Professional Bio

Abu-Ghazaleh joined the department in 1998. He received his MS and PhD degrees in Computer Engineering from the University of Cincinnati in 1994 and 1997 respectively. He has a BSc in Electrical Engineering from the University of Jordan. His research interest are in mobile computing and networking, sensor networks, parallel and distributed systems and high performance computing.

Research Interests

Computer networks, with focus on wireless networks, sensor networks; parallel discrete event simulation; high-performance system design

Courses taught

• CS350: Intro. to Operating Systems
• CS428: Intro. to Computer Networks
• CS527: Mobile Computing and Networking
• CS528: Graduate Computer Networks

Selected Publications

• N. B. Abu-Ghazaleh, K-D. Kang and K. Liu, ``Towards Secure Geographic Forwarding in Wireless Sensor Networks'', ACM International Workshop on QoS and Security in Wireless Networks, held with MSWiM 2005
• S. Tilak, K. Chiu, N. B. Abu-Ghazaleh and T. Fountain, ``Dynamic Resource Discovery for WSNs'', IFIP Network Centric Ubiquitous Computing 2005
• W. Yang and N. B. Abu-Ghazaleh, ``GPS: A Generalized Peer-to-Peer Simulator and its use in Modeling Bit-Torrent,'' IEEE MASCOTS 2005
• K. Liu and N. B. Abu-Ghazaleh, ``JiTS: Just-in-Time-Scheduling for Real Time Data Dissemination in Sensor Networks'', IEEE Mobiquitous 2005
• S. Tilak, B. Pisupati, K. Chiu, G. Brown and N. B. Abu-Ghazaleh, ``A File-system Abstraction for Sensor Networks'', ACM International Workshop on Energy Efficient Sense and Response System Workshop (EESR'05). Held with MobiSys 2005
• P. Rogers and N. B. Abu-Ghazaleh, ``Directed Broadcast: A MAC Primitive Supporting Robust Network Wide Broadcast'', IEEE International Conference on Wireless and Mobile Computing, 2005
• V. Kolar, P. Rogers and N. B. Abu-Ghazaleh, ``Route Compaction for Directional Route Discovery in MANETs'', IEEE International Conference on Wireless and Mobile Computing, 2005
• B. Ghandi, S. Tilak, M. Lewis and N. B. Abu-Ghazaleh, ``Toward Adaptive Grid Information Dissemination Protocols,'' IEEE NCA 2005
• R. Noronha and N. B. Abu-Ghazaleh, ``Using Programmable NICs for Time Warp Optimization'', International Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium IPDPS'02, Ft. Lauderdale, FL, April 2002
• T. Goff, N. B. Abu-Ghazaleh, D. S. Phatak and R. Kahvecioglu, ``Preemptive Maintenance Routing in Ad Hoc Networks'', MOBICOM 2001, Rome, Italy, July 2001, pages 43--52.