Awards

· Received the 2018 Best Survey Award from the IEEE Communications Society for the excellent quality of the paper: “Internet of Things: A Survey on Enabling Technologies, Protocols, and Applications,” IEEE Communications Surveys & Tutorials, Vol.17, No.4, pp. 2347-2376, Fourth Quarter 2015.

· Received the Outstanding Researcher Award in the College of Engineering and Applied Sciences at Western Michigan University, 2014.

· Received the Outstanding Student Service Award in the College of Engineering and Applied Sciences at Western Michigan University, 2007.

· Received the Outstanding New Educator Award in the College of Engineering and Applied Sciences at Western Michigan University, 2006.

· Received the Best Paper Award, ICOCN 2005: “A. Al-Fuqaha, O. Awwad, “Fuzzy-Based RWA Engine for All-Optical DWDM Backbone Networks with Sparse Wavelength Conversion Capabilities,” The 4th International Conference on Optical Communications and Networks, Bangkok, Thailand, Dec. 14-16, 2005.”