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Edited Books

  1. Dominique Gaïti , Ehab Al-Shaer, Ken Calvert , Simon Dobson , Guy Leduc and Olli Martikainen , Autonomic Networking, Springer-Verlag, Volume: 4195, ISBN: 978-3-540-45891-3, October 2008
  2. Ehab Al-Shaer, Jorge Lobo and Lalana Kalger , Policies for Distributed Systems and Networks, IEEE Press, ISBN: 978-0-7695-3133-5, June 2008
  3. Ehab Al-Shaer, Heinz-Gerd Hegering and Alexander Keller , Integrated Network Management: Moving From Bits to Business Values , IEEE Press, May 2007
  4. Ehab Al-Shaer, Aiko Pras and Philippe Owezarski , Monitoring Internet Traffic and Services, IEEE Press, ISBN: 0-7803-9249-3 , May 2005
  5. Ehab Al-Shaer, Monitoring Emerging Network Services, April 2004
  6. Ehab Al-Shaer and Giovanni Pacifici , Management of Multimedia on the Internet , Springer , Lecture Notes in Computer Science , ISBN: 3-540-42786-4 , October 2001

Book Chapters

  1. Ehab Al-Shaer, Reachability Monitoring and Problem Diagnosis in Multicast Networks , Enterprise Systems Integration , Auerbach , October 2008, To Appear
  2. Ehab Al-Shaer and Yan Chen , Integrating Fault and Security Management , Information Assurance: Survivability and Security in Networked Systems , ELSEVIER, Inc , Edited by David Tipper, Prashant Krishnamurthy, Yi Qian, James B. D. Joshi, Morgan Kaufmann , October 2008
  3. Editing/Reviewing, Various Chapters, The Laws of Cyber-Space, the United Nations Institute for Training and Research UNITAR , by Ambassador Ahmad Kamal, the Senior Fellow at the United Nations , ISBN: 92-9182-038-8, October 2005
  4. Ehab Al-Shaer, End-to-End Monitoring Techniques and Services , Management of Multimedia Networks and Services , Springer , Lecture Notes in Computer Science , September 2003

Journal Papers

  1. Ehab Al-Shaer, Adel El-Atawy and Taghrid Samak , Automated Pseudo-live Testing of Firewall Configuration Enforcement , IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications, To appear, 2008
  2. Yonghe Yan , Adel El-Atawy and Ehab Al-Shaer, A Game Theoretic Model for Capacity Constrained Fair Bandwidth Allocation, International Journal of Network Management on Mathematical Methods in Network Management (IJNM SI), John Wiley & Sons, Ltd., Volume: 18, Number: 6, Pages: 458-504, August 2008
  3. Yongning Tang, Ehab Al-Shaer and Raouf Boutaba, Efficient Fault Diagnosis Using Incremental Alarm Correlation and Active Investigation for Internet and Overlay Networks, IEEE Transactions on Network and Service Management , Volume: 5, Number: 1, Pages: 36--49, March 2008
  4. Hazem Hamed, Adel El-Atawy and Ehab Al-Shaer, On Dynamic Optimization of Packet Matching in High Speed Firewalls , IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications, Pages: 1817 - 1830, October 2006
  5. Hazem Hamed and Ehab Al-Shaer, On Autonomic Optimization of Firewall Policy Configuration , Journal of High Speed Networks, Special issue on Security Policy Management , Issue: 3, Volume: 13, Pages: 209 - 227 , August 2006
  6. Lopamudra Roychoudhuri , Ehab Al-Shaer and Gregory B. Brewster, On the Impact of Loss and Delay Variation on Internet Packet Audio Transmission , Journal of Computer Communications , Pages: 1578-1589. , June 2006
  7. Ehab Al-Shaer and Hazem Hamed, Taxonomy of Conflicts in Network Security Policies, IEEE Communications Magazine , Issue: 3 , Volume: 44 , Pages: 134 - 141 , March 2006
