raza, R. Ahmed and R. Boutaba. URL Forwarding for NAT Traversal. In IFIP/IEEE Integrated Network Management Symposium (IM). Ottawa (Canada), May 11-15, 2015. Mini-conference

• A. Amokrane, F. Zhani, Q. Zhang, R. Langar, R. Boutaba, G. Pujolle. On Satisfying Green SLAs in Distributed Clouds. In IEEE/IFIP International Conference on Network and Service Management (CNSM), Rio de Janeiro (Brazil), November 17-21, 2014. Recipient of the Best Paper Award.

• R. Ahmed, F. Bari, R. Haque, R. Boutaba and B. Mathieu. DEWS: A Decentralized Engine for Web Search. In IEEE/IFIP International Conference on Network and Service Management (CNSM), Rio de Janeiro (Brazil), November 17-21, 2014. Mini-conference Paper.

• J. Li, J. Xiao, H. Azzouz, J. Hong and R. Boutaba. PowerGuide: Accurate Wi-Fi Power Estimator for Smartphones. The 16th Asia-Pacific Network Operations and Management Symposium (APNOMS). Taiwan, September 17-19, 2014.

• A. R. Roy, M. F. Bari, M. F. Zhani, R. Ahmed, and R. Boutaba. DOT: Distributed OpenFlow Testbed. ACM SIGCOMM 2014, Chicago(USA), August 17-22, 2014. (Demo).

• M. F. Bari, M. F. Zhani, Q. Zhang, R. Ahmed, and R. Boutaba. CQNCR: Optimal VM Migration Planning in Cloud Data Centers. IFIP Networking 2014 Conference. Trondheim (Norway), June 2-4, 2014.

• R. Ahmed, S. R. Chowdhury, A. Pokluda, M. F. Bari, R. Boutaba and B. Mathieu. pWeb: A Personal Interface to the World Wide Web. IFIP Networking 2014 Conference. Trondheim (Norway), June 2-4, 2014.

• Q. Zhang and R. Boutaba. Dynamic Workload Management in Heterogenous Cloud Computing Environments. In IEEE/IFIP Network Operations and Management Symposium (NOMS), Karakow (Poland), May 5-9, 2014. (Dissertation Digest Paper).

• Q. Zhang, M. F. Zhani, M. Jabri, and R. Boutaba. Venice: Reliable Virtual Data Center Embedding in Clouds. In IEEE International Conference on Computer Communications (INFOCOM), Toronto, ON (Canada), April 27 - May 2, 2014.

• S. Chowdhury, C. Adam, F. Wu, J. Rofrano, and R. Boutaba. Managing the File System from the Kernel. In IEEE/IFIP Network Operations and Management Symposium (NOMS), Karakow (Poland), May 5-9, 2014.

• J. Li, J. Xiao, H. Nguyen, J. Hong, R. Boutaba. Energy Efficient Wi-Fi Management for Smart Devices. In IEEE/IFIP Network Operations and Management Symposium (NOMS), Karakow (Poland), May 5-9, 2014.

• C. Fung, D. Lam, R. Boutaba. RevMatch: An Efficient and Robust Decision Model for Collaborative Malware Detection. In IEEE/IFIP Network Operations and Management Symposium (NOMS), Karakow (Poland), May 5-9, 2014.

• R. Esteves, L. Z. Granville, M. F. Zhani, and R. Boutaba. Evaluating Allocation Paradigms for Multi-Objective Adaptive Provisioning in Virtualized Networks. In IEEE/IFIP Network Operations and Management Symposium (NOMS), Karakow (Poland), May 5-9, 2014.

• S. Chowdhury, M. F. Bari, R. Ahmed, R. Boutaba. PayLess: A Low Cost Network Monitoring Framework for Software Defined Networks. In IEEE/IFIP Network Operations and Management Symposium (NOMS), Karakow (Poland), May 5-9, 2014.

• A. R. Roy, M. F. Bari, M. F. Zhani, R. Ahmed, and R. Boutaba. Design and Management of DOT: A Distributed OpenFlow Testbed. In IEEE/IFIP Network Operations and Management Symposium (NOMS), Karakow (Poland), May 5-9, 2014.

• A. Amokrane, R. Langar, R. Boutaba and G. Pujolle. Online Flow-based Energy Efficient Management in Wireless Mesh Networks. In the IEEE Global Communications Conference (GLOBECOM). Atlanta, GA (USA), December 9–13, 2013.

• M. Ulema, N. Amogh, R. Boutaba, C. Buyukkoc, A. Clemm, M. Vuran, L. J. Xie, A. Manzalini and R. Saracco. IEEE Software Defined Network Initiative. IEEE Software Defined Networks for Future Networks and Services (SDN4FNS), Trento (Italy), November 11-13, 2013

• M. F. Bari, S. Chowdhury, R. Ahmed and R. Boutaba. PolicyCop: An Autonomic QoS Policy Enforcement Framework for Software Defined Networks. IEEE Software Defined Networks for Future Networks and Services (SDN4FNS), Trento (Italy), November 11-13, 2013

• J. Li, J. Xiao, H. N. M. Nguyen, J. W. Hong and R. Boutaba. BreezChirp: Energy Efficient Wi-Fi Bandwidth Estimator for Smartphones. In 4th International Conference on Network of the Future (NoF), IEEE. Pohang (South Korea), October 23-25, 2013.

• Md. F. Bari, A. R. Roy, S. R. Chowdhury, Q. Zhang, M. F. Zhani, R. Ahmed and R. Boutaba. Dynamic Controller Provisioning in Software Defined Networks. In IEEE/ACM/IFIP International Conference on Network and Service Management (CNSM), Zurich, Switzerland, October 14-18, 2013.

• F. Zhou, J. Liu, G. Simon and R. Boutaba. Joint Optimization for the Delivery of Multiple Video Channels in Telco-CDN. In IEEE/ACM/IFIP International Conference on Network and Service Management (CNSM), Zurich (Switzerland), October 14-18, 2013. Short Paper.

• C. Fung, D. Lam and R. Boutaba. REM: A Robust and Efficient Decision Model for Collaborative Malware Detection. 22nd USENIX Security Symposium. Washington, DC. (USA), August 14-16, 2013. Short paper.

• N. Shahriar, S. R. Chowdhury, M. Sharmin, R. Ahmed, R. Boutaba and B. Mathieu. Ensuring Beta-Availability in P2P Social Networks. In 5th International Workshop on Hot Topics in Peer-to-peer computing and Online Social neTworking (HotPOST) held in conjunction with IEEE ICDCS 2013. Philadelphia (USA), July 8, 2013. Winner of the Best Paper Runner-Up.

• Q. Zhang, M. F. Zhani, R. Boutaba, and J. L. Hellerstein. HARMONY: Dynamic Heterogeneity-Aware Resource Provisioning in the Cloud. In the 33rd International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems (ICDCS), Philadelphia (USA), July 08-11, 2013.

• M. Hkimi, R. Langar, S. Secci, R. Boutaba and G. Pujolle. Demands Rescaling for Resource and Power Allocation in Cooperative Femtocell Networks. In the IEEE International Conference on Computer Communications (ICC). Budapest (Hungary), June 9-13, 2013.

• C. Fung and R. Boutaba. Design and Management of Collaborative Intrusion Detection Networks. In IFIP/IEEE Integrated Network Management Symposium (IM), Ghent (Belgium), May 27-31, 2013. (Dissertation Digest Paper). Recipient of the Best Dissertation Award.

• M. F. Zhani, Q. Zhang, G. Simon and R. Boutaba. VDC Planner: Dynamic Migration-Aware Virtual Data Center Embedding for Clouds. In IFIP/IEEE Integrated Network Management Symposium (IM). Ghent (Belgium), May 27-31, 2013.

• Md. Rabbani, R. Esteves, M. Podlesny, G. Simon, L. Granville and R. Boutaba. On Tackling Virtual Data Center Embedding Problem. Proc. of the IFIP/IEEE Integrated Network Management Symposium (IM). Ghent (Belgium), 27-31 May 2013.

• R. Esteves, L. Granville, H. Bannazadeh and R. Boutaba. Paradigm-Based Adaptive Provisioning in Virtualized Data Centers. Proc. of the IFIP/IEEE Integrated Network Management Symposium (IM). Ghent (Belgium), 27-31 May 2013.

• R. Ahmed, F. Bari, S.R. Chowdhury, Md. Rabbani, R. Boutaba and B. Mathieu, αRoute: A Name Based Routing Scheme for Information Centric Networks. In the 32nd IEEE International Conference on Computer Communications (INFOCOM). Turin (Italy), April 14-19, 2013.

• S. Hoteit, S. Secci, R. Langar, G. Pujolle and R. Boutaba. A Bankruptcy Game Approach for Resource Allocation in Cooperative Femtocell Networks. In the IEEE Global Communications Conference (GLOBECOM). Anaheim, California (USA), December 3–7, 2012.

• A. Hatoum, N. Aitsaadi, R. Langar, R. Boutaba and G. Pujolle. QoS-based Power Control and Resource Allocation in OFDMA Femtocell Networks. In the IEEE Global Communications Conference (GLOBECOM). Anaheim, California (USA), December 3–7, 2012.

• K. Alsubhi, M. F. Zhani and R. Boutaba. Embedded Markov Process based Model for Performance Analysis of Intrusion Detection and Prevention System. In the IEEE Global Communications Conference (GLOBECOM). Anaheim, California (USA), December 3–7, 2012.

