Azzedine Boukerche

Faculty of Engineering


Biography

Dr. Azzedine Boukerche is a Full Professor and holds a Canada Research Chair position in distributed simulation and wireless and mobile networking at the University of Ottawa. He is the Founding Director of PARADISE Research Laboratory at Ottawa U. Prior to this, he held a faculty position at the University of North Texas, USA. He worked as a Senior Scientist at the Simulation Sciences Division, Metron Corporation located in San Diego. He was also employed as a Faculty at the School of Computer Science McGill University, and taught at Polytechnic of Montreal. He spent a year at the JPL/NASA-California Institute of Technology where he contributed to a project centered about the specification and verification of the software used to control interplanetary spacecraft operated by JPL/NASA Laboratory.

His current research interests include sensor networks, mobile ad hoc networks, mobile and pervasive computing, wireless multimedia, QoS service provisioning, performance evaluation and modeling of large-scale distributed systems, distributed computing, large-scale distributed interactive simulation, and parallel discrete event simulation. Dr. Boukerche has published several research papers in these areas.

Awards and Achievements
  • IEEE Computer Society Meritorious Award
  • Founding Leader of DIVA – the first NSERC Strategic Network hosted at uOttawa
  • Chair of the IEEE TC – Communication Society on Ad Hoc and Sensor Networks
  • Fellow of the Engineering Institute of Canada
  • Fellow of the Canadian Academy of Engineering
  • Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science
  • Associate Editor of IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology, ACM/Springer Wireless Networks, Elsevier Ad Hoc Networks, and many others.
  • Associate editor of Elsevier Int’l of Parallel and Distributed Computing
  • Recipient of at least 12 Best ScientificResearch Paper Awards
  • Elsevier Award:Citation: 2005-2010 Top Cited Article – for the work entitled – Fault tolerant wireless sensor network routing protocols for the supervision of context aware physical environments.
  • Elsevier Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing, 66(4), 2006
Contact Details

Research Interest


Wireless Communication and Mobile Networking Sensor Networks Wireless and Mobile Ad hoc and Mesh Networks Wireless Multimedia QoS in Heterogeneous Wired and Wireless Networks Security: Ad hoc, Sensor and ubiquitous Networks Distributed and Mobile Computing Distributed and Mobile Systems Distributed Algorithms Large-Scale Distributed Interactive Simulation DoD High Level Architecture (HLA/RTI) Grid Based Distributed Simulation Parallel and Distributed Simulation Distributed and Collaborative Virtual Environments