  8. Lopamudra Roychoudhuri and Ehab Al-Shaer, Real-Time Packet Loss Prediction based on End-to-end Delay Variation, IEEE Transactions on Network and Service Management (TNSM), Volume: 2, Number: 1, November 2005
  9. Ehab Al-Shaer, Hazem Hamed, Raouf Boutaba and Masum Hasan, Conflict Classification and Analysis of Distributed Firewall Policies, IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications, Issue: 10, Volume: 23, Pages: 2069 - 2084, October 2005
  10. Ehab Al-Shaer and Hazem Hamed, Modeling and Management of Firewall Policies, IEEE Transactions on Network and Service Management, Volume: 1-1, April 2004
  11. Ehab Al-Shaer, QoS Path Monitoring for Multicast Networks, Journal of Network and System Management (JNSM), Volume: 10, Number: 3, Pages: 357-381, September 2002
  12. Ehab Al-Shaer, An Adaptive Multicast Management Framework for Distributed Event Correlation, Journal of Networking and Information Systems, Volume: 3, Number: 2, Pages: 317-333, April 2001
  13. Ehab Al-Shaer, Toward Integrating IP Multicasting in Internet Network Management Protocols, Journal of Computer and Communications, Volume: 24, Number: 6, Pages: 473-485, April 2001
  14. Ehab Al-Shaer, Active Management Framework for Distributed Multimedia Systems, Journal of Network and Systems Management (JNSM), Volume: 8, Number: 1, Pages: 49-72, March 2000
  15. Ehab Al-Shaer, Mohamed Fayad, Hussein Abdel-Wahab and Kurt Maly, Adaptive Object-Oriented Filtering Framework for Event Management Applications, ACM Computing Surveys, Volume: 32, Number: 1, Pages: Article No. 37, March 2000
  16. Ehab Al-Shaer, Hussein Abdel-Wahab and Kurt Maly, Dynamic Monitoring Approach for Multi-point Multimedia Systems, Journal of Networking and Information Systems, Pages: 75-88, June 1999
  17. Kurt Maly, Hussein Abdel-Wahab , C. M. Overstreet, C. Wild, A. Gupta, A. Youssef, E. Stoica and Ehab Al-Shaer, Interactive Distance Learning over Intranets, IEEE Internet Computing, Volume: 1, Number: 1, Pages: 60-71, February 1997

Referred Conference Publications

  1. Taghrid Samak , Adel El-Atawy and Ehab Al-Shaer, Towards network Security Policy Generation for Configuration Analysis and Testing, ACM Workshop on Assurable & Usable Security Configuration (SafeConfig'09), in conjunction with CCS'09, Chicago, IL, November 2009
  2. Ehab Al-Shaer, Will Marrero, Adel El-Atawy and Khalid Elbadawi, Network Configuration in A Box: Towards End-to-End Verification of Network Reachability and Security, In the 17th IEEE International Conference on Network Protocols (ICNP'09), Princeton, New Jersey, USA, October 2009
  3. Alan Jeffrey and Taghrid Samak , Model Checking Firewall Policy Configurations, IEEE International Symposium on Policies for Distributed Systems and Networks (Policy 2009), London, UK, July 2009
  4. Kyle Smith , Ehab Al-Shaer and Khalid Elbadawi, Information Theoretic Approach for Characterizing Spam Botnets Based on Traffic Properties, ICC 2009 Communication and Information Systems Security Symposium, June 2009
  5. Bin Zhang and Ehab Al-Shaer, On Optimizing Event Correlation Structure of Event Services Considering Time and Capacity Constrains, The 11th IFIP/IEEE International Symposium on Integrated Network Management (IM 2009), NY, June 2009
  6. Adel El-Atawy, Ehab Al-Shaer, Tung Tran and Raouf Boutaba, Adaptive Early Packet Filtering for Protecting Firewalls against DoS Attacks, IEEE INFOCOM 2009, Brazil, April 2009
