Research overview
My research interests lie in next generation networking systems, with a core focus on leveraging the Internet of Things (IoT) towards ubiquitous and synergistic service proliferation.
I am also heavily involved with building the architecture to support the Tactile Internet, as part of the efforts of the upcoming IEEE P1918.1 Standard
My objective is to build a platform for Big Sensed Data management, whereby heterogeneous devices in the IoT would contribute data that will be seamlessly pruned and hierarchically fused, to aid sustainable service management.
I am also extending the umbrella of IoT to leverage contextual awareness in the Internet of Skills, whereby emerging research on the Tactile Internet will enable contextualized remote operation of systems in perceived real-time.
I'm also working on advancing Information Centric Networks, where I work with my students on expediting content retrieval, leveraging topological characteristics and popularity indices, to improve users’ QoService and QoExperience.
I am also heavily involved with building the architecture to support the Tactile Internet, as part of the efforts of the upcoming IEEE P1918.1 Standard
My objective is to build a platform for Big Sensed Data management, whereby heterogeneous devices in the IoT would contribute data that will be seamlessly pruned and hierarchically fused, to aid sustainable service management.
I am also extending the umbrella of IoT to leverage contextual awareness in the Internet of Skills, whereby emerging research on the Tactile Internet will enable contextualized remote operation of systems in perceived real-time.
I'm also working on advancing Information Centric Networks, where I work with my students on expediting content retrieval, leveraging topological characteristics and popularity indices, to improve users’ QoService and QoExperience.
Research topics
Internet of Things
Tactile Internet
Information Centric Networks
Big Sensed Data
Next generation Sensing Systems
Tactile Internet
Information Centric Networks
Big Sensed Data
Next generation Sensing Systems
Publications
Books and Book chapters
M. Simsek, S. Oteafy, Z. Dawy, M. Eid, O. Holland, E. Steinbach, "Tactile Internet standards of the IEEE P1918.1 Working Group", Tactile Internet, Academic Press, Pages 351-374, 2021.
S. Oteafy and H. Hassanein, “Dynamic Wireless Sensor Networks", Wiley, ISBN: 978-1-84821-531-3, June 2014.
Journals
W. Li, S. Oteafy, M. Fayed and H. Hassanein, “Quality of Experience in ICN: Keep your low-bitrate close, and high-bitrate closer", IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking, vol. 29, no. 2, pp. 557-570, 2021.
F. Khandaker, S. Oteafy, H. Hassanein & H. Farahat, "A functional taxonomy of caching schemes: Towards guided designs in Information-Centric Networks", Computer Networks, Vol.165, 2019.
S. Oteafy and H. Hassanein, “Leveraging Tactile Internet Cognizance and Operation via IoT and Edge Technologies", Proceedings of the IEEE, 2019 [PDF]
W. Li, M. Fayed, S. Oteafy and H. Hassanein, “A Cache-level Quality of Experience Metric to Characterize ICNs for Adaptive Streaming”, IEEE Communication Letters, Vol. 23 , Iss. 2 , Feb. 2019 [PDF]
O. Holland, E. Steinbach, V. Prasad, Q. Liu, Z. Dawy, A. Aijaz, N. Papas, K. Chandra, V. Rao, S. Oteafy, M. Eid, M. Luden, A. Bhardwaj, X. Liu, J. Sachs, J. Araújo, "The IEEE 1918.1 “Tactile Internet” Standards Working Group and its Standards," in Proceedings of the IEEE, vol. 107, no. 2, pp. 256-279, Feb. 2019.
