Hussein T. Mouftah

Hussein T. Mouftah joined the School of Information Technology and Engineering (SITE) at the University of Ottawa in 2002 as a Tier 1 Canada Research Chair Professor, where he became a University Distinguished Professor in 2006. He has been with the ECE Dept. At Queen’s University (1979-2002), where he was prior to his departure a Full Professor and the Department Associate Head. He has six years of industrial experience mainly at Bell Northern Research of Ottawa (became Nortel Networks). He served IEEE ComSoc as Editor-in-Chief of the IEEE Communications Magazine (1995-97), Director of Magazines (1998-99), Chair of the Awards Committee (2002-03), Director of Education (2006-07), and Member of the Board of Governors (1997-99 and 2006-07). He has been a Distinguished Speaker of the IEEE Communications Society (2000-07). Currently he serves IEEE Canada (Region 7) as Chair of the Awards and Recognition Committee. He is the author or co-author of 7 books, 49 book chapters and more than 1000 technical papers, 12 patents and 140 industrial reports. He is the joint holder of 12 Best Paper and/or Outstanding Paper Awards. He has received numerous prestigious awards, such as the 2008 ORION Leadership Award of Merit, the 2007 Royal Society of Canada Thomas W. Eadie Medal, the 2007-2008 University of Ottawa Award for Excellence in Research, the 2006 IEEE Canada McNaughton Gold Medal, the 2006 EIC Julian Smith Medal, the 2004 IEEE ComSoc Edwin Howard Armstrong Achievement Award, the 2004 George S. Glinski Award for Excellence in Research of the U of O Faculty of Engineering, the 1989 Engineering Medal for Research and Development of the Association of Professional Engineers of Ontario (PEO), and the Ontario Distinguished Researcher Award of the Ontario Innovation Trust. Dr. Mouftah is a Fellow of the IEEE (1990), the Canadian Academy of Engineering (2003), the Engineering Institute of Canada (2005) and the Royal Society of Canada RSC: The Academy of Science (2008).

Publications

Sensing as a Service in Cloud-Centric Internet of Things Architecture
Sensing as a Service in Cloud-Centric Internet of Things Architecture
Burak Kantarci, Hussein T. Mouftah. © 2017. 31 pages.
Sensing-as-a-Service (S2aaS) is a cloud-inspired service model which enables access to the Internet of Things (IoT) architecture. The IoT denotes virtually interconnected objects...
Sensing as a Service in Cloud-Centric Internet of Things Architecture
Sensing as a Service in Cloud-Centric Internet of Things Architecture
Burak Kantarci, Hussein T. Mouftah. © 2015. 33 pages.
Sensing-as-a-Service (S2aaS) is a cloud-inspired service model which enables access to the Internet of Things (IoT) architecture. The IoT denotes virtually interconnected objects...
Communication Infrastructures for Cloud Computing
Communication Infrastructures for Cloud Computing
Hussein T. Mouftah, Burak Kantarci. © 2014. 583 pages.
Cloud computing has provided multiple advantages as well as challenges to software and infrastructure services. In order to be fully beneficial, these challenges facing cloud...
Energy-Efficiency in Cloud Data Centers
Energy-Efficiency in Cloud Data Centers
Burak Kantarci, Hussein T. Mouftah. © 2014. 23 pages.
Cloud computing aims to migrate IT services to distant data centers in order to reduce the dependency of the services on the limited local resources. Cloud computing provides...
Energy-Efficiency in a Cloud Computing Backbone
Energy-Efficiency in a Cloud Computing Backbone
Burak Kantarci, Hussein T. Mouftah. © 2014. 23 pages.
Cloud computing combines the advantages of several computing paradigms and introduces ubiquity in the provisioning of services such as software, platform, and infrastructure....
Towards Energy Efficiency for Cloud Computing Services
Towards Energy Efficiency for Cloud Computing Services
Daniele Tafani, Burak Kantarci, Hussein T. Mouftah, Conor McArdle, Liam P. Barry. © 2014. 23 pages.
Over the past decade, the increasing complexity of data-intensive cloud computing services along with the exponential growth of their demands in terms of computational resources...
Performance Evaluation of Survivability Approaches in Optical Networks
Performance Evaluation of Survivability Approaches in Optical Networks
Abdelhamid Eshoul, Hussein T. Mouftah. © 2012. 24 pages.
The chapter outlines the different survivability approaches for mesh networks under static and dynamic traffic environments. It describes the different solution options and their...
Robust Design and Management of Optical Networks: Incorporating Availability-Awareness
Robust Design and Management of Optical Networks: Incorporating Availability-Awareness
Hussein T. Mouftah, Burak Kantarci. © 2012. 32 pages.
High capacity advantage of optical networks also introduces the risk of huge data loss in case of a service interruption, even if the outage lasts a short time. Therefore...
Distributed Quality of Service Based Provisioning Framework for Survivable Optical Networks
Distributed Quality of Service Based Provisioning Framework for Survivable Optical Networks
Emad M. Al Sukhni, Hussein T. Mouftah. © 2012. 22 pages.
This chapter provides new distributed frameworks to support Quality of Service (QoS) differentiation. These frameworks provide differentiated protection services to meet...
Intelligent Systems for Energy Management in Wireless Sensor-Based Smart Environments
Intelligent Systems for Energy Management in Wireless Sensor-Based Smart Environments
Blerim Qela, Hussein T. Mouftah. © 2012. 25 pages.
The purpose of this chapter is to explore and address the issues that are applicable to Smart Environments by encouraging and providing new insights towards the “Sustainable...
Greening the Survivable Optical Networks: Solutions and Challenges for the Backbone and Access
Greening the Survivable Optical Networks: Solutions and Challenges for the Backbone and Access
Hussein T. Mouftah, Burak Kantarci. © 2012. 31 pages.
Electricity consumption contributes to a considerably large amount of the Greenhouse Gas (GHG) emissions while Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) have a significant...
Dynamic Bandwidth Allocation for Ethernet Passive Optical Networks
Dynamic Bandwidth Allocation for Ethernet Passive Optical Networks
Jun Zheng, Hussein T. Mouftah. © 2010. 16 pages.
Bandwidth allocation is one of the critical issues in the design of Ethernet passive optical networks (EPONs). In an EPON system, multiple optical network units (ONUs) share a...