  7. Adel El-Atawy and Ehab Al-Shaer, Building Covert Channels over the Packet Reordering Phenomenon, IEEE INFOCOM 2009, Brazil, April 2009
  8. Khalid Elbadawi and Ehab Al-Shaer, TimeVM: A Framework for Online Intrusion Mitigation and Fast Recovery Using Multi-Time-Lag Traffic Replay, ACM Symposium on InformAtion, Computer and Communications Security (ASIACCS'09), Australia , March 2009
  9. Anh Le, Ehab Al-Shaer and Raouf Boutaba, Correlation-based Load Balancing for Network Intrusion Detection and Prevention Systems, ACM International Conference on Security and Privacy in Communication Networks (ACM SecureComm 2008), September 2008
  10. Taghrid Samak , Ehab Al-Shaer and Hong Li, QoS Policy Modeling and Conflict Analysis, The 9th International Workshop on Policies for Distributed Systems and Networks (POLICY 2008 Best Paper Award), Palisades, NY, USA, June 2008
  11. Ehab Al-Shaer, Latif Khan and M. Salim Ahmed, A Comprehensive Objective Network Security Metric Framework for Proactive Security Configuration, ACM Cyber Security and Information Intelligence Research Workshop, Oak Ridge, Tennessee, USA, May 2008
  12. Anh Le, Ehab Al-Shaer and Raouf Boutaba, On Optimizing Load balancing of Intrusion Detection and Prevention Systems, Proceedings of the IEEE INFOCOM Computer Communications Workshops 2008, Mission-Critical Networking (MCN) Workshop, April 2008
  13. Khalid Alsubhi, Ehab Al-Shaer and Raouf Boutaba, Alert prioritization in Intrusion Detection Systems , Accepted in the 11th IEEE/IFIP Network Operations and Management Symposium (NOMS 2008), April 2008, (Acceptance rate 27%)
  14. Lopamudra Roychoudhuri and Ehab Al-Shaer, Autonomic QoS Optimization of Real-time Internet Audio using Loss Prediction and Stochastic Control, Accepted in the 11th IEEE/IFIP Network Operations and Management Symposium (NOMS 2008) , April 2008, (Acceptance rate 27%)
  15. Yongning Tang and Ehab Al-Shaer, Towards Distributed & Collaborative Overlay Fault Diagnosis Based On User-level Belief Revision, INFOCOM 2008 MiniConference, April 2008
  16. Mohamed Salim, Ehab Al-Shaer and Latif Khan, A Novel Quantitative Approach For Measuring Network Security, INFOCOM 2008 Mini Conference, April 2008
  17. Mohamed Salim, Ehab Al-Shaer, Mohamed Taibah, Mohamed Arshad and Latif Khan, Towards Autonomic Risk-aware Security Configuration, Accepted in the 11th IEEE/IFIP Network Operations and Management Symposium (NOMS 2008), April 2008
  18. Taghrid Samak , Sahar Ghanem and Mohamed A. Ismail, On the Efficiency of using Space-Filling Curves in Network Traffic Representation, In the 11th IEEE Global Internet Symposium 2008 (in conjunction with IEEE Infocom 2008), Phoneix, AZ, USA, April 2008
  19. Tung Tran, Ehab Al-Shaer and Raouf Boutaba, PolicyVis: Firewall Security Policy Visualization and Inspection, USENIX LISA, Dallas, Texas, November 2007
  20. Jerome Francois, Adel El-Atawy, Ehab Al-Shaer and Raouf Boutaba, A Collaborative Approach for Proactive Detection of Distributed Denial of Service Attacks, In the Workshop on Monitoring, Attack Detection and Mitigation (MonAM 2007), Toulouse, France, November 2007
  21. Bin Zhang and Ehab Al-Shaer, Self-Organizing Monitoring Agents for Hierarchical Monitoring Architecture, In the 18th IFIP/IEEE Distributed Systems: Operations and Management (DSOM 2007), October 2007
