Contact Information
Email: rboutaba@uwaterloo.ca
Phone: 519-888-4567 x84080
Location: DC 1340
Professor, Director, Cheriton School of Computer Science, Faculty of Math
Raouf Boutaba received the M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees in computer science from Sorbonne University in 1990 and 1994, respectively. He is currently a University Chair Professor and the Director of the David R. Cheriton School of Computer science at the University of Waterloo (Canada). His research interests fall in the areas of computer networking and distributed systems. Dr. Boutaba served as the founding Editor-in-Chief of the IEEE Transactions on Network and Service Management (2007-2010) and the Editor-in-Chief of the IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications (2018-2021). He is a fellow of the IEEE, the Engineering Institute of Canada, the Canadian Academy of Engineering, and the Royal Society of Canada.
Graduate Supervision: (if applicable)
Professor Boutaba graduate students within masters and doctoral programs in Computer Science as well as post-doctoral fellows and undergraduate students interns. His students have been exploring research problems in the areas of autonomous networking, network virtualization, network softwarization, 5G and beyond mobile communications, network and systems security, and blockchains.
Selected Publications:
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M. Gharibi, Z. Gharibi, R. Boutaba, S.L. Waslander. A Density-Based and Lane-Free Microscopic Traffic Flow Model Applied to Unmanned Aerial Vehicles. MDPI Drones, Vol. 5(4), pp. 116, October 2021.
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R. A. C. da Silva, N. L. S. da Fonseca, and R. Boutaba. Evaluation of the Employment of UAVs as Fog Nodes. IEEE Wireless Communications. IEEE Press. Vol. 28(5), pp. 20-27, October 2021.
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M. Gharibi, R. Boutaba and S. Waslander. Internet of Drones. IEEE Access. Vol. 4, pp. 1148-1162, March 2016.