Memberships in Societies and Offices Held

• Director, Conference Publications Board of the IEEE Communications Society. 2008-2010.
• Director, Society Relations Board of the IEEE Communications Society. 2006-2008.
• Founding Director, IEEE Communications Society Standards Board. 2005-2006.
• Chairman, IEEE Communications Society Ad-hoc Committee on Standards. 2004-2005.
• Member of the IEEE Communications Society Board of Governors. 2005-2010
• Founding Chair, ACTC (Autonomic Communications Technical Committee), a subcommittee under emerging technologies of the IEEE Communications Society. 2006- 2008
• Chair, TCII (Technical Committee on Information Infrastructure) of the Communications Society of IEEE. 2006-2010
• Vice Chair, TCII (Technical Committee on Information Infrastructure) of the Communications Society of IEEE. 2003-2005
• Chair, Technical Program. TCII (Technical Committee on Information Infrastructure) of the Communications Society of IEEE. 2001-2003
• Chairman, IFIP (International Federation for Information Processing) - Technical Committee on Communications (TC6) - Working Group (WG6.6) on Network and Distributed Systems Management. 2001-2007
• Secretary of AHSNTC (Ad Hoc and Sensor Networks Technical Committee) of the IEEE Communications Society. 2005.
• Voting member of the IEEE Communications Society Board of Meetings and Conferences. Represent the technology sector "Networks and Systems Management". 2004-present.
• Member of the IEEE Communications Society Standards Board. 2006-2008.
• Member of the IEEE Communications Society Online Content Board. 2004-2005.
• Member of the IEEE Communications Board of Journals. 2004-2010.
• Senior member of the IEEE, member of ACM, member of IFIP WG6.2, WG6.9 and WG6.10, member of IEEE ComSoc (Communications Society), CNOM (Committee on Network Operation and Management) and AHSN (Committee on Ad Hoc and Sensor Networks)
• Chairman, IEEE Communications chapter, Kitchener/Waterloo, since 2005
• Chairman, IEEE joint Communications and Vehicular Technology chapter, Kitchener/Waterloo, 2002-2005
• Chairman, IEEE joint Computer, Communications and Vehicular Technology chapter, Kitchener/Waterloo, 2000-2002

Editorial Positions

• Editor in Chief. IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications. 2018-2021.
• Founding Editor in Chief. IEEE Transactions on Network and Service Management. 2007-2010
• Editor. IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing. 2011-2016
• Editorial Advisory Board member. International Journal of Network Management. ACM/Wiley. 2011-2016
• Editorial Board Member. Journal of Internet Services and Applications. Springer. 2010-present.
• Editorial Board Member. Journal of Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing. Wiley. 2010-2016.
• Editor. KICS/IEEE International Journal on Communications and Networks (JCN). 2002-2016.
• Advisory Editorial Board member. International Journal of Network and Systems Management. Springer Verlag. 2001-present.
• Editorial Board Member. Journal of Autonomic and Trusted Computing (JoATC). American Scientific Publishers. 2005 – present.
• Editorial Board Member. International Journal of Autonomous and Adaptive Communications Systems (IJAACS), Inderscience Publishers. 2008 – present.
• Editorial Board Member. International Journal of Autonomic Computing (IJAC). Inderscience Publishers. 2008 – present.
• Editorial Board Member. International Journal of Communication Networks and Distributed Systems (IJCNDS). 2007 – present.
• Editorial Board member. Computer Networks Journal. Elsevier Science. 2006-2008.
• Founding Editor in Chief. eTransactions on Network and Service Management, sponsored by the IEEE Communications Society. 2004-2006.
• Guest Co-editor. Journal of Internet Services and Applications. Issue on Network Virtualization. Springer, third quarter 2011.
• Guest Co-editor. Computer Networks Journal. Issue on Network Convergence. Elsevier Science, May 2011
• Guest Co-editor. IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications, Issue on Autonomic Communications. IEEE Press, January 2010.
• Guest Co-editor. Computer Networks Journal, Special Issue on Network Convergence. Elsevier Science. To appear in 2011.
• Guest Co-editor. Computer Networks Journal, Special Issue on Wireless Networking. Elsevier Science, 2006.
• Guest Co-editor. Computer Communications Journal, Special Issue on Monitoring and Measurements of IP Networks. Elsevier Science, Vol. 29, Issue 10, 19 June 2006.
• Guest Co-editor. Computer Networks Journal, Special Issue on Management in Peer-to-Peer Systems: Trust, Reputation and Security. Elsevier Science, Vol. 50, Issue 4, 15 March 2006.
• Guest Co-editor. IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications, Issue on Autonomic Communication Systems. IEEE Press, Vol. 23, Issue 12, December 2005.
• Guest Co-editor. IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications, Special Issue on Recent Advances in Managing Enterprise Network Services. IEEE Press, Vol. 23, Issue 10, October 2005.
• Editorial Board Member. International Journal of Network and Systems Management (JNSM). 1999-2001.
• Guest Co-editor. International Journal of Network and Systems Management (JNSM), special issue on Active Management of Multimedia Networks and Services. Plennum Press, Vol. 8, No. 1, March 2000.
• Guest Editor. International Journal on Interoperable Communication Networks, special issue on QoS Management in Multimedia Networks, Vol.2, N° 4, January 2000.
• Guest Editor. ACM/Baltzer International Journal on Mobile Networks and Applications (MONET), special issue on Resource Management in Wireless Networks. ACM/Baltzer, Vol. 4, No. 2, June 1999.