  22. Taghrid Samak , Adel El-Atawy and Ehab Al-Shaer, FireCracker: A Framework for Inferring Firewall Policy using Smart Probing, In the Proceedings of the fifteenth IEEE International Conference on Network Protocols (ICNP'07), Beijing, China, October 2007, (Acceptance rate 14%)
  23. Adel El-Atawy, Taghrid Samak , Ehab Al-Shaer, Zein Wali, Sheng Li, Frank Lin and Christopher Pham, An Automated Framework for Validating Firewall Policy Enforcement, In Proceedings of IEEE Workshop on Policies for Distributed Systems and Networks (POLICY'07), Bologna, Italy, June 2007
  24. Bin Zhang, Ehab Al-Shaer, Radha Jagadeesan, James Riely and Corin Pitcher, Specifications of a High-level Conflict-Free Firewall Policy Language for Multi-domain Networks, In Proceedings of 12th ACM Symposium on Access Control Models And Technologies (SACMAT), Sophia Antipolis, France, June 2007, (Acceptance rate 23%)
  25. Yongning Tang, Ehab Al-Shaer and Bin Zhang, Toward Globally Optimal Event Monitoring & Aggregation For Large-scale Overlay Networks, The 10th IFIP/IEEE International Symposium on Integrated Network Management (IM 2007), Pages: pp. 236-245, May 2007
  26. Taghrid Samak , Adel El-Atawy, Ehab Al-Shaer and Mohamed A. Ismail, A Novel Visualization Approach for Efficient Network-wide Traffic Monitoring, In the 5th IEEE Workshop on End-to-End Monitoring Techniques and Services (E2EMON'07, In conjunction with IM 2007), Munich, Germany, May 2007
  27. Adel El-Atawy, Taghrid Samak , Ehab Al-Shaer and Hong Li, On Using Online Traffic Statistical Matching for Optimizing Packet Filtering Performance, In IEEE INFOCOM'2007, May 2007, (Acceptance rate 17%)
  28. Yonghe Yan , Adel El-Atawy and Ehab Al-Shaer, Ranking-based Optimal Resource Allocation in Peer-to-Peer Networks, In IEEE INFOCOM'2007, (Acceptance rate 17%), May 2007
  29. Taghrid Samak , Adel El-Atawy, Ehab Al-Shaer and Hong Li, Firewall Policy Reconstruction by Active Probing An Attacker's View, The 2nd Workshop on Secure Network Protocols (NPSec 2006), (Acceptance rate 30%), November 2006
  30. Muhammad Abedin, Syeda Nessa, Ehab Al-Shaer and Latif Khan, Vulnerability Analysis For Evaluating Quality of Protection of Security Policies, ACM CCS Workshop on Quality of Protection Workshop (QoP 06), October 2006, (Acceptance rate 20%)
  31. Mohamed Taibah, Ehab Al-Shaer and Raouf Boutaba, An Architecture for an Email Worm Prevention System, The Second IEEE/Create-Net International Conference on Security and Privacy in Communication Networks (SecureComm 2006), Baltimore, MD, August 2006, (Acceptance rate 23%)
  32. Mohammad Masud, Latif Khan and Ehab Al-Shaer, Email Worm Detection Using Naïve Bayes and Support Vector Machine, Proc. of Intelligence and Security Informatics (ISI 2006), Springer, San Diego, May 2006
  33. Yonghe Yan , Adel El-Atawy and Ehab Al-Shaer, Fair Bandwidth Allocation Under User Capacity Constraints, 10th IEEE/IFIP Network Operations and Management Symposium (NOMS 2006), April 2006
  34. Korosh Golnabi, Richard Min, Latif Khan and Ehab Al-Shaer, Analysis of Firewall Policy Rule Using Data Mining Techniques, 10th IEEE/IFIP Network Operations and Management Symposium (NOMS 2006), April 2006
  35. Hazem Hamed, Adel El-Atawy and Ehab Al-Shaer, Adaptive Statistical Optimization Techniques for Firewall Packet Filtering, IEEE INFOCOM'2006, April 2006, (Acceptance rate 16%)
  36. Lopamudra Roychoudhuri and Ehab Al-Shaer, Statistical Measurement Approach for On-line Audio Quality Assessment, Passive and Active Measurement (PAM’06), March 2006, (Acceptance rate 23%)
