MARAM BANI YOUNES

CONTACT

INFORMATION mbaniyounes@philadelphia.edu.jo

Mbani047@uottawa.ca

Date of Birth: 26-3-1985

EDUCATION University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada.

Ph.D., Computer Science- Vehicular ad-hoc network, Sep. 2010 - Jan. 2015.

  • Thesis Title: Traffic Efficiency Application Protocols in Vehicular Networks.
  • Supervisor: Professor Azzedine Boukerche
  • Area of Study: Computer Network.

The University of Jordan, Amman, Jordan.

M.Sc. , Computer Architecture, Sep. 2006 - Aug. 2008.

  • Thesis Title: Branch Prediction in Pipeline Computer System.
  • Supervisor: Professor Sami Serhan
  • Area of Study: Computer Science.

The University of Jordan, Amman, Jordan.

B.Sc., Computer Science, Sep. 2003 - Jun. 2006.

AWARDS

Philadelphia University

  • D. Scholarship to University of Ottawa, Sep. 2010- Aug. 2013.
  • Distinguished researcher at the university level 2021.

University of Ottawa

  • D. Scholarship, Sep. 2013- Jan. 2015.
  • Excellence certificate, University of Ottawa, 2013.
  • Best Researcher in PARADISE Laboratory, University of Ottawa, 2015.

  • Nominated Thesis, University of Ottawa, 2015.

GLOBCOM

  • Best Paper Award of the Symposium on Ad Hoc and Sensor Networking in IEEE GLOBECOM 2012.

ACADEMIC EXPERIENCE

Philadelphia University, Amman, Jordan

  • Associate Professor, September 2020 Now.

Philadelphia University, Amman, Jordan

  • Assistant Professor, March 2015 September 2020.

University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

  • Teaching Assistant, Jan.2012 - Sep.2014.
  • Research Assistant, Sep.2010 - Jan.2015.

Philadelphia University, Amman, Jordan

  • Instructor, Sep.2008 - Aug.2010.

The University of Jordan , Amman, Jordan

  • Teaching Assistant, Sep.2006 - Jun.2008.

  • Research Assistant, Sep.2006 - Jun.2008.

PUBLICATIONS

Journals:

  1. Bani Younes, A. Boukerche, and G. Roman-Alonso, An intelligent path recommendation protocol (ICOD) for VANETs, Computer Networks, Elsevier, Volume 64, 8 May 2014, Pages 225-242, ISSN 1389-1286.

  1. Bani Younes, A. Boukerche, A Performance Evaluation of an Efficient Traffic Congestion Detection Protocol (ECODE) for Intelligent Transportation Systems Ad-Hoc Networks, Elsevier, Volume 24, 2015, Pages 317-336.

  1. Bani Younes, A. Boukerche, G. Roman Alonso, Traffic Balancing-based Path Recommendations Mechanisms in Vehicular Networks, Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing, Volume 16, Issue 7, 2016, Pages 794-809.

  1. Bani Younes, A. Boukerche, Intelligent Traffic Light Controlling Algorithms using Vehicular Networks, IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology, Volume 65, Issue 8, 2016, Pages 5887 5899.
  2. Bani Younes, A. Boukerche, An efficient dynamic traffic light scheduling algorithm considering emergency vehicles for intelligent transportation systems., Wireless Networks, Volume 24, Issue 7, 2018, Pages 2451- 2463.
  3. Bani Younes, A. Boukerche, A performance evaluation of a fault-tolerant path recommendation protocol for smart transportation system. Wireless Networks, Volume 24. Issue 2, 2018, Pages 345 360
  4. Bani Younes, Secure Traffic Efficiency Control Protocol for Downtown Vehicular Networks. International Journal for Network Security, Volume 21, Issue 3, 2019, Pages: 511-521.
  5. Bani Younes, A. Boukerche, Safety and efficiency control protocol for highways using intelligent vehicular networks, Computer Networks, Volume 152, 2019, Pages 1-11.
  6. Siam, M. Bani Younes, An efficient multi‐destinations trip planning protocol for intelligent transport system, International Journal of Numerical Modelling: Electronic Networks, Devices and Fields, Volume 32, Issue 32, Pages 25-48.
  7. Younes, Maram Bani, and Azzedine Boukerche. "Traffic Efficiency Applications over Downtown Roads: A New Challenge for Intelligent Connected Vehicles." ACM Computing Surveys (CSUR) 53, no. 5 (2020): 1-30.
  8. Younes, M.B. Real-time traffic distribution prediction protocol (TDPP) for vehicular networks. J Ambient Intell Human Comput12, 85078518 (2021).
  9. Baniyounes and A. Boukerche, "Towards a Sustainable Highway Road-based Driving Protocol for Connected and Self-Driving Vehicles," in IEEE Transactions on Sustainable Computing, doi: 10.1109/TSUSC.2021.3074596.