• K. Salah and R. Boutaba. Estimating Service Response Time for Elastic Cloud Applications. In Proc. of 1st IEEE International Conference on Cloud Networking (CloudNet). Paris (France), November 28-30, 2012.

• J. Xiao, J. Li, R. Boutaba and J. W.-K. Hong. Comfort-Aware Home Energy Management under Market-Based Demand-Response. The 8^th IEEE/ACM/IFIP Conference on Network and Service Management (CNSM). Las Vegas (USA). October 22- 26, 2012.

• A. Amokrane, R. Langar, R. Boutaba, G. Pujolle. A Green Framework for Energy Efficient Management in TDMA-based Wireless Mesh Networks. The 8^th IEEE/ACM/IFIP Conference on Network and Service Management (CNSM). Las Vegas (USA). October 22- 26, 2012.

• Y. Huang, J. Xiao, J. W-K. Hong, A. Mehaoua and R. Boutaba. Event-based Estimation of User Experience for Network Video Streaming. The 14th Asia-Pacific Network Operations and Management Symposium (APNOMS). Seoul (Korea), September 25-27, 2012.

• J. Li, J. Xiao, J. W-K. Hong and R. Boutaba. Application-Centric Wi-Fi Energy Management on Smart Phone. The 14th Asia-Pacific Network Operations and Management Symposium (APNOMS). Seoul (Korea), September 25-27, 2012.

• Q. Zhang, M. F. Zhani, S. Zhang, Q. Zhu, R. Boutaba, and J.L. Hellerstein. Dynamic Energy-Aware Capacity Provisioning for Cloud Computing Environments. The 9th International Conference on Autonomic Computing (ICAC12). San Jose, California (USA), September 17-21, 2012.

• S. Waharte, A. Golynski and R. Boutaba. On the Complexity of Routing in Wireless Multihop Network. In Proc. of IEEE International Conference on Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing (IWCMC). Lymassol (Cyprus), August 27-31, 2012.

• J. Li, J. Xiao, J. W-K Hong and R. Boutaba. Energy Efficient Wi-Fi Management for Smart Devices. 4th International Symposium on IT Convergence Engineering, Korea Telecom Advanced Institute of Technology. Soul (Korea), July 12-13, 2012. Best Poster Award.

• J-Y Chung, J. Hyun, J. W-K Hong and R. Boutaba. Datacenter Traffic Monitoring Using Traffic Mirroring of Virtual Switch. 4th International Symposium on IT Convergence Engineering, Korea Telecom Advanced Institute of Technology. Soul (Korea), July 12-13, 2012.

• Q. Zhang, Q. Zhu, M. F. Zhani and R. Boutaba. Dynamic Service Placement in Geographically Distributed Clouds. In the 32nd International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems (ICDCS), Macau, China, June 18-21, 2012.

• T. Tran, I. Aib, E. Al-Shaer and R. Boutaba. An Evasive Attack on SNORT Flowbits. 13th IEEE/IFIP Network Operations and Management Symposium (NOMS 2012), Maui, Hawaii (USA), April 16-20, 2012.

• A. Kwon, J. Xiao, S. Seo, J. Hong and R. Boutaba. The Effect of Network Performance on Perceived Video Quality and User Experience in H.264/AVC. 13th IEEE/IFIP Network Operations and Management Symposium (NOMS 2012), Maui, Hawaii (USA), April 16-20, 2012. Mini-conference.

• N. Shahriar, M. Sharmin, R. Ahmed, M. M. Rahman, R. Boutaba and B. Mathieu. Diurnal availability for peer-to-peer systems. The IEEE Consumer Communications and Networking Conference (CCNC). Las Vegas, NV (USA), January 14-17, 2012.

• Q. Zhu, C. Fung, R. Boutaba, T. Basar. A Game-Theoretic Approach to Knowledge Sharing in Distributed Collaborative Intrusion Detection Networks: Fairness, Incentives and Security . In the 50th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control and European Control Conference, Orlando (USA), December 12-15, 2011.

• K. Alsubhi, Y. Alhazmi, N. Bouabdallah and R. Boutaba. Rule Mode Selection in Intrusion Detection and Prevention Systems. In the IEEE Global Communications Conference (GLOBECOM). Houston (USA), December 5–9, 2011.

• H. Saleet, S. Naik, R. Langar, R. Boutaba, A. Nayak, and V. Srivastava. Performance Modeling of Routing Dependability in Home Networks. In the IEEE Global Communications Conference (GLOBECOM). Houston (USA), December 5–9, 2011.

• Q. Zhang, Q. Zhu and R. Boutaba. Dynamic Resource Allocation for Spot Markets in Cloud Computing Environments. In Proc. of the 4th IEEE International Conference on Utility and Cloud Computing (UCC 2011), Melbourne (Australia), December 5-8, 2011.

• L. Cheng, R. Boutaba, and Q. Zhang. Mitigating the Negative Impact of Preemption On Heterogeneous MapReduce Workloads. In the 7th International Conference on Network and Service Management (CNSM). Paris (France), 24-28 October, 2011.

• C. J. Fung, R. Boutaba, Q. Zhu, and T. Basar. SMURFEN: A Framework of Knowledge Sharing for Collaborative Intrusion Detection. In the 7th International Conference on Network and Service Management (CNSM), Miniconference. Paris (France), 24-28 October, 2011.

• C. Fung, Q. Zhu, R. Boutaba, and T. Basar. SMURFEN: A Knowledge Sharing Collaborative Intrusion Detection Network. In the 18th ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security (CCS). Chicago (USA), October 17-21, 2011. Poster.

• Q. Zhang, J. Hellerstein and R. Boutaba. Characterizing Task Usage Shapes in Google’s Compute Clusters. In the 5th Workshop on Large Scale Distributed Systems and Middleware (held in conjunction with VLDB'2011). Seattle (USA), September 2-3, 2011.

• MF. Bari, MR. Haque, R. Ahmed, R. Boutaba and B. Mathieu. Persistent Naming for P2P Web Hosting. In the IEEE International Conference on Peer-to-Peer Computing (P2P). Kyoto (Japan). August 31 to September 2, 2011.

• F. Bouabdallah and R. Boutaba. A Distributed OFDMA Medium Access Control for Underwater Acoustic Sensors Networks. In the IEEE International Conference on Computer Communications (ICC). Kyoto (Japan), June 5-9, 2011.

• A. Hatoum, N. Aitsaadi, R. Langar, R. Boutaba and G. Pujolle. FCRA: Femtocell Clusterbased Resource Allocation Scheme for OFDMA Networks. In the IEEE International Conference on Computer Communications (ICC). Kyoto (Japan), June 5-9, 2011.

• K. Alsubhi, N. Bouabdallah and R. Boutaba. Performance Analysis in Intrusion Detection and Prevention Systems. In the Proc. of the IFIP/IEEE Integrated Network Management Symposium (IM). Dublin (Ireland), 23-27 May 2011.

• Q. Zhang, E. Gürses, R. Boutaba, and J. Xiao. Dynamic Resource Allocation for Spot Markets in Clouds. In proceedings of the 11th USENIX conference on Hot topics in management of internet, cloud, and enterprise networks and services (Hot-ICE '11), Boston (USA). March 30–April 1, 2011.

• J. Li, J-Y. Chung, J. Xiao, R. Boutaba and J. W-K Hong. On The Design and Implementation of a Home Energy Management System. In the Proc. of the IEEE Symposium on Wireless and Pervasive Computing (ISWPC). Hong Kong (China), 23-25 February 2011

• R. Langar, S. Njima, N. Bouabdallah, R. Boutaba, and G. Pujolle. Towards Efficient Use of Radio Resources in Single Channel Wireless Mesh Networks. In Proc. of the IEEE Global Telecommunications Conference (GLOBECOM), IEEE Press, Miami (USA), 6-10 December, 2010.

• H. Saleet, R. Langar, S. Naik, R. Boutaba, A. Nayak, and N. Goel. QoS Support in Delay Tolerant Vehicular Ad Hoc Networks. In Proc. of the IEEE Global Telecommunications Conference (GLOBECOM), IEEE Press, Miami (USA), 6-10 December, 2010.

• C. J. Fung, J. Zhang, and R. Boutaba. Effective Acquaintance Management for Collaborative Intrusion Detection Networks. In the 6th International Conference on Network and Service Management (CNSM). Niagara Falls (Canada), 25-29 October 2010. Recipient of the Best Student Paper Award.

• J. Xiao, J.Y. Chung, J. Li, R. Boutaba, and J. Hong. Near Optimal Demand-Side Energy Management Under Real-time Demand-Response Pricing. In the 6th International Conference on Network and Service Management (CNSM), Miniconference. Niagara Falls (Canada), 25-29 October 2010.

• M. Chowdhury, F. Samuel, R. Boutaba. PolyViNE: Policy-based Virtual Network Embedding Across Multiple Domains. In Proceedings of the Second ACM SIGCOMM Workshop on Virtualized infrastructure Systems and Architectures. New Delhi (India), September 03, 2010.  

• J. Xiao, J-Y. Chung, J. Li, R. Boutaba and J. W-K. Hong. Optimal Demand-Side Energy Management Under Real-time Demand-Response Pricing. In Proc. of the 2nd International Symposium on IT Convergence Engineering (ISITCE). Pohang (Korea), 19-20 August, 2010. Poster. Recipient of the Best Poster Award.

