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  • Using Internet of Things for Automatic Student Assessment during Laboratory Experiments 
    Mershad, Khaleel; Damaj, Abdulhadi; Hamieh, Ali (IEEE, 2020-04-20)
    A Learning Management Systems (LMS) is a tool for creating, distributing, tracking, and managing various types of educational material. In a previous work, the authors proposed a framework for a future LMS enhanced by ...
  • MQL: Mixed Query Language for Querying MySQL and HBase Databases 
    Mershad, Khaleel (IEEE, 2019-02-21)
    During the last twenty years, the amount of stored digital data has witnessed an enormous growth. This data is usually divided by the scientific community into structured and unstructured data. Although unstructured data ...
  • Using Internet of Things in a Learning Management System for Campus Access Control 
    Wakim, Pilar; Mershad, Khaleel (IEEE, 2018-09-13)
    The Internet of Things (IoT) paradigm is an innovative technology that connects any physical object smartly to the Internet in order to exchange, store and process real-time data with its surrounding environment and people. ...
  • Approving Updates in Collaborative Databases 
    Mershad, Khaleel; Malluhi, Qutaibah M.; Ouzzani, Mourad; Tang, Mingjie; Aref, Walid G. (IEEE, 2015-04-23)
    Data curation activities in collaborative databases mandate that collaborators interact until they converge and agree on the content of their data. Typically, updates by a member of the collaboration are made visible to ...
  • Hadoop Extensions for Distributed Computing on Reconfigurable Active SSD Clusters 
    Kaitoua, Abdul Rahman; Hajj, Hazem; Saghir, Mazen A.R.; Artail, Hassan; Akkary, Haitham; Awad, Mariette; Sharafeddine, Mageda; Mershad, Khaleel (2014-07-15)
    In this article, we propose new extensions to Hadoop to enable clusters of reconfigurable active solid-state drives (RASSDs) to process streaming data from SSDs using FPGAs. We also develop an analytical model to estimate ...
  • Cloud providers collaboration for a higher service level in cloud computing 
    Mershad, Khaleel; Kaitoua, Abdul Rahman; Artail, Hassan; Saghir, Mazen A.R.; Hajj, Hazem (IEEE, 2013-08-15)
    Cloud computing is increasingly becoming a desirable and foundational element in international enterprise computing. There are many companies which design, develop, and offer cloud technologies. However, cloud providers ...
  • CROWN: Discovering and consuming services in vehicular clouds 
    Mershad, Khaleel; Artail, Hassan (IEEE, 2013-08-15)
    The strong potentials that exist in Vehicular Ad hoc Networks (VANETs) has given birth to the concept of Vehicular Clouds, in which cloud computing services are hosted by vehicles that have sufficient resources to act as ...
  • A Mediation Layer for Connecting Data-Intensive Applications to Reconfigurable Data Nodes 
    Jomaa, Mohamad; Mershad, Khaleel; Abbani, Noor; Sharaf-Dabbagh, Yaman; Romanous, Bashar; Artail, Hassan; Saghir, Mazen A.R.; Hajj, Hazem; Akkary, Haitham; Awad, Mariette (IEEE, 2013-10-24)
    A novel and rapidly growing area of research concerns data-intensive applications and the technical challenges that accompany it. One of those challenges is developing approaches and mechanisms that render high performance ...
  • A Framework for Multi-cloud Cooperation with Hardware Reconfiguration Support 
    Mershad, Khaleel; Kaitoua, Abdul Rahman; Artail, Hassan; Saghir, Mazen A.R.; Hajj, Hazem (IEEE, 2013-11-07)
    Cloud computing is increasingly becoming a desirable and foundational element in international enterprise computing. There are many companies which design, develop, and offer cloud technologies. However, cloud providers ...
