Prof. Attahiru Alfa (University of Manitoba, Canada)
Education

- B.Eng. Ahmadu Bello, Nigeria 1971
- M.Sc. University of Manitoba 1974
- Ph.D. New South Wales, Australia 1980
Courses Taught
- 025.459 - Techniques in Industrial Engineering
- 025.782 - Queuing Systems in Engineering
- 025.788 - Network Flow Problems in Engineering
Selected Publications
- "QOS and energy Tradeoff in Distributed Energy -Limited Mesh/Relay Networks: A Queuing Analysis, IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems", A. Fallahi, E. Hossain and A.S. Alfa
- "Discrete-time analysis of the GI/G/1 system with Bernoulli retrials: An algorithmic approach, Annals of Operations Res.", Vo. 141, Iss.1, pp. 51-67, January, 2006, A.S. Alfa.
- "Efficient computations for the discrete GI/G/1 system", INFORMS Journal on Computing, W. Li and Y. Pan (editors), Nova Science pub., Inc., New York, 2006, Vol. 5, Chapter 12,, pp. 267-288, 2006, A.S. Alfa and J. Xue
- "Radio Link Level Performance Evaluation in Wireless Networks Using Multi-Rate Rransmission with ARQ-Based Error Control", IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, 2006, Accepted, L.B. Le, E. Hossain and A.S. Alfa
- "Delay Statistics and Throughput Performance for Multi-Rate Wireless Networks Under ARQ and Multiuser Diversity", IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications (Transactions Paper), 2006, L.B. Le, E. Hossain and A.S. Alfa
- "Service Differantiation in Multi-Rate Wireless Networks with Weighted Round-Robin Scheduling and ARQ-Based Error Control", L.B. Le, E. Hossain and A.S. Alfa , IEEE Transactions on Communications, Vol. 54, No. 2, pp.
208-215, February, 2006, L.B. Le, E. Hossain and A.S. Alfa.
- "End-to-end Batch Transmission in a Multi-Hop and Multi-Rate Wireless Network: Latency, Reliability and Throughput Analysis", IEEE Transcriptions on Mobile Computing (Transactions Papre), 2006, Accepted, T. Issariuakul, E. Hossain and A.S. Alfa
- "A Framework for Resource Allocation in Wireless Networks of the Future, Resource Allocation in Next Generation Wireless Networks, Wireless Networks and Mobile Computing", W. Li and Y. Pan (editors) Nova Science pub., Inc., New York, 2006, pp. 267-288, 2006, H.A. Ghazaleh and A.S. Alfa