Thesis

My PhD thesis: Autonomic Core Network Management System.

Book in Preparation

A. Tizghadam and A Leon-Garcia. "Network Science for Communications".

Journal Papers

1. A. Tizghadam and A Leon-Garcia. "Betweenness Centrality and Resistance Distance in Communication Networks". IEEE Network, vol. 24, no. 6, pages 10-16, November-December 2010.

2. A. Tizghadam and A Leon-Garcia. "On Random Walks in Direction-Aware Network Problems". ACM SIGMETRICS Performance Evaluation Review (PER), Vol. 3, no. 2, pages 9-11, September 2010.

3. A. Tizghadam and A. Leon-Garcia. Autonomic Traffic Engineering for Network Robustness. IEEE Journal of Selected Areas in Communications (J-SAC), vol. 28, no. 1, pages 39 – 50, January 2010.

4. A. Tizghadam and A. Leon-Garcia. Robust Network Planning in Nonuniform Traffic Scenarios. To appear in Computer Communications .

5. Yu Cheng, Ramy Farha, Ali Tizghadam, Myung Sup Kim, Massoud Hashemi, James Won-Ki Hong, Alberto Leon-Garcia, "Virtual Network Approach to Scalable IP Service Deployment and Efficient Resource Management", IEEE Communications Magazine, , vol. 43, no. 10, pages 74-84, October 2005.

Book chapters and Edited Volumes

6. A. Tizghadam and A. Leon-Garcia. Joint Optimization of Resources and Routes: From Communication Networks to Power Grids. To appear in Handbook of Optimization in Complex Networks}, My T. Thai and Panos Pardalos (Eds.), Springer. 

7. Ali Tizghadam, Alberto Leon-Garcia, "A Robust Routing Plan to Optimize Throughput in Core Networks", Managing Traffic Performance in Converged Networks}, Lorne Mason, Tadeusz Drwiega and James Yan (Eds.) Springer, 2007.

Conference Papers (Selected)

8. N. Movahedinia, A. Tizghadam and A Leon-Garcia. "A Robust Power Control Method for Cognitive Radio Networks", In IEEE Globecom Workshop on Broadband Wireless Access, Miami, USA, December 2010.

9. A. Tizghadam and A Leon-Garcia. "On Traffic-Aware Betweenness and Network Criticality", , In Second IEEE INFOCOM Workshop on Network Science for Communications (NetSciCom), San Diego, USA, March 2010.

10. Ali Tizghadam, Alberto Leon-Garcia, "On Robust Network Planning", 7th International Workshop on the Design of Reliable Communication (DRCN), Washington DC, USA, Oct. 2009.

11. Ali Tizghadam, Alberto Leon-Garcia, "A Graph Theoretical Approach to Traffic Engineering and Network Control Problem", 21th International Teletraffic Congress (ITC21), Paris, France, Sep. 2009.

12. Alireza Bigdeli, Ali Tizghadam, Alberto Leon-Garcia, "Comparison of Network Criticality, Algebraic Connectivity, and other Graph Metrics", NetSci Workshop on Simplifying Complex Networks (SIMPLEX), Venice, Italy, July 2009.

13. Ali Tizghadam, Alberto Leon-Garcia, "Survival Value of Communication Networks", IEEE INFOCOM Workshop on Network Science for Communications (NetSciCom), Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, April 2009.

14. Ali Tizghadam, Alberto Leon-Garcia, "On Robust Traffic Engineering in Core Networks", IEEE GLOBECOM, New Orleans, USA, Dec. 2008.

15. Ali Tizghadam, Alberto Leon-Garcia, "On Congestion Control in Mission Critical Networks", IEEE INFOCOM Workshop on Mission Critical Networks (MCN), Phoenix, April 2008.

16. Ali Tizghadam, Alberto Leon-Garcia, "AORTA: Autonomic Network Control and Management System", IEEE INFOCOM Workshop on Autonomic Network Management (ANM), Phoenix, April 2008.

17. Ali Tizghadam, Alberto Leon-Garcia, "LSP and Backup Path Setup in MPLS Networks based on Path Criticality Index", IEEE ICC, Glasgow, Scotland, June, 2007.

18. Khashayar Khavari, Chuen Liang, Ali Tizghadam, Farid Fadaie, Nadeem Abji, Ramy Farha, Alberto Leon-Garcia, "Unstructured Peer-to-Peer Session over IP using SIP", IEEE IPCCC, Phoenix, USA, April, 2006.

19. Khashayar Khavari, Nadeem Abji, Ramy Farha, Chuen Liang, Ali Tizghadam, Farid Fadaie, Alberto Leon-Garcia, "Structured Peer-to-Peer Control Plane", IEEE ICC, Istanbul, Turkey, June, 2006.

20. Myung Sup Kim, Ali Tizghadam, Alberto Leon-Garcia, James Won-Ki Hong, "Virtual Network based Autonomic Network Resource Control and Management System", IEEE GLOBECOM, St. Louis, USA, Nov. 2005.

21. Ali Tizghadam, Massoud Hashami, Alberto Leon-Garcia, "Investigation of Ant Colony Algorithm in Multiple Traffic Flow Environments", IEEE CCECE, Saskatoon, Canada, May 2005.