Dr. Fadlullah's research-based activities & interests are as follows.

 
Editor

  • Associate Editor, IEEE Internet of Things (IoT) Journal, 2014-Present

  • Editor, Ad Hoc & Sensor Wireless Networks (AHSWN), 2012-2015

  • Associate Editor, International Journal on Internet and Distributed Computing Systems (IJIDCS), 2011-2012

  • Co-Editor, Special Issue on Wireless Network Intrusion in Journal of Computer and System Sciences, Elsevier 2012

  • Co-Editor of book, “Building Next-Generation Converged Networks: Theory and Practice”, published by CRC Press 2012/2013

 
Reviewer

  • IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology (IEEE TVT), 2012-Present

  • IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems (IEEE TPDS), 2011-Present

  • IEEE Transactions on Smart Grid (IEEE TSG), 2010-Present

  • IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications (IEEE TWireless), 2009-Present

 
Technical Program Committee (TPC) Membership

  • TPC Co-Chair, AHSN track, IEEE ICC'14

  • TPC member, IMRC’12 – NET 2012

  • Co-chair, Int’l Conf. on Wireless Commun. & Signal Processing
    (WCSP’11) – Invited Session on Smart Grid 2011

  • TPC member, IEEE WCNC – Network 2010

  • TPC member, IEEE GCC – Commun. And Signal Processing 2009

  • TPC member, ICC - AHSM 2009

  • TPC member, GC’09-WNS 2009

 
Research Interest

  • Ad hoc and/or sensor networks
    - Channel Assignment problems in Wireless Mesh Networks
    - Energy-aware routing for sensor networks
    - Topology control and node connectivity
    - Emergency/Disaster Area Networks based on ad hoc technology

  • Network Security
    - Intrusion Detection and Traceback
    - Cryptographic algorithms
    - Quality of Services and Security Tradeoff
    - Secure distribution of certificates in Mobile Ad hoc Networks (MANETs)
    - Detection of Denial-of-Service (DoS) attacks, routing attacks, and other malicious threats in wired and wireless networks

  • Game Theoretic Applications for Communication Networks
    - Coalitional game theory for smart grid scheduling
    - Coalitional game theory in wireless networks

  • Next generation Internet
    - Wireless Application Protocols (WAP)
    - Quality of Service (QoS) and traffic classes in mobile networks
    - Context-aware and location-aware distributed services
    - “Smart” applications for high-speed and large-scale mobile networks

  • Contents delivery systems
    - Contents delivery techniques over heterogeneous wireless networks
    - Peer-to-peer (P2P) networks, applications, and packet scheduling
    - Digital Rights Management and Content distribution protection

  • Protocol designs
    - Medium Access Control (MAC) Protocols
    - Internet Protocols (IP)
    - Cross layer protocol design for mobile communications
    - Transport Control Protocol (TCP) in PON technology

  • Network architectures
    - Distributed Access Control in Cognitive Radio
    - Vehicular networks
    - Mobility management of wireless networks

  • Satellites communications
    - Location-aware mobility management methods for satellite networks
    - Contents delivery over satellite networks
    - TCP performance over satellite networks
    - Efficient and fair transmission protocols for satellite networks
    - Design and development of an efficient integration of satellites with terrestrial networks