Professor of Computer Science
Joined department: 1999
Education:
BSc, Computer Science
The American University in Cairo, Egypt (1992)
MS, Computer and Information Science
The Ohio State University (1996)
PhD, Computer and Information Science
The Ohio State University (1999)
Professor Fahmy's research interests lie in the design and evaluation of network architectures and
protocols. Her work is published in over 100 refereed papers, including publications in IEEE/ACM
Transactions on Networking, IEEE INFOCOM, ICNP, and ICDCS. She received the National
Science Foundation CAREER award in 2003, and the Schlumberger foundation technical merit award in
2000. Some of the results of her work were incorporated into the ATM Forum traffic management
specifications, and a patent has been awarded for her work on the ERICA algorithm for network
congestion control. Her research has been supported by grants from the government and industry
including NSF, DHS, Cisco Systems, HP, Northrop Grumman, Schlumberger, and Raytheon/BBN. Fahmy serves
on the editorial boards of IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking and IEEE Transactions on
Computers. She has served on the organizing or technical program committees of several
conferences including IEEE INFOCOM, ICNP, ICDCS, and ACM SIGMETRICS. She is a
member of the ACM, and a senior member of the IEEE.
Selected Publications
R. Chertov, S. Fahmy, and N. B. Shroff, "Fidelity of network simulation and emulation: A case study
of TCP-targeted denial of service attacks", ACM Transactions on Modeling and Computer
Simulation, 19(1):4:1-29, December 2008.
S. Fahmy and M. Kwon, "Characterizing overlay multicast networks and their costs", IEEE/ACM
Transactions on Networking, 15(2):373-386, April 2007.
O. Younis and S. Fahmy, "HEED: A hybrid, energy-efficient, distributed clustering approach for ad-hoc
sensor networks", IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing, 3(4):366-379, Oct-Dec 2004.
Research Funding
Eugene Spafford, NGIT Cybersecurity Research Consortium, Northrop Grumman,
9/1/2009-8/31/2012.
Sonia Fahmy, CT-ISG: Collaborative Research: Router Models & Downscaling Tools for Scalable
Security Experiments, National Science Foundation, 10/1/2008-9/30/2012.
Sonia Fahmy, Hewlett Packard, Hewlett Packard Co, 2/28/2006.
Sonia Fahmy, Routing and Addressing, Community Foundation Silicon Valley, 1/1/2011.
Sonia Fahmy, Scalable, Extensible, & Safe Monitoring of GENI Clusters, BBN Technologies,
10/1/2009-9/30/2012.
Sonia Fahmy, Elisa Bertino, and Hyo Sang Lim, NeTS: Medium: Collaborative Research: A
Comprehensive Approach for Data Quality and Provenance in Sensor Networks, National Science
Foundation, 6/1/2010-5/31/2013.
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