Mohannad Alharthi

I am Mohannad Alharthi, a PhD student at the School of Computing, Queen's University in Kingston since Septemer 2014. I am a member of the Telecommunications Research Lab (TRL) under the supervision of Dr. Abd-Elhamid Taha and Dr. Hossam Hassanein.

I hold a MSc. degree in Computer Science from the School of Computing, Queen's University (2014). I graduated in 2009 with a B.Sc in Computer Science from King Abdulaziz Uinversity (KAU) in Saudi Arabia.

I can be reached at: harthi (at) cs.queensu.ca

Research Interests

Interests include Software Defined Networking (SDN), Network Function Virtualization (NFV), Drone Networks, and networked Cyber-Physical Systems (CPSs).

Publications

• Mohannad Alharthi and Abd-Elhamid Taha. Modeling Mobility for Networked Mobile Cyber-Physical Systems. In Third Workshop on Design, Modeling and Evaluation of Cyber Physical Systems (CyPhy'13), April 2013. [PDF] | [ACM DL]
• Mohannad Alharthi, Abd-Elhamid M. Taha, Viktor Vasilev and Kevin Atkinson. An Acumen/NS-3 Integration for Modeling Networked Cyber-Physical Systems. In 27th Queen's Biennial Symposium on Communications (QBSC 2014), June 2014. [IEEE Xplore]
• M. Alharthi, A. M. Taha and H. S. Hassanein. An Architecture for Software Defined Drone Networks, 2019 IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC), Shanghai, China, 2019, pp. 1-5. [IEEE Xplore]
• Mohannad Alharthi, Abd-Elhamid M. Taha and Hossam S. Hassanein. Dynamic Controller Placement for Software Defined Drone Networks," 2019 IEEE Global Communications Conference (GLOBECOM), Waikoloa, HI, USA, 2019. [IEEE Xplore]
• Mohannad Alharthi, Abd-Elhamid M. Taha and Hossam S. Hassanein, Utilizing Network Function Virtualization for Drone-based Networks. (Accepted) 2020 IEEE Global Communications Conference (GLOBECOM), Taipei, Taiwan, 2020 .

Thesis

• Mohannad Alharthi. Co-simulation Environment for Modeling Networked Cyber-Physical Systems. Master's Thesis. Queen's University. April 2014. [QSpace]