Books

  1. Maram Bani Younes, Nameer N El-Emam, Digital Rights Management in a Computing Environment”, 2021, Cybersecurity:27-42, CRC Press

CONFERENCES

  1. Bani Younes, G. Roman Alonso and A. Boukerche, Time-distance path recommendation mechanisms for VANETs, In Proceedings of the second ACM inter-national symposium on Design and analysis of intelligent vehicular networks and applications (DIVANet 12). ACM, New York, NY, USA, 75-80.

  1. Bani Younes, G. Roman Alonso and A. Boukerche, Distributed Infrastructure-Based Road Congestion Avoidance Protocol for VANETs, Globecom 2012 - Ad Hoc and Sensor Networking Symposium, December 2012. (BEST PAPER AWARD)

  1. Bani Younes and A. Boukerche, Performance Evaluation of a Context-Aware Path Recommendation Protocol for VANETs. In: The IEEE Global Communications Conference, Exhibition and Industry Forum (GLOBECOM 2013), 9 13 December 2013, Atlanta, USA.

  1. Bani Younes and A. Boukerche, Efficient traffic congestion detection protocol for next generation VANETs, Communications (ICC), 2013 IEEE International Conference on , vol., no., pp.3764,3768, 9-13 June 2013
  2. Bani Younes and A. Boukerche, An Intelligent Traffic Light scheduling algorithm through VANETs. IEEE 39th Conference on Local Computer Networks, Edmonton, AB, Canada, 8-11 September, 2014 - Workshop Proceedings, pp. 637-642, 2014
  3. Bani Younes and A. Boukerche, A traffic balanced mechanism for path recommendations in vehicular ad-hoc networks, IEEE Global Communications Conference, GLOBECOM, pp. 45-50, 2014
  4. Bani Younes and A. Boukerche, SCOOL: A secure traffic congestion control protocol for VANETs., 2015 IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference, WCNC 2015, New Orleans, LA, USA, pp. 1960-1965, 2015.
  5. Bani Younes, A. Boukerche, and X. Zhou, An intelligent vehicular traffic prediction (ITP) protocol. 40th IEEE Local Computer Networks Conference Workshops, LCN Workshops, pp. 899-904, 2015.
  6. Bani Younes, A. Boukerche, R. De Grande, and H. Xie, An efficient fault tolerant distributed path recommendation protocol for next generation of vehicular networks. IEEE International Conference on Communications, ICC, pp. 5783 5788, 2015.
  7. Bani Younes, A. Boukerche and A. Mammeri, Context-aware traffic light self-scheduling algorithm for intelligent transportation systems. - IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference, WCNC, pp. 1- 6, 2016.
  8. , Zhou, A. Boukerche, and M. Bani Younes, An Adaptive Traffic Energy-Efficient MAC Protocol for Mobile Delay-Tolerant Sensor Networks. 2016 IEEE Global Communications Conference, GLOBECOM, pp. 1-6, 2016.
  9. Bani Younes, A. Boukerche, and X. Zhou, Traffic Efficiency Protocol for Highway Roads in Vehicular Network., IEEE Global Communications Conference, GLOBECOM, pp. 1-6, 2016.
  10. Bani Younes, and A. Boukerche, A vehicular network based intelligent lane change assistance protocol for highways., - IEEE International Conference on Communications, ICC, pp. 1-6, 2017.
  11. Bani Younes, and A. Boukerche, Safety Traffic Speed Recommendations for Critical Road Scenarios Using Vehicular Networks.,
  12. Bani Younes, and A. Boukerche, Toward a Smooth Vehicular Traffic at Round Road, Global Communications Conference, GLOBECOM, pp.1-7, 2018.
