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The impact of routing schemes on group communication throughput in scalable networks. (2008)
Conference Proceeding
Al-Dubai, A. (2008). The impact of routing schemes on group communication throughput in scalable networks. In Proceedings of the 2008 IEEE international parallel & distributed processing symposium (1-8). https://doi.org/10.1109/IPDPS.2008.4536490

Multicast communication has been a major avenue for many studies in interconnection networks. However, such a communication pattern has been studied under either limited operating conditions or within the context of deterministic routing algorithms.... Read More about The impact of routing schemes on group communication throughput in scalable networks..

Design and Analysis of Multicast Communication in Multidimensional Mesh Networks (2007)
Conference Proceeding
Al-Dubai, A., Ould-Khaoua, M., & Romdhani, I. (2007). Design and Analysis of Multicast Communication in Multidimensional Mesh Networks. In I. Stojmenovic, R. Thulasiram, L. Yang, W. Jia, M. Guo, & R. de Mello (Eds.), Parallel and Distributed Processing and Applications (868-882). https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-74742-0_77

This paper addresses the issue of multicast communication in scalable interconnection networks, using path-based scheme. Most existing multicast algorithms either assume a fixed network size, low dimensional networks or only consider the latency at... Read More about Design and Analysis of Multicast Communication in Multidimensional Mesh Networks.

On The Design of High Throughput Adaptive Multicast Communication (2007)
Conference Proceeding
Al-Dubai, A. Y., & Romdhani, I. (2007). On The Design of High Throughput Adaptive Multicast Communication. In Proceedings of the 6th International Symposium on Parallel and Distributed Computing (ISPDC-2007) (37-38). https://doi.org/10.1109/ispdc.2007.39

The efficient and high throughput multicast communication in interconnection networks is known as a fundamental but hard problem. In the literature, most of the related works handle multicast communication within limited operating conditions and low... Read More about On The Design of High Throughput Adaptive Multicast Communication.

Mobile IP conditional binding update. (2007)
Conference Proceeding
Romdhani, I., & Al-Dubai, A. (2007). Mobile IP conditional binding update. In 1st IEEE Workshop on Autonomic Communication and Network Management ACNM-2007, 10th IFIP/IEEE Symposium on Integrated Management (64-70)

Mobile IP protocols use a correspondent registration procedure between a Mobile Node (MN) and its Correspondent Nodes (CNs) to maintain a valid and up-to-date binding association between MN’s home address and its current care-ofaddress whenever a han... Read More about Mobile IP conditional binding update..

Performance of deterministic and adaptive broadcast algorithms in multicomputer networks (2006)
Journal Article
Al-Dubai, A. (2006). Performance of deterministic and adaptive broadcast algorithms in multicomputer networks. International Journal of High Performance Computing and Networking, 4, 152-160. https://doi.org/10.1504/IJHPCN.2006.010637

This paper examines the performance of broadcast communication on multicomputer networks. Unlike many existing works, this study considers a number of key factors/prosperities, including scalability, parallelism and routing scheme that could greatly... Read More about Performance of deterministic and adaptive broadcast algorithms in multicomputer networks.

A Performance Study of Path Based Multicast Communication Algorithms (2006)
Conference Proceeding
Al-Dubai, A., & Romdhani, I. (2006). A Performance Study of Path Based Multicast Communication Algorithms. In International Symposium on Parallel Computing in Electrical Engineering (PARELEC 2006) (245-250). https://doi.org/10.1109/parelec.2006.7

Multicast communication?s history has been driven by many schemes; however, a few have shown their efficiency on interconnection networks. Among these schemes, path based multicast has been proven to be more efficient in handling multicast, than thos... Read More about A Performance Study of Path Based Multicast Communication Algorithms.

On High Performance Multicast Algorithms for Interconnection Networks (2006)
Conference Proceeding
Al-Dubai, A., Ould-Khaoua, M., & Romdhani, I. (2006). On High Performance Multicast Algorithms for Interconnection Networks. In M. Gerndt, & D. Kranzlmüller (Eds.), High Performance Computing and Communications; Lecture Notes in Computer Science (330-339). https://doi.org/10.1007/11847366_34

Although multicast communication, in interconnection networks has been a major avenue for a lot of research works found in literature, there are several key issues that should still be improved in order to meet the increasing demand for service quali... Read More about On High Performance Multicast Algorithms for Interconnection Networks.

On balancing network traffic in path-based multicast communication (2006)
Journal Article
Al-Dubai, A., Ould-Khaoua, M., & Mackenzie, L. (2006). On balancing network traffic in path-based multicast communication. Future Generation Computer Systems, 22(7), 805-811. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.future.2006.02.009

This paper presents a new multicast path-based algorithm, referred to here as the Qualified Groups (QG for short), which can achieve a high degree of parallelism and low communication latency over a wide range of traffic loads in the mesh. The QG al... Read More about On balancing network traffic in path-based multicast communication.