  37. Hazem Hamed and Ehab Al-Shaer, Dynamic Rule-ordering Optimization for High-speed Firewall Filtering, ACM Symposium on InformAtion, Computer and Communications Security (ASIACCS'06), March 2006, (Acceptance rate 16%)
  38. Hazem Hamed, Ehab Al-Shaer and Will Marrero, Modeling and Verification of IPSec and VPN Security Policies, IEEE ICNP'2005, November 2005, (Acceptance rate 17%)
  39. Adel El-Atawy, Khaled Ibrahim, Hazem Hamed and Ehab Al-Shaer, Policy Segmentation for Intelligent Firewall Testing, 1st Workshop on Secure Network Protocols (NPSec 2005), November 2005
  40. Lopamudra Roychoudhuri and Ehab Al-Shaer, Real-time Audio Quality Evaluation for Adaptive Multimedia Protocols, Proceedings of Multimedia Networks and Services (MMNS 2005), October 2005
  41. Yongning Tang, Ehab Al-Shaer and Raouf Boutaba, Active Integrated Fault Localization in Communication Networks, The 9th IFIP/IEEE International Symposium on Integrated Network Management (IM 2005), May 2005
  42. Lopamudra Roychoudhuri and Ehab Al-Shaer, On Packet Loss Prediction, IEEE INFOCOM 05, January 2005, Poster paper
  43. Lopamudra Roychoudhuri and Ehab Al-Shaer, Adaptive Rate Control for Real-time Packet Audio Based on Loss Prediction, IEEE GLOBECOM’04, December 2004, (acceptance rate 33%)
  44. Ehab Al-Shaer and Bin Zhang, HiFi+: A Monitoring Virtual Machine for Autonomic Distributed Management , 15th IFIP/IEEE Distributed Systems: Operations and Management (DSOM 2004), November 2004, (Acceptance rate 28%)
  45. Lopamudra Roychoudhuri and Ehab Al-Shaer, On Packet Loss Prediction for Real-time Packet Audio , IEEE/IFIP Management of Multimedia Networks and Services (MMNS’04), October 2004, (BEST PAPER AWARD)
  46. Ehab Al-Shaer and Yongning Tang, MRMON: Multicast Remote Monitoring , IEEE/IFIP Network Operations and Management Symposium (NOMS’2004), Seoul, South Korea, April 2004
  47. Hazem Hamed and Ehab Al-Shaer, Anomaly Discovery in Distributed Firewalls, IEEE INFOCOM'04, March 2004
  48. Mohamed Younis, Poonam Munshi and Ehab Al-Shaer, Architecture for Efficient Monitoring and Management of Sensor Networks, Workshop on End-to-End Monitoring Techniques and Services, September 2003
  49. Ehab Al-Shaer, A Light-weight Encrypting Real Time Video Transmission, CTI Symposium, School of Computer Science, Telecommunications and Information Systems, DePaul University, September 2003
  50. Ehab Al-Shaer and Hazem Hamed, Management and Translation of Filtering Security Polices, IEEE ICC’03, May 2003
  51. Lopamudra Roychoudhuri , Ehab Al-Shaer, Hazem Hamed and Gregory B. Brewster, Audio Transmission over the Internet: Experiments and Observations, IEEE ICC’03, Symposium on the Next Generation Internet, May 2003
  52. Ehab Al-Shaer and Hazem Hamed, Firewall Policy Advisor for Anomaly Detection and Rule Editing, The 8th IFIP/IEEE International Symposium on Integrated Network Management (IM 2003), March 2003, BEST PAPER AWARD (acceptance rate 24%)
  53. Lopamudra Roychoudhuri , Ehab Al-Shaer, Hazem Hamed and Gregory B. Brewster, On Studying the Impact of the Internet Delays on Audio Transmission, IEEE Workshop on IP Operations and Management (IPOM’02), October 2002
  54. Gregory B. Brewster and Ehab Al-Shaer, Graduate Level Curriculum and Laboratory Courses for Computer Networking, ACM SIGCOMM Workshop on Computer Networking: Curriculum Designs and Educational Challenges, Pittsburgh, PA, August 2002
