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Publications

Self-Similarity-Based DDoS Detection for Software-Defined Networks

Conference
Mohamad Khattar Awad, Ghazal Alsholi, Haniah Altabaa, Dania Hani Abu Daqar, Shahad Alshaher, Hamed M.K. Alazemi
2025 International Conference on Computing, Networking and Communications (ICNC), Honolulu, HI, USA, 2025, pp. 185-189
Publication year: 2025

Assessing ChatGPT's Capabilities in Solving Optimization Problems

Conference
Dania Hani Abu Daqar; Mohamad Khattar Awad; Imtiaz Ahmad
2025 IEEE Green Technologies Conference (GreenTech), Wichita, KS, USA, 2025, pp. 133-137
Publication year: 2025

An Implementation of Deep Reinforcement Learning-Based Routing Framework for Open-Network Operating System-Controlled and Mininet-Emulated Software-Defined Networking

Journal Paper
Marwa Kandil Mohammed, Mohamad Khattar Awad, Eiman Mohammed Alotaibi, Reza Mohammadi
IET Networks, Volume 14, Issue 1, Serial No. 2047-4954
Publication year: 2025

Network Traffic Prediction by Learning Time Series as Images

Journal Paper
Reham Kablaoui , Imtiaz Ahmad , Sa’ed Abed , Mohamad Awad
IEEE Journal on Engineering Science and Technology, Volume 55, 2024.
Publication year: 2024

Machine Learning-Based Anti-Jamming Technique at the Physical Layer

Journal Paper
Mahdi Chehimi, Mohamad Khattar Awad, Mohammed Al-Husseini, Ali Chehab
Wiley Concurrency and Computation Practice and Experience. 2023, Volume35
Publication year: 2023

Performance Analysis of Intelligent Reflecting Surface-Aided Decode-and-Forward UAV Communication Systems

Journal Paper
Osamah S. Badarneh, Mohamad K. Awad, Sami Muhaidat, Fares S. Almehmadi
IEEE Systems Journal ( Early Access ) vol. 17, no. 1, pp. 246-257
Publication year: 2022

A Matching-Theoretic Approach to Resource Allocation in D2D-Enabled Downlink NOMA Cellular Networks

Journal Paper
Mohamad Khattar Awad, Mohammed W. Baidas, Ahmad A. El-Amine, Nourah Al-Mubarak
Physical Communication, Volume 54, 2022
Publication year: 2022

Q-learning and Simulated Annealing-based Routing for Software-Defined Networks

Conference
Marwa Kandil, Mohamad Khattar Awad, Eiman Mohammed Alotaibi, Reza Mohammadi
2022 International Conference on Computer and Applications (ICCA), Cairo, Egypt, December, 2022, pp. 1-10
Publication year: 2022

User Association for Load Balancing in Coordinated Multipoint Green HetNets: A Quasi-Newton-Based Approach

Journal Paper
Mohamad KhattarAwad, Ali A.M.R. Behiry, and Mohammed W. Baidas
Physical Communication, Volume 49, 2021.
Publication year: 2021

Machine Learning-Based Multipath Routing for Software Defined Networks

Journal Paper
Mohamad Khattar Awad, Marwa Hassan Hafez Ahmed, Ali F. Almutairi, Imtiaz Ahmad
Springer Journal of Network and Systems Management, 29, 18 (2021)
Publication year: 2021

Resource Allocation for Downlink Non-Orthogonal Multiple Access in Joint Transmission Coordinated Multi-Point Networks

Journal Paper
Mohamad Khattar Awad, Mohammed W.Baidas, Ahmad A. El-Amine
Computer Communications, Volume 173, 2021, Pages 134-149
Publication year: 2021

Near-Optimal and Truthful Online Auction for Computation Offloading in Green Edge-Computing Systems

Journal Paper
Deyu Zhang, Long Tan, Ju Ren, Mohamad Khattar Awad, Shan Zhang, Yaoxue Zhang, Peng-Jun Wan
IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing, vol. 19, no. 4, pp. 880-893
Publication year: 2020

A Robust and Resilient Load Balancing Framework for SoftRAN-Based HetNets With Hybrid Energy Supplies

