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EECS Faculty Profile

Dr. Mansoor Alam

Professor, Interim Chair & Graduate Program Director

Contacts

EECS Department
Mail Stop 308
University of Toledo,
Toledo, OH 43606.

Tel: (419) 530-8148
Office: NI 2008G
E-mail:
Personal web site

Office Hours

  • Monday: 10 am to 12:00 noon
  • Wednesday: 1:30 to 2:30 pm
  • Friday: 10:00 am to 11:00 am
    Please make an appointment through Lisa Byers (EECS Dept. Secretary). Email - Lisa.Byers@utoledo.edu or Phone - (419) 530-8140

Recent Courses

  • EECS 3150 - Data Communications
  • EECS 4140/5140 - Fault Tolerant Digital Systems
  • EECS 4390/5390 - Wireless And Mobile Networks
  • EECS 6390/8390 - Model and Performance of Common Networks

Research Interests

Performance and Reliability modeling of computer and communication networks, Adaptive scheduling and resource reservation protocols. Routing protocols and security in wireless internet and mobile ad hoc networks.

Current Students

  • Ph.D. : Khalid Al-Asmari, Wenlog Li
  • M.S. : Kavitha Kumar, Xinxin Gao, Tao Li, B. Vasudevan (Co-advisor)



Biography

Dr. Alam received the B.S. in Electrical Engineering with honors from AMU Aligarh, India in 1969. He received the M.E. and Ph.D. degrees from IISc. Bangalore, in 1971 and 1974 respectively. He served as the Graduate Director of the EECS Department from 1996 -- 1998 and the Undergraduate Director of the CSE program from 1998 -- 2001.

Awards/Honors

  • 2008 EECS Teacher of the year.
  • 2008 College of Engineering Outstanding Teacher award.
  • 2006 IEEE Engineer of the year award of the Toledo Section of the IEEE.

Refereed Journals

  • Wenlong Ni, Wei Li and Mansoor Alam, "Determination of Optimal Call Admission Control Policy in Wireless Networks", IEEE Transactions On Wireless Communications, Vol. 8, Issue 2, 2009, pp. 1038 – 1044.
  • Walter W. Schilling, Jr. and Mansoor Alam. "Integrate Static Analysis into a Software Development Process", Embedded Systems Design, Vol. 19, Issue 11, November, 2007, pp. 57-66.
  • Sachin Shetty, Min Song, and Mansoor Alam, "Data Mining of Bayesian Network Structure Using a Semantic Genetic Algorithm-based Approach", Book chapter III, Bayesian Network Technologies: Applications and Graphical Models, Ed. A. Mittal and A. Kassim, Published by IGI Publishing, New York, 2007, pp.42-53. ISBN 978-1-59904-141-4
  • Houjun Yang, Mansoor Alam, Bin Liu, and Min Song, "Performance Evaluation of Redundant Array of Inexpensive Disks", WSEAS Transactions on Computers, Vol. 5, Issue 5, May 2006, pp 899-903.
  • M. Alam, C. Weisfelder, M. Song, "A Study of the Parallel Monitoring Algorithm in ATM Network Admission Control", International Journal of Computers and their Applications, Vol.12, No.4, pp. 195 – 201, 2005.
  • M. Alam, S. Vallala, M. Song, "Comparison of Various TCP Implementations in a Congested Network", International Journal of Computers and their Applications, Vol. 12, No.3, pp.125-132, 2005.
  • Min Song, Weiying Zhu, Andrea Francini and Manssor Alam, "Performance analysis of large multicast switches with multicast virtual output queues", Computer Communications, Vol. 28 No.2 , pp.189-198, 2005.

Refereed Conference

  • Wenlong Ni, Wei Li, and Mansoor Alam, "Optimal CAC Policy in Multimedia Wireless Networks with Reservation Channel Schemes", Proc. 2008 IEEE GLOBECOM conference, Nov. 30 2008-Dec. 4, 2008.
  • Wenlong Ni, Wei Li, and Mansoor Alam, "Optimal Call Admission Control Policy in Wireless Networks", Proc. 2008 IEEE WCNC conference, March 31 – April 3, 2008.
  • Wenlong Ni, Wei Li, and Mansoor Alam, "Optimal CAC Policy for the RCS Schemes in Wireless Networks", Proc. 2008 IEEE ICC, May 19 –23, 2008.
  • Walter Schilling and Mansoor Alam, "A Methodology for Quantitative Evaluation for Software Reliability Using Static Analysis", Proc. Reliability, Availability, and Maintainability Symposium (RAMS), January 2008.
  • Tao Li, Min Song, and Mansoor Alam, "Compromized Sensor Node Detection: A Quantitative Approach", Proc. 2008 IEEE International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems, pp. 352-357, 2008.
  • Ash Mohammad Abbas, Mansoor Alam, and Bijendra Nath Jain, "Alleviating Path Correlation Using Directional Antenna in Node-Disjoint Multipath Routing for Mobile Ad-hoc Networks". Proc..2007 IWCMC(ACM), August 12-15, 2007. Honolulu, pp. 405-410.

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