  13. siam and M. Bani Younes, Multi-Destinations Round Trip Planner Protocol, Fifth International Symposium on Innovation in Information and Communication Technology (ISIICT), pp. 1-5, 2018.
  14. Younes, Maram Bani, Azzedine Boukerche, and Rodolfo WL Coutinho. "An Efficient Freeway Driving Assistance Protocol in Vehicular Networks." In 2019 IEEE Global Communications Conference (GLOBECOM), pp. 1-6. IEEE, 2019.
  15. Younes, Maram Bani. "A comparative study of Lane Change Assistance Protocols at Road Network." In 2020 Advances in Science and Engineering Technology International Conferences (ASET), pp. 1-6. IEEE.
  16. Bani Younes, A. Boukerche, Safe Driving Protocol at Special Stop Sign Intersections (D-SSS), IEEE Global Communications Conference (GLOBECOM)
  17. Bani Younes and A. Boukerche, "Context Prediction of Highways Based on The Vehicular Traffic Distribution§," ICC 2021 - IEEE International Conference on Communications, 2021, pp. 1-6,
  18. Maram Bani Younes and Azzedine Boukerche. 2021. Green Road Inter-sections by Efficient Traffic Light Scheduling Algorithm. InProceedingsof the 18th ACM International Symposium on Performance Evaluation ofWireless Ad Hoc, Sensor, Ubiquitous Networks (PE-WASUN ’21), Novem-ber 2226, 2021, Alicante, Spain.ACM, New York, NY, USA, 7 pages. (Accepted)
  19. Raneem Qaddoura, Maram Bani Younes, and Azzedine Boukerche.2021. Predicting Traffic Characteristics of Real Road Scenarios inJordan and Gulf Region. InProceedings of the 17th ACM InternationalSymposium on QoS and Security for Wireless and Mobile Networks(Q2SWinet ’21), November 2226, 2021, Alicante, Spain.ACM, NewYork, NY, USA, 8 pages. (Accepted)

COURSES TAUGHT ** University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Canada

  • SEG 4145 - REAL TIME EMBEDDED SOFTWARE - 2011
  • SEG 3102A - Software Design and Architecture - 2012
  • ITI 1001 - Digital Design - 2012
  • CSI5161 - - PRINC. DISTRIBUTED SIMULATION - 2013 (Graduated0 Course)

** Philadelphia University, Amman, Jordan

  • Computer Skills
  • Programming Fundamental
  • Data Structure
  • Object Oriented Programming
  • Database
  • Computer Network
  • Wireless network and mobile communications
  • System Analysis
  • Information Security
  • Theory of Computations
  • Concurrent and distributed programming
  • Logic design
  • Computer Architecture
  • Algorithms
  • Fundamental of scientific research (Master Course)
  • Computer Network (Master Course)
  • Information Security (Master Course)

** The University of Jordan, Amman, Jordan

  • Computer skills
  • Programming Fundamentals
  • Image Processing

COMMITTEES University of Ottawa

  • DIVA Workshop Preparation

Philadelphia University

  • Quality Assurance Committee
  • Examinations Committee
  • Student Advisory Committee
  • Student Practical Participant Committee
  • Course Schedule Committee
  • Faculty Website Committee
  • Scientific research Committee
  • International projects Committee

REFERENCES

Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Department

University of Ottawa

Canada

Email: boukerch@site.uottawa.ca

UAM - Iztapalapa

Area de Computacion y Sistemas,

Mexico

Tel: (52) 58044600 - 1215

Email: grac@xanum.uam.mx

  • Professor Robson De Grande

Department of Computer Science

Brock University, Canada

Tel:

Email: rdegraude@brocku.ca

**Certificates and Transcripts are available upon request.