Please refer to the resume for the latest set of publications.

Publications

Selected Journal/Magazine Publications

  1. The Horus Location Determination System
    Moustafa Youssef and Ashok Agrawala
    Accepted for publication in the Journal of Wireless Networks (WINET).
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  2. Calibration-Free RF-Based Localization Algorithm for Actuator/Sensor Networks using Particle Filters
    Aly El-Osery, Wael Abd-Almageed and Moustafa Youssef
    IEEE Antennas and Propagation Magazine, Vol. 48, No. 4, August 2006, pp. 166-173.
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  3. Establishing Overlapped Multi-hop Clusters in Wireless Sensor Networks
    Adel Youssef, Mohammed Younis, Moustafa Youssef, and Ashok Agrawala
    International Journal of Sensor Networks (IJSNET), to appear. [Invited Paper]
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  4. Formal Specification And Analysis Of PCF Protocol in the 802.11 Standard Using Systems of Communicating Machines
    Moustafa Youssef and Raymond Miller
    Accepted for publication in the International Journal of Modelling and Simulation.
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  5. Towards an Optimal Strategy For WLAN Location Determination Systems
    Moustafa Youssef and Ashok Agrawala
    In the International Journal of Modelling and Simulation, Vol. 27, Issue 1, 2007.
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  6. Location-Clustering Techniques for Energy-Efficient WLAN Location Determination Systems
    Moustafa Youssef and Ashok Agrawala
    Accepted for publication in the International Journal of Computers and Applications, 2005.
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  7. Energy-Aware Management for Cluster-Based Sensor Networks
    Mohamed Younis, Moustafa Youssef and Khaled Arisha
    Journal of Computer Networks, Volume 43, Issue 5, Pages 539-694 (5 December 2003).
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  8. Instance-Based Networking: A Communication Paradigm for Mobile Applications (Extended Abstract)
    Moustafa Youssef, Tamer Elsayed, Mohamed Hussein, Tamer Nadeem, Adel Youssef and Liviu Iftode
    Mobile Computing and Communications Review. Vol. 7, No. 4, pp. 66-67, October 2003.
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    Was also presented as a research poster at MobiCom 2003.
  9. The ABC..I of 802.11 WLANs
    Moustafa Youssef and Arunchandar Vasan
    To appear in ACM Crossroads.
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  10. Rover: Scalable Location-Aware Computing
    Suman Banerjee, Moustafa Youssef, Ron Larsen, A. Udaya Shankar, Ashok Agrawala, et al
    IEEE Computer, October 2002.
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  11. Performance Enhancement Techniques of a Banyan Network Based Interconnection Structure
    Moustafa Youssef, Mohammed El-Derini, and Hussien Aly
    Alexandria Engineering Journal (AEJ), September 1999.
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    Under Submission

  12. Draco: A First Responders Support System
    Moustafa Youssef, Bao Trinh, A. Udaya Shankar, Ashok Agrawala
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  13. On the Reliability of Banyan Network-Based Switches
    Moustafa Youssef, Mohammed El-Derini, and Hussien Aly
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  14. Handling Samples Correlation for WLAN Location Determination Systems
    Moustafa Youssef and Ashok Agrawala (in preparation).
    Download: PDF
  15. The PinPoint Technology for Wireless Networks
    Moustafa Youssef et al. (in preparation).
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Selected Conference Publications