• R. Boutaba, N. Limam and J. Xiao. Autonomic Principles for Service Management: Performance, Fairness and Stability. In Proc. of the 2nd International Symposium on IT Convergence Engineering (ISITCE). Pohang (Korea), 19-20 August, 2010. Poster.

• L. Mekouar, Y. Iraqi and R. Boutaba. Incorporating Trust in Network Virtualization. In Proc. of the 10th IEEE International Conference on Computer and Information Technology (CIT). IEEE Press, pp. 942-947. Bradford (UK), June 29 – July 1, 2010.

• L. Mekouar, Y. Iraqi and R. Boutaba. Impact of Peers' Similarity on Recommendations in P2P Systems. In Proc. of the 10th IEEE International Conference on Computer and Information Technology (CIT). IEEE Press, pp. 393-399. Bradford (UK), June 29 – July 1, 2010.

• A. Abdallah, D-E. Meddour, A. Toufik, R. Boutaba.  Cross layer optimization architecture for video streaming in WIMAX networks . In Proc. of the IEEE Symposium on Computer Communications (ISCC). IEEE Press, pp. 8-13. Riccione (Italy), June 22-25, 2010.

• D.E. Meddour, A. Kortebi, R. Boutaba, Mesh-Based Broadband Home Network Solution: Setup and Experiments. Proc. of the IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC). IEEE Press, pp. 1-6. Cape Town (South Africa), 23-27 May 2010.

• R. Langar, N. Bouabdallah, R. Boutaba,, G. Pujolle. Interferer Link-Aware Routing in Wireless Mesh Networks. Proc. of the IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC). IEEE Press, pp. 1-6. Cape Town (South Africa), 23-27 May 2010.

• Q. Zhu, C. J. Fung, R. Boutaba, and T. Basar. A Distributed Sequential Algorithm for Collaborative Intrusion Detection Networks. Proc. of the IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC). IEEE Press, pp. 1-6. Cape Town (South Africa), 23-27 May 2010.

• Q. Zhang, J. Xiao, E. Gurses, M. Karsten, R Boutaba. Dynamic Service Placement in Shared Service Hosting Infrastructures. In Proceedings of the 9th International IFIP TC 6 Networking Conference (NETWORKING), Springer Berlin, pp. 251-264, Chennai (India), May 11-15, 2010.

• N. F. Butt, M. Chowdhury, R. Boutaba, Topology-Awareness and Reoptimization Mechanism for Virtual Network Embedding. In Proceedings of the 9th International IFIP Networking Conference (NETWORKING), Springer Berlin, pp. 27-39, Chennai (India), May 11-15, 2010.  

• M. R. Rahman, I. Aib and R. Boutaba. Survivable Virtual Network Embedding. In Proceedings of the 9th International IFIP Networking Conference (NETWORKING), Springer Berlin, pp. 40-52, Chennai (India), May 11-15, 2010.  

• J. Rubio-Loyola, M. Charalambides, I. Aib, J. Serrat, G. Pavlou, R. Boutaba. Business-Driven Management of Differentiated Services. In Proc. of the IEEE/IFIP International Network Operations and Management Symposium (NOMS), IEEE Press, pp. 240-247, Osaka (Japan), 19-23 April 2010  

• C. J. Fung, Q. Zhu, R. Boutaba, and T. Basar. Bayesian Decision Aggregation In Collaborative Intrusion Detection Networks. In Proc. of the IEEE/IFIP International Network Operations and Management Symposium (NOMS), IEEE Press, pp. 349-356, Osaka (Japan), 19-23 April 2010  

• F.E. Zaheer, J. Xiao, R. Boutaba. Multi-Provider Service Negotiation and Contracting in Network Virtualization. In Proc. of the IEEE/IFIP International Network Operations and Management Symposium (NOMS), IEEE Press, pp 471-478, Osaka (Japan), 19-23 April 2010.

• L. Cheng, X. Qiu, L. Meng, Y. Qiao, R. Boutaba. Efficient Active Probing for Fault Diagnosis in Large Scale and Noisy Networks. In Proc. of the 29th IEEE Conference on Computer Communications (INFOCOM). IEEE Press, pp. 1-9, San Diego (USA), 14-19 March 2010.

• H. Saleet, R. Langar, O. Basir, and R. Boutaba. Adaptive Message Routing with QoS support in Vehicular Ad Hoc Networks. In Proc. of the IEEE Global Telecommunications Conference (GLOBECOM), IEEE Press, pp. 1-6, Honolulu (USA), November 30 – December 4, 2009.  

• E. Gurses and R. Boutaba. Capacity of Wireless Multi-hop Networks Using Physical Carrier Sense and Transmit Power Control. In Proc. of the IEEE Global Telecommunications Conference (GLOBECOM), IEEE Press, pp. 1-6, Honolulu (USA), November 30 – December 4, 2009.

• M. R. Haque, R. Ahmed, and R. Boutaba. QPM: Phonetic aware P2P search. In Proc. of the 9th IEEE International Conference on Peer-to-Peer Computing (P2P). IEEE Press, pp. 131-134. Seattle (USA), 9-11 September 2009. Short Paper.

• C. Fung, J. Zhang, I. Aib, R. Boutaba, and R. Cohen. Design of a Simulation Framework to Evaluate Trust Models for Collaborative Intrusion Detection. In Proc. of the IEEE Int. Conf. on Network and Service Security (N2S), IEEE Press, pp. 1-5. 2009. 24-26 June 2009.

• K. Ali and R. Boutaba. Applying kernel methods to anomaly based intrusion detection systems. In Proc. of the IEEE Global Information Infrastructure Symposium (GIIS). IEEE Press, pp. 1-4. Hammamet (Tunisia), 23-26 June 2009. Short Paper.

• K. Ali, I Aib and R. Boutaba. P2P-AIS: A P2P Artificial Immune Systems architecture for detecting DDoS flooding attacks. In Proc. of the IEEE Global Information Infrastructure Symposium (GIIS). IEEE Press, pp. 1-4. Hammamet (Tunisia), 23-26 June 2009. Short Paper.

• H. Saleet, R. Langar, O. Basir, and R. Boutaba. A Distributed Approach for Location Lookup in Vehicular Ad Hoc Networks. In Proc. of the IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC), IEEE Press, pp. 1-6 Dresden (Germany), 14-18 June 2009.

• F. Bouabdallah, N. Bouabdallah and R. Boutaba. Cross-Layer Design for Energy Conservation in Wireless Sensor Networks. In Proc. of the IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC), IEEE Press, pp. 1-6. Dresden (Germany), 14-18 June 2009.

• S. Waharte, R. Boutaba and P. Anelli. Impact of Gateways Placement on Clustering Algorithms in Wireless Mesh Networks. In Proc. of the IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC), IEEE Press, pp. 1-5. Dresden (Germany), 14-18 June 2009.

• E. Gurses, Y. Lin and R. Boutaba. Distributed Quality-Lifetime Maximization in Wireless Video Sensor Networks. In Proc. of the IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC), IEEE Press, pp. 1-6. Dresden (Germany), 14-18 June 2009.

• K. Alsubhi, I. Aib, J. Francois and R. Boutaba. Policy-Based Security Configuration Management, Application to Intrusion Detection and Prevention. In Proc. of the IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC), IEEE Press, pp. 1-6. Dresden (Germany), 14‐18 June 2009.

• E. Gurses, J. Xiao and R. Boutaba. Service Engineering for Inter-Domain Overlay Networks. In Proc. of the IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC), IEEE Press, pp. 1-5. Dresden (Germany), 14-18 June 2009.

• I. Aib, T. Tran, and R. Boutaba. Characterization and Solution to a Stateful IDS Evasion. In Proc of the 29th IEEE International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems (ICDCS). IEEE Press, pp. 597 – 604. Montreal (Canada), 22-26 June 2009.

• M. Chowdhury, F. Zaheer and R. Boutaba. iMark: An Identity Management Framework for Network Virtualization Environment. In Proc. of IFIP/IEEE Integrated Network Management Symposium (IM). IEEE Press, pp. 335-342. New York, NY, June 1-5, 2009.

• C. Fung, J. Zhang, I. Aib and R. Boutaba. Robust and scalable trust management for collaborative intrusion detection. In Proc. of the IFIP/IEEE Integrated Network Management Symposium (IM). IEEE Press, pp. 33-40. New York, NY, June 1-5, 2009. Recipient of the Best Paper Award.

• Q. Zhu, C. Fung, R. Boutaba, and T. Basar. A game-theoretical approach to incentive design in collaborative intrusion detection networks. In Proc of the International Conference on Game Theory for Networks (GameNets ), IEEE Press, pp. 384-392, Istanbul (Turkey), 13-15 May 2009.

• M. Kabir, M. Rahman and R. Boutaba. Virtual Network Embedding with Coordinated Node and Link Mapping. In Proc. of the 28th IEEE Conference on Computer Communications (INFOCOM). IEEE Press, pp. 783-791. Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, April 19-25, 2009.

• A. El-Ataway, E. Alshaer, T. Tran and R. Boutaba. Adaptive Early Packet Filtering for Protecting Firewalls against DoS Attacks. In Proc. of the 28th IEEE Conference on Computer Communications (INFOCOM). IEEE Press, pp. 2437-2445, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, April 19-25, 2009.

