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 advisor is Ibrahim Matta. Karim is expected to graduate in December 2009.
     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 data networks; measurement and characterization; machine learning; game theory; information theory.
     Publications
 

"Networking is IPC": A Guiding Principle to a Better Internet
John Day, Ibrahim Matta and Karim Mattar
Re-Architecting the Internet, Madrid, Spain, 2008 (Re-Arch 2008)
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TCP over CDMA2000 Networks: A Cross-Layer Measurement Study
Karim Mattar, Ashwin Sridharan, Hui Zang, Ibrahim Matta and Azer Bestavros
Passive and Active Measurement Conference, Louvain-la-neuve, Belgium, 2007 (PAM 2007)
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     Technical Reports
 

Principles of Safe Policy Routing Dynamics
Samuel Epstein, Karim Mattar and Ibrahim Matta
Technical Report BUCS-TR-2009-013, April 21, 2009, under submission
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On the Performance and Robustness of Managing Reliable Transport Connections
Gonca Gursun, Ibrahim Matta and Karim Mattar
Technical Report BUCS-TR-2009-014, April 21, 2009, under submission
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 Foundational Theory for Understanding Policy Routing Dynamics
Karim Mattar, Samuel Epstein and Ibrahim Matta
Technical Report BUCS-TR-2009-001, January 30, 2009
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"Networking is IPC": A Guiding Principle to a Better Internet
John Day, Ibrahim Matta and Karim Mattar
Technical Report BUCS-TR-2008-019, August 15, 2008
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An Online Distributed Algorithm for Inferring Policy Routing Configurations
Samuel Epstein, Ibrahim Matta and Karim Mattar
Technical Report BUCS-TR-2008-017, August 15, 2008
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Declarative Transport: No more transport protocols to design only policies to specify
 Karim Mattar, Ibrahim Matta, John Day, Vatche Ishakian and Gonca Gursun
Technical Report BUCS-TR-2008-014, July 12, 2008
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TCP over CDMA2000 Networks: A Cross-Layer Measurement Study
Karim Mattar, Ashwin Sridharan, Hui Zang, Ibrahim Matta and Azer Bestavros
Technical Report BUCS-TR-2006-030, October 25, 2006
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On the Interaction between TCP and the Wireless Channel in CDMA2000 Networks
Karim Mattar, Ashwin Sridharan, Hui Zang, Ibrahim Matta and Azer Bestavros
Technical Report BUCS-TR-2006-009, June 06, 2006
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     Theses
 

TCP over CDMA2000 Networks: A Cross-Layer Measurement Study
Masters Thesis, Department of Computer Science, Boston University
Technical Report BUCS-TR-2007-016, December 14, 2007
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     Teaching @ Boston University
  Spring 2007 - Introduction to Computer Networks (CS 455/655)
Spring 2006 - Data Structures and Algorithm Analysis in Java (CS 112)
Spring 2005 - Advanced Computer Networks (CS 556)
     Teaching @ UMass Amherst
  Spring 2001 - Data Structures and Algorithms using Java (ECE 242)
Spring 2003 - Data Structures and Algorithms using Java (ECE 242)
 
     Tools Developed @ UMass Amherst
 

 

 Karim developed NVT as part of his research work at the Multimedia Networking and Internet Lab, under the supervision of 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 software (CIMAP).
 
     Curriculum Vitae (PDF)