  55. Ehab Al-Shaer and Yongning Tang, SMRM: SNMP-based Multicast Reachability Monitoring, IEEE/IFIP Network Operations and Management Symposium NOMS’2002, (acceptance rate 30%), April 2002
  56. Hazem Hamed and Ehab Al-Shaer, Experiments on Packet Forwarding, CTI Symposium, School of Computer Science, Telecommunications and Information Systems, DePaul University, September 2001
  57. Ehab Al-Shaer, A Dynamic Group Management for Large-scale Distributed Event Monitoring, The 7th IFIP/IEEE International Symposium on Integrated Network Management(IM 2001), (acceptance rate 30%), May 2001
  58. Ehab Al-Shaer and Yongning Tang, Integrating IP Multicast in SNMPv1, IFIP/IEEE International Conference on Managing Multimedia Networks and Services, Fortalza, Brazil, September 2000
  59. Ehab Al-Shaer, The Role of Group Communication in Supporting Efficient Distributed Event Correlation”, Networking 2000, Multimedia Miniconference, Paris, France, May 2000
  60. Ehab Al-Shaer, Programmable Agents for Active Distributed Monitoring, IFIP/IEEE 10th International Workshop on Distributed Systems: Operation & Management (DSOM'99), Lecture Notes in Computer Science, page 19-33, Zurich, Switzerland, October 1999
  61. Ehab Al-Shaer, Hussein Abdel-Wahab and Kurt Maly, HiFi: A New Monitoring Architecture for Distributed Systems Management, IEEE 19th International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems (ICDCS'99), pp. 171-178, Austin, Texas, (Acceptance rate 18%), May 1999
  62. Ehab Al-Shaer, Dynamic Monitoring Approach for Multi-point Multimedia Systems, IFIP/IEEE International Conference on Management of Multimedia Networks and Services, Versailles, France , November 1998
  63. Ehab Al-Shaer, Hussein Abdel-Wahab and Kurt Maly, Hierarchical Filtering-based Monitoring Architecture for Large-scale Distributed Systems, International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Computing Systems, New Orleans, LA, October 1997
  64. Ehab Al-Shaer, Hussein Abdel-Wahab and Kurt Maly, Application-Layer Group Communication Server for Extending Reliable Multicast Protocols Services, IEEE International Conference on Network Protocols, Atlanta, GA, (Acceptance rate 20%), October 1997
  65. Ehab Al-Shaer, Event Filtering Framework: Key Criteria and Design Trade-offs, The 21st IEEE International Conference on Computer Software and Applications, pages 88-93, Washington, D.C., August 1997
  66. Ehab Al-Shaer, Hussein Abdel-Wahab and Kurt Maly, A Scalable Monitoring Architecture for Managing Distributed Multimedia Systems,, IFIP/IEEE International Conference on Management of Multimedia Networks and Services, Montreal, CA, July 1997
  67. Ehab Al-Shaer, A. Youssef, Hussein Abdel-Wahab , Kurt Maly and C. M. Overstreet, Reliability, Scalability and Robustness Issues in IRI,, WETICE'97: IEEE 6th Workshops on Enabling Technologies: Infrastructure for Collaborative Enterprises, June 1997
  68. Ehab Al-Shaer, Hussein Abdel-Wahab and Kurt Maly, High-performance Monitoring Architecture for Large-scale Distributed Systems Using Event Filtering,, international Conference on Computer Science & Information, Volume: 3, Pages: 42-46, March 1996
  69. D. Schmidt , Tim Harrison and Ehab Al-Shaer, Object-Oriented Components for High-speed Network Programming , Proceedings of Conference on Object-Oriented Technologies, USENIX, Monterey, CA, June 1995