S. Oteafy and H. Hassanein, “Big Sensed Data: Evolution, challenges and a progressive framework", IEEE Communications Magazine, vol. 56, no. 7, pp. 108-114, July 2018 [PDF]
S. Oteafy and H. Hassanein, "IoT in the Fog: A Roadmap for Data-Centric IoT Development," in IEEE Communications Magazine, vol. 56, no. 3, pp. 157-163, March 2018. [PDF]
N. Khelifi, E. Nataf, S. Oteafy, H. Youssef, "Rescue‐Sink: Dynamic sink augmentation for RPL in the Internet of Things", Transactions on Emerging Telecommunications Technologies, Vol. 29, Iss., 2, February 2018 [PDF]
W. Li, S. Oteafy and H. Hassanein, “Rate-Selective Caching for Adaptive Streaming over Information Centric Networks”, IEEE Transactions on Computers, 2017 [PDF]
A. Sulyman, S. Oteafy and H. Hassanein, “Expanding the Cellular-IoT umbrella: An architectural approach”, IEEE Wireless Communications, June 2017. [PDF]
S. Oteafy and H. Hassanein, “Resilient IoT architectures over Dynamic Sensor Networks with adaptive components", IEEE Internet of Things Journal, 2017 [PDF]
K. Elgazzar, S. Oteafy, W. Ibrahim and H. Hassanein, “RobP2P: Smart Resource Sharing in Mobile P2P Environments”, The Computer Journal (Oxford), July 2014. [PDF]
S. Oteafy and H. Hassanein, “Resource Re-use in Wireless Sensor Networks: Realizing a Synergetic Internet of Things”, Journal of Communications, Vol 7, No 7, 484-493, Jul 2012. [PDF]
F. Al-Turjman, H. Hassanein, S. Oteafy and W. Alsalih, “Towards augmenting federated wireless sensor networks in forestry applications”, Personal and Ubiquitous Computing, May 2012. [PDF]
Conferences
Note: Student co-authors whom I supervised are denoted with * in my publications list.
I. Amer*, S. Oteafy, S. Elsayed, H. Hassanein, “QoS-based Task Replication for Alleviating Uncertainty in Edge Computing”, IEEE Global Communications Conference (Globecom), December 2022.
I. Amer*, S. Oteafy, H. Hassanein, “Task Replication in Unreliable Edge Networks”, in 47th Conference on Local Computer Networks (LCN), October 2022.
P. Kostoulas*, S. Oteafy, P. Chatzimisios, “Fire-Fighting Drones: A Use Case for the Tactile Internet”, IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC), May 2022.
F. Khandaker*, W. Li, S. Oteafy and H. Hassanein, "Maximizing Producer-Driven Cache Valuation in Information-Centric Networks," IEEE Global Communications Conference (Globecom), Madrid, December 2021.
S. Oteafy, "Resource augmentation in Heterogeneous Internet of Things via UAVs", IEEE Globecom, December 2021
G. Kolovou, S. Oteafy and P. Chatzimisios, "A Remote Surgery Use Case for the IEEE P1918.1 Tactile Internet Standard," IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC), 2021
A. Aijaz, Z. Dawy, N. Pappas, M. Simsek, S. Oteafy, and O. Holland, "The IEEE P1918.1 Reference Architecture Framework for the Tactile Internet and a Case Study", IEEE Globecom, December 2020
F. Khandaker*, W. Li*, S. Oteafy & H. Hassanein, "On Maximizing the Value of Cache Contents in ICN", IEEE Globecom, December 2019
W. Li*, S. Oteafy & H. Hassanein, “Performance Comparison of Transcoding and Bitrate-aware Caching in Adaptive Video Streaming”, IEEE International Communications Conference (ICC), May 2019.
W. Li, S. Oteafy, M. Fayed & H. Hassanein, “Bitrate adaptation-aware cache partitioning for video streaming over Information-centric Networks”, IEEE 43rd Conference on Local Computer Networks (LCN), Oct 2018
W. Li, S. Oteafy and H. Hassanein, “On the Performance of Adaptive Video Caching over Information-Centric Networks", IEEE International Communications Conference (ICC), May 2017
S. Oteafy, “A Framework for Heterogeneous Sensing in Big Sensed Data", IEEE Globecom, December 2016
W. Li, S. Oteafy and H. Hassanein, “StreamCache: Popularity-based caching for adaptive streaming over information-centric networks”, IEEE International Communications Conference (ICC), May 2016
M. Abu-Elkheir, H. Hassanein and S. Oteafy, "Enhancing emergency response systems through leveraging crowdsensing and heterogeneous data," International Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing Conference (IWCMC), September 2016.
K. Ali, T. Javed, H. Hassanein and S. Oteafy, "Non-audible Acoustic Communication and its Application in Indoor Location-based Services", IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference (WCNC), April 2016.
S. Aleyadeh, S. Oteafy and H. Hassanein, “Scalable Transportation Monitoring using the Smartphone Road Monitoring (SRoM) System", 5th ACM International Symposium on Design and Analysis of Intelligent Vehicular Networks and Applications, November 2015.
N. Khelifi, S. Oteafy, H. Hassanein and H. Youssef, “Proactive maintenance in RPL for 6LowPAN”, International Wireless Communications & Mobile Computing Conference (IWCMC) - Wireless Sensor Symposium, Dubrovnik, Croatia, August 2015.