  1. Challenges: Device-free Passive Localization for Wireless Environments
    Moustafa Youssef, Matthew Mah, and Ashok Agrawala
    The Thirteenth Annual International Conference onMobile Computing and Networking (MobiCom 07), Montreal, QC, Canda, September 9-14, 2007.
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  2. On the Accuracy of Multi-hop Relative Location Estimation in Wireless Sensor Networks
    Adel Youssef, Mohamed Younis, Moustafa Youssef, and Ashok Agrawala
    The 2007 ACM International Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing Conference (IWCMC 2007), August 12-16, 2007, Honolulu, Hawaii.
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  3. A Taxonomy of Localization Schemes for Wireless Sensor Networks
    Adel Youssef and Moustafa Youssef
    The 2007 International Conference onWireless Networks (ICWN’07), Las Vegas, Nevada, June 25-28, 2007.
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  4. Rover: An Integration and Fusion Platform to Enhance Situational Awareness
    Christian B Almazan, Moustafa Youssef, and Ashok Agrawala
    The First International Workshop on Research Challenges in Next Generation Networks for First Responders and Critical Infrastructures (NetCri07), April 13th, 2007, New Orleans, Louisiana.
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  5. PinPoint: An Asynchronous Time-Based Location Determination System ;
    Moustafa Youssef, Adel Youssef, Chuck Rieger, Udaya Shankar, and Ashok Agrawala
    Proceedings of the Fourth International Conference on Mobile Systems, Applications, and Services (MobiSys 2006), Uppsala, Sweden, June  2006.
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  6. Distributed Formation of Overlapping Multi-hop Clusters in Wireless Sensor Networks ;
    Mohammed Younis, Adel Youssef, Moustafa Youssef, and Ashok Agrawala
    the 2006 IEEE GLOBECOM Conference, San Francisco, California, November 27– December 1, 2006. [Best paper runner-up]
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  7. Deriving Consistent Time Base Using Local Clock Information ;
    Moustafa Youssef and Ashok Agrawala
    the 2006 IEEE 1588 Conference, Gaithersburg, MD, October 2-4, 2006.
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  8. The Horus WLAN Location Determination System
    Moustafa Youssef and Ashok Agrawala
    Proceedings of the Third International Conference on Mobile Systems, Applications, and Services (MobiSys 2005), Seattle, WA, USA, June 2005.
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  9. Multivariate Analysis for WLAN Location Determination Systems
    Moustafa Youssef, Mohamed Abdallah, and Ashok Agrawala
    The Second Annual International Conference on Mobile and Ubiquitous Systems: Networking and Services (Mobiquitous 2005) July 17-21, 2005, San Diego, California.
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  10. A Location-Determination System for Enabling M-Commerce Applications
    Moustafa Youssef and Ashok Agrawala
    International Business Information Management Conference (5th IBIMA), December 13-16, 2005, Cairo, Egypt.
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  11. IEEE 802.11 Active Probing Mechanism: Analysis and Enhancements
    Moustafa Youssef, Layla Shahamat, and Ashok Agrawala
    International Conference on Wireless Networks, Communications, and Mobile Computing Sponsors (WirelessCom 2005), June 13-16, 2005, Hawaii, USA.
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  12. Characterizing IEEE 802.11 Traffic: The Wireless Side
    Jihwang Yeo, Moustafa Youssef, Tristan Henderson, and Ashok Agrawala
    International Workshop on Wireless Traffic Measurements and Modeling (WiTMeMo '05), In conjunction with Mobisys 2005, Seattle, WA, USA,
    June 2005.
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  13. Handling Samples Correlation in the Horus System
    Moustafa Youssef and Ashok Agrawala
    IEEE Infocom, Hong Kong, March 2004.
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  14. A Framework for Wireless LAN Monitoring and Its Applications
    Jihwang Yeo, Moustafa Youssef, and Ashok Agrawala
    ACM Workshop on Wireless Security (WiSe 2004) in conjunction with ACM MobiCom 2004, Philadelphia, PA, US, October 2004.
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  15. On the Optimality of WLAN Location Determination Systems
    Moustafa Youssef and Ashok Agrawala
    Communication Networks and Distributed Systems Modeling and Simulation Conference, January 18-24 2004, San Diego, California.
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  16. Continuous Space Estimation for WLAN Location Determination Systems
    Moustafa Youssef and Ashok Agrawala
    IEEE Thirteenth International Conference on Computer Communications and Networks, Chicago, IL USA, October 11-13, 2004.
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  17. WLAN Location Determination via Clustering and Probability Distributions
    Moustafa Youssef, Ashok Agrawala, A. Udaya Shankar
    IEEE International Conference on Pervasive Computing and Communications (PerCom) 2003, Fort Worth, Texas, March 23-26, 2003.
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  18. Implementation of a Scalable Context-Aware Computing System
    Moustafa Youssef, A. Udaya Shankar, Ashok Agrawala et al.
    Personal Wireless Communications (PWC 2003), September 23-25, 2003 - Venice, Italy.
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  19. Specification and Analysis of the DCF and PCF Protocols in the 802.11 Standard Using Systems of Communicating Machines
    Moustafa Youssef, Arunchandar Vasan, and Raymond Miller
    Proceedings of the 10th IEEE International Conference on Network Protocols (ICNP'02), Paris, France, November 12-15, 2002.
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  20. Efficient Aggregation of Delay-Constrained Data in Wireless Sensor Networks
    Kemal Akkaya, Mohamed Younis, and Moustafa Youssef
    The ACS/IEEE workshop on Internet Compatible QoS in Ad hoc Wireless Networks (ICQAWN’05), Cairo, Egypt, January 2005.
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  21. Energy-Aware Routing in Cluster-Based Sensor Networks
    Mohamed Younis, Moustafa Youssef, and Khaled Arisha
    Proceedings of the 10th IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Modeling, Analysis and Simulation of Computer and Telecommunication Systems (MASCOTS'02), Fort Worth, Texas, October 2002.
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  22. ATP: Autonomous Transport Protocol
    Tamer Elsayed, Mohamed Hussein, Moustafa Youssef, Tamer Nadeem, Adel Youssef and Liviu Iftode
    IEEE Midwest Symposium on Circuits and Systems, December 2003, Cairo, Egypt.
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  23. Small-Scale Compensation for WLAN Location Determination Systems
    Moustafa Youssef, Ashok Agrawala
    IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference (WCNC) 2003 New Orleans, Louisiana, March 16-20, 2003.
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  24. Performance Evaluation of an Energy-Aware Routing Protocol for Sensor Networks
    Moustafa Youssef, Mohamed Younis, and Khaled Arisha
    Proceedings of the International Conference on Wireless Networks (ICWN'02), Las Vegas, Nevada, June 2002.
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  25. Energy-Aware TDMA-Based MAC for Sensor Networks
    Khaled Arisha, Moustafa Youssef, and Mohamed Younis
    Proceedings of the IEEE Integrated Management of Power Aware Communications, Computing and Networking (IMPACCT 2002) New York City, New York, May 2002.
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  26. A Constrained Shortest-Path Energy-Aware Routing Algorithm for Wireless Sensor Networks
    Moustafa Youssef, Mohamed Younis, and Khaled Arisha
    Proceedings of the IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference (WCNC), Orlando, Florida, March 2002.
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  27. Cross-Language Information Retrieval: Layout Strategies for Gloss Translation
    Eiman M. Elnahrawy, Nagia M. Ghanem, Moustafa A. Youssef
    Workshop on Evaluation of Interactive Cross-Language Information Retrieval , University of Maryland, College Park, May 2001.
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  28. Structure and Performance Evaluation of a Replicated Banyan Network based ATM Switch
    Moustafa Youssef, Mohammed El-Derini, and Hussien Aly
    Proceedings of the IEEE ISCC'99, Sharm El-Sheikh, Egypt, June 1999.
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    Under Submission

