• Enhancing the performance of post-failure restoration schemes in multi-tenant networks 

      Ghaleb, Abdulaziz M.; Khalifa, Tarek; Shaban, Khaled Bashir ( Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc. , 2017 , Conference Paper)
      Failure in the physical network can cause a temporal or permanent unavailability of some resources, which can lead to a quality of service (QoS) degradation and loss of revenue. While much work has been dedicated to the ...
    • Fault Detection, Isolation, and Service Restoration in Distribution Systems: State-of-the-Art and Future Trends 

      Zidan, Aboelsood; Khairalla, Mutaz; Abdrabou, Ahmed M.; Khalifa, Tarek; Shaban, Khaled; ... more authors ( Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc. , 2017 , Article)
      This paper surveys the conceptual aspects, as well as recent developments in fault detection, isolation, and service restoration (FDIR) following an outage in an electric distribution system. This paper starts with a ...
    • Machine-to-Machine (M2M) communications: A survey 

      Verma, Pawan Kumar; Verma, Rajesh; Prakash, Arun; Agrawal, Ashish; Naik, Kshirasagar; ... more authors ( Academic Press , 2016 , Article Review)
      Machine-to-Machine (M2M) communication is a promising technology for next generation communication systems. This communication paradigm facilitates ubiquitous communications with full mechanical automation, where a large ...
    • Modelling and performance analysis of TCP variants for data collection in smart power grids 

      Khalifa, Tarek; Shaban, Khaled Bashir; Abdrabou, Atef; Bilh, Abdoulmenim; Naik, Kshirasagar ( Elsevier B.V. , 2017 , Article)
      Smart grid communication networks adopt a variety of communication technologies interconnecting numerous and diverse equipment. The requirement of supporting a large traffic volume over such networks efficiently, reliably, ...
    • Restoration methods for cloud multicast virtual networks 

      Ayoubi, Sara; Assi, Chadi; Chen, Yiheng; Khalifa, Tarek; Shaban, Khaled Bashir ( Academic Press , 2017 , Article)
      Providing reliability guarantees for services hosted in cloud data center networks is a well studied problem that received much attention from the literature in recent years. Yet, the existing literature failed to account ...
    • Surviving link failures in multicast VN embedded applications 

      Ghaleb, Abdulaziz M.; Khalifa, Tarek; Ayoubi, Sara; Shaban, Khaled Bashir ( Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc. , 2016 , Conference Paper)
      Virtual network embedding (VNE) is defined as the allocation of network resources to multiple virtual networks (VNs) and is recognized to be a challenging task to perform efficiently. Virtual network survivability is a new ...
    • Surviving Multiple Failures in Multicast Virtual Networks With Virtual Machines Migration 

      Ghaleb, Abdulaziz M.; Khalifa, Tarek; Ayoubi, Sara; Shaban, Khaled Bashir; Assi, Chadi ( IEEE , 2016 , Article)
      This paper deals with the multiple link/node substrate failures that impact a multicast virtual network (MVN) in which link recovery is not feasible and node migration is mandatory. A novel restoration approach is introduced ...
    • Transport layer performance analysis and optimization for smart metering infrastructure 

      Khalifa, Tarek; Abdrabou, Atef; Shaban, Khaled Bashir; Alsabaan, Maazen; Naik, Kshirasagar ( Elsevier , 2014 , Article)
      In a smart power grid, collecting data from a large number of smart meters and sensors over the conventional one-hop transmission control protocol (TCP) communication is prone to a high packet loss rate and degraded ...