Associate Professor of Computer Science
Joined department in 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. She is currently investigating Internet tomography, network security, and wireless sensor
networks. Her work is published in over 80 refereed papers, including publications in IEEE/ACM
Transactions on Networking, Computer Networks, IEEE INFOCOM, and IEEE ICNP. She received the
National Science Foundation CAREER award in 2003, the Schlumberger foundation technical merit award
in 2000 and 2001, and the OSU presidential fellowship for dissertation research in 1998. Some of the
results of her work were incorporated into the ATM Forum traffic management specifications 4.0 and
4.1, and a patent has been awarded for her work on the ERICA algorithm for network congestion
control. She has served on the organizing or technical program committees of several conferences
including IEEE INFOCOM, ICNP, BroadNets, and ICDCS. She is a member of the ACM, and
a senior member of the IEEE.
Selected Publications
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, "FlowMate: Scalable On-line Flow Clustering", IEEE/ACM Transactions on
Networking, 13(2):288-301, April 2005.
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.
Funding Administered by Computer Science
Sonia Fahmy, CAREER: Exploiting Tomography in Network-Aware Protocols: Theory and Practice,
National Science Foundation, 9/1/2003-8/31/2009.
Sonia Fahmy, CT-ISG: Collaborative Research: Router Models & Downscaling Tools, National
Science Foundation, 10/1/2008-9/30/2011.
Sonia Fahmy, Hewlett Packard, Hewlett Packard Co, 2/28/2006.
Sonia Fahmy and Elisa Bertino, CRI Collaborative Research: A Testbed for Research and Development
of Secure IP Multimedia Communication Services, National Science Foundation,
3/15/2006-2/28/2010.
Sonia Fahmy and Ness Shroff, CT-T Collaborative Research: Protecting TCP Congestion Control:
Tools for Design, Analysis, & Emulation, National Science Foundation, 8/15/2005-7/31/2009.
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