ABRAHAM (IBRAHIM) MATTA
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Associate Professor
Director of Graduate Studies
Computer Science Department
College of Arts & Sciences
Boston University
111 Cummington Street, MCS-271
Boston, MA 02215, USA
Tel: (617) 358-1062, Fax: (617) 353-6457
Email: matta(at)cs(dot)bu(dot)edu
* Ibrahim is a variant form of Abraham. My "official" first name is "Abraham", but call me either. I try to use only "Ibrahim" on all my research papers to avoid confusion :)
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| ICNP 2007 (Beijing, China) |
| CoNEXT 2007 (New York) |
| MobiCom 2007 (Montreal, Canada) |
| MobiHoc 2007 (Montreal, Canada) |
Transport and routing protocols for the Internet and wireless networks; feedback-based control design and analysis; architectures for protocol design and large-scale traffic management; modeling and performance evaluation.
Current projects involve configurable protocol design, stability and compositional analysis, and data management.
Matta's research on Network Protocols aims at improving their scalability through context-awareness, as exemplified by his work on demand-supply routing (termed "load profiling''), his work on TCP-aware differentiated scheduling of short ("mice'') and long ("elephants'') flows, his work on smooth and efficient history-based congestion control for multimedia transport, his work on P2P and Reed-Solomon-based scalable content distribution and composable overlay management, his work on buffer management and scheduling at high speeds, his work on the resilience of networked systems to a new breed of stealthy attacks (termed "Reduction of Quality'' (RoQ) attacks), and his work on feedback (control-theoretic) control of virtual machines and cooperative caching/routing systems.
Matta's research on Real-Time and Wireless Networking aims at achieving efficiency while satisfying delivery requirements, as reflected in his work on multiplexing algorithms for MPEG-coded video in video-on-demand systems, his work on search space reduction and adaptive path construction for quality-constrained routing, his work on scalable location management through caching and replication, his work on protocol interactions for integrated wired-wireless services, and his work on in-network support, clustering and density inference for energy-efficient transport over ad-hoc and sensor networks.
Matta's research on Modeling and Analysis includes the use of control and dynamic flow theoretic techniques, for example, to study scheduling-routing interactions using Lyapunov stability analysis and to evaluate the transient behavior of multi-class systems using dynamic flow analysis, as well as, the use of automated scalable verification of distributed services based on the compatibility of "types'' of input-output interfaces.
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Hany Morcos, George Atia, Azer Bestavros, and Ibrahim Matta. An Information Theoretic Framework for Field Monitoring Using Autonomously Mobile Sensors. In Proceedings of International Conference on Distributed Computing in Sensor Systems (DCOSS), Santorini Island, Greece, June 2008. [PDF] |
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Hany Morcos, Azer Bestavros, and Ibrahim Matta. Amorphous Placement and Informed Diffusion for Efficient Field Monitoring by Autonomously Mobile Sensors. In Proceedings of IEEE SECON, San Francisco, CA, June 2008. [PDF] |
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Niky Riga, Ibrahim Matta, Alberto Medina, Craig Partridge, and Jason Redi. JTP: An Energy-conscious Transport Protocol for Multi-hop Wireless Networks. In Proceedings of CoNEXT Conference, New York, NY, December 2007. [PDF] |
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Niky Riga, Ibrahim Matta, and Azer Bestavros. A Geometric Approach to Slot Alignment in Wireless Sensor Networks, In Proceedings of the IEEE Global Telecommunications Conference (Globecom'07) Ad-hoc and Sensor Networking Symposium, Washington, DC, November 2007. [PDF] |
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Karim Mattar, Ashwin Sridharan, Hui Zang, Ibrahim Matta, and Azer Bestavros. TCP over CDMA2000 Networks: A Cross-Layer Measurement Study. In Proceedings of the 8th Passive and Active Measurement Conference (PAM), Louvain-la-neuve, Belgium, 2007. [PDF] |