Conference Organization

Conference Steering Committees

• Chair. IFIP/IEEE International Symposium on Integrated Management (IM) and IEEE/IFIP International Symposium on Network Operation and Management (NOMS) since 2001
• Chair. IEEE/IFIP/ACM International Conference on Network and Service Management (CNSM). since 2005.
• Member. IFIP Wireless Days. Since 2008.

Conference Organizing Committees

• TPC Co-Chair, IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC), Ottawa (Canada), June 2012.
• Finance Chair, IEEE/IFIP Network Operations and Management Symposium (NOMS), Maui, Hawaii (USA), April 2012.
• General Chair, IFIP Wireless Days, Niagara Falls (Canada), October 2011.
• Patrons Chair, IEEE/IFIP/ACM International Conference on Network and Service Management (CNSM), Paris (France), October 2011.
• Founder Chair, IEEE/IFIP/ACM International Conference on Network and Service Management (CNSM), Niagara Falls (Canada), October 2010.
• General co-chair, 7th IEEE International Conference on Autonomic and Trusted Computing (ATC), Xi'an (China), October 2010
• Founder and General Co-chair. 1st IFIP/IEEE International Workshop on Management of Smart Grids. Co-located with IEEE/IFIP NOMS 2010, Osaka (Japan), April 23, 2010
• Founder and General Co-chair. IEEE Workshop on Autonomic Communications and Network Management (ACNM), co-located with IM 2009, Long Island (USA), June 2009
• General Chair, IEEE Global Information Infrastructure Symposium (GIIS), Hammamet (Tunisia), June 23-25, 2009.
• Finance Chair. IEEE International Conference on Communications, GLOBECOM 2009, Hawaii (USA), November 2009.
• International Liaison. 12th IEEE Asia Pacific Network Operations and Management Symposium (APNOMS), Jeju (Korea), September 2009.
• Publication co-chair. IEEE Conference on Computer Communications, INFOCOM 2010, San Diego (USA), April 2010
• General Chair. IEEE Global Information Infrastructure Symposium, GIIS 2009, Hamamet (Tunisia), June 2009
• Technical Program Co-Chair. IEEE International Conference on Communications - Symposium on Communications and Information Security Symposium. ICC 2009, Dresden,(Germany), June 2009.
• Technical Program Co-Chair. The 11th International Symposium on Stabilization, Safety, and Security of Distributed Systems (SSS 2009) – Track on System Safety and Security, Lyon (France), November 3-6, 2009.
• Technical Program Co-Chair. 24th IEEE Conference on Advanced Information Networking and Application – Track on Autonomic Computing and Communication. Perth (Australia), April 20-23, 2010.
• General Co-Chair. IEEE Distributed and Autonomous Management of Networks and Services Workshop (DAMNS), co-located with the Global Communications Conference - Globecom 2008, New Orleans, LA (USA), November 2008.
• Technical Program Co-Chair. IEEE Global Communications Conference - Symposium on Wireless Sensors and Adhoc Networks. Globecom 2008, New Orleans, LA (USA), November 2008.
• Co-founder and General Co-chair. IFIP/IEEE Autonomic Communications and Network Management Workshop (ACNM), co-located with NOMS 2008, Salvador (Brazil), April 2008
• Finance Chair. IEEE International Network Operations and Management Symposium, NOMS 2008, Salvador (Brazil), April 2008.
• Program co-chair. Dagshtul Seminar. 2007
• Technical Program Co-Chair. IEEE International Conference on Communications - Symposium on Wireless Ad Hoc and Sensor Networks. ICC 2007, Glascow, Scotland (UK), June 2007
• Co-founder and General Co-chair. IFIP/IEEE Autonomic Communications and Network Management Workshop (ACNM), co-located with IM 2007, Munich (Germany), May 2007
• IEEE Society Liaison. IEEE Consumer Communications and Networking Conference (CCNC'07), Las Vegas (USA), January 2007
