Summary
Web : www.eas. asu. edu/~hasancam


R and D Specialists with experience in Surveillance, Healthcare, Algorithm Development, Mobile Telemedicine, Smart Home, Machine Learning for Medical Diagnosis, Wireless Cellular and Sensor Networks, Wireless Secure Data Aggregation and Transmission, Sensor Fusion, Target Tracking, Source Coding, Multiprocessor Systems.
Innovative leader in mobile patient monitoring, secure data gathering and transmission, multiple target tracking in wireless networks and interconnection networks in multiprocessor systems.
Conducted research on employing medical thermography and body sensor networks, along with machine learning techniques, for improving mobile patient monitoring and incremental diagnosis.
Conducted extensive research on the transmission of vital patient and context-aware data on location, environment, weather, patient activity and secure transmission in wireless body area and sensor networks.
Developed algorithms and protocols on bandwidth management, channel reservation, error control, secure data transmission and medium access control in wireless cellular and local area networks.
Established effective channel and packet scheduling schemes on multiple interfaces based on service quality, channel conditions and user requirements like delay and loss rate.
Proved a long-standing conjecture on rearrangeable shuffle-exchange networks for multiprocessor systems.
Strategic engineer who pursues and resolves complex issues to develop forward-thinking concepts towards new business initiatives or improvement of existing business operations.
Designed a data aggregation and authentication protocol to integrate false data detection with data aggregation and confidentiality, reducing significantly the amount of transmitted data in wireless sensor networks.
Enabled coverage scheduling and rate assignment methods to collaborate, providing proper event miss-ratio assurances in wireless sensor networks.
Performed in-depth research on energy-efficient multiple-target tracking and data gathering for wireless surveillance sensor networks.
Developed medium access control, error and flow control protocols for wireless networks.
Hold a pending US patent for Nonblocking OVSF Codes for 3G Wireless and Beyond Systems.
CREDENTIALS
PhD, Electrical and Computer Engineering-School of Electrical/Computer Eng.- Purdue University- 1992
MS, Computer Science, Department of Computer Science-Polytechnic University, New York, USA- 1986
MS, Electrical Engineering, Department of Electrical Engineering-Istanbul Technical University, Turkey- 1984
BS, Electrical Engineering, Department of Electrical Engineering-Istanbul Technical University, Turkey- 1982
Senior Member, IEEE
Editorial Board Member, Computer Communications published by Elsevier Science

Employment

2008 -  Present
Patent Search Professional

2001 -  2007
Assistant Professor

2000 -  2001
Assistant Professor

worked as a Principal Investigator/Project Manager in the following projects

Medical Imaging Using Thermography and Ultrasound Sensors
Designed a 3D thermal imaging algorithm by employing an adjustable array of noninvasive wearable infrared and ultrasound sensors to determine the depth information about the thermal waves for construction of a 3D thermal image of a body part.
Designed a pattern recognition algorithm with fuzzy neural network rules for extracting features of human body thermal data.

2004 -  2007

Developed algorithms for transmitting vital sign data and medical images efficiently from body sensors to a personal handheld device for medical diagnosis and patient activity monitoring.
Developed a signal processing and analysis algorithm for improving the quality of vital sign data sensed by wearable body sensors.
Designed a data fusion or aggregation algorithm for aggregating medical data with context-aware environmental data for improving accuracy of vital signs data and guiding mobile patients in places like a shopping mall.
Developed secure vital sign and context-aware data aggregation algorithms for wireless body area and sensor networks. Designed secure data transmission algorithms on wireless body area networks.

2005 -  2008

Designed collaborative channel allocation and secure medical data transmission algorithms.
Developed and analyzed bandwidth management algorithms over integrated wireless networks for medical data transmission.

2003 -  2008

Formulated a data aggregation and authentication protocol to integrate false data detection with data aggregation and confidentiality in wireless sensor networks.
Developed new secure data aggregation algorithms ; conducted simulations.

2004 -  2008

Designed energy-efficient multiple-target tracking and data gathering over a surveillance area of interest for wireless surveillance sensor networks.
Interconnected coverage scheduling and rate assignment techniques, achieving event miss-ratio assurances while achieving minimum energy consumption.

2004 -  2007

Introduced an adaptive task scheduling protocol to provide assurances for the expected event miss-ratios through the lifetime of the network.