  • A Framework for Implementing Mobile Cloud Services in VANETs 
    Mershad, Khaleel; Artail, Hassan (IEEE, 2013-12-02)
    The strong potentials that exist in Vehicular Ad hoc Networks (VANETs) has given birth to the concept of Vehicular Clouds, in which cloud computing services are hosted by vehicles that have sufficient resources to act as ...
  • Performance analysis of routing in VANETs using the RSU network 
    Mershad, Khaleel; Artail, Hassan (IEEE, 2011-11-21)
    Vehicular ad hoc networks (VANETs) enable vehicles to communicate with each other, but require efficient and robust routing protocols for their success. In this paper, we exploit the infrastructure of roadside units (RSUs) ...
  • REACT: Secure and efficient data acquisition in VANETs 
    Mershad, Khaleel; Artail, Hassan (IEEE, 2011-11-21)
    Vehicular ad hoc networks (VANETs) enable vehicles that are not necessarily within the same radio transmission range to communicate with each other and with roadside units (RSUs). The success of data acquisition and delivery ...
  • Routing packets to distant locations in VANETs 
    Mershad, Khaleel; Artail, Hassan; Safa, Haidar (IEEE, 2011-10-27)
    In the near future vehicular networks (VANETs) based on wireless technology will be part of our daily lives. VANETs enable vehicles that are not necessarily within the same transmission range to communicate with each other. ...
  • Using RSUs as Delegates for Pervasive Access to Services in Vehicle Ad Hoc Networks 
    Mershad, Khaleel; Artail, Hassan (IEEE, 2010-06-03)
    Vehicular ad hoc networks, also known as VANETs, enable vehicles which are not necessarily within the same radio transmission range to communicate with each other. In addition to allowing direct communication between ...
  • Semantic Caching for Mobile Ad Hoc Networks 
    Mershad, Khaleel; Artail, Hassan (IEEE, 2010-01-29)
    Nodes in mobile ad-hoc networks (MANETs) acquire data from servers through access points. In order to minimize this interaction, data caching at mobile nodes is employed. This work builds on a recently introduced cooperative ...
  • A Collaborative Service Discovery and Service Sharing Framework for Mobile Ad Hoc Networks 
    Safa, Haidar; Artail, Hassan; Hamze, Hicham; Mershad, Khaleel (Springer, 2007)
    Service sharing and discovery play a relevant role in mobile ad hoc environments. Upon joining a self-organizing network, mobile nodes should be able to explore the environment to learn about, locate, and share the available ...
  • A Cluster Based Service Discovery Model for Mobile Ad Hoc Networks 
    Artail, Hassan; Safa, Haidar; Hamze, Hicham; Mershad, Khaleel (IEEE, 2007-12-04)
    Mobile ad hoc networks, as a typical example of self-organized networks, represent an emerging and promising communication paradigm. Not only the variety of devices but also the diversity of services is continuously ...
  • DSDM: A Distributed Service Discovery Model for Manets 
    Artail, Hassan; Mershad, Khaleel W.; Hamze, Hicham (2008-07-29)
    Service discovery is indispensable to ad hoc networking where establishing a stand-alone and self-configurable communication environment is the main objective. This paper concentrates on designing a distributed service ...
  • MDPF: Minimum Distance Packet Forwarding for Search Applications in Mobile Ad Hoc Networks 
    Artail, Hassan; Mershad, Khaleel (2009-03-12)
    This paper introduces a message forwarding algorithm for search applications within mobile ad hoc networks that is based on the concept of selecting the nearest node from a set of designated nodes. The algorithm, which is ...
  • COACS: A Cooperative and Adaptive Caching System for MANETs 
    Artail, Hassan; Safa, Haidar; Mershad, Khaleel; Abou-Atme, Zahy; Sulieman, Nabeel (2008-08)
    This paper introduces a cooperation-based database caching system for Mobile Ad Hoc Networks (MANETs). The heart of the system is the nodes that cache submitted queries. The queries are used as indices to data cached in ...

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