Sonia Fahmy

I am a professor at the Department of Computer Science at Purdue University. I am also a member of CERIAS (the Center for Education and Research in Information Assurance and Security). My current research interests lie in the areas of network architectures and protocols, specifically Network Functions Virtualization, Internet measurement and tomography, network simulation and testbeds, network security, and wireless and sensor networks.

Click here for a two-page resume (PDF), and click here for a biography.

Address: 305 N. University St., Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN 47907-2107, USA
Office: LWSN 2142H
Telephone Number: (765) 494-6183
Fax: (765) 494-0739
E-mail: fahmy@cs.purdue.edu

Research

Research projects include:
(1) Network functions virtualization: We are designing placement and scaling strategies for virtualized network functions;
(2) Network experimentation and testbeds: We are developing methodologies and benchmarks for network evaluation, including security mechanisms for VoIP and multimedia services. Click here for our project web page, here for benchmarking project web page, and here for an article about our NG Consortium;
(3) Internet measurement and tomography: We are inferring information about network topology, availability, bottlenecks, bandwidth, latency, and loss, and exploiting this information for constructing, monitoring, and controlling network applications. Click here for our GENI project web page;
(4) Wireless networks: We are designing routing and diagnosis protocols for wireless and sensor networks.
Our current research projects are funded by the National Science Foundation. Prior projects have been funded by the Department of Homeland Security, Cisco Systems, Hewlett-Packard, Northrop Grumman Corp, Raytheon/BBN, the Schlumberger Foundation, the Purdue Research Foundation, and CERIAS.
Publications and Talks
Software: FlowMate (for Linux) | Active queue management (for ns-2) | iHEED (for TinyOS) | EMIST tool suite (for DETER/Emulab) | Routing tool suite |
Current Students: Lianjie Cao, Amit Sheoran, Navin Modi
PhD Alumni: S. M. Iftekharul Alam (Intel Research), Sriharsha Gangam (AmEx), Debbie Perouli (Assistant Professor, Marquette; co-advisor: Olaf Maennel), Wei-Min Yao (HTC), Ethan Blanton (Fiji), Ravish Khosla (Ericsson Silicon Valley; co-advisor: Y.-C. Hu), Roman Chertov (Arista; co-advisor: N. Shroff), Yan Wu (Twitter; co-advisor: N. Shroff), Ossama Younis, Minseok Kwon (Associate Professor, RIT)
MS Alumni: Xiangyu Bu, Jiahong Zhu, Jackie Soenneker, David Bettis, Pankaj Kumar, Mohamed R. Fouad, Rupak Sanjel, Srinivas R. Avasarala, Venkatesh Prabhakar, Tapan Karwa
Useful Research Links

Teaching

CS 422 (Spring 2017)

Professional Service

Steering committee member, IEEE International Conference on Network Protocols (ICNP), 2008-present
Technical Program Committee Member:
+ 2018: INFOCOM (ATPC chair)
+ 2017: INFOCOM (ATPC chair), ACM Symposium on SDN Research (SOSR), CNERT, ICNP (ATPC chair), CSET
+ 2016: MOBICOM, INFOCOM (ATPC chair), ICNP (ATPC chair)
+ 2015: CoNEXT, CSET
+ 2014: INFOCOM (ATPC chair)
+ 2013: INFOCOM (ATPC chair), SIGCOMM, CSET
+ 2012: INFOCOM (ATPC chair), ICNP (ATPC chair), CoNEXT, ICCCN NACSD
+ 2011: INFOCOM (ATPC chair), ICNP (ATPC chair), CSET
+ 2010: SIGMETRICS, INFOCOM
+ 2009: INFOCOM, ICDCS, COMSNETS, IWQoS, ICNP, CSET
+ 2007 and 2008: INFOCOM, ICDCS, WWIC, Global Internet Symposium, IWQoS, NSTools, ICNP, LSAD, DETER
+ 2006: ICNP, VoIP Security workshop, INFOCOM, IWQoS, ICCCN, WNS2, MonAM, NPSec, Q2SWinet, ICPADS, WoWMoM, COMPSAC, ICENCO
+ 2005: ICNP, IWQoS, INFOCOM, SenMetrics, Networking, ICDCS, WWIC, WSNIA
+ 2004: IWQoS, INFOCOM, ICDCS, BroadNets, ASWN, HiPC, ICENCO
+ 2003 and prior: INFOCOM 2003, ICPP 2003, WLN 2002, PWC 2002, EESD 2002, INFOCOM 2001, ICNP 2001, ICC 2000, ICDCS 2000, and GLOBECOM 2000
Associate Editor, IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing, February 2016-present
Steering committee chair, Workshop on Secure Network Protocols (NPSec), 2005-2015
Technical Program Committee Co-chair, International Conference on Future Internet Technologies (CFI) 2016
Technical Program Committee Co-chair, INFOCOM 2015
Associate Editor, IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking, February 2011-February 2015
Tutorials Co-Chair, SIGCOMM 2014
Associate Editor, IEEE Transactions on Computers, August 2007- August 2011
Vice-chair, Technical Committee on Computer Communications (TCCC), 2008-2010
Editor, Computer Communications, 2004-2010; Editor, Journal of High Speed Networks, 2005-2006
Technical Program Committee Co-chair, 18th IEEE International Conference on Network Protocols (ICNP) 2010 [Call for papers text] [Call for papers PDF]
General Co-chair, 16th IEEE International Conference on Network Protocols (ICNP) 2008
Technical Program Committee Co-chair, USENIX CSET 2008; Technical Program Committee Co-Chair, BroadNets, Internet Technologies Symposium, 2007; Technical Program Committee Co-Chair, WWIC 2006
General Chair, First Workshop on Secure Network Protocols (NPSec) 2005: Held in conjunction with IEEE ICNP
Posters Chair, IEEE ICNP 2006; Panels Chair, IEEE IPCCC 2004; Tutorials Chair, IEEE Hot Interconnects 2002
Organizer, Central Indiana Celebration of Women in Computing 2004
Conference Co-Chair, First SPIE International Conference on Scalability and Traffic Control in IP Networks 2001

Note to graduate study applicants, and students wishing to join our lab

Last updated by: Sonia Fahmy <fahmy@cs.purdue.edu>
May 2017