  1. Characterizing IEEE 802.11 Traffic: The Wireless Side
    Jihwang Yeo, Moustafa Youssef, Tristan Henderson, and Ashok Agrawala
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Refereed Posters

  1. Autonomous Transport Protocol
    Tamer Elsayed, Mohamed Hussein, Moustafa Youssef, Tamer Nadeem, Adel Youssef and Liviu Iftode
    Research poster at the Eleventh Annual International Conference on Network Protocols, (ICNP) 2003, Atlanta, GA, USA, November 4-7, 2003.
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  2. IBN: A Communication Paradigm for Mobile Applications
    Moustafa Youssef, Tamer Elsayed, Mohamed Hussein, Tamer Nadeem, Adel Youssef and Liviu Iftode
    Research poster at the Ninth Annual International Conference on Mobile Computing and Networking, (MobiCom) 2003, San Diego, CA, USA, September 14-19, 2003.
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  3. Rover Technology: Implementation of a Scalable Context-Aware Computing System
    Tamer Nadeem, Moustafa Youssef, A. Udaya Shankar, Ashok Agrawala et al.
    Research poster at the First International Conference on Mobile Systems, Applications, and Services, (MobiSys) 2003, San Francisco, CA, USA, May 5-8, 2003.
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Books and Book Chapters

