M.Sc. Mahdi Attawna

PhD Researcher

Mahdi Attawna is a Ph.D. researcher at Deutsche Telekom Chair for Communication Networks at TU Dresden. He has earned his Bachelor and Master degrees in Informatics from Palestine Polytechnic University (PPU) in Palestine. He is working on the “TOAST: Touch-enabled Tactile Internet Training Network and Open Source Testbed” project, the TOAST project aims to provide an innovative and interdisciplinary training program to 10 doctoral candidates, who will work on various aspects of Tactile Internet, such as haptics, networking, edge computing, machine learning, and human perception. The project will also develop a joint testbed and end-to-end solutions for Tactile Internet, as well as transfer the research outcomes into intellectual property, new products, and services. His current research focus is network functions state management in edge computing.

Research Interests:

  • Software Defined Networking (SDN).
  • Network Function Virtualisation (NFV).
  • Cloud and Edge Computing.
  • VNF State Management.
  • In-Network Computing.
  • Machine Learning.

Projects

Teaching

  • Communication Networks 2 (Comnets2)
    • Docker
    • ComnetsEmu
    • Mininet

Contact

Email: mahdi.attawna@tu-dresden.de
Room: BAR I/10

Phone: +49 351 463-43285

Publications

2024

Bondarenko, Volodymyr; Attawna, Mahdi; Nguyen, Giang T.; Fitzek, Frank H. P.

Motion sickness comparison of 2 XR approaches: camera+screen or hologram on transparent lens (Meta Quest 3 or Microsoft HoloLens 2) Proceedings Article

In: International Electronics Symposium, pp. 728-733, 2024.

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Attawna, Mahdi; Lhamo, Osel; Doan, Tung V.; Fitzek, Frank H. P.; Nguyen, Giang T.

Towards Reliable Cloud-native 5G and Beyond Networks using In-Network Computing Proceedings Article

In: IEEE/IFIP Network Operations and Management Symposium, pp. 1-3, Seoul, South Korea, 2024.

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Attawna, Mahdi; Doan, Tung V.; Fitzek, Frank H. P.; Nguyen, Giang T.

StateProc: Empowering Network Functions With Enhanced Processing Capabilities in Edge Clouds Proceedings Article

In: International Symposium on Networks, Computers and Communications (ISNCC24), Washington DC-USA, 2024.

BibTeX

2023

Lhamo, Osel; Doan, Tung V.; Tasdemir, Elif; Attawna, Mahdi; Senk, Stefan; Fitzek, Frank H. P.; Nguyen, Giang T.

Improving Reliability for Cloud-native 5G and Beyond using Network Coding Proceedings Article

In: 2023 IEEE Conference on Network Function Virtualization and Software Defined Networks (NFV-SDN) (NFV-SDN'23), Dresden, Germany, 2023.

BibTeX

Attawna, Mahdi; Doan, Tung V.; Nguyen, Vu; Fitzek, Frank H. P.; Nguyen, Giang T.

Leveraging Data Plane Acceleration For Network Coding Deployment: A Measurement Study Proceedings Article

In: 2023 IEEE Conference on Network Function Virtualization and Software Defined Networks (NFV-SDN) (NFV-SDN'23), Dresden, Germany, 2023.

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