• Technical Program Co-Chair. IEEE Global Communications Conference - Symposium on Wireless Sensors and Adhoc Networks. Globecom 2006, San Francisco, CA (USA), November 2006
• International Liaison. IEEE Asia Pacific Network Operations and Management Symposium (APNOMS), Busan (Korea) September 2006
• Technical Program Co-Chair. Workshop on Autonomic Computing and Communications. ACC 2006, Niagara Falls (USA), June 2006
• Technical Program Co-Chair. IEEE International Conference on Communications - General Symposium. ICC 2006, Istanbul (Turkey), June 2006
• General Chair. IEEE/IFIP Symposium on Network Operations and Management (NOMS'06) in Vancouver (Canada), April 2006
• Technical Track Chair. IEEE Vehicular Technology Conference (VTC) in Montreal (Canada), September 2006
• Founder and General Chair. First IEEE/IFIP co-location of fall network management events: 8th MMNS (Management of Multimedia Networks and Services), 16th DSOM (Distributed Systems Operation and Management), 5th IPOM (IP Operation and Management) and SSS (Self Stabilizing Systems) in Barcelona (Spain), October 2005
• Program Co-chair. IFIP/UNESCO Commission on building the infrastructure, WITFOR 2005, Gaborone (Botswana), August 2005.
• Technical Program Co-Chair. 3rd International Workshop on Self-Adaptive and Autonomic Computing Systems. SAACS 05, Copenhagen (Denmark), August 2005.
• Technical Program Co-Chair. Workshop on Autonomic Computing and Communications. ACC 2005, Taormina (Italy), June 2005
• Technical Program Co-Chair. IEEE International Conference on Communications. Symposium on Next Generation Universal Services. IEEE ICC 2005, Seoul (Korea), May 2005
• Patrons Chair. IFIP/IEEE Conference on Integrated Network Management. IM 2005, Nice (France), May 2005.
• Technical Program Chair. IFIP International Networking Conference (Networking'05), Toronto (Canada), May 2005
• Tutorials Chair, IFIP Networking Conference. Networking 2005, Waterloo (Canada), May 2005
• Technical Program Chair. IEEE Consumer Communications and Networking Conference (CCNC'05), Las Vegas (USA), January 2005
• Technical Program Co-Chair. IEEE/IFIP International Symposium on Network Operation and Management (NOMS'04), Seoul (Korea), April 2004
• Tutorials Chair, IEEE International Symposium on Computer Communications (ISCC'04), Alexandria (Egypt), July 2004
• Panel Chair, IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC'03)
• Finance Chair, IFIP/IEEE International Conference on Integrated Network Management (IM'03). Colorado Springs, USA, March 2003.
• Keynotes/Distinguished Expert Panel/Birds-of-a-Feather Chair, IFIP/IEEE International Conference on Integrated Network Management (IM'01). Seattle, USA, May 2001.
• Panel Chair, IFIP/IEEE International Conference on Management of Multimedia Networks and Services (MMNS'01).
• Program Co-Chair, IFIP/IEEE International Conference on Management of Multimedia Networks and Services (MMNS'00).
• Program Co-Chair, Mini-conference on Active & Programmable Networks (part of IFIP Networking 2000 conference).
• Publicity Chair, IFIP Networking Conference (Networking) 2000.
• Co-Chairman, IFIP/IEEE International Conference on Management of Multimedia Networks and Services (MMNS'98).
• Founder and Program Chair, IFIP/IEEE International Conference on Management of Multimedia Networks and Services (MMNS'97).
• Organizer and Program Co-Chair, IEEE International Workshop on Feature Interactions in Telecommunication Networks (FIW'97).
• Session Chairman at CFIP'96, ICCC'97, ICT'98, DSOM'99, NOMS'00, IM'01, DSOM'02, MMNS'02, Med-hoc-Net'02, NOMS'02, ISCC'03, MMNS'03, DSOM'03, CCNC'04, DSOM'04, NETCON'04, MMNS'04, Networking'04, and at many recent conferences/workshops.