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Mina Guirguis, Azer Bestavros, Ibrahim Matta, and Yuting Zhang. Reduction of Quality (RoQ) Attacks on Dynamic Load Balancers: Vulnerability Assessment and Design Tradeoffs. In Proceedings of IEEE Infocom, Anchorage, Alaska, May 2007. [PDF] |
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Georgios Smaragdakis, Nikolaos Laoutaris, Ibrahim Matta, Azer Bestavros, and Ioannis Stavrakakis. A Feedback Control Approach to Mitigating Mistreatment in Distributed Caching Groups. In Proceedings of IFIP Networking 2006, Coimbra, Portugal, May 2006. [PDF] |
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Selma Yilmaz, and Ibrahim Matta. An Adaptive Management Approach to Resolving Policy Conflicts. In Proceedings of IFIP Networking 2007, Atlanta, Georgia, May 2007. [PDF] |
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Mina Guirguis, Azer Bestavros, and Ibrahim Matta. On the Impact of Low-Rate Attacks. In Proceedings of the 41st IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC'06), Istanbul, Turkey, June 2006. [PDF] |
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Liang Guo and Ibrahim Matta. The War between Mice and Elephants. In Proceedings of ICNP'2001: The 9th IEEE International Conference on Network Protocols, Riverside, CA, November 2001. |
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Alberto Medina, Anukool Lakhina, Ibrahim Matta, and John Byers. BRITE: An Approach to Universal Topology Generation. In Proceedings of MASCOTS '01: The International Symposium on Modeling, Analysis and Simulation of Computer and Telecommunication Systems, Cincinnati, Ohio, August 2001. |
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Liang Guo, Mark Crovella, and Ibrahim Matta. How does TCP Generate Pseudo-Self-Similarity?. In Proceedings of the International Workshop on Modeling, Analysis and Simulation of Computer and Telecommunications Systems - MASCOTS '01, Cincinnati, Ohio, August 2001. |
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Selma Yilmaz and Ibrahim Matta. On Class-Based Isolation of UDP, Short-Lived and Long-Lived TCP Flows. In Proceedings of MASCOTS '01: The International Symposium on Modeling, Analysis and Simulation of Computer and Telecommunication Systems, Cincinnati, Ohio, August 2001. |
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Ibrahim Matta and Liang Guo. Differentiated Predictive Fair Service for TCP Flows. In Proceedings of ICNP'2000: The 8th IEEE International Conference on Network Protocols, Osaka, Japan, October 2000. |
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Ibrahim Matta and Liang Guo. QDMR: An Efficient QoS Dependent Multicast Routing Algorithm. Journal of Communications and Networks - Special Issue on QoS in IP Networks, 2(2):168-176, June 2000. |
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Jaehee Yoon, Azer Bestavros, and Ibrahim Matta. SomeCast: A Paradigm for Real-Time Adaptive Reliable Multicast. In Proceedings of RTAS'2000: The IEEE Real-Time Technology and Applications Symposium, Washington, DC, May 2000. |
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Alberto Medina, Ibrahim Matta, and John Byers. On the Origin of Power Laws in Internet Topologies. ACM Computer Communication Review, 30(2), April 2000. |
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Karu Ratnam, Ibrahim Matta, and Sampath Rangarajan. Analysis of Caching-based Location Management in Personal Communication Networks. In Proceedings of ICNP '99: The 7th International Conference on Network Protocols, Toronto, Canada, November 1999. |
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Ibrahim Matta and Azer Bestavros. A Load Profiling Approach to Routing Guaranteed Bandwidth Flows. In Proceedings of Infocom'98: The IEEE International Conference on Computer Communication, San Francisco, CA, April 1998. |
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Ibrahim Matta and A. Udaya Shankar. Fast Time-Dependent Evaluation of Integrated Services Networks. Computer Networks and ISDN Systems - Special Issue on Modeling of Wired and Wireless ATM, 29(17-18):1999-2020, February 1998. |
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Cengiz Alaettinoglu, Ibrahim Matta, and A. Udaya Shankar. A Scalable Virtual Circuit Routing Scheme for ATM Networks. In Proceedings of ICCCN '95: The International Conference on Computer Communications and Networks, pages 630-637, Las Vegas, Nevada, September 1995. |