• Q. Zhu and R. Boutaba. Nonlinear Quadratic Pricing for Concavifiable Utilities in Network Rate Control. In Proc. of the IEEE Global Telecommunications Conference (GLOBECOM), IEEE Press, pp. 1 – 6, New Orleans (USA), November 30 - December 4, 2008.

• H. Saleet, R. Langar, O. Basir, and R. Boutaba. Proposal and Analysis of Region-Based Location Service Management Protocol for VANETs. In Proc. of the IEEE Global Telecommunications Conference (GLOBECOM), IEEE Press, pp. 1 – 6, New Orleans (USA), November 30 - December 4, 2008.

• F. Bouabdallah, N. Bouabdallah and R. Boutaba. Load-Balanced Routing Scheme for Energy-Efficient Wireless Sensor Networks. In Proc. of the IEEE Global Telecommunications Conference (GLOBECOM), IEEE Press, pp. 1 – 6, New Orleans (USA), November 30 - December 4, 2008.

• A. Le, R. Boutaba, and E. Al-Shaer, Correlation-Based Load Balancing for Network Intrusion Detection and Prevention Systems, Proceedings of the 4th ACM International Conference on Security and Privacy in Communication Networks, SecureComm 2008, Istanbul, Turkey, September 22–25, 2008.

• L. Mekouar, Y. Iraqi and R. Boutaba. A Recommender Scheme for Peer-to- Peer Systems. In Proc. of the IEEE International Symposium on Applications and the Internet (SAINT), IEEE Press, pp. 197 – 200, Turku (Finland), July 28 - August 1, 2008.

• L. Mekouar, Y. Iraqi and R. Boutaba. Personalized Recommendations in Peerto- Peer Systems. In Proc. of 17th IEEE WETICE Workshop on Collaborative Peer-to-peer Systems (COPS). IEEE Press, pp. 99 – 104. Rome (Italy), 23-25 June, 2008.

• S. Waharte, R. Boutaba, B. Ishibashi, and D. Meddour, Interference-Aware Routing Metric for Improved Load Balancing in Wireless Mesh Networks, in Proceedings of ICC'08, Beijing, China, May 2008.

• F. Bouabdallah, N. Bouabdallah and R. Boutaba. Energy Conservation in Reliable Wireless Sensor. In Proc. of the IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC), IEEE Press, pp. 2404 – 2408, Beijing (China), 19-23 May 2008.

• S. Waharte and R. Boutaba, On the Probability of Finding Non-interfering Paths in Wireless Multihop Networks, in Proceedings of IFIP Networking 2008, Singapore, May 2008.

• B. Ishibashi, N. Bouabdallah, and R. Boutaba, QoS Performance Analysis of Cognitive Radio-based Virtual Wireless Networks, In Proceedings of Infocom 2008 Miniconference, April 2008.

• R. Boutaba, J. Xiao and I. Aib. CyberPlanner: a comprehensive toolkit for network service providers. In Proc. of the IEEE/IFIP International Network Operations and Management Symposium (NOMS), IEEE Press, pp. 379 – 386, Salvador (Brazil), 7-11 April 2008.

• N. Limam and R. Boutaba. QoS and Reputation-aware Service Selection. In Proc. of the IEEE/IFIP International Network Operations and Management Symposium (NOMS), IEEE Press, pp. 403 – 410, Salvador (Brazil), 7‐11 April 2008.

• K. Alsubhi, E. Al-Shaer, and R. Boutaba. Alert Prioritization in Intrusion Detection Systems. In the 11th IEEE/IFIP Network Operations and Management Symposium (NOMS 2008), April 2008.

• F. Bouabdallah, N. Bouabdallah and R. Boutaba. The Relationship Between Sensor Networks Performance and the Number of Reporting Nodes. In Proc. of IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference (WCNC), IEEE Press, pp. 2361 – 2366. Las Vegas, NV (USA), 31 March – 3 April, 2008.

• N. Limam and R. Boutaba. Towards an Automated Service Rating System. In Proc. of the 15th HP Software University Association (HP-SUA), HP LABS, pp. 211 – 216, Marrakech (Morocco), 22- 25 June, 2008.

• I. Aib, K. Alsubhi, and R. Boutaba. A Policy-based approach to Risk Management, A Snort Configuration Use Case. In Proc. of the 15th HP Software University Association (HP-SUA), HP LABS, pp. 309 – 314, Marrakech (Morocco), 22- 25 June, 2008.

• A. Le, E. Alshaer, and R. Boutaba. On optimizing load balancing of intrusion detection and prevention systems. In Proc. of the IEEE INFOCOM Computer Communications Workshops 2008, IEEE Press, pp. 1-6, Phoenix, AZ (USA), April 13-18, 2008.

• C. Fung, O. Baysal, J. Zhang, I. Aib and R. Boutaba. Trust Management for Host-based Collaborative Intrusion Detection. In Proc of the IFIP/IEEE Workshop on Distributed Systems Operations and Management (DSOM), Springer Verlag, pp. 109-122. Samos (Greece), 22-26 September 2008.

• S. Waharte, R. Boutaba, B. Ishibashi, and D. Meddour, Performance Study of Wireless Mesh Networks Routing Metrics, In Proceedings of the RRMinMesh Workshop (AICCSA-08), April 2008

• F. Bouabdallah, N. Bouabdallah and R. Boutaba. Analysis of the Latency-Lifetime Tradeoff in Wireless Sensor Networks. In Proc. of the IEEE/ACS International Conference on Computer Systems and Applications (AICCSA) - Workshop on Radio Resource Management in Wireless Mesh Networks, IEEE Press, pp. 1076-1081, Doha (Qatar), March 31 - April 4, 2008.

• R. Langar, N. Bouabdallah and R. Boutaba. Adaptive Mobility Management for IP/MPLS-Based Wireless Networks: a Proposal and Analysis'. In Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Global Communications (GLOBECOM), Washington DC (USA), IEEE Press, 26-30 November 2007

• F. Bouabdallah, N. Bouabdallah and R. Boutaba. Analysis of the impact of the number of reporting nodes on the sensor networks lifetime. In Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Global Communications (GLOBECOM), Washington DC (USA), IEEE Press, 26-30 November 2007

• T. Tran, E. Al-Shaer, and R. Boutaba. PolicyVis: Firewall Security Policy Visualization and Inspection. In proceedings of the 21st USENIX Large Installation System Administration Conference (LISA 2007), Dallas, TX, USA, 11–16 November 2007.

• J. Francois, A. El-Atawy, E. Al-Shaer, and R. Boutaba. A Collaborative Approach for Proactive Detection of Distributed Denial of Service Attacks. In proceedings of the IEEE Monitoring, Attack Detection and Mitigation (MonAM 2007). Toulouse, France , 5 - 6 November, 2007

• S. Waharte, A. Farzan and R. Boutaba. Min-Max Congestion in Interference-Prone Wireless Mesh Networks. In Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC), Glasgow (Scotland), IEEE Press, June 2007

• I. Aib and R. Boutaba. Business-driven optimization of Policy Based Management Solutions; A Web Application Hosting SLA Use Case. In Proceedings of the IFIP/IEEE International Symposium on Integrated Network Management (IM'2007), Munich (Germany), May 2007. Recipient of the Best Student Paper Award.

• R. Langar, N. Bouabdallah, S. Tohme, R. Boutaba, Mobility Modeling and Handoff Analysis for IP/MPLS-Based Cellular Networks, in Proceedings of the 49th IEEE Global Telecommunications Conference (GlobeCom), San Francisco, California, USA, November 2006. Nominated for the Best Paper Award

• B. Aoun and R. Boutaba, Max-Min Fair Capacity of Wireless Mesh Networks, in Proceedings of the 3rd IEEE International Conference on Mobile Ad-hoc and Sensor Systems (MASS), Vancouver, Canada, October 2006.

• I. Aib, R. Boutaba, G. Pujolle, A Novel Architecture for Utility Driven Management, in Proceedings of the 5th IFIP International Conference on Network Control and Engineering for QoS, Security and Mobility (Net-Con 2006), Santiago, Chile, August 2006.

• B. Aoun, Y. Iraqi, and R. Boutaba, A Closer Look at the Capacity of Wireless Mesh Networks, in Proceedings of  the fifth Mediterranean Ad Hoc Networking Conference (MedHoc Net), Sicily, Italy, June 2006.

• S. Waharte and R. Boutaba, Totally Disjoint Multipath Routing in Multihop Wireless Networks, in Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC 2006), Istanbul, Turkey, June 2006.

• B. Aoun, R. Boutaba, Analysis of Capacity Improvements in Multi-Radio Wireless Mesh Networks, in Proceedings of the 63rd IEEE Vehicular Technology Conference (VTC), Melbourne, Australia, May 2006.

• R. Ahmed and R. Boutaba. Distributed pattern matching for p2p systems. In Proceedings of the 10th IEEE/IFIP Network Operations and Management Symposium (NOMS'06), Vancouver, Canada, April 2006.

• L. Mekouar, Y. Iraqi and R. Boutaba, Free Riders under Control through Service Differentiation in Peer-to-Peer Systems. In Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Collaborative Computing: Networking, Applications and Worksharing (CollaborateCom 2005), December 19-21, 2005.

• J. Capka and R. Boutaba. A Mobility Management Tool - The Realistic Mobility Model. In proceedings of IEEE International Conference on Wireless and Mobile Computing, Networking and Communications (WiMob'05).Montreal, Canada, August 2005.