W. Li, S. Oteafy and H. Hassanein, “Dynamic Adaptive Streaming over Popularity-driven Caching in Information Centric Networks”, IEEE International Communications Conference (ICC), 8-12 June 2015.
S. Oteafy and H. Lutfiyya, "Convergent paradigms in the internet of things (CT-IoT)". In Proceedings of 24th Annual International Conference on Computer Science and Software Engineering (CASCON), IBM, Toronto, ON, Canada, 2014.
S. Oteafy and H. Hassanein, “Organic Wireless Sensor Networks: A resilient paradigm for ubiquitous sensing", 17th ACM International Conference on Modeling, Analysis and Simulation of Wireless and Mobile Systems (MSWiM), 21-25 September, 2014.
S. Oteafy and H. Hassanein, "Cloud-centric Sensor Networks - Deflating the hype," in IEEE Symposium on Computers and Communication (ISCC) Workshops, Spain, 23-26 June 2014
S. Oteafy and H. Hassanein, “Dynamic Resource Reuse Towards Participatory Sensing Network", 27th Queen's Biennial Symposium on Communications, 1-3 June 2014.
S. Oteafy and H. Hassanein, “Resilient Sensor Networks Utilizing Dynamic Resource Reuse”, International Conference on Computing, Management and Telecommunications (ComManTel), 27-29 April, 2014.
S. Oteafy and H. Hassanein, “Component-based Wireless Sensor Networks: A Dynamic Paradigm for Synergetic and Resilient Architectures ”, 38th IEEE Conference on Local Computer Networks (LCN), Sydney, Australia, Oct. 2013.
K. Elgazzar, W. Ibrahim, S. Oteafy, H. Hassanein, “RobP2P: A Robust Architecture for Resource Sharing in Mobile Peer-to-Peer Networks,” The 4th International Conference on Ambient Systems, Networks and Technologies (ANT), Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada, 25-28 June, 2013. (Invited to a Special Issue)
A. Abahsain, A. Al-Fagih, S. Oteafy and H. Hassanein, "Selective Context Fusion Utilizing an Integrated RFID-WSN Architecture", IEEE Consumer Communications and Networking Conference (CCNC), Jan 2013.
A. Al-Fagih, A. El Kouche, S. Oteafy and A. Alma'aitah, “Utilizing RFID-WSNs for Reducing the Footprint of the Oil Sands Industries”, IEEE Globecom '12 Workshop: Green Internet of Things, 2012.
A. Al-Fagih, S. Oteafy and H. Hassanein, “A Pricing Scheme for Porter Based Delivery in Integrated RFID-Sensor Networks”, IEEE LCN ON-MOVE, 6th Workshop On User MObility and VEhicular Networks, 2012.
S. Oteafy, F. Al-Turjman, H. Hassanein, “Pruned Adaptive Routing in the Heterogeneous Internet of Things”, Globecom 2012 - Ad Hoc and Sensor Networking Symposium, 2012.
S. Oteafy and H. Hassanein, “Utilizing transient resources in dynamic wireless sensor networks”, IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference (WCNC), April 2012.
S. Oteafy and H. Hassanein, "Towards a global IoT: Resource re-utilization in WSNs," International Conference on Computing, Networking and Communications (ICNC), pp.617-622, Jan. 2012.
S. Oteafy and H. Hassanein, “ "Re-Usable Resources in Wireless Sensor Networks: A Linear Optimization for a Novel Application Overlay Paradigm over Multiple Networks," IEEE Global Telecommunications Conference (GLOBECOM), pp.1-5, Dec. 2011
F. Al-Turjman, H. Hassanein and S. Oteafy, “Towards Augmenting Federated Wireless Sensor Networks”, International Conference on Ambient Systems, Networks and Technologies (ANT), 2011 (best paper award)
K. Ali, S. Oteafy and H. Hassanein, “Energy-Efficient Parallel Singulation in RFID”, IEEE International Communications Conference (ICC), pp. 1-5, 2010
S. Oteafy, H. Aboelfotoh, H. Hassanein, "Dynamic Election-Based Sensing and Routing in Wireless Sensor Networks”, IEEE Global Telecommunications Conference (GLOBECOM), pp.1-6, 2009.