A plane-based broadcast algorithm for multicomputer networks (2005)
Journal Article
Al-Dubai, A., Ould-Khaoua, M., & Mackenzie, L. (2005). A plane-based broadcast algorithm for multicomputer networks. Journal of Systems Architecture, 51(10-11), 617-632. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.sysarc.2005.01.003

Maximising the performance of parallel systems requires matching message-passing algorithms and application characteristics with a suitable underling interconnection network. Broadcast algorithms for wormhole-switched meshes have been widely reported... Read More about A plane-based broadcast algorithm for multicomputer networks.

On the performance of broadcast algorithms in interconnection networks. (2005)
Conference Proceeding
Al-Dubai, A., & Ould-Khaoua, M. (2005). On the performance of broadcast algorithms in interconnection networks. . https://doi.org/10.1109/ICPPW.2005.63

Broadcast Communication is among the most primitive collective capabilities of any message passing network. Broadcast algorithms for the mesh have been widely reported in the literature. However, most existing algorithms have been studied within limi... Read More about On the performance of broadcast algorithms in interconnection networks..

Towards scalable collective communication for multicomputer interconnection networks (2004)
Journal Article
Al-Dubai, A., Ould-Khaoua, M., El-Zayyat, K., Ababneh, I., & Al-Dobai, S. (2004). Towards scalable collective communication for multicomputer interconnection networks. Information Sciences, 163(4), 293-306. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ins.2003.06.014

A considerable number of broadcast algorithms have been proposed for the mesh over the past decade. Nonetheless, most of these algorithms do not exhibit good scalability properties as the network size increases. As a consequence, most existing broadc... Read More about Towards scalable collective communication for multicomputer interconnection networks.

QoS aware broadcast communication algorithm for multicomputer interconnections. (2004)
Conference Proceeding
Al-Dubai, A., Ould-Khaoua, M., & Ferguson, J. (2004). QoS aware broadcast communication algorithm for multicomputer interconnections.

Focuses on group communication algorithms in high performance networks, parallel and distributed systems, quality of service and routing protocols, mobile and wireless Technologies

A Simulation Study of Scalable Broadcast in High-Performance Regular Networks (2004)
Journal Article
Al-Dubai, A. Y., Ould-Khaoua, M., & Obaidat, M. S. (2004). A Simulation Study of Scalable Broadcast in High-Performance Regular Networks. SIMULATION, 80(4-5), 207-220. https://doi.org/10.1177/0037549704044325

Broadcast is an important communication operation required by many real-world applications encountered in parallel, cluster, and grid computing environments. Broadcasting on regular networks has been widely investigated in the past. However, most of... Read More about A Simulation Study of Scalable Broadcast in High-Performance Regular Networks.

On balancing traffic load in path-based multicast communication. (2003)
Conference Proceeding
Al-Dubai, A., Ould-Khaoua, M., El-Zayyat, K., & Mackenzie, L. (2003). On balancing traffic load in path-based multicast communication. In SPECTS '03 (533-540)

Multicast is the most primitive collective capability of any message-passing network. It is itself central to many important parallel applications in Science and Engineering but are also fundamental to the implementation of higher-level communica... Read More about On balancing traffic load in path-based multicast communication..

An efficient path-based multicast algorithm for mesh networks (2003)
Conference Proceeding
Mackenzie, L., Ould-Khaoua, M., Al-Dubai, Y., Al-Dubai, A., Ould-Khaoua, M., & Mackenzie, L. (2003). An efficient path-based multicast algorithm for mesh networks. In Proceedings International Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium (283-290). https://doi.org/10.1109/ipdps.2003.1213509

This paper presents a new multicast path-based algorithm, referred to here as the qualified groups (QG for short), which can achieve a high degree of parallelism and low communication latency over a wide range of traffic loads in the mesh. The QG alg... Read More about An efficient path-based multicast algorithm for mesh networks.

A scalable plane-based broadcast algorithm for 3D-Mesh networks (2003)
Conference Proceeding
Al-Dubai, A., Ould-Khaoua, M., & Mackenzie, L. (2003). A scalable plane-based broadcast algorithm for 3D-Mesh networks. In Proceedings of the Eleventh Euromicro Conference on Parallel,Distributed and Network-Based Processing (Euro-PDP’03) (149-156). https://doi.org/10.1109/empdp.2003.1183581

Broadcast algorithms for wormhole–switched meshes have been widely reported in the literature. However, most of these algorithms handle broadcast in a sequential manner and do not scale well with the network size. As a consequence, many parallel... Read More about A scalable plane-based broadcast algorithm for 3D-Mesh networks.