Established a protocol to address data redundancy by enabling scheduling and source coding algorithms to collaborate with each other. Addressed event types, power-aware processing and transmission.

2005 -  2007

Introduced a dynamic threshold scheme to enhance false alarm detection.
Identified false alarms to improve detection probability of intruders under noisy and realistic conditions by considering a mix of sensors to take advantage of their strengths.

2005 -  2006

Pioneered multiple-input turbo code to implement jointly source coding, channel coding and data aggregation for wireless sensor networks.

2001 -  2007

Developed patent-pending orthogonal variable spreading factor OVSF codes for CDMA-based networks.

2005 -  2006

Designed a multicasting, classification and code assignment scheme.

1996 -  2000

Created a slotted ring network for medium access control and LAN-ATM internetworking.

1989 -  1998

Proved famous conjecture that a 2n-1 - stage shuffle-exchange network is a rearrangeable network.
Developed routing algorithms to determine the switch settings for realizing permutations.

Thesis Supervision
Supervised the theses of 3 PhD and 11 MS students.

Wireless Networks, Advanced Computer Networks, Capstone Project, Computer Architecture I, Computer Architecture II, Computer Organization and Architecture, Introduction to Engineering Design, Microprocessor System Design II, Computer Communication Networks, Computer Networks, Local Area Networks, Data and Computer Communications, Computer Organization, Digital Logic II

Language and Simulator Skills
Languages : C, C++, VHDL, Fortran, Pascal, LISP, Prolog, Assembly.
Operating Systems : Unix, Linux, Windows.
Simulators : OPNET, Matlab, QualNet. Utilized commercial simulators and independent simulation programs written in C or VHDL to simulate the networks, circuits and techniques proposed in research projects.

Book Chapters 1. H. Cam and S. Ozdemir, False Data Detection and Secure Data Aggregation in Wireless Sensor Networks, in Security In Distributed, Grid and Pervasive Computing, Yang Xiao Eds, Auerbach Publications, Taylor and Francis Group, 2007.
2. H. Cam, S. Ozdemir, H.O. Sanli and P. Nair, Secure Differential Data Aggregation for Wireless Sensor Networks, in Sensor Network Operations, S. Phoha, T.F. La Porta and C. Griffin Eds, Wiley-IEEE Press, May 2006.

3. H. Cam, Analysis of Shuffle-Exchange Networks under Permutation Traffic, in Switching Networks : Recent Advances, D.-Z. Du and H.Q. Ngo Eds, Kluwer Academic Publishers, Dordrecht, 2001.