Journal Paper
Mohamad Khattar Awad, Ali A. M. R. Behiry, Ebrahim A. Alrashed
IEEE Transactions on Network and Service Management, vol. 17, no. 3, pp. 1403-1417, Sept. 2020
Publication year: 2020

A Two-Stage Solution Procedure to Joint Subcarrier Assignment and Global Energy-Efficient Power Allocation in Energy-Harvesting Two-Tier Downlink NOMA HetNets

Conference
Mohammed W. Baidas, Mubarak Al-Mubarak, Emad Alsusa, Mohamad Khattar Awad
2020 IEEE Eighth International Conference on Communications and Networking (ComNet), Hammamet, Tunisia, 2020, pp. 1-8
Publication year: 2020

Optimal Downlink Resource Allocation for Joint Transmission CoMP-Enabled NOMA Networks: A Benchmark Implementation

Conference
Mohamad K. Awad ; Mohammed W. Baidas ; Ahmad A. El-Amine
36th National Radio Science Conference (NRSC), Port Said, Egypt, 2019, pp. 249-258.
Publication year: 2019

Joint Node Selection, Flow Routing, and Cell Coverage Optimization for Network Sum-Rate Maximization in Wireless Sensor Networks

Journal Paper
Mohammed W. Baidas, Mohamad K. Awad, Ahmad El-Amine, Omar A. Hassan, Xuemin Sherman Shen
IET Wireless Sensor Systems, 2019, 9, (6), p. 424-437
Publication year: 2019

Joint Subcarrier Assignment and Global Energy-Efficient Power Allocation for Energy-Harvesting Two-Tier Downlink NOMA Hetnets

Journal Paper
Mohammed W Baidas, Mubarak Al-Mubarak, Emad Alsusa, Mohamad Khattar Awad
IEEE Access, vol. 7, pp. 163556-163577, 2019
Publication year: 2019

A Quasi-Newton-Based Approach to Load Balancing in Coordinated MultiPoint (CoMP) Green HetNets

Conference
Mohamad Khattar Awad ; Ali A. M. R. Behiry
2019 Seventh International Conference on Digital Information Processing and Communications (ICDIPC), Trabzon, Turkey, 2019, pp. 72-77.
Publication year: 2019

Optimal Dual-Connectivity Traffic Offloading in Energy-Harvesting Small-Cell Networks

Journal Paper
Yuan Wu ; Xiaowei Yang ; Li Ping Qian ; Haibo Zhou ; Xuemin Shen ; Mohamad Awad
IEEE Transactions on Green Communications and Networking, vol. 2, no. 4, pp. 1041-1058
Publication year: 2018

Modeling Energy Saving Mechanism for Green Routers

Journal Paper
Gi-Ren Liu, Phone Lin , and Mohamad Khattar Awad
IEEE Transactions on Green Communications and Networking, Volume 2, no. 3, Pages 817
Publication year: 2018

An Energy Efficient Integral Routing Algorithm for Software-defined Network

Conference
Ghadeer Neama and M. K. Awad
IEEE 86th Vehicular Technology Conference, (VTC-Fall), Toronto, ON, Canada, 2017, pp. 1-6
Publication year: 2017

A Benchmark Implementation for Evaluating the Performance of Power-aware Routing Algorithms in Practical Software-defined Networks

Conference
Yousef Rafique and Mohamad Khattar Awad
4th IEEE International Conference on Software Defined Systems (SDS2017) Valencia, Spain, 2017, pp. 118-124
Publication year: 2017

Power-efficient Routing for SDN with Discrete Link Rates and Size-limited Flow Tables: a Tree-based Particle Swarm Optimization Approach

Journal Paper
Mohamad Khattar Awad, Mohammed El-Shafei, Tassos Dimitriou, Yousef Rafique, Mohammed W. Baidas, Ammar H. Alhusaini
Wiley International Journal of Network Management, Volume 27, issue 5
Publication year: 2017

Distributed and Load Adaptive Energy Management Algorithm for Ethernet Green Routers

Journal Paper
Mohamad Khattar Awad, Phone Lin, and Gi-Ren Liu
Journal of Internet Technology, Vol 19, no. 3, Pages: 1-13.
Publication year: 2017

