Farid Farahmand

Professor

Farid Farahmand
Farid Farahmand

Contact

(707) 664-3491

farid.farahmand@sonoma.edu

Office

Salazar Hall 2010D

Office Hours

Tuesday:
16:00-17:30
Wednesday:
11:00-12:30
Available By Appointment Only

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Education
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  • Ph. D. Optical Network Communications, University of Texas at Dallas, Richardson, Texas
  • M.S., Electrical Engineering, Cellular Communications, University of Texas at Dallas, Richardson, Texas
  • B.S., Electrical Engineering, Telecommunications, University of Texas at Dallas, Richardson, Texas
About
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Dr. Farid Farahmand received his Ph.D. in EE from the University of Texas at Dallas. He has several years of industry as well as academic experience. His areas of interest are optical networks, wireless and sensor networks, burst switching and communications.

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Selected Publications & Presentations
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BOOK CHAPTERS

  • Joel J. P. C. Rodrigues, Vasco N. G. J. Soares, and Farid Farahmand, “Stationary Relay Nodes Deployment on Vehicular Opportunistic Networks”, in Mobile Opportunistic Networks: Architectures, Protocols and Applications, Mieso Denko (Ed.), Auerbach Publications, (hardcover), ISBN 9781420088120, May 2010.

  • Farid Farahmand, “Message Switching Technology,” The Handbook of Computer Networks (H. Bidgoli, Ed.), John Wiley & Sons, Hoboken, NJ. 

  • Farid Farahmand and Qiong Zhang, “Circuit Switching Technology,” The Handbook of Computer Networks (H. Bidgoli, Ed.), John Wiley & Sons, Hoboken, NJ.

BOOK REVIEWS

  • Computer Networks by Lin, McGraw-Hill and The Grandview Group, March 2012. 
  • ZigBee Wireless Control and Sensor Networks by Ata Elahi and Adam Gschwender, Prentice Hall Professional Technical Reference, November 2008.

JOURNALS

  • Zuqing Zhu, Chuanqi Wan, Farid Farahmand, and Jason P. Jue, "Energy-Efficient Translucent Optical Transport Networks with Mixed Regenerator Placement", Journal of Lightwave Technology, Submitted May 2012
  • M. Masud Hasan, Farid Farahmand, Jason P. Jue, and Joel J. P. C. Rodrigues, "A Study of Energy-Aware Traffic Grooming in Optical Networks: Static and Dynamic Cases", IEEE Systems Journal, September 2012
  • Vasco N. G. J. Soares, Farid Farahmand, and Joel J. P. C. Rodrigues, “GeoSpray: A Geographic Routing Protocol for Vehicular Delay-Tolerant Networks,” Journal of Information Fusion, Elsevier, November 2011 (reference)
  • F. Farahmand, K. O. Khadivi, and Joel J. P. C. Rodrigues,  “Detecting Intra-Fraction Motion in Patients Undergoing Radiation Treatment Using a Low-Cost Wireless Accelerometer.” Sensors 2009, 9, 6715-6729.
  • Farid Farahmand, and Joel J. P. C. Rodrigues, Performance of Vehicular Delay-Tolerant Networks with Relay Nodes" Wireless Commun. Mob. Comput., Vol. 1, John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, pp. 221–242, 2009. (link)
  • Vasco N. G. J. Soares, Farid Farahmand, and Joel J. P. C. Rodrigues, “Impact of vehicle movement models on VDTN routing strategies for rural connectivity,” International Journal of Mobile Network Design and Innovation  (IJMNDI), 2010-February. ISSN (Online): 1744-2850  -  ISSN (Print): 1744-2869 
  • Farid Farahmand, Qiong Zhang, and Jason P. Jue, “A Feedback-based Contention Avoidance Mechanism for Labeled Optical Burst Switched Networks,” Photonic Network Communications, Aug. 2007.
  • Farid Farahmand, Vinod M. Vokkarane, Jason P. Jue, Joel J.P.C. Rodrigues, and Mário M. Freire, "Optical Burst Switching Network: A Multi-layered Approach," IOS Press, Journal of High Speed Networks (JHSN), Volume 16, Number 2, 2007.
  • Farid Farahmand and Jason P. Jue, “Analysis and Implementation of Look-ahead Window Contention Resolution with QoS Support in Optical Burst-Switched Networks,” IEEE Journal of Selected Areas in Communications Nov. 2006.
  • Farid Farahmand, Qiong Zhang, and Jason P. Jue, “Dynamic Traffic Grooming in Optical Burst-Switched Networks,” IEEE Journal of Lightwave Technology, 2005
  • Xiaodong Huang, Farid Farahmand, and Jason P. Jue,  “Multicast Traffic Grooming in Wavelength-Routed WDM Mesh Networks Using Dynamically Changing Light-Trees,” IEEE Journal of Lightwave Technology, 23, 3178- (2005).

