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Ph.D. in Computer Science
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Post-Doc Researcher 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
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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 7th 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.