Energy Harvesting-Aided Spectrum Sensing and Data Transmission in Heterogeneous Cognitive Radio Sensor Network

Journal Paper
D. Zhang and Z. Chen and J. Ren and N. Zhang and M. Awad and H. Zhou and X. Shen
IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology, Vol. 66, no. 1, Pages 831- 841.
Publication year: 2017

Secure and Scalable Aggregation in the Smart Grid Resilient Against Malicious Entities

Journal Paper
Tassos Dimitriou, Mohamad Khattar Awad
Elsevier, Ad Hoc Networks, vol. 50, no. 1, 2016, pp. 58 - 67
Publication year: 2016

Energy-Aware Routing for Software-Defined Networks with Discrete Link Rates: A Benders Decomposition-Based Heuristic Approach

Journal Paper
Mohamad Khattar Awad Yousef Rafique Rym A. M
IEEE Journal on Sustainable Computing: Informatics and Systems, Volume 13, 2017, Pages 31-41
Publication year: 2016

A Greedy Power-Aware Routing Algorithm for Software Defined Networks

Conference
Mohamad Khattar Awad, Yousef Rafique, Sarah Alhadlaq, Dunya Hassoun, Asmaa Alabdulhadi, Sheikha Thani
The 16th IEEE International Symposium on Signal Processing and Information Technology (ISSPIT), Limassol, Cyprus, 2016, pp. 268-273
Publication year: 2016

Towards Energy-Efficient and Robust Large-Scale WSNs: A Scale-Free Network Approach

Journal Paper
Haixia Peng, Shuaizong Si, Mohamad Khattar Awad, Ning Zhang, Hai Zhao, Sherman Shen
IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications, Vol. 34, no. 12, Pages 4035 - 4047
Publication year: 2016

Utility-Optimal Resource Management and Allocation Algorithm for Energy Harvesting Cognitive Radio Sensor Networks

Journal Paper
D. Zhang and Z. Chen and M. K. Awad and N. Zhang and H. Zhou and X. S. Shen
IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications, Vol. 34, no. 12, Pages 3552 - 3565
Publication year: 2016

The Impact of Practical Network Constraints on the Performance of Energy-Aware Routing Schemes

Conference
Mohamad Khattar Awad, G. Neama, Y. Rafique
IEEE International Conference on Service Operations And Logistics, and Informatics (SOLI'15), Yasmine Hammamet, Tunisia, 2015, pp. 77-81
Publication year: 2015

Optimal Penalties for Misbehavior Deterrence in Communication Networks

Conference
M. K. Awad and B. Zogheib and H. M. K. Alazemi
IEEE Pacific Rim Conference on Communications, Computers and Signal Processing (PACRIM), Victoria, BC, Canada, 2015, pp. 381-384
Publication year: 2015

Energy-Efficient and Fault-Tolerant Evolution Models for Large-Scale Wireless Sensor Networks: A Complex Networks-Based Approach

Conference
H. Peng and S. Si and M. K. Awad and N. Cheng and H. Zhou and X. Shen and H. Zhao
IEEE Global Communications Conference (GLOBECOM), San Diego, CA, USA, 2015, pp. 1-6
Publication year: 2015

On the Optimality of Escalating Penalties for Repeat Offences Against the Academic Honour Code

Journal Paper
M. K. Awad, B. Zogheib, and H. AlAzemi,
Taylor and Francis Group, Applied Economics, No. 7, Vol. 47, 2015, pp. 553-562
Publication year: 2015

A Penalty Scheme for Academic Dishonesty

Conference
Mohamad Khattar Awad, Bashar Zogheib, Hamed M.K. Alazemi
IEEE International Conference on Teaching, Assessment and Learning for Engineering (TALE'13), Bali, Indonesia, 2013, pp. 580-584
Publication year: 2013

Errata: Recursive Least-Squares Source Tracking using One Acoustic Vector Sensor

Journal Paper
M. K. Awad and K. T. Wong.
IEEE Transactions on Aerospace & Electronic Systems, Vol. 49, Jan., 2013, pp. 688-692.
Publication year: 2013

