Research Projects

• Scheduling and Buffer Management in Networks with Small Packet Buffers
  

• Aequitas

Publications

• Mahmoud Elhaddad, and Rami Melhem. On the emulation of finite-buffered output queued switches using combined input-output queuing. In the International Symposium on Distributed Computing (DISC), Arcachon, France, 2008.
  

• Mahmoud Elhaddad, Hammad Iqbal, Taieb Znati, and Rami Melhem. Scheduling to minimize the worst-case loss rate. In the International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems (ICDCS), 2007.
  

• Mahmoud Elhaddad, Rami Melhem, and Taieb Znati. Analysis of a transmission scheduling algorithm for supporting bandwidth  guarantees in bufferless networks. Performance Evaluation Review, December 2006.
  
  
• Mahmoud Elhaddad, Rami Melhem, and Taieb Znati. Supporting loss  guarantees in buffer-limited networks. In the International Workshop on Quality of Service (IWQoS) 2006.
  
  
• Mahmoud Elhaddad and Mohamed Aly. Throughput-competitive scheduling in packet networks with session guarantees. Submitted.
  
  
• Mahmoud Elhaddad, Rami Melhem, and Taieb Znati. Supporting bandwidth guarantees in buffer-limited networks. Technical Report TR-05-121. Department of Computer Science, University of Pittsburgh.
  
  
• Mahmoud Elhaddad, Rami Melhem, and Taieb Znati. Decoupling packet loss from blocking in Proactive Reservation-based Switching. In Broadband Networks/Optical Networks Symposium 2004.
  

• Mahmoud Elhaddad, Rami Melhem, Taieb Znati, and Debashis Basak. Traffic shaping and scheduling for OBS-based IP/WDM backbones. In OptiComm 2003.
  

• Christopher G. Healey, Robert St. Amant, and Mahmoud Elhaddad. ViA: A perceptual visualization architecture. 28th Applied Imagery Pattern Recognition workshop. 1999. [pdf]