Conference Technical Program Committees

• IFIP/IEEE International Symposium on Integrated Management (IM) 2001 – present.
• IEEE/IFIP International Symposium on Network Operation and Management (NOMS) 2000 – present.
• IEEE INFOCOM 2007-present.
• IEEE Conference on Sensor and Ad Hoc Networks (SECON) 2005 – 2006.
• IEEE Consumer Communications and Networking Conference (CCNC) 2005 – 2006
• IEEE Conference on Local Computer Networks (LCN) 2005 – 2006.
• IEEE Global Telecommunications Conference (Globecom) 2001 – present.
• IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC) 2001 – present.
• IFIP Networking 2005 – present.
• IFIP/IEEE International Conference on Management of Multimedia Networks and Services (MMNS) 1997 – present.
• IFIP/IEEE International Workshop on Distributed Systems Operation and Management (DSOM) 1999 – present
• International Teletraffic Congress (ITC) 2007
• IEEE International Workshop on Mobile Agents for Telecommunication Applications (MATA) 1999 – present.
• ACM SIGCOM Poster Program 2005
• IEEE/ACM International Workshop on Mobility in the Evolving Internet Architecture (MobiArch) 2006
• IFIP International Workshop on Autonomic Communication (WAC) 2004 – present.
• IEEE International Workshop on Self-Managed Networks, Systems & Services (SelfMan) 2006
• IFIP International Workshop on Active Networks (IWAN) 2005 – present.
• International Conference on Autonomic and Trusted Computing (ATC) 2005 – present.
• IFIP Mediterranean Workshop on Ad Hoc Networks (Med-Hoc-Net) 2004 – present.
• IEE International Conference on Mobile Technology, Applications and Systems (Mobility) 2006
• ACM/CreatNet International Mobile and Multimedia Communications Conference (MobiMedia) 2005 – present.
• International Conference on Telecommunications and Multimedia (TEMU) 2006
• IFIP WG 6.9 workshop on Wireless Communications and Information Technology in Developing Countries (WCIT) 2006
• IFIP Workshop on Trusted and Autonomic Ubiquitous and Embedded Systems (TAUES) 2005
• IEEE Symposium on Computers and Communications (ISCC) 2001 2002 2003
• IFIP Conference on Intelligence in Communication Systems (Intellcomm) 2004 2005
• IFIP/IEEE Network Control and Engineering Conference (NETCON) 2003 – present.
• IEEE Brazilian Symposium on Computer Networks (SBRC) 2004 – present.
• IEEE Workshop on End-to-End Monitoring (E2EMON) 2003 – present.
• IFIP Workshop on Application Controlled Optical Networks (ACON) 2006
• IEEE Workshop on Broadband Convergence Networks (BcN) 2006
• Colloque Francophone sur l'Ingenierie des Protocoles (CFIP) 2006
• IEEE/CreateNet CHINACOM 2006
• EUROPEAN Conference on Universal Multiservice Networks (ECUMN) 2007
• International Conference for Internet Technology and Secured Transactions (ICITST) 2006
• IEEE Canadian Conference on Electrical and Computer Engineering (CCECE) 2004
• IEEE International Conference on High Speed Networks and Multimedia Communications (HSNMC) 2004
• International workshop on Next Generation Networking Middleware (NGNM) 2004 – present.
• International Conference on Electronic Commerce Research (ICECR) 2004
• IEEE/ACM/IEICE International Conference on E-Business and Telecommunication Networks (ICETE) 2004 2005
• International Workshop on Context Aware Networks Technology and Applications (CANET) 2005
