Professor
Abraham Matta is a Professor in the Computer Science Department at Boston University, where he served as Chair of the department during 2018-2024. He received his Ph.D. in computer science from the University of Maryland at College Park in 1995. He works on the design of network protocols and architectures based on a range of computer science principles (such as inter-process communication, decomposition, and recursion), mathematical techniques (such as probabilistic analysis, queuing theory, optimization, and control theory), and performance evaluation tools (such as simulation and emulation). Application domains include the Internet, wireless, mobile, sensor and disruption-tolerant networks, cloud and distributed systems. He has published over 150 peer-reviewed technical papers. He received the National Science Foundation CAREER award (1997). He won a patent (2011) and two best-paper awards (2008 and 2010) for his work on wireless ad hoc and sensor networks. He won awards for his experimental work on the GENI testbed (Global Environment for Network Innovations) in 2018 and on the FABRIC testbed in 2023. He also won a best-paper award for his cloud computing work in 2021. He has been involved with the GENI project since 2013 as an experimenter and in outreach and education activities, including national and international collaboration meetings on cyberinfrastructure. He has been serving on the FABRIC Scientific Advisory Board since January 2020, and the FOUNT Scientific Advisory Board since November 2023. He has served as chair or co-chair of many technical program committees, such as the IEEE Online Conference on Green Communications (2012), IEEE Computer Communications Workshop (2011), and IEEE International Conference on Network Protocols (2005). He has served on many organizing committees, including as general chair of the 4th International Symposium on Modeling and Optimization in Mobile, Ad Hoc, and Wireless Networks (2006), and general co-chair of the IFIP International Conference on Wired/Wireless Internet Communications (2018). He is a senior member of the ACM and IEEE. He leads the Distributed Applications, Systems & Networks (DASNet) Group, and is a member of the Networks Research Group (NRG) at BU CS. He is currently serving as Associate Editor for IEEE Networking Letters.
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Selected Publications
Flavio Esposito, Donato Di Paola, and Ibrahim Matta. A General Distributed Approach to Slice Embedding with Guarantees. In Proceedings of IFIP Networking, Brooklyn, New York, May 2013.
Luca Chiaraviglio, and Ibrahim Matta. GreenCoop: Cooperative Green Routing with Energy-efficient Servers. In the Proceedings of the 1st International Conference on Energy-Efficient Computing and Networking, University of Passau, Germany, April 2010.
Niky Riga, Ibrahim Matta, Alberto Medina, Craig Partridge, and Jason Redi. JTP: An Energy-conscious Transport Protocol for Multi-hop Wireless Networks. In Proceedings of CoNEXT Conference, New York, NY, December 2007.