2042 -  July, 1997

Publications
Journal Papers
1. Narasimha Challa , Hasan Cam and Madhur Sikri , ``Secure and Efficient Data Transmission over Body Sensor and Wireless Networks , '' EURASIP Journal on Wireless Communications and Networking , Vol . 2008 , Article ID 291365 , October 2008 , 18 pages .
2. Serhan Dagtas , George Pekhteryev , Zafer Sahinoglu , Hasan Cam and Narasimha Challa , ``Real-Time and Secure Wireless Health Monitoring , '' International Journal of Telemedicine and Applications , 2008 .
3. F. Karabiber , A. Sertbas , S. Ozdemir and H. Cam , ``An Efficient Memory Allocation Algorithm and Hardware Design with VHDL Synthesis , International Journal of Electronics , 95 : 2 , .
4. H. Cam , Multiple-input turbo code for secure aggregation and source-channel coding in wireless sensor networks , International Journal of Sensor Networks IJSNet , vol .2 , no . 5/6 , pp . .
5. H. Cam , S. Ozdemir , P. Nair , D. Muthuavinashiappan and H.O. Sanli , Energy-Efficient Secure Pattern Based Data Aggregation for Wireless Sensor Networks , Computer Communications , vol . 29 , no .4 , pp . 446 455 February 2006 .
6. K. Vadde and H. Cam , A code assignment algorithm for Nonblocking OVSF codes in WCDMA , Telecommunication Systems , vol . 25 , no . 3/4 , pp . 417 431 March/April 2004 .
7. H. Cam , Rearrangeability of 2n - 1 - Stage Shuffle-Exchange Networks , SIAM Journal on Computing , vol . 32 , no .3 , March 2003 , pp . 557 585
8. H. Cam , Nonblocking OVSF Codes and Enhancing Network Capacity for 3G Wireless and Beyond Systems , Computer Communications , vol . 26 , no . 17 , pp . 1907 - 1917 , November 2003 .
9. H. Cam , Preventing Internal and External Conflicts in an Input Buffering Reverse Baseline ATM Switch , Int . Journal of Communication Systems , vol . 13 , no .4 , pp . 317 334 June 2000 .
10 . H. Cam , An On-Line Scheduling Policy for IRIS Real-Time Composite Tasks , Journal of Systems and Software , vol . 52 1 , pp . 25 - 32 , 2000 .
11 . H. Cam , List Ranking on Processor Arrays , Journal of Systems and Software , vol . 55 2 , pp . .
12 . H. Cam and J.A.B. Fortes , Work-Efficient Routing Algorithms for Rearrangeable Symmetrical Networks , IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems , vol . 10 , no .7 , pp . 733 741 July 1999 .
13 . H. Cam , A Header-Population Based Flow Control for Multicomputer Networks , Journal of Systems and Software , vol . 47 , no .1 , pp . 19 - 26 , May 1999 .
14 . H. Cam , A High-Performance ATM Switch Based on Modified Shuffle-Exchange Network , Computer Communications , vol . 22 , no .2 , pp . 110 118 25 January 1999 .
15 . H. Cam , Balanced Permutations and Multistage Interconnection Networks , International Journal of Computer Mathematics , vol . 73 , no .1 , pp . 125 137 November 1999 .
16 . H. Cam , A Multiclass Priority-Based Slotted-Ring Network for LAN-ATM Interworking , Computer Communications , vol . 20 , no . 13 , pp . 1216 - 1224 , 25 November 1997 .
17 . H. Cam and J.A.B. Fortes , Frames : a simple characterization of permutations realized by frequently used networks , IEEE Transactions on Computers , vol . 44 , pp . 695 697 May 1995 .
18 . H. Cam and J.A.B. Fortes , A fast VLSI-efficient self-routing permutation network , IEEE Transactions on Computers , vol . 44 , pp . 448 453 March 1995 .
Conference Proceedings
1. Hidayet Ozgur Sanli and Hasan am , ``Joint Coverage Scheduling and Identity Management for Multiple-Target Tracking in Wireless Sensor Networks , '' Proc . of IEEE GLOBECOM 2008 , 30 November 4 December 2008 , New Orleans , LA , USA
2. Narasimha Challa and Hasan am , ``Flexible Code Allocation to Improve System Utilization Using Nonblocking OVSF Codes in WCDMA , '' Proc . of IEEE ICC 2008 , 19 - 23 May 2008 , Beijing , China .
3. Bhavik Parekh and Hasan am , ``Minimizing False Alarms on Intrusion Detection for Wireless Sensor Networks in Realistic Environments , '' Proc . of MILCOM 2007 , 29 - 31 October 2007 , Orlando , Florida , USA
4. Hidayet Ozgur Sanli and Hasan am , ``Event-Driven Coverage and Rate Allocation for Providing Miss-Ratio Assurances in Wireless Sensor Networks , '' Proc . of IEEE GLOBECOM 2007 , 26 - 30 November 2007 , Washington DC , USA