• International Workshop on Convergence of Heterogeneous Wireless Networks (ConWiN) 2005
• International Conference on Information Networking (ICOIN) 2004 - 2007
• Workshop on Internet Compatible QoS in Ad hoc Wireless Networks (IC-QAWN) 2005
• IFIP Open Conference on Metropolitan Area Networks (MAN) 2005
• IEEE International Workshop on Management Issues and Challenges in Mobile Computing (MICMC) 2005
• IFIP International Workshop on Active Networks (IWAN) 2005
• International Workshop on Next Generation Networking Middleware (NGNM) 2004 2005
• IEEE Workshop on Reliability and Autonomic Management In Parallel and Distributed Systems (RAMPDS) 2005
• IEEE Conference on Wireless Communications (WirelessCom) 2005
• IEEE International Workshop on Radio Resource Management for Wireless Cellular Networks (RRM-WCN) 2005
• IEEE International Conference on Wireless and Mobile Computing, Networking and Communications (WiMob) 2005 – present.
• International workshop on Mobile Ad Hoc Networks and Interoperability issues (MANET) 2005
• IEEE Wireless QoS Symposium (WiQoS) 2005
• IFIP World Computer Congress (WCC) 2002
• IEEE Vehicular Technology Conference (VTC) 2003 2006
• IFIP Mediterranean Workshop on Ad Hoc Networks (Med-Hoc-Net) 2002 2003 2004 2005
• IEEE International Conference on Computer Communications (ICCC) 2002
• IEEE Workshop on Feature Interactions in Telecommunication Networks (FIW) 1997
• IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference (WCNC) 2002
• Annual Congress on New Architectures for Communications (DNAC) 1997 – present.
• SPIE International Conference on Quality of Service over Next Generation Data Networks (QoS) 2001 2002 2003
• International Conference on Networks and Services Management (GRES) 1999 – present.
• ACM International Conference on Software Engineering Applied to Networking and Parallel/ Distributed Computing (SNPD) 2000
• IEEE Latin America Conference on Network Operation and Management (LANOMS) 2001 – present.
• IEEE Asia Pacific Conference on Network Operation and Management (APNOMS) 2006.
• IFIP Latin America Networking Conference 2002 2005
• International Conference on Electronic Commerce Research (ICECR-5) 2002 2005
• Magrebian Conference on Software Engineering and Artificial Intelligence 2002
• IEEE IP Operations and Management Workshop (IPOM) 2002
• International Symposium on Software and Systems (I3S) 2001
• International Symposium on Innovation in Information & Communication Technology (ISIICT) 2001 2003
• IEEE Canadian Workshop on Information theory (CWIT) 2003
• International Conference on "Communication Systems and Networks (CSN) 2002
• International Conference on Wireless and Optical Communications (WOC) 2001
• International Conference on Advances in Communications (AIC) 2001

Review Panels for Research Funding Agencies

• Natural Science and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC), Discovery Grants Program.
• French Agence Nationale de la Recherche (ANR)
• Qatar National Research Fund (QNRF)
• Portuguese Research Foundation (FCT)
• Science Foundation Ireland (SFI)
• Fonds Quebecois de la Recherche sur la Nature of les Technologies (FQRNT)
• King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals (KFUPM)