• L. Mekouar, Y. Iraqi and R. Boutaba, Handling Free Riders in Peer-to-Peer Networks, in Proceedings of the Fourth International Workshop on Agents and Peer-to-Peer Computing (AP2PC 2005), Utrecht, Netherlands, 2005.

• S. Waharte and R. Boutaba, Tree-Based Wireless Mesh Networks: Topology Analysis, in Proceedings of the First International Workshop on Wireless Mesh Networks (MeshNets), Budapest, Hungary, July 2005.

• Y. Iraqi and R. Boutaba, Handoff and Call Dropping Probabilities in Wireless Cellular Networks, in Proceedings of the First International Symposium on Wireless Quality-of-Service (WiQoS'05) in IEEE WirelessCom 2005 Conference, June 13-16, 2005.

• W. Liu and R. Boutaba, Tracerouting Peer-to-Peer Networks, In Proceedings of the 3rd IEEE/IFIP Workshop on End-to-End Monitoring Techniques and Services (E2EMON), Nice, France, May 2005.

• Majid Ghaderi, Raouf Boutaba and Gary W. Kenward. Stochastic Admission Control for Quality of Service in Wireless Packet Networks, in Proceedings of the 4th IFIP Networking Conference (Networking'2005), Waterloo, Canada, May 2005.

• J. Xiao and R. Boutaba. QoS aware Service composition in large scale multi-domain networks. In Proceedings of the IFIP/IEEE International Symposium on Integrated Network Management (IM'2005), May 2005.

• W. Liu, Y. Iraqi and R. Boutaba. Zero-budget Network Dimensioning. In Proceedings of the IFIP/IEEE International Symposium on Integrated Network Management (IM'2005), May 2005.

• Y. Tang, E. Al-Shaer, R. Boutaba. Active Integrated Fault localization in communication networks. In Proceedings of the IFIP/IEEE International Symposium on Integrated Network Management (IM'2005), May 2005.

• S. Waharte and R. Boutaba. Sensor-based Architecture for Quality-of-Service Support in WLANs. In Proceedings of the IFIP/IEEE International Symposium on Integrated Network Management (IM'2005) Poster Session, May 2005. 

• R. Ahmed, R. Boutaba, F. Cuervo, Y. Iraqi, T. Li, N. Limam, J. Xiao, and J. Ziembicki, Service Discovery Protocols A Comparative Study, in Proceeding of the IFIP/IEEE International Symposium on Integrated Network Management (IM'2005) Application Sessions, 2005. 

• R. Ahmed, R. Boutaba, F. Cuervo, Y. Iraqi, T. Li, N. Limam, J. Xiao, and J. Ziembicki, Service/Resource Naming a Comparative Study, in Proceeding of the IFIP/IEEE International Symposium on Integrated Network Management (IM'2005) Application Sessions, 2005. 

• N. Limam, J. Ziembicki, R. Ahmed, Y. Iraqi, D. T. Li, R. Boutaba, F. Cuervo, OSDA: Open Service Discovery Architecture for Cross-domain Service Discovery. In Proceedings of the 2nd International Workshop on Next Generation Networking Middleware, Waterloo, Canada, May 2005.

• L. Mekouar, Y. Iraqi and R. Boutaba, Detecting Malicious Peers in A Reputation-Based Peer-to-Peer System, In Proceedings of the IEEE Consumer Communications and Networking Conference (CCNC), 2005.

• S. Waharte and R. Boutaba, Performance Comparison of Distributed Frequency Assignment Algorithms for Wireless Sensor Networks. In Proceedings of the IFIP International Conference on Network Control and Engineering (Net-Con'2004), Palma de Mallorca, Spain, November 2004.

• A. Haque, P.-H. Ho, Raouf Boutaba, and James Ho, Group Shared Protection (GSP): A Scalable Solution for Spare Capacity Re-configuration in Mesh WDM Networks, In Proceedings of the 47th annual IEEE Global Telecommunications Conference (Globecom), Dallas, TX, USA, November 2004.

• Myung-Sup Kim, J. Hong and R. Boutaba, Flow-based Characteristic Analysis of Internet Application Traffic, In Proceedings of the 2nd Workshop on End-to-End Monitoring (E2EMON), San Diego, USA, 2004.

• W. Liu, Raouf Boutaba and James Won-Ki Hong, pMeasure: A Tool for Measuring the Internet. In Proceedings of the 2nd Workshop on End-to-End Monitoring Techniques and Services (E2EMON), San Diego, California, USA, October 2004.

• J. Capka and R. Boutaba, Mobility Prediction in Wireless Networks using Neural Networks. In Proceedings of the IFIP/IEEE international Conference on the Management of Multimedia Networks and Services (MMNS'04), San Diego, California, USA,  October 2004.

• L. Mekouar, Y. Iraqi and R. Boutaba, A Reputation Management & Selection Advisor Schemes for Peer-to-Peer Systems, In Proceedings of the 15th IFIP/IEEE International Workshop on Distributed Systems: Operations & Management (DSOM), 2004

• S. Waharte and R. Boutaba, Dynamic cell-based MAC protocol for target detection applications in wireless sensor networks. In Proceedings of the IFIP/IEEE international Conference on the Management of Multimedia Networks and Services (MMNS'04), San Diego, California, USA, October 2004. Recipient of the Best Student Paper Award.

• S. Waharte, K. Ritzenthaler and R. Boutaba, Selective Active Scanning for Fast Handoff in WLAN using Sensor Networks. In Proceedings of the 6th IFIP/IEEE International Conference on Mobile and Wireless Communication Networks (MWCN 2004), Paris, France, October 2004.

• M. Ghaderi and R. Boutaba, Data Service Performance Analysis in GPRS Systems. In Proceedings of the 15th IEEE International Symposium on Personal, Indoor and Mobile Radio Communications (PIMRC'2004), Barcelona, Spain, September 2004.

• M. Ghaderi and R. Boutaba, The Impact of User Mobility on Data Service Performance in GPRS Systems. In Proceedings of the 22nd Biennial Symposium on Communications (QBSC'2004), Kingston, Canada, June 2004.

• B. Ishibashi and R. Boutaba, Forward Focus: Medium Access Control for Ad hoc Networks. In Proceedings of the 3rd Mediterranean Ad Hoc Networking Workshop (Med-hoc-Net 2004), Bodrum, Turkey, June 2004.

• W. Golab and R. Boutaba, Resource Allocation in User-Controlled Circuit-Switched Optical Networks, in Proceedings of the 7th IEEE International Conference on High Speed Networks and Multimedia Communications (HSNMC'04), June 2004.

• S. Waharte, J. Xiao and R. Boutaba, Overlay Wireless Sensor Networks for Application-Adaptive Scheduling in WLAN, in Proceedings of the 7th IEEE International Conference on High Speed Networks and Multimedia Communications (HSNMC'04), June 2004.

• J. Xiao and R. Boutaba, Customer-centric Network Upgrade Strategy: Maximizing Investment Benefits for Enhanced Service Quality, in Proceedings of the 9th IEEE/IFIP Network Operations and Management Symposium (NOMS'04), 2004

• M. Ghaderi and R. Boutaba, Call Admission Control for Voice/Data Integration in Broadband Wireless Networks, in Proceedings of the 3rd IFIP Networking Conference (Networking'2004), Athens, Greece, May 2004.

• Y. Iraqi, M. Ghaderi and R. Boutaba, Enabling Real-Time All-IP Wireless Networks, in Proceedings of the IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference (WCNC), 2004.

• W. Golab and R. Boutaba, WDM Optical Network Reconfiguration Using Automated Regression-Based Parameter Value Selection,  in Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Networking (ICN'04).

• A. Virk and R. Boutaba, A Framework for Inter-Domain Management in DiffServ-MPLS Networks, in Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Networking (ICN'04).

• W. Szeto, Y. Iraqi and R. Boutaba, A Multi-Commodity Flow Based Approach to Virtual Network Resource Allocation, in Proceedings of the IEEE Global Telecommunications Conference (GLOBECOM'03), San Francisco, CA (USA), 2003.

• M. Ghaderi, J. Capka and R. Boutaba, Prediction-Based Admission Control for DiffServ Wireless Internet, in Proceedings of IEEE Vehicular Technology Conference (VTC'03), Orlando (USA), October 2003.

• T. Ahmed, A. Mehaoua, R. Boutaba, Y. Iraqi, IP Video Streaming With Fine-Grained TCP-Friendly Rate Adaptation, in IFIP/IEEE International Conference on Management of Multimedia Networks and Services (MMNS'03), Northern Ireland, September 2003. Recipient of the Best Paper Award.

• Y. Iraqi and R. Boutaba, The Degree of Participation Concept in Ad Hoc Networks, in the IEEE Symposium on Computers and Communications (ISCC'03), Antalya, Turkey, 2003.

• T. Li, Y. Iraqi and R. Boutaba, Tariff-Based Pricing and Admission Control for DiffServ Networks, in IFIP/IEEE International Symposium on Integrated Management (IM'03), Colorado-Springs (USA), March 24-28, 2003.

• T. Ahmed, A. Mehaoua, A. Nafaa and R. Boutaba, Dynamic QoS Management for Video Flows over IP DiffServ Networks. In Proceedings of International Conference on Networks and Services Management (GRES'03), 2003.

•  A. Virk, R. Boutaba, and A. Haque, A framework for survivability in data-centric optical networks. In Proceedings of the 3rd IEEE International Symposium on Communication Systems, Networks and Digital Signal Processing (CSNDSP 2002), Staffordshire, UK, 2002.