5. Narasimha Challa and Hasan am , ``Adaptive Multicasting using Common Spreading Codes in Infrastructure-to-Vehicle Communication Networks , '' Proc . of IEEE INFOCOM MOVE Workshop , 6 - 12 May 2007 , Anchorage , AL , USA 6. D. An and H. am , ``Route Recovery with One-Hop Broadcast to Bypass Compromised Nodes in Wireless Sensor Networks , '' Proc . of IEEE WCNC 2007 , March 11 - 15 , 2007 , Hong Kong .
7. H.O. Sanli and H. Cam , Poster Abstract : Collaborative Scheduling of Event Types and Allocation of Rates for Wireless Sensor Nodes with Multiple Sensing Units , Proc . of ACM SenSys 2006 , November 1 - 3 , 2006 , Boulder , Colorado , USA 8. J.W. Lee , Y.H. Lee , H. Cam , SPDA : A Security Protocol for Data Aggregation in Large-scale Wireless Sensor Networks , Proc . of The 2006 IFIP International Conference on Embedded and Ubiquitous Computing EUC-06 , August 1 - 4 , 2006 , Seoul , Korea .
9. H. Cam , Multiple-input turbo code for joint data aggregation , source and channel coding in wireless sensor networks , Proc . of IEEE ICC 2006 , 11 - 15 June 2006 , Istanbul , Turkey .
10 . H.O. Sanli and H. Cam , Adaptive task scheduling for providing event miss-ratio statistical assurances in wireless sensor networks , Proc . of IEEE WCNC 2006 , 3 - 6 April 2006 , Las Vegas , USA
11 . S. Ozdemir and H. Cam , Key establishment with source coding and reconciliation for wireless sensor networks , Proc . of IEEE IPCCC 2006 , April 10 - 12 , 2006 , Phoenix , USA
12 . Hidayet Ozgur Sanli , R. Poornachandran and Hasan Cam , Collaborative two-level task scheduling for wireless sensor nodes with multiple sensing units , Proc . of IEEE SECON 2005 , September 26 - 29 , 2005 , Santa Clara , USA
13 . R. Poornachandran , H. Ahmad and H. Cam , Energy efficient task scheduling for wireless sensor nodes with multiple sensing units , Proc . of IEEE IPCCC 2005 , April 7 - 9 , 2005 , Phoenix , USA
14 . H. Cam , Secure data aggregation and source-channel coding with MIT code for wireless sensor networks , Proc . of IEEE IPCCC 2005 , April 7 - 9 , 2005 , Phoenix , USA
15 . H.O. Sanli and H. Cam , Energy efficient differential coverage service protocols for wireless sensor networks , Proc . of Third IEEE Int . Conf . on Pervasive Computing and Comm PerCom , Workshop on Sensor Networks and Systems for Pervasive Computing , March 8 - 12 , 2005 , Kauai Island , Hawaii .
16 . H.O. Sanli , S. Ozdemir and H. Cam , SRDA : Secure Reference-Based Data Aggregation Protocol for Wireless Sensor Networks , Proc . of IEEE VTC Fall 2004 Conference , September 26 - 29 , 2004 , Los Angeles , CA , USA
17 . N. Challa and H. Cam , Cost-aware downlink scheduling of shared channels for cellular networks with relays , Proc . of IEEE IPCCC 2004 , April 15 - 17 , 2004 , Phoenix , USA
18 . H.O. Sanli , H. Cam and X. Cheng , EQoS : An Energy Efficient QoS Protocol for Wireless Sensor Networks , Proc . of 2004 Western Simulation MultiConference WMC 04 , January 18 - 21 , 2004 , San_Diego , USA
19 . H. Cam , S. Ozdemir , D. Muthuavinashiappan and P. Nair , Energy efficient security protocol for wireless sensor networks , Proc . of IEEE VTC Fall 2003 , October 4 - 9 , 2003 , Orlando , USA
20 . P.K. Sampath , H. Cam and A. Natarajan , Power and subcarrier allocation for multirate MC-CDMA system , Proc . of IEEE VTC Fall 2003 , October 4 - 9 , 2003 , Orlando , USA
21 . H. Cam , S. Ozdemir , P. Nair and D. Muthuavinashiappan , ESPDA : Energy-efficient and secure pattern-based data aggregation for wireless sensor networks , Proc . of IEEE Sensors - The Second IEEE Conference on Sensors , October 22 - 24 , 2003 , Toronto , Canada .
22 . H. Cam , Nonblocking OVSF Codes for 3G Wireless and Beyond Systems , Proc . of 3Gwireless 2002 and WAS 2002 , 2002 International Conference on Third Generation Wireless and Beyond , May 28 - 31 , 2002 , San Francisco , CA , USA
23 . H. Cam and K. Vadde , Performance analysis of nonblocking OVSF codes in WCDMA , Proc . of The 2002 International Conference on Wireless Networks , June 24 - 27 , 2002 , Las Vegas , USA