CONFERENCES

  • Jack Ou and Farid Farahmand, "Transconductance/Drain Current Based Distortion Analysis for Analog CMOS Integrated Circuits", 10th IEEE International NEWCAS Conference, Montreal, Canada, June 17-20, 2012. 
  • Farid Farahmand, Peiwen Yu, Jack Jue, and Joel J. P. C. Rodrigues, "SoNET: a Delay-Tolerant Geo-Sensor Network for Environmental Monitoring", 10th IEEE International NEWCAS Conference, Montreal, Canada, June 17-20, 2012. 
  • Mohammad M. Hasan, Farid Farahmand, Zuqing Zhu, and Jason P. Jue "Knapsack-based Drop-and-Continue Traffic Grooming for Power and Resource Efficiency", Proceedings, IEEE/OSA Optical Fiber Communication Conference, Los Angles, CA, March 2012
  • Weida Zhong, Zuqing Zhu, Chuanqi Wan, and Farid Farahmand, "Design Energy Efficient Translucent Optical Networks with Joint Routing and Wavelength Assignment and Mixed Regenerator Placement", Proceedings, IEEE/OSA Optical Fiber Communication Conference, Los Angles, CA, March 2012
  • Vasco N. G. J. Soares, Farid Farahmand, and Joel J. P. C. Rodrigues, "Testbed-based Performance Evaluation of Routing Protocols for Vehicular Delay-Tolerant Networks' IEEE GLOBECOM 2011, March 2011.
  • Farid Farahmand, Isabella Cerutti, Mohammad M. Hasan, and Jason P. Jue,  “Lightpath-Based Grooming in WDM Networks,” Proceedings, IEEE ICCCN, 2011
  • Farid Farahmand Isabella Cerutti, Mohammad M. Hasan, and Jason P. Jue,  “Energy-efficiency of Drop-and-Continue Traffic Grooming,” Proceedings, IEEE/OSA Optical Fiber Communication Conference 2010, Los Angles, CA, March 2011.
  • Vasco N. G. J. Soares, Farid Farahmand, and Joel J. P. C. Rodrigues, "VDTNsim: A Simulation Tool for Vehicular Delay-Tolerant Networks," submitted to CAMAD 2010, July 2010
  • F. Farahmand, M. Hasan, I. Cerutti, J. Jue, and J. Rodrigues, "Differentiated Energy Savings in Optical Networks with Grooming Capabilities," IEEE GLOBECOM, Miami, Dec 2010.
  • Mohammad M. Hasan, Farid Farahmand, and Jason P. Jue, “Grooming in Green Optical Networks,” Proceedings, IEEE ICC 2010, Cape Town, South Africa, June 2010.
  • Vasco N. G. J. Soares, Farid Farahmand, and Joel J. P. C. Rodrigues, “Exploiting Node Localization for Performance Improvement of Vehicular Delay-Tolerant Networks,” Proceedings, IEEE ICC 2010, Cape Town, South Africa, June 2010
  • Farid Farahmand, “Inter-Domain Traffic Routing in Vehicular Delay Tolerant Networks,” Proceedings, IEEE ICC 2010, Cape Town, South Africa, June 2010.
  • Mohammad M. Hasan, Farid Farahmand, and Jason P. Jue,  “Energy-Awareness in Dynamic Traffic Grooming,” Proceedings, IEEE/OSA Optical Fiber Communication Conference 2010, San Diego, CA, March 2010.
  • Vasco N. G. J. Soares, Farid Farahmand, and Joel J. P. C. Rodrigues, "Improving Vehicular Delay-Tolerant Network Performance with Relay Nodes", Next Generation Internet Networks 2009 (NGI 2009) Aveiro, Portugal, July 1-3, 2009. Received the Best Paper Award.
  • Vasco N. G. J. Soares, Farid Farahmand, and Joel J. P. C. Rodrigues, "A Layered Architecture for Vehicular Delay-Tolerant Networks", IEEE Symposium on Computers and Communications (ISCC'09), Sousse, Tunisia, July 5 - 8, 2009
  • Vasco N. G. J. Soares, Farid Farahmand, and Joel J. P. C. Rodrigues, “Evaluating the Impact of Storage Capacity Constraints on Vehicular Delay-Tolerant Networks”, The Second International Conference on Communication Theory, Reliability, and Quality of Service (CTRQ 2009), ISBN: 978-0-7695-3696-5, Colmar, France, July 20 - 25, 2009.Received the Best Paper Award.
  • Farid Farahmand, K. O. Khadivi, and Joel J. P. C. Rodrigues, “Improving Radiation Oncology Using a Low-Cost Wireless Accelerometer”, Fifth IEEE International Workshop on Performance and Management of Wireless and Mobile Networks (P2MNET 2009), Zurich, Switzerland, October 20-23, 2009.
  • Vasco N. G. J. Soares, Joel J. P. C. Rodrigues, and Farid Farahmand, "Impact Analysis of the Shortest Path Movement Model on Routing Strategies for VDTNs in a Rural Region", 7th Conference on Telecommunications (CONFTELE 2009), Santa Maria da Feira, Portugal, May 03-05, 2009.