Inventions and Patents

  1. Enhancements to the Horus WLAN Location Determination System
    Moustafa Youssef and Ashok Agrawala
    US-Patent pending

  2. Koolspan Technology: Wi-Fi Security at the Edge
    Kamel Kevin, Moustafa Youssef, Jaime Lafleur-Vetter, and Ashok Agrawala
    US-Patent pending

  3. Nuzzer Technology: Providing Physical Security Using Wi-Fi
    Leila Shahamatdar, Moustafa Youssef and Ashok Agrawala
    US-Patent pending

  4. Horus: An RF-Based Location Determination System (Invention of the year award 2003, Office of Technology Commercialization, UMD)
    Moustafa Youssef and Ashok Agrawala
    US-Patent pending

  5. Energy-Aware Management for Cluster-Based Sensor Networks
    Mohamed Younis , Moustafa Youssef, and Khaled Arisha
    US-Patent pending

Others

  1. The Overlapped K-hop (OK) Clustering Algorithm
    Adel Youssef, Moustafa Youssef, Mohamed Younis, and Ashok Agrawala
    CS-TR 4735, Department of Computer Science, University of Maryland, College Park, July 2005.

  2. The IEEE 802.11 Active Probing Mechanism: Analysis and Enhancements
    Moustafa Youssef, Layla Shahamat, and Ashok Agrawala
    CS-TR, Department of Computer Science, University of Maryland, College Park, March 2004.
    Download: PDF

  3. Characterizing the IEEE 802.11 Traffic: The Wireless Side
    Jihwang Yeo, Moustafa Youssef, and Ashok Agrawala
    CS-TR 4570, Department of Computer Science, University of Maryland, College Park, March 2004.
    Download: PDF

  4. ATP: Autonomous Transport Protocol
    Tamer Elsayed, Mohamed Hussein, Moustafa Youssef, Tamer Nadeem, Adel Youssef, Liviu Iftode
    CS-TR 4483, Department of Computer Science, University of Maryland, College Park, May 2003.
    Download: PDF

  5. Handling Samples Correlation in the Horus System
    Moustafa Youssef and Ashok Agrawala
    CS-TR 4506, Department of Computer Science, University of Maryland, College Park, June 2003.
    Download: PDF

  6. On the Optimality of WLAN Location Determination Systems
    Moustafa Youssef and Ashok Agrawala
    CS-TR 4459, Department of Computer Science, University of Maryland, College Park, March 2003.
    Download: PDF

  7. Horus: An RF-Based Location Determination System
    Moustafa Youssef and Ashok Agrawala
    Research Review Poster, University of Maryland, College Park, March 2003.

  8. Analyzing the Point Coordination Function of the IEEE 802.11 WLAN Protocol using a Systems of Communicating Machines Specification
    Moustafa Youssef and Raymond Miller
    CS-TR 4357, Department of Computer Science, University of Maryland, College Park, March 2002.
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  9. A Probabilistic Clustering-Based Indoor Location Determination System
    Moustafa Youssef, Ashok Agrawala, A. Udaya Shankar, and Sam H. Noh
    CS-TR 4350, Department of Computer Science, University of Maryland, College Park, March 2002.
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  10. Location Based Authentication for Wireless Networks
    William Arbaugh, Moustafa A. Youssef, Narendar Shankar, Arunesh Mishra, Ashok Agrawala
    Research Review Day 2002 poster, University of Maryland at College Park, March 2002.

  11. Rover Technology: Enabling a Location-Aware Computing Environment
    Suman Banerjee, Moustafa Youssef, Ron Larsen, A. Udaya Shankar, Ashok Agrawala, et al
    CS-TR 4312, Department of Computer Science, University of Maryland, College Park, December 2001.
    Download: PDF

  12. Universal Usability: Cross-Language Information Retrieval
    Moustafa Youssef
    Department of Computer Science, University of Maryland, College Park, April 2001.
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  13. Cross-Language Information Retrieval: Layout Strategies for Gloss Translation
    Eiman M. Elnahrawy, Nagia M. Ghanem, and Moustafa Youssef
    Department of Computer Science, University of Maryland, College Park, 2001.
    Download: HTML

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