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Ibrahim Matta and A. Udaya Shankar. Z-Iteration: A Simple Method for Throughput Estimation in Time-Dependent Multi-Class Systems. In Proceedings of ACM SIGMETRICS / PERFORMANCE '95, pages 126-135, Ottawa, Canada, May 1995. |
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Ibrahim Matta and A. Udaya Shankar. Type-of-Service Routing in Datagram Delivery Systems. IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications -- Special Issue on the Internet, 13(8):1411-1425, October 1995. |
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A. Udaya Shankar, Cengiz Alaettinoglu, Klaudia Dussa-Zieger, and Ibrahim Matta. Transient and Steady-State Performance of Routing Protocols: Distance-Vector versus Link-State. Journal of Internetworking: Research and Experience, 6:59-87, 1995. |
Abraham Matta received his Ph.D. in computer science from the University of Maryland at College Park in 1995. He is an associate professor at the Computer Science Department of Boston University. His research is in transport and routing protocols for the Internet and wireless networks; feedback-based control design and analysis; architectures for protocol design and large-scale traffic management; modeling and performance evaluation.
Dr. Matta published over 80 refereed technical papers, and his former PhD students hold academic and research positions in BBN Technologies, Motorola Labs, Texas State University, among others. His research has been funded by both government agencies and the industry such as NSF, Motorola, and Sprint Labs. He has been a Visiting Scientist in the Mobile Networking Systems of BBN Technologies since January 2006, where he has been contributing to the development of a transport protocol for a low-energy radio network (called JAVeLEN) and to aspects of media-access and routing adaptations.
Dr. Matta received the National Science Foundation CAREER award in 1997 for his quality-of-service routing work. He was the principal investigator of an NSF special project in networking on overlay management. His current projects include transport design over cellular data networks (funded by Sprint Labs); and typed specification of network compositions, data management in autonomously mobile sensors, and defenses against reduction-of-quality attacks (funded by NSF).
He was guest co-editor of a special issue on Reliable Transport Protocols for Mobile Computing in the Journal of Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing (February 2002), guest co-editor of a special issue on Quality of Service Routing in the IEEE Communications Magazine (June 2002), and guest co-editor of a special issue on Applications and Services in Wireless Networks in the Elsevier Computer Communications Journal (September 2005). He served on the Editorial Board of the Elsevier Computer Networks Journal (COMNET) 2003-2007. He is on the Advisory Council of the IEEE International Symposium on Computers and Communications. He was recently the Technical Program Co-chair of IEEE ICNP 2005, and the General Chair of WiOpt 2006.
Dr. Matta served on the technical program committees of many conferences, including INFOCOM, ICNP, MobiCom, MobiHoc, GLOBECOM, and ICDCS. He was co-organizer and Technical Program Co-chair of NeXtworking 2003, a COST-IST (EU) and NSF-ANIR (USA) funded workshop in Crete, Greece. He was co-organizer and Technical Program Chair of IEEE ASWN 2004, and was on the steering committee of ASWN 2004-06. He was Technical Program Co-chair of the First International Workshop on Wired/Wireless Internet Communications (WWIC 2002), General Co-chair of WWIC 2004, and currently on the steering committee of WWIC. He was the Technical Program Co-chair of SenMetrics 2005, Internet Co-chair of IEEE Infocom 2005, Publication Chair of IEEE Infocom 2003, and Tutorial and Panel Chair of the 9th Hot Interconnects Symposium 2001. He served as session organizer and chair, reviewer, and panelist for NSF networking grant proposals, and was the representative of the IEEE Technical Committee on Computer Communications (TCCC) for GLOBECOM 1999.
Dr. Matta is a senior member of both the ACM and the IEEE.
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