  • Vasco N. G. J. Soares, Farid Farahmand, and Joel J. P. C. Rodrigues, “Scheduling and Drop Policies for Traffic Differentiation on Vehicular Delay-Tolerant Networks”, 17th International Conference on Software, Telecommunications and Computer Networks (SoftCOM 2009), ISBN: 978-953-290-015-6, Split – Hvar – Korcula, Croatia, September 24-26, 2009.
  • Farid Farahmand, Qiong Zhang, and Jason Jue, `Relay-Node Placement in Vehicular Wireless Burst Switching Networks,` IEEE Globecom, New Orleans, LA, USA, 2008.
  • F. Farahmand, Enhancing Rural Connectivity in the Arab World Using Vehicular Wireless Burst Switching Network, The 5th Congress of Scientific Research Outlook and Technology Development in the Arab World, 2008.
  • F. Farahmand, Vehicular Wireless Burst Switching Network: Enhancing Rural Connectivity, The 3rd IEEE Workshop on Automotive Networking and Applications (AutoNet 2008) Co-located with IEEE GLOBECOM 2008.
  • K. Khadivi and F. Farahmand, Low-Cost Pressure Sensor for Patients Undergoing Brain Radiation, submitted to American Association of Medical Dosimetrists Writing Competition, 2008.
  • Farid Farahmand, Qiong Zhang, and Jason Jue, “Relay-Node Placement in Vehicular Wireless Burst Switching Networks,” Proceedings, IEEE Globecom 2008
  • Marc De Leenheer, Farid Farahmand, Kejie Lu, Tao Zhang, Pieter Thysebaert, Bruno Volckaert, Filip De Turck, Bart Dhoedt, Piet Demeester, Jason P. Jue, “Anycast Algorithms Supporting Optical Burst Switched Grid Networks,” International Conference on Networking and Services (ICNS) 2006, July 16-19, 2006
  • Farid Farahmand, Joel Rodrigues, and Jason P. Jue,  “A Layered Architecture for Supporting Optical Burst Switching,”  Advanced Industrial Conference on Telecommunications (AICT 2005), Lisbon, Portugal. June 2005
  • Farid Farahmand, Qiong Zhang, and Jason P. Jue, “Data Burst Grooming in Optical Burst-Switched Networks,” Proceedings, IEEE Globecom 2005
  • Farid Farahmand, Qiong Zhang, and Jason P. Jue, “A Closed-Loop Rate-based Contention Control for Optical Burst Switched Networks,” Proceedings, BroadNets 2005
  • Farid Farahmand, Marc De Leenheer, and Jason P. Jue, “A Multi-Layered Approach to Optical Burst-Switched Based Grids,” Proceedings, Fourth International Workshop on Optical Burst Switching (WOBS 2005), co-located with SPIE OptiComm 2005
  • Marc De Leenheer, Farid Farahmand, and Jason P. Jue, “Grid Computing Using Optical Burst Switching Protocol,” in preparation, 29th Annual European Conference on Optical Communications (ECOC-2005), June 2005.
  • Xiaodong Huang, Farid Farahmand, and Jason P. Jue, “An Algorithm for Traffic Grooming in WDM Mesh Networks with Dynamically Changing Light-Trees,” Proceedings, IEEE Globecom 2004, Dallas, TX, November 2004.
  • Farid Farahmand, Xiaodong Huang, and Jason P. Jue, “Efficient Online Traffic Grooming Algorithms in WDM Mesh Networks with Drop-and-Continue Node Architecture,” Proceedings, BroadNets 2004, San Jose, CA, October 2004.
  • Farid Farahmand, Qiong Zhang, and Jason P. Jue, “A Feedback-Based Contention Avoidance Mechanism for Optical Burst Switching Networks,” Proceedings, 3rd International Workshop on Optical Burst Switching, San Jose, CA, October 2004.
  • Farid Farahmand and Jason Jue, “Supporting QoS with Look-ahead Window Contention Resolution in Optical Burst Switched Networks,” Proceedings, IEEE Globecom 2003, San Francisco, CA, December 2003.
  • Farid Farahmand and Jason Jue,  “Practical Priority Contention Resolution for Slotted Optical Burst Switching Net Works,” Proceedings, First International Workshop on Optical Burst Switching (WOBS 2003), co-located with SPIE OptiComm 2003, Dallas, TX, October 2003.
  • Farid Farahmand, Andrea F. Fumagalli, and Marco Tacca, “Near-Optimal Design of WDM Dual-Ring with Dual-Crossconnect Architecture,” Proceedings, SPIE Optical Networking and Communication Conference (OptiComm 2002), Boston, Massachusetts, July 2003.
  • Farid Farahmand and Jason Jue, “Look -ahead Window Contention Resolution in Optical Burst Switched Networks,” Proceedings, IEEE High Performance Switching and Routing (HPSR 2003), Torino, Italy, June 2003.
  • Timucin Ozugur and Farid Farahmand, “Single-anchored soft bandwidth allocation system with deflection routing for optical burst switching,” Proceedings, IEEE High Performance Switching and Routing (HPSR 2002), Kobe, Japan, May 2003.