Recursive Least-Squares Source Tracking Using One Acoustic Vector Sensor

Journal Paper
M. K. Awad and K. T. Wong
IEEE Transactions on Aerospace & Electronic Systems, Vol. 48, Oct., 2012, pp. 3073-3083.
Publication year: 2012

Impact of Imperfect Channel State Information on Cooperative Communications

Conference
Mohamad Khattar Awad, V. Mahinthan and X. S. Shen, J. W. Mark
IEEE Pacific Rim Conference on Communications, Computers and Signal Processing (PacRim' 11). Victoria, BC, Canada, 2011. pp. 232-237
Publication year: 2011

Design of Fair Weights for Heterogeneous Traffic Scheduling in Multichannel Wireless Networks

Journal Paper
M. Mehrjoo, M. K. Awad, M. Dianati and X. S. Shen
IEEE Transactions on Communications, Vol. 58, Oct, 2010, pp. 2892 - 2902.
Publication year: 2010

A Dual-Decomposition-Based Resource Allocation for OFDMA Networks With Imperfect CSI

Journal Paper
M. K. Awad, V. Mahinthan, M. Mehrjoo, X. Shen and J. W. Mark
IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology, Vol. 59, Jun., 2010, pp. 2394 -2403.
Publication year: 2010

Downlink Resource Allocation for OFDMA-Based Multi-Service Networks with Imperfect CSI

Conference
M. K. Awad, V. Mahinthan, X. S. Shen, M. Mehrjoo and J. W. Mark
IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC'09). Dresden, Germany, 2009. pp. 1 -6.
Publication year: 2009

Power Allocation for Cooperative Diversity Networks with Inaccurate CSI: A Robust and Constrained Kalman Filter Approach

Conference
M.K. Awad, V. Mahinthan, Xuemin Shen, J.W. Mark
IEEE Global Telecommunications Conference (GLOBECOM' 09), Honolulu, HI, USA, 2009, pp. 1-6
Publication year: 2009

Maintaining Utility Fairness Using Weighting Factors in Wireless Networks

Conference
M. Mehrjoo, Mohamad Khattar Awad, M. Dianati, X. Shen
IEEE Global Telecommunications Conference (GLOBECOM'09), Honolulu, HI, USA, 2009, pp. 1-6
Publication year: 2009

Ergodic Mutual Information of OFDMA-Based Selection-Decode-and-Forward Cooperative Relay Networks with Imperfect CSI

Journal Paper
Mohamad Khattar Awad, Xuemin (Sherman) Shen, Bashar Zogheib
Elsevier Physical Communication, Vol. 2. 2009, pp. 184 - 193.
Publication year: 2009

Resource Allocation in OFDM-Based WiMAX/ in Book: WiMAX Network Planning and Optimization

Book Chapter
Mehri Mehrjoo, Mohamad Khattar Awad, Xuemin (Sherman) Shen
Y. Zhang ed. CRC Press. 2009. pp. 113 - 131.
Publication year: 2009

An Integrated Overview of the Open Literature's Empirical Data on the Indoor Radiowave Channel's Delay Properties

Journal Paper
Mohamad Khattar Awad, K.T. Wong, Zheng-bin Li
IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation, Vol. 56, may., 2008, pp. 1451 -1468.
Publication year: 2008

OFDMA Based Two-Hop Cooperative Relay Network Resources Allocation

Conference
Mohamad Khattar Awad and Xuemin Shen
IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC'08). Beijing, China, 2008. pp. 4414 -4418
Publication year: 2008

Uplink Ergodic Mutual Information of OFDMA-Based Two-Hop Cooperative Relay Networks with Imperfect CSI

Conference
Mohamad Khattar Awad, Xuemin Shen, B. Zogheib
IEEE Global Telecommunications Conference (GLOBECOM' 08). Beijing, China, 2008. pp. 1 -6
Publication year: 2008

Source Tracking with Multiple-Forgetting-Factor RLS Using a Vector-Hydrophone Away From or Near a Reflecting Boundary

Conference
K.T. Wong and Mohamad Khattar Awad
IEEE OCEANS 2006 - Asia Pacific, Singapore, 2006, pp. 1-4
Publication year: 2006