24 . H. Cam and N. Challa , Supporting rate and soft delay guarantees for data traffic in the downlink shared channel of WCDMA , Proc . of The 2002 International Conference on Wireless Networks , June 24 - 27 , 2002 , Las Vegas , USA
25 . H. Cam , A. Mohan , R. Mankad , R. Bhaghavan and R. Wolfert , Performance analysis of downlink and uplink channels with multiple data rates in WCDMA , Proc . of The 2002 International Conference on Wireless Networks , June 24 - 27 , 2002 , Las Vegas , USA
26 . H. Cam , A Distributed Dynamic Channel and Packet Assignment for Wireless Multimedia Networks , Proc . of WCNC 2000 , IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference , September 23 - 28 , 2000 , Chicago , IL , USA
27 . H. Cam , M. Abd-El-Barr and S.M. Sait , A High-Performance Hardware-Efficient Memory Allocation Technique and Design , Proc . of the ICCD 99 Int . Conf . on Computer Design , October 10 - 13 , 1999 , Austin , USA , pp . 274 276
28 . M. Nazeeruddin , M. Mohandes and H. Cam , ATM QoS Prediction Using Neural Networks , Proc . of the ICONIP 99 , the 6th Int . Conf . on Neural Information Processing , vol .2 , November 16 - 20 , 1999 , Perth , Western Australia , pp . 532 537
29 . H. Cam , A Congestion Sense Network Interface , Proc . of the ISCA 13th International Conference on Computers and Their Applications , March 25 - 27 , 1998 , Honolulu , Hawaii , pp . 58 - 61 .
30 . H. Cam , LAN-ATM Internetworking over a Priority-Based Slotted-Ring Network , Proc . of 22nd Annual Conference on Local Computer Networks , November 2 - 5 , 1997 , Minneapolis , USA , pp . 54 - 63 .
31 . H. Cam , A Simple Efficient Flow Control Using Header Population of Routers , Proc . of PDCS-97 , 10th Int . Conf . on Parallel and Distributed Systems , October 1 - 3 , 1997 , New Orleans , USA , pp . 189 192
32 . H. Cam , Predicting Results of Programs for Meeting Timing Constraints and Overcoming Communication Delays , Proc . of the ISCA Int . Conf . on Parallel and Distributed Computing , Florida , USA , pp . 242 247 September 1995 .
33 . H. Cam and Jose A.B. Fortes , Work-Efficient Routing Algorithms for Rearrangeable Symmetrical Networks , Proc . of the Tenth Inter . Symp . on Computer and Information Sciences , Ephesus , Turkey , pp . 353 360 November 1995 .
34 . H. Cam , Hierarchical Star-Controlled Rings : Scalable Reliable Networks for Multiprocessors , Proc . of the 7th Mediterranean Electrotechnical Conference Melecon 94 , vol .1 , pp . 280 283 April 1994 .
35 . H. Cam , Systolic Interconnection Network , Proc . of the 7th Mediterranean Electrotechnical Conference Melecon 94 , vol .3 , pp . 1204 - 1207 , April 1994 .
36 . H. Cam and J.A.B. Fortes , Fault-Tolerant Self-Routing Permutation Networks , Proc . of the 1992 International Conference on Parallel Processing , August 1992 , pp . I-243 I-247
37 . H. Cam and J.A.B. Fortes , Rearrangeability of Shuffle-Exchange Networks , Proc . of the 3rd Symposium on the Frontiers of Massively Parallel Computation , pp . 303 314 October 1990 .
Invited Presentations
1. Secure Data Aggregation with QoS Assurances in Wireless Sensor Networks , National Security Agency , Scottsdale , Arizona , May 25 , 2005 .
2. Rearrangeability of 2n-1 - Stage Shufle-Exchange network , DIMACS Workshop on Nonblocking and Almost Nonblocking Switching Networks , Princeton University , New Jersey , USA , July 1997 .
3. Preventing Internal and External Con . icts in an Input Buffering Reverse Baseline ATM Switch , DIMACS Workshop on Nonblocking and Almost Nonblocking Switching Networks , Princeton University , New Jersey , USA , July 1997 .
Selected Research Grants
- Power-Aware Sensor Nodes for Monitoring and Data Aggregation , Sponsor : CEINT , Investigator : Hasan Cam , 2004 - 2005 , $59087 .
- Design and Implementation of the Frame Protocol for the Third Generation Wireless Networks , Sponsor : ITI Communications and Eastel , Investigator : H. Cam , 2000 - 2001 , $21716 .
- ``Adaptive Data-Control-Driven Reconfigurable Processor Arrays , Sponsor : KFUPM , Investigators : H. Cam PI , M. Benten , S. Sait and H. Youssef , 1995 - 1998 , $171671 .
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