S. Oteafy, H. Aboelfotoh, H. Hassanein, "Decentralized Multi-Level Duty Cycling in Sensor Networks," IEEE Global Telecommunications Conference, 2008 (GLOBECOM), pp.1-5, 2008
I. Amer*, S. Oteafy, S. Elsayed, H. Hassanein, “QoS-based Task Replication for Alleviating Uncertainty in Edge Computing”, IEEE Global Communications Conference (Globecom), December 2022.
I. Amer*, S. Oteafy, H. Hassanein, “Task Replication in Unreliable Edge Networks”, in 47th Conference on Local Computer Networks (LCN), October 2022.
P. Kostoulas*, S. Oteafy, P. Chatzimisios, “Fire-Fighting Drones: A Use Case for the Tactile Internet”, IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC), May 2022.
F. Khandaker*, W. Li, S. Oteafy and H. Hassanein, "Maximizing Producer-Driven Cache Valuation in Information-Centric Networks," IEEE Global Communications Conference (Globecom), Madrid, December 2021.
S. Oteafy, "Resource augmentation in Heterogeneous Internet of Things via UAVs", IEEE Globecom, December 2021
G. Kolovou, S. Oteafy and P. Chatzimisios, "A Remote Surgery Use Case for the IEEE P1918.1 Tactile Internet Standard," IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC), 2021
A. Aijaz, Z. Dawy, N. Pappas, M. Simsek, S. Oteafy, and O. Holland, "The IEEE P1918.1 Reference Architecture Framework for the Tactile Internet and a Case Study", IEEE Globecom, December 2020
F. Khandaker*, W. Li*, S. Oteafy & H. Hassanein, "On Maximizing the Value of Cache Contents in ICN", IEEE Globecom, December 2019
W. Li*, S. Oteafy & H. Hassanein, “Performance Comparison of Transcoding and Bitrate-aware Caching in Adaptive Video Streaming”, IEEE International Communications Conference (ICC), May 2019.
W. Li, S. Oteafy, M. Fayed & H. Hassanein, “Bitrate adaptation-aware cache partitioning for video streaming over Information-centric Networks”, IEEE 43rd Conference on Local Computer Networks (LCN), Oct 2018
W. Li, S. Oteafy and H. Hassanein, “On the Performance of Adaptive Video Caching over Information-Centric Networks", IEEE International Communications Conference (ICC), May 2017
S. Oteafy, “A Framework for Heterogeneous Sensing in Big Sensed Data", IEEE Globecom, December 2016
W. Li, S. Oteafy and H. Hassanein, “StreamCache: Popularity-based caching for adaptive streaming over information-centric networks”, IEEE International Communications Conference (ICC), May 2016
M. Abu-Elkheir, H. Hassanein and S. Oteafy, "Enhancing emergency response systems through leveraging crowdsensing and heterogeneous data," International Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing Conference (IWCMC), September 2016.
K. Ali, T. Javed, H. Hassanein and S. Oteafy, "Non-audible Acoustic Communication and its Application in Indoor Location-based Services", IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference (WCNC), April 2016.
S. Aleyadeh, S. Oteafy and H. Hassanein, “Scalable Transportation Monitoring using the Smartphone Road Monitoring (SRoM) System", 5th ACM International Symposium on Design and Analysis of Intelligent Vehicular Networks and Applications, November 2015.
N. Khelifi, S. Oteafy, H. Hassanein and H. Youssef, “Proactive maintenance in RPL for 6LowPAN”, International Wireless Communications & Mobile Computing Conference (IWCMC) - Wireless Sensor Symposium, Dubrovnik, Croatia, August 2015.
W. Li, S. Oteafy and H. Hassanein, “Dynamic Adaptive Streaming over Popularity-driven Caching in Information Centric Networks”, IEEE International Communications Conference (ICC), 8-12 June 2015.
S. Oteafy and H. Lutfiyya, "Convergent paradigms in the internet of things (CT-IoT)". In Proceedings of 24th Annual International Conference on Computer Science and Software Engineering (CASCON), IBM, Toronto, ON, Canada, 2014.
S. Oteafy and H. Hassanein, “Organic Wireless Sensor Networks: A resilient paradigm for ubiquitous sensing", 17th ACM International Conference on Modeling, Analysis and Simulation of Wireless and Mobile Systems (MSWiM), 21-25 September, 2014.
S. Oteafy and H. Hassanein, "Cloud-centric Sensor Networks - Deflating the hype," in IEEE Symposium on Computers and Communication (ISCC) Workshops, Spain, 23-26 June 2014
S. Oteafy and H. Hassanein, “Dynamic Resource Reuse Towards Participatory Sensing Network", 27th Queen's Biennial Symposium on Communications, 1-3 June 2014.