ENGINEERING EDUCATION

  • Farahmand, Harika Kuppuru, Swathi Matsa “ Introducing a Remotely Accessible Optical Laboratory for Undergraduate Students,” American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE), San Antonio, TX, Jun. 2012.
  • Farahmand, “ Introducing Advanced Engineering Topics to Freshmen Students Using Roomba Platform,” American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE), Vancouver, CA, Jun. 2011. Received the Best Paper Award.
  • Farahmand and A. Abu-aisheh, “An Integrated Virtual Learning Platform for Distance,” The 10th IEEE International Conference on Advanced Learning Technologies, ICALT 2010, Sousse Tunisia.
  • A. Abu-aisheh and F. Farahmand, “Implementing of a Remote Analog and Digital Communications Laboratory for e-Learning,” The 10th IEEE International Conference on Advanced Learning Technologies, ICALT 2010, Sousse Tunisia. Received the Best Paper Award.
  • F. Farahmand and Seema Khan, “Integrating Service-Learning in the First-Year Introduction to Engineering Course,” American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE), Kentucky, Jun. 2010.
  • F. Farahmand and Seema Khan, “A Labview-Based Integrated Virtual Learning Platform,” American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE), Kentucky, Jun. 2010.
  • F. Farahmand, “A Low-Cost Approach to Integrate Sensor Technology in Multi-Disciplinary Courses.” American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE), Texas, Jun. 2009.Received the Best Paper Award.
  • Akram Abu-aisheh and Farid Farahmand, Implementation of  a Virtual RF and Digital communications Laboratory for E-Learning, The 5th Congress of Scientific Research Outlook and Technology Development in the Arab World, 2008.
  • Farid Farahmand, Cell Phone-Based Distance Learning: Technical challenges and impacts, 2008 conference on Service-Learning in Engineering.
  • Farid Farahmand, “Cell Phone-Based Distance Learning: Technical challenges and impacts,” 2008 conference on Service-Learning in Engineering.
  • Farid. Farahmand,  "Integration of Voice over Internet Protocol Experiment in Computer Engineering Technology Curriculum," American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE), Honolulu, June 23-28, 2007
  • Farid. Farahmand and V. Rajaravivarma,  "High Performance Computing in Classroom  Environment," American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE) Chicago, June 2006.
  • Farid. Farahmand and V. Rajaravivarma,  "Teaching Voice over Internet Protocol in Computer Engineering Technology Curriculum," American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE), New England Section Conference, March 17-18, 2006

WHITE PAPERS AND TECHNICAL REPORTS