Karim Seada

Senior Research Scientist
Palo Alto

Background

I am a Senior Researcher at Nokia Research Center in Palo Alto, California. My current focus is on exploring and prototyping innovative mobile applications and services that integrate context-rich data from the mobile device with information from the cloud. I am interested in the process of building these applications as scalable and deployable end-to-end software systems utilizing open APIs and web resources. I am also interested in the intersection between the various mobile and cloud computing platforms.

Recently, I also worked on projects related to mobile social networks, power-efficient location determination, opportunistic messaging, ad hoc network applications, and mobile video conferencing tools.

Professional Activities

TPC Member (Recent):

First ACM Mobisys Workshop on Mobile Cloud Computing & Services: Social Networks and Beyond (MCS 2010)
Third IEEE International Conference on Sensor Networks, Ubiquitous, and Trustworthy Computing (SUTC2010)
5th IEEE International Workshop on Practical Issues in Building Sensor Network Applications (SenseApp 2010)
First International Conference on Mobile Computing, Applications, and Services (MobiCASE 2009)
5th International workshop on Wireless Network Measurements (WiNMee 2009)
6th IEEE International Conference on Sensor, Mesh and Ad Hoc Communications and Networks (SECON 2009)

Reviewer for several journals and conferences including ACM Transactions on Sensor Networks, ACM Transactions on Mobile Computing, IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems, Computer Networks Journal, Ad Hoc Networks Journal, Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing Journal, IEEE Communications Magazine, Mobicom, Infocom, Secon, WCNC, ICC, IPCCC, Globecom.

Research Interests

Mobile computing and systems.
Context-aware applications and mobile social networks.
Experimental research on building wireless networks and systems.
Opportunistic, ad hoc, mesh, and sensor networks.
Geographic services and location-based protocols.
Service discovery in mobile networks.

Other Information

Education

PhD, Electrical Engineering-Systems, University of Southern California, 2005.
- Dissertation: "Robustness of Geographic Protocols in Multi-Hop Wireless Networks"
M.S. in Computer Science, University of Southern California, 2004.
M.S. and B.Sc. in Computer Engineering, Cairo University, 2000.

Previous Internships

Dust Networks, Hayward, CA, June 2005 - November 2005.
- Experiments and analysis of different wireless sensor network products.
- Application programming and integration of different wireless stacks including ZigBee/802.15.4.
Intel, Network Architecture Lab, Hillsboro OR, Summer 2002.
- Researching technologies in IP Mobility and the convergence of heterogeneous networks.
- Developing related software components for laptops and handhelds.

Publications

Conference Papers:

Mike Gartrell, Xinyu Xing, Aaron Beach, Qin Lv, Richard Han, Shivakant Mishra, and Karim Seada. "Enhancing Group Recommendation by Incorporating Social Relationship Interactions". ACM Group 2010, Sanibel, FL, November 2010.
Mike Gartrell, Aaron Beach, Jai Ramanarayanankrishnaniyer, Xinyu Xing, Qin Lv, Richard Han, Shivakant Mishra, and Karim Seada. "Integrating Wikipedia, Facebook, and Other Personal Online Context into Collaborative E-Brainstorming". ACM Group 2010, Workshop on Collective Intelligence In Organizations (CIorg), Sanibel, FL, November 2010.
Aaron Beach, Mike Gartrell, Xinyu Xing, Richard Han, Qin Lv, Shivakant Mishra, and Karim Seada. "Fusing Mobile, Sensor, and Social Data To Fully Enable Context-Aware Computing". ACM HotMobile 2010, Annapolis, MD, February 2010.
Karim Seada. "Mobile Devices as an Extension to the Wireless Infrastructure". IEEE Consumer Communications & Networking Conference (CCNC 2010), Workshop on Personalized Networks, Las Vegas, NV, January 2010.
Cedric Westphal, Karim Seada, Charles Perkins, and Ryuji Wakikawa. "An Epidemiological Study of Information Dissemination in Mobile Networks". IEEE Conference on Sensor, Mesh and Ad Hoc Communications and Networks (SECON 2009), Rome, Italy, June 2009. (Acceptance Rate 18%)
Karim Seada. "Guided Incentive Mechanisms for Relays to Extend the Wireless Coverage". IEEE Workshop on Cooperative Mobile Networks, ICC 2009, Dresden, Germany, June 2009.
Bo Xing, Karim Seada, and Nalini Venkatasubramanian. "An Experimental Study on Wi-Fi Ad-Hoc Mode for Mobile Device-to-Device Video Delivery". IEEE Workshop on Mobile Video Delivery, INFOCOM 2009, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, April 2009.
Bo Xing, Karim Seada, and Nalini Venkatasubramanian. "Proximiter: Enabling Mobile Proximity-Based Content Sharing on Portable Devices". Extended Demo Abstract in IEEE International Conference on Pervasive Computing and Communications (PerCom 2009), Galveston, TX, March 2009.
Bo Xing, Karim Seada, Peter Boda, and Nalini Venkatasubramanian. "PassItOn: An Opportunistic Messaging Prototype on Mobile Devices". Extended Demo Abstract in IEEE Consumer Communications & Networking Conference (CCNC 2009), Las Vegas, NV, January 2009.
Karim Seada. "Insights from a Freeway Car-to-Car Real-World Experiment". ACM Mobicom Workshop on Wireless Network Testbeds, Experimental Evaluation and Characterization, San Francisco, CA, September 2008.
Cedric Westphal, Karim Seada, Charles Perkins, and Ryuji Wakikawa. "Adaptive Path Accumulation for Reactive Routing Protocols". IEEE Conference on Mobile Ad-hoc and Sensor Systems, Atlanta, GA, September 2008. (Acceptance Rate 12%)
"Social Proximity Networks on Cruise Ships". ACM MobileHCI Workshop on Mobile Interaction with the Real World, Amsterdam, Netherlands, September 2008.
Karim Seada, Yogesh Swami and Bo Xing. "Application Prototyping for Wireless Proximity Networks". Extended Demo Abstract in ACM Mobicom Workshop on Wireless Network Testbeds, Experimental Evaluation and Characterization, Montreal, Canada, September 2007.
Karim Seada, Cedric Westphal, and Charles Perkins. "Analyzing Path Accumulation for Route Discovery in Ad hoc Networks". IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference (WCNC), Hong Kong, March 2007.
Karim Seada and Charles Perkins. "Social Networks: The Killer App for Wireless Ad Hoc Networks?". Nokia Research Center -Technical Report NRC-TR-2006-010, August 2006.
Karim Seada and Ahmed Helmy. "An Overview of Geographic Protocols in Ad Hoc and Sensor Networks". IEEE International Conference on Computer Systems and Applications (AICCSA), Cairo, Egypt, Jan. 2005.
Karim Seada, Marco Zuniga, Ahmed Helmy, and Bhaskar Krishnamachari. "Energy-Efficient Forwarding Strategies for Geographic Routing in Lossy Wireless Sensor Networks". ACM 2^nd Conference on Embedded Networked Sensor Systems (SenSys), Baltimore, Maryland, November 2004. (Acceptance Rate 14%),
Karim Seada, Ahmed Helmy, and Ramesh Govindan. "On the Effect of Localization Errors on Geographic Face Routing in Sensor Networks". IEEE/ACM 3^rdInternational Symposium on Information Processing in Sensor Networks (IPSN), Berkeley, CA, April 2004.
Karim Seada and Ahmed Helmy. "Rendezvous Regions: A Scalable Architecture for Service Location and Data-Centric Storage in Large-Scale Wireless Networks". IEEE/ACM IPDPS 4^th International Workshop on Algorithms for Wireless, Mobile, Ad Hoc and Sensor Networks (WMAN), Santa Fe, NM, April 2004.
Karim Seada and Ahmed Helmy. "Efficient Geocasting with Perfect Delivery in Wireless Networks". IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference (WCNC), Atlanta, Georgia, March 2004.
Karim Seada and Ahmed Helmy. "Fairness Evaluation Experiments for Multicast Congestion Control Protocols". IEEE GLOBECOM, Taipei, Taiwan, November 2002
Karim Seada, Sandeep Gupta, and Ahmed Helmy. "Systematic Evaluation of Multicast Congestion Control Protocols". SCS International Symposium on Performance Evaluation of Computer and Telecommunication Systems (SPECTS), San Diego, CA, July 2002.

Journal Papers:

Karim Seada and Ahmed Helmy. "Geographic Rendezvous-Based Architectures for Emergency Data Dissemination". Accepted for publication in Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing Journal (WCMC), Special Issue on Wireless Technologies Advances for Emergency and Rural Communications.
Marco Zuniga, Karim Seada, Bhaskar Krishnamachari, and Ahmed Helmy. "Efficient Geographic Routing over Lossy Links in Wireless Sensor Networks". ACM Transactions in Sensor Networks, Volume 4, Issue 3, May 2008.
Karim Seada, Ahmed Helmy, and Ramesh Govindan. "Modeling and Analyzing the Correctness of Geographic Face Routing under Realistic Conditions". Elsevier Ad Hoc Networks Journal, Special issue on Recent Advances in Wireless Sensor Networks, Volume 5, Issue 6, August 2007.
Karim Seada and Ahmed Helmy. "Efficient and Robust Geocasting Protocols for Sensor Networks". Elsevier Computer Communications Journal, Special Issue on Dependable Wireless Sensor Networks, Volume 29, Issue 2, January 2006.
Karim Seada, Ahmed Helmy, and Sandeep Gupta. "A Framework for Systematic Evaluation of Multicast Congestion Control Protocols". IEEE Journal on Selected Areas on Communications (JSAC), Special Issue on Design, Implementation, and Analysis of Communication Protocols, December 2004.
Karim Seada, Ahmed Helmy, and Ramesh Govindan. "On the Effect of Location Inaccuracy on Geographic Face Routing in Wireless Networks". ACM Mobile Computer and Communications Review (MC2R), October 2003.

Book Chapters:

Karim Seada and Ahmed Helmy. "Geographic Protocols in Sensor Networks". Encyclopedia of Sensors, American Scientific Publishers (ASP), 2006.
Karim Seada and Ahmed Helmy. "Geographic Services for Wireless Networks". Handbook of Algorithms for Wireless and Mobile Networks and Computing, Spring 2005.

Recent Demos:

PerCom 2009, CCNC 2009, Middleware 2007, Wintech 2007.

Poster Presentations:

Infocom 2005, CENS 2004, CENS 2003, SenSys 2003, Mobicom 2003, SIGCOMM 2003.