About Me

EDUCATION

2009- 2015 PhD in Computer Engineering (May 2015),

The Bradley Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE),

Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University (Virginia Tech), USA

Dissertation: Collaborative Computing Cloud: Architecture and Management Platform (Download dissertation)

2002 - 2007 M.Sc. in Electronics and Communications Engineering (July 2007),

Department of Electronics and Communications Engineering,

Arab Academy for Science, Technology and Maritime Transport (AASTMT), Egypt

1994 - 1999 B.Sc. in Electronics and Communications Engineering (May 1999),

Department of Electrical Engineering,

Faculty of Engineering, Zagazig University, Egypt

RESEARCH PROJECTS

04/2016-10/2016 “IoT-Based Cloud-Like Infrastructure”, SmartCI Center of Research Excellence, Alexandria University, Egypt.

PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES

1. I acted as a reviewer for the following conferences: CyberC 2015-WD’14- NTMS'2014-IEEE WCNC'14-ICC'14 MWN-Globecom 2013 (AHSN, WN) - Globecom 2012 (AHSN) –WD 2012 - WD 2011 - iCOST'2011 - LCN 2011 - ICC'11 AHSM, ICC'11 CRN - NTMS'2011 - WD'10 - LCN 2010 - ICC'10 - AHS - IEEE ICT 2010 Ad-hoc and Sensor Communications - Globecom 2010 (GC10 - AHSN) – INFOCOM 2010 - PIMRC'09 - Journal of Network and Computer Applications.

PUBLICATIONS

1. Ahmed A. Khalifa, Mohamed Azab, Bassem Mokhtar, and Mohamed Eltoweissy, “Resilent Collaborative Cloud Management in Mobile Environments”, in International Journal of Scientific and Engineering Research (IJSER) - (ISSN 2229-5518), Volume 8, Issue 2, February 2017 Edition, pp. 550 - 568. (Download)

2. A. Khalifa, M. Azab, and M. Eltoweissy, "Towards a Mobile Ad-hoc Cloud Management Platform", in the 7th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Utility and Cloud Computing (UCC 2014), London, United Kingdom, December, 2014. (Download)

3. A. Khalifa, M. Azab, and M. Eltoweissy, "Resilient Hybrid Mobile Ad-hoc Cloud Over Collaborating Heterogeneous Nodes", in the 10th IEEE International Conference on Collaborative Computing: Networking, Applications and Worksharing (CollaborateCom 2014), Miami, Florida, United States, October, 2014. (Download)

4. A. Khalifa and M. Eltoweissy, “MobiCloud: A Reliable Collaborative MobileCloud Management System,” In the 9th IEEE International Conference on Collaborative Computing: Networking, Applications and Worksharing, United States, October, 2013, pp. 158 – 167. (Download)

5. A. Khalifa and M. Eltoweissy, “Collaborative Autonomic Resource Management System for Mobile Cloud Computing,” in the Fourth International Conference on Cloud Computing, GRIDs, and Virtualization, Spain, June, 2013, pp. 115–12. (Download)

6. A. Khalifa and M. Eltoweissy, “A global resource positioning system for ubiquitous clouds,” in the Eighth International Conference on Innovations in Information Technology (IIT), UAE, March, 2012, pp. 145–150.(Download)

7. A. Khalifa, R. Hassan, and M. Eltoweissy, “Towards ubiquitous computing clouds,” in the Third International Conference on Future Computational Technologies and Applications, Rome, Italy, September, 2011, pp. 52–56. “Best Paper Award”. (Download)

8. H.S. Abdel-Ghaffar, H.A.-A. Ebrahim, A.A. Khalifa, “Efficient Mobility Management Protocols for Integrated UMTS and Outdoor WLAN 802.11g”, International Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing Conference (IWCMC '08), Crete, Greece, pp. 552 - 558, August, 2008. (Download)

9. H.S. Abdel-Ghaffar, H.A.-A. Ebrahim, A.A. Khalifa, “Performance Evaluation of Real Time Applications for Vertical Handover between WLAN 802.11g and UMTS”, Proceedings of the 3rd international conference on Mobile technology, applications & systems, Bangkok, Thailand, 2006. (Download)