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A new adaptive broadcasting approach for mobile ad hoc networks (2010)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Bani Khalaf, M., Al-Dubai, A., & Buchanan, W. J. (2010, June). A new adaptive broadcasting approach for mobile ad hoc networks

Mobile ad hoc networks (MANETs) have been gaining tremendous attention owing to the advances in wireless technologies accompanied by many applications and implementations. However, there are still a number of issues in MANETs which require further in... Read More about A new adaptive broadcasting approach for mobile ad hoc networks.

Design and Analysis of Multicast Communication in Multidimensional Mesh Networks (2007)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Al-Dubai, A., Ould-Khaoua, M., & Romdhani, I. (2007, August). Design and Analysis of Multicast Communication in Multidimensional Mesh Networks. Presented at 5th International Symposium on Parallel and Distributed Processing and Applications (ISPA07), Naigara Falls, Canada

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.

A Performance Study of Path Based Multicast Communication Algorithms (2006)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Al-Dubai, A., & Romdhani, I. (2006, September). A Performance Study of Path Based Multicast Communication Algorithms. Presented at International Symposium on Parallel Computing in Electrical Engineering (PARELEC'06)

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 the performance of broadcast algorithms in interconnection networks. (2005)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Al-Dubai, A., & Ould-Khaoua, M. (2005, June). On the performance of broadcast algorithms in interconnection networks. Presented at Int. Workshop of Performance Evaluation of Networks for Parallel, Cluster and Grid Computing Systems (PEN-PCGCS'05-ICPP),

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)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Al-Dubai, A., Ould-Khaoua, M., & Ferguson, J. (2004, June). QoS aware broadcast communication algorithm for multicomputer interconnections. Presented at Proc. 5th Annual PostGraduate Symposium on the Convergence of Telecommunications, Networking and Broadcasting

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.

Performance comparison of path-based multicast algorithms (2003)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Al-Dubai, A., Ould-Khaoua, M., & Mackenzie, L. (2003, July). Performance comparison of path-based multicast algorithms. Presented at International Working Conference on Performance Modelling and Evaluation of Heterogeneous Networks (HN-NETS'03)

A scalable plane-based broadcast algorithm for 3D-Mesh networks (2003)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Al-Dubai, A., Ould-Khaoua, M., & Mackenzie, L. (2003, February). A scalable plane-based broadcast algorithm for 3D-Mesh networks. Presented at Eleventh Euromicro Conference on Parallel, Distributed and Network-Based Processing, 2003. Proceedings

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.

On balancing traffic load in path-based multicast communication. (2003)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Al-Dubai, A., Ould-Khaoua, M., El-Zayyat, K., & Mackenzie, L. (2003, July). On balancing traffic load in path-based multicast communication. Presented at International Symposium on Performance Evaluation of Computer and Telecommunication Systems (SPECTS'2003), Montreal, Canada

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..

A new scalable broadcast algorithm for multiport meshes with minimum communication steps (2003)
Journal Article
Ould-Khaoua, M., Al-Dubai, A., Al-Dubai, A., & Ould-Khaoua, M. (2003). A new scalable broadcast algorithm for multiport meshes with minimum communication steps. Microprocessors and Microsystems, 27(3), 101-113. https://doi.org/10.1016/s0141-9331%2802%2900094-7

Many broadcast algorithms have been proposed for the mesh in the literature. However, most of these algorithms do not exhibit good scalability properties as the network size increases. As a consequence, most existing broadcast algorithms cannot suppo... Read More about A new scalable broadcast algorithm for multiport meshes with minimum communication steps.

Towards a scalable broadcast in wormhole-switched mesh networks (2002)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Al-Dubai, A. Y., Ould-Khaoua, M., & Mackenzie, L. M. (2002, March). Towards a scalable broadcast in wormhole-switched mesh networks. Presented at 2002 ACM symposium on Applied computing - SAC '02, Madrid, Spain

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 ap... Read More about Towards a scalable broadcast in wormhole-switched mesh networks.

On the design of scalable pipelined broadcasting for mesh networks (2002)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Al-Dubai, A., & Ould-Khaoua, M. (2002, June). On the design of scalable pipelined broadcasting for mesh networks. Presented at 16th Annual International Symposium on High Performance Computing Systems and Applications, 2002. Proceedings

Minimising the communication latency and achieving considerable scalability are of paramount importance when designing high performance broadcast algorithms. Many algorithms for wormhole-switched meshes have been widely reported in the literature. Ho... Read More about On the design of scalable pipelined broadcasting for mesh networks.

Coded path routing: a new approach to broadcasting in 3-D meshes, Technical Report (2002)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Al-Dubai, A., & Ould-Khaoua, M. (2001, April). Coded path routing: a new approach to broadcasting in 3-D meshes, Technical Report. Presented at 20th IEEE International Performance, Computing, and Communications Conference, Phoenix, AZ, USA

Broadcast is an important collective communication operation required by many real-world parallel applications. This paper proposes the Coded Path Routing (or CPR for short) as a new approach for designing efficient broadcast algorithms for wormhole-... Read More about Coded path routing: a new approach to broadcasting in 3-D meshes, Technical Report.

An efficient adaptive broadcast algorithm for the mesh network (2001)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Al-Dubai, A., & Ould-Khaoua, M. (2001, June). An efficient adaptive broadcast algorithm for the mesh network

Most existing broadcast algorithms proposed for the mesh do not scale well with the network size. Furthermore, they have been mainly based on deterministic routing, which cannot exploit the alternative paths provided by mesh topology to reduce commun... Read More about An efficient adaptive broadcast algorithm for the mesh network.