S. Oteafy and H. Hassanein, “Resilient Sensor Networks Utilizing Dynamic Resource Reuse”, International Conference on Computing, Management and Telecommunications (ComManTel), 27-29 April, 2014.
S. Oteafy and H. Hassanein, “Component-based Wireless Sensor Networks: A Dynamic Paradigm for Synergetic and Resilient Architectures ”, 38th IEEE Conference on Local Computer Networks (LCN), Sydney, Australia, Oct. 2013.
K. Elgazzar, W. Ibrahim, S. Oteafy, H. Hassanein, “RobP2P: A Robust Architecture for Resource Sharing in Mobile Peer-to-Peer Networks,” The 4th International Conference on Ambient Systems, Networks and Technologies (ANT), Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada, 25-28 June, 2013. (Invited to a Special Issue)
A. Abahsain, A. Al-Fagih, S. Oteafy and H. Hassanein, "Selective Context Fusion Utilizing an Integrated RFID-WSN Architecture", IEEE Consumer Communications and Networking Conference (CCNC), Jan 2013.
A. Al-Fagih, A. El Kouche, S. Oteafy and A. Alma'aitah, “Utilizing RFID-WSNs for Reducing the Footprint of the Oil Sands Industries”, IEEE Globecom '12 Workshop: Green Internet of Things, 2012.
A. Al-Fagih, S. Oteafy and H. Hassanein, “A Pricing Scheme for Porter Based Delivery in Integrated RFID-Sensor Networks”, IEEE LCN ON-MOVE, 6th Workshop On User MObility and VEhicular Networks, 2012.
S. Oteafy, F. Al-Turjman, H. Hassanein, “Pruned Adaptive Routing in the Heterogeneous Internet of Things”, Globecom 2012 - Ad Hoc and Sensor Networking Symposium, 2012.
S. Oteafy and H. Hassanein, “Utilizing transient resources in dynamic wireless sensor networks”, IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference (WCNC), April 2012.
S. Oteafy and H. Hassanein, "Towards a global IoT: Resource re-utilization in WSNs," International Conference on Computing, Networking and Communications (ICNC), pp.617-622, Jan. 2012.
S. Oteafy and H. Hassanein, “ "Re-Usable Resources in Wireless Sensor Networks: A Linear Optimization for a Novel Application Overlay Paradigm over Multiple Networks," IEEE Global Telecommunications Conference (GLOBECOM), pp.1-5, Dec. 2011
F. Al-Turjman, H. Hassanein and S. Oteafy, “Towards Augmenting Federated Wireless Sensor Networks”, International Conference on Ambient Systems, Networks and Technologies (ANT), 2011 (best paper award)
K. Ali, S. Oteafy and H. Hassanein, “Energy-Efficient Parallel Singulation in RFID”, IEEE International Communications Conference (ICC), pp. 1-5, 2010
S. Oteafy, H. Aboelfotoh, H. Hassanein, "Dynamic Election-Based Sensing and Routing in Wireless Sensor Networks”, IEEE Global Telecommunications Conference (GLOBECOM), pp.1-6, 2009.
S. Oteafy, H. Aboelfotoh, H. Hassanein, "Decentralized Multi-Level Duty Cycling in Sensor Networks," IEEE Global Telecommunications Conference, 2008 (GLOBECOM), pp.1-5, 2008
Theses and Technical reports
Sharief Oteafy, "Global Resource Utilization for Synergetic Wireless Sensor Networks", PhD Dissertation, School of Computing, Queen's University, 2013.
Sharief Oteafy, “Wireless Sensor Networks: Protocols and Paradigms in Harsh Environments”, Technical report, 2011.
Sharief Oteafy, “A Decentralized Coordinated Multi-level Duty Cycling Approach for Wireless Sensor Networks”, M.Sc. thesis, Dept. Math. & Comp. Sci., Kuwait Univ., 2007.
Sharief Oteafy, “Wireless Sensor Networks: Protocols and Paradigms in Harsh Environments”, Technical report, 2011.
Sharief Oteafy, “A Decentralized Coordinated Multi-level Duty Cycling Approach for Wireless Sensor Networks”, M.Sc. thesis, Dept. Math. & Comp. Sci., Kuwait Univ., 2007.
Others
EDWiNS: Event-Driven Wireless Networks Simulator (developed in C)