Ph.D. in Computer Science                             

Post-Doc Researcher DMMS Team Department of Informatics University of Oslo   Contact Information   Tel:  +47-22 85 27 71                   Postbox 1080 Blindern      Fax: +47-22 85 24 01                   N-0316 Oslo E-mail: anwarah@ifi.uio.no             Norway

Research Interests:

• P2P networking

• Target Tracking in wireless sensor networks

• P2P Content Distribution over wireless mesh networks

• Publish/Subscribe services in mobile ad-hoc networks

Education:

• September 2001 - August 2004: PhD in Computer Science from the university of Nice-Sophia Antipolis, France.

• 2000-2001: DEA (Research Master) in Networking and Distributed Systems, University of Nice Sophia Antipolis, France.

• 1995-2000: Engineering degree in Electricity and Electronics from the Lebanese University in Beirut, Lebanon.

Research Experience:

• October 2005-July 2006: Post-Doc Researcher at the University of Oslo, Norway – DMMS group, Department of Informatics.

• May 2005-September 2005: Guest researcher at INRIA - Sophia Antipolis, France – Planète Research Group.

• September 2001 - August 2004: PhD research work.

• April 2005 -July 2005: DEA internship at INRIA - Sophia Antipolis, France – Planète Research Group.

Teaching Experience:

• September 2004-August 2005: Lecturer on networking at the Technical University of Nice, France.

• September 2001 - August 2004: Practical courses to undergraduate students at Institut Eurécom, France

AWARDS:

• ERCIM fellowship for a post-doc at the university of Oslo, Norway.

• French government scholarship for PhD studies, September 2001-August 2004.

LANGUAGES       

• Arabic: Mother tongue

• English: fluently spoken and written

• French: fluently spoken and written

Publications:

• A. Al Hamra, C. Barakat, and T. Turletti, “Network Coding for Content Distribution in Wireless Mesh Networks”, In Proc. Of the 7^th IEEE International Symposium on a World of Wireless, Mobile and Multimedia Networks (WOWMOM), New York, USA, June, 2006.

• A. Al Hamra and P. A. Felber, “Desing Choices for Content Distribution in P2P Networks”, In Proc. of ACM Computer Communication Review (CCR), October 2005. 

• A. AL Hamra, "Approaches for Scalable Content Distribution in the Internet", PhD thesis, UNSA, Sophia Antipolis, France, December 2004.

• A. Al Hamra, E. W. Biersack, and G. Urvoy-Keller, “A Pull-Based Approach for a VoD Service in P2P Networks”, In Proc. of 7th IEEE International Conference on High Speed Networks and Multimedia Communications (HSNMC), Toulouse, France, July 2004.

•  M. Izal, G. Urvoy-Keller, E.W. Biersack, P. A. Felber, A. Al Hamra, and L. Garces-Erice, “Dissecting BitTorrent: Five Months in a Torrent's Lifetime”, In Proc. Of 5th Passive and Active Measurement Workshop (PAM), Juan-les-Pins, France, April 2004.

• A. Al Hamra, E. W. Biersack, and G. Urvoy-Keller, "Architectural choices for Video-on-Demand Systems", In Proc. of 8th International Workshop on Web Caching and Content Distribution (WCW),  NewYork, USA,  September 2003.  

• [Book Chapter] E. W. Biersack, A. Al Hamra, G. Urvoy-Keller, and D. Choi, “Cost-optimal Dimensioning of a Large Scale Video on Demand Server”, In Quality of Future Internet Services COST, Action 263 Final Report, volume 2856 of Lecture Notes in Computer  Science, Springer-Verlag, March 2003.