Karim A. Mattar

PhD Candidate
Department of Computer Science
Boston University

E-mail: kmattar@cs.bu.edu or kmattar@gmail.com
URL: http://cs-people.bu.edu/kmattar
Phone: 617-353-8924 (office)

 
     About Karim
 

 

 

Karim Mattar graduated from the University of Massachusetts in Amherst with a bachelor's degree in Computer Systems Engineering, and a minor in Computer Science, in May 2003.

He is currently a PhD candidate at the Computer Science Department at Boston University. He is a member of the Web and InterNetworking Group (WING). His advisors are professors Azer Bestavros and Ibrahim Matta.
     Research Interests
 

 

Karim's main research interests lie in the field of computer networks. Topics of interest include: transport protocol design and evaluation; clean-slate Internet architectures; scheduling and resource allocation in cellular networks; Internet measurement and characterization.
     Publications
 

Karim Mattar
TCP over CDMA2000 Networks: A Cross-Layer Measurement Study.
Masters Thesis. January 2007.
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Karim Mattar, Ashwin Sridharan, Hui Zang, Ibrahim Matta and Azer Bestavros.
TCP over CDMA2000 Networks: A Cross-Layer Measurement Study.
Passive and Active Measurement Conference (PAM 2007).
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Karim Mattar, Ashwin Sridharan, Hui Zang, Ibrahim Matta and Azer Bestavros.
TCP over CDMA2000 Networks: A Cross-Layer Measurement Study.
Technical Report BUCS-TR-2006-030. October 25, 2006.
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Karim Mattar, Ashwin Sridharan, Hui Zang, Ibrahim Matta and Azer Bestavros.
On the Interaction between TCP and the Wireless Channel in CDMA2000 Networks.
Technical Report BUCS-TR-2006-009. June 06, 2006.
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     Teaching @ Boston University
  Spring 2007 - CS 455/655, Introduction to Computer Networks, with Professor Ibrahim Matta.
Spring 2006 - CS 112, Data Structures and Algorithm Analysis in Java, with William Mullally.
Spring 2005 - CS 556, Advanced Computer Networks, with Professor Ibrahim Matta.
     Teaching @ UMass Amherst
  Spring 2001 - ECE 242, Data Structures and Algorithms using Java, with Professor Lixin Gao.
Spring 2003 - ECE 242, Data Structures and Algorithms using Java, with Professor Lixin Gao.
 
     Tools Developed @ UMass Amherst
 

 

 Karim developed NVT as part of his undergraduate honors thesis and research work at the Multimedia Networking and Internet Lab, under the supervision of Professor Lixin Gao. NVT is a network visualization tool implemented to allow network operators to visualize and dissect BGP routing information, Autonomous System (AS) relationships, AS connectivity and internet hierarchy, among other things. NVT became part of the Customized Internet Mapping and Picturing project (CIMAP) at UMass Amherst.
     Miscellaneous

His brother Marwan Mattar, currently pursuing his PhD at UMass Amherst.
     Curriculum Vitae (PDF)