  T. Ahmed, A. Mehaoua and R. Boutaba, Dynamic QoS Adaptation using COPS and Network Monitoring Feedback, in Proceedings of the IFIP/IEEE international Conference on the Management of Multimedia Networks and Services (MMNS'02), pp. 250-262, 2002

• A. Virk and R. Boutaba, A Directory Enabled Solution for MPLS Path Protection and Restoration, in Proceedings of International Conference on Computer Communication (ICCC'02), 2002.

• A. Virk, R. Boutaba, and A. Haque, A Directory Enabled Solution for MPλS Path Protection and Restoration, in Proceedings of IEEE Conference on Optical Transparent Networks (ICTON'02), Vol. 1, pp. 24-28, 2002.

• W. Szeto, R. Boutaba and Y. Iraqi, Dynamic Online Routing Algorithm for MPLS Traffic Engineering, in Proceeding of IFIP International Networking Conference (Networking'02), pp. 936-946, 2002.

• T. Ahmed, A. Mehaoua, R. Boutaba, Interworking Between SIP and MPEG-4 DMIF for Heterogeneous IP VideoConferencing, in proceedings of IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC'02), Vol. 4, pp. 2469-2473, 2002.

• A. Evlogimenou and R. Boutaba, Programmable Accounting Management Architecture for Virtual Private Networks, in Proceedings of IEEE/IFIP Network Operations and Management Symposium (NOMS'02), pp. 297–312, 2002.

• R. Boutaba, Y. Iraqi and B. Ishibashi, Policy Based Routing in Ad Hoc Networks, in Proceedings of the First Ad Hoc Networking Workshop (Med-hoc-Net'02), 2002 

• R. Boutaba and J. Xiao, Network Management: State of the Art, in Proceedings of IFIP World Computer Congress (WCC'02) TC6 Stream on Communication Systems: The State of the Art, pp. 127-146, 2002

• R. Boutaba, B. Ishibashi and B. Shihada, A Network Management Viewpoint on Certification and Security, in Proceedings of International Workshop on Certification and Security in E-Services (CSES'02), held as part of the IFIP World Computer Congress (WCC'02), pp. 17-45, 2002

• A. Mehaoua and R. Boutaba. A Cooperative QoS Control Framework For Streaming Video Applications. In Proceedings of IEEE International Conference on Global Communications (GLOBECOM'01), pp. 2470-2474, 2001.

• Y. Iraqi and R. Boutaba. Is It Worth Involving Several Cooperating Agents for Multimedia User's Admission in Cellular Networks? In Proceedings of IFIP/IEEE International Conference on the Management of Multimedia Networks and Services (MMNS'01), pp. 57-70. 2001.

• Y. Iraqi and R. Boutaba. Performance Evaluation of a Distributed Call Admission Control for QoS-Sensitive Wireless Mobile Networks. In Proceedings of the 6th IEEE Symposium on Computers and Communications (ISCC'01), pp. 540 –545. 2001.

• Y. Iraqi and R. Boutaba. When is it worth involving several cells in the Call Admission Control process for Multimedia Cellular Networks? In Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC'01), 336 –340. 2001.

• R. Boutaba and A. Polyrakis. Projecting FCAPS to Active Networks. In Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference of Enterprise Networking, Applications and Services (EntNet@Supercomm'01), pp. 97-104. 2001.

• Y. Iraqi and R. Boutaba. The Impact of Prediction on the Performance of a Distributed Call Admission Control for Multimedia Mobile Networks. In Proceedings of IEEE International Conference on Third Generation Wireless and Beyond (3Gwireless'01). 2001 (6 manuscript pages).

• S. Omari and R. Boutaba. Directory-based Self-Configurable Network Elements. In Proceedings of the 5th IFIP International Conference on Communication Systems (Africom'01), pp. 89-100, 2001.

• M. Guiagoussou, R. Boutaba and M. Kadoch. Java API for Advanced Fault Management. In Proceedings of IFIP/IEEE International Conference on Integrated Network Management (IM'01), pp. 483-498, 2001.

• R. Boutaba and A. Polyrakis. Towards Extensible Policy Enforcement Points. In Proceedings of IEEE Workshop on Policies for Distributed Systems and Networks (Policy'01), pp.247-261, 2001.

• Y. Iraqi and R. Boutaba. A Multi-Agent System for Resource Management in Wireless Mobile Multimedia Networks. In Proceedings of the 11th IFIP/IEEE International Workshop on Distributed Systems: Operations & Management (DSOM'00), pp. 218- 229, 2000.

• Y. Iraqi and R. Boutaba. An Adaptive Distributed Call Admission Control for QoS-Sensitive Wireless Mobile Networks. In Proceedings of IEEE International Conference on Wireless Communications & Networking Conference (WCNC'00), pp. 449-453, 2000.

• Y. Iraqi and R. Boutaba. A Novel Distributed Call Admission Control for Wireless Mobile Multimedia Networks. In Proceedings of ACM International Workshop on Wireless Mobile Multimedia (WoWMoM'00), pp.21-27, 2000.

• K. Boudaoud, H. Labiod, R. Boutaba and Z. Guessoum. Network Security Management with Intelligent Agents. In Proceedings of IFIP/IEEE International Network Operation and Management Symposium (NOMS'00), pp. 579-792, 2000.

• A. Mehaoua, S. Zhang, R. Boutaba. FEC-PSD: A FEC-aware video packet drop scheme. In Proceedings of IEEE International Conference on Global Communications (GLOBECOM'99), pp. 2091-2096, 1999.
• S. Omari, R. Boutaba and O. Cherkaoui. Enterprise Directory Support for Future SNMPv3 Network Management Applications. In Proceedings of IEEE International Conference on Global Communications (GLOBECOM'99), pp. 2010-2014, 1999.

• N. Red, R. Boutaba, Y. Rasheed and A. Leon-Garcia. Distributed Video Production: Tasks, Architecture and QoS Provisioning. In Proceedings of International Conference on Multimedia Modeling (MMM'99), pp. 299-321, 1999.

• S. Omari, R. Boutaba and O. Cherkaoui. Directory Supported Management with SNMPv3. In Proceedings of the International Workshop on Mobile Agents for Telecommunication Applications (MATA'99), pp. 477-490, 1999.

• S. Omari and R. Boutaba. Policy-based Control Agents for Boundary Routers in Differentiated Services IP. In Proceedings of IFIP/IEEE International Workshop on Distributed Systems: Operations & Management (DSOM'99), pp. 121-132, 1999.

• Y. Iraqi, R. Boutaba and R. Dssouli. Statistical Properties of MPEG Video Traffic and their Impact on Bandwidth Allocation in Wireless ATM Networks. In Proceedings of IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference (WCNC'99), pp. 998-1002, 1999.
• Y. Iraqi and R. Boutaba. A Dynamic Bandwidth Allocation Algorithm for MPEG Video Sources in Wireless Networks. In Proceedings of ACM International Workshop on Discrete Algorithms and Methods for Mobile Computing and Communications (DialM99), pp. 86-92, 1999.
• A. Mehaoua, R. Boutaba, J-P. Claudé and G. Pujolle. Proposal of an Audiovisual SSCS with Forward Error Correction. In Proceedings of IEEE International Symposium on Computers and Communications (ISCC'99), pp.121-127, 1999.

• S. Omari, R. Boutaba and O. Cherkaoui. SNMPv3 Configuration Policies. In Proceedings of International Conference on Networks and Services Management (GRES'99), pp. 95-118, 1999.

• A. Ghlamallah and R. Boutaba. Mobile Java Scripts based Middleware for Management-by-delegation. In Proceedings of International Conference on Networks and Services Management (GRES'99), pp. 264-276, 1999.

• A. Mehaoua, R. Boutaba, S. PU, Y. Rasheed and A. Leon-Garcia Towards An Efficient Best Effort Video Delivery Service. In Proceedings of IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC'99), pp. 1352 -1356, 1999.

• S. Omari, R. Boutaba and O. Cherkaoui. Policies in SNMPv3-Based Management. In Proceedings of IFIP/IEEE International Conference on Integrated Network Management (IM'99), pp. 797-811, 1999.

• W. Ng, A. D-S. Jun, H. K. Chow, R. Boutaba and A. Leon-Garcia. MIBlets: A Practical Approach to Virtual Network Management. In Proceedings of IFIP/IEEE International Conference on Integrated Network Management (IM'99), pp. 201-215, 1999.

• Y. Iraqi, R. Boutaba and A. Leon-Garcia. QoS Control in WATM. In Proceedings of IEEE International Workshop on Wireless Mobile ATM Implementations (wmATM'99), pp. 201-211, 1999.

• W. Ng, R. Boutaba, and A. Leon-Garcia. Provision and Customization of ATM Virtual Networks for supporting IP Services. In Proceedings of IEEE International Workshop on ATM (ATM'99), pp. 205-210, 1999.
• A. Mehaoua and R. Boutaba. The Impacts of Errors and Delays on the Performance of MPEG2 Video Communications. In Proceedings of IEEE International Conference On Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP'99), pp. 2195-2198, 1999.
• Y. Iraqi, R. Boutaba and A. Mehaoua. Configurable Multi-Agent System For QoS control in WATM. In Proceedings of IEEE International Conference on Global Communications (GLOBECOM'98), pp. 2882-2887, 1998.
• A. Mehaoua, R. Boutaba and Y. Iraqi. Partial versus Early Video Packet Discard. In Proceedings of IEEE International Conference on Global Communications (GLOBECOM'98), pp. 83-88, 1998.

• A. Ghlamallah and R. Boutaba. Implementing a Distributed Web-based Management System in Java. In Proceedings of SBT/IEEE International Telecommunications Symposium (ITS'98), pp. 554-559, 1998.

• A. Mehaoua and R. Boutaba. A hybrid VBR/ABR Service for Layered Video Communications: A Simulation-based Analysis. In Proceedings of IEEE International Workshop on Broadband Switching System (BSS'97), pp. 88-95, 1997.

• A. Mehaoua, R. Boutaba and G. Pujolle. Proposal of an extended AAL5 for VBR MPEG-2 over ATM. In Proceedings of IEEE International Conference on Multimedia Computing and Systems (MCS'97), pp. 618 –619, 1997.

• A.Hafid, P.Dini, M.Hafid and R.Boutaba. A Scalable Video-on-Demand System: Architecture and Implementation. In Proceedings of IFIP 13th International Conference for Computer Communications (ICCC'97), pp. 281-289, 1997.

• A. Mehaoua and R. Boutaba. Performance Analysis of a Partial Slice-based Discard Scheme for MPEG Video over UBR+ Service. In Proceedings of 13th IFIP International Conference for Computer Communications (ICCC'97), pp. 177-184, 1997.

• K. El-Guemhioui and R. Boutaba. Webifying Network Management. In Proceedings of International Conference on New Technologies for Distribution (NOTERE'97), pp. 257-268, 1997.

• A. Mehaoua, R. Boutaba and G. Pujolle. An adaptive and selective cell drop policy with dynamic data partitioning for best effort video over ATM. In Proceedings of IEEE 22nd Annual Conference on Local Computer Networks (LCN'97), pp. 519-529, 1997.

• Y. Iraqi, A. Ghlamallah, A. Mehaoua and R. Boutaba. A Multi-agents Architecture for Video Quality Control in ATM Networks. In Proceedings of International Conference on Networks and Services Management (GRES'97), pp. 185-196, 1997.

• A. Mehaoua, R. Boutaba and G. Pujolle. An Adaptive Early Slice Discard (A-ESD) Scheme with multi-priority support for Best Effort Video over ATM Networks. In Proceedings of IEEE International Conference on Information, Communications and Signal Processing (ICICS'97), pp. 1632-1637, 1997.

• A. Hafid and R. Boutaba. A Scalable Scheme to Access Multimedia Documents with QoS Guarantees. In Proceedings of International Workshop on Interactive Distributed Multimedia Systems and Telecommunication Services (IDMS'97), pp. 386-396, 1997.

• A. Mehaoua, R. Boutaba and G. Pujolle. An extended priority data partition scheme for MPEG video connections over ATM. In Proceedings of IEEE International Symposium on Computers and Communications (ISCC'97), pp. 62-67, 1997.
• M. Guiagoussou, R. Boutaba. A TMN Framework for Fault Diagnosis in Wireless Telecommunication Networks. In Proceedings of IEEE International Symposium on Computers and Communications (ISCC'97), pp. 424 -432, 1997.

• P. Dini, G. v. Bochmann and R. Boutaba. New Models for Applying Automatic Reconfiguration in Networks and Distributed Systems. In Proceedings of European Conference on Intelligent Management Systems in Operations (IMS'97), pp. 163-170, 1997.

• P. Dini and R. Boutaba. Deriving Variable Polling Frequency Policies for Proactive Management in Networks and Distributed Systems. In Proceedings of IFIP/IEEE International Conference on Integrated Network Management (IM'97), pp. 541-552, 1997.

• R. Boutaba. Intelligent Management System for Fault Diagnostic in Cellular Telecommunication Networks. In Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Telecommunications (ICT'97), pp. 783-788, 1997.

• M. Guiagoussou, R. Boutaba and G. v. Bochmann. Telecommunication Networks, Alarm Correlation and Fault Diagnosis: A Relation-based Approach. In Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Telecommunications (ICT'97), pp. 843-847, 1997.

• A. Mehaoua and R. Boutaba. Load balancing of scalable MPEG2 streams between VBR and ABR connections. In Proceedings of the IFIP 5th International Conference on Telecommunication Systems Modeling and Analysis, pp. 425-430, 1997.

• A. Mehaoua, R. Boutaba and G. Pujolle. A Picture Quality Control Framework for MPEG video over ATM. In Proceedings of IFIP/IEEE 5th International Workshop on Protocols for High Speed Networks (PfHSN'96), pp. 49-59, 1996.

• P. Freedman, D. Gaudreau, R. Boutaba and A. Mehaoua. The two real-time Solitudes: Computerized control and Telecommunications. In Proceedings of IEEE Second International Conference on Engineering of Complex Computer Systems, pp. 87 -90, 1996.

• P. Dini, R. Boutaba and G. v. Bochmann. Human & Automatic Policies in Concert: A Policy-Driven approach to Manage Distributed Systems. In Proceedings of IEEE-SMC International Computational Engineering in Systems Applications (CESA'96), pp. 426-431, 1996.

• P. Dini, G. v. Bochmann and R. Boutaba. Health Performance Evaluation and Formalization for Distributed System Components. In Proceedings of IEEE International Workshop on Systems Management, pp. 20-29, 1996.
• R. Boutaba and A. Mehaoua. Applying the Policy Concept to the Management of ATM Networks. In Proceedings of IEEE International Workshop on Systems Management, pp. 47-54, 1996.
• R. Boutaba and L. Duroux. Automated End-to-end Management in ATM Networks. In Proceedings of IEEE International Conference on Networks & Information Engineering (SICON/ICIE'95), pp. 167-171, 1995.
• R. Boutaba and S. Znaty. Integrated Network Management: From Concepts to Application to ATM-Based Networks. In Proceedings of IEEE International Conference on Global Communications (GLOBECOM'94), pp. 1409-1413, 1994.

• R. Boutaba and B. Folliot. Programs and Files Allocation Algorithm for Large Scale Distributed Systems. In IFIP Transactions on Applications in Parallel and Distributed Computing, pp. 165-173, 1994.

• R. Boutaba and A. Benkiran. DOMAINS: An Object-oriented Platform for Distributed Systems Management. In Proceedings of IFIP/IEEE 3rd Conference on Software Engineering and Artificial Intelligence (MIPS'94), pp. 405-414, 1994.

• R. Boutaba and S. Znaty. Towards Integrated Network Management: A Domain/Policy Approach and its Application to a High Speed Multi-Network. In Proceedings of IEEE/IFIP International Symposium on Network Operation and Management (NOMS'94), pp. 777-789, February 1994.

• R. Boutaba. A Methodology for Structuring Management of Networked Systems. In IFIP Transactions on Advanced Information Processing Techniques for LAN and MAN Management, pp. 225-242, 1994.

• R. Boutaba, B. Folliot and P. Sens. Efficient Resource Management in Local Area Networks. In IFIP Transactions on Advanced Information Processing Techniques for LAN and MAN Management, pp. 101-114, 1994.

• R. Boutaba. A Directory Based Approach for Meta-Configuration. In Proceedings of International Symposium on Telecommunication Networks Operation & Management (KTIS'93), pp. 46-52, 1993.

• R. Boutaba, K. Foughali. Distributed Open Architecture for Tools Interworking. In Proceedings of European Forum for Open Systems, Technology for an Open World, pp.135-143, Sept. 1993.

• R. Boutaba and B. Folliot. Load Balancing in Local Area Networks. In IFIP Transactions on Computer Networks - Architecture and Application, pp. 67-78, 1993.

• R. Boutaba and A. Benkiran. A Framework for Distributed Systems Management. In IFIP Transactions on Computer Networks - Architecture and Application, pp. 287-298, 1993.

• R. Boutaba and A. Benkiran. An Architecture for the Management of Distributed Systems; Application to Intelligent Networks. In Proceedings of 9th Conference on Intelligent Networks: Architecture, tools and applications (DNAC'92), pp. 248-269, 1992.

• R. Boutaba. An Object Oriented Approach to Large Scale Distributed Systems Management. In International Workshop on Objects in Large Distributed Applications (held as part of ACM OOPSLA'92), pp. 63-69, 1992.

• R. Boutaba and B. Folliot. Presentation of a Multicriteria Load Balancing. In International Workshop On Dynamic Object Placement and Load Balancing in Parallel and Distributed Systems (held as part of ECOOP'92), pp. 39-44, 1992.

• B. St. Arnaud, A. Bjerring, O. Cherkaoui, R. Boutaba, M. Potts, W. Hong. Web services architecture for user control and management of optical Internet networks. In IEEE Proceedings, special issue on the future of the Internet.

 

Patents

• W.K. Hong, J. LI, J. Xiao, and R. Boutaba. Energy-Efficient Method And Apparatus For Application-Aware Packet Transmission. Patent. US Application 20150172155, June 2015.

• M. Ghaderi, R. Boutaba and G. Kenward. Stochastic Call Admission Control for Wireless Cellular Packet Networks. U.S. provisional application No. 60/585,252, filed on July 2, 2004

• R. Boutaba and S. Douik. Software fault management system. (Patent). Serial Number 60/031. Filed in the US Patent and Trademark Office, August 21, 1997. Issued Jan 4, 2000. Patent # 6,012,152

 

Books

• N. Fonseca and R. Boutaba (editors), Cloud Services, Networking, and Management. Wiley-IEEE Press, April 2015.

• R. Ahmed and R. Boutaba (editors), Collaborative Web Hosting Challenges and Research Directions. Springer, 2014.

• C. Fung and R. Boutaba (editors), Intrusion Detection Networks: A Key to Collaborative Security. CRC Press, November 2013.

• R. Boutaba, M. Brunner, S. Shmidt, and L. Granville (editors), Autonomic Communications and Network Management. IEEE Press, June 2009.

• R. Boutaba, F. Kamoun, A. Mehaoua, S. Tabbane, M. Ulema, and B. Walp (editors). "Global Information Infrastructures". IEEE Press, ISBN: 978-1-4244- 4624-7, June 2009.

• R. Boutaba, M. Brunner, S. Shmidt, and L. Granville (editors), "Autonomic Communications and Network Management". IEEE Press. April 2008.

• N. Agoulmine, R. Boutaba and A. Serhrouchni (editors), "Global Information Infrastructures". IEEE Press, ISBN: 1-4244-1375-3, 223 pages. July 2007.

• R. Boutaba, M. Brunner and S. Shmidt (editors), "Autonomic Communications and Network Management". IEEE Press. May 2007.

• R. Boutaba, K. Almeroth, R. Puigjaner, S. Shen, and J. P. Black (editors) Networking 2005. Springer, 2005 (1483 pages)

• R. Boutaba and Seong-Beom Kim (editors). Managing Next Generation Convergence Networks and Services. IEEE Press. 2004 (935 pages).

• J. N. de Souza and R. Boutaba (editors). Managing QoS in Multimedia Networks and Services. Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2000 (296 pages).

• R. Boutaba and A. Hafid (editors). Management of Multimedia Networks and Services. Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1998 (280 pages).

• P. Dini, R. Boutaba and L. Logrippo (editors). Feature Interactions in Telecommunication Networks. IOS Press 1997 (384 pages).

 

• L. Dolberg, J. François, S. Rahman, R.A. Chowdhury, R. Boutaba, and T. Engel. Network Configuration and Flow Scheduling for Big Data Applications. In Networking for Big Data. S. Yu, X. Lin, J. Misic, and X. Shen (editors). pp. 121-138, CRC Press, 2015.

• R. Boutaba and N. Fonseca. Cloud Architecture, Networks, Services, and Management In Cloud Services, Networking and Management, N. Fonseca and R. Boutaba (editors). pp. 3-22, Wiley, 2015 .

• M. F. Zhani and R. Boutaba. Survivability and Fault Tolerance in the Cloud. In Cloud Services, Networking and Management, N. Fonseca and R. Boutaba (editors). pp. 295--308, Wiley, 2015.

• R. Boutaba, Q. Zhang and M. F. Zhani. Virtual Machine Migration in Cloud Computing Environments: Benefits, Challenges, and Approaches. In Communication Infrastructures for Cloud Computing. H. Mouftah and B. Kantarci (Editors). IGI-Global, USA. pp. 383-408, September, 2013

• Carol Fung and Raouf Boutaba. Cooperation in Intrusion Detection Networks, chapter 9 in Cooperative Networks, M. S. Obaidat and S. Misra (editors), Jon Wiley & Sons publishing, 2010.

• L. Mekouar, Y. Iraqi and R. Boutaba. Reputation Management in Peer-to-Peer Systems: Taxonomy and Anatomy. In "P2P Handbook". X. Shen, H. Yu, J. Buford and M. Akon (editors). Springer, USA, pp. 689-732, 2010.

• R. Ahmed and R. Boutaba. P2P Search and Distributed Pattern Matching. In "P2P Handbook". X. Shen, H. Yu, J. Buford and M. Akon (editors). Springer, USA, ISBN: 978-0-387-09750-3. 2009.

R. Boutaba and J. Xiao. An Introduction to Network and Service Management. In "Enterprise Systems Integration". M. Sherif (editor). CRC Press, Auerbach, USA, ISBN: 978-1-4200-7821-3. Pages 159-184. 2009.

• B. Ishibashi and R. Boutaba. The Symbiosis of Cognitive Radio and Wireless Mesh Networks. In "Guide to Wireless Mesh Networks". S. Misra, S. Chandra and I. Woungang (editors). Springer, London, UK, ISBN: 978-1-84800-908-0. Pages 471-496. 2009.

• R. Boutaba, J. Xiao and Q. Zhang. Management and Self-Stabilization. In "Autonomic Computing and Networking". M. Denko, Y. Zhang, and L. T. Yang (editors). Springer, USA, ISBN: 978-0-387-89827-8. Pages 239-260. 2009.

• R. Boutaba and Jin Xiao. Telecommunication Network Management. In "Telecommunications Technologies, Systems, and Services". P. Bellavista (editor). EOLSS Theme 6.108 Telecommunication Systems and Technologies", Volume 6.108, UNESCO EOLSS Publishers Co Ltd, (28 Pages), 2007.

• R. Boutaba and J. Xiao. Self-Managing Networks. In "Cognitive Networks: Towards Self-aware Networks". Q. H. Mahmoud (Editor). John Wiley & Sons, page 14 ISBN: 978-0-470-06196-1. Pages 77-93. 2007.

• M. Ghaderi and R. Boutaba. Impact of Mobility on Resource Management in Wireless Networks. In "The Handbook of Mobile Middleware". P. Bellavista and A. Corradi (editors). Auerbach Publications, USA, ISBN 0-849-33833-6. Pages 639-662. 2007.

 

• N. Aitsaadi, R. Boutaba, and Y. Takahashi. Cloudification of the internet of things. In Annals of Telecommunications. Springer, pp. 1-2, Appeared in December 2016.

• R. Langer, B. Hamdaoui, M. Gerla, and R. Boutaba. Vehicular Cloud Networking. In Vehicular Communications. Elsevier, Vol. 4 (2016), pp. 38-38, Appeared in April 2016.

• R. Boutaba, N. Fonseca, D. Kliazovich, and N. Limam. Cloud Networking and Communications II. In Computer Networks (COMNET). Elsevier, Vol. 93 (2015), pp. 405-407, Appeared in October 2015.

• R. Boutaba, N. Limam, S. Secci, and T. Taleb. Cloud networking and communications. In Computer Networks (COMNET). Elsevier, Vol. 68 (2014), pp. 1-4, Appeared in June 2014 .

• P. Rost, R. Boutaba, K. Doppler and A. Gumaste. Recent Advances in Network Convergence. Guest Editorial. Computer Networks (COMNET), Elsevier, Vol. 55 (7), pp.1455-1458. May 2011.

• R. Boutaba, S. Murphy, A. Banchs. Special issue on Wireless Multi-Hop Networking for Infrastructure Access. In Computer Networks (COMNET). Elsevier, Vol. 54 (2), pp. 175-177, February 2010.

• R. Boutaba, J.P. Martin-Flatin, J.L. Hellerstein, R.H. Katz, G. Pavlou, C.T. Lea. Recent Advances in Autonomic Communications [Guest Editorial]. IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications (JSAC). IEEE Press, Vol 28(1), pp. 1-3, January 2010.

• R. Boutaba, E. Al-Shaer and K. Almeroth. Monitoring and measurements of IP networks (editorial). International Journal on Computer Communications (COMCOM), Elsevier Science, Vol. 29, Issue 10, pp. 1561-1563, June 2006.

• R. Boutaba and A. Marshall. Management in peer-to-peer systems: Trust, reputation and security (editorial). International Journal on computer networks (COMNET), Elsevier, Vol. 50(4), pp. 469-471, March 2006.

• R. Boutaba, G. Goldszmidt, H-G. Hegering, J. Schonwalder and M. Sloman. Autonomic Communication Systems (editorial). IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications (JSAC), IEEE Press, Vol. 23, Issue 12, pp. 2209 – 2212, Dec. 2005.

• R. Boutaba, G. Jakobson, L. Lewis and P. Ray. Recent Advances in Managing Enterprise Network Services (editorial). IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications (JSAC), IEEE Press, Vol. 23, Issue 10, pp. 1917 – 1920, Oct. 2005.

• R. Boutaba, Y.H. Cho, M. Ejiri, and S.B. Kim. Managing Next Generation Convergence Networks and Services - A Report on NOMS 2004, International Journal of Network and Systems Management, Vol. 12, No. 2, pp. 277-282, 2004.

• R. Boutaba and A. Leon-Garcia. Active Management of Multimedia Networks and Services (editorial). In International Journal on Network and Systems Management (special issue), Plenum Press, NY, Vol.8, No.1, pp. 5-7, March 2000.

• R. Boutaba, J. Kalvenes and G. Pujolle. Resource Management in Wireless Networks (editorial). In Mobile Networks and Applications Journal (special issue), ACM/Blatzer Science Publishers, Vol.4, No.2, pp. 83-86, May 1999.

 

• A. Polyrakis and R. Boutaba, The Meta-Policy PIB, IETF Internet Draft, draft-polyrakis-mpib-00.txt, (31 pages), 2002.

• T. Ahmed, A. Mehaoua and R. Boutaba, Interworking Between SIP and MPEG-4 DMIF, IETF Internet Draft, draft-ahmed-dmif-sip-00.txt (16 Pages). September 2001

• R. Boutaba and A. Polyrakis, COPS-PR with Meta-Policy Support,  IETF Internet Draft, draft-boutaba-copsprmp-00.txt (24 pages). April 2001