Zakaria Alomari is an assistant professor of computer science at New York Institute of Technology's Vancouver campus. He obtained his Ph.D. in Software Engineering from the University of Quebec in Montreal, Canada in 2022, and his M.Sc. in Software Engineering from Concordia University in Montreal, Canada in 2017.
He has several years of experience in industry and research, primarily in the areas of designing service function chains, advanced network/transport protocols, resource allocation, signaling, high-performance virtual network functions and services, high-precision monitoring and measurements, SDN++, pricing, and security and privacy.
His current research interests include AI and machine learning applications, future Internet architectures, cloud computing, network function virtualization, software-defined networking, and resource management in large-scale distributed systems.
Recent Projects and Research
FlexNGIA project:
- Analyze the characteristics and requirements of future network applications.
- Highlight the limitations of the traditional Internet architecture and protocols and their inability to cater to future applications' requirements.
- Design the future Internet architecture, FlexNGIA, a fully-flexible next-generation Internet Architecture.
- Provide use-cases to discuss the potential mechanisms that could be offered by FlexNGIA to ensure the required performance and reliability guarantees for future applications.
- Identify key research challenges to further develop FlexNGIA towards a full-fledged architecture for the future tactile Internet.
Selected Publications
- Alomari, Z., Zhani, M.F., Aloqaily, M. et al. On Ensuring Full Yet Cost-Efficient Survivability of Service Function Chains in NFV Environments. J Netw Syst Manage 31, 45 (2023).
- Alomari, Z., AL-Oudat, M. & Alkhushayni, S. Pricing the cloud based on multi-attribute auction mechanism. Cluster Comput (2023).
- Alomari, Z., Zhani, M.F., Aloqaily, M., Bouachir, O. Towards optimal synchronization in nfv-based environments. Int. J. Netw. Manag. 33, 2218 (2022).
- Alomari Z, Zhani MF, Aloqaily M, Bouachir O. On minimizing synchronization cost in NFV-based environments. Paper presented at: Proceedings of the 2020 16th International Conference on Network and Service Management (CNSM). Izmir, Turkey: IEEE; 2020:1-9.
- Alomari, Z. and Fingerman, D. (2017) 'Loan Default Prediction and Identification of Interesting Relations between Attributes of Peer-to-Peer Loan Applications', New Zealand Journal of Computer-Human Interaction.
- Alomari, Z., Halimi, O. E., Sivaprasad, K., & Pandit, C. (2015). Comparative studies of six programming languages. arXiv preprint arXiv:1504.00693.
Courses Taught at New York Tech
- INCS 775: Data Centre Security
- INCS